Summer Lynn Strout

Summer has finally made her debut! :) She was born Feb. 27th at 6:52p.m. She weighed 6lbs. 1oz. and was 19 inches long. She is so precious and so beautiful! I haven't even met this little girl and yet I already love her so much. We were in Austria visiting Bryan, Jane and Hudson when Amie called me as she was on her way to the hospital. Her and my mom kept me updated throughout it all and when it came time for Amie to start pushing I didn't want to miss any of it. I asked my mom to keep her phone on speaker so I could hear it all. I'm so weird I know, but it has killed me not being there so I needed to feel that I was somewhat with Amie through this. I stayed up til 5:00 am my time and it was well worth it. As soon as I heard Summer screaming I cried like a baby ha! I'm so thankful everything went well and Amie and Summer are both doing great. What a blessing!! :) Congratulations to Bon and Amie, you guys are going to be amazing parents!

Mom and Summer :)

Bundled up for her first car ride :)

How precious is she!?

Ahh Mussels!

We went to dinner at The Hummels house in which Alex cooked mussels and noodles and salmon and noodles. We like to let our kids venture out and try new things so Faith had mussels for the first time and actually liked them. I will usually eat and/or try anything but mussels is just something I'm not interested in, ha! But evidently Faith is taking after Daddy on this one!

Daddy is helping her out. :)

Then she decided she wanted some salmon as well..obviously she loved that too! :)

Countdown to Baby Summer!

Baby Summer will soon be making her big debut!! My sister is now dilated at 3cm. I hate it so much that I can not be there with her. I always pictured when my sister would grow up and get married and have babies I wouldn't miss a second of any of it. And I would be the one right by her side taking care of her and all the details. I also never pictured that I would be living in another country and her in another state. Ahh the sacrifices we make for our husbands haha. Amie has done such an amazing job throughout her pregnancy. She has everything organized, nursery done and decorated, and is still working out about 4 days a week. Who does that?! haha! Sure not me while pregnant! And just this week stopped working. She has kept herself busy and still got all the important things taken care of, all the while missing her husband who is in the Air Force and has to leave for weeks at a time. She doesn't realize how strong she is and how wonderful she has done throughout all this. She is already such an amazing mother and Baby Summer is going to be the luckiest little girl.

Here is a recap of Amie's pregnancy. Here she is at 4 months

Bon & Amie

5 months

Beginning of her 6th month

6 months - Gauge is loving Baby Summer already :)

End of 7 months

End of 8 months

Just a couple more weeks to go til her due date but I think Summer is coming sooner :)

I can not wait to meet this little girl and spoil her rotten. :) :)

Faith is a Big Girl

We have been attempting the whole potty training ordeal!! I know alot of people think I'm crazy for trying because Faith is only 18 months but I figure there is no harm in getting a head start. It has been very entertaining to watch her! Jeff or I would take her into the bathroom and put her on the potty and she would freeze up. Then as soon as we would take her off the potty she would walk out of the bathroom and squat, ha ha! We have had a few messes to clean up, but that's ok. :) Tonight though she chose to sit on her potty and go. We are so proud of her! :)

She was so excited!

Mommy already cleaned the potty out but Faith wanted to follow suit, ha ha!!