Lots of visitors!

Sharing some photos of our visitors from the past week and a half.

We had so much fun having Amy, Brett, and Claire in town from the day after Maggie was born through that weekend. Amy was a HUGE help and took great care of Aaron while we were at the hospital. It was great to have them here! The kids had a wonderful time playing together and this is them after a bath!

Uncle Tom came in town from New York the weekend right after Maggie was born. It was great to have him visit and meet his first niece!

The Strohbusch family (minus John) came to visit last weekend on Sunday before Tom headed back to New York. Here is Maria with Maggie.

Maggie with Beth, Will, Maria, and Tom.

Maggie and her great aunt, Beth!

Nanny and Papa came to visit us this past week. They arrived on Wednesday and left on Sunday afternoon. We had a great time with them and wish that they could have stayed even longer!!! Here they are, enjoying their new granddaughter!

More Maggie Lynn

Here are some shots from our time in the hospital. Tim and Amy each brought Aaron up to the hospital to visit his Mommy and baby sis for about an hour at time. He did great and loved kissing his new sister!


Big Brother Aaron and Little Sister Maggie




Getting ready to head home!

Uncle Tom came to visit for the weekend to meet Maggie.




Taking Maggie home!

Home sweet home. Amy, Brett, and Claire were there with Aaron waiting for us!



Brett and Claire were very excited to meet Maggie for the first time!

Amy loved spending time with Maggie and was so great to take care of Aaron while we were in the hospital!

Mommy and Maggie! Maggie got this amazing little outfit from her Aunt Amy- isn't she so cute?!

We are having a great time getting to know Maggie and will share more pictures soon. She is a wonderful little girl and we feel very blessed to have her as part of our family! :)

Welcoming our baby girl!

We are proud to introduce our daughter- Margaret Lynn Coenen!

Maggie was born on March 17th at 8:52 am. She weighed in at 9 lbs 6 oz and 20 1/2 inches long.

Brother Aaron is having fun with his Aunt Amy and cousins Brett and Claire while we are staying at the hospital. He had been telling us that we were going to have a baby girl and he was right! Aaron was excited to meet his little sister and we're hoping that he thinks we should keep her around!

We're all doing well and so excited about our beautiful baby girl!

Pregnant Ann photos and a few final shots.....

I have had a few complaints from friends that I've not even shared any pictures of myself during this pregnancy. There is a reason for that- these photos are the first pregnancy pictures that I've taken!!! There may have been a few photos from the holidays, but none specifically taken so that you could see my baby bump! I'm pretty ashamed of myself, as I took pictures of my growing bump at least every few weeks when I was pregnant with Aaron! Oops.



Tim and I took Aaron to his first basketball game a few weeks ago- Northwestern vs. Minnesota. It was a great game- NU won in overtime and Aaron had a lot of fun! Here's a picture of the two of them.

We bought an infant car seat for the baby a month or so ago and stashed it in the closet. Finally got it out to install in the car and Aaron had a great time playing around in it!



We really had a good laugh when we put the 'elephant ears' on to show Aaron how we'd use them with the baby!

Looking forward to sharing news of the baby in just a couple of days! :)

Last weekend as a family of 3!

It's amazing to me to think that by Wednesday next week, this will be happening to us again!


Aaron, Tim and I are going to have some fun together this weekend and celebrate our last weekend as a family of 3!

Sharing a few photos of our first weeks with Aaron as a baby. Wow- he was amazing even then! Looking at these photos makes me even more excited to meet our new little one! Watch this space for news.....







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