Introducing Oliver Douglas Manwaring!!

It's official...we are all IN LOVE!! On October 19th, 2010, Oliver Douglas Manwaring was born. 8lbs. and 19 1/2 inches of pure sweetness!! He was born at 9:04am after a very easy labor and delivery. We got to the hospital around 1am that morning to be induced and after a little pitocin and a lot of epidural he was born. He is perfect in every way and we are all in heaven!

Arriving at the hospital. I brought my own hospital gown for this delivery...not without a lot of teasing from my husband. We had a lot of laughs over this all night!

After the make-up was applied and ready to push! If you know your pictures will be taken...why not!?

He's here at 9:04am.

I LOVE this picture...his face is SO precious! He wanted his mama!

One of my favorite moments in life! There is not much sweeter than older siblings looking at the newest member of their family for the first time. It's hard to look at this picture still without getting teary! We all waited a long time for this moment!

Dad and the kids giving Oliver a good look over!

The proud big sister. She's the reason we have so many kids...we could never manage without her!


I don't think anyone was as excited to get their hands on our new baby than Isaac! He's the best big brother anyone could ask for!

Finally he has a little brother! If there was ever a "natural" with a baby...it is Austin. He just seems to always know just how to hold him right and exactly what to do to make him stop crying.


And if this isn't the face of pure excitement...I'm not sure what is! She loves babies more than ANYTHING on earth and to have her "own"...well it's just more than she could have ever dreamed of! A big sister at last!!!

The 5 kids together at last...wow, 5 kids!!!


Our first family photo of 7.

Both Grandma's were there to welcome him shortly after his arrival...what a lucky baby!






Jackson was super excited to see him too!


We sure love our little Oliver!

Sisters!

Yes, I love taking pictures of my kids sleeping...I could stare at them for hours! We recently moved Isabel and Ally together to share a bed to get ready for the baby! They love it...whew!

The Storm!!

Even after having lived in Idaho most of our lives...we've never seen a storm like this one!! Jonathan was at work and I had just gotten home from picking up the kids from school when it started to rain. Quickly the rain turned to hail...which was only the second time I had seen hail in Arizona, the first of which was earlier that day. I called the kids to come watch the storm brew. We were all oooooh and ahhhhing at the hail and the craziness of how hard it was coming down. In what seemed like a few seconds the hail went from pea size to golf ball size ice chunks. The wind was blowing like CRAZY and the hail was pounding against the windows SOOO hard. It really sounded like all of our windows would break so I rushed the kids into the bathroom where there aren't any windows. We waited for a few minutes and came out to find all windows intact. We looked outside and couldn't believe the destruction...the ground was covered in leaves and sticks and of course hail. We quickly learned that we were lucky and that most of our neighbors windows did in fact break. Through it all we only needed a new roof, ac unit and new patio furniture...WOW what a storm! It was a crazy few days in the neighborhood as no one really knew where to start. Luckily it's all cleaned up and back to normal! I wish I had taken more pictures, but luckily Jonathan managed some on his phone!