One week old

Delaney is a little over a week old now and has been home for one week. She had her first doctor's appointment and is doing great. She is already doing new things and is starting to become more alert and aware. We are very sleep deprived but it is worth all of it when she looks at you. We feel so blessed to have her.
Coming home for the first time!


The cats are not too thrilled about the new addition.

This one made us laugh really hard. Maybe it is just the lack of sleep. This was during one of the "pirahna" feeding frenzies.

Delaney Brown McGuire has arrived!

Our little baby girl made her appearance on Wednesday, February 20th at 5:22 in the morning. She weighed in at 7 lbs. 3 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches long. The first contraction hit at 11:17 p.m. on the 19th and she was born 6 hours later. The labor went very fast and she was born without any complications. We are so proud to be new parents!


Meeting our little girl for the first time.

Big feet and long fingers!

The new family less than one hour old.

The proud papa!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! Dan is finally feeling better and has been back at work for about two weeks now. We are finally settling back into our normal schedule again, but we know that won't last too long. We are getting very excited for the arrival of our little one and can't wait to finally meet her.





Taken today at right around 37 weeks.

Max enjoying the last few weeks of his belly "pillow".

A quick pic from work

This is the basketball belly at 35 weeks.

Another surgery!?!

Well, we are becoming old pros at this whole surgery thing. Dan went back to work in Jan after his surgery and was doing his run to Colorado with another driver. Well, on the second day of the trip he wound up in the ER in Cheyenne, WY. He had some tests done there which were inconclusive, but all signs pointed to his gallbladder. He ended up having to fly home the following day and got right in with his doctor. They ran some more tests and eventually it did show that his gallbladder was not functioning correctly. So, yesterday we went in again for surgery. It was a little nicer being more prepared for this one, but nothing makes surgery "nice". We love his surgeon and she took very good care of him. He got home from the hospital today and is resting well. Two surgeries in a little over a month...we asked his surgeon if we get a discount for being such a frequent patient. However, the surgeon was able to look around in there and made sure there were no other organs that looked like they had anything wrong and she also looked at everything from the previous surgery and everything is healing nicely. We are hoping that this is the end of the health problems for Dan since we have our little pickle due in six weeks. Hopefully that will be the next time we will see the inside of a hospital. Thank you for all your prayers. We couldn't make it through all this without all of you. We love you!

P.S. - We know we haven't been very good about posting some pictures lately (we've been a little preoccupied), but we will get some new ones up soon!

A Christmas update

Most of you know that Dan had to go in for emergency surgery on the 19th. For those of you who don't, Dan wasn't feeling good Tuesday night and was having a lot of stomach pain. He called his doctor Wednesday morning and by the grace of God, they told him to come in at 11 am. The doctor took a look at his stomach and sent him right over to the surgeon's office. She saw him by noon and by 1 pm he was being admitted to the hospital. He was wheeled into the OR at 4:30 pm. He had a strangulated hernia that had also gotten infected and was basically eating its way through his belly button. Dan spent the night in the hospital hooked up to a lot of antibiotics and was discharged Thursday afternoon. It was a bit stressful having everything happen so quickly, but God held us in His hands that day and everything that needed to happen got done and got done quickly. We are very grateful for all of our wonderful parents and all of our friends that were supporting us.
We had a minor setback on Friday when we wound up back in the doctor's office because an infection was starting to form in the incision. To spare everyone the gory details, Dan had to put up with some painful measures to drain the incision and we have some extra care we need to take at home to make sure the incision stays clean. Dan is doing much better now and is on the slow road to recovery. He looks a little better everyday and is able to get around on his own more and more.
While this wasn't the way we intended to spend our Christmas, we are grateful because this could have happened at a much worse time than this. We feel blessed to have the support system that we have in all of our family and friends. We may not get the chance to see everyone this Christmas, but we love you all and wish you a very Merry Christmas!

Some random December pics

Us at the Cascade Regional Blood Services Christmas party.

Merry Christmas! (The belly was right around 28 weeks here).

Our first snow of the season.

Max does not like snow no matter how many times Dan takes him out in it.