What we've been up to:

A lot of this:

Which leads to this:

And the happy end result:

This is how we currently pass our days :). Hopefully I'll get it figured out soon.

Two Weeks

Our girl is two weeks old already! She has been, overall, a really good baby. She only screams when she is hungry and is not being given food at that exact moment. She enjoys food. Like really enjoys food. We had her two week appointment today and she weighs 8lbs 6oz. She's putting down 3-4 oz a feeding, and the average for her age is 2-3. They are hoping that by two weeks babies will gain enough weight to be back at their birth weight. She has surpassed that by about a half pound. The doctor seemed happy though and even said we can let her sleep through the night if she will. She has slept 5 or 6 hours a couple of times and I felt bad and ended up waking her up to eat. Well no more of that! Although, she'll probably only sleep 2-3 hours at a time now that we've been given permission to let her sleep longer.

We have absolutely loved having this beautiful little girl in our lives.

(minus the diaper explosion we had this morning.....yucky)

Also wanted to give a quick shout out to my youngest sister who just turned 16 and I believe is getting her license today. Happy Birthday Kasi! Crazy how fast time goes by.

Introducing...

Kambri Eve Morris

I have a sleeping baby for a few more minutes so I thought I would do a quick post. Kambri was born eleven minutes into Labor Day 09/06/2010. She weighed 7 lbs 15 oz and was 20 inches long. She came out a beautiful newborn (we were prepared for the worst, haha). I just have never seen many cute newborn babies. She has a lot of black hair, blue eyes, her dad's chin and my nose.

Here is the quick labor story for anyone who is interested. If not, skip to below as pictures will follow :).

The day before my due date I woke up with tons of energy! I got up and decided I wanted to go to the mall. Wallflowers were on sale and I needed some that smelled like Autumn- ie caramel apple, pumpkin, etc. mmmm...

Justin was going to go work at the temple so he convinced my sisters to 'watch' me as I could very well go into labor at any time. We went to the mall and I waddled around, ate pretzels, bought wallflowers, and waited for labor to begin. Kali even came hoping she would go into labor too. No such luck for her until later in the week.

My labor started at 2:00 that next morning. I knew that they were the real contractions (even though I'd never had any until that point) because they hurt! It was as if I was having one of the more painful periods in my life....and I've only had one or two that felt that yucky. Justin was in the other room on his computer until about 3. When he came in I let him know that it was probably beginning. He didn't get any sleep that night, but it was his own fault for not going to bed earlier. My contractions stayed at 5 minutes apart the whole night. At about 5 in the morning I started wondering if my water had broken a little. It just seemed awfully wet. More so than was normal. We called the hospital at 7 and asked how long we should wait. The nurse was not particularly helpful as her response was, "If you water was broken there would be a gush." "It's best if you wait until your contractions are two minutes apart, you're bleeding, and you can't talk through them." "Whoa. That sounds horrible," were my thoughts. So we started packing thinking we were in for a pretty long and painful day. However, the "gush" came at around 9 AM. Thank goodness! We called back and it was a completely different story. "Come in as soon as you can, We'll see you soon." "Yes!" I was on the 'special' list now. Haha. I took the time to take a shower which made Justin extremely antsy, as if I was going to deliver in there or something :P. We still made it to the hospital pretty early, by about 10. They checked me in, and seeing I was only dilated to 1.5 cm and my contractions had pretty much stopped they started me on Pitocin and told me we were probably in for an all day thing.

So I turned on Gilmore Girls and waited for the pain to begin again, because I couldn't have an epidural til I was at least 3-4 cm. Oh boy was that part awful. I kept thinking "this is it for me. No more children after this." I am not a fan of any sort of pain, yuck. Luckily it only took just a couple of hours to get to a three.

Then came the next stage. The epidural. We were a little bit worried about this part because of my fused spine. But the anesthesiologist was really good and put the epidural in just below my scar. He also did it during a contraction so I could care less what was going on back there. Awe sweet relief. No pain. No feeling whatsoever. We watched movies and waited. It was almost boring, except they thought I was bleeding a little too much and they had to keep moving me to keep the baby's heart rate up during contractions. But other than that I thought, "Eh, I might could do this a few more times...." It only took a few hours and I was dilated to a 7.5.

Then came 8. And 8. And 8 again. 8 for the next 7 or so hours. They started talking about a c-section if I didn't make any progress. Crap. To get this far and then get a c-section? I had until 11 PM.

At 11 PM I was an 8.5. Phew! They let me continue. At 11:30 I was a 10 and ready to push. At this point I was weak from lack of sleep and food and starting to feel really nauseous. Pushing made it 10 times worse. Yuck. I couldn't believe how much energy they wanted me to expend. I swear I wasn't doing it right, but she started to come. It took 45 minutes and she was out. The doctor made Justin cut the umbilical cord. He seriously didn't want to but the doctor was pretty stern about it, haha. At this point I threw up.

But now it's over and she's here and beautiful. We decided on the middle name Eve because she is what we call a 'temple baby' and we wanted her to remember that :)

Hospital Photos

Relaxation

That's what I love most about summer. Of course, there always seem to be millions of projects to take care of too (more about those later), but the best part is just enjoying the sun... doing nothing. That's what we did last Saturday, in other words we went fishing.

Below: Picture 1 (insert whistle here), Picture 2 (My beautiful View), Picture 3 (where my fishing pole spent it's time), Picture 4 (where I spent My time).

Nursery Sneak Peak

I have absolutely loved decorating the nursery for our little girl! I love decorating in general, but this has been really fun to see come together. My favorite has been to find something I love and see if I can do it myself cheaper. I'd say it's about 75% finished. I still have several little projects to complete, but here's a sneak peak:

Our Session

Justin & I have loved working at the temple these past several months. It is definitely a tough thing to give up those Saturdays, but we have been pretty blessed for it. We are lucky right now to have our own session. He gets to be the officiator/follower and I get to be a follower too! It is so fun to see him do such a great job. Anyway, they change the schedules up every few months so we'll probably only get to do it together a few more times. But everyone's welcome to come! It's the 11:30 AM session on Saturday at the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. We would love to see you there :)

Baby Update

We went today and did the 3D Ultrasound. They gave us dozens of photos and a DVD. It was pretty neat to see what our baby will look like in a few months. Justin says she has my nose.....we'll have to see. They also confirmed that she is still a girl, yay! All that pink won't go to waste :). I also took a couple of belly photos. I don't have any for that purpose yet, but I guess it's good to have a couple. They are terrible pictures but they serve their purpose! Here I am at almost 28 weeks.

Cousins

We found out recently that our little girl is going to have cousins just a couple of weeks younger than her. Kali (my sister) is having a boy and is due right around the 19th of September, and Ana (Justin's sister) is having a boy and is due just a few days after Kali on the 23rd of September. I loved having several close cousins growing up, family get togethers were much more fun. Yay for cousins!

Babymoon

Justin works as an estimator for his dad's electrical company. As an incentive to work as hard as he could to get them a very nice large project his dad told him he would send us on a vacation. He managed to get it. I was pretty excited :)

We ended up booking a cruise to the western Caribbean. We had to go before I was 24 weeks, but after I was done being sick....so 20 weeks it was.

Here's kind of how it went. We got substitutes for the temple/primary/Sunday school, and headed out at midnight on a Saturday night. We flew all night, but because of the time change we didn't get the sleep we thought we would by flying from 12-9. I think we both got just under three hours. We flew into Atlanta and then on to Miami. We took a cab straight from Miami to the dock and boarded the boat about 12 hours after we left Utah. It was incredible! It was huge!! It had all the free food we could ever want!!! We pretty much slept most of the rest of the day. It was a special day though because we discovered the ice cream machine.

Monday was a sea day. We spent it exploring the boat. It had a theater, several restaurants, dozens of lounges/clubs, swimming pools, water slide, a casino, and more food. Even a desert buffet, yum. They had shows and parties every night after dinner. And oh how Justin loved the dinners. He ordered shrimp cocktails by the threes and had them devoured before I even could grab one. We tried all sorts of stuff- veal, mahi mahi, duck, etc. We basically rolled from the dining room each night. And after dinner we were always pleasantly surprised by a different towel animal sitting on our bed. I felt bad destroying them.....maybe not so much those I couldn't name.





























































Tuesday took us to the Cayman Islands. We did a little shopping, but most of the stores sold jewelry and perfume. Even half off I can't afford diamonds ;). Then we went out to stingray city. It was so cool! We got off the boat and immediately sting rays were curiously nudging us and swimming by. I yelped everytime. You could feed the one that the captain caught, but I wasn't that brave. I did hold him though and let him give me a "back rub". Justin even gave him a kiss! Apparently it's good luck for 7 years if you do. Here's to the next 7 years! We went snorkeling after that. It was beautiful. Refer to photos.


















































































































Wednesday we stopped in Roaton, Honduras. Oh my. It was breathtakingly beautiful. I couldn't wait to get off the boat....until we went outside. I'm pretty sure it was 100 degrees with 100% humidity. Whoa. We loaded on the sunscreen. We took a tour that sent us on a boatride around the harbor to see some shipwrecks and mangroves. And then we loaded in an air conditioned bus (thank goodness) to see the rest of the island. We stopped at a couple of picturesque places and to see some cultural dancers. We also witnessed some bread making done with the root of a tree. I tried some, it was actually pretty good. We ended up buying some guava jelly = deliciousness, and a beautiful wooden salad bowl set. They also had a professional juggler for us that night. Sound entertaining? I didn't think so either, but he was probably one of my favorites.









































































Thursday we ended up in Belize City, Belize. It was Justin's turn to pick the excursion. Needless to say we went Reef Bottom Fishing. I enjoyed myself. You only had to wait about 30 seconds before one would bite, and my favorite part? The crew members both put the bait on and took the fish off. Yes, it was my kind of fishing. The fish were beautiful too. All rainbow colored. Not like our ugly lake fish. Then they donated the fish we caught to an orphanage. We also had a magician perform that night, he dragged out each trick by 15 minutes so we only ended up seeing a few. He was good, but I was left feeling like he could have gotten a few more in there...no need for selfishness, haha.














































Friday was our last port day. We stopped in Cozumel. We didn't have anything planned so we did a little shopping. Not Justin's favorite thing though so we were only out there a couple of hours. We did get a hammock for our backyard. Justin's going to build it into a pergola by the back fence. I'm excited for that project :D. We went back to the boat and ate more icecream.































Saturday was another sea day so we lounged some more. Sat on the balcony and watched the ocean go by. Disturbed the room service people because they couldn't clean our room twice like they wanted. Ate more icecream. Not a bad way to spend the day.































Sunday we headed off the boat early in the morning to our Miami excursion. They were going to drop us off at the airport afterward which was pretty convenient. We did the everglades tour. Justin was sooo excited to ride the airboat. And I must say it did not disappoint. The driver was spinning and whipping around all the weeds and mazes of islands and water lillies. Seeing some crocs/alligators was pretty cool too. We went to the show afterward. Did anyone know alligators are smart? I sure didn't. The trainer came in and would spell their names to us before he said them out loud. Each one, even it it had looked dead only seconds before, hopped up and went over to him when he said their name. Strange indeed. We tried some fried alligator tail at the cafe after the show. Not really my favorite meat, but not bad.

We then spent the entire day trying to get home. Yuck. I hate airport days. This one made me ill and I did leave a little baggie surprise for the flight attendant. Whoops. Oh well.

Needless to say we had a great time! And I hardly felt sick at all (except after some of those dinners), I'm pretty sure we both came back quite a bit heavier. Sad thing is now we have to make our own food again, lame.... ;).