Our beautiful baby girl

It is difficult to put her down. You can see why from these pictures. Alexis Belle Clifton was born Friday November 20, 2009 at 7pm. She weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 19.5 inches long. She is perfect in every way, and the most beautiful thing Jon and I have ever seen.

We are doing well. I am so glad Jon is off of work for a few weeks as we get the hang of our new schedule. We hope you enjoy looking at her as much as we do.

-Jenni & Jon & Lexi & Benji

Last belly pic

I had to share this pic.
Two days before the baby is born and I finally look good and pregnant!

Shew weeee it has been a long weekend. So exciting to welcome our new baby girl Alexis Belle Clifton (we call her Lexi)! I never imagined to love something sooooo much. We will be giving details and post pictures in the future but know that we are happy and it is fun say that I am a Daddy!!!

~Jon

It's a Nursery!

The nursery is finally to a point we can call finished. It looks good, and it is a comfortable place to be. My sis-in-law Tera finished the animal mural, and it looks awesome! The bedding was made by my step-mom Gail and the soon to be placed letters by my friend Molly. All of their creative talents amaze me! Here are the first pics...

Becoming Reality

There is nothing like a good car seat check to let a person know that they are really on their way to being a parent. Jon and I went for one today. We basically did everything wrong. Now in our defense, there was nothing in the book that illustrated how to get the base to extend downward for our bucket like seat, so we used a towel as so many online videos suggested. Nope, not good. No one yelled at us, but we were schooled. We now have a correctly installed car seat. The person helping us suggested we take it out and re-install to practice, but we say why mess with perfection.

The last week or so have left me feeling weird. I've had minor cramp like things. I ate a whole pumpkin pie myself in less than 24 hours. (Pre-pregnant Jenni didn't like pumpkin pie.) I continue to go instantly from nesting to napping. Benji has gotten more accepting of the nursery, but he also demands that he be sitting on the ottoman to be part of the action. Tera is almost done painting the mural. We will be washing the rest of the clothes today, and getting the crib made up tomorrow. We assembled the pack and play. We finished painting and getting hardware up in our bathroom. We are 'ready,' or so we think!


This morning we were watching some history show on Einstein, and we had places to go, but were in no hurry to get there. I told Jon that next weekend we may not be able to do this. The air in the room got very thick. We are ready, but still terrified. After almost 15 years of US being Jon and I (and 12 of that with Benji), we will soon have a new definition of US, and we aren't entirely sure it won't take some getting used to!
-Jenni