old pics...from my phone

so remember that reunion like a year ago? well, i took some pictures with my phone that i never got out to you siblings. sorry. i'm slow. so in no particular order...

NATIVITY PAINTING

 SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

yes, cris does qualify as a science experiment

 THE T AND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

 BALLOON HUNT

 HANGING OUT 

 LAPIERRE BENCH AT PI

 DIGGING FOR BONES (or scraping)

 TEA PARTY

your children are all lovely. or at least they were a year ago. i'm sure they haven't changed too much since then!!!!  <3 div="div">

Adrik Pierre

Heading home from the hospital!

We all knew this day was coming, myself more than anyone else and yet I still can't believe it came...I am a MOM!!! Yes, me. I now have a son!!

The story. I had my check-up on Tuesday, September 4th. While doing my urine sample my water broke! I went into the exam room, and when the nurse asked if I was having any problems I informed her I thought my water had broke. She gave me a sheet so the doctor could check. He came in asked the same question and I told him the same thing. He seemed a little skeptical and asked about it. So he finally checked and sure enough, I was right, my water had broken and I was dilated to 2.5 cm. He then encouraged me to go straight to the hospital. I called everyone (Steve first, OBVIOUSLY) while waiting for Steve to come get me, as I was a little nervous to drive myself. We were admitted to the hospital around 4 p.m., received an epidural somewhere close to 10 p.m., started pushing around 8:30 a.m. and he arrived at 10:31 a.m. on Wednesday, September 5th. He was 7lbs 6 oz and 20.5 inches. And super adorable!!! And if you've made it this far I will now allow you to look at all the pictures. :)

It was a long night waiting for the wee one's arrival. Steve got some sleep on the couch in our delivery room. I didn't sleep much that night...

One of our first pictures, if not the first!

All cleaned!!

Adrik recognized Dad from the beginning, and still does!

cool kid. clearly.

 

He's just a sweet little guy!

and she's off!!!

Betsy and I got to drop Laree off at the MTC on Wednesday the 11th of July!

Her last request was to get ice cream at the BYU Creamery down the road from the MTC.

The girls got to join in the festivities! (Lucky too, because they got their ice cream before lunch!! That NEVER happens at Betsy's house!!)

clearly, she is more than ready for her mission...

Sofia took this one for us!

and then a gentleman offered to get one of us all!

she's vamoosing!

she got 2 escorts! special girl!!!

her last look at civilian life....

look very carefully! this was our last glimpse of her!!!

and it continues...

23 weeks

24 weeks

steve finally felt baby move for the first time last night!!! yay!!

this week marks the last days of having to wake up at 4 a.m. for work! thank goodness! 

summer camp at work starts next week and as such, i don't need to wake up early enough to open the rec center BECAUSE they decided not to add me to the june schedule. FANTASTIC!

poppin'

20 weeks along

21 weeks

and this is 22 weeks

for those who don't know we are having a BOY!!!! i actually wanted a boy, steve claims he didn't care.

i feel bigger than i'm told i actually am. but i have been able to feel our wee guy move, and actually first felt him kick on my birthday! how great his timing is!!!

steve still has not been able to feel him but we're hoping that will come along soon!

progress at 18

yesterday we went in for a check-up on baby.

steve and i both had to have blood drawn, steve to test for cystic fibrosis and me to test for down's syndrome.

originally my doctor said we would be able to find out gender by week 18 but when we went to schedule the appointment he had told them to schedule it 2 weeks out.

now i have to WAIT 2 more weeks!

BUT on the good side of things, we got to hear the baby's heartbeat, it was SO cool!!!

it's great to know s/he is still going strong!

i am also getting bigger, but people have still pointed out it doesn't really look like much. like i said before though, it's the only indication i have to know baby is still growing since i don't know if i've felt her/him move yet. :)