Bear Lake Baby!

We survived our annual trip to Bear Lake once again! Even with a 2 week old baby. It was awesome and Coop had a blast with all the family he had to play with. He was pretty sad when we got home actually. Check out Ava's little swimmy. Cute huh? I didn't get as many pics as I wanted because it felt like I was feeding babies most of the time but here are a few. I even got to wakeboard so it was great. I'm always sad to leave but we'll be back next year... =)

Happy Independence Day

We had a great 4th! Justin and Cooper went to the big parade, we had a bbq, picked fresh peas, hung out with fam, and watched the fireworks! We are grateful for the opportunity to live in this great country!

Introducing...

Ava Marne

June 28, 2009

6lbs 12oz

20in

( Cooper picked out her bow)

In between contractions, anxiously awaiting Ava's arrival!

Ava and Daddy

Mom and Ava

Proud big brother! He thought she was so funny! He's going to be such a good big bro

The pink flowers are a lei Cooper brought Ava from my Grandparents 50th anniv. luau

He even got to help with her first bath!

Some of our visitors

Jackie~Oakley~Ava~Lindy

One of my best friends from high school had her baby the day after me and was in the room across the hall. We couldn't have planned it better!

Birth Story~if anyone is interested

I know some people will be curious to know if I really went through with an all natural delivery and I'm proud to say...Yes! We did it! Thank goodness labor wasn't too long otherwise it would have been a little more difficult. Justin had been out of town camping (I know, it sounds bad but he wasn't far away and I figured I'd be late so I wasn't too worried) so I was all ready to sleep in with no kids at home, but plans changed a little! My water broke at 6:45am so I called Justin and told him to come home. I just started washing clothes and getting last minute stuff done so it would be ready for when we got home. Justin got home about 8am with Cooper who had been sick all night =( We just hung out at home because I only had a few contractions. I started to get a little worried because she wasn't moving very much so we called my Mom to come over. She got there about 2:30 and the contractions started to get closer together and more intense. We got to the hospital at about 3pm and they hooked me up to the monitors just to make sure everything was alright, which it was so they took me off of them so I was able to move around. I was dilated to a 5 when we got there. I was surprised because I hadn't had too many contractions. We were able to just hang out in between contractions and then when one would come Justin would push on my back as hard as he could because most of the pain was in my back which helped a lot! He was a dang good coach actually. After a few hours they got really intense and much closer together. They hooked me up to the monitors again and all of a sudden the contractions were VERY close together and VERY intense so I was pretty much begging to get off the monitors and into the tub. They came and took me off a few minutes later but it felt like forever and I was able to get in the tub. I was hoping it would take all of the pain away (ha, ha) but it definitely helped. I was in there for a few contractions and then I had to push so the midwife made me get out (we weren't such great friends at that point!) I didn't want to have her in the tub but when you are in pain it's so hard to move! So I was able to get to the bed and about a half hour later she was here! Pushing-not so much fun but thankfully it didn't last very long. She's perfect and adorable and healthy. We are so in love with her it's not even funny! I will tell you more about her arms and all those details a little later since this post is forever long. Thanks to all those who have helped us this past week! We love our little girl!

Daddy Time

Coop and Justin went on the annual June Safari with the guys in Justin's fam. This is what they did on my due date. I'm sure Coop loved every minute of it. Before he got on the horse he asked, "Horses buck us off?" We went to the rodeo the week before. He was a little worried but once he found out they were nice horses he was in for a ride!

Top of the 'D'

Justin and his bro derick entered the men's doubles tennis tourny for Strawberry Days and won first place in the 'D' Division! Me, Cooper, and Derick's fiance Sheryl were there to cheer them on when they got their trophies! Maybe next year Wimbledon...

This is how our garden grows

Ok so he looks a little drugged but I couldn't get a good picture! This is our first baby carrot we found! I went to thin them out again and-Surprise, surprise we had a carrot! He was so excited and he even ate it.

Jump On IT!

What do the kids do in a building full of trampolines?

Ride the elephant

Aren't they cute?

That's Coop's cheese-it was the longest elephant ride ever!

The 3 little monkeys

(Spencer, Jaden, Cooper)

and go down the slide!

The only way Cooper dared go down the slide without holding Jaden's hand

I should go back and jump around just to see if we can get this baby here!

HolY mOLy!

So, take a look on the right hand side of your screen. See the little baby swimming around and then look at the number underneath. 12!! Less than 2 weeks until the due date. Once again-HOLY MOLY! I am so ready to be done. As my good friend Becky said, "Ready to not be pregnant but not quite ready for a baby". Yeah something like that! There's still a bunch we need to do but if I started having contractions today I think I could get it all done before she actually got here. =) I mean I'll probably have like 10 hrs right?

I am a little nervous about the whole having 2 kids thing and other stuff like making sure everything else is ok but I am so ready to just have her in my arms. I know there's a couple people out there that feel the same way, some of which will probably have their babies before me (dang you) so good luck to ya! and I know how you feel!

p.s. Whoever made that little widget with that much room for the baby to 'swim' with 12 days left has definitely never been prego

Rain, Rain go away! Come again another day!

3 little pregos...

My sweet Aunt Louise threw me a shower (I will have to take pics of some of the stuff I got-seriously girl stuff is so cute) but these are some of my best friends from high school. We are all prego at the same time and 2 of us are due a week apart and 2 of the 3 are having girls! How awesome is that? We had to document it. Now if Jackie would just find out what she's having...

Kristin: due Oct, Jackie: July 5th, Me: June 27th

p.s. for those of you who have been mad I didn't have many belly shots-Here ya go!

The Love of Justin's Life

Nope, not me

Her...

My Mom got us tickets to Taylor Swift for our anniversary/birthdays. Justin was just mad we didn't have backstage passes. =) She did such an awesome concert though! For real one of the best I have ever been to. They used water to make it rain at the end, she changed where she sang in the audience, and had some great dancers. I think she genuinely loves performing which makes it so much better. Thanks Mom! We had a blast

Girls Night

Justin's Cousin Chelsea and I planned a girls night since the boys all go camping the last week in June, but since I'm due then we did it a little early. We packed up and headed down to good old st. George for a night. It was such a needed break!! Hard to leave Coop but I'm pretty sure he didn't even miss me. We hung out by the pool, shopped, went out to dinner, and fell asleep at like 10pm. I know-we are such partyers. It was so fun though and we didn't even crash on the way back =)

Our little Monkeys

Auntie Mandi invited me to a playdate with some of her friends and their kids. Coop loved it! This is definitely one of my favorite places.

~Mother's Day~

I even got a special 'massage' from Cooper after church. He's a multi-tasker

I wish I could have gotten a picture of his face when he was giving me my present! It was priceless-he was so excited for me to open it. He had no idea what it was and it was probably pretty boring to him but it was the best present ever! A massage at The Grand America Spa. Oh yeah. I can't decide if I want to use it now or after little Ava comes. How do massages work when you're prego? Scary. It was the best Mother's Day ever.

Golden Anniversary

So, my awesome Grandma and Grandpa Brown had their 50th wedding anniversary in February and this is their present that I made. Holy Moly it was a lot of work but totally worth it! My Grandma makes quilts so I knew she would appreciate it. 773 pieces later it was finally done! My only regret is that I wasn't able to hand quilt it but my sister in laws Mom did such an awesome job with her machine quilter.
Happy Anniversary and I love you guys!