The Best Christmas Present Ever!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

This is my first post since giving birth to Connor (I thought I would let everyone know that I am doing well). Today is Christmas and we have had a great day showing Connor off to all of my family who haven't met him yet. Of course, they thought he was adorable and said he looked just like me. It is kind of comical, because everyone on Brads side of the family say he looks just like him! Only time will tell... He definitely has both of our features.

Anyway, the baby and I are doing well. I am starting to be able to move around better now. I am still taking pain medication but, I feel SO much better now that I am home. Connor is a GREAT baby!! He sleeps, eats, and poops (all in this order). He only cries occasionally when I change a diaper. (At this very moment, I am knocking on wood hoping I am not jinxing myself!) For the first three days of Connors life we didn't know what his cry sounded like because he never made a peep! How did I get so lucky? Anyway, he is nursing well and only wakes me up twice during the night. Last night he had a 5 hour stretch that he let me sleep! He knew his Mommy needed her rest after Christmas Eve. We had a wonderful time last night having a steak dinner prepared by my Mom, and Aunt Linda. It was great!! Thank you all so much for everything you did to make our evening special! It was good to be able to spend Christmas with my Aunt Linda and Uncle Ron who moved here from NY just this past year and we look forward to many more as Connor continues to grow up!

I titled this post "The Best Christmas Present Ever!" because I have truly been blessed by God by making me Connors Mommy! As Mom said, he is a little miracle! It is so incredible to look into his eyes and know that I was a part of creating him and bringing him into the world! I never thought that motherhood would be this great!

Well, I am going to try to take a Christmas nap as Connor is now asleep. I hope everyone has a blessed Christmas! I will post some pictures that were taken today. Happy Holidays!!!

Christmas Pictures

Here are some pictures taken on Christmas eve as well as a link to his birth pictures at Baptist Hospital in his reindeer outfit.

http://www.baptisthospital.com/onlinenursery.php
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Christmas Pictures

Here are some pictures taken on Christmas eve as well as a link to his birth pictures at Baptist Hospital in his reindeer outfit.

http://www.baptisthospital.com/onlinenursery.php
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password: taraneal

Something really cool happened yesterday...

Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley (from Father of the Bride, We Are Marshall, and According to Jim) came and toured our post-partum room! We were lucky enough to stay in the biggest suite they have while there so the nurses came in and asked us if would mind stepping out of our room for a few minutes while "a very important future patient toured our room." We of course didn't mind because we wanted to see who it was. Only one problem, they couldn't tell us who it was and we couldn't stay in the room while they were there. However, we saw them come in and walk to the room and of course we knew right away who they were.

After they came out of the room the nurse said to them "these are the nice people who left their room so that you could see it" as she pointed to us. They immediately said "thank you all very much" and Brad said "I sure do hope you like the Predators with all the Predators decorations in the room" in a joking manner (the room has a couple of glass enclosures with autographed Predators memorabilia). He went on to say a couple of other things to us and both he and Kimberly again thanked us for letting them see our room. They were both very nice and gracious.

I told Tara she was even better looking in person than she is on TV (don't know if Tara liked that comment or not), and Brad was VERY small...shorter than I and probably weighed every bit of 140 pounds. We didn't bother them any further as I know they probably get tired of people asking for autographs, pictures, etc., but it was definitely pretty cool to see how nice they were.

Names

Here are the names and spellings of some of the family members...and more pictures.

Grandma (Tara's Granma) = Grandma
PawPaw (Tara's PawPaw) = PawPaw
Grannie (Brad's Grannie) = Grannie
Mom (Lori/Tara's Mom) = Nana
Dad (Andy/Tara's Dad) = ???? (Andy said "Andy" but I don't know if that will work)
Mom (Doris/Brad's Mom) = Grannie
Dad (Ronnie/Brad's Dad) = Poppa
Brett (Tara's Brother) = Uncle Brett
Amanda (Brad's Sister) = AnAm (short for Aunt Amanda)

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More Pictures

Connor is almost 2 days old now and he is doing great! Tara is doing very well and has been up walking the halls of the hospital today. This morning we had Connor's picture taken in his reindeer outfit...he had no idea as he was sleeping the whole time. Poor guy had to go through some drama this morning that involved some cutting and his private parts...I think you know what I mean. Because of that there was no way he was waking up for his pictures this morning.

He is doing great and is wanting to eat ALL the time! I had to let him suck my pinkie last night and earlier today so he would go to sleep, my first successful job as a Dad...Tara was sooooo proud, okay, not really. He is just like his dad in many ways one way is that he likes to eat and the other more obvious way is that he is very open about his gas problems, yep, that's my boy!

We may go home tomorrow, but we're not real sure just yet...it may be Friday. Anyway, here are some more pictures for everyone to see. Thanks to everyone for your comments and keep checking back for more pictures and updates!

He's here!!!

Sorry for the delay in posting, we've been very busy. Anyway, Connor joined us last night at 7:49 p.m. and weiged in at 7 pounds 13 ounces and is 19 inches long. Tara ended up having to have a c-section after several hours of not making any progress toward delivering him. I was able to go into the operating room and be a part of the whole process...it was pretty wild! Tara was awesome through the whole ordeal and was unbelievably calm while laying on the operating table and having people do what they were doing. Anyway, here are pictures of him for everyone's enjoyment. We're still not sure who he looks like...tell us what YOU think!

The night before...

Well, it's the night before we go to the hospital for the arrival of Connor. We have to be at the hospital by 7:00 a.m., but we plan to arrive by about 6:30 to go ahead and "get in line." We just got finished having our last uninterrupted dinner for quite some time and Tara is laying on the couch having a McFlurry. She had to eat a large meal since she might not get to eat again until tomorrow night and of course I had to eat a large meal so she wouldn't feel bad for eating so much....okay, maybe that's a stretch. Anyway, that's all for now. Check back soon for more details of tomorrow's eventful day!

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Nursery Pictures

Welcome to our site!

This is where we will attempt to provide photos and updates on the anticipated arrival of Connor. We are a maximum of 1 week away!