Friends + Visitors

We've had a steady stream of friends visit us in the hospital and at home. The support of our friends means everything to us. You have brought us food, drink, more food, gifts, flowers and best of all an extra pair of hands to help out. This post is a tribute to all our friends in the photos below and to many more that we haven't captured on film yet. You guys rock!


Here is one of Eliana's first friends, her umbilical cord. It has been her best friend from roughly her 5th week of development. The cord stump fell off Tuesday night. It literally fell off and dropped to the floor. Eliana definitely looks cuter without the brownish-yellow stump sticking out of her belly.

Alexis stopped by with presents and her great smile. Yes, Alexis you are officially on our blog now.

Noah and Hannah came over for dinner. Hannah is the baby I've been around the most until Eliana came along. Noah is a rock solid dad so I'll be looking to him for advice and coaching.





Our old roommate and Sara's old co-worker Jill and Jill's mom stopped by with gifts and yummy treats from Trader Joe's.

Sara's college roommate and our long time friend Tanya visited us in the hospital for some quality time with Eli. Tanya was smitten.

Michael and Kristin have visited with us a couple of times. Here's Michael visiting us on the day of Eliana's birth.





Our great friend Claudia was bursting at the seams to visit with us. Claudia, with Sara's help, gave Eliana her first Spanish lesson.





Kendall and Mark visited us in the hospital and brought me dinner. They even brought us champagne to celebrate!





Kimmy couldn't wait to meet Eliana and check on Sara. Kimmy simply beamed the whole time she held Eli.





Here is Eliana with her very first true friend, her mom, Sara. Eli likes to check email and surf the web with her mom.