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Well, it’s finally finished… the great room switch. Let me explain: JT moved to his new room, and we moved the guest bed to his old room (aka Haley’s new room). But I didn’t want to get rid of our nice guest bed or lose having a guest room, so… it took me a fewContinue reading “Room Switch”

The big weekend finally arrived: Jennifer’s wedding! Jim’s sister has been planning her wedding to Matt since February. She was nervous I’d go into labor on the altar… we solved that problem, didn’t we? 🙂 Our first family of four picture is outside Pasta Bella in Seattle on Friday night, for rehearsal dinner. We wereContinue reading “The Wedding”

We got the birth pictures last night from our photographer and they are amazing. We are so thankful that Sarah was there to record every moment. She was there for over seven hours and sent us 155 pictures – one set in B&W and one in color. I narrowed it down to 33 to postContinue reading “Birth Pictures!”

So far, JT has been a wonderful big brother. He was so interested in Haley when he visited us in the hospital. He pointed to all of her parts and named them: “Eyes… nose… mouth… ears…” and then he noticed something suspicious: “Hands go?” They were all wrapped up in her swaddle. 🙂 We wereContinue reading “Being a Big Brother”

I had been thinking of finding a TV show that JT could watch after Haley was born as a “big brother” treat. We tried out a few shows before we landed on a winner: Bob the Builder. He has two Bob the Builder books that are his current favorite reads, so it worked out perfectlyContinue reading “Bob the Builder”

Monday morning, we started slowly packing to go home from the hospital. Haley passed her car seat test and her pediatrician checkup with flying colors (praise!). I put her in the only outfit I grabbed when I packed Friday night… since Haley’s room wasn’t ready, we didn’t have any clothes ready either. It was giganticContinue reading “Home”

Haley Lynn Keene joined our family on Saturday, August 21st at 2:36 AM. Story and pics below. Much to our surprise, on Friday, August 20th, at 7:22 PM, my water broke. It was a shock because not only is it a little over four weeks early, my water didn’t break with JT and it isn’tContinue reading “Welcome, Haley Lynn!”

Sad, sad… the Coles left for home today. Last night we celebrated with a yummy steak dinner and s’mores by the fire until we were all falling asleep and had to crawl into bed. Everyone spent the night at our house and they left for the airport after a strawberry shortcake breakfast (one last splurgeContinue reading “Leaving…”

My friend Sarah hosted a lovely baby shower for me and Haley this weekend. It happened to be on the 15th, which is exactly one month until her scheduled arrival! We had a great time, and Haley got some adorable clothes chosen by people who clearly know my style, Harley hospital hats (JT had one,Continue reading “Baby Shower”

We took advantage of the gorgeous, hot weather on Saturday and went out on Puget Sound. Grandpa Cole drove us in his boat up to Poulsbo (which happens to be where Jim proposed ten years ago…). Madi and JT enjoying the ride – check out that hair! Ali was in charge of the map MyContinue reading “Boating to Poulsbo”