Boys will be Boys...

Spencer's Aunt Kelli lives just down the road from my parents, probably less then 5 min away, and while we were in Utah we got to go and visit her and have Preston play with his cousin Aaron, which is about 8 months older. They also came by to meet Lylah before we left town and Preston just LOVED playing with him. They both loved to play ( probably more torture ) with Chloe. 

They are silly boys :) Preston was sooo sad when he had to go home. Wish they still lived close so they could play more often!!

My "BIG" baby...

I hope my kids know that they will always be my babies.

I look horrible in that picture, I just had a baby okay? But I do LOVE the fact that Preston wanted to be my big baby. He has done SO extremely well with bringing Lylah home. He loves her and I think he knows thats his little sister. My sister said she thinks he remembers her from heaven. And I LOVE that. I really hope they have a special bond, that he will always love and take care of that sweet little sister of his. I love how protective he looks in these pictures...

He is always so concerned when "baby" cries and always wants to put (stuff) the paci in her mouth. He gives her kisses and gets soooo excited when I let him hold her.

He always touches her so soft saying "nice" whenever he sees her. He really is such a "nice" big brother. I also love that he still loves me. The other night he wanted dad to hold baby so I could hold him. He kept saying "my mom" and giving me lots of hugs and kisses. Gosh I love that boy. 

He has been extra funny lately and will do anything to get all of your attention. My mom figured out that if you tell him not to do something then he will do it. For example " Preston I don't want any of your kisses " and he will run as fast as he can to you and give you kisses and then laugh and laugh. 

He's also talking a TON more. Our trip to Utah really expanded his vocabulary...maybe because he had so many more people to talk to during the day. He learned all of my familys names and just loved spending time with them. I dont know what he thinks now that we are home and we dont see them :(. He just loves them. 

I just wanted to let Preston know how proud I am of him and how grateful I am that I get to be his mommy. I love every second of it. And I know you will be the best big brother. Your sister Lylah loves you to death already.

Our Little Lylah Kay...

We couldn't be more in LOVE with our sweet little Lylah Kay. She is such a good baby but wants to be held and cuddled a LOT. And I'm totally okay with that :). She eats REALLY well too, she didn't loose any weight when we went to the doctor last week and the doctor was very impressed. I feel like I'm not producing enough milk for her though so I think I'm going to have to go and get some "more milk" vitamins haha. 

Before we left, Spencer's Grandma West came to meet Lylah.

She pretty much only cries when shes hungry...and I captured a pic of her angry/sad face

Me and Spencer took the kids to a park one afternoon while we were in Utah and he got this pic of me playing with Lylah...

She smiles a TON while shes sleeping and I was lucky enough to get a picture of one...

She sleeps a lot and loves it when she finds a sleeping buddy haha...Lylah and her Aunt Court

Lylah after her first bath...I love nakey babies, I love how chubby she looks :)

A comfy sleeping baby...

Me and my mom tried taking some cute pics of her and we just weren't too lucky...she was mad and hated it. This is the best one we got...

Lylah and Grandpa Bigelow...

Isn't she just a doll!!!?

We're Home!!...

We finally made it back from our 5 week stay in Utah. We had a lot of fun but it feels so good to be home. We sure missed seeing Spenc everyday and I am so ready to be a normal family again and start up our new routine. I really have SO much to do today but thought I'd take a break and catch up on some blogging :). I wanted to post some "before Lylah" pictures first and then I'll post some more pics of her another day. 

While we were in Utah we went to a LOT of volleyball games. It was a blast to watch my sister ( she really is an awesome volleyball player ). Preston was SO good at the games and always seemed to make little friends and would cheer for Court. It was so cute! 

Spenc came up for a couple of the weekends. One of the weekends we took Preston to a really cool park called Discovery Park and it was all made out of wood and we all had so much fun there.

We also went up to the Mountains again...

And 2 days before Lylah was born, my family from Utah threw me a surprise baby shower :) It was sooo fun and sooo sweet of them. I really appreciated it and how thoughtful they were of me. They are SO sweet!

Okay that about sums up all the pictures I took before little Lylah came...now I better get to my unpacking and organizing rooms. I get to start decorating Lylahs room! I just need to decide on colors...

Lylah Kay Coon...

She is here!!! And we really couldn't be more in love with her! She is such a perfect little girl. It all started Wednesday...I REALLY wanted her to come and so I sat and bounced on the excersise ball pretty much all night and I had gotten a pedicure earlier that day ( rubbing your feet is supposed to help bring on labor, so Ive heard ). Well I woke up at 1 am thursday morning ( a normal bathroom wake up time haha ) and started feeling some contractions. I timed them at about 7-8 min apart and tried going back to sleep but they were really making my lower back ache so I couldn't sleep. I started timing them again and they kept getting closer and closer and started hurting me more and more. So at about 3 am I woke up my mom and we went to the hospital. When I got there my contractions were REALLY starting to hurt and I knew that this had to be it. I was a 3+ and after about 40 min I was at a 4+. I called Spencer and told him to get on a flight and to hurry cause this sweet girl was on her way! He had booked a flight to come here the night before for sunday ( i didnt know this ) and so luckily he was able to switch it and he would land in Utah at 9 in the morning. I got my epidural at about 6 that morning and it seriously couldn't have come any later. CONTRACTIONS HURT haha. I was seriously in pain and nausous and getting really dehydrated. Luckily it kicked in fast and it was smooth sailing from there. When Spencer got on the plane I was dialated to a 5. All my nurses and my doctor were so sweet and really wanted Spencer to be able to make it so they didn't check me or break my water until he got to the hospital. My dad, Tanner, and Preston picked Spencer up at the airport and came straight there. They let Preston come in and say hi to me and then they left. I was telling everyone for about the last 2 hours or so that I was feeling a TON of pressure so right after that my doctor came in to check and break my water. He was like, you are ready for sure! I was fully dialated and she was ready to come right then. I only had to push 3 times and she was here :), 15 min after Spencer had arrived. It was such a blessing that he was able to make it, I really think she was waiting just for him.

Look at that chub! She was born at 10:36 am on September 15, 2011. She weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces and was 18 inches long.



First pictures with mommy, daddy and grammy!

This was when she was in the nursery with Spenc and they were getting her cleaned up and looking all pretty.

When we walked by the nursery we could see Spencer and Lylah and Preston was SO excited that he could see them and was saying dada and baby and laughing. Spenc tried taking a picture...I wish you could see how excited he was though. It was seriously adorable.

Preston just LOVES her. He was so excited to see baby and was even giving her kisses. Lets hope he stays that way :).

Grandpa and Lylah...

Lylah and Mommy....I LOVE her sooooo much!

She was wide awake that night and making faces...she is just adorable :)

We are back at my parents house now just enjoying our sweet little baby. We are planning on heading back home to Arizona next sunday. Little Lylah has lots of Arizona family to meet! We are so excited to show her off haha. I LOVE my family. I really couldn't be happier :).

Long overdue...

Wow its been a while since I posted. Here is a little update on us. Last month on the 18th I had a doctors appointment and was already dialated to a 2 and my doctor had suggested that if I was going to go to Utah I had better go then just to make sure that I would make it in time. Well its almost been a month later and NO BABY. I'm now dialated to a 3 and my belly has definantly dropped and I'm trying to be patient while waiting for her to decide to come. Its been fun and nice to be able to spend so much time with my family but I hate all the time that I am spending away from Spencer. It's been hard and I'm ready to have my family all together and to have my hubby back! We are all SO ready to meet this sweet little girl. Here are some pics that we took on my sister and moms cameras while weve been here.

Preston loves playing with his Uncle Tanner...the weather is SO nice here and weve been playing in the backyard and at parks a lot!

We took Chloe on a walk with us to the park, Preston HAD to be the one to walk her haha. He LOVES her to death but we are still working on being nice to Chloe all the time. Luckily Chloe is the sweetest dog in the world, I don't think any other dog would put up with him.

We headed out to the Mountains one Saturday to try and find some rasberry bushes that we used to pick rasberrys from when we were little and my dad and tanner also tried to do a little hunting. When we were on the mountain on the dirt roads I let Preston out of his car seat and he Loved being able to sit on all our laps and stick his head out the window.

Here are the "boys" looking for deer...it was so gorgeous where we were at. I love the scenery Utah has to offer :)

This is Prestons new Nike outfit that Grandma and Grandpa got him...notice how badly he needs a haircut...haha.

He loves picking flowers...

And this is the most recent picture I have of my belly. We took this about 2 weeks ago. I know its blurry and I think I have a better one on my camera but I will have to upload those another time. Oh and notice I did cut Prestons hair while weve been here and he looks sooo cute :).

Okay well I will try and be better about posting...I'm guessing I won't post again until baby girl is here. I have an induction date set for the 19th so in one week exactly, I'm SO hoping she decides to come this week though. I'll try and post all about it and all about her as soon as I can. I can't tell you how excited I am to meet her!!!!! Oh and we pretty much decided on a name...actually my sweetest hubby has said I can name her the name that I am in love with. He is still border line but I'm hoping by the time she comes and he sees her that he'll love it as much as I do. Some people know already but I'm not going to put it on here until shes here just in case. But its adorable and I cant wait to announce it and show her off haha!

Wish me luck!!!