Tyler, Jill & Jace

Jace made a dramatic entrance into the world. After 17 hours of labor and 2 and a half hours of pushing after the epidural ran out...Jace Tyler was born.

We didn't get to hold him for a day and a half because he had to go to NICU. Above is our first time holding him and our first family picture.

It was so sad to see all of the cords hooked to his little body. He started out rough because he had a bowel movement inside of me...so when he finally came out he inhaled maconium. He also had the cord wrapped around his neck. He never went without oxygen...but needed a little help breathing after birth. He made a quick recovery...but had to spend a week in NICU.

Still trying to learn how to focus those beautiful eyes in the first week of life.

The NICU nurses called him BUBBA because he was one of the biggest babies in the NICU. He was born an 8 pound baby. The nurses also called him bubba because he can down 4 ounces of formula and still want more.

I was so happy that my mother was able to be there with me during the birth. It worked out perfect. She booked her ticket to fly to Memphis a couple of months before he was born and my water just happened to break the day she was scheduled to fly out...and with 17 hours of labor she had plenty of time to get here in time.

Tyler loves his boy so much.

It was hard not being able to hold him for the first day and a half. But when I finally got to...he loved being held so much and didn't want to be put down.

Tyler in action.

Jace made his debut on the evening news with this picture.

My dad flew in after my mom. It's always fun to have my dad around. This is my parents and Tyler's parents first grandchild. This is my dad's first time holding him.

This is the day when we went to pick him up from the hospital to take him home. We were so happy to finally take him with us.

We love him so much and are working around the clock to take care of him!!!

Tyler and I set out for Atlanta, Georgia for a trip. It was a little over a month ago, and I'm just getting around to blogging about it! It's a pretty easy drive. Only about 6 hours from Memphis.

Atlanta is home to the largest aquarium in the world. It holds 8 million gallons of water. The owner of home depot donated 250 million dollars to help open it.

Tyler was so proud of the picture below because he felt he caught a Kodak moment on camera as the fish kissed me! Kind of a scary looking fish though!

CNN was our next stop. I was quite excited for the tour. Tyler was excited to meet Wolf Blitzer.

CNN's headquarters are in Atlanta.

Next Tyler and I continue our tour of Baseball Parks around the country. It's our goal to see every MLB baseball park in the country before we die! HAHA! Here we're at the Braves game at Turner Field. We also got to see a no hitter, which is very rare to see in the game of baseball.

A week and a half later we met our parents in New York. I had never been to New York and neither had my parents. This is the first view I got outside our hotel window. Look at all those cabs!

And yes cute little flower shops on the street like this really do exsist.

Times Square was crazy! There were so many lights and big signs. Just a lot going on. It was very big and there was a lot to take in.

Next we were off to see a Broadway Play. We chose to see Mary Poppins. It was really good and everyone had a good time. By this time we had met up with our parents. The theatre we went to was over 100 years old.

Love this picture!

Night life in the city.

The double decker bus tours were a lot of fun and one of the best ways to see the city. Mom and Dad with the Empire State Building behind them.

We also stopped at the 9/11 Memorial. It was so sad. This is the plaque showing all of the firefighters names who died on that day trying to save other people's lives. There were alot of names on the wall.

Next Stop Statue of Liberty. We only had a few days so we didn't actually go up inside, but saw her from a distance.

Notice at the bottom of this picture the Coach purse. If you didn't know New York has all the fake name brand purses you could ever want. We had quite the adventures getting our hands on these purses. Back alleyways, stores with secret doors that led to rooms full of prada, guchi, Channel purses. You name the brand and they usually had it. Then you had to bargain with them. After I negotiated some bargains for my mom and mother-in-law, one of the "sales" ladies said, "you buy?" I said "no" she then said, "You have way to big of mouth, talk too much and no buy!" I just started laughing. HOW RUDE! Believe me, I eventually started buying.

Next we headed off to the Late Show with David Letterman. Let's just say that it's a little difficult to get tickets to his show. You have to apply online and then the day before we left for New York they finally called and we had to answer a trivia question about his show correctly in order to get tickets. Our question was, "what color of hair does Dave's announcer have? EASY....RED!!!

We then ate at Rupert's Famous Deli before we went to the show. If you watch Dave you know who Rupert is. We didn't actually think he'd be inside working at his shop. But him and his wife were the only people running it. Doesn't Rupert just look thrilled to get his picture taken...AGAIN!!! It was fun to eat in his shop though and the food was good.