Evelyn Arlene

Welcome Evelyn Arlene, our little angel. We are so grateful for another sweet girl in our family.

Easter

We went to the Easter egg hunt downtown again this year. The girls had so much fun.

They both ended up with full buckets

Easter Morning

Brielle took a break finding eggs to eat some (you can see her missing out on the action in the above picture too)

Matching Easter dresses. Mckenna was begging me for a dress like this for months. Little did she know, the dress was already made, just waiting for Easter to come.

Love having 3 cute girls!

Home

Here are pictures of the first few days at home. It took a bit for Brielle to warm up to Evelyn, but Mckenna was a natural. So, we have a lot of pictures of Mckenna holding Evelyn and not many of Brielle.

Brielle will always be our cuddlebug :)

Grandma Collins got her very own nail treatment

Evelyn's fingers and toes have been counted many times.

Proud big sis

I don't think we can fit any more girls in this tub!

We really enjoyed all of the meals brought by friends. The girls especially loved getting their own cakes for dessert.

We have a quite a few pictures of daddy sleeping with each girl when they were newborns

Evelyn

Evelyn finally joined our family... 6 days late! I thought I was going to go crazy! I did 5 miles at the gym the day before my due date, and it still didn't do anything. We went on tons of long hilly walks, but I'm convinced that babies come when they are ready. I started contracting consistently and frequently at 2am April 8. We went to the hospital at about 6am. Evelyn was born at 5:10pm. My labors with Mckenna and Brielle were 17 hours long each, so this was actually my shortest labor at about 15 hours. The girls were quite excited that she was finally here! They had been just as impatient as I was waiting for her to come.

My wonderful mom came to help us. I really don't know what I would do without her!!! Especially after I have a baby. She is the best at entertaining the older girls so I can focus on the baby.  We sure love her!!!

Love these pictures of the girls with Evelyn!

First bath by dad

First family picture

Evelyn didn't have a name for the first 12ish hours. I'm not sure if it's because she is our 3rd girl or what, but her name was a lot trickier to decide on.

Going home from the hospital. She seemed so little in a big carseat