Christmas Eve

We celebrated Christmas eve at Eric's parent's house. We had lots of good food, watched a movie and just enjoyed each others company!

The three bundled babies! Brooklyn, Maci & Dane

...and those are the only pictures i took. lol

Brooklyn Rose

Our sweet little baby girl was born on December 18th at 6:04 pm. She was 6 lbs 9 oz and 18 3/4 in. long.

Here is a little rundown of how the day went:

Originally I was planning on going into labor on my own (since I was induced 3 days early with Sierra) but when I saw that my due date was Christmas eve, I quickly changed my mind! My OBGYN didn't even ask when he saw what day I was due, he just immediately said he'd induce me a week early. haha I guess he didn't want to be in the hospital on Christmas day either!

We went in at 7:30 am. I was dilated to a 2 and 75% effaced.

They started the pitocin at 8:45am.

At 2:15pm they gave me my epidural. I got really lightheaded. The color drained from my face and my heart rate dropped, so they stopped the epidural and quickly gave me ephedrine to bring my heart rate back up. It was kind of scary and took a while to feel normal again. Once my HR was back to normal, they gave me the rest of the epidural.

At 5:49pm I started to push and Brooklyn was born 15 minutes later!

She was perfect and I got to hold her right away which was so nice since I didnt with Sierra.

A lovely before picture. I'm so ticked because we took a before picture, in normal clothes and somehow I managed to delete it off my camera TODAY. If only I hadn't waited 3 weeks to write this post...

So happy to finally be holding my little Brooklyn.

my two little girlies

with my mom

the proud daddy

granddaughter #4!

Leaving the hospital-notice Sierra on the right, too hyper to be in the picture.

A visit from Maria, Trevor and Little Reese!

A couple weekends ago, our good friends, the Gilbert's, from BYU-I were in Pennsylvania visiting Maria's family. We usually try to get together everytime they come and have only missed one year so far since parting ways!

We met up halfway at Chili's. It was so fun this time because Sierra and Reese are the same age and could actually communicate. They were so cute together. I didn't get any pictures of the adults but I did get a few blurry ones of the girls playing outside after lunch.

they were pretty excited to find the rocks.

For some reason Reese's face is blurry in every picture. Oh well, they're still so cute. See you next year guys!

27th Birthday

I just realized I never posted about my actual birthday. It's only a month late. haha We didn't do much this year since I was about to pop and Eric's parents were out of town. OH and Eric left for Spain the day before. Just a small detail. Luckily I have awesome friends who took me out for dinner while he was gone, so it was a little less painful. ;)
a little celebration 2 nights before Eric left. i don't look very pleased. maybe i had severe heartburn. (also all the other pictures sierra had her eyes closed or they were blurry-don't worry we got a new camera for christmas!)

Shelby, Jen, Krystal, me and Alyssa at Bertucci's. Thanks girlies! Whose birthday is next?

A Winner!

This morning I was going along, reading my blogs and at the end of a decorating blog that I follow called A Soft Place to Land, I saw my name! I actually won a giveaway! I was so shocked! Ocassionally I'll enter giveaways and NEVER win so I was pretty excited to see that I finally had.

I won two ornaments from Lisa Leonard Designs. She makes really pretty necklaces and bracelets and a few other things too. I think I'm going to get an ornament for Sierra and the new baby with their names and 1st christmas engraved on one of these little beauties:

Aren't they SO pretty? Thanks Kimba and Lisa!

Thanksgiving

This year Eric's parents were in Utah and Ryan and Alyssa were in Texas for thanksgiving so it was just us and Kye left. We invited our good friends the Atkinsons over and I did my first thanksgiving! It was actually really fun. Krystal and I split up the menu and everything turned out great!

the adult table

the little girlies table

i was so mad because this centerpiece that i made wouldn't fit on the table with all the plates and stuff! Oh well, it still looked cute on the food table. ;)

sierra and victoria were so cute. they loved their little table and were so funny together the whole time.

chowing down

kye, eric, shawn and krystal

me, eric, kye and shawn

the little girls got a little out of control with some stickers. haha

Early Birthday Celebration

My birthday's not until next Sunday, but Eric's parents are going out of town tomorrow to be there for when Ashley has her baby girl for a month so they won't be here for my real birthday. My sister in law, Alyssa's bday is the day before mine so we usually celebrate together. We had a little cel e bration last Sunday!

my little helper

licking icing off the counter...

the hilarious cake. it had some sliding issues. it looks like a little mouse got into the side of it too. dont worry though, it tasted delicious!

the two birthday girls with our little girlies.

ragamuffin

sierra with grandpa

our little family

ryan, alyssa and maci

maci wanted some presents too

the girls made christmas wreaths while the boys watched the kiddies and sports and talked their hearts out. it's what they do best!

Happy Birthday to us! More celebrations to come...