Ok, so everyone always talks about turning the "Big 3-0" and how awful it is. Well, so far it hasn't been too bad. Of course it's only been a day, so I'll let you know later on. The day started off pretty good. Brandon took Christopher to the store to buy some milk and came home with balloons and flowers. Sophie took her first bottle without any problems. (those of you with kids understand what a big deal this can be.) The neighbor kids all came over in the morning to play (which was more for Christopher than myself, but we all enjoyed it!). Then we had lunch and put the little guy down for his nap. Sophie wasn't up for sleeping much the whole day, so we went for a nice little walk. After everyone woke up, we loaded into the car to go bike shopping. Chrisotpher had just as much fun as I did trying out bikes and he helped me pick out just the right one for me. (Thankfully one of our neighbors was driving by as we tried to attach it to the back of the car, with no luck, and we put it in his car to get it home.) We had a member of our Sunday School class bring us dinner, which was delicious by the way, and then we had all the neighbors come back over for cake. I think we had about 15 people over? It was great catching up with them (haven't seen much of anyone since Sophie was born) and have the kids play together again. I hate to admit, the bonus to Sophie not wanting to nap all day was that she slept like a champ that night! Only waking once to eat, it was great! Although we are going to have to work on this nap thing, I can't hold her during every nap. So, overall, it was a great birthday and I have to say, that I don't think being 30 is going to be all that bad! I have an incredible husband, 2 adorable kids and we are about to graduate from school! What more can a woman ask for?

ROAD TRIP!!!!





I haven't been on here in a while, Brandon has taken over the updates, but I thought I'd take a little time and add a post myself. Of course I thought I would be able to do this much quicker since both kids were sleeping, but of course the thunder roared and woke one of them up. He seems distracted enough that maybe I can whip something out quickly. Last week we headed off on our first road trip with Sophie. We were going to leave on Tuesday night, but there were bad thunderstorms in our way, so we decided to wait until the next morning, which ended up having snow. (Go figure!) We loaded up the car (again), hooked up Brandon's new portable DVD player with Baby Einstein for Christopher and hit the road. We stopped in Birmingham for lunch and playtime and then tried the car again. Christopher was out within 5 minutes, but 10 minutes later Sophie had had enough and decided that he needed to wake up. So naptime was officially over, but we made it to the lake in one piece. We unloaded the car and let Christopher play for a few hours before heading into town to visit Mimi and Papa John for dinner. We had a great visit and play time before heading back to the lake, again. The next day we played outside and made sure we all had good naps, since the kids decided that we didn't need to sleep the night before, and then loaded up in the car (AGAIN) to head back to Montgomery to visit the Khans for dinner. The big brothers had a blast playing together, as usual, and the babies either cried or slept, but we didn't care b/c we had a set of grandparents there to help out. We thought we'd be heading home earlier, but not sure why b/c we just can't seem to break the boys up when they are playing, it's too much fun to watch! Friday morning Brandon drove down to Eglin to start house hunting and I stayed behind with the kids to play with Grammie and Pop. (I think we had more fun than Brandon did, but it was worth the trip.) On Sunday we went to church and to have lunch with Great and of course, had to drive home during tornado warnings. Thankfully everyone made it home safely and we didn't have any damage. We decided to stay another day to make sure we had things taken care of as far as housing goes. But by then Christopher had been gone long enough and one night he put his shoes on, grabbed his rolling suitcase (filled only with playdough) and opened the front door. I asked him what he was doing and he said, "home" to which all we could do was laugh b/c he was only wearing a pajama top and a diaper. He was very upset when he found out that he had to stay another night. But we finally made it back home and he just stood in front of the house with a grin on his face and dug around the tree (which barely has any dirt left) until it was too dark to see anymore. So the next morning we had all the neighbors come over to play, Christopher was literally shaking with excitement. He loves his friends and I can't blame him. I better run, both kids are awake now. Until next time! (I'll add more pics of the kids when we get more)

Christopher is the amazing monkey boy on the playground. Here he's just hanging around.


I sure do love my Tractor!!!!


A day at the park, mom and Sophie swinging.


Mom and Sophie looking beautiful together.


Hey, that's my stroller lady... you got to get out. Christopher is learning to share.

Hey all, just wanted to drop a quick line to tell that we're doing well. Besides the love of Coke products and cappucinno's, we are enjoying our time with our lil' rascals. Christopher is a great big brother and Sophie is becoming a wonderful little sister.



Sophie is now 9.5 lbs and growing and Christoper is in love with tractors and anything truck-related. (Thank goodness we have Little Einstein Baby Macdonald with loads of footage of tractors)



Above are a few more photos of how we've spent our last week.
-Brandon

Sophie's First Bath

photo 1. sophie after her first bath


Sophie during her first bath.


Sophie and Christopher in the bath together.
Sophie getting burped, looking cute.


Christopher loving on his lil' sis.

Well, we finally introduced Sophie to one of Christopher's favorite pasttimes, the Bath! She did pretty well, but Christopher was wondering why there was another person taking up so much room in his personal swimming hole. After we got Sophie out Christopher was able to make his usual splashing mess a' la Calvin and Hobbes.



Overall, Sophie is awesome and is adjusting very well to having a bigger brother who keeps poking her eyes, picking her nose and trying to push a pacifier in her mouth.



All is well at the Hemphill household.



Hey, we're all talented in our own ways.


-brandon






Hey everyone, this is brandon putting a few more photos on the blog for you all to see. We're doing great and loving our new addition. Feel free to call, stop by or bring red wine as an investment to my "sanity fund" :)
The first photo is Christopher grabbing every burp cloth he could find to cover Sophie; it was so cute to watch him. He kept doing that for like 10 minutes.
Second photo is Sophie's first car ride.
Third is Brit leaving the hospital... whoo hoo.
Fourth is beautiful Sophie sleeping away.
Fifth is Mommy staring at beautiful sleeping Sophie instead of sleeping herself.

Love you all,

brandon

IT'S A GIRL!!




Meet Sophie Anne Hemphill, our new baby girl. She was born January 21 at 4:24 p.m., weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. She has a head full of dark hair and blue eyes. We had no idea she was going to come so early, but we were thankful she did! Brandon and I had just talked Sunday afternoon about when we would want to induce, if I didn't go into labor on my own and little did we know that about an hour and a half later we wouldn't have to be making that decision. The contractions started, were very regular and so after putting Christopher to bed, calling a neighbor to come stay with him and our parents to let them know, we headed to the hospital. They admitted us and we tried that night to get some sleep, hoping that when we woke up we'd be holding our little baby soon. Of course that wasn't the case. It was an incredibly long and painful labor, disproving what everyone told me about the second labor being easier. (Don't mean to make anyone who is pregnant nervous, I just had crazy things going against me this time around.) But Brandon, the nurses and my doctor were absolutely amazing and I would not have made it through the day without them. We are doing well and surprisingly not really in any pain (thanks to the drugs they give out every 6 hours) and looking forward to going home tomorrow. Not sure when we'll post another update, but since Brandon has the next 4 weeks off, we might actually give you some updates. Better run, my girl is calling!

I usually don't post anything on here that isn't about Christopher or someone expecting/having a baby or getting married, but I thought I'd try something new. Partly because I forgot to mention last month that we found out we will be moving to FL in a couple months. Brandon graduates in May (for which we could not be more excited!) and we will be packing up and moving to the beach that same month. We will start residency in family medicine at Eglin AFB and are very excited about going there. If you remember we visited there for a month this summer and also went to CA for a month as a "trial run" and just fell in love with the people and the program at Eglin. There are several young, Christian families who are part of the program as well, so we all have something to look forward to. We are expecting baby #2 any day now and have house hunting to begin, so our hands are about to be really full. If the blogs seem to appear less frequently, that's why. I better run as we have to head back outside to play some more! We'll keep you posted on the baby news!

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