She's arrived...

We are proud to announce our new bundle of joy...

{Presley Mabel Peterson}

Born on March 16th, 2011 @ 12 p.m.

She weighted in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce and 19 inches long.

The day started off with a 2 a.m. induction. I went in at 2 cm and 80% effaced. They started my pitocin and it wasn't long until I was at 3 cm. Once at 3 cm- they let me get my epidural and then it was a piece of cake from then on, seriously. I was eating popsicles, playing on my ipad, and taking naps. After hours of being at a 3, the nurse checked me and I was at 6. A half hour later I told my mom, I feel a lot of pressure- like... the baby is going to come out. She went and got a nurse, she checked- and I was at a 9. Whoa, Tanner had just went to the cafeteria and my doctor wasn't there yet! Mom called tanner (he thought she might be joking because the same thing happened to my sister several weeks before) and said to come asap! The nurse called my doctor- he rushed over.. and 3 pushes later- she was here! I am not bragging- but I kind of am... I could go through labor anyday. :) Enough of that gross stuff- on to the baby. We are so in love with her, and can't imagine our life without her. I still can't believe she is here. I am constantly looking at her and am amazed at how beautiful she is. She has the most gorgeous head of brown hair, the sweetest little lips, and the longest toes. When I was a little girl- I played with baby dolls all the time and it has been a dream of mine to have my own real doll baby... to dress up in dresses and put bows in her hair. Well, she's here and perfect. She's a tiny dream baby. (she is quite different from Maddex when he was a baby- he had several little things going on that required a lot of work and time- we like to just say he was a tad high maintenance. ha) I am so in love with all of her hair. I wanted a baby with hair so bad. As I was about to have her I asked the nurse if she had hair, and she said as sure as could be, "nope, she doesn't".. but when she came out- she had a whole head of it. :) From the second I saw her, she looked like Maddex to me.. they share the same eyes and lips. Speaking of, Maddex loves her.. He loves to hold her, and kiss her. He is truly a sweetheart with her, and likes to help out by getting her binky and blanket.

Life right now seems to be perfect. I still can't believe I have two children- I layed in bed the other night with Maddex to my right and Presley to my left... and just thought to myself- This is what life is all about, I am the luckiest girl in the world.

We truly couldn't ask for anything more at this point.

Here is a look at her "birth day":

fixing my hair at 6 cm. ha

{my lips turned red after eating a popsicle and i had no idea.

i later said to tanner, oh my gosh- what if you would have gotten me a purple one- it would have ruined all my photos. he said he thought about that when picking it out- and that is why he chose red. yah, yah.}

presley's middle name is after my grandma mabel.

she stayed in the room for presleys birth- and i later found out it was her 1st time ever being in a room for a birth.

she's so special to me.

he's already wrapped.

tanner is so in love with presley- i love his face in this photo

lol. i know i know people. it's not her size- it's for an older baby- but i was really excited to see her in a bow. :)

i love this photo, and didn't know it was taken until i was going through all of them... two of tanner's favorite things...

march madness- and presley.

tanner already had tickets and a flight- just incase she came sooner- but instead of going we watched games a lot while in the hospital.

grandma kathy kept maddex while we were in the hospital. it was my first time ever leaving him- but i did great. ha. i wasn't too worried about him (other than night).

thanks kathy.

all bundled up and going home.