Baby Breck

More of Liz's work (ltbphotography.blogspot.com). She had a pretty cute model, don't you think?  Brecken was a little bit of a stinker, literally. We wanted to get a couple shots of her naked bum, but she pooed at least nine times during her little shoot. Good thing we had a patient photographer! Thanks again Liz! 

 

Maternity Pictures

Obviously I'm doing  little backtracking, but I had to post some maternity pictures to show you what a great photographer my SIL Liz is, and now you can see for yourself how big my belly truly was. JP told me today that he thinks I have most people beat in the big belly department. Anyway, if you're looking for an awesome photographer definitely check out her blog at ltbphotography.blogspot.com and book an appointment!

Brecken's Birth

It's been seven weeks since Brecken's big debut, so I guess a new post is way past due. My water

  broke and came in torrents at about 1:30 am on Monday, August 10. I was having pretty bad pains

    in my back, but didn't really know about back contractions so I wasn't sure if I was in labor yet. The     nurses told us we had an hour, so we went to Burger King (it was the only place open). My fluid

    would not stop coming and by the time we reached the hospital my Crocs were full of fluid (TMI?).     I dumped my shoes out just before I reached the hospital entrance, and when I walked in the nurses

    were laughing and told me they all just watched me dump my fluid out on the surveillance camera!

    I was known as 'the girl who dumped her fluid out of her shoes' for the next two days. Other than

    that, labor was pretty uneventful and our Brecken was born 10 hours later.

JP waiting for our newest addition-still not sure about this girl business

Before the epidural :(

After the epidural :)

 

 

 

She's already got her dad wrapped around her little finger and now he claims he wants ALL girls

First Family Picture

Getting ready for her first car ride home!

Last Days in Oregon

I think 99% of you know this by now, but for those who don't, we moved back to Utah in June. I had a pretty huge list of the things I wanted to do while we were living in Oregon and I am happy to say we accomplished most of them. I was a little bummed because I REALLY wanted to go on a hot air balloon ride and see Silver Falls, but knew we probably didn't have time or money before we moved. Believe it or not, we got to do BOTH in one week. JP's co-worker at the airport is a hot air balloon pilot and hooked us up with a early morning flight. We got to fly right over the Willamette. It was awesome!

A big balloon in a big balloon! 

Then, JP flew us above Silver Falls which was even better than hiking them. It was so pretty! I just had to pretend that I wasn't about to puke. JP is an incredible pilot, but I'm still getting used to flying in little planes. Don't worry, I kept my cool (barely!). It was such a fun week and the greatest way to end our short affair with Oregon.

These last few pictures are of my lifesaving friend, Malia. She is pretty much the only reason I made it through my not so fun first year as a speech therapist with a massive caseload. I swear our first meeting was fate. On the second day of living in Oregon, I walked into my first work meeting of about 500 people and didn't know a soul. Malia walked in at the exact same time, came right up to me and asked if i knew anyone and if I wanted to sit by her. The room was full of people from all different professions (only about 30 were speech therapists), and Malia just happens to be a speech therapist too.  She spent the next few days driving me around Oregon, helping me with work stuff, and planning fun activities.  We floated the Luckiamute River (her idea- and she didn't even know we are huge river floaters) the week JP and I moved to Oregon and the week we left (when I was 8 months pregnant). 

The next picture is us at a drive-in movie theater, but we pretty much talked the whole time, and the one after that is us saying goodbye at her house :( I can't wait to see her at the next speech conference in Cali if I can afford it!

(awesome that my font went from underlined to not and I don't know how to change it AND I don't know how to write a caption under each picture. It sucks to be technologically challenged).