Mamaw, Paige & Elmo

All three of them decided to get down on the ground and have a good laugh.

Happy St Patricks Day!!!

Sleepy Time

7 days old

Bella is only 7 days old and has already gone through a professional photo shoot. The same friend who shot our family earlier, came over yesterday and took pictures of Bella for us. Once again, she did a beautiful job. Below is the link to Bella's slide show.

Bella's Slide Show

Paige Greets Bella

Day 2 for Bella

Day 2 for Bella has been a quiet day. The weather here in Memphis has taken a turn from comfortable to extreme cold. It began snowing around 2-3 this afternoon, and is expected to continue through lunch time tomorrow. Right now the outside temperature says it feels like 20 degrees. Currently we are expected to go home on Saturday afternoon. Hopefully it will warm up a little before we make the ride home. Here are a few pictures from today (Friday).

Welcome Baby Bella!!!

We have a new member of the family. We welcomed Bella Siena Lowry into this world at 1:36 PM on Thursday, March 6th. She weighed 7 pounds and measured 20.5 inches. She has a head full of black hair. Both Bella and Mommy are doing well and can't wait to meet/see all of you.

IT'S BABY TIME!!!

Tomorrow is the day! We will be going to the hospital on Thursday morning at 4:30 AM to begin the process. Yes...4:30!!! Our doctor wants us there that early to make sure that we get a bed for tomorrow. She said that if other women come in who are in true labor, than they of course get precedence over the induced women. At least this means the baby will probably come a little earlier in the day.

We went to Ava's 39 week appointment yesterday, and she is almost 3 cm dilated and 75% effaced.

Please remember us in your prayers before going to bed...or you could get up real early and pray...either way works for us.

I will try an post some pictures as soon as possible. Depends on what type of internet connection, if any, I can get at the hospital.

Almost Baby Time!

We visited the doctor this morning, as Ava is currently 37 weeks along. The doctor measured her at 2 cm dilated and 50% effaced. So things are progressing, and we are getting more and more excited.

If the baby doesn't come in the next week or two, we have scheduled an inducement date for Thursday, March 6th. Please continue to pray for us and the newest member of our family.

New Pictures

We have a friend from church who is starting up her photography business...she came out to the house this past Saturday and took some pictures of Paige at 19 months, as well as some nice family and maternity pictures. This first link will take you to a slide show of Paige pictures. Every one is gorgeous!

Paige's Slide Show

This second link will take to a slide show of some fabulous family shots. These shots even include soon to arrive baby Bella.

Lowry Family Slide Show

We would highly recommend Jenny to anyone here in the Memphis area. She did fabulous work and was great with Paige. If your interested in working with her, check out her website here.

Once again, I am slow to update....

Ever since this page has been blocked at my work, it is hard for me to keep this site updated...hopefully we can get around this obstacle soon. Here are a bunch of random pictures from the past few months. This first one is a group shot of us and some friends while at our church's fall festival...and a family picture Shannon took of us on her last visit, back in October.

Next we have some pictures that were taken around Christmas time. We spent some time at both sets of Grandparents and had a wonderful time.

Present Time!!! Paige definitely got a haul of good things this Christmas. We couldn't even fit everything back into the car for the drive home. Some items had to be brought up later in the month.

Also during the Christmas holiday I was able to make it up to Chicago with a friend from church. We went to see the Bears play the Packers at Soldier Field. Excellent game...especially since the Bears won!! The last picture was the view from our hotel room...you can see the stadium on the right hand side.

New Christmas Dress

This was taken on the first Sunday in December. Paige is wearing her new Christmas dress that Mamaw bought for her during Thanksgiving. She was all active just before I took this, but of course she calmed down when the film was rolling. But I still thought she was very cute!