The Road to Here - Part 1

It all started a long time ago, but I am going to start by saying that my husband, John and I just celebrated our two year wedding anniversary on January 23.  We have actually been together for six years!  I love him more everyday and he is a wonderful husband and now DADDY!  I am blessed beyond measure to have him in my life!  We found out we were expecting last April.  We were so excited and couldn't wait to share this news with our families.  After we went for our 20 week appointment we had a Gender Reveal Party with our family (minus my parents and brother Alex, more on that in a minute).  My sister (blog and also party planning extraordinaire) decorated my house and ordered the cake.  Everyone wore colored shirts to show what they thought we were having.  John and I cut the cake and the icing inside showed the baby's gender.  Here are a few pictures of that day...

The cake!

Everyone including myself thought it would be a boy.  We have three nieces already so everyone just thought it had to be a boy!  John and I each wore a different color to throw everyone off because we had already found out.

 It's a GIRL!

My parents and brother were gone to a baseball tournament in CHICAGO!  I didn't want them to be left out so I called a bakery in Chicago, Sweet Pea Cakes and asked if they could help me with a big favor!  They did an absolutely wonderful job at making and delivering a very large cupcake to my parents and brother at their hotel.  I also had a lot of help from Lisa Smith who was with them (her son plays on the same team).  They were very surprised to get to cut their own cake!

They thought I was just going to tell them over the phone.

I think they were surprised!  They all thought boy too!

Yummy!

Fast forward a few months....

My wonderful sister (blog, party planner, and now photographer extraordinaire) took some maternity pictures of us!  Here are some of our favorites!

Landry loved Lola in my belly but she loves her even more now!

 

It's Been A Long Time Coming

After much hesitation and indecision......I have decided to give in (to my loving sister) and create a blog. She is a master at blogging about her life and family. I am in no way going to be as good at it as she is, but I am going to try my best so bear with me! I love technology, but this is one part of that I have not had a lot of experience with. I have seen how many memories have been recorded and remembered because of her blog, and I want to have that for my new baby girl and my family. So here goes.....

On December 18th, 2011 my husband John and I were blessed beyond measure with a beautiful 7 lb. baby girl that we named Lola Kate Boyter. She came into the world at 3:45 a.m. screaming her head off! At that moment I thought, "Boy are we in for it now." Since then, I am happy to say that I have never heard her scream like that again. She is absolutely the best baby I have ever met (I know she is mine, but I'm not kidding).

Tomorrow she will be exactly 6 weeks old and she eats consistently every three hours and sleeps through the night. When I say she sleeps through the night I mean from about 11 p.m. until 8:30 or 9 in the morning. She has been sleeping like that since she was about 4 weeks old. Before that she basically slept through the night too, but would only wake up once, rarely twice to eat before falling back to sleep. She is a little piglet we say because ever since she arrived in this world she has been a good eater. I think that is why she sleeps so well.  Soon I'll post soon some newborn pictures and 1 month pictures, but for now, that's all you get (Lo)! I will try to back my story up a little with details of the night she was born and how we got where we are right now, but I will save that for another day.  I'll leave you with a few pictures from the day Lola was born! 

Told you she was screaming...

Much better :^)