I am a photo scavenger...

So, since technical difficulties have been preventing photos from reaching me from Allison and Angie and since I have a job and cannot get to Montgomery to capture every second of Riley's life up to this point I am scavenging photo's from others who are more geographically lucky. This one is from Shelley's blog (see the side bar - she has fabulous paintings you should check out on her blog!) So thanks for an update Shelley, feel free to email me any pics you got before the batter went dead!

In this picture Riley is 8 days old!

- Elizabeth

Baby Chappell is here...

Below is Baby Chappell - Holland and Reed's little one. Allison and Holland were pregnant together (see picture below!) and Holland gave birth to Chappell on last Monday. She is so very precious - and apparently Michael is already joking that if Riley and Chappell were to marry how Holland and Reed would have to pay for the wedding... Allison says that Chappell is the spitting image of Reed, so I will have to have her post a picture of Reed soon so we can all weigh in!

This is a picture of Holland and Allison at Anne's wedding in December.


Congratulations Holland and Reed!
-Elizabeth
(PS More Riley Pics to follow soon, i promise!)

Paparazzi!

Riley is officially a star in the Irvin and Godwin Families - we have each taken an obsessive amount of photos of the lil' one... so here are a few of the photos I have from the Irvin camera - I hope to steal some from the Godwin camera soon too!

Gramps aka Grandpa Irvin: (Not, what he wants to be called, but my nickname for him for now! )

Grandpa Godwin :

Grandma Godwin:

Grandma Irvin:

Aunt Mary:

Second Cousin David:

Great Grandfather Pockey and Betty:

And midly obsessed Aunt Elizabeth (or Aunt Izzy as Emily calls me! Love it!):

This thumbs up pic was asked for by Allison - i guess its me telling Allison and Michael that they make a good baby? ;)

This picture below was right when I walked in and called Riley "it" - well that did not go over well with Allison who said right back to me "HE"! To which I responded, well for the past 10 months he has been an "it" so you are going to have to give me more than 5 seconds to adjust! : )

But, let me tell you - HE is way more amazing that I ever thought "IT" could be! We are all in Love!

-Elizabeth

It's A Boy!

On Behalf of Michael and Allison I would like to introduce Riley Earl Godwin!  He was born December 6th around 7 AM in the morning. He weighs 7 lb., 6 oz and is 20 and 1/4 inches long.  Allison is doing great - just exhausted from "giving birth".  Michael is a proud Daddy - making sure that from the start Riley roots for the Tide.  Riley is taking it all in with his bright eyes- when he is awake!  But he is quite content sleeping and eating like a good newborn!  

Allison earns a big pregnancy gold star - she gave birth all natural!  No epidural.   The Dr. said that her platelets were too low, so she had to buck up and do it the old fashioned way!  She did it all without screaming and remained calm.  Really - Michael even vouched for her!  

But pain and all she is recovering very well and when i asked her if all that cheesy stuff mother's say about falling in love immediately, etc was true she said "Yes - all that cheesy stuff is so true."  

I would have to agree! 

-Elizabeth

Diaper Shower

So we had another most wonderful shower, and this one was football themed...perfect for Michael! And the pink and blue football shaped donuts were the highlight for this pregnant woman. It was a perfect night with all of our good fiends here in Montgomery. They were so sweet to put the shower together for us and I know we will get good use out of all of the diapers and wipes that we recieved. It was also dcided that they would send a support group to the hospital if Baby Godwin is a little girl...Michael will need it! It really was such a thoughtful evening and we could not ask for better friends!

Renaissance Shower

So being that Tracy and I are both so very pregnant a lovely group of girls that we work with got together and threw us a wonderful shower. It was a perfect time. We all got together at La Zona Rosa and ate dinner. Angela made our adorable Onsie invitations...mine in green and Tracey's in pink. She also decorated the tables and made these precious little favors. She is quite talented with paper...you should see her Christmas cards!

Anyway here are a couple of pictures from that evening. It was so much for and so incredibly generous of everyone to celebrate with us. They gave Baby Godwin his/her tummy time mat which made Michael quite excited as his little football player will need that mat to learn to sit up...to learn to crawl....to learn to stand....so he can eventually run with a football in his hands!

Please know that pregnant Carolyn ordered 1/2 a gallon of milk to drink in the Mexican restaurant...and she drained the whole thing!

Turkey Day: I made a pie...KATIE HAD A BABY!!

So for those of you who do not know my friend Katie here is some background. We went to BSC together, her husband, Brigg, and Michael were pledge brothers at SOuthern and they lived together during Michaels stint in T-town. Brigg and Katie got married 3 weeks before Michael and I did and found out they were pregnant two days after we did! Since neither of us were expecting to be expecting we have had lots of fun sharing all of the gory details of pregnancy back and forth. (Oddly...she is not the only friend of mine who got pregnant and is due at the same time, Holland and Reed are in the same boat, but they are still waiting on little Chappell to arrive so more on them when we get to meet Chappell)

Anyway Katie's original due date was December 11th, then the doctor decided it looked more like December 16th...but little Hails decided Turkey Day was actually going to be his birthday and he rearranged the plan on everyone! So last Wednesday night, one day earlier than I had predicted she would go into labor, her water broke, and then 14 hours later Hails came into the world. This timing was perfect giving Katies parents just enough time to fly to Atlanta and drive to Mobile from Denver, where they had been when they got the call. They made it at 10:20 am and Katie pushed from 11:00 am to 11:20 am.

So see these pictures of the proud Momma and Daddy! And please know that the face little Hails is making in his solo shot is a spitting image of his Momma though he looks very much like both of them!