In DUE time

Today we celebrate Anna's due date!!!   December 20th is a day that I have been looking forward to for 9 months because I knew that at around this time I would be holding my sweet little girl.   Well in typical fashion (based upon her behavior in the womb: flicking us off, never showing us her face, ect.) she decided to come 12 days earlier and we couldn't be happier!   Since she came early we were able to enjoy lots of things that we didn't think we would be able to...
1) Attending Eli's Christmas performance (in December 2009 photo album; go to link at the right...)
2) Eli was able to represent the family this weekend at his Aunt Kara's graduation
3) She was able to join her mom and dad Christmas shopping
4) Attending our neighbors Christmas party

Things we weren't able to enjoy since she came early...
1) A less stressful finals week
2) Todd taking off work to help Leah with managing 2 little ones! (he had a pretty important conference that he needed to attend, if I truly needed him he could have taken off...I think...)  He IS taking off this upcoming week and we are so excited!!   

Anna Davis, we love you and are so excited you are here!  We love your cheeks, your perky nose, your sweet disposition, your tolerance of your brother (so far), dressing you up (eventhough you HATE it), putting bows in your hair, rocking you to sleep and holding you in our arms.   We can't wait to see how the next seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years bring us closer to the Lord because of YOU!  We are so thankful for you...

(by the way there are new pictures posted to our Shutterfly site in the December 2009 album...enjoy!)