Cute Little Accidents

We had an accident a couple of months ago with our two dogs....see we were only meaning to breed Summer once a year for a couple of years. However, Justin let them out one morning to go to the bathroom thinking that the urge to potty would overcome that "other" urge. Ahem, he apparently was mistaken. Here are the adorable, but accidental, results. We are selling them this week. I have to say I won't be as sad to see them go as I was the last litter. I'm sure it's because I've been too preoccupied to play with them much.

And then she was one...month :)

It is Kambri's One month birthday today. She decided to celebrate by not sleeping the entire morning and about half of the afternoon. We got to spend a lot of one on one time today, with her constantly in my arms....she seemed very pleased. She also has had several poopy diapers, her present to me I guess.

It has been a lot of fun to watch her start to grow and become more curious. Her favorite thing right now is to stare wide eyed at things. She seems fascinated by the smallest change in light or color. I'm excited for the day she will smile at us.....I've been told it's just a few weeks away.

Here's to Kambri's second month :)

Her ten minute cap nap...

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.