10 days old!

Elin is already 10 days old! The days have really flown by! We found this amazing photographer who specializes in newborns to capture Elin at this young and beautiful age and we were so happy with the photos! Here are a few of my favorites!

Halloween 2010

Introducing Elin Hadley Horwath

As most of you know I was due with Elin on the 16th of October but, like, Ella her due date came and went. Luckily I was able to convince my doctor to do a scheduled induction on October 20th. So on October 18 Jon and I really started getting ready for the hospital - packed the bag, did some chores around that house that needed to be done, and started to get mentally prepared for bringing home a baby.

As it turned out, it was good that we got everything ready because on at around 6:00 a.m. on the 19th, my water broke, while I was still in bed. It was the weirdest sensation I have ever expierenced. For some reason, I remained pretty calm. I woke up Jon and told him my water just broke and he was pretty funny, he jumped out of bed and said, "what do we do?"

I took a shower and we headed to the hospital. By the time we were there, I was in hard labor and somewhat annoyed at how slow the nurses seemed to be moving. Fortunatly, I didn't have to wait long because Elin was born a few short hours later at 9:03 a.m. (an the epidural came just in time :)!
Ella was instantly in love with her baby sister! She was so sweet and wanted to give soft hugs and kisses!

Pumkin Carving!

More Pumpkin Patch!

Pumpkins
We had so much fun at the pumkin patch the first time that we decided to go again! This time we actually picked out some pumkins!


Ella loves an excuse to use her tinkerbell umbrella!

Pumkin Patch 2010

I really have to say that this year the pumpkin patch was so much more fun than the Puyallup Fair. We headed out to Remlinger Farm for the first time and had a fun-filled day!
There was a toddler hay maze, complete with a bouncy hay area at the end!



This is us on the steam train ride.

Ella even got to ride her very first pony!

And while we made it to the actual pumpkin patch in the end, we didn't actually end up buying any pumkins. :( At that point we were all a little tired (especially me) and it just gave us an excuse to come back next weekend!

Sprinkle for Elin

I was so for fortunate to two of my pregger friends throw me a sprinkle for Elin. If your not familiar with the term, a sprinkle is a smaller scale shower. It was held at Carly's house and Mickey did the food (of course). The decorations turned out beautiful and the food was excellent.