Seattle-here we come!

Well, my dad and Richard drove out to Seattle yesterday with the moving truck, and now Richard is currently in the process of finding a place for us to live! We are excited that this move is finally happening!

Little baby Michael is growing so quickly. I have many more pictures to add of him. Steven and Jodie came down for a visit last week, and of course brought cousin Adam. Steven wanted Adam and Michael to have a wrestling match just to prove who would win! Hmm, I wonder??? We'll wait a couple of years and try again. :) I'll have to add pictures later--this computer is having issues.

Pretty soon Adam and Michael will have another cousin. Michelle is expecting a girl-due April 2!! We're excited for her to arrive!

Bath Time

He smells so good after bath time. On a different topic, we went to the pediatrician today and Michael weighs 8lbs 8oz now, and has grown two inches since birth. He's growing up so fast. :)

One Week

Touchdown!

Our little boy has been with us for one week today! He is such a joy to have around. I've compiled a short list of things that Michael likes to do, just so we can always remember:

1. Eat


2. Sleep


3. Poop


4. Eat some More


5. Hiccup-seriously, he's had the hiccups 7 times in the past two days.

I have a cute book called, "Sometimes I like to Curl Up in a Ball"
I think about it when Michael sleeps like this.
Richard says that he looks like a monkey, because of his long arm

The Arrival of Baby Michael

I woke up to quite a surprise Friday morning, when my water broke in bed. I was thrown off guard a lot, especially where I didn't even start having contractions until 45 minutes later. I called Richard home from work, got some things together, and headed to the hospital. After we were admitted, I got checked, IV'd, and given an epidural. Things went really well, and moved along really quickly. Dr Rees arrived at about 4:30 and I began pushing. Douglas Michael officially entered this world at 5:06, weighing 7 lbs 15 oz, and 20.5 inches long.
Richard and I making pushing faces. Just practicing!




Getting a bath in the nursery.


The happy parents!


































We came home on Sunday afternoon. Here we are getting Michael dressed and put into the carseat.




I love this picture. He is so tiny. Goodnight Baby Michael.

Paper Airplanes

We love our upstairs neighbors. Russell is leaving to Afghanistan soon, and Wendy and the kids are moving to CA while he's gone. We are so sad-they will be gone in less than 20 days! So, last night, Richard invited Hannah & Leah to come downstairs and play. We decided to build paper airplanes with them. It is so fun to watch Richard play with them. Hannah would make her airplane talk to Richard's with a silly voice, and Richard would play right along and fly around with them. He'll be an awesome dad.

I made Leah's airplane for her. As a result of my building skills, and her undeveloped throwing skills, her airplane never actually flew very far.
I just think this last picture is silly.
Hannah is in the back, coloring her airplane. She drew pictures of Star Wars characters on her airplane (can you tell why Richard likes her so much?) She likes to play Lego Star Wars on the XBOX with Richard whenever she gets the chance. We are going to miss you, Neighbors!

Getting Ready!

The large box was just standing on our table, day after day saying "Open me! I'm so beautiful! You know you want to practice pushing me around." So, I did. Richard came home from work, and saw our dismantled stroller and carseat on our livingroom floor amidst everything else(I'm trying to get some of our things packed up for Seattle.)

"We still have to live here you know!" he said, as he tripped over 3 boxes on his way to our bedroom. Then, he read the destructions and started putting the stroller together for us!


When he finished, he proceeded to explain to me the purpose of every knob on the stroller, and the proper way to use them. For example, he wanted to show me how to properly latch the baby into the stroller. :) "Richard, I just don't think you can adequately explain this to me, without a baby in there." He took care of that problem right away.

Oh, our stroller is so cute!

Ode to Richard

Right now, Richard is in Seattle doing some apartment shopping for the 3 of us. I pray he is successful. It's pretty funny though, since he left because I have recieved multiple phone calls from friends asking How I am doing. Thanks guys. You are all so sweet. Haha. It's true, I miss him a lot even though he's only gone a few days. I anxiously await a phone call from him each night. I feel like we're engaged again. I just can't get him off my mind! Oh Richard, I love you. :)

Building a Nest

Wendy Plewe, our upstairs neighbor, threw me a wonderful baby shower on Saturday. I am so thankful for everything I/and the baby recieved. I soon discovered though, that I didn't have anywhere to put baby Michael's clothes, and that I needed to make more room to store diapers. This resulted in organizing some cupboard space in the bathroom, creating a chain reaction that led to me cleaning the entire bathroom, and then moving into the bedroom to clean out a dresser drawer for baby clothes, and do some more organizing! Although my kitchen is still a mess, I like how the back rooms feel. Clean!

Scrappy Moments

After being married over a year, I've finally started putting together my wedding scrapbook. It's coming along pretty well, although slowly. Sometimes I spend over an hour on one page--but it's fun! I'll gladly show it to anyone who wants to see it!

Baby Names

I keep thinking about what we are naming our baby. Am I sure that I want his name to be Douglas Michael? I have been pretty much positive my whole entire pregnancy, but now with only a month left, I have been giving this some serious thought. I mean, this is the name he will be stuck with for the rest of his life.

Remember how the angel came to Mary and told her, "You're going to have a baby, and you will name him Jesus" I wish that angel could visit me. Maybe I'd feel a little more certain! :)

Lotsa Babies!

It's 3:30 in the morning now, and I just woke up from a crazy dream and now can't sleep. So I decided that I would grab a muffin and write down my dream for all to hear about.

I was in my bathroom at home and was all of the sudden in labor. I called for Richard, and he came in and started delivering. A doctor magically appeared too, to help out. Well, out comes a healthy baby boy! But then the doctor tells me there are more! I give birth to another baby boy. Then two more baby boys come out, but they were very small and died. And then one more baby boy followed after them. I was so shocked, and happy! But I did wonder how the doctors didn't catch it before that there were 5 babies inside of me.

Then the doctor disappeared, and I just held all three of my boys. The best part was they were already clean, and labor didn't hurt me one bit. So, I wrapped them up in a towel and brought them into my bedroom laying them side by side on my bed. I smiled, and introduced myself to them. At this time, Richard was still in the bathroom calling my cousin's fiance's mom (strange) to let her know we had our babies. I decided to diaper my children, but the newborn diapers were awfully big for them, but I did the best I could. Then it hit me when I was doing that, that I didn't have any names for two of the boys. I ran into the bathrrom and asked Richard if we could name one of them "Jesse" but he quickly refused, but didn't have any name ideas. I told him that we had to come up with names before I would call my mom, and that I wanted to call my mom soon. He told me I could name them, he just had to agree on the names.

So, I pulled out the name list that I've mentally carried with me my whole life and picked the first two boy names on the list: Conner James, and Kristopher, and then of course, the oldest boy's name was Douglas Michael. Richard agreed to my choice of names, and I picked up the phone. Although it was 3:27 am in my dream, my Mom answered her phone immediately with a happy voice. She had just gotten home from a meeting. (Those lawyers meet at strange times). I told her that on Sunday she could announce to the Relief Society that she was no longer a grandma of 1 grandson, but of 4! And then I started crying, because I realized that I didn't have three cribs, or three strollers, or three of anything. I still don't have 1 of everything yet! And, scariest of all, how was I going to take care of them, move to Seattle with all three of them, or get any sleep! And apparantly the sleep part is still an issue, because here I am! I'm still awake and writing a blog post. Someone should advise me to go to bed and get some sleep while I still can.

Dear Blog...

Well, it's been over a month since I have posted anything. I always think of things that I can blog about, but then I never do it. But right now, Richard and his brother, Michael, are playing XBOX together (male bonding moment) so I decided that I would check my email (again), and write a letter to my blog and to let it know what I am doing.

Dear Blog (and any of our readers):
School is over. Christmas is past. And now it's 2008!
I ended up with much better grades than I expected, and an A on my English research paper. I think that A made me the most happy, because English is the class I stress most over, therefore work the hardest in, and at the end of the semester, its the class that turns out to be my absolute favorite. Strange.

Christmas was so good. Richard and I initially planned to wake up and enjoy a wonderful breakfast of pancakes, bacon, and eggs. However, when I woke up in the morning, I told Richard that I didn't want bacon. He replied, "And, I don't really want pancakes." But Captain Crunch sounded like a delicous breakfast for the both of us.

We opened our gifts after breakfast. Richard got a lot of DVD's thanks to all of the great sales at Target. And I got a kitchen knife set from him. Douglas got socks, and children's books. :)

Then we pretty much spent the rest of the day at my parents house, and the Heisses opening more gifts, eating lots of food, and seeing my cute nephew! Richard did likewise, except most of his time was spent playing Axis and Allies. Nancy Heiss was lucky to get Andrew out of the game when she did, because the game didn't officially end until the next day! Anyway, thanks for the games, and the presents, and the dinners!

Well, I feel like this blog is long enough, although I really could continue writing about things such as our baby who's due to land at our doorstep (hopefully not literally) in the next 6 weeks. I guess, I really have nothing much else to say about that except "Wow! That seems really close, and I feel hardly prepared." Richard and I attended our first prenatal care class on Thursday and he doesn't want me to go into labor, ever. So, I guess that is decided now. I'll just be pregnant for the rest of my life.