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My new nephew, Jackson Shane was born at 8:40am this morning (7 weeks early!). He weighed in at a whopping 4 lbs. 10 oz. and was 17 3/4 inches long. Chelsea's water broke at 6am and she avoided having a c section (Jack was breech) b/c he stuck his foot out!! 2 pushes and he was here! He's doing good, but may be in the NICU for a little while. Seeing him today took me back to my sweet Brynley and those precious couple of weeks we were challenged in the NICU. It was soooo hard, but I made some sweet memories with my little girl. I pray the same for Chelsea and her sweet little Jack. Happy birth day, little guy!



My little bit, 3 1/2 years ago...




Chels with Bryn... can't believe she has one of these now!!

What a fabulous end of the year/beginning of the year! We spent New Year's eve at my parents house eating waaaaay too much food. Before midnight Jaron and I took off to catch the fireworks downtown. We stayed at the Spring Hill Marriott and got to sleep in a little on New Year's day. Then, I met up with the girls to celebrate Mema's 70th at Mimi's! After a little rest at home, we had a fun time at Mema's house with pizza and chicken foot... oh, and some teams were playing football. It was a fun day!!!

We've had a great Christmas this year! We had my Mema's Christmas on Dec. 13th, celebrated with my parents at their new house on Christmas day, and had Christmas at Jaron's parents house yesterday (Sunday). And we're not done yet... Hayes Christmas is next Sunday. Its been so great to be with family, chillin, eating and enjoying each other's company. We saw the movie "Avatar" on Christmas night- it was really, really good. Jaron played at all 3 Christmas Eve services at The Branch and they were all great. Here's a video that he and Tim Scott worked on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MquW9T0quw

Overall, its been a relaxing season and we've enjoyed celebrating with our family and friends the birth of our Savior. Merry Christmas, I pray God's richest blessings over your family in 2010!

Thanks Christel, for taking these amazing Christmas Eve pics! And thanks mom for the Christmas Eve/day pics...

Started this post a while ago and we've since had our Christmas at Mema's, but here's some pictures... :)

We had a great day of relaxing at Mema's and lots and lots of FOOD! It was so great and such a gorgeous day. We got some great pics of the girls....