The Park

Monday was a beautiful day and it was Jason's day off so we decided to take emily to the park for the first time. We took a blanket and sat in the shade and watched all the kids play. She slept for part of the time, cried for the part of the time, and was happy part of the time. Overall I think it was a great experience.

Crying

Happy

Sleeping sort of. Emily decided to sleep on me but slowly moved her self down off me off the blanket and ended up in the grass

See this was the end result and she woke up and had some fun she loved the way the grass felt

We a lot of fun at the park and I cannot wait tell emily is older so she can really enjoy herself and we can actually play on some playground equipment.

Easter

We celebrated Emily's first Easter and we had a blast. Jason talked and did a great job after church we went over to Jason's parents house and had an easter feast. Than we watched the older kids do the easter egg hunt and than just hung around and talked.

Emily wore an adorable dress that jason's aunt Pam got for her it was adorable a lot of work to take on and off.

Emily was way exhausted from all the hard work of getting ready for church

Jason and I decided to start the tradition of taking a picture in front of the nectarine tree on Easter

Overall we had a wonderful Easter and are excited to celebrate all the many future Easters with our family.

Guess What??

So I am beginning to think that I have driving skills of Micheal or at least the same luck as he does. Yesterday I was sitting home just put Emily to sleep and I received a phone a call from where I get my blood work done and they told me they missed a test and asked me when I could come in. I told them I would be there as soon as my daughter woke up from her nap. Well Emily decided to sleep and sleep and sleep so I decided I was fine with taking her now so I put her in her car seat. I noticed it was raining and well decided to switch coats but forgetting two important cards (my license and insurance card, GO KIRA!!). I head off driving I reach a light and it turns green, but the traffic was going anywhere. The lady behind did not know that traffic was not going anywhere and guess what she hit me, and so I go forward and hit the car in front of me. How Wonderful!!!! Emily and I are both fine, but it brought back a lot of memories from my last car accident in Rexburg, just like when micheal found out that I had an accident first thing he asked was is she coming to work? When I called Jason and told him about this accident he could not answer cause he was at work, so he texted me and asked what I wanted. I texted him I was an accident, he took it as it was an accident i called him, so I texted him and told him that Emily and I were fine than it clicked. The police reports were filed and now I have to deal with insurance companies,but I feel good that no got hurt and that Jason and I have two cars and that trixie does not work so I could call and cry to her, she has been helpful through both accidents. Alas by request my pictures form the Rexburg accident and now the Virginia one, my car was little more damaged in the Virginia one. If nothing else good comes out of this accident I know that I am at least making Micheal feel better about all of his accidents.

Rexburg Accident

Virginia Accident

Emily went to Church

Everything is going okay in our household since my mom left. Things are little more stressful, but Jason has been a ton of help. The Sunday my Mom left I decided that our little family was going to church. We dressed her in the outfit the her Grandma gave her she looked adorable. Also she was amazing all through church because she just slept.

Other than that Emily and I have been keeping busy we are going on walks and enjoying hanging out. In other exciting news I have to get my gall bladder taken out because of a polyp that has developed. I had two gall bladder attacks on sunday morning. Jason took me to the ER while Jason's dad watched Emily. He was our first babysitter too bad it was at 1:30 in the morning. We got home at 8Am sunday and it was snowing like crazy. So I gave Emily a bath when we got home and got her dressed for church. It was like the weather was perfect the dress says snow bunny. She was a little more rowdy during church and because Jason had not slept in 24 hours I was at church alone, but everyone was way helpful. I did not have to worry about her all through sacrament or when I was teaching my class. People in the church are so nice and they love babies.

Well we shall see how the rest of this week fares and when my surgery is. Sometimes life is crazy.

EMILY and GRANDMA

Emily made it here. I have to admit I felt like my pregnancy was never going to end. I went into labor about 10:30PM on the 03/10/2011. I thought it was fake labor like usual because my doctor finally set my inducement date which was to be the next day. Jason got home from work about 11:30PM and saw how much pain I was in, I reassured him that it was fake labor and that he should go to eat with his dad, but if the pain continued I would let him know. Needless to say by this point my contractions were well less than 2 minutes apart and I was in a lot of pain, I was staring out the window waiting for Jason to get home, but I decided I should text him. He got home and we decided that I should go to the hospital. I refused to let him tell anyone just in case it was false labor. We got to the hospital and of course all the rooms were occupied except for the room where it was like a billion degrees. The nurses did not seem to pay a whole lot of attention to me because I told them my water broke but they did not believe me and itw as not until I was bleeding a lot that they decided I needed some help. Meanwhile my temperature is above 100 and I am throwing up and there was no garbage in my room, so poor Jason was standing holding bags of puke waiting for a nurse to come. As I am puking the monitor keeps on going off because my blood pressure was to high so we had to keep hitting a button. Finally the on call ob gyn showed up and looked at me and saw meconium but did not care to share it with others. They finally moved me to a labor and delivery room, my contractions were now right on top of one another, but I was not progressing at all. My doctor finally got there and was asking why I had not recieved my epidural I had been screaming for the last few hours. They said it was because I had not had my blood test ran yet. So she left to go make things happen. The lady came up drew my blood, but she could not wait tell I was done with a contraction so alas I have huge bruise from that. Than the epidural guy came (who was awesome and had a sense of humor) and gave it to me. During all of this I was still losing a ton of blood, I had changed gowns and had went through like a ton of hospital pad things. My babies heart rate had dropped and so I was wearing an oxygen mask which made it hard to breathe as well. Although after I could feel no pain I was watching the disney channel and enjoying myself. My doctor came in and said that she was worried about my blood loss because my placenta may of ruptured, and she was worried because my babies heart rate was still dropping after each contraction. So alas I was having a C-Section.
The C-Section went great they put me on some drugs and I had the same anesthesiologist that gave me the epidural which made me feel way comfortable. After they were prepped Jason came in and the surgery went really well I was so out of it that I pretty much slept through the whole thing, minus the couple minutes I was throwing up again.
They showed us the baby and realized she had swallowed some meconium as well as some was in her lungs, so I saw her for two seconds tell she was rushed to the NICU.
We named her Emily May Brown she was born on 03/11/2011 at4:58 AM 9lbs 8 ounces, 23 inches.
Emily was in the NICU from Friday tell Tuesday when we were able to bring her home. It is nice to have her home now. I am getting used to being a mom and I am so glad that my Mom has flown down here otherwise I would have been way lost. She gets up with me and the baby every three hours and helps me by making dinner and doing everything she can. She drove me back and forth from the hospital when Jason couldn't and trying to teach me to breast feed, filling my car with gas, and going to the store. She has braved the roads of Virginia and has found her way. I really do not want her to go home on Sunday because I wonder how I am going to do it all. She has managed to take care of me and Emily really well. It has been nice to have someone to take care of me like my Mom does. I forgot how much she has really has done for me growing up and I love her. Emily loves her Grandma so much and has been glad that she has been there. Also Grandma has had tons of fun picking out her outfits and deciding what she gets to wear. She also has made sure the Emily has a dress that she can be blessed in because well her mom is kind of a slacker. I love it, plus she has taught many of the mothering skills that I needed to know in order to become a good Mom. Well I know that I am going to miss her when she leaves on Sunday, but I know she is also only a phone call away along with the rest of my family. Here are some pictures for the NICU and her being home.

Almost Time

I have to admit I have some amazing family and awesome coworkers. I was going into work to fill out some paperwork after my doc told me I needed to avoid stress. As I was walking in all of my coworkers surprised with a surprise baby shower. Not only did it make me feel amazing, but it also showed how much they like me and listen to me. One lady at work was so tired of hearing me complain about not having an ironing board she bought one for me. I had homemade gifts, to some pretty cute outfit gifts. I was caught off guard and i learned that appreciation is not just shown in words, but in actions. Not only did my coworkers throw me a baby shower so did Jason's family it was small but nice we had fruit salad, played games, and ate some chow. Who does not like food?





Thank you so much for all the wonderful gifts I can not wait tell Emily is here and can enjoy them.

Vacation...kind of

This last week Jason and I were able to fly down and see my parents, and get sealed for all time and eternity. It was a lot of fun to see my parents and get to spend time with them. I do wish that I could have spent more time with them and that all of my brothers and sister could have been there, but I will take what I can get and plus I beat my Dad in Wii Golf that makes everything worth it.



We were are all a little bored on the plane ride up but we found different ways to entertain ourselves

We all stayed the night in a hotel when we woke up my mom braided my hair and we ate some breakfast..delicious


After that we all went to the temple and what an amazing experience that was here are some pics from that, but man was it cold.









After the temple Jason's parents flew home and jason and I rode with my Parents to Wright Wyoming being sure to stop at custer's last stand

At my parents house we had a blast playing games and having fun, Jason and I even managed to get lost. My dad also gave us a tour or where he works and we were able to see some Buffalos.




We were also able to celebrate my birthday it was amazing, I cannot remember the last time I was able to celebrate my birthday with my mom. Also it was the best tasting cake in the history of cake.



Jason and I had a lot of fun, but because of the rodes we had to leave early and experience some Greyhound jason fell asleep in the station while we were waiting for our plane to take off.


I had a blast and I am glad I went to Wyoming and was able to spend time with my parents I can not wait tell they come up and visit me this next time.