Lauren Elizabeth Powell

Our baby Lauren arrived three weeks early on Wednesday, June 24 at 7:45AM. Dave was on an airplane to Salt Lake for a one day meeting and missed her birth. She arrived after only 2 hours of labor. Thank goodness our good friend Elaine was willing to take Andrea to the hospital and stay with her for the birth. She is a beautiful girl whom Evan loves to hold and care for. Jack calls her "baby" and likes to point out her ears and toes. More pictures should be coming but there is a slideshow of what we have so far. Thank you for all the kind words of encouragement. We wish she would have been our "40 week baby", but we are so happy to have her now. She weighed 6 lbs 9 oz and was 19 1/4 inches long.

The Final Countdown

I am looking at my countdown chart to when baby Lauren is due to arrive and I can't believe it is a month away. I just hope that she can stay put for another month. I do not want to deliver early - I would like a full term 40 week baby to bring home to our crazy household. Wish us luck!

We have had fun!

What a time we have had the last few weeks! We were able to visit with all of our aunties and our grandma and some cousins and we loved it. We went to Disneyland for the first time since living in California and it went very well and we had a blast. We also celebrated Jack's 2nd birthday. We didn't take a ton of pictures, but we went to Hollywood to the El Capitan Theater and saw the new movie "Up". They have a fun stage show before the movie and a fabulous organ with a great organist playing Disney movie themes. It set a great mood for the movie. Then we waited in line for an hour for Pink's hot dogs. They were good. We went to a park to eat them and have birthday cupcakes. I have posted the video and pictures from that. If you notice in the video Jack starts protesting a bit. He hates singing (can you believe it!) and did not like hearing us sing "Happy Birthday". Maybe if we force it on him enough, he will stop protesting and start loving singing! The best part was having our GiGi and aunties there with us. We are so grateful to them for spending Jack's special day with us. Since his birthday, he has been talking more and participating more in activities. It is amazing what having a birthday will do to a boy!