Andy, Ashley, and Ryder: July 2009

7.30.2009

William Ryder McMakin

Ryder made his grand entrance into the world on Monday, July 27th at 3:55pm- 7lbs 15oz and 21 inches long..sorry these aren't in any kind of order but here is our precious little bundle of JOY!!!! WE can't believe how much we love him!

One of my close friends little girl, Graham...she loved looking at Ryder...

Chillin' in Labor and Delivery-

A bunch of my good friends came to see me when I was admitted at my 39 wk appt because I was 3cm and contracting....Andy was still at work so they came to keep me company til he could make it..it was fun because I wasn't in any bad pain yet..

Momma Loves you sooooooooo much!!!

About 10 minutes after delivery.....I couldn't have been happier...

All content once I got my epidural...waiting to push

More pics to come soon but I just wanted to post a quick update....thanks for the years of prayers many of you have prayed for us.... we can't believe how gracious the Lord is to give us such an amazing gift! I would have waited twice as long for this perfect little boy!!

7.16.2009

Nursery Pics

I'm FINALLY finished with the nursery! Such a great feeling to be done! I had such a blast doing it though..it was definitely a challenge- boy nurseries are much harder in my opinion! I was going for the "boy chabby chic" look if there is such a thing..I couldn't find ANYTHING that I liked so I really had to start from scratch. I'm kind of on a grey kick right now and I thought it would be a cool color to do a room in..and then I love white furniture so that was an easy one.

The changing table is from my grandmothers antique store as well as the little side table with the lamp... and I'm in love with the white glider from storkland which I copied Kristin on- it's so comfy!!!

Andy's mom made the roman shades- they turned out great! Thanks Kathy!

The crib was my one bargain find...$40 at a consignment sale!!! (which led me to then spend endlessly on everything else...oops)

The wardrobe was mine when I was little.. a fresh coat of paint and knobs from anthropology was all it took!

I had the bedding made by this awesome lady that did a friend of mines...it took me a while to come up with a design- I saw one similar on some website and then just drew the lady a picture of how I wanted it different and she copied it to the T...-it took me FOREVER to find the fabric I wanted...apparently grey is NOT a popular color for decorating so I had to search all over bham to find it. I painted the little broken window above the bed and had found the elephants at Three Sheets in Homewood and just tied ribbon to them...30 minutes later I have a nice piece of "art"..little creativity, little time...that's my kind of project!

Now all I need is my precious little boy to make it all complete!!!

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Random Belly Pics

Trying to walk more these days to get this baby OUT!!! Taken today at 38 weeks....

Below is 36 weeks

Even making icing is getting strenuous these days...my feet kill when I get home from long days at the kitchen...which thankfully those days are getting less and less

All the Uncles to be....

Ryder, we are ready for you little buddy!!!

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Catching Up

So I've been a bad blogger lately....all that nesting I've been doing...yeah right, I'm still working a good bit and trying to stay away from home to make the days go by faster! Although I have nested enough to finally get the nursery done. Anyways, I went to the beach at 35 weeks with a few of my close friends and two of their kids... it was so nice to get away and relax.