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My Christmas Present! :)

Brody's Blessing

Brody's blessing was so wonderful! Luke did such a great job! It was so great to get our family and friends together to celebrate this wonderful occasion! It seems so crazy that he is already blessed! He will be 11 weeks old on Christmas day! He is getting so big so quickly! I guess he isn't too big though, he is actually a little smaller then he should be, but he is still healthy. We want to thank all who came! It was so great to have the support! Next thing you'll know he will be getting baptized! Just thought I'd put up a few of the pics with the fam! Oh and his blessing outfit is the one that Luke's mom made for Luke when he was blessed! Brody is actually a little bigger then Luke was as Debbie had to do some adjusting to it! But it worked out perfectly! Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!! :)

7 Weeks

Our little guy is so wonderful! I can't believe how much I love him! Everyday I get excited for the new things he has in store for us! He has recently started smiling more and makes a noise that sounds like he is trying to laugh! Christmas is going to be so fun when he is laughing and smiling all the time! All is he does now is scowl at everyone! But it's so cute it really doesn't matter! He has his two month appointment next week! It will be fun to see how much he is grown! We can tell he has grown quite a bit as his clothes are now fitting him! He has gotten a pretty big head as well! It's getting kind of heavy to hold! But he hold's it up so well on his own! It seems like he is growing so fast! I can't believe he is only 7 weeks old! For some reason he seems so much older than that! He has also started sleeping really well through the night! I am hoping by the time I go back to work he sleeps all the way through the night!

We have been so blessed by this little miracle! He is such a good little guy. He only cries when he wants something so basically he doesn't cry much at all! It's so great!

O Christmas Tree

I decided to blog about my tree today! I love it! It used to belong to a family friend who gave it to my parents. My parents decided it was too big for their place, although I usually would make them put it up anyway! When I got married they decided to give it to me since I loved it so much! It's a pain to put up but so worth it for me! I have to put each branch up one by one, but when I am done it is so big and full! It is one of my favorite Christmas decorations! That was all I wanted to say! Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Halloween!

Ok these pics uploaded backwards...but we start with brandon and stacey carving pumpkins a few days before halloween! Their pumpkins looked great! Brandon dropped one on his way into our house and Stacey made it look like a pumpkin was throwing up...i didn't take a pic of it, i'm not sure why..but it looked so great! I honestly think that was my favorite one, besides Luke's awesome pumpkin! Sadly Luke's pumpkin didn't last the night :( It shriveled up through the night! So glad we took some awesome pics of it the night before! We didn't even end up putting our pumpkins outside...how dumb is that! The pic of Brody was on Halloween. That was his costume, he was too little to have a real costume! Next year though he will have a real one! We just hung out Halloween night, we got quite a few trick or treaters! Way more than last year, we even almost ran out of candy! We had a great time carving pumpkins and a great halloween!!!

Welcome Baby Brody!!!

So these are just a few of my favorite pics we have so far! Our little baby boy is already a week and a half old! So crazy how fast time is going by already! Part of me really wants the next while to go by fast just because of how I am feeling and would like to feel normal again. But the other part of me wants him to stay little for as long as he can! He is such a great baby! He has already learned that if he cries we will pick him up as he stops crying almost instantly! He has a hard time sleeping at night as do we! Can't wait until that ends!

I have been told I need to tell his birth story. But I can honestly say there isn't too much to tell! But here it goes...

On the morning of October 8th we waited anxiously to get a call from the hospital to tell us when to come in so I could be induced. My doctor thought it would be good for me to just go ahead and be induced as I had high blood pressure for the last month of my pregnancy. So at 9am we got our call to come in and start the wonderful process! Luke bought a new camera and decided to film throughout the day...of course! I was so nervous! It's one thing to go into labor naturally, but knowing when it's going to happen is another! Although I still don't know what it is like to go naturally. Anyway...so basically once we got in our room and answered the million questions the nurse had to ask and put the IV in(worst part ever!!! had to stick me 3 times! not fun!) it was about 11am. With the petocin(sp) my contractions started basically right away. Luke decided to go lunch with his dad about noon and wasn't back until 1:30, I couldn't get the epideral without him there and found out I wasn't going to be able to get it until 3 as the guy was in a c section until then! By 3 I was in quite a bit of pain! Amazing how hurtful those little suckers are! So basically as soon as I got the epideral everything was great! The day actually went by pretty quickly even though all I could do is lay there and do nothing! So around 7 I hadn't progressed much, when I came in I was at a 2, when it was around 7 I was at a 4. My doctor said he would give it another hour, but if nothing had happened in that time we would really have to thing about getting a csection. At that point I just wanted the day to be over, I wasn't really nervous about it, I think Luke was way more nervous then I was! I hadn't progressed at all, so he went in detail about the csection and how everything would work. It wasn't an emergency csection, but they did get everything started pretty fast. We went in around 8:20, with all the medicine through the epideral I was pretty out of it. All I felt was a lot of tugging, I was getting pretty anxious about them starting, afraid I was going to feel them cutting me open! So I asked Luke when they were going to start, but because of the gas mask he couldn't understand me. So around 5 min later I said, "I wish they would just start!" Then the nurse came to Luke and told him to get his camera ready because they were about to pull his head out! I was shocked! Our nurse got some great pics of them pulling him out of me! He was born at 8:44 on October 8th weighing 7lbs 12.5oz and 20 inches long! So that is basically the story! We came home on Sunday the 11th. We love him more then anything! Can't imagine my life without him anymore! What did we do before he came to us? Right now he is laying beside me on the couch and he stinks! So I need to change his diaper now! I hope you all enjoyed reading about how he came into our lives!