Friday, March 28, 2008

Shiranes Wedding

February 21st Shane and Shirell were married. It was an amazing wedding. Nana was quite the wedding coordinator. It was a coincidence for us that the wedding and the Lily's due date were within the same week in Mesa but really worked out for the best. The wedding helped us to take some of the nervousness we felt with the adoption away as we targeted our energies as we were surrounded by the festivities of the wedding. So many family and friends made the trek to AZ to share in this wonderful day. Shirell looked beautiful!!! It was a party to say the least and we all had a great time. We wish Shirell and Shane a lifetime of happiness and love.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Ella Bleu




Ms Ella Bleu is now 2 1/2 going on 10. She is very smart and has quite the imagination. Every day she wakes up and is a different animal or princess. Today she came into my room to wake me up with a "Good Morning Mama blue bird, I am baby blue bird". Yesterday it was baby snake, the day before that baby elephant. She has a strange OBSESSION with puppies. She has at least 100 stuffed puppies as we can't leave them in the store as they will be "sad, cold and hungry." We can't let that happen now can we? She does have her favorite Perro that papa got her in SF. He goes EVERYWHERE with her. We have 3 backup replicas in the closet but we can't fool her. She wants the one and only. Ella and I are working on a plan to get her a real one but daddy is pretty hard to crack. Its just a matter of time..... She loves her ballet classes and playing dress up with every princess dress ever made. She really is not quite sure about this new baby Lily and recently asked when she was going home. She is very independent, incredibly stubborn, sensitive and sweet.

Sweet Baby Lily


March 6th 2008 Lillian Paige Bradford came into this world. Dave Ella and Jen waited in Arizona for 3.5 weeks waiting for her to be born. We were very lucky to be able to stay with Nana and Papa while we waited for her birth. She was very stubborn and waited until she was good and ready to come out (9 days in the hospital). We were so happy when she finally came to meet us and well it was well worth the wait! She weighed 6lbs 13oz and was 21" long. As you can see she has so much hair and is just perfect. We were able to bring her home a few days later and what a wonderful day that was. She is an amazingly good baby and sleeps almost through the night! She loves to be held and is getting a little spoiled by everyone. But really we can't help it.