In the early hours of a hot August morning, a boy was born. Round flush cheeks, dark twinkling eyes and a little mouth that looks ready for a kiss...a boy was born.

Jackie and I have been sharing our journey as new mothers over these past several months, and I've thanked God more than once to have her first at bat status flanking mine ; )

We announced our growing families together with our ecstatic husbands at a dinner party in the winter and watched as our bellies, thick fingernails, and love for food trucks grew side by side, month after month. We have vowed to support one another, watch our boys play together, and keep the other in check for the occasional need of a haircut/shower/changing out of pjs before the evening that will surly become a new part of our lives as we step into motherhood. I love both her and her amazing husband, Rion, and couldn't ask for better parents in training partners for Keith and I.

After months of planning, little baby Zimmerman decided to join the world today! He is so beautiful and sweet looking, I can't WAIT to get my hands on him. Congratulations to the new mommy and daddy...I can't imagine the love and happiness you must be feeling as you bed down tonight with your darling son. God bless you three. Life is grand, and what a great day to be born!

We love you Zimmerman Family!!!

Xx,

Auntie Lynds, Uncle Keith, and baby Henry

There is no words for how I feel about this girl. She is the one I want to have diving contests with; one goofy splash after the other. She is the one I want to share my comic book collection with late at night while reading in my purple room by a dim bedside lamp. She is the one I call first...good or bad. She is the one who has taught me strength and love in ways no other person ever could. She is the one that will never think it's stupid, always think it's funny, and would never let me leave the house looking like that....she is my best friend, my soul sister, and the mother of one of the most incredible little people I've ever had the pleasure of loving, Nicholas.

Come this fall, her family will grow, adding to it a precious baby girl, Elizabeth Rose...Ella for short. When baby Ella is older I will tell her a special story of how we dropped her big brother off at Grammy's and went to the hospital. I will share with her how we all waited the long hours; feeling the pain of her mommy's labor of love. How her daddy knew just what to do, and how auntie Lynney didn't. I will tell her how I hid my tears behind my camera, and that I was the first person to take her portrait. Mostly, I will tell her how much we all loved one another - and how it was this joy and love that her mommy and daddy had for one another that made her.

I can't wait to take this journey with you Bell. We may not be next door neighbors and share in weekend BBQ's, but this wish, we will share...the birth of your daughter. Love you to the moon friend, and I can't wait to see you all in the fall. xoxox