On February 7th LJ was ready to come home from the hospital. Here is the outfit we chose for her. As much as there are 2 choices in schools, both dad and I agree that BYU is the best place for her!:) Dad says his boys are welcome to go to Michigan like him, but Provo is definitely the place for his girls!
I'm all ready to go! 
Yeah we are home!! 
It was a long couple of days at the hospital and it seemed it didn't take to long to settle in at home. 
I know this is a little late in posting, but finally here is our announcement of our beautiful baby girl. Lorilyn Julene Stoianowski joined our family at 12:42AM on February 5th, 2009. She weighed in at 6lb 2oz and was 19 3/4". All together the delivery went very smooth. We spent 3 days in the hospital, then came home to a wonderful house with my parents here ready to help the adjustment to life with the babe. Overall, the exerience was absolutely incredible, and we feel so incredibly blessed to have our little LJ in our lives. We now can't imagine life without her with us:)
LJ holding daddy's finger. Let me tell you she had him wrapped around her little finger from the moment she entered this world. She actually looks a LOT like her daddy, which makes her extremely cute!
Daddy's little girl. Ryan was so amazing during delivery and will make an incredible dad.
This is about 1 hour after she was born on the transfer from the delivery room, which was in the new wing of the hospital so it was INCREDIBLE, to the recovery room. They played Brahms Lullaby over the loud speaker as we were tranfered announcing her birth to the hospital.
This was when she was about 20 minutes old. Because of her small size her body was having problems controling her temp so she had to be under the warming light with warm blankets for a while to warm her body temp up. She did great though:)
Me and my little girl right after she was born. The nurses made a bow out of gauze for her little cap. It was rather adorable! Everyone says she has my profile...poor girl!
LJ and mom about 10 minutes after her birth!
On February 22nd Lorilyn was blessed by her dad in church. It was an incredible experience, with so much support from a wonderful family. The dress she has on was made by Momma Jigs, and she just looked like an angel. Stephen and Kori and their family came into town for the event and we had a couple wonderful days with them. Lynette and Megan surprised me and came in town Saturday and stayed until Monday. We had almost all the family there, including Ryan's parents and grandparents. All together I couldn't have asked for anything more. 
Me and LJ before her blessing. She couldn't fit in her car seat with the dress on so we went in the mother's lounge before church and got her ready.
Daddy and his little angel after the blessing. Ryan really did do an amazing job and gave her an incredible blessing. There was such a special spirit surrounding the event, it was just wonderful.
Me and Lynette. I was so happy that she was able to join us here and it was wonderful having her at the house for a few days. Thanks for all the great motherly advise! Both she and Kori are such incredible examples of mother's for me, I feel so grateful!
The whole clan who came to the blessing. Thank you everyone for the support! Thank you so much Steve and Kori for driving here and being here for us. We had such a wonderful weekend and can't wait till we get to spend more time together!
Me and Momma Jigs. She is the best mom-in-law ever!
The food table. We made chicken salad croissants and a few relief society ladies brought some delicious salads and desserts. Yummy!
We got so many wonderful gifts from so many wonderful people. This gift was the handmade blankets and burp cloths from Grandma Bird and Great Grandma Jex. We wished they could have been with us, but we are so grateful for all they did!
This is the BYU outfit I requested from Grandma Bird. Lorilyn has a Michigan blanket to be taken home from the hospital in, so she needed a BYU outfit to wear underneath! 
Ryan got to join in the festivities and was a wonderful help!
He also enjoyed trying on the clothes and bibbs!
Me and Ryan with the adorable kids! I like this picture because I actually look halfway normal! What you don't see is Braxton is almost falling off the couch because my belly is pushing against him!
Here we are rockin out as Birdski! You can see the top of Steve's head, he was our vocalist at the time.
Here is when Ryan and Emma decided to have a Wii boxing match. Emma was pretty amazing and got in some good punches, but unfortunately Uncle Ryan was mean and knocked her out! Can you believe he would hit a girl let alone a 3 year old! Very mean Uncle Ryan!
Ryan and his girls. He quickly won over their hearts and couldn't get enough hugs and kisses! He even spent an afternoon playing Barbies with Emma! He was a good Prince Charming though I have to say!
Me and little Lizzie. Can you get more adorable than those little pigtails?!
This red car is not ours, we share a driveway with the house in front of ours. I don't even think this car has moved since we moved here.
View of the front door. There is a coat closet to the left and a washer and dryer in the closet thing you can see to the left.
This is the view from the front door. We painted that accent wall where the kitty cove is and where one day my piano (when we get one) will go.
View from that accent wall. Our bedroom is to the left and the bathroom is through the kitchen to the left. We are very grateful for all the wonderful friends and family who have helped us furnish our home. 3 weeks ago we had none of these things you see here!
I have always wanted a "lellow" kitchen, so Ryan and his brother Scott painted making my dream come true! It matches my kitchen aide so well too!
We also painted the bathroom to match the shower curtain. 
Our blue accent wall Ryan painted in our room. Ryan was such a good hubby painting and helping me organize for the last couple weeks. It has really helped satisfy my nesting urges!
The upstairs is one big bungalow style room. We will eventually have a sectional with tv up here too. Right now it works well for a study/baby room for us!
Other angle of upstairs with the crib and changing table. She is coming soon! I am getting excited!
Ryan and I got a many wonderful things for our new house, a vacuum being one that was badly needed!
Scott and Papa Stoi got each other the same book for Christmas. Think they are related or something?
Baron was the life of the party as he snacked on his new bone and played with his new toys:)
Here is little brother Scott. We all drove out to Baltimore, MD to be with him for Thanksgiving. It was a wonderful couple of days. We ate LOTS of good food, played LOTS of Wii and just had a blast being together.
Me and Mama Jigs. Isn't she so beautiful?! I think I got the best in-laws in the world!
Me and my wonderful hubby. My face is so puffy! Only 2 more months though! We can't wait to be parents to this little lady! Ryan is going to be such a good Daddy!
Here is my belly at 30 weeks. She is getting to be such a big girl!
Well everything finally fell into place and Ryan and I were sealed together for eternity in the Chicago IL, Temple on October 17th, 2008. It was truly an amazing experience that we will never forget. The sealer said it was the most "intimate" sealing he had ever done, and considering there were just 4 guest I guess it was pretty small. Like he said though, we know that there were many more people there with us, not just the ones in person. Steve and Kori were wonderful enough to attend with us and let let us come stay with them, and my mom and dad flew in also. It was an incredible weekend full of kids, sports and apple orchards! Here are a few more pics from our Chicago weekend!
There was a very LARGE rocking chair at the orchard. Here you can definitely see the belly popping out :) and the swelling in my face, but I don't like to focus on that:(
We had our 20 wk ultra sound today and it couldn't have been more fun. It is for sure a girl and she was moving all over the place. She definitely already has her own personality and was NOT willing to cooperate with the nurse very well. She was curled up facing my spine at the beginning and did NOT want to roll over so we could see her profile. It took shaking my belly (giving her an earthquake as it looked on the screen), then me rolling on my side to get her to roll over. Once she finally did, she wouldn't stop sucking her thumb so we could get a good profile. I already knew she was an evening baby because I never feel movement until then, so it was obvious she wasn't happy with us waking her up this morning!:) Mike and Laurie were there with us, so that was very fun to share it with them. Mike asked the nurse if she had brown or blond hair, and the nurse looking at Ryan and then I said she had NO clue:) I guess we will find out soon enough. It was truly wonderful an amazing experience to see her and feel closer with her. We can't wait till she joins us! If you look in the picture you can see her two little hands up against the sides of her head. For those of you who haven't heard her name is Lorilyn Morgan Stoianowski. She is named after her Grandma Jigs (Laurie) (we are spelling it Lori though), her Grandma Bird (Marilyn) and her aunt Lynette (Lyn). I combined them together and loved it!
Here is a picture of my growing belly. I really am expanding by the day!