Well now the day has come and gone and our precious gift from God is here!!!! She is absolutely perfect!! Ella Lanae Lehnen was born June 23rd at 1:39 pm weighing in at 6 lbs and 8 oz and 19 in long.

Clay and I arrived at the hospital at 5:20 am, checked into our room, got into my hospital gown and hooked up to monitors! Dr. Lampkin came in and broke my water at 8:15 and we had our 1st contraction at 9:00. The process really did go by pretty fast (well after I had dilated to a 5 and THEN got an epidural). We started pushing at 12:45 and Ella was born at 1:39. I keep saying "we" because I could not have done it without Clay....he was the most amazing coach ever. Even the nurses commented on how calm and collective he was.

This is all I have time to post for now....more info to come later. Check out pictures of our precious Ella!

The bags are packed, the car seat is in the car, and Mom & Dad & Grandma are in town! Oh my goodness...we only have 2 more days before little Ella arrives!

I had a doctor's appt on Friday and I am not as dilated as they want me to be. They gave me some homework to do over the weekend (which I did very well!!!) and I go back to the doctor tomorrow morning. If I have not dilated any more by tomorrow then they will admit me to the hospital Tuesday night and start the drugs to get the labor process going. My doctor will come in early Wednesday morning and break my water. Soon and very soon I will be posting pictures of precious Ella!! Till then you can view more preggors pics of Mom! :0 )

38 weeks and only 5 more days to go!!!

Happy Memorial Day...spending it pool side (ok not so much real pool side...just plastic, kiddy pool side) with the puppies! Yeah being pregnant and wearing a bikini is SOOO DIFFERENT than not being pregnant and wearing a bikini! Oh well...Mama still has to get a tan! :)

I tried to so hard to get Winston and Macy to get in the pool but they weren't having it. Winston did love to drink out of it though!

Saturday I had my Lubbock baby shower! It was great and we got TONS of great stuff! There are pictures of the itty bitty bikini (soooo cute, its leopard print) from mom and dad, the dedication dress from mom and dad, an awesome soft rug for Ella's room from the Colemans, Aggie sign from the Biggers, and a camcorder from Coach and Karen!! Check out the pictures (they are not in order though).