Special Delivery!

Alexander Joseph Alton has arrived!!! He was 20.5 inches long and 7 lb 11oz at birth!

Saturday afternoon Megan started having contractions pretty hard just before 2 pm. We timed them and saw that they were around 5 minutes apart and 1 minute long. After about an hour of that we called the doc and he said to go get checked out... next thing we know the nurse calls Dr. Sanders and says Megan's going so fast going natural might be her only option. The doctor soon arrived and at 4:46 BOOM!! Out came baby Alex. After that mom and Alexander got cleaned up and we got to take some pics!!! We are so excited to have this little angel in our home!

Alex's first kiss came from his mom!

Later Mom caught me having a talk with the little guy.

Thanks so much to everyone who has helped in so many ways and provided help in the way of diapers and outfits and other helpful items. And most of all CONGRATS MOM!! She did a great job!

Final prego belly pics!

Megan at 37 weeks. Can we be less than a month away?!?!?

Inspired by John and Tessa, Megan and I decided to compare our baby bellies at 38 weeks!

So close!!! 39 weeks and going strong!

Reflections and a New Year

I know I'm late but Happy New Year!! 2010 was a great year of accomplishments and many ups and downs. My family has grown, four new nieces, and two new brother-in-laws. I ran my first half marathon and I have high hopes of running more. I wrote a senior thesis and actually enjoyed it. I earned my bachelors degree and graduated with the support of my wonderful husband and family. I felt my baby boy growing inside of me and I have learned and grown a lot.

I have seen the strength of my family and while we have all experienced pain through my mom's illness I have been inspired by my wonderful mother's faith and courage and love and strength. She is such an amazing person!! I have also been inspired by my caring and ever supportive and loving father who also has great faith and courage. I am so so lucky to have such wonderful parents who have always loved me and taught me throughout my life.

My wonderful husband has also made this last year outstanding, he is a hard worker and has such a wonderful spirit. He is so excited for our family to grow and I know he will be an amazing father. His strength and support have gotten me through the ups and downs of 2010 and I am excited for the happiness that 2011 will bring us together. I have set some goals, but I already know that "resolutions" are not my big thing so I'm only going to say that I hope to be a good and loving mother throughout 2011 and of course to lose some weight!! Ha!

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Nesting?

I've been told that I'm nesting, here are some of my newest accomplishments!

Before pic of the little guy's dresser

After, this was a combined effort, Andrew and I worked hard to sand and paint this D.I. find and I love how it turned out!

Reversible Carseat Canopy that took me an entire day to make even though it should have only taken about two hours. I do like how it turned out though!

Easy rag blanket that I did get done pretty quickly! Thanks for the help mom!

Easy afghan for the little guy!

FALL letters that I got done before the end of fall, since winter started just a few days before Christmas that is not really saying much, but I do what I can. I made ones that spell NOEL also but Andrew already put them away with the Christmas decorations and I wasn't willing to get them out.

For this week my nesting gets to focus on cleaning my house and cooking, not near as fun, well the cleaning part at least.

More Belly Pics for Kelsey!

I am now feeling large and dealing with rib pains and stretch marks, but I am loving being pregnant and I love feeling my little guy move inside of me. I am getting more and more nervous, people keep asking if I am ready for the little one to come out and, I just have to say that I am scared of labor and then taking care of a newborn baby so I'll just stick with being pregnant for now, I think I'm pretty good at it.

27 Weeks

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30 Weeks

32 Weeks

33 weeks

Crafty Me

Here are some of the projects that I have been working on over the past few months. I kept wanting to put them up on the blog but I would always say I would get to it as soon as I finished just one more thing that I was working on. I guess I finally felt accomplished enough so here you go! Enjoy!
Two jewelry holders

Jack O Lantern jars

Joy decoration

Afghan for the little guy

Polar fleece blanket for the little guy

Live, laugh, love frame and wall hangings

Christmas Countdown

Halloween Fun!

We have been doing our best to get ready for Halloween this year!
Caramel Apples!

Sugar Cookies!!

Carson's masterpieces, can you tell??

Pumpkin Carving!!

Pregnant Pictures

While growing and gaining weight kinda freaks me out I do want to document this experience so here are the pics.

17 Weeks
21 Weeks
22 Weeks

23 Weeks

24 Weeks

26 Weeks (we missed 25)

Tyco Track

Andrew's mom has been working hard to clean out her storage room, this means that almost every time she comes to Utah we get boxes of stuff to go through. About a year ago she brought us a race track that Andrew played with when he was little. The only problem was that there were no cars to go with the track. Andrew tried to find some cars on the internet but the ones listed didn't seem to have sizes on them so he was hesitant to order any of them.

While I was out of town this last weekend Andrew went to his brother's house and found a box that said "Andrew's stuff" on it and when he went through it he found two cars to go with the track! I came home on Wednesday to find the track set up in the living room. We played with it a little and I did laugh hard but the best was when Carson came over and he and Andrew raced for over an hour. I couldn't breath at times because I was laughing so hard!

The boys take their racing seriously, meaning if your car flies off of the track on a turn then you must knock the other person's car off at the soonest opportunity. Soon they were building a double loop and attaching the guard rails, pens, pencils, highlighters and even my crochet hook were utilized in supporting the track. A good time was had by all. I can't wait to take the track to my parent's house for Christmas to see all the boys race then.

No More Mystery!

Today Andrew and I went to the exciting ultrasound appointment!! We found out that the baby is a BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As soon as the nice girl started searching around the little guy's legs Andrew and I both knew it was a boy even though it took a while to get a good picture. He didn't like being looked at though and the harder she tried to get a good 3D picture the more he just curled up into a ball, hiding in the placenta with his hands in front of his face. We are both getting more excited now that we know what to plan for. Andrew has told me how happy he is lots of times today.

When I called Stacy to tell her that we are expecting a boy Payton asked if they could come to the hospital to see the baby tomorrow. Ha!! I told her that Christmas should come and go before she can see the baby.