Our 2011 in pictures- the first 5 months

This has taken me longer than expected but I wanted to gather up a few pics from each month of the past year. Here are the first 5 months. The rest are coming!

JANUARY

22ish weeks

Getting Archer's room ready (formerly the guest room)

FEBRUARY

Home cooked Valentine's DinnerLots of Snow!

MARCH
Saying goodbye to the TV
The first baby shower given by my mom's friends
Becca Oehrig came and took our pics!

We went out to the farm in Saco MT for Grandma Helen's 80th
birthday party and we got to see Mark!

APRIL
Like 35 weeks here
Hope, our doula, preparing me for labor!

MAY
Last photos before baby! May 14th at lake harriet
May 17th laboring at home
After laboring for 3+ days, Archer is almost here
Archer Louis arrived via C-section on May 20th, 2011 at 5:34 in the morning!
After we heard the cutest little cries that sounded like rawr, rawr...he
was handed to Darren! What a proud daddy!Our new family of three (and my puffy face)

Our beautiful, healthy baby boy is finally here and the labor is over!
It was time to fall in love with him and recover from the crazy labor.
My family comes to meet Archer, after many worrisome days they had, since
we didn't update them on everything going on...
Friends come to meet Archie
Oh, how we love his chicken wings and frog legs as we lovingly
called them, always curled up! Such a long little guy at 21 3/4".We are home! Our new family of 3!
The baby is at home!
A boy and his dad! About 5 days old.

murder mystery

a few quick words

Wow, I just installed this pageviews gadget thingy. I think 95% of the page views are from me since I read all my favorite blogs through here. ha! Man I love reading blogs. Do you? Do you have any favorites I don't have listed? I've had lots to blog about-- archie's first christmas, new years, tons of new goals I have set for myself/our family. But I've mainly been journaling those things. I do plan to blog soon, but for now I will leave you with a somewhat recent pic of the little archeese.