She's here! Introducing...

Megan Camille Eldredge



Born: Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 6:51am
Weight: 7 lbs. 10 oz. Length: 20 in.

Mom and baby Megan are home and doing well now. We are learning how to be parents of FIVE kids (every seat in our van is now occupied-Yikes!). Richard is able to be home for a few weeks and stays very busy taking care of everyone. The kids are all so in love with Megan and want to hold her any chance they get. Jonny is being soft with her (most of the time) but doesn't like sharing mommy very much.


Labor and delivery...don't worry, I won't go into detail here...was painful! Let's just say the epidural didn't do what it was supposed to do. I feel like I can count myself among those women who go through natural childbirth, even though I fully intended to NOT go through that much pain. Ever. However, by some miracle, I survived. Dr. Tutt was awesome and helped Megan turn the right way. We are just so glad that part is over and we have a wonderful, healthy, beautiful little girl.


Thank you all for your love and support, calls, texts, posts on facebook, visits, etc. It means so much to me!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (a little late)

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season this year. It went by too quickly for us, but it was still good and we enjoyed spending time together.

And before any of you wonder further, I am still pregnant. My due date is January 13th, and this baby just isn't quite done yet, and I am ok with that. :) I was worried that I might have her early, but thankfully she didn't want a birthday too close to the holidays.
Here are a few pictures from our Christmas. Santa must have thought we were all pretty good this year. He brought us a Wii, but we were all too excited to take any pictures of that. :) I love watching the kids get so excited over their presents.
Katie got a new baby doll, lots of princess Barbies, and new roller skates, among other things.

Jonny was in Ball and Train Heaven this year. He really got excited over each and every present. He was especially fun to watch.


The older girls are not into toys as much this year. They both got new video mp3 players, which were a big hit. Breanna also got new roller skates. She and Katie spent most of the day wearing them.



Rebecca got a book entitled "Harry Potter Film Wizardry," which captured her attention most of the day. You can see she would not even put it down to open other presents.

It was a good year, but I would not recommend being this pregnant over Christmas (if you can at all help it). It is hard to move around and to have energy to do everything I want to do. But we are thankful for all of our blessings(including being pregnant) and most of all, we are so thankful for the birth, life, and atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ. We hope you feel His peace throughout the New Year!