Our Baby is 1 Week Old Already!!!

I can't believe our little Adlee Girl is already a week old!!! This week has flown by! About this time last week I was getting admitted to Labor & Delivery. I will post about Adlee's birth story later. Just wanted to share a few pics today of this precious angel!


Our first outing, Adlee had a Dr. appt on Tuesday.


Adlee loves her Daddy!



Coming home from hospital


Adlee's going home outfit. All socks fall off her feet because her feet are so tiny!


Chillin with Daddy again.

Hanging out in her swing. She did end up having a blow out on this cute little purple outfit:)

She is definitely a Mommy's girl!

She likes her swing and bouncy seat.

My little doll baby!

I love her face in this picture!

Adlee Marie Darnell

Jeremy and I are happy to announce the arrival of our daughter, Adlee Marie Darnell. Adlee was born on Friday, June 18th 2010 at 11:15 p.m. Adlee weighed 6 lbs 14 oz 20 inches long. She is beautiful and I can't take my eyes off of her. She is at the nursery right now for routine assessments and I am missing the sweet little girl!
We plan to go home tomorrow or Monday morning. Most likely Monday morning. I will have more pictures to post later.
In the meantime, I hope to get some zzzz's while she is at the nursery. Hope you enjoy the pics of our sweet Adlee girl!



Proud Daddy and the best Coach ever! Good thing he has coaching experience:)



Yay! We finally get to meet our sweet little girl!!!!




Sorry it is sideways..I love this pic of her though...she is sooo cute!

She seems to be praying in this picture!!! How adorable!

A Baby This Weekend!

Jeremy and I are settled into our Labor & delivery room hoping to have Baby Girl Darnell this weekend. I had my Dr. appt this morning and had a few contractions and so they put me on the monitor and they were pretty regular. We went to the mall and walked and came back and they checked me and I was a 3 at the last check. I am feeling good right now and ready for this Baby Girl to arrive.
I have a lot of emotions right now, scared, nervous, excited...very hungry!!! I did eat a Panera bagel this morning but I am hungry again.
Just snacking on some ice chips now.

Will keep everyone up to date on any progress.

Pray for a healthy baby and an easy delivery!

Update on Baby D!

Well, I am almost 38 weeks and we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Baby Girl Darnell! I had a Dr. appt on Friday and I am dialated to a 2 now. My Dr. still thinks it could happen at any given moment. I know I could be a 2 for another week or two but I am hoping it happens sooner rather than later! I am so anxious I can hardly stand it.
Everything is looking great. I did not gain any weight since last appt so I guess that is good. I was expecting to gain since I have been eating everything in sight:) Or so it seems.
Last night we had dinner at Red Lobster hoping some shrimp might spark something more. I have been walking a great deal and doing lots of things around the house.
One of the things I am enjoying most is not having any plans the month of June. I purposely tried to have everything done by the end of May so I could just relax and go with the flow. Of course I have normal house cleaning and things to do but it is nice to not have anything pressing. I am very anxious to have a 12 week break from work as well. I am looking forward to that time with the baby and staying home! Jeremy has been keeping himself busy as well by mowing the yard every other day...hahaha! The joke of the neighborhood is they are going to take the spark plugs out of his mower because he does mow a lot. However, his yard does look very nice! I will try and post pics soon of our landscaping, flowers, and yard.

Here I am last weekend. We went to dinner at Minecci's for my Grandma's b-day.


This is me this weekend. This was after getting home from my walk on the track. The exercise has felt great! Although, if I have one more person tell me I look like I am about to pop I might scream! I am completely aware of the basketball I have in my tummy and don't need to be reminded on a daily basis..haha!


A few other random things....
Jeremy's Dad came over Friday to golf with him in a golf outing and Jan sent these beautiful Hydrangea's along from her yard!


Today has been a lovely Sunday! We have been very productive. I have done laundry, got groceries, made pasta salad and brownies, sliced strawberries, switched purses (very important) and balanced the checkbook. Jeremy has mowed both yards (our house in Urbana and our home here).
One thing we do most Sundays is we have a tradition of having waffles for breakfast. Even the doggies share a waffle...so I thought I would share a pic of Lucie eating her waffle on this lovely Sunday morning! They basically stand right next to Jeremy when he is making them to make sure he does not forget about their waffle. We don't give them much table food but they do look forward to their waffles on Sundays!



Our renters moved out of our house in Urbana. We will have a new renter moving in in July. We decided to take it off the market and we will be renting it to a Vet Student for 2 years as she finishes up vet school. It will work out well for everyone. She seems to be a very responsible girl that will keep the house nice and hopefully the housing market will bounce back and we won't have to take such a cut on the asking price.

My cousin Jessica had her baby girl Kenley Lynn on Friday morning. I went to visit after my Dr. appt on Friday and she is precious. She was 8 lbs 6 oz. She has a head full of dark hair. I hope to post a pic soon but I forgot to take my camera on Friday. I did take a pic with my phone but it did not turn out the greatest.

Hope everyone has a great week. Hope to have some exciting news in the near future of our sweet little girl!

Welcome To My "Crib"

Baby D's room is pretty well complete. As complete as it is gonna be right now. I don't know that we can add much to it really. I do have a little chalkboard that goes on the wall under the book shelf but I am not going to put it up just yet. I hope you enjoy the tour of Baby D's precious nursery! Yes, her name does start with an "A". However, we are still not telling, not taking any guesses from anyone and we don't think anyone will be able to guess it anyway.

This is her bedroom door. I ordered this from Uppercase Living. There is a story behind ladybugs in this family so she has several ladybug items.

When you walk in the door you see her dresser, glider, etc. The pink lamps came from Ikea. Baby D's Grandma Jan made the curtains and they really make the room. I could not get a picture of the full window as the glare from outside made the picture too dark. The mirror above her dresser came from Hobby Lobby.


Another view when you walk in the door.

Her crib. I don't plan on keeping the large stuffed animal in the crib for safety purposes, however, it is cute in there for the time being since she is not sleeping in it yet. The "A" above her crib is Uppercase Living as well. I plan to get a canvas with her name painted on it that will look good on this wall. However, the girl that I have found online that does such canvas is really far behind and not taking orders at this time so I will be patient and wait.

Baby D's bedding came from Mod Pea Pod. It is based out of New York but you can order online.

Baby D's Aunt Darci gave us the glider and we just replaced the cushions to match her room and it is as good as new! The white frame pictures you see, I put together myself. The frames came from Ikea and I got fabric from Hobby Lobby and just glued the fabric on the mat and wahlah! You have great cheap art!

Jeremy and I had the Always Kiss Me Goodnight in our bedroom at our old house. We had not hung it up yet in our new house so I decided it matched the Baby's room well so hung it up here. The bow holder I made myself. I bought the frame with the A on it at Hobby Lobby and bought ribbon and glued it on and it holds her hair bows.

The white book shelf came from Pottery Barn Kids. My Mom bought it for us as one of the bazillion shower gifts she bought:)

The angel on the bookshelf is from Jeremy's Mom and she said it has been in all of her grandkids nurseries. So I found the perfect place for it in this nursery!

Again, another white frame picture I made. The sparkly A came from a website I found, I love it. Shee has her CD player/Alarm clock....I thought it would be nice to have a clock in the middle of the night when I am feeding to help time feedings. I think she has more money in her piggy bank than Jeremy and I have in ours... We will put pictures in the frames on the dresser as soon as we have one.

Her closet is pretty ridiculous. She has so much stuff already. The clothes you see here are just 0-3 months. The clothes in the next picture are 3 months on up. She also has clothes in her dresser drawers as well. She likes a variety of clothing options like her Mommy:)

I had to get this picture of Lucie. She was staring at me while I was taking the pics of the nursery. This little girl here is in for a rude awakening when the baby comes. Lucie is our baby now and she won't be once the baby comes.

We received 2 of these pink and white polka dot bins from Baby D's Grandma Jan for again, one of a bazillion shower gifts. One is holding some toys and the other is holding extra books.

Again, I hope you enjoyed the nursery tour. I think it turned out very cute. I am excited to introduce Baby D to her bedroom.

Update on Baby D!

I just got back from my weekly Dr. appt and I am excited to learn that I am dialated to a 1 and 80% effaced. I know I can be like this for a little bit but my Dr. seems to think it will be happening soon. I had the contractions on Wednesday and I am to monitor closely and time if I have that again.
The baby is head down and she is just ready to go! Dr. thinks she weighs between 6-7 pounds!
I am very excited and just got really emotional and started crying when she told me that! I know it is just a matter of time before we get to see her!!!
My next appt is next Friday if something does not happen before then!

Random Post

So this post is just a hodgepodge of a little bit of everything.
First, I have not been able to locate the pictures from my Baby Shower here at work, but I did manage to take a picture of the cake with my cell phone, so I do have a picture of it at least. A lady here at work made it and it was awesome!! She did such a great job and she asked me what flavor cake I wanted so I had her make it Strawberry with the Buttercream icing.


This past Friday, Jeremy sent me this beautiful bouquet of flowers to work. The flower arrangement is way bigger than it looks in this picture. His first year as a Principal left him working many hours late at night and being away from home a lot so he sent me flowers thanking me. Although he didn't have to, he did build me a big ol nice house out of the deal:) Can't ask for much more than that! I am proud of him that he made it through his first year as a Middle School Principal. Being in charge of 250 kids that are not yours is a huge responsibility. His school also accomplished many great things in his first year as a Principal. One in which they received the Middle School Horizon Award, an award given to Illinois Middle Schools and another in which their ISAT scores were off the charts!


Here are a few of our maternity pics that I did order that I did not post previously. They are small because I right clicked and saved as from my order form. It was hard choosing as they were all really good!

Yesterday I was having Braxton Hicks contractions really bad. From lunch on I was rather uncomfortable. They did not hurt but I counted and in 1 hour I had had 8. So I called the nurse to see if I should be concerned or not and she had me drink fluids and lay down for an hour. Well, I ended up having to close my office door and lay down on my office floor for an hour as she did not want me to drive all the way home and then have to come back in case I needed to be hooked up to monitors. So they did calm down after laying down and I just took it easy the rest of the night.

We are getting very anxious for this little girl to arrive.

I hope to be able to take pictures of her completed nursery by the weekend and post.