Pictures

Just got back from ordering Griffin's pictures and they are amazing! Our new next door neighbors have a photography studio in their home and offered to take Griff's pictures for us. I am so thrilled with how they turned out, and it was really nice just to walk next door to do it. He is so dang cute, I can't wait for everyone to see them!

Introducing...

Griffin Mikel
July 31, 2009
7 pounds 9 ounces
19 inches

p.s. Gotta love the blonde mohawk

Meeting Big Brother and Sisters

We're home. Just over 24 hours in the hospital and I was ready to break out. Fortunately my Dr. said okay and Griffin's Dr. did too, so here we are. I have tons of cool pictures of all the drama, and I want to tell the whole story from my point of view, but for now here are a few pictures of the kids meeting their new baby brother.

The big kids are thrilled and so sweet with him. Lila is pretty interested, but thinks he is her own personal baby doll. She is good, but we have to keep a close eye on her around him.

One crazy night!

A brief update of what happened in the early morning hours. Sarah started having contractions about 12:00 am. After about an hour of fairly consistent contractions we felt we should probably head to the hospital. While driving through American Fork, Sarah begins to have stronger and stronger contractions and starts to tell me she doesn't know if she can make it. I press the gas pedal and tell her to hold on we will get there quick. Luckily, the local police didn't try to pull me over cause I wouldn't have stopped. What's wrong with going 50+ in a 25 right? Well we made it to the hospital. I told her to hold on I will run in the ER and get some help. She tells me just to hurry, cause baby is coming quick. Well of course there is no one around so I just grab a wheelchair and head back out thinking I can get her out of the car and wheel her in myself. As I come outside I hear her yelling in pain and telling me her water broke. We can still make it inside though right? Wrong, Sarah tells me Griffin is already on his way! I don't want to deliver this baby myself. I ask some random lady outside to please get me some help now! She kinda gives me a dirty look, but goes inside. 2 minutes later baby Griffin was born. Nurses, ER doctors and many others came out right on time to deliver the baby in the front seat of our minivan! What a night! A surreal event to see. The hospital staff is calling him "the parking lot baby". The camera was sitting in the front console so I was even lucky enough to get a few pics. We will post them later. Sarah was awesome the whole time. She stayed very calm considering the circumstances. The end.

The End is Near

I am so sick of being pregnant at this point. Everything hurts and I am miserable. I scrubbed my whole floor on my hands and knees yesterday hoping it would get my stupid contractions to be more regular, but all I got was a terrible back-ache. So, here is the update. I'm 37 weeks tomorrow so he can come anytime. Last week at my 36 week check-up I was already dilated to a 3 and 80% , so I'm hopeful he will come soon. If not, I'll be induced on the 11th. If I go that far it will be the longest I've ever been pregnant, but I really want him to come on his own, so I want to give him plenty of time (that would be 39 weeks and 3 days). I just get so antsy at this point b/c Jax was already born and Lila was born at 36/37 weeks too. Plus, I have contractions all day every day and I'm so sick of it. Okay, enough complaining. Griffin's healthy, and I'm doing as good as I ever have with a pregnancy so even though it doesn't sound like it, I am definitely grateful for that.

Just some random pictures from the last couple days. I have an exercise ball that I sit on just about every night. In hopes that it will help my rib/back pain (does it really???? I'm not thinking so). Anyway, I came downstairs and found Lila bouncing on her little ball. She loves it.

The funniest part is watching her try to back onto it and watching it roll away. She gets really frustrated.

Lila loving on her big sister.

Ryan got me a Dyson when we moved into our house. It is the one thing I have always wanted. I'm so into vacuuming it's not even funny (it's freakish really!). I love it and so does Catey girl. Basically, she loves to help her Daddy do anything.