June Happenings

June has been full of summer fun! At the first part of the month we moved to Tremonton. We are loving our new home. I will post pictures soon! A couple of weeks ago we went on our first camping trip of the summer up to Yost with the Palmer family. We were so excited for this camping trip because we were going to finally have Leyla meet Taryn, Ryan and Stella for the first time! It rained a little bit while we were there, but we had tons of fun just spending time together.

Stella kept falling in the same hole over and over again. (I had to get a picture for you Taryn)

Stella and Leyla meeting for the first time. It was so cute, Stella kept saying "hi Leyla."

Since this is our 1st summer home since we have been married, Greg has been able to play a little ball again. We have spent some time at a few baseball games with the Aggies, some softball with his friends and also some softball with the Llama's.

While Ryan and Taryn were up visiting Greg was able to play again with his brother. It was so nice to have Taryn back to chat with during the games.

Greg and Leyla on Father's Day. We love you Greg! I couldn't have asked for a better dad for our little girl :D

I had to throw in these next two pictures just because they are cute!

Yesterday we spent the day at Lagoon for Nucor Day. We thought that taking Leyla to Lagoona Beach would be so much fun for her-WRONG! She hated the water and the heat! I ended up not getting any sun and trying to get her to take a nap the entire time!

Leyla is 3 months and 1 week today. I can't believe my little girl is growing up so fast!

All in all it was a great day with family, even though we had a few freak out moments. What would parenthood be without those right?

June has been good to us so far. Let's hope July stays warm and that my little girl will learn to like the sun a little more so that I can get a tan :)

Leyla's Special Day

This past Sunday Greg blessed Leyla in our church. He gave her such a special blessing. I am so grateful for these my beautiful daughter and my handsome husband :) I love you both so much!

Change

The past 6 weeks of our lives have been full of changes. In March we welcomed our sweet little Leyla into the world. She has brought so much joy into our lives. She is changing so much every day and growing up so fast. She is such a good baby. She has started smiling and she stays awake a lot during the day. She isn't sleeping through the night yet, but is sleeping 4-5 hours at least once a night.

Back in January Greg applied for a sales position at Nucor. He told me he knew he wasn't going to get the job, but it was worth applying for. A month later they called him and did a phone interview with him. After that he was called in for a face to face interview, an interview with the whole sales department, and two more phone interviews. Three weeks ago they called him and offered him the position. We are so grateful that this job worked out and we were able to stay home for the summer and not have to travel with a new baby. It is bittersweet not going to Minnesota with the rest of the family, but we feel like this job was such a great opportunity. My husband is so great to us. He works so hard to provide for our family.

In one month (hopefully) we will be residents of TREMONTON! I never thought in a million years Greg and I would live in Tremonton. We are in the process of buying our very first home. I am so excited to be able to live in a house and not an apartment anymore-we are running out of space! After a lot of thought and discussion we decided Tremonton was the best place for us so that we would both be close to work. We are hoping everything stays on schedule and we can move in by June 2!

Here are some pictures of the past month.

Guess Who?

I was looking through some of our baby pictues to see who Leyla looked like. I cam across this picture of Greg and couldn't believe how much this picture looks like her!

Leyla Palmer

As most of you know our sweet little Leyla joined our family on March 21, 2011 at 7:34 p.m. weighing in at 6 pounds 14 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long.

LABOR STORY

At my last doctor appointment (the day after my due date) I wasn't progressing at all so my doctor scheduled me to be induced the following Thursday., March 24th. On March 21st at 2:20 a.m. I got up to go to the bathroom but couldn't stop peeing (or so I thought). I was half asleep trying to figure out why I couln't control my bladder. I was hollering for Greg to wake up, but I couldn't get him to wake up. Finally, I was able to get up and wake him up. I told him I thought my water had broke, but I wasn't quite sure. We started googling what it is like when your water breaks. After 45 minutes or so we decided that we needed to head to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital at 3:30 a.m. and got checked in my room. Then the waiting began! They started me on pitocin around 6:00 a.m. and within an hour I was dilated to a 4! At this point I am thinking this is going to be a short process-WRONG! I was not fully dilated to a 10 until 6:30 p.m. The nurse came in around 7:00 and had me start to push. I pushed one time for the nurse and she had to get the doctor because she said the baby was going to come fast. I only had to push for 25-30 minutes max before we got to meet our sweet little girl! I wasn't able to hold her as soon as she came out because she had swallowed meconium and they had to rush in a respritory nurse so they could suck everything out of her lungs before she was able to take her first breath. They worked on her for about 20 minutes before I was able to finally hold her. After we got to hold her for a few minutes they took her from us and transferred her to the NICU. I had spiked a fever during delivery and they were worried she had an infection from going through the birth canal and wanted her to get started on an antibiotic as soon as possible. It wasn't fun being away from her in the hospital, but I am so thankful she is healthy and everything checked out ok. We love her so much and can't even imagine our lives without her! Nights have been ok. For the most part she has slept really good and only wakes up to eat every 3 hours.

I went to the pediatrician today and her stats at 2 weeks are

20 inches long and 7 pounds 8 ounces

Here are some pictures from the past 2 weeks.

Trying to get some sleep while I was waiting

The NICU nurse and repritory nurse working on Leyla right when she was born.

I asked the nurse for warm blankets after I gave birth because I was freezing and shaking so bad!

Daddy's first time holding Leyla

Our first family photo-holy swollen!! Our first time visiting her in the NICU

Daddy's first time feeding her.

Nobody was able to see her in the NICU, so we had our nurse bring her to the window so our families could see her. Daddy is so proud of her!

Right after she left the NICU and was able to come to our room with us for a few hours.

In her car seat ready to go home!

We love her so much and are such proud parents!!