Alayna's First Birthday

The night before Alayna's birthday party she was running a fever. She kept waking up about every 5 minutes crying. Since none of us got any sleep and she was running a fever we decided to call all the guests to let them know the morning of her party. We gave them the choice if they wanted to come even though she was running a fever. We still had my family come over and one of her guest still decided to come. Alayna did pretty good for not getting much sleep. Her schedule was off but we managed to have a good party still. Her brother was asking all day when it was time to open the presents! You could tell what he was anxious to do! We had marble cake with a fudge filling and whipped icing and it was really good! After enjoying cake and ice-cream it was time to open presents. Carson helped open the presents for Alayna (more like he opened them all and didn't give Alayna a chance to try). Alayna was happy with her presents and wanted to play with each of them as they were opened.  What surprised us was how she responded to the Minnie Mouse chair.  She loves her brothers chair and always wanted to get on it. So we told my parents that she would love her own chair, especially with Minnie Mouse on it. Well when we brought out the chair she didn't react to it like she does when she gets on her brothers chair! As of now she still loves going to her brothers chair more than her new chair! Here are some pictures from her birthday.

Door sign I made.

Alayna with her Lita (grandma) and Lita Lita (great grandma).

Playing with her Lita Lita. 

She mostly played with the cake than ate it.

Playing with her new Minnie and her cousin.

Carson finally getting to play with the presents.

Reading her book that her Aunt Shannon gave her with her Aunt Cristi.

How many times have I said, It's been forever?

So I've been slacking when it comes to this blog.  I'd be surprised if anyone looks at it anymore since I haven't posted in FOREVER! Well I'm giving my blog a new facelift.  When not busy with the kids, I've been doing a lot of digital scrapbooking.  It will be nice when I get all the pages I've been working on printed and made into a book. So this blog was using Zoe Pearn's kit, Lost & Found.  I love this kit! Goes great for a lot of my girly pages for Alayna.  Speaking of Alayna...she will be ONE in 5 more days! We are having her party this Saturday and it will be a Minnie Mouse decorations.  I will post about it and some pics! I know by keeping up with this it will help me in the long run with making scrapbooks.  So that is it for now and hopefully I can keep up with this.

New Blog Look

I had fun giving my blog a facelift.  I love Amanda's Fall Collection 2009 digi-kit.  It was a freebie on her website www.kevinandamanda.com.  I used the Gimp to create it using her kit.  It's a great free alternative to Photoshop.  I could play around with designing blogs using kits ALL DAY if I could.  :)  I'm still hoping to learn how to create my own digi-kits someday.  I REALLY would like to know how to make all those cute scrapbook elements. 

One Proud Mommy

Our little girl is now 1 month old! How fast time has passed by. We had her 1 month check up and her doctor says she's doing just fine. She weighs about 12 lbs and is 22.5 inches. My little girl is about out of her 3 month clothing already! I'm not ready for her to be on 6 month clothing! At night she's slept to 5 hours a couple of times which was wonderful! She still has nights where she wakes up every 2 hours to nurse. She does pretty well during the day. She stays up for some periods where Carson will read to her or sing her songs. It's really cute to watch. Carson has been doing pretty well. He has his moments but he's still only 3. He LOVES his sister. He constantly wants to kiss her and see her. Carson still enjoys his letters and numbers. I brought out my decodable books from school and started having him read them to see how he does. He does such a good job and I'm so proud of him.

She has arrived!

Our little girl arrived on August 25, 2012 via c-section. She was born at 8:59am. She weighed 9lbs 8oz! I'm doing pretty good with recovery. I'm still pretty sore when getting in and out of bed. I can't wait to feel normal again! It's amazing having my new baby girl and my now older boy. I love them both so much! Here are some pics.

 

 

 

It's scheduled

After thinking and praying about it I have decided to go with a c-section. I'm really nervous about it. I just want my little girl to come into the world safely without the risk of getting stuck because of her shoulders. I was really hoping that with this one everything would happen on its own. I wanted to experience the whole going into labor. I also was hoping after my c-section that she would be able to stay in the room with me and Travis while I get stitched up. The doctor said that she would go into the recovery room with Travis and they would wait for me there. So I don't get to do skin to skin with her after delivery. Boo! So our little girl is scheduled to arrive this Saturday, August 25th. I go to the hospital at 6am and surgery is suppose to begin at 8am. Praying all goes well!

Decisions decisions

At our growth ultrasound on Friday we found out our little girl is not so little. She is measuring 9 lbs!!! Her shoulders are wide we found out as well that could cause complications. So we need to make the decision to be induced or have a c-section. I'm really nervous about both. Having a c-section is a major surgery and I'm just not sure how I will handle it. Plus I hear about the healing process taking a long time and painful. I keep thinking of going with being induced but scared she'll get stuck because of her wide shoulders. The doctor said worse case scenario they would have to break her collar bone to come out (if the other techniques don't work within the 5 minute window)! I just don't know what to decide and I'm scared to death! Prayers are needed as I make the decision on what to do. Thanks!