Our new angel

Isabelle Sydnee was born February 27.

Labor and delivery were great! Everything went so well! And Jake even was so great with her when he first met her.

The second Izzy was born, all my worries were gone. And then the first week home was so amazing. It feels like Izzy has always been here. There hasn't been any awkwardness and all the fears I had were just fears. None of them have come true.

Jake has adjusted wonderfully! He asks to hold Izzy and kisses her tons. Of course he still has his toddler outbreaks but its all normal things. He has really been so great. I'm so happy the transition has gone as smooth as it has. He has had a couple of "I need my mommy to myself" moments and has gotten them. :)

Here are a couple more pictures of my sweet new angel. She is just so amazing. I'm pretty much convinced that Jimmy and I have the greatest, most awesome, cutest babies ever!

I'll try to update more often. Things have just been insanely more busy with a new little one. :) Until next time, have a good one!

Hormones... Shmormones (very difficult to say, really!)

Some days, this move seems like a bad idea. Some day I feel very left out. And on those days, I wish we hadn't moved. BUT some days, I really love the move. Some days its nice to have some distance and be able to appreciate things differently. You can see what relationships are strong and what not. Some days I am so happy to be away from Vegas and the constant fear of that place. Some days I miss the familiarity of it. Some days I wish I knew more people here, had more friends in our new area. Some days I'm happy to just have the few close people and don't want any more. But I do hate missing parties and weddings and girls nights, cocktails on the spur of the moment. I hate not seeing my best friends a couple times a month. But still, I think in the long run, this move was right.

I don't know really anymore. My pregnancy hormones are ALL over the place these past few days. I know I've completely shut my hubby out on more than one occasion over the past week or so. Why, oh why, do your hormones have to go all out of whack along with your whole body during pregnancy? No fun!

ANYWAY, we are a week away from seeing our beautiful little Isabelle. My nerves about her arrival are starting to calm themselves. I know it will be a huge change, but if I keep Jake in the picture as much as possible and give him individual time (as a SAHM) I think we will all be fine. I'm so much more worried for him than anything else... BUT that's what mom's do right? They are always more worried, scared, cautious, aware than their kids are. Always. So I just need to remember no matter how bad I think it is/will be, it will be MAYBE half that. I will let every one know when our little girl gets here. :)

So until next time, have a good one!

Rounding 3rd, heading for home

Here's a quick pregnancy update. Currently I am 38 weeks along. Baby girl's due date is RAPIDLY approaching. We are scheduled for induction on the 27th of this month. Can't believe it's almost here!?

So I've told all you that we are expecting a girl. But I haven't told you her name, unless with the previous post you already found out. Her name is going to be Isabelle Sydnee.



Some photo updates of our progress.

Here's me at 23 weeks


And again at 33 weeks


I'm very happy with this pregnancy's weight gain! I've been staying on track to what I have wanted to gain and that makes me ECSTATIC! :)

This past weekend, we tried to take some pregnancy pictures. Now I wasn't too pleased with them for the most part but there were some cute ones with Jake. In these, I'm 37 weeks along.

Here's the proud big brother! (He has NO idea what's coming. HAHA)


LOVE this picture!

Loving his Momma and sister!

Awww... smooches!

So as I've said before I'd probably be talking about my feelings. At this point my body is ready to be done. I have siatic pain and horrible round ligament pain. Can't hardly sleep. Ice cream and baths are my FAVORITE things ever. And poor little girl is getting so cramped. She feels like she'll burst out of my side at any moment with one of her kicks.

Mentally, however, I'm not too ready. Honestly, I'm FREAKING out! I of course want to meet her so badly I can hardly breath but I can't really explain the freak out. I'm so nervous. Of course I did just fine with my first child. But again, Jake's all I know right now. And I'm going to have to try to pay as much attention to him as I can while also having another child. Ahhhh!!!! Its so easy with one kid. He gets my attention all the time for the most part and now it will have to be split. And then just starting all over again as a "semi" new mom? Kind of scary! There's no stopping it at this point. HAHA But the nerves have taken over my mind so much lately. We are two weeks away from a major change. I'm ready... I really am. I just want everything to go smoothly and as perfect as possible for our little family. I can't always plan what will happen (which is COMPLETELY unfair! haha) but I know I will do my best as a mother and wife to make things work out. And they will! I guess at this point, I just need to realize that I can't control everything. It's just the unknown that's got me. But bring it on!!!!!! :)

Our home

As you know, we moved up to Utah this past summer. Well here are some pictures of our house!!! Yay! There are 2 stories, with a basement in the house. I didn't get pictures of everything, but the important things I did! haha

The house


Here's the living room. (on the main floor)


And the kitchen. The kitchen and living room are one big room kind of (I'm standing with my back to the TV looking into the kitchen)


Here's our backyard. See that little barn? There's horses there. It's a small farm right behind us.


Another angle from the backyard

Here's Izzy's room.

And Jake's room. He was sleeping at the moment. HAHA His room isn't completely done. We have some things to still do but yeah!

So there ya have it! Our beautiful Utah house. :) Well part of it anyway.

Christmas!

Let's talk about Christmas!!!! Christmas Eve we spent with my family. We went to my aunt's house for a yummy dinner then back to my mom's house to open some gifts.

Jake got some pretty awesome things! We all did really. He got a Woody and Bullseye set. He's OBSESSED with Toy Story so he was pretty stoked to get this. I think with all the gifts he got from everyone, he ended up with 3 woody dolls and 4 buzz dolls. He loves all of them and will sleep with one nightly.

This is him opening Toy Story 3 from Aunt Mannie. He was so happy.

I got to open all of the baby's gifts. A beautiful pink blanket!

Maddie opening her gift from Jake.

Jake got a tent and sleeping bag also from Granny and Gramps. He was pretty exhausted when we were opening gifts so he needed to lay down.

Here's Granny opening her gift.

Then it was Christmas morning!

Jake must have been a REALLY good boy because Santa sure did spoil him.


Of all the things Santa left, Jake liked the candy in the stocking the best I think. HAHA Just like his momma.


He got a bike and was a little hesitant at first to try it out.

And after some of the overwhelming feeling wore off, he started to open his gifts. Going to town!

Here's my handsome hubby with the blanket I made him. Angels are coming back this year! :)

Jake didn't want to smile for pictures at all so he started doing this "fake camera" smile. Hilarious!

After all the presents were open, he decided to try the bike again.

We then went outside after breakfast and he really started to love it. He rides all the time now.


The rest of the day we spent at home. This was the first Christmas in I don't know how long that I've been at home ALL day! And since being married, Jimmy too. We lounged around in our pjs for most of the day, watched the movies Jake got and I even got a bath in! We had a nice little turkey dinner and then played with toys. It was so nice and relaxing!

A couple weeks later we were able to visit my dad and step mom and celebrate Christmas with them then. My camera wasn't charged so I didn't get any pictures but it was super fun. My dad made Jake this awesome toy chest and he some other little fun toys and books. The baby got some goodies too; a diaper bag, towels and some outfits.

Then we headed to Jimmy's parent's house in Vegas. We celebrated with his family one weekend, exchanging gifts and having a nice dinner. We also got to see our friends to exchange gifts with them. Christmas did seem like it went on forever for us and we all got pretty spoiled. It was such a nice time with all our family and we are so appreciative of all our great gifts. :)

Uggg!

Okay, in the middle of my blogging session, blogger has decided to STOP letting me upload pictures. So hopefully later tonight or tomorrow I will be able to get some more blogs done and also find my card. I want to get all caught up before the baby gets here. We have a short 2 1/2 weeks until our due date! A post of our progress and her room will be done once I can start uploading pictures again. So until then, have a good one!

December

So as I said, I can't find our other camera card so I have few pictures through December. Once I find it though, I'll be sure to come back and update.

In December, we got a new car! We traded in our truck (which we all loved!) and got a Toyota Sequoia. I wanted an SUV and 4WD so my sweet hubby agreed and we went hunting for one. And here she is!!!!!!! After many problems (really it was such a roller coaster with this dang thing) things are good now and I am so in love with it!

My birthday was also in December. Yep, that's right. I'm old! Okay, well not old but getting up there. I'm getting to the point that I can't really remember how old I am. HAHA Sad huh? It was a good birthday and I was definitely spoiled by everyone. :)

I also had some time to do a couple crafts. I made a snowman and a tree skirt for the holiday.

We hosted a Gingerbread House night. Brock and Atley made this spectacular house.

And here's Maddie and her boyfriend with their cute little houses.

And finally our train! Jimmy and Jake worked on the structure of the train while I decorated. But we didn't get a family picture with it.

Jimmy's parents were also able to come down for a visit in December. We took them to Ogden to see the lights, up to Park City to walk around and got to show them our new house. It was a fun visit! (pictures though are on said missing card)

All in all, December was pretty fun... a bit stressful with the holidays like always but fun!