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.

Fridge

our fridge/freezer has been on the fritz for i think a month or so and no repair man seems to be able to fix it because of the fancy brand. LAME!! one repair man said he can fix it and that was 3 weeks ago and we still don't have a working fridge. anyways...i'm real tired of not having food or being able to have left overs because nothing stays cold! today I caved in a bought some milk. i'll just stick it outside because that will keep it cold. there are a lot of foods i can't eat without milk so i'm super excited to have it back in the house. except we'll have to use it real quick before it goes bad. LAME again! I think we'll have to buy a new fridge.

i hate change

after three years i thought maybe just maybe i'll change my background. I did and now none of my side items are showing up!! hello...someone help me please!

went back to the origianl until i can figure this new background thing out!

Another month bigger

8 MONTHS or 32 wks!!! baby boy really is getting so close to arriving. We are really starting to get anxious now. I only have 8 wks left, give or take....hopefully not longer! but if i'm like my mother i'll go late and have a large baby! speaking of large baby i've been measuring about 2.5 wks bigger! so either i'll go early....have a sum what bigger baby or there's a little baby in a lot of fluid! I've really grown over the past month and i really don't see how i can get much bigger, but i know it's going to happen. the last few months was awful in the fact that i could've ever sleep!! i was constantly getting up and finding things to do in the middle of the night. I also seemed to have gain a tremendous about of weight as well. since i have only a few weeks left i've already been sleeping perfectly and settling into my weight gain!

Josh and i went and registered for my baby showers that i'm having in a couple of weeks. I was so exciting to go and do it, Josh on the other hand was not so excited but he went and was a good sport about it.

Josh picked up this super cute super soft giraffe for baby boy to have! we call him Geri the Giraffe and we hope that baby loves him.

cookies

since we've moved in to our house our oven just doesn't want to work correctly. The oven just doesn't' want to cook anything i put in it. I either have to turn the temp up real real high or just let the meal cook for twice as long. very annoying! I was in the baking mood the other day and thought what the heck I'll try to make cookies knowing in my head they won't turn out good. Well to my surprise they turned out pretty darn yummy! I was trilled, now only the oven will cook my meatloaf in less then 2 hours!

New years

besides celebrating Kole's birthday we had a big family new years celebration. I had bought hats and the amazing 2011 glasses, we eat tons of food and stayed up late playing games.
only the girls would wear the hats, but i think we sure look cute.
some of us playing Settlers after we spend hours playing the Wii.

first kiss of the New Year together!

Birthdays

Friday which is also new years eve was Kole's 3rd birthday!! Since tyson and manda are staying at my parents we all went there and the kids at a blast playing together. they played pin the tail on the donkey and that was a huge hit. He go lots of great presents including ours. We gave him his first kids shaving kit! I can't believe my little Kole buddy is already 3 years old! Amanda's birthday is on Jan 4th, but since they were here why not celebrate her as well.

my mom is always wanting to get a picture of all the grandkids together. it's very hard to get them all seated and looking at the camera at the same time, but the out takes sure do make us laugh.