Monday, May 30, 2011

Aunties, Uncle, and Cousins–oh my!

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Uncle Keith

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Aunt Cindy & Cousin Blake

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Aunt Becky

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Auntie Aiy Aiy

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Cousin Thor

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Aunt Ginger

Alec and His Grandparents for the First Time

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Grammy

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Gramps

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Grandma

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(Grand)Pa

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Welcome to the Family

Alec Joseph!

We welcomed Alec Joseph to the family on May 4th at 8:06 a.m. He weighed 9 pounds and 9 ounces and was 21 inches long. We are all doing very well. Life hasn’t been the same and only now our family feels complete. Welcome Alec and we love you very much!

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First moments outside the womb with Mommy.

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First moments with Daddy.

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Through the nursery window.

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First trip to the room to see everyone.

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Cute little feet.

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Proud Daddy.

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Big Sister taking a look.

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Claire holding Alec for the first time.

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Mommy and Alec.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Family Day

Since today is the day before Baby Brother comes to our family we wanted to try and have a fun family day. Claire woke up extra early so she got to come sleep with Mommy & Daddy for a little while longer. Then we had Yellow Umbrella at home inside instead of the planned outside because it was still just 50 degrees. We then played and got a few things ready for Baby Brother and got ready to have family pictures taken. We went to Grammy & Gramps for our photo shoot. Gramps took the pictures of us out on the front steps of their house. We then came home and played and watched a few of Claire’s favorite shows. Skipped her nap and played outside while Mommy gave Daddy a haircut. Then we had a family dinner, Claire had her bath, stories and then off to bed for Claire! Mommy & Daddy are still working on getting ready for tomorrow. But 4:30 is going to come very early . . .

Here is a look at some of the pictures from our photo shoot.

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Baby Boy Hassler’s Baby Shower

This is a couple of week late for good reason. Mommy forgot to take her camera to the baby shower and barrowed Gramps. Since then, she keeps forgetting to get the disk from him to copy over the pictures and still hasn’t. She did copy Grandma’s pics so there are a few. They were fairly Claire centric :) for good reason, of course. But there are certainly some good ones in there but not any of Grandma!

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Claire and Maya (age 9 - our across the street neighbor).
they had so much fun playing together at the shower. Maya was so good with Claire.

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Party Guests – Lisa C., Anne S., Nedra (Perry) S., Becky H., Anne Louise P., and Vi P.

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Mommy and her Mommy, Grammy. :)

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The cute rubber ducky cake.

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Opening presents. Baby Boy Hassler got so many nice things but it was so sweet that so many people also got something for Claire. We are so blessed to be so loved by so many friends and family! (pictured here – Carole F., & Jane W.)

Guests that we didn’t get a pic of – Lorna P., Leigh S., Auntie Aiy Aiy (a hostess with Mom) and Gramps was of course a big help and made a few appearances.

Easter Basket!

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Claire got a box of Easter from Auntie Lance and Aunt Beth a few days before Easter complete with Peeps to be shared by all (including Hazel) and an Easter Bunny sings “Here Comes Peter Cottontail” as southern as you can get. She loves it!

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Claire discovering the Easter baskets after the great Easter egg hunt and breakfast.

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Obligatory pose with the Easter Basket.
She loves Pete the Cat and singing his song.

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Playing with her car with Daddy and Hazel. Another thing she loved.

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Giving Hazel her basket and checking it out at the same time.

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Easter dinner with Gramps,

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Pa, Grammy, Claire,

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“three humps” Aiy Aiy, and Grandma (and Pa again)
Daddy was there too but he took the pictures and didn’t make any of them somehow.

We had such a nice Easter with the family. Such a fun filled day!