She's Here!

Finally!!!! April 22, 2009 was the greatest day of our lives. It was definitely worth all the wait. Lyla was born 7 lbs 7 oz and 19 1/2 inches long. She is absolutely perfect. We are such proud parents. When we left the hospital she weighed 7lbs and then we went to the doctor today and she was back to 7lbs 4 oz. Doctor said everything looked great! It was such a relief to know that she is doing well. It has been so easy adjusting to being parents. It is definitely exhausting, but totally worth it when she looks at you with her big beautiful eyes. It's still hard to believe she is here. We look forward to all the precious memories we will make during her life.

So I have to talk about our first adventure out of the house. This morning we had her very first doctors appointment. It was at 8:30 and we left the house at 8. We had plenty of time to get there. We drove off and I realized neither of us had our cell phones, so we turned around and went back to the house. No big deal. To our surprise though, we had forgotten to put the house key back on the key ring after giving it to his dad to feed the dogs while in the hospital. So now here we are at about 8:10 with no cell phones and locked out of our house. Awesome. We decide we will worry about it later and call someone once we're at the doctor's office. We start down Riverside Drive and of course there is a powerline in the street so we get detoured around. You would think they would detour us to where we would come out far enough down Riverside, but they just made us do a big U-turn that took an extra 5 minutes. We decide to go the interstate now and of all things the gas light comes on. We probably could have made it, but we stop to fill up anyway to be safe. In the meantime during all of this we called On-Star and they helped us out. They connected us to Dan's Dad so he could get into our house for us. Thank the Lord for On-Star. It made us feel better knowing we could get in our house now. Finally, we get to Premier 15 minutes late...what a first trip out as new parents. It was all okay when we heard she was doing great. :) I'm sure we will look back on this day someday and laugh at ourselves.