Aubrey.

This is painfully overdue, but I I owe our newest little girl a proper introduction around here.  With her birth comes a new reason to blog and a new commitment to keep documenting our lives.

Aubrey Norma Jean was born at 6:21 p.m. on Thursday, July 10th.

Waking up on her birthday I felt frustrated and exhausted.  I was 10 days overdue, scheduled for a second fetal assessment and even though on the list to be induced nowhere near the top.  Around lunchtime though I thought I might be starting to feel like we were moving in the right direction.  For that reason we headed to my parents in case things really started and we needed to head to the hospital.  We spent the afternoon waiting around...something we had gotten pretty good at.  Around 4:45 Jason and I decided that enough was enough and if we had a babysitter we may as well go for dinner while we had the opportunity.  About a two minutes after leaving my parents house I had my first real contraction and instantly I knew.  This baby was coming.

After a quick turnaround we headed to the hospital and before we knew it, our baby girl was in our arms.

Welcome to our crazy life, Aubrey.  Here's to you and to us.  Our family is complete.