The Tree Of Life

The Tree of Life

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Baby Daddy

Just thought i would post a few pics of hubby with his little girl. They are soooo sweet together. Plus i have a hot baby daddy!





Look at those faces! Thats what i wake up to every day! Luckkkkyyyy!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

B for Bishop

My sister bought us this meat brand a while ago and we just got to use it the other night. Coolest thing ever!



So, yeah thats right... we now brand all our burgers with the family initial. Whhhaaatt....????? We are just cool like that.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Hat



My sis bought this awesome hat from etsy! This is a preview. She is going to take some pictures of Baby J in the hat. But i just had to take a few right away when it came in the mail!!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Baby Josie is here!!!

First famiy photo!



Before:


After:


The birth went fabulous! We got to the hospital to be induced at 6 am on August 30th (one day before my due date). I had been 2 cm dilated and thinned for a couple of weeks. I had also been having contractions all week. That morning was no exception. I was having contractions already and as they got us back in our room and were taking some blood, my contractions got stronger. We got my IV(which was kinna rough) and at 7 Dr. Peeler came in and broke my water before he headed off to do some surgeries. He checked me and i was still 2cm like the weeks before. At about 7:15 a lady came in to start me on Pitocin. I had about 2 contractions and i decided to get an epidural before i got in too much pain. The first time we tried something wasnt right so we had to start over. A little painful but really not bad at all. So the im all set up and i start feeling kind of nauseus. The nurse comes in with some meds for the nausea and she mentions that sometimes feeling sick means you are dilating quickly. So she checks me at about 8:30 and im now 8cm!! Woo hoo! so then she starts talking about how we have to wait til closer to when Dr. Peeler can get back to push and all that. So around 9:30 she says ok we are gonna start pushing at 10. And i said oh well am i 10cm yet? She was like oh yeah girl your cervix is gone! At this point everything had been ridiculously easy. Almost no pain at all! Andy and i were all smiles and excited and lovey dovey at the thought of our first baby being born. So we start pushing around 10 and we push and relax and push and take breaks. Nothing hurt at all. It was a little tiring but mostly just fun and exciting. So around 10:30 my mom came to join in (since everything was going so easy) and the nurse was having me wait until the Dr got back to push any more. Dr. Peeler came in at about 10:40 and we started pushing again. Baby Josie was born at 10:55 am. The whole thing was about 4 hours. It was the best experience i could have ever asked for. Andy and i felt sooo blessed. Josie came out perfectly pink and screaming. She was very loud and very alert (2 good things). She scored a 9.9 on the Apgar score (no one gets a 10). She was perfect and very cute right from the start. It was a wonderful day! I highly recomend giving birth at Methodist Germantown and Dr. Peeler was a fabulous doctor. All the nurses were soooo sweet. LOVED IT!

Sunday, August 28, 2011

No, i haven't forgotten about the blog again...


I haven't had anything to blog about lately.... I've been waiting on this baby to arrive. She is still in there now. A few minutes ago my belly had a knee poking out about 2 or so inches. I can't wait to meet her little knees and elbows in person. I have become quite well aquainted with them :) I had all kinds of keep-me-busy things planned until Tuesday when we go in to be induced, BUT on Friday my Dr freaked me out by putting me on bedrest until i go into labor. My blood pressure was quite high and i had been having some placenta issues. Anyways, I have had NOTHING to do but watch movies and TV and eat.... BORING! Especially when you are waiting on THE most exciting thing ever to happen!!! Also, my camera got confiscated by Andy(to the hospital bag) so that is another reason i haven't blogged anything. So i am posting a few old pictures of my sis and i and Rebekah and David's trip to Grand Canyon. Technically this trip was my sister's honeymoon... hahaha which makes it even funnier that Rebekah and i got to tag along. So I am posting these in honor of Dear Sister who is about to fly home just to see our new arrival this next weekend. Thanks for all the loving and memories dear sissypoo. (PS You make me want to try for a sweet sissy for Josie right away.)




Thursday, August 18, 2011

My final project

The dresser before:



The dresser after:







I finished J's room this past week. This was my final project... the dresser. Now all is complete! Kelly Wortham made those AdorabLe letters hanging over the dresser BTW!

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

My view from the computer



Looking down over my baby bump, little suggy boogy is asleep on the floor.