prettiest town that i've ever seen.

june made her first roadtrip this past weekend!

she was a champ.

we headed out friday night for the big homecoming, i was so excited to take our baby girl to abilene.

thankfully she loves her carseat and would have slept the entire way home if her parents weren't such rookies who pulled over into a ghetto, scary gas station to wake up a sleeping baby and attempt to feed and change her in the car.

never again, never again.

so we rolled into town at midnight and were absolutely exhausted.

 first stop was to meet her gan-gan and pepaw.

it was such a sweet time and i am forever grateful to have my baby girl meet my grandparents.

i know that is so rare.

i have tried to engrave every second into my brain of their time with her. . . i want to always remember the way my grandparents have ooohed and awwwed over their great grandgirl.

so so sweet.

thank you Lord for these memories with them.

 we picked up lunch at the health food store and went to show her off some more at my other set of grandparents. 

it was so fun!

aunt jodi, emily and caleb came to meet her and brougth her the cutset little outfits!

i cannot wait for her to wear them, thank ya'll so much!

we were kinda shocked at our little show pony and how well behaved she was.

at one point there were 19 people at my parents house. . . all to see the munchie girl.

she's quite the hit!

we loved every single visitor and feel so loved by them all!

 poor marcus.

june still loves you and promises to never do that again.

 future babysitter, aunt lily.

the night ended perfectly, emily came to meet our baby munchie!

i was just so excited to have them together in one place.

it was a sweet weekend, exhausting but so sweet!

i hope the newness of our sweet lovey girl never wears off and that she always knows just how loved she is.

settling in.

life as a mother is pretty sweet.
life with our sweet little munchie is very sweet.
in these first two weeks of life we have racked up lots of cuddle time points and lots and lots of feeding time points.
we are so close to being a well oiled machine. . . an all time high was met last night. . . close to five hours in between an early morning meal and breakfast.
we couldnt believe it!

i found this that i think i need to order.

shelby, do you already have one of these?

i'll order us matching ones if you want.

i think the movie life as we know it looks really cute!

ironically, because life as we know it is so very different i'm sure this will be seen in the comfort of our own home when it hits the nearest redbox.

just one more family of three shot.

the little munchkin's umbilical cord fell off on saturday.

i was so excited because i could not wait any longer to get this girl in a real bath, no more of the sponge bath stuff.

i love this picture, she loves the sound of running water.

our little sleeping beauty.

june attended her very first baseball game on saturday.

we were both so excited to be in attendance because we were getting a  tad bit stir crazy.

 would you look at what our sweet julia sent us?

i love those little teeny socks for june.

won't her feet be so cute and funny in them?

thank you julia, you are so sweet!

i'm not into halloween for the scary, evil stuff.

i am into halloween for the dressing up in something cute and visiting friends part.

we tried so hard to make these cute hats and onesies from the gap work for our little pumpkin but her little head is just too small.

maybe if you have a baby with a bigger head you should hurry to the gap.

they are too cute!



scarf swappers.

i'm so late posting about the fun scarf swap.

i had a baby, so you must understand right?

talk about pressure. . . i was paired with the ever so fabulous meredith, who just so happens to be the creator of this fun swap.

i felt like a giddy school girl when i found out my pair and then i got really nervous.

i just knew there wasn't a scarf out there that would meet the criteria.

but i searched high and low and came up with this. . .

in all my baby having tizzy i forgot to snap a picture of the scraf  i sent but it looked a whole lot like this little leopard number above.

i love a good animal print!

meredith has impeccable taste.

her boys and she herself are beyond adorable.

she really is the definition of super mom.

i love reading her blog and secretly wish we lived in the same town so we could play together.

i just know we'd have the most fun!

meredith, thank you so much for my baby girl pink scarf, i love it so much. . . in fact it was wrpped around my ncek just the other morning.

and you are just too sweet to my baby girl.

i laughed outloud when reading piggy went to prada, june is going to love her nursery rhymes!

it means so much that you would think of her too.

you're too sweet and here's to next years swap!

visitors galore.

in just a short amount of life june has managed to make lots of besties.

she has had so many fun visitors that have come to love on our little monkey girl.

we are so thrilled that so many people have taken time to come see us, it just means so much.

shelby was up all throughout the entire night of june's birth but she had to stay in abilene so christopher was keeping her updated.  we were so excited to see her the next morning.

sweet aunt shelby was working on no sleep and still made the trip to meet little june.

we were all so glad she was there just hours after our little thing came into this world.

june's vaughn cousins could not wait to get their hands on her!

i know june has some very fun adventures with these kiddos in her future.

just so fun!

ryan, laci and baby jackson newhouse came up.

just love this picture, two childhood best friends with their kids, doesn't get better.

mama's cousin bethany came by after her day of teaching second grade.

bethany is our nyc tour guide so we are already planning june's first trip to the big apple.

lots of shopping will be done with this girl.

these two are my favorite.

june's great grandparents came down with aunt caroline, pearce and noah.

i have the best, sweetest grandparents in the world and my heart just was so happy that they were there to meet our little thing. 

i will always treasure these pictures.

it worked out perfectly that julia was in town the very weekend that we got to come home.

june and i were both so excited about her visit and she brought june the sweetest and softest little bunny and the cutest book ever.

so sweet julia, we love you so.

p.s. julia is new to the blog world and is doing a fab job.

go check her out, you'll just adore her.

and abby and ryan came over too!

best day yet to share my little munch with two dear friends.

abby is an aunt to lots of little cuties and knows a whole lot about babies so it was fun to bounce things off her. plus it's just always so fun to be around abby and i always leave time spent with her wanting more.

you're the best abby, can't wait to see you very soon.

awww, this picture.

lesley my life bf came over to love on us.

what a precious precious time.

i am so thankful that lesley is a part of my life and now a part of june's.

it is rare that you have someone remain in your life that has seen you literally through every stage.

woohoo i can't wait to raise babies with you lesley anne.

sweet benjer is always so proud to hold baby june.

i just love this kid.

i know we missed lots of peoples pictures and i'm so sad about that.

baby june hasn't forgotten you and she was so happy to meet you all!

thanks again for loving our little girl.

we are pretty crazy about her.



she's here!

our little june is here!

she is perfect in everyway!

we couldn't possibly love her more!

let's just say her arrival into this world did not leave us wanting more in the way of unexpected drama.

i woke up thinking it would be just another normal pregnant day, appointment in the afternoon, sonogram right before. no big whooop, just pretty run of the mill.  it turned out quite differently  and we are so glad it did! and of course this was  the only appointment that andy couldn't make.

 things always play out that way right?

i'm laying on the sonogram table when the sweet lady tells me my 'levels' looked low.

i thought nothing of it really.

she said the doctor wanted to check to see how things were looking and to see if my water had possibly ruptured.

i still thought nothing of it and felt certain that there had been no water that had broken.

there was no gush.

there was no rush.

there was no panicked movie scene like i had always envisioned.

so. . .

they checked things out and the first test came back positive and just for safe keeping they did another test, that one came back negative.

we were all perplexed.

i was still thinking 'no way', 'this can't be it'.

they sent me next door to the hospital to l&d triage for a more accurate test.

i finally started to panic a bit.

i had to put on a hospital gown and that's when things started to get very real.

andy rushed over, they did their official test and it came back positive.

my water had ruptured and we were not going home without a baby!

goodness, i wish we had a video camera on us at all times after this moment.

we called everyone and I-20 started to burn up.

my parents and christopher rushed in from abilene and andy's parents were at the ranch.

so the rubber met the road and there was no stopping them.

we quickly set up shop in our l&d room and then just waited to hear from our doctor as to what the next step would be. 

my contractions were pretty much nothing until they started the pitocin and then things drastically went from zero pain to lots of pain.

by far the worst pain i have EVER experienced and i was sweating.

alot.

i made it to a three before the epidural was administered and then life was great again.  

i mean really great!

like no pain at all and i could still move my legs. 

about an hour and a half later i was at a nine and we were shocked.  everyone kept telling us that i would probably dialate a little more every hour.

so about thirty minutes later we were pushing and moments away from meeting our little sweet thing!

i pushed for two and a half hours before our life was changed forever. 

i would do it again right now.

i would do it again everyday for the rest of my life if it meant she was here with us.

we are more than in love.

sweetest moment.

our new family of three.

these two, along with becky got a little bit restless waiting on june's arrival.

so much so that they had security called on them.

embarrassing.

in all of my free time i made t-shirts for everyone to wear for sweet june.

the back said 'celebrating june.'

no big deal, just a momento for such a monumentous moment.

my whole world.

instantly in love.

here's our lineup of the troops that stuck it out until the early morning to meet our little girl.

june's papa.

june's uncle christopher.

june's paw.

aunt kelly.

aunt becky.

june's tootie.

june's precious.

thank you to everyone for all of your sweet words, phone calls, texts, visits and most importantly your prayers for our little girl. 

you have richly blessed us.

we are excited beyond words about life with her and already can't imagine it without her.

thank you Lord for our sweet gift.

"train a child in the way she should go and when she is old she will not turn from it."

proverbs 22:6