Carson Boatman and Julana Dizon became parents!
The Days of our lives actor, 29, i Brave and beautiful the actress welcomed their first child together, a rep for the couple confirmed to PEOPLE.
Daughter Ava Rey was born on Monday, December 18 in Los Angeles, weighing 8 lbs., 5 oz. and 19 inches long at birth.
“We are both absolutely thrilled to be starting a family and new parents!” the couple speaks exclusively to PEOPLE.
“We truly feel like we’ve found something we didn’t even know we were missing in our lives. The only way I can think of to describe it is pure joy, but it’s actually more than that. We’re blessed and humbled to be chosen to be Ava’s parents. What we lack in sleep now, we gained tenfold in love.”
Their baby girl was given a meaningful middle name, in honor of Dizon’s father, Reynaldo Dizon, who died in November after a long battle with lung cancer.
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Carson Boatman and baby.
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Star Carson Boatman from ‘Days of Our Lives’ and Julana Dizon from ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ are expecting their first child
In August, the couple announced they were expecting their first baby together in a sweet Instagram post.
“Boatman, party of 3! 🎉December 2023 is coming 🫶🏽,” the couple wrote in a joint post, where they posed with a handful of ultrasound photos.
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Julana Dizon.
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The couple celebrated their second wedding anniversary after tying the knot in 2021 in Des Moines, Iowa, near where Boatman grew up.
Boatman and Dizon first met in 2016 in Los Angeles, when their mutual trainer at the gym played “matchmaker” and set them up for dinner. “And the rest is history,” Boatman told PEOPLE.
“Free pig’s back for life. I love you more than words can say. Happy second anniversary, @julana,” he wrote in honor of the anniversary on Instagram in July.
In her own post, Dizon wrote, “Today marks 2 years of marriage and WOW has it flown by. I still have *pinch* moments sometimes just thinking about the fact that I get to spend every day with this man.”
“@carsonboatman you mean the world to me. Thank you for making all my dreams come true, you are always everything I need, you inspire me to be the best version of me and you make me laugh AT LEAST 3 times a day. You make me feel happy and loved every day,” she continued. “I love you, forever and ever Amen ❤️🙏🏽.”
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