Matt Lepic's Wedding

Corey, Audra, Lila and Avery came to visit us for Matt Lepic's wedding. We had a great time at the wedding and Callie had a great time with her cousins! Remington was kind enough to share her bed with Avery.

Jumperoo

Callie loves her jumperoo!

My First Hawkeye Football Game

It was Homecoming and Callie went to her first Hawkeye football game. She slept through most of the game and was scared during the big plays when the fans in the stadium cheered loudly. The Hawks played poorly and lost to Northwestern.

Big Smiles

Lots of big smiles!!!

Wilson's Apple Orchard

It was a beautiful Sunday and so we took Dingleberry Road out to Wilson's Apple Orchard. We drove our car down the "runway", over the river and past the many rows of apples to find the ones we wanted. Justin and Aunt Jane got to work picking the Honey Crisp and Burgundy apples. It has been a "good year" for apples and there were so many apples on the ground that it was slippery with apple sauce. We finished the day with fresh from the oven apple turnovers - yum.

My First Hawkeye Tailgating Season

Callie is a HUGE Hawkeye fan. She is up early for tailgating and then goes home with Aunt Jane to nap while Mom and Dad go to cheer on the Hawks.

Birth Day!

Introducing Caroline (Callie) Taylor Stanley born 4/22/08 (Earth Day) at 8:44am. We checked into University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at 5pm on 4/21/08 for induction (eight days past my due date). They gave me a prostaglandin at 5:30pm and I was having contractions by 6pm. I received an epidural (from my next door neighbor) at 1:30am and waited for my doctor (Dr. Jennifer Niebyl) to arrive and started pushing at 8am. It was an amazing experience and the staff was wonderful. We had lots of visitors in the hospital and even more when we got home.