Photoshoot

We celebrated Luke turning 1 week old with a photoshoot at our house. A local photographer (and now friend) Jenny Hintze took these amazing pics of Luke!! There are more to come, but these are the one's on her blog right now! I LOVE them!! She is an amazingly talented photographer and her love for newborns shows so much through her patience with Luke (and his parents). He was supposed to close his eyes a lot more, but he definately likes to stay awake and be a part of all the action, especially at night right now. We are working on teaching him the difference between sleeping at night and day and how better it is to sleep at night! I'll post more pics when she gets them up.

Our Baby Story

Well we now have a baby story to tell. Here is the short and sweet version. We went into the hospital last Thursday evening to induce labor, but by Friday evening my labor stopped progressing and my doctor decided a C-section was best...not my plan at all...but listened to my doctor! So at 7:44pm on February 5, 2010 our little boy Luke Jagger Walker came into this world. He weighed 7 lbs. 8 oz. and was 20 inches long. He is and was perfectly beautiful and healthy! We are soo thankful!! There were many at the hospital late that night to welcome him here including Mark's parents that live here in LJ, my parents and brother from East Texas and my sister and brother-in-law from California! It was such a special time! Our family and friends visited all weekend and we came home this past Monday. We are adjusting to our new little life as best we can. It is definately the most humbling experience either of us has ever had and the most special time between Mark and I. We are trying to sleep when he does and so far things have been going well. I have not left my pajamas or worn makeup for a week, which is actually kind of nice! Anyway, will post more later. Thanks for all your prayers! We are so blessed!

This is the most recent pic of Luke...Dad teachin' him some XBox skills early!

A quick trip at Bucees on our way to the hospital!

My husband likes to take pics! Right after we checked in to the hospital and got "settled."

About to go in for our C-section...after hours of labor I didn't progress so this was the next step!

When I first got to see him! Debated about putting this up because how horrible I look, but hey this is the reality after they cut you open! haha

While he was being weighed and measured. I could hear him crying from across the room.

The first time our families saw Luke! I was still in surgery and Mark got to go up to the nursery!

My parents and brother were here from East Texas and Mark's parents too.

Luke with Aunt Natalie who came in from California to meet him (along with her husband Matt)!

Leaving the hospital and driving home. All of his chosen "come home in" outfits were way too big!!

Arriving Home from the hospital!

Some of his first days at home!

Baby Luke Jagger

We found out we were going to have a baby back in May 2009. It seems like such a long time ago!! We announced it to our families in Destin, Florida on vacation in June 2009 and then the next week to our friends and church family! In September we found out we are having a little boy and decided to name him Luke Jagger! My pregnancy has been pretty easy and I don't have too many complaints! :) I am not in week 41 of my pregnancy and 1 week over due! Apparantly Luke is going to be stubborn, so tonight we are going into the hospital to start the induction process! Prayerfully we will be holding Luke this time tomorrow evening. I am not sure if it has really even hit Mark and I that we are going to be parents! It is so amazing that the Lord would entrust us with such an enormous responsibility!! I hope and pray that we will be parents that point him to Jesus 24/7 and that he will grow up to be a man that loves the Lord with all his heart, soul and mind! We know we can't do this on our own, but with strength of the Lord we can do anything! We are so excited! :)

Thanksgiving

Each year take turns spending holidays with my parents and Mark's parents. This year it was Thanksgiving in East Texas and Christmas here in Lake Jackson. Both were wonderful!! Thanksgiving week this year was a little hectic!! We started the week with a baby shower in Lake Jackson, then traveled to my parent's house in East Texas. My sister, Natalie, and brother-in-law, Matt, were in from LA too! Mark and Matt went in the middle of the night to get Playstation 3's in the wee hours of Black Friday. Much later that day we went to my dad's side of the family for baby shower #2 and Thanksgiving dinner! Then on Saturday morning we drove to Dallas for baby shower #3 and time with my mom's side of the family. We also got to go to the Baylor vs. Texas Tech game at the new Cowboy stadium! We ended up barely losing, but the game was good and the stadium was incredible!! Sunday afternoon we drove back to LJ tired, but with a truck full of baby stuff!! It was such a fun crazy week that I will remember forever!! We haven't uploaded all the pics from all the showers yet...sorry! But I have a few from the stadium! :)

The screen really is AMAZING!!

The official said he stepped out of bounds....obviously he did not....

He scored on this play....so if the call had been correct we would have won the game! :(

NashVegas

Mark and I decided to take a last little vacation before our traveling days are slowed down by our new baby! We had some free Southwest flights saved up and Hilton Honors points and decided on a city we hadn't been to, so we went to Nashville for a long weekend right before Thanksgiving. It is such a BEAUTIFUL place and we had a great time!! I think we were able to do most of the touristy stuff! There are some pictures below that I took with my phone because I "misplaced" my awesome little point and shoot pink Canon camera!!! I was soo sad!! We think I may have left it in the awesome rental truck we had! Free Upgrade! I was sick!! I loved that little camera! Oh well... I just need to break down and get a new one! Anyway, we had a lot of fun and got to hang out with one of the youth from our church who is a freshman at Belmont and had lunch at the famous Pancake Pantry! Loved getting to see Andrew for a little while!

Oh and seriously the best sweet tea you have ever ever had!!

Really cool place to eat with little shops while you wait!

Country Music Hall of Fame. One of Carrie Underwood's dresses!

The Gaylord Hotel...like 10 times the size of the Gaylord Texan in Dallas!

The New Opry House...all decorated for Christmas! We saw the Rockettes here and it was so good!!!

At the Ryman Theatre...and we just missed Vince Gill that night!

The trees were beautiful!!