J is finally here!

After about 4 hours of labor and an epidural (which in my opinion is a must) J was born at 12:13pm on December 30th. He was a healthy 9 lbs exactly and was 21 inches long. I could not believe how big he was! No wonder I was so huuuuge! I am just grateful that he is healthy and everything couldn't have gone better that day. Such a difference from the first one. I am pretty sure it had something to do with having an epidural to help with the pain. A loves him to death and is constantly covering him with sloppy kisses. She is not jealous at all and loves to sing him "the cinderella song". I am truly blessed. I will post more pictures in the future but with two kids now I am short on time so this is just a quick peek!

Merry Christmas!!

Playing in the snow!

Busy Week

The first week of December is always pretty busy for our family. December 6th Rob and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary. Wow that makes me feel old. Then on December 8th A turned 3 years old!! Now that makes me feel really really old. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and daughter. Nothing else compares! Here are some pics of the celebrations!


Rob surprised me with some beautiful long stem roses!



Grandpa Cook and Aunt Millie helping with the birthday crown

A likes horses and the color pink so this was the perfect present!

A with her cousin. I have a feeling these two are going to be trouble!

Turkey Bowl

Here is some pics of the Family annual Turkey bowl game. I was sidelined do to being very very pregnant. So I was in charge of the camcorder. After about 2 hours the score was 7-0. I think maybe next year we can work on our offensive game a little bit more.

New Glasses

I went to the eye doctor the other day and decided to get new glasses. I was tired of getting the same old glasses and decided to try something a little different. What do you think?

Okay so I can't have a blog post without a picture so here is another one of A with clothes on. I always thought if I had a daughter I would be able to dress her up real cute and do her hair cute. Well A has no interest in being my little doll so when I do get the rare chance to make her cute I take advantage of it!
WARNING: LONG STORY STARTING SO BEAR WITH ME!
Yesterday I woke up and felt like I was having menstrual cramps. Which made me a little concerned. So I think well I will wait and see if they go away. Of course they don't so I call my doctor and he is out of the office. I am like great the one time I need him he is not around. So I debate some more and finally call the hospital and they page him. I tell him what is going on and he wants me to go to the hospital for some tests. So my wonderful sister in law picks up A for me and I go get R to go to the hospital with me. We get to the hospital and the nurses make me get undressed (completely!) and put me in a gown and then hook me up to a fetal heart monitor and a blood pressure cuff. I was getting flashbacks of being in labor. I give them a urine sample and they take some swab tests from some areas you really don't want to be swabbed at and then we wait. Then one of the nurses comes in with a needle and I am like what is going on. She is like look at the monitor and she shows us that I am having contractions that are 3 minutes apart. I had no idea. I mean I was in some pain but nothing like what Alli's labor was. But that was also a pitocin induced labor which I hear can be a lot more painful which I can vouch for! So she gives me a shot of turbutaline (spell check) which is a muscle relaxant that will hopefully stop my contractions but will speed up my heart and make me shaky. I am like oh great. She also precedes to tell me all that can be happening to me and if I am in real active labor they will have to send to McKay hospital because I am only 31 weeks along and Logan hospital only delivers at 32 weeks. She also says just about everything that can go wrong and pretty much freaks me out. So they get the test results back and I was not in real active labor but I have a bladder infection that was causing me to have preterm labor. So I they give me an antibiotic and my contractions have stopped so they send me home. So what I thought was just going to be an hour thing turned out to be four hours. Let me tell you I was a little tired when we got home. I am on moderate bed rest for now just to make sure that I don't start anything up again. So that was my little adventure for the day. I don't recommend it because that turbutaline stuff makes you feel like a drug addict going into withdrawals. I am glad everything was okay but do feel stupid that all this was caused by a bladder infection I didn't even know I had. Well if you have made it this far in my story congratulations! You definitely should get a prize! Hope your day was not as entertaining as mine!