Just hanging out...

Macee has been so good with her new little brother. I think she thinks he's a toy, thus the picture below.

These are her snowmen she built. "Tiny snowman" is what she called them.

Merry Christmas... what???

I decided my blog is for me to keep track of events and milestones that happen in my life, so it doesn't matter the order, just as long as it's documented somewhere. That's why Christmas is being posted in March. We had a great Christmas and it was extra nice cause I was still on maternity leave, so I didn't miss any celebrating.

We were so proud of Macee for sitting on Santa's lap. Notice

she's not completely sure of the situation, so she had to keep

one hand on her dad.

Griffin's Birth-Day

I've been meaning to write about the morning Griffin was born because too easily you forget the details of important days like that. I know that's suppose to happen, but I would like to remember SOME parts of Griffin's day. This is all from MY perspective, but feel free to ask Telly how HE thinks things went.

I had my first contraction, that felt a little different from other contractions I had been having, at around 11:30 when we were headed to bed. It didn't last very long and I didn't have another one for at least 20 min, so I thought I was ok. I kept having them, but they weren't very close together (like 20 min apart). After a few more I decided to get up and "get in the tub" like I tell everyone who calls the hospital to do. While I was in the tub, I had a contraction or two and when I got out of the tub it was 2:20 am. I told myself "I'm not in labor because I need to be having more contractions & I'm going to bed." I got in bed and had another contraction that hurt pretty bad, but I told Telly to just give me a minute and I'd be fine. He got up and started getting dressed and then made me get in the car. When we were driving to the hospital I kept thinking it was silly we were going cause my contractions really weren't very close together.

While we were driving we were trying to decide if we were going to drop Macee off at Kade and Katie's house or have Kade meet us at the hospital. Luckily he was still awake, so he just met us at the front doors to get Macee. We pulled up to the hospital doors about 3:00 am.

When they checked me I told them "don't tell me I'm only a 3 or I'll be mad." Well, I wasn't a 3 I was a 9. I think I was more sad and worried about that then if I would have been a 3. The anesthesiologist had to come from home, so I was worried I was going to miss my epidural. Luckily, the anesthesiologist was awesome and gave me a CSE (it takes effect much quicker than a normal epidural) and I was comfy for the delivery. They broke my water and a minute later Griffin was here.

Griffin was born at 3:47 am weighing 7# 8oz and 19 in long. He looked completely different than Macee did. Telly said he wanted to go to the nursery and find the baby that looked like Macee cause he thought they had switched our baby.

After it was all over it seemed like a dream cause it happened so fast. I'm so glad I had such fabulous people there to take care of me, Nanci, Kirsha, Angee, Dawn, Angie, Barry, Brian and of course, TELLY. You guys rock!!

Picture time

When I was pregnant with Griffin I saw these outfits in Carters and I had to have them. They didn't have the sizes I wanted and they "didn't know when they would get more in", so I got my sisters on the job and between a few Carters locations including Park City and St. George, I got the outfits. I went to all that trouble and really Griffin will only get to wear it for the pictures, but they are cute pictures, right?? Thanks Aunt Skye O and Grandma Neice for taking the pictures. Aliza is such a girl and wanted to be in on the action, too. Soo cute.

Wow that's a big pucker

Introducing Griffin...

Macee brought her brother some toys to play with and she's reading him a book. He really enjoyed the book and toys :-)

Summer Fun

This is our whole summer in one post. Lake Powell, Bear Lake, Park City, Lagoon, getting "pretties", 4th of July and playing in the yard. WOW! We got it all in and now we're just waiting for snow.

IT's A....

BOY! Yep, it's officially a boy! A little slow on the post cause we've known for a few weeks, but I've been trying to wrap my brain around blue instead of pink. Telly is getting use to the idea now, too. Working on a name, so if there are any good suggestions, let me know.