Jerk

We are SO in a fight! You don't even care how I feel, you are selfish and I never want to see you again! Please take my number off your speed dial. You have stood me up ONE too many times!

Baby Grant

So I had invisioned the way I wanted the birth to go. We wanted to have our 3 older girls and my best friend here to witness the birth, and I really wanted to have some great pictures and video of the big moment. Well, you would think that after THIRY ONE HOURS of labor we would have PLENTY of time to get ready and get everyone here. Well, Grant had his own ideas! Because of so many false alarms and such sporadic contractions, everyone went home to get some sleep, have a shower and take care of things. Well, I was only having contractions about every 10 min. At about 8:30 on the night of the 7th (I started contracting the morning of the 6th), they started coming heavy and strong. Melody (our AMAZING midwife) finally let me get in the water. Jay and Melody were frantically calling for back up and I was frantically calling for help with pain relief, but after only a few HARD contractions and one or two pushes, Grant Jay was born at 9:08pm on July 7, 2009. 5lbs 5 oz, 18 inches long, born at 36 and a half weeks-breech, but absolutely perfect!

WAY Behind!

Haha! No pun intended. I am so far "behind", but I want to get the important things in, so here we go! These pictures are SO not flattering, but alas, they are part of the story. So little baby Grant kept trying to come early, but there was a problem: his feet were coming first! So my midwife came up with this Chinese torture position to get him to turn. Seriously, thi s was ALMOST as bad as the worst contractions! I had to stay in this position for 20 min. YOU try it 8 months pregnant! Well, he never turned, but he did pull his feet up, so it was worth it in the end. I think we were watching Wheel of Fortune or something when I was doing this.

Picture Tag!

So I have no idea why my font is blue or underlined, but I have spent 20 min trying to undo it, and it is just gonna have to STAY! So, this is a picture tag-tag to you all! I love tags because I am not creative enough to come up with blogging ideas on my own. Go to your pictures, pick the 6th picture out of the 6th folder, post it and give a description.
This is Jay and I on our honeymoon in the Redwood Forest. One of the coolest places I have ever been! We are at the top of a tram at the top of the forest, and if you look closely, you can see the ocean above the mountains. My honeymoon was the best!!! Jay spoiled me rotten and we had an absolute blast! I want to go again!!!

Brigham's Baptism

So I am slowly catching up on our lives the past two months. Brigham was baptized, on his birthday, and the day turned out to be perfect!!! We were a little worried about if it was going to happen or not, but he REALLY wanted to be baptized on his birthday, so with the help of a super aunt, the day went off without a hitch! He is such a sweet spirit and I am so proud of him and the person he is becoming! I made this cake- not nearly as fancy OR delicious as Traci's, but those ARE football candles. I was pretty proud of that!

We had a lunch after and everyone came over for it. It was so fun to get together! (Jay looks disgusted in this picture for some reason. :) That is my brother Nathan, his daughter Bethany and my mom in the background

Brigham decided he wanted to have Jay baptize him. They really have a good relationship and I am so grateful to Jay for being so wonderful to my kids! I could not ask for a better husband!

My brothers sang "I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus", and Nicole gave a really great talk! It was a great day we will always remember!

Update, finally!!!

Wow, so I have not worked all month, and I told myself that I would blog at LEAST once a week, and here it is a month and a half later....Needless to say, we have had lots of things happen since then....

First of all, my baby turned 8 years old on Feb 28th! We had a fun friend birthday party, took him to Olive Garden for dinner, and he got baptized! Traci made the cake and it was DELICIOUS and Brigham thought he was the luckiest kid in the world to have a real football cake! The kid is obsessed with football! We had a football themed party, and I think he got 5 footballs from friends. I must say though, of all the tasks as a mother, I HATE putting on friend birthday parties! I always stress and stress about it and I am always worried we are going to run out of things to do until their parents come. But, this one was really fun and they had a great time.

New baby Pic

So this is not MY baby, but look at this picture!!!! I WISH I had a picture like this of my baby! almost 17 weeks, and I can't believe how much they change in a few short weeks. I am really not sure what I am having. After thinking it was twins for so long, I don't know what to think anymore!

Speaking of babies, mine turned 13 last week?!?!?!?!? I feel incredibly old! And boy, is she a teenager! She is gorgeous though and I love her and thank the Lord every day for her in my life! She teaches me SO much!!!