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Family Pictures 2008

These are our first professional family pictures…ever! I think its the perfect timing now that we are complete with the 5 of us! The truth is, I refused to have my picture taken because I was self concious when I was 40 pounds over weight. If you saw most of our personal pictures, you would know why, but I also look angry in them because Nicki would catch me off guard and I would not be smiling. Click on the thumbnails below to see the full size picture, then click on that picture to see the whole thing (its complicated 🙂 ). We took several poses, but these are the one’s we puchased.

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Happy Birthday Tristan!!!

Happy Birthday to my little man, Tristan! He turns 2 today! We celebrated last night at Chuck E Cheese with a few family members and had a blast. Thankfully the rides Tristan enjoys weren’t the most popular…it was CRAZY!

Tristan is a personality in himself. He totally demonstrates how two children can be so different. He and his older brother are worlds apart. Fortunately they get along great, both demonstrate their love for each other and for their new sister Hailey. Tristan is wild and crazy and into everything, but he has that special little look that helps him slip by trouble from time to time. One of the most special things that I love about Tristan is his little (but big) hugs. He runs up to us, wraps his short arms as far around our shoulders as he possibly can and then starts patting our backs (usually the top of our shoulders because he has short arms). Its one of the cutest things I’ve ever experienced…he is so genuine. He recently started to learn how to pray when we eat together, he roughly says Jesus, Thank you, Food, and AMEN! He says Amen really good.

So once again, Happy Birthday buddy! Love Mommy and Daddy.

(Click Photos to Enlarge)

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Round 3: Hailey Elizabeth Carnes (Flickr)

Here are some pictures from my sisters camera. It shows a pretty good picture of the hospital party that took place after Hailey’s birth. If you are familiar with gypsies, then you will know when one of them have a baby, the whole village floods the hospital…I don’t think we are any better. It feels good to be loved though 🙂

Follow the link to Kelly’s Flickr Account: HERE

For some reason I cannot embed the slidshow into my blog.

Nick

In case the link above does not work:
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Round 2: Hailey Elizabeth Carnes

Well, I have been humbled! I give Hailey one post on my blog and she steals the show. I had my biggest blog day yesterday, ever, thanks to Miss Hailey and over half of the hits were direct (unique) hits to her post. A few hours old and she’s already a Blogstar – Maybe if Nicki will have a few more babies I can get some regular readers 🙂 – Sorry that’s going to take a miracle! (The babies and the regular readers)

Here are some additional pictures of Hailey. We have taken more than 14 pictures of course, but do to space and time to upload them, this is all I am posting at one time until we can set up a slide show or something. (Click on the Thumbnail to Enlarge)

I know, I know, you saw the picture of me in the doctor outfit and thought, “George Clooney Who?” Its ok, I thought the same thing 🙂 – By the way for those who may have missed my update yesterday, Hailey was born at 12:45 pm on Tuesday and weighed 7.0 pounds and was 20 inches tall.

We appreciate everyone’s thoughts and prayers and all of the congratulations. I cannot tell you all individually, but I hope you know it is greatly appreciated!

Nick

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Hailey arrives today

Well, today is the day that we have been waiting on for the last 8 months (since we found out Nicki was pregnant); and the day we’ve been waiting on for almost 6 years. Our first two children were boys, Gavin and Tristan, who we love dearly, but Nicki has been wanting a little girl for just as long…so today is the day!

The hospital we will be at does not have WiFi as far as I know, so as soon as mom and baby are ok and taking their post-surgery naps I will run down the street to Panera to upload some pictures. Sorry folks, I’m poor and do not have one of those fancy iPhones that enable me to streamline my life 🙂 – So thank you all in advance for your prayers, thoughts, and support – Pictures coming soon!