Easter with g-ma

My mom and dad were going to have easter with my brother and his family in Vegas this year so we had Easter with g-ma and g-pa the weekend before. we did the traditional easter dinner feast, egg coloring, the egg hunt and the opening of the easter baskets the Easter bunny had left for the babies.

my mom had spotted a cool way of coloring eggs with crayon shreds! after we colored the eggs the traditional way we made crayon shavings and put them on a hot hot egg and watch the wax melt down the egg! they ended up looking so COOL!

Grant would've colored ALL the eggs if you didn't get some fast enough for yourself!

Sister finding the eggs. mom put money in some of the eggs!

owen was pretty exhausted, but the Easter Bunny had gotten him some new swim trunks, t-shirt and cute outfit and a church book!

our little family

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE

Auction Fun

Josh and I both spotted a really nice nursery was having a huge tree auction last weekend. We thought hey we might as well go down and see what it was all about. We got there with a ton of other people, watched a few trees being auctioned off and saw one guy buying a really nice tree for $35!! Josh immediately went and got an auction card, we picked the tree we wanted and waited and waited till they reached our tree. The auctioneer started and Josh was right there trying to get us first pick on the tree. We won! and got a really really nice tree for WAY cheap!

It then sat in our driveway for a week until we got a time and muscles to get that tree in our back yard! Luckily my mom came over to help and we were able to get that heavy tree in the back.

Tah-Dah!! we love and so excited to finally have a tree in our yard. it's really nice to look out the window and see a pretty tree and not just our neighbors.

one month

our sweet son turned one month last weekend! where did that month go? it went way too fast! we are loving having him with us and slowing adjusting to how he works. he is still sleeping 5-6 hours straight at night-eat and then go back down for at least 2 more hours, which has been so so wonderful! he was a super fussy baby, but we've discovered that he just was so hungry all the time. I've started to feed him more and he is a completely different baby! we have caught a few smiles from him, which have just melted my heart. He loves his baths and being swaddled and he loves being in the front pack, especially if we go for a walk!

he gets real mad in his car seat and scratches him face, so then mom puts socks on his hands and he never knows what to do with them after that!

tummy time on the boppy! he has always had real good control of his head. he's pretty strong!

my mom came over and watched him so josh and i could get out on our own for a bit. it was so nice!

i went to work and had molds made of his hand and foot. so dang precious, but he sure did hate the process!

"Mark E Mark"

Most know that my sis n law was due one month after i was. Well she ended up having her sweet boy two weeks early! Owen and his new cousin Mark are exactly two weeks apart. He's so tiny and hairy just like Owen. and just because i think my son is pretty darn cute....here's some new pictures of him.

gotta love the dream smile! things are going ok with little Owen. he eats a ton, sleeps through the night( see how long that last) and he's a little colic. But we love him and so happy to have him in our lives. not a whole lot has been happening in our lives besides taking care of our baby. josh will be starting softball soone and coaching a AAU basketball team for a few weeks. it's starting to warm up so hopefully owen and i will be getting our of the house more often. i'm exciting for summer time at the pool this year.

gma Jane

my wonderful mom stayed with us for owen's first week home. it was tremendous help to have her around. We were able to split the night routines, she was always cooking us food to eat, cleaning and keeping us company and from going crazy from lack of sleep.
we love her and was really sad to have her leave us.
i know she'll be back though!

rub a dub dub

owen had his first bath on saturday (march 12) . he wasn't so sure about it, but he sure did smell so good afterwards.

5 wks

Before after

henley and owen are 5 wks apart. i love that we both have sweet little babies close in age. now i just wish we lived closer so we could see each other more often. But i do see lots of playdates happening!

Baby boy

i went in for my appt on tues and my Dr. noticed absolutly no change in anything so she asked what we wanted to do. I said get his baby out and she said ok when?! so we set the date for the following morning to be induced. My Dr. said it probably would've been another 2 wks before i went into labor on my own!

morning of delivery, 40 weeks and 4 days pregnant. 10 months of long waiting for this little man

that was my baby vase that my mom received when i was born. she passed it onto me.

he was a big boy at 8lbs 2 oz and 21 inches long.

reuniting after he got all cleaned. i had so much love for him when i first saw him, but in shock that this is my baby!

proud proud daddy. Josh is so excited to finally have owen here and i catch him just staring at baby boy with such joy!





Owen joshua Willden

i had a great delivery. i progressed extremely fast for being induced and he came out easily. he eats great, but does have juandice and has to be under the glow light.

We are completely in love with Owen and couldn't have asked for a more perfect baby.

tomorrow is my due date and i'm not holding my breathe that our little man is arriving soon. i'm really trying all i can to get him out, but i swear he's holding on for dear life in there! I have a dr appt tomorrow, hanging out with jill and then my mom is coming over to hang out and cook us dinner. that should all be a nice distraction for the day.

nested

at 37 wks i hit my nesting stage and was a cleaning/organizing maniac!! I even enlisted josh's help in cleaning the garage and the closet underneath the stairs. I washed ALL of the babies stuff and really just cleaned everything and couldn't stop myself. it was crazy!! BUT...... now last wk at 38 wks i have absolutely no energy and can't get my ballooned body off the couch. i feel like this coming week will be no different. Maybe that's a sign that he's coming soon! we can only hope!

one last date?

josh took me downtown to PF changs for what we hope was our last hot date before the baby comes and who knows when we will do it again. we had to wait a really long time, but i was dressed and feeling pretty good about myself so we weren't leaving! The date was much needed and i loved spending the time with my joshy like the good ole days of being young.

mom does it all

after since the first grandbaby my mom has bought and refinished old dressers for the baby to have. so this time around it was no different for me. She stoked craigslist and found nothing, but we ended up getting a free dresser from Josh's sister. it was pretty ugly and we were positive that we'll just have to paint it, but mom worked her magic and it turned out beautiful.

after she sanded it down
i knew from the moment i found out i was pregnant that i was going to make the bumper for the crib. i'm just too picky and i didn't want to spend the large amount of cash on a crib set when all i needed was the bumper. I took the design from my nieces bumper and found the boy ribbon i liked and my mom sewed it all together. i absolutely love love love how it turned out. the colors are perfect and the outside of it is just a plain navy. the picture doesn't do it justice!

my mom also makes blankets for the her grandbabies and she didn't fail to create two ridiculously cute blankets for my little man.

if only i was as good on the sewing machine as her.....maybe one day!

Done

This is our nice looking fridge that has been unused for the last almost 2.5 months because of ding dong repair man! But now after 3 different repair man and months later it's finally fixed! i'm so so excited to finally go grocery shopping and have food in the fridge before the baby comes anytime now!

Sweet Love

as yesterday was Valentines day and we don't really celebrate the holiday, but I still want to express my love and gratefulness for my wonderful marriage and my best friend Josh! sometimes it takes and event to realize how amazing my marriage is.

I love you Joshy and grateful i get to spend all of eternity with you by my side.

Sundays

Today josh and i went to Miss Henley's baby blessing. Nothing can bring a tear to my eyes like a father priesthood blessing! She looked like a sweet angel fresh from heaven. So Innocent and sweet. Warning gross feet picture

Sunday's also brings me sitting for 3 hours straight at church. Which equals my little cankels to become massive swollen calfs/cankels/feet! besides it being totally unattractive, it's also painful for my skin to stretch and swell like that. My one real big complaint about this pregnancy is my swelling.

by that night they were even more worst, if you can even imagine! Oh and my tailbone get extremely sore from sitting in the hard church chairs, that between me not being able to get up and my swollen legs we end up leaving church early because i'm in so much pain!

count down

i'm officially full term at 37 wks pregnant! it's really hard to believe that in a few short weeks we will have this sweet little boy and the stress of being great parents to him. We are pretty much physically all ready for him to arrive, but emotionally i'm starting to freak out a bit about everything labor/baby! i'm still measuring pretty big and my dr. is pretty sure that i'm not having a baby anytime soon. well at least not on my own. So we'll see when he decides to actually arrive. Josh and i both had dreams that he was weighing in the 9 pounds....yikes...lets hope not!

i'm just now starting to feel uncomfortable and real front heavy. i'm getting slower and more sore with any activity. We've started taking long brisk walk to help maybe get this process moving along. As much as i'm ready for him to be here, I will be sad to not have him all to myself and feeling his foot jab up into my ribs or his massive rolls across my belly.

it's a girl

No not me, but my bestie Jill finally had her baby! Henley Rue was born 9 days late on Feb. 1st. I was so shocked that she had a girl, but she's super sweet and so cute. look at those lips! I see a future crush for my little guy! 8lbs 9oz

raining gifts

PICTURE OVERLOAD AND NOT A LOT OF WRITING

I had two great showers for the baby and I. First i'll tell about the one my sisters and mom gave us. A lot of people came, we played great fun games and it looks like babies r us through up in my mom's living room. So greatly appreciated for all the great and much needed baby things.

my great mom and I!

getting larger and larger! 9months/36wks

Josh's uncle Ted made us this beautiful rocking horse. We are so excited about it and so is madelyn.

my girlfriends all came. Jill came even though she was barely 4 days out from having her sweet baby girl.(no picture of us together, don't know how that happened!)

my yummy yummy cake!

i got everything i need for the baby and more.

shower #2 was at my work. I've been working for the same Dr for so many years and lots of the girls there i have also know for years.

two of my co-workers, Holly, Tracey and I.

again another yummy yummy cake.

both showers were amazing and i was able to get pretty much everything i need. The Dr's I work for bought me our car seat and stroller!

Now all we need is a baby to use all the stuff. He should be here anytime, I only have 4 weeks left and then our lives will change forever.