Merry Christmas

We are so excited for Ali's first Christmas and love how her pictures with Santa came out. It's funny that she won't even remember this Christmas (or maybe even the next few), yet we make such a big deal about it. It has been tons of fun picking out little toys, books and cute new outfits for "her" to open this year. And the fact that I find it necessary to wrap all of her presents even though I'm the one that bought them and will open them. Either way, I'm sure grateful for this little lady to join us for Christmas for the rest of our lives:)

I finally caught it...

Ali started rolling over about a week ago (right when she turned 3 months). It's so much fun to watch her roll back and forth all over the floor, but any time I tried to video tape her, she would not preform! So, even though she wasn't happy about it, I finally caught it...

She's growing...

Ali is 7 weeks old today! It has been so much fun learning all about her and watching her grow. She has been such a sweet little girl. She's been sleeping really good at night for the past few weeks now. I can't get enough of her! I just took this picture today.

Date Night

Mom stayed and helped for a week and we were so grateful! When Ali was exactly one week old mom told us to go out to dinner and she would babysit. It was lots of fun and we were at ease to know the baby was in good hands, so we were able to relax and enjoy ourselves. Thank you to all of my brothers and sisters for getting us the gift card to have our delicious dinner. We went out to a steakhouse called WW Peppers. It's one of the best places in Grand Junction. Thank you Grandma AJ!

Introducing...

We're please to announce the arrival of Ali Marie Milligan! I'm so excited that she's here with us...finally! I was very anxious at the end of my pregnancy and am just so happy that she's here now.

Here we are at the hospital, getting ready to check in. This is at 9:00am on Sunday and I had been having contractions since 7:00pm the night before.

Garet's parents are waiting for little Ali to get here

She made it after 3 hours of pushing! She was 8lbs even and 20 inches long

Garet and his mom meeting the new baby

The proud new daddy

Grandma AJ made it to town on Tuesday to meet little Ali

Finally home

Ali got the meet the rest of her family...Sammy and Bella

It's been great being a new mommy

She is a little bit jaundice, so she has to lay on this light. It's heartbreaking not to be able to hold her. She should be done soon though.

Due any day now!

I still don't have my camera back from the "shop" (we sent it in for repairs), but here are some pictures from Garet's sisters camera. The first one is of me at work...I'm 38 1/2 weeks.

In this one, I'm at home at almost 40 weeks! Garet took this picture of me today and I'll be 40 weeks in two days. I think all of my wishing that the baby would come is jinxing me! So, I'm just trying to be calm and wait for her to come in her own time:)

The Lost Photos

I was able to scrounge up some more shower pictures from some people that attended the shower. Here are just a few more pictures of our fun evening.

Lots of friends and family made it out for the occasion

The gifts

Brittany, Megan, me, Aunt Maggie and Erin...Thank you guys!

The adorable "Ali" M&M's that matched the baby's room colors

The cake was soooo yummy!!! It matched the plates and napkins:)