Week 2

Grace had several visitors this week come to see her. First she had her mom's long time friend Suzanne and her sweet family come visit. 


Her uncle Elliott came to visit too from Boone. 


Then the McKenzie side of the family were able to come and spend the whole weekend and help out the new parents.


Even as early has the second week of little Grace's life we can already see a personality arising. 


What do you think? It is a tough life being a baby. 
Now I am not the best photographer, but I did not want time to pass by and not get some precious pictures at this age, so here are a few I took.






First Week

Thankfully my wonderful mother was able to come and stay with us. She did so much! I do not know what I would have done without her! She did laundry everyday, cleaned, cooked and changed a lot of diapers. Unfortunately Grace broke my tailbone during delivery so everything is difficult for me. I can not sit without a donut pillow and even then it is extremely painful. Which made it even more wonderful that my mom was able to come. I cried when my dad came to take her way.


More than anything though, I could not have survived this week without my wonderful, amazing husband Michael. He is the best dad to Grace! He changed more diapers this week than I did. What an amazing dad.


We took our first walk this week as a family too, in my new jogging stroller that my awesome office gave to us.



Grace is Coming!

Time flys! I realized today that time goes by too fast and I wanted to keep track of little Grace's life better. Also a place to share pictures with friends and family since we do not live near any family. 


Yesterday was our 39 week appointment with our doctor. My blood pressure had been going up so for the last few weeks so I have been going to the doctor in Greenville twice a week. Michael had not been to but a couple appointments, but for some reason he really wanted to come to this appointment, and I am really glad he did! Because by the time we left the appointment I was dilated 5 cm and we were on our way to the hospital! Thankfully I was not in a lot of pain, and very excited to meet our little girl! We immediately began making phone calls, and family immediately were on their way. 



Grace Elizabeth McKenzie was born 10:36 pm 7 lbs 12 oz 20 in. 



We were fortunate that most of our family were able to come!


This was her coming home outfit! Isn't she cute!

Our new home



Even before we got married I was looking forward to having a home of my very own! I had dreamed of looking for a home and then turning it from a house into a home. To make it a home by decorating, by the smell of homemade food and the sound of children running and laughing. 
My dream has come true, thanks for my generous and wonderful husband! My husband, Michael, got a new job in the upstate of SC. I immediately got online and began looking at houses, of course all the houses I like were very expensive. We drove up to the upstate on numerous weekends looking and the area and dreaming. We met up with three differently realtors and looked at four houses, the forth house now being ours! Michael happened to see this house online one night and he was very excited about it and saw a lot of potential (you can only imagine, we bought it from a 90 year old lady) He immediately called the realtor and within hours she had an offer on the house. We drove up to look and it and put an offer on it as well and then shortly after we found out that the house was ours! 
As soon as we got the keys, Michael began painting everything in the house, and I mean everything. All the wallpaper is gone and everything is painted now. I had so much fun picking out the paint colors and dreaming of what I wanted the rooms to look like. I quickly found out that a house is a never ending project, but nevertheless it is all ours! Let the journey begin...
Hi! I'm Katie. Wife to Michael. Mom to Grace, David Michael & Emma. Christ Follower. Runner. Stay at home mommy.



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