Drs and clothes

So it's been a pretty fun week so far. On monday we had a doctors appointment, mostly to check and make sure he still wasn't jaundiced. We also wanted to make sure he was doing ok, though, because he'd been throwing up pretty often and we were afraid he wasn't getting enough nutrients. This was obviously our first time meeting the pediatrician, but I really liked him. He seemed nice and really good at what he did. He told us Steven looked great! He also said that as long as he's pooping and peeing, we have nothing to worry about in terms of the excess spitting up. It's normal for babies, I guess. Also, they weighed him but that didn't give us to much information. When he was born he weighed 7 lbs 7 oz and the scale at the doctor's said he was already up to 7 lbs 12 oz. After a second weighing, it was decided that there must just be a discrepancy between the two scales, and so we're not really sure how much, if any, weight he's gained back. He was so good for the doctor too! He just laid there while the doctor was poking him and checking him all over. I'm more amazed every day by what a good baby he is.

Also, I dressed Steven in regular clothes for the first, and then second, time! I new he was the cutest little boy, but I had no idea he was this cute! :) The clothes swallow him, but he still is the cutest thing I've ever seen. I don't know if he loved wearing them though...

Also, we caught him sucking on his wrist. It's probably not the best habit for him to develop, but it's still so cute!

AND, he fell asleep like this yesterday and I just thought it was so adorable. Wow, I really sound a little obsessed...

Baby Steve In Action...

Here are a couple of not very exciting (yet at the same time VERY exciting because they're of Baby Steve...) videos of Baby Steve. He's moving around a little and talking a bit. The second one is so Kelly can see his hands and feet.

Baby Steve's very first Easter!

A few pictures of our Easter celebrations and random cute pictures of Baby Steve.

This is Steve opening his first ever Easter basket! He was very excited.

This is him hugging his new best friend.

Here he is about to open an Easter egg from his basket filled with his favorite Easter treats.

This is Julia with her Easter Basket.

It was a long day...

Tiny Little Super Guy :)

So, we finally have our baby! He was born at 8:28 pm on March 31st. He was 7 lbs 7 oz, 20 inches long, and perfect. Labor was hard, but TJ was the best support person ever. I'm doing great though, and love being a mom so far. We just love our little baby Steven. All the nurses at the hospital said that he was the cutest baby there, and we agree!

We had a few visitors while we were in the hospital like my Mom (though I'm not sure if she can be considered a visitor when she was there during the whole birth), my friend Katie and her fiancee Mckay, and TJ's sister Lyndsay and her two oldest kids, Jared and Madison. We loved seeing them all and we know that Steven loved meeting them too.

We were so excited to bring him home today, and I felt so bad when TJ had to go to work. I know he would spend every minute with his baby if he could. He's already the best Dad ever, just like I knew he would be. I'm sure I'll be adding more pictures soon now that I have something so cute to take pictures of :)

Pregnant... Still

So... It's been a while since I updated to blog. I've been putting it off again, waiting to get more pictures from some people. I really just need to start taking my own pictures instead of trying to get them from other people...

A while ago, I had a friend at work offer to take some pictures of TJ and me. At first I was a little confused, wondering why I would want pictures of me looking like this. She, however, said she was just trying to build up her portfolio because she's getting ready to start a photography program at school. So, since it was going to help her out, and she wasn't charging anything, I decided it wouldn't hurt. It was an interesting experience and we tried a lot of different things. We even tried a couple poses with my bare pregnant belly showing. I did not like those. They were gross. But, besides that, some turned out pretty cute! So here are a few we liked...

Also, I had my baby shower last 2 weeks ago. It was so much fun! My friend America planned it with the help of my sister-in-law Lyndsay (and the use of her house), and it was great. We played some fun games, had awesome food, and I got so many great presents! It was so much fun and everyone was so great and generous! So, here are a few pictures from that too (thanks again to Lyndsay)

So... after all these exciting things have happened surrounding my pregnancy, I'm still pregnant. My Mom is here, she's brought pretty much everything I need, my last day of work was yesterday, and so I am so ready to have this baby. And yet, here I sit, still waiting....

Crazy Day!!

So first of all, I just want to say what an achievement this is! This is my 3rd posting in like 5 days! I can't believe it... Anyway, yesterday was just such a crazy day, so I decided I needed to commemorate it. It started out like any normal day, but then it all got a little out of control when I went to work...

It wasn't super busy at first, and recently it's been slow except on the weekends, so I wasn't really expecting anything. We had a few reservations that night, but it wasn't anything that would take up more than our back party room, so I didn't think it would be a big deal. Then, before any of the reservations got there, I got a call from this lady saying she had a group of 24 coming in. Still, I thought we could handle it no problem since it was still super slow. Then, right around 6:15 - 6:30, all the reservations starting rolling in. I showed them all to their seats and soon realized we didn't have any room for anyone else besides these groups. I had the cashiers start putting people on a wait, tried calling in some extra help, and after that didn't work, realized I was going to have to handle this alone. I spent the next half hour trying to find places for one of the the groups whose reservation of 15 had turned into close to 35. Then, once I had that under control, I spent the next hour running around like crazy cleaning tables, seating people, moving tables, moving chairs, and trying to find time to help in the kitchen and make sure things weren't falling apart back there. Finally, by around 8, we were off a wait and I finally got to catch my breath and start sending some of the employees on break.

Then, as I was standing up front, this guys walked in the door and he looked so familiar! It took me a second, and then I realized that it was Ryan from this past season of So You Think You Can Dance! I didn't know what to do. First, I said hi and asked for his autograph. Then I felt really stupid and realized I didn't care about his autograph, but that I wanted a picture with him. So I asked one of my cashiers to take one with my phone. Then, after all that, I had to switch back into business mode and ask him what I could get for him. I felt so embarrassed! But here's the picture...

The last thing that sort of wrapped up my emotional roller coaster of a night was a text that I got from a friend that had been in our ward back in Rexburg. She text me and asked if I had heard what happened to Derek Johns (a friend from the ward). I said no. She then proceeded to tell me that he had been killed in a car accident on the way home from work when he hit a moose. I was in shock. The adrenaline was still pumping from running around and meeting Ryan, and then I all of a sudden wanted to cry. I don't know why, (I'm guessing the fact that I'm pregnant had something to do with it) but I was really upset, even though I hadn't been really close with Derek. I guess it just hit really close to home because he and his wife haven't been married very long, and I starting thinking about how I would feel if something like that ever happened to TJ. They were such a happy couple and were some of the nicest people, and it just made me so sad to think about his wife, Lindsay, and how she must be feeling.

Anyway, it was a day filled with all sorts of emotions, and at the end of it, I didn't really know how to feel. As TJ and I said our prayers that night, though, I found myself just being so grateful we were there together, and grateful for all of my family and for the gospel that makes it possible for me to be with them forever

Birthday

So my birthday was on a sunday this year which usually is a bummer because then we can't really do much to celebrate, but this year it was tons of fun anyway! The week before was my friend Jennie Manning's birthday (on the 17th) and so on the 16th we all went bowling to celebrate our birthdays. It was so much fun! I wasn't sure if the fact that I'm pregnant would affect my bowling skills, but I would say the fact that I beat TJ TWICE is proof that it didn't :)

I think this face says it all about how he felt about that...

Jennie's sister Anne decided she wanted to be pregnant too!

And here's the whole gang! We went and played games afterward at Jennie and Derek's and it was so much fun!!

So then the next weekend on saturday, TJ took me to see the movie Avatar and it was super cool! We saw it in 3D and everything! He also bought me this dress that I've really wanted for a really long time and it was a total surprise! I loved it :) Then, on sunday, Lyndsay invited us over to her house for dinner to celebrate by birthday. It was so nice of her!! She and Jonah made me steak and mashed potatoes and it was so yummy! They also made me a super yummy cake. It was so great to be with family and we had tons of fun hanging out with all the Detros! :)