meeting macie

last sunday, my sweet new niece,

macie lynn frazier,

was born.

on friday, we traveled back to fresno to meet her.

she is just precious!

i can't believe my kids were ever this small.

(actually... i never got to hold my kids when they were this small since i gave birth to giant babies)

tiny and all curled up with a head full of blonde hair,

we all fell in love.

especially bella.

she was so excited to hold her new cousin

poor macie had her heel pricked for some bloodwork that morning

 charlotte wanted in on the action, too.

we tried to keep her touching to just macie's feet.

stephanie is just beautiful with her new daughter.

what a lucky little girl she is to have jake & steph as her parents.

we tried to take some pictures.

macie wasn't really into it....

but she's cute even when she doesn't feel like a model.

macie- 

we love you sweet baby girl!

we're sad that we don't live down the street from you,

but we promise to see you as much as we can!

we were in fresno less than 24 hours.  

it was strange to be back there, but know it wasn't our home.

it was hard to be so close to our friends,

but not get to spend time with anyone.

even family time felt rushed and crazy with 4 kiddos.

the kids did love getting to spend the night at gramma & papa fresno's house.

charlotte & daddy had fun during bathtime :)

in our traveling, we've discovered that charlotte is a HORRIBLE traveler.

she will only take a 40 minute nap.

(normally she naps for around 3 hours in the afternoon).

she wakes up with this face:

and is pretty much sad and cranky the rest of the way

luckily we didn't hit much traffic and

we made it home safe and sound last night.

today is our one-month-anniversary of living here in orange county.

we celebrated by watching the planes take off behind church this morning.

(the church backs up to the john wayne airport)

our next trip to fresno is at the end of october.

it's crazy to think how much bigger little macie will be by then.

we sure miss you, fresno.

but we trust & know God has us right where He wants us.