Zeke

He looked so cute and cuddly in his little bear coat. But I stopped him from going outside to take the picture and he did not like that. He is becoming more verbal lately!

Darn kid. I tried to tell him he only gets one bad habit at a time, and since he still pees his pants...... no nose picking. Gross!

He's Here!

Here is his first photo shoot. It's an online birth announcement.
http://www.utahportraits.com/hospital/index.php?action=view&BabyID=032409gda

Technically he was born weighing 7 pounds 11.8 ounces. We said 7.11 but they rounded up so they say 7.12
Yep, he smiles already too! He's a good happy, mellow baby.

A little blurry, but cute little toesies!

Oh how sweet, we love you too Gabriel!

Eyes wide open. I'm already so cute and playful!

We're Home

Here is a cute family photo. Amazing how big Zeke got in a year!

I'm all dressed up ready to go!

Poor Zeke

Poor Ezekiel had such a rough week. First he got scratched on his chin, then he headbut the stairs and got this carpet burn or cut. The next day he headbut the windowsill on the same spot and got a big welt.

That same day he tripped and hit a shelf which split his eye open and gave him a black eye. It's so sad to see your baby get hurt :( He is such a trooper. Again what an amazing sweet boy. Poor little guy!

False Alarm

Wednesday night I started having contractions accompanied by heavy cramping. They were consistant and became more frequent and stronger. I called Brigham home from work when they got to be 6 minutes apart, put the whole plan in motion. After about 5 hours they were no longer consistant. Then a couple hours later they started again, this time much stronger, they were definate contractions. They lasted about 2 1/2 hours and were back to 6 minutes apart. While I was waiting for them to get to 5 minutes I fell asleep and so did they. Everytime I woke up I would have another but they were no longer consistant.
I wasn't ready to have the baby yet, mentally or as far as my house being clean because I wasn't expecting him until between the 21-28 but after all that it was a little disappointing that he didn't come. The rest of the weekend I had false contractions off and on. Sunday we did it all over again, the false contractions were coming on strong and regular but they never switched to the real contractions this time.
One of the guesses that was the same for Brigham and I was the 24th so we'll see if he comes tomorrow. I think I'm ready now. My state of mind has been kind of stagnant the last few days not knowing what to expect! We'll let you know!

Our Trip to California

For those of you that weren't there, I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of our New Year's trip to San Diego. Here are some of the things we got to see while we were there.
This is the poop rock, oh I guess it was cool the birds were so close too!


This beach was designated as a children's beach but the seal pups took over. No they're not dead, they're just getting a tan.

It's pretty funny to see them hopping around when they're not in the water! Or if they get too close they smack each other with their tails.

Here are some dolphins just past the seals! Apparently Brigham and his brother Jeff had whales right behind them when they were in the water, but nobody got any pictures of it:(

Here's my sweet boy just hangin' out in the cold. He's such a good boy, and oh so cute!

First Visit to the Beach

Here we are around the corner from the seals for an unplanned beach play. It was too cold for the beach, little did we know it was warmer here than our actual beach day.

It was funny at first Zeke hated the feel of sand on his hands. Then he dug in and I couldn't get him to stop eating it!

This kid sure loves the water. He didn't care that it was freezing!

Here is Ezekiel with a beached whale! Ha ha, thought I'd get the baby in the picture with us.

Different day but Brigham got to go help pick oranges! We had fresh squeezed orange juice and sweet fresh oranges to munch on for a while.