Blessing our little Girl

We had a wonderful gift of having Mom, Dad, and Sydney come out to Salinas to see us and to witness the Blessing of our little girl, Miley. We blessed her on June 22. It was such a blessing to have Jared Bless her and to have dad in the circle.

Mom & Miley

Dad & Miley
All of us!

Grandma & pa with Miley

I love you Grandpa.

Big Smiles

Nate Love'n his Grandma & Aunt Sydney

Grandpa & his grand kids.

Thank you all for coming out and being a part of this wonderful day. And thank you Jared for being the amazing father and husband that you are. We love you so much.

Graduation

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Our Suprise Visitors

So we had a little suprise visit from my aunt and uncle and their kids. It was a WONDERFUL SUPRISE! They came out to San Fancisco for Amanda's graduation gift, or Senior trip, and then swung down to hang out with us for a couple of days. It was so good to have them here. We had such a wonderful time with them. Thursday they came over to the house and hung out with us, holding Miley, playing with Nate, making mii's for the wii and working out with them, and just hanging out and talking. It was wonderful to have them. They are so full of fun and life.

On Friday the kids and I met them out in Monterey so we could go to the Monterey Aquarium. I had free tickets for us all. I am so glad they were there with me, I can no longer handle going to the Aquarium by myself and 2 kids. At least not yet. We enjoyed wandering around and checking out all of the fish and ocean life. Nate always had someone's hand which helped me out a ton. Miley did really good even thought she was only 2 weeks old, she slept most of the time. I did good too. Then we ate at a Mexican resturant on Cannery row. Nate really wanted to go to their Hotel and see where they were staying so we headed over there. They were on like the 11th floor so it was cool to look out at the Monterey Bay. We all headed back to our apartment where the kids stayed and watched Nate and Miley. Jared, Blake, Tina, and I went on a double date to the movies. We watch the new Indiana Jones movie. It was really good except the gross ant part. Here are some of the pictures we took while they were out. On Saturday they headed home. We really enjoyed them coming over and making the time to see us...thanks guys.

Our Princess Leia

Our little Miley is Growing like a weed. She is so fun and so cute.
She already wants a cell phone, can you believe it.

We are doing well and working on adjusting to the 4 of us. Any suggestions....lol

Our New Addition!

Here we all are. The California Demings.

Hello everyone. Thought I would post some pictures and then make this Slide Show for those who want to see more of our Cute new Addition to the family. Miley is doing well and has won our hearts instantly. Nate is doing good, besides a few melt downs, due to a little less attetion. I'm good healing pritty fast and Jared, Daddy, is enjoying time off and Miley already has him wrapped around her little finger. He has been a big help to me. Mom was too, but we had to send her home today. Thanks again Ma, and thank you Sweetheart for all your help.

Miley Leia Deming

Hi all, this is Jared. This is one of the rare times where I am actually posting to this blog instead of Rena, but circumstances are such that she's not able to post at the moment :-). I'm sure you all know what that means. Today was a really wonderful day. Rena gave birth to Miley Leia Deming at 4:07pm PDT. She is 20 inches long and weighs 7lbs 7oz. She has been very mild mannered thus far, only managing a few whimpers when she was born. Otherwise she has been very content. She has just a bit of brown hair and can't seem to keep her hands out of her face, just like in her ultrasound pictures.

Both mother and daughter are doing well. I took Nate and Grandma Smart (Nancy) over to visit this evening, and Nate said that she looked "so cute!" and kept snuggling his head into her. Both Rena and Miley should be coming home tomorrow afternoon. It's a relief and a blessing to finally have Miley here and we couldn't be happier. Wish more of you could be here in person to hold her. I had forgotten what it was like to have such a little child in my arms. I don't know quite how to describe it, but its like holding a small piece of heaven in your arms. Anyway, I'm sure Rena will post more pictures and details as soon as she can. In the meantime, I've put up these pictures to give you a first look.

~Jared

The End is Near!!!

Friday I'm going to be a mommy, again. We will be induced at 6:30. So here's hoping all goes well, and fast. Here are some pictures of Miley's wall in Nate and Miley's room. Nate and I just finished it today. All but Miley's board, but that will have to wait.

And this is her little bed.

Thanks for all the help and kindness; we'll get some pictures posted of our larger family when we can.