On April 17th, 2010 at 1:36 am, we welcomed our baby girl, Elliot Charlyse, into the world. Elliot was 6 lbs. and 13 ounces. She was 19 1/2 inches long with very chubby cheeks and lots of brown hair! Stephanie's sister, Tiffani, was scheduled to have her baby via c-section that two days after. They ended up both going into the hospital on Friday night and having their babies 3 hours apart. It was an incredible experience for the sisters to do this together. Our family had an exciting and pretty overwhelming night with both babies being born. Tiff and Cal named their baby boy, Winston Blaise. Everything went well with both deliveries and the hospital staff was so great. They even wheeled Tiffani and Winston in to see Steph after he was born...while she was still in labor.
Kennedy and Claire love Elliot and are wonderful big sisters already. We are really enjoying this precious time with our baby girl! Aaron is officially part-time at the bank now and will be completely done on July 1st. It will be wonderful for him to be able to focus completely on pre-field and not have to juggle another job. He will be making a lot of phone calls over the next couple of months and setting up lots of appointments. We will start traveling quite a bit starting in the fall and will hopefully continue to travel full-time until we leave for Kenya. It is an exciting and new time for our family. We are so thankful that God has blessed us in such incredible ways and look forward to a busy and exciting year of traveling!
