2014... Baby story

 

Okay I know it's been a while and my last post was about starting to work out and get healthier... Well that flopped because little did I know when I posted that I was pregnant and due November 8! I can't even believe it now but a couple weeks after that post we found out we were expecting a little angel to join our family :)

When I found out I was overjoyed as I haven't been on birth control ever and thought I would get pregnant much closer to when I got married in 2011. From there the year flew by getting mentally prepared to have a baby, going to the doctor every 4 weeks, and getting everything we could possibly need for her. We did get to have some other excitement also... I graduated from the U of U with my Bachelors degree and we went on a vacation to California to visit my aunt Kathy, but this post is about the Baby journey.

Since we told our parents the day I took the pregnancy test (we were a little excited) we decided to tall the great grandparents in a special way...

They would always ask us when we were going to have a baby and we kept telling them it would happen when it happened and they were overjoyed! 

June 23, 2014

When we went in to find out the gender we asked the doctor to keep it secret so we could find out with our friends and family. We did our best to look away from the screen when the technician was checking the gender and we had her put the ultrasound photo in an envelope... but the doctor slipped up and we had to pretend we didn't know lol. We both wanted to have a girl and even had the name Arya Lynn picked out for a couple years now. 

This is the party we had a chalkboard for guesses and some candy guessing games.

We also had pink and blue punch, and treats for everyone along with a BBQ.

After this party time flew by, I don't even know what happened lol. We had a couple baby showers, worked, school stated back up for Brady, and we waited for me to pop. 

So my mom had each of us way early, as in a couple weeks, so I was expecting to pop before Halloween. Halloween came and went and /I'm bummed that I didn't make fun plans to dress up for it. then my due date came and still no baby... passing your due date sucks FYI! I took a picture of myself on November 11th...

... STILL pregnant. That night I started having cramps that caused me to not sleep and on the 12th I went into labor at 3pm. I didn't know they were contractions till probably 6 that night and asked my Facebook friends when I should go to the hospital. Many said right now, and I was stubborn and waited. Soon I was screaming and crying and at 9pm we went to labor and delivery! They monitored me for an hour and that was the LONGEST hour ever, I was screaming and Brady thought I was going to break off the side rails of the bed. Finally I was admitted and got the epidural which was awesome minus the terrible case of uncontrollable shakes. Now it was waiting time... Arya made her grand arrival at 4:45 am.

I have to say having her was a breeze since I had absolutely no feeling from my tummy down lol. I was super surprised also that she came out clean... most babies are covered in the icky white stuff... not this girl! She was 7 pounds 13 ounces and had a perfectly round head (and still does). We got to do skin-to-skin time and she got to breastfeed for the first time and she was a pro and still is (going on 3 months now no bottles or formula). 

This is the day we went home November 15

                

                                 This is 9 days after I had Arya, I actually weighed less then I did before I found out I was pregnant.

Thanksgiving and Christmas were crazy and fun, and I'm glad that she was still in her little tiny sleepy mode for most of it, We blessed her on December 28th she wore the same dress I was blessed in and had a huge turn out! 

This is me

This is Arya

There is quite a resemblance between me and her even though she looks just like Brady and her skin is darker then mine and his. I can't wait till she has more hair, she doesn't even have enough to do the little curl that my mom did on mine lol. 

Quite an exciting journey we have had with this little person and we love her so much more then we could have ever imagined, I just can't wait to see what this year has to offer :D.