Tegan Louise Smith has arrived!

Aaron coaching me through a contraction.

Tegan has arrived and I'm overtaken with emotions . . .

Daddy is cutting the cord. I love this picture.

Tegan's first weigh in. 6lbs. 14oz.

My cheesey baby!

Proud parents!

The nurses wrote a little note with all Tegan's stats.

Daddy holding Tegan for the first time.

Tegan at 1 day old

Hailee holding her baby sister for the first time.

Faith holding her baby sister for the first time

On December 5th our beautiful baby girl made her entrance! We went to the hospital around 3pm and at 4:30pm my Dr. broke my water. I was about 4-5cm at that point. Around 6pm I was at 5 1/2 cm dialated . . . the next check was about 6:50pm where I was a 7cm . . 20 min. later at 7:09pm Tegan was in my arms! It was a very fast and "easy" delivery with no complications. She weighed 6 lbs. 14oz. and was 19 1/4 in. long (although at her Dr's apt. she measured 19 in. long so I think they measured wrong in the hospital). Hailee & Faith are happy and proud big sisters and are SO happy she is finally here! Aaron and I are on cloud 9 with our three girls and couldn't be happier with the blessings we've been given. It feels SO great to know our family is complete. We are looking forward to the fun and adventures we will all have as a family of 5!

Happy Halloween!

Our little fairy and super-girlMommy's painted pumpkin belly!

Hailee & Faith decorating cookies in school

All the kids bobbing for doughnuts!

Faith got in on the action as well!

"fishing" for prizes at the church carnival

Ready, get set, GO!

Super-girl flying down the slide!

Fairy's turn!

We had a fabulous Halloween this year! Hailee had a fun filled day at school and Faith got to participate in a few of the halloween party activies. They decorated cookies, bobbed for doughnuts, trick-or-treated at the other class and had SO much fun! We decided that since we couldn't make it out to the "big" pumpkin patch this year to get pumpkins that we would paint my baby belly instead. The girls (and Aaron) had a blast . . . the baby enjoyed it too, I think! In the evening we went to church with Andy, Lisa, Camryn & Allison and the girls played carinval games and won LOADS of candy! They got to eat some cotton candy, get their face painted, and jump in some giant bounce houses. All in all they had a blast and were SO excited to go through their loot bags when we got home!

A few months to go!

The time continues to fly by with this last pregnancy. The baby is VERY active - even more so than either Hailee or Faith. It seems like it never rests which means I think I'm going to have my hands full with this little bundle! All of my Dr's appts. have gone great and I'm now in the final stages of pregnancy where I know the baby is fully developed but needs to put of some fat and develop those lungs. The pictures taken are at 7mos. Amazing how I still have 2 more months and have NO idea how I'm supposed to get any bigger!

Apple Hill

Faith "driving" the tractor!

Hailee "driving" the tractor!

The girls watching the clown show

Each Fall we like to take the girls up to Apple Hill. We took them to Plubell's Family Orchard this year where they got their faces painted, watched a clown show, petted farm animals and played on tractors. It's a great place to go visit and we love being able to take the girls to the apple orchards every year!

Babies everywhere!

At my monthly moms night out the non-pregnant mom's were outnumbered by all of us pregnant mothers! It's just amazing to me how many pregnant friends/family I have! I am now in my 7th month of pregnancy and my third and FINAL trimester! It's crazy how fast it goes and I'm enjoying every second of it because I know it will be my last.

Disneyland 2007!

All of us at the entrance to Disneyland!

California Adventure (our hotel is in the background)

Two very happy but tired little girls!

All of us with Mickey Mouse!

The only character Faith was NOT afraid of!

Hailee's favortie character - Minnie Mouse!

Daddy, Hailee & Tony in "jail"

Faith lifting weights!

Jenn, Tony & Hailee on the jungle cruise

Faith & Tony excited to ride the jungle cruise!

Daddy, Mommy, Hailee & Faith in Pooh's Corner

Our long anticipated trip to Disneyland is already over. It seemes as if we were waiting FOREVER to go and now it's all done with. The trip started out pretty rocky because I got the flu on Friday (the day before we left). My fever broke however and I was ready to go on Saturday morning - just very weak from the day before. Jenn & tony arrived at our house at 6:30am and from there we loaded up the car and were off! The trip down was a little rough because the girls were SO excited but we made it down in about 7hrs (due to LA traffic!). Once there we checked into our Disney Paradise Pier Hotel and jumped on our beds and just stared out at the view of the parks. We then ventured down to Downtown Disney and had dinner at the Rainforest Cafe. They had live muscian's everywhere and after dinner the girls got to shake their booty's. We decdied to turn in early for our big day at Disneyland and thank goodness we did. Faith and I feel asleep but Aaron kept Hailee up and they watched the fireworks from Disneyland at the hotel. That night Faith ended up getting the flu and got sick in the middle of the night and slept all of maybe 2hrs. However, by morning the fever broke and we were OFF to Disneyland! (nothing was going to stop us!). The first two rides (Peter Pan & Mr. Toad's wild adventure) scared both of the girls to tears but after that they were both troopers. They loved Dumbo, tea cups, Pooh, Alice, Small World, Jungle Cruise, Tiki Room, Tree house, the car ride and absoulutley LOVED Toon Town and ALL the characters! They were both in awe of the Parade of Dreams and Hailee sat like an angel eating her huge cotton candy complete with her Minnie Mouse Ears on! They were both SO precious and enjoyed every second! On Monday we went over to California adventure and went on a few fun rides and saw a show with Nemo's "Dude Crush" which the girls (as well as us) enjoyed a lot! Then it was back to Disneyland for the parade and more rides. All in all it was a VERY amazing trip . . . but a ton of work walking around, etc. We'll most likely go back when the new baby is about 3 yrs old and hopefully next time we'll stay a bit longer so we don't have to cram everything in 2 days! :o)

Lisa's baby shower

On Saturday Jenn and I threw Lisa a baby shower. Lisa got lots of great gifts and was surrounded by lots of loved ones! Everything turned out perfectly - the food, decorations and it was a great day. I really had a nice time with everyone, it was great to have some adult conversation (even though it was all about babies!). I think now Lisa is officially ready for her baby girl to come! :o)

Old Town Sacramento & Railroad Museum!

Hailee working on her "schoolwork"!

Faith hard at work doing her ABC's

Just a few of the MANY horses we saw ~

Self portrait of mommy & Hailee taken by Hailee!

Picture of daddy taken by Hailee (our little photographer!)

Faith, not wanting to smile for the camera (Hailee took this picture too!)

Old Town Sacramento transformed into the wild west!

Daddy, Hailee & Faith panning for gold!

Hailee showing off her money she earned panning for gold!

All of us at the train museum

On Sunday Aaron and planned a BIG day with the girls. First we took them to Old Town Sacramento for the annual Gold Rush Day's they put on. It was our first year and we will most likely go EVERY year it was SOOOOO much fun! They dump 200 tons of dirt in the street and block them off for ONLY horses & people! They transformed the entire Old Town into a scene out of the 1850's and it was AMAZING! We watched wild west "shoot-outs", a pony express exchange, and the girls panned for REAL gold then traded the gold in for money where they could purchase different things at mercantiles around the city! There was lots of old time muscians playing along the streets and people dressed to the nines in circa 1850 clothing. It was truly amazing! We visited the old schoolhouse where the girls had fun prentending they were in class and got to draw on the old slates and sit in all the old school desks. Seeing how it was about 100 degrees out we decided to take a nice A/C break and went into the Railroad museum where we got to see LOTS of big trains! The girls LOVED it - as so did Aaron! They had trains we could walk through and one was on a simulator where it felt as if we were actually going about 60mph! We rounded our day of with free candy & ice cream cones . . . the girls were in heaven and enjoyed every bit of it!