I can't believe, Baby G is finally here and I'm not in Charlotte  :(  I cannot even describe how bummed I am...even though I'm going to Disneyland tomorrow, I still wish that I could meet Baby G first!

I've been on pins and needles all day waiting to hear the news after Heidi was induced early Thursday morning (EST)...I kept receiving updates (thank you Beverly!!!) "she's only 5cm dilated," and "now she's at 9cm" (which by the way she was at 9cm like allllll day, so a c-section was performed).  Beverly (my oldest sister) just sent me a picture message so of course I am blogging about it!!!

Welcome to the world Miss Molly Jean, I cannot wait to meet you next week...maybe we can go shopping...oh, too soon?  OK then, I'll just bring home a bunch of trashy magazines for us girls to look at (I'm such a great role model! ;)  )

Molly, I know that I'm not there right now and even worse, I'm cheating on you with your cousin Jackson, but I will meet you soon....I can't wait....I haven't met you yet but I already love you to the moon and back!!!!!

Thank goodness for cell phone cameras, right!?

And not to slight the others...

Soo, Beverly is GOING TO KILL ME DEAD, but I have to tell the story...I can't help it  :)  Beverly and Ben announced their pregnancy on Mother's Day 2002...I was a high school junior at the time and was a bit miffed because my other sister found out first ;)   I gave her a hard time about it because just a month or so before they announced she was pregnant, her and her husband took a lovely cruise around the caribbean...me, being my inappropriate self made jokes about "Oh, I know how it happened."  Hehe, it still makes me laugh :)

Beverly planned on having a normal birth, she planned on having Jackson come when he wanted, but sometimes things don't always go the way you plan, so she too had a c-section.  I was a high school senior when Jackson was born and informed my teachers that I would be missing a day of school because of the birth of my nephew/niece (they kept the gender a surprise)...of course, my teachers were a bit irritated but said "Ok, whatever."  Sooo, 36 hours later, Jackson was finally born and I ended up missing a few more days of school than I planned...but it was so worth it!  Mom and I stayed up in the waiting room all night long waiting to hear the good news and finally around 4:30am we got the phone call.  Even though I was only 17 and could care less about "baby stuff" I was sooo excited to an aunt and literally almost every day after school I barged into Beverly's house demanding to see my nephew. 

Jackson is 3 months is this scanned photo and I am at the ripe old age of 17...

And of course I have to tell Benjamin's story too!  I had a fun job in college (besides photography!)...I worked at a golf course and this particular day I was manning the beverage cart and was driving around somewhere on the back nine when my cell phone rang...Beverly is not one to sugar coat things and casually mentions that she is expecting again...woohoo!

This time, a c-section was a must and Benjamin was scheduled to be born on a Friday.  At this point and time in my life, I was a mechanical engineering major at UNC Charlotte and I had a major test the day Benj was scheduled to arrive...being my inappropriate self again, I asked Beverly if "maybe they could schedule his birth after my test?"  I ended up finishing my test in 30 minutes (and acing it, too!) and then rushed over to the hospital to meet my new nephew.  Pretty awesome, huh?

The day he was born....