Saturday, June 18, 2016

Blakely Joy

Our sweet Blakely is here. She was born on Friday,  April 29, 2016 at 4:22pm. She weighed 8lbs 14oz and was 21 inches long. What a chunck! We love her! 


So here is the story:

I started nesting around 20 weeks and got the nursery totally done, I was also having contractions early on in this pregnancy and my milk came in at the beginning of my 3rd trimester. I kept feeling like I was going to have her a little early. It made me a little anxious because I am a planner. I don't like not knowing when things are going to happen. What stressed me out most was work. I didn't know how far out I should schedule myself. And since I pay rent even when I am on maternity leave I wanted to plan it out perfectly so I would pay the least amount in rent and still get at least a month off with her. I didn't want to have wasted days by taking off too early and not having her. So I scheduled myself until April 26th (one week before my due date). By the weekend before my last day I was feeling ready. I was already dilated 3-4 cm and thinning out. I was so achy and crampy and having contractions pretty regularly. I was really hoping I would go into labor and not have to do my last day of work. Standing on my feet all day was exhausting. I just didn't want to do it. But I had no luck. No Baby. I had an appointment Monday afternoon. When she checked me I was still only at 3-4 cm. I had made no progress since the week before. (Typicall, I was at 4cm with Nixon for 2 weeks before I had him.) 

My doctor had been asking me my whole pregnancy if I wanted to schedule an induction but I had been reluctant. I really wanted to go into labor myself. My labor with Autumn was so hard and I was induced. My labor with Nixon was a piece of cake and I went into labor on my own. So to me it just made sense to wait and go on my own. The only problem was my short maternity leave and not knowing when I was going to have her was killing me. Well, she asked me again that day if I would like to schedule an induction. She had a patient the 29th who had her baby early, so I could take that spot. I decided to schedule it.

The next day was my last day of work and it was brutal. I was scheduled for 12 hours (I am crazy, I don't know what I was thinking.) I was having a hard time sleeping so I was already tired. But the whole day I just felt off. I was hoping it meant I was in labor, but again, no luck. By my last appointment I was dead on my feet. Even my client made a comment about how tired and off I seemed. I was so relieved when we finally finished and went home. I was asleep the minute my head hit the pillow. Unfortunately, I wasn't asleep for very long. I woke up a few hours later feeling very sick. I spent the rest of the night back a forth between my bedroom and the bathroom. I got the flu. Worst part was, Logan had it too. The next day was terrible. We were both so sick. We were hoping it would just be a 24 hour bug. By Thursday morning we were both feeling a lot better. But I woke up early Friday morning with flu symptoms again. I didn't know what to do. I did not want to be in labor and have the flu at the same time. I also was worried about having the flu and passing it to the baby when she came out. The hospital called and said to come and I decided to go. I didn't tell them I had the flu because I was afraid they would tell me not to come.

We got there and got checked in. I changed into my gown and the nurse came in to get an IV in so they could start me on pitosin. She started looking for a vein and just kept looking and feeling. I knew she was going to have trouble with it. She tried three times before calling the charge nurse to help. I felt terrible because she just kept on apologizing and saying how embarrassed she was but it really had nothing to do with her. I was completely dehydrated from the flu. The charge nurse tried a few times as well and then started numbing me before trying more. I was so thankful she started numbing me. I HATE getting IVs. But honestly, I shouldn't complain because that was the worst part of the entire experience. Everything else was pretty dang easy. They finally got an IV working around 10:30. My Doctor came around 1:00 to break my water and the anesthesiologist was right behind her with my epidural. (That was a bit uncomfortable too.) I actually got pretty nervous for my epidural this time. I don't know why, but I just kept thinking of all the things that could go wrong. I was pretty comfortable once the epidural kicked in. Logan and I watched a few of our shows we were behind on on Hulu and I ate a few popsicles. Logan left for a bit to get some lunch and I watched another show by myself (The Grinder, if you haven't watched it, you should. It's stupid and hilarious). After a couple of hours I felt like I was probably ready. I told the nurse I thought I might be there. So she checked me and said I was close. She had me do a practice push and then told me to stop. She said "I have delived a baby before, but let's just get your doctor in here" She called Dr. Wood and a few minutes later she was there and we started pushing. I don't know how long I pushed for, but not very. It was only a few contractions and she was here. She did get stuck on her stomach, I thought she was out because I felt her head and everything, but the doctor was like "one more big push" I was confused, but I did it and then felt the rest of her come out.

She didn't cry right away and I was a little worried something was wrong, but no one else seemed worried (Logan told me later he thought something might be wrong too). Then she started to cry. They handed her to me and I just felt very content. 

I couldn't believe how much she looked like Baby Autumn. She had that little frowny bottom lip and everything. She was so squishy and fun to cuddle. I loved it. I feel like everyone prides themselves on how tiny their babies are. The smaller, the better, right? But man, I LOVED having a big baby. I don't feel like she was any harder to get out than my 7lb baby, but she was so fun to hold. She just felt/feels so cozy. I never want to put her down. And it's a good thing too, because she never wants to be put down.    


Rachael came to the hospital first and she brought her camera and got some awesome pictures when the kids got there. I'm so glad she came.  






Autumn couldn't wait to put that hat on her. She picked it out with Grandma Joy while I was at work one day and she would ask to look at it everyday the last couple of weeks before I had the baby. She couldn't wait to give it to her. 








See what I mean about squishy. I just want to squeeze her when I look at this picture


Dad was pretty happy. After everyone went home he got to chill with the babe and watch the supercross. Doesn't he look so comfortable on my bed? 

Here are a few pictures of our sweet baby girl from the last few weeks.  





Blakely and her cousin Daila

Those are moms old PJs









Two weeks ago Logan named and blessed Blakely at church. He was really nervous and kind of froze right at the beginning. But, he gave her a beautiful blessing. Some of the things he blessed her with were:

*You will bring joy to those around you
*You will have a strong relationship with your family
*You will find your passion at a young age
*You will be loving and compassionate
*You will have your own testimony especially a testimony of God's love for you.
*You will be healthy, your body will function as it's supposed to and you will have a strong mind
* You will have a strong relationship with your Mother, Your sister Autumn, and your Brother Nixon



Becca and Jake blessed Finnegan yesterday too, so we had a combined dinner at their place after. All the cousins (and Uncle Danny) were lovin' on our girl. They all took turns holding her and just kept saying how cut she was. I think her cousin Derrick was especially taken with her. 







We finally got a picture of the 3 newbies together. Blakely was born first, then one week later Finn was born, then two weeks and a couple of days after that came Daila.


Here are a few pictures of my pregnancy progress this time around

4 Weeks
20 weeks




Thursday, April 7, 2016

another year gone by

Well looks like it's time for my annual blog post. It seems that spring time is when I find time to update this thing. Well Autumn just turned six and Nixon is three and a half. Do not discount that half...he will be mad. I did the birthday interview with Autumn and Nixon wanted to do it too....so I thought, "what the heck, I never seem to blog for his birthday (worst mom ever) so I'll just do his right now too! So here we go.

1. Who is your favorite person in the whole world.
     A-Mamma
     N- Brayden (Moon)
2. What is your Favorite color?
     A-Red
     N-Red
3. What's your favorite T.V. show?
     A-Monster High
     N-Ninja turtles
4. What's your favorite outfit
    A-My dress ups
    N- My captain america outfit
5.What sport do you like best?
     A-Dance class
    N-SWIMMING
6. What song do you love?
     A- Watch me whip and nay nay
     N- Jingle Bells
7. What's your favorite breakfast?
     A- Muffins and Hot Chocolate
     N- Pan-a-cakes!
8. Who is your best friend?
    A- Ava and Sunny (our next door neighbors)
    N- Ava
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
    A-A karate teacher
    N- A DAD!!
10. What is your favorite book?
     A- My fairy book (every after high)
     N- Gossie and Gertie
11. What are you really good at?
     A- The Splits
     N- gymnastics
12. Where do you wish you could go on vacation?
     A- Disneyland
     N- Balance beams
13. What is your best memory?
     A- When me and CC were wresting Nixon
    N- Eating a sucker
14. what would you buy if you had $1000?
     A- A thousand kid surprises
     N- Bananas!
15. What veggie do you love?
     A-Carrots (hates spinach)
     N- Apples (not a veggie dude), oh lemons (still not a veggie) oh hmmm ooooo ASPARAGUS!
16. if you could have a wish, what would it be?
     A- A TV that would always know when I wanted to watch TV and would go in my room and do whatever I want.
     N- Dragons
17. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
     A-Chocolate
     N-Vanilla
18. Who is your biggest hero
     A-DAD
     N- Superman
19. what do you like to do best with your friends?
     A- Riding bikes
     N- Play with them
20. what do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday?
     A- Go to Disneyland
     N- get another birthday

Well as far as family update goes:

Logan is working at Boeing and recently had a few interviews for a new job but ended up staying with Boeing for now. He is doing really well with his racing this year. Last weekend we went out to the knolls and camped over night in the tent for one of his races. He did awesome. He got 1st in his class and 5th (or 6th??) overall. He's picked up all the slack at home and does the dishes almost every night and even cooks on occasion now that I am pregnant and often don't feel well.

Me. Well I am 3 1/2 weeks out from my due date with our 3rd baby. I'm done. I would love to have her now. This has been a hard one. The beginning I was the most sick I've been with any pregnancy. the 2nd Trimester was GREAT, but as soon as I got into my 3rd trimester I felt it. My body aches more than ever and I'm always swollen. I can't wait to not be swollen anymore. Autumn calls my feet "puffy feet". It's awesome. ha. not. But besides being pregnant, I'm still working at Salon Pure and loving it. I had my best year yet this last one and hope to continue to grow my business this next year. I still love crossfit and am proud to say I have continued to do it throughout this whole pregnancy (with some modifications...I no longer have to do burpees! total perk). I'm nervous about having three kids, but very excited to meet our new little lady.

Autumn is in kindergarten and doing great. She can read pretty well when she's in the right mood. and she is great at writing. She is enjoying her dance class and is very proud of being able to do the splits. And let's be honest, it's pretty dang impressive...I couldn't do it. She loves playing! Play play play! She has so many friends and is always wanting to have a play date. She and Nixon share a room now and they play together super well for the most part. Some days they will play for hours together and it is AWESOME. Of course they still fight too, but we are enjoying this stage where they are pretty good friends.

Nixon is in preschool and cries every time he has to go. But when I pick him up he's always smiling and has had a great time. He is also doing tumbling and he really likes that. He keeps telling me that he is going to learn how to do a back flip before he is four. I wouldn't be surprised. He's so good at everything. He's just such a coordinated kid. He can ride a pedal bike with no training wheels, loves scootering, and even does pretty well on the skateboard. Logan wants to get him a little dirt bike soon and get him into racing. I know he'll love it, I'm just a little nervous. He's my little sweetie and I think he knows a big change is coming with this baby. He wants me to carry him everywhere, always has to have and blanket and has started doing a lot of baby talk. But he is excited for her to come too and asks constantly when she is coming out. I wish I knew buddy. I really do.

So that's what's going on with us. Just plugging along. We are excited for Baby Blakely to come and super excited for the summer! We are hoping to buy a camping trailer this summer and get out camping lots as a family.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Autumn's Birthday

It seems like the only thing that gets me blogging lately is a Birthday, so I get on here like once or twice a year. I am awesome!

So Autumn is 5 today. It's hard to believe it has already been 5 years. I had her take the birthday quiz again this year. Here are her answers. Some of them have not changed.

1. Who is your Favorite person in the whole world?
You! (Mom-melt my heart)
2. What is your favorite color?
Pink
3. What's your favorite television show?
Cinderella
4. What's your favorite outfit?
My new raccoon shirt
5. What sport do you like best?
What's a sport? (after we explained and gave examples) OH SWIMMING!
6. What song do you love?
"Shake it Off"-Taylor Swift
7.  What's your favorite breakfast?
Oatmeal
8. Who is your best friend?
Jaselyn Moon
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
A singer
10. What is your favorite book?
"Big Dog, Little Dog"
11. What are you really go at?
Drawing pictures
12. Where do you wish you could go on vacation?
The Movie Theater
13. What is your best memory?
The Octopus ride at Lagoon where you get wet.
14. What would you buy if you $1000?
A Barbie
15. What vegetable do you hate the most?
Tomatoes
16. If you could have a wish, what would it be?
Having a little baby dog
17. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream
Chocolate
18. Who is your biggest hero?
Daddy
19. What do you like to do best with your friends?
Play games
20. What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday?
Go Poop on the toilet

I feel like we spoiled her rotten this year. It's a bad habit of ours. We got up at 6:00am this morning (I know, that was hard for me. 6:00am does not exist in my world) I made Autumn's favorite breakfast (which is french toast, even though in the quiz she says it's oatmeal.) I filled her room up with balloons and put streamers hanging in her doorway, I decorated her chair with pink and purple streamers and pink balloons, I hung big decorative balls from the lights, and I put a princess crown at her spot. She said she liked all the decorations. We got up for the family breakfast so that Autumn could open her presents before Dad left for work. We got her a frozen two wheeler bike, a frozen sing along purse thing with a microphone attached, a frozen match game (Nixon picked it out for her), two new movies (Ariel's Beginning and The Little Mermaid 2), and some new clothes. Like I said, SPOILED!! Logan and I both had to work today so she spent the day with Grandma Joy, Nixon, and her cousin Bryton. She got to have a class party at school where she shared her favorite candy (reeses) w/ her class and got to bring a poster all about her. Tonight we took her to Noodles and Co., which is her favorite place to eat and then we went to Build A Bear. She picked out a puppy and dressed her in an Elsa dress.She was pretty excited.She named her Bella. On the drive home we told her her birth story and then talked about our favorite memories of when she was smaller. She loved hearing about it. I loved talking about it and remembering fun things.

My favorite thing she did/said today was this morning when Logan went into her room to get her. He said "Happy Birthday Autumn, you're five now!" and she replied, "hmm, I thought I would be bigger." HA! So cute! I love the way she thinks. She turned five over night, so why wouldn't she be all grown up and big over night too? 

Here are a few things Logan wrote about Autumn today on Instgram:
HapE BrfdA to my sweet at times, cute, grumpy, opinionated, stubborn, funny, toy loving, clothes loving, movie loving, bread loving, grandma loving babygirl #autumnisfive

I think that sums her up real good. Except he forgot to mention mom loving and button hating, two very important things in the world of Autumn.

Welp, Happy 5th Birthday to our girl. We love you sugar plum fairy bum! You are to best snuggler and the sweetest thing when you want to be. We are proud of the girl you are! 



 These last few pictures are from Autumn's friend birthday party. It was the first one we have ever done for her. She invited 18 kids. Almost all of them came. Everyone wore their favorite dress up. We played duck-duck-goose, jumped on the trampoline, did tricks on the trampoline, decorated crowns, hit a pinata, and opened presents. She had a blast and got tons of play dough (hot item of the year, half of the kids got that for her! Which she loved because we didn't have any before that) the weather was great and we were able to be outside the whole time, Hallelujah!