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Thank you all so much for your wonderful well wishes, calls, texts, emails and visits! It has been a crazy couple of days - trying to figure out how to be new parents - but it has been so wonderful!

Elle is doing great! She is so loving and cuddly and has loved all the visitors holding her! She does have some powerful lungs and we are also figuring out what each cry means! I have added some pictures of the past two days including some of her "first" experiences and the visitors that she loved to hold her!

Andy and I realized we did not email out the origin of Elle's name! She is named after Cara's grandmother Elizabeth "Betz" (and Cara has a cool aunt Beth!) and both Andy and Cara's moms have the same middle name, Ann. When she arrived we had three different girl names picked out and this one seemed to fit her best!

We will be catching up on returning calls and emails... but we want to thank you all so much for thinking of us! I really cannot express how blessed we feel - all of you are tremendously thoughtful family and friends.

A new child is certainly such a beautiful blessing from God!