Finally... Our baby update and more!

WOW! Am I behind or what!?!

On August 21, 2009 we welcomed our sweet baby girl, Elliot Jayne Webster. She was born @ 11:22 pm, and has been awake ever since. :) Ha ha j/k.

Home coming!

We left the hospital and came home to nearly the ENTIRE Webster gang! Which for those of you who aren't aware, I think there are like 80 + of us now... :) J/K But there is a lot! Her aunts were anxious to snuggle her and her uncles scared to death (with the exception of James). :)

Week 1: She slept SO much, at one point we thought something was wrong! Nana was here (my mom) to help take care of both of us, and that was so nice. I don't know what I would have done without her! As a brand new mom I felt crazy! I could hardly sleep, I wanted to watch her every second. Literally just look at her, and when I was so tired that all I could do was sleep I would close my eyes and still see her. :) Motherhood is nothing I expected it to be, and better than I could have imagined.

Week 2: ROAD TRIP!!! Yes we're crazy! Elliot and I packed up and went to Cali, with Nana, to meet the rest of the fam. I was an emotional disaster still from the chaos that was my hormones and I missed my hubby SO much! He missed us like crazy too, but we are greatful for his sacrifice to be without us, so that my family could get to know our sweet baby girl! Her aunts Erika, Abby, and Hannah just love her. Her cousin Bailey does too! Even though she was SO afraid that Elliot was going to drool on her! LOL. She also got to meet her greats! Great Grandma and Grandpa Urry although she still doesn't know it yet, because she was asleep the whole time. :)

Week 3: AIRPLANE!!! We jetted back to Utah to see daddy! She did so great! It was like any other nap time to her! It was a great reunion to see Jake.

Also in week 3 reality sets in. No more Nana. I'm a mom. Jake's a dad, and Elliot is our precious responsibility.

She's now 2 and 1/2 months old and is just the funnest thing ever! She's got super strength! She loves to stand holding onto our fingers, and when laying down on her bobby, she's now trying to sit up all by herself.

She's SO smiley! Just happy all the time! Okay not ALL the time, but most of it! She's in the 98% for her weight! 76% for her height and 68% for her head. :) She's a healthy happy baby!

In other news:

Jake started his new job as a property manager for a subsidized apartment complex in Provo and so far so good! He likes his job and we are both so greatful he has it! Thanks again Lyndsie for the recommendation!

Now I'm going to try to figure out how to post a slide show, so you can all see pictures of our life as it has changed in the past 2 months...

30 DAYS!!!!

If I go to my due date (yuck!), I only have 30 days left! She's dropping a lot this week, I feel like what's happening to my hips and pelvis is very un natural and I'm SO ready to have this lil (or BIG) baby. Last week I was only 1cm dialated, but 50% effaced so at least something is happening. I go back in this Friday, and am hoping for more progress. My Dr. is very um old fashioned and and a little rough, but he works in a practice of 4 doctors so I could have any one of them in the delivery room (who ever is on call that day). I put together her bassinet yesterday, and just need to get a little mattress and sheets for it now. It's pretty cute, it's old and needs a fresh coat of paint, but I like it and it will work great for the first couple of months.

Jake is still looking for work, and he's got some good contacts here so hopefully something will happen soon for him.

UTAH---or as Bailey says "MY-TAH?"

Well, Jake and I have made some BIG changes in a SMALL amount of time. Due to the failing economy in McCall (un-employment rate @ 13%--- and that's just the documented un-employment!) Jake was unable to secure employment up there. In the meantime I have becoming increasingly pregnant! With out a paid maternity leave, and Jake not working it didn't make sense for us to stay. We made that decision last week. On Monday (July 6th) I told work what our plans were, and with things being so slow they didn't feel it necessary to fulfill a two weeks notice period. So, as greatful as we are for all that the Norris's have done for us we packed up Monday night, rented our U-HAUL for Tuesday and we were on our way.

We were able to stay at the Abigail Manor one more time, and we hope to be back again to visit as soon as we can! We already miss them SOOO much! :(

WHERE ARE WE NOW?

UTAH (When Bailey our niece on the Urry side was about 3 years old - almost 4, I was trying to explain to her that I lived in Utah and this is why I couldn't be around to see her alot, and she responded, "In My-tah!?" :) lol

We are staying with Jake's parents for the next little bit, while Jake gets working. I'll be on call for my old boss at Insight Eye Care until the baby comes; and we'll be on our own as soon as we can!

Baby Girl Webster is doing very well. We have our first appointment in Utah next Monday (hopefully) so it will be nice to finish things up here soon, pregnancy wise.

We have been very humbled by this whole experience and appreciate all of the support and prayers from our friends and family!

How to take care of a baby - according to a 6 yr. old!

While in the car on the way to fireworks in Michigan last week, Bailey said - "Randy, you don't know how to take care of a baby?" I laughed and said, "Do you know how to take care of a baby?" She didn't even have to think about her response. She just said

"Yes, you have to feed it twice, change it twice, rock the baby to sleep, and sing it a lullaby."

lol so there you have it~!

It's been SOO long!

Jake is in heaven. 2 screens, 2 games!

Rainbow in Cascade, Idaho



Thanks Kim, for posting that tutorial for these cute Fathers Day cards which my sister and I made. So fun!

SOO, here's the last few months in a nut shell...

I am 31 weeks pregnant! This little girl will be here before we know it and we can hardly wait to meet her!

I've been managing my gestational diabetes with the help of my BFF Jake, and we're hopefully nearing the finish line! (Fingers crossed)

Baby is healthy (a little big), and so so strong! She loves to wedge her body right into my right rib cage, which is weird because I can't imagine that's the most comfortable spot she's been able to find, but she loves it there!

Most recently...

We just returned from our family reunion in Michigan, which was SO much fun. It was so fun to see my grandparents and cousins and meet their spouses and kids! Most of the aunts and uncles were there too. It was a big blur of fun!

I drove over my camera while there, so I

have no pictures to prove the fun we had...

Reminder to self:

Never fly across the country super pregnant unless there are NO connections and you can sit in first class or on your own private jet. Hee hee :)

Adventures in Utah

Jake and I have just returned from a memorable trip from Utah. We had a great time with family and friends and had not such a great time with our car. James and Lyndsie were kind enough to offer their basement while we stayed there and it was so nice! We even got our own twin beds so, I got some great nights of sleep!... :)

I got to see my girls at the gym and that was definitely a highlight for me. I love those girls and it was so great to see them all again!!!

We got to see our friends Eric and Alison's newest and first addition to their family (Ashton) and he is ADORABLE! Oh I can't wait to hold our own little baby!

We celebrated Jake's birthday with family a little early (his 29th b-day is on May 13th) and that was a blast, even though the Jazz had another disappointing loss to the Lakers, OH sorry KOBE BRYANT and the Los Angeles Lakers----blah!!! :) Anyway, it was so fun to have almost all of the nieces, nephews, grandparents and inlaws together---(we missed you Ben, Kaylee, Alliya, Payton, and Martin!) Melissa made an awesome chocolate cake with chocolate frosting or as Lexie calls it, "brown cake with brown icing". Everybody chipped in and it was just so much fun!

Car broke down and delayed us an extra day, we ended up getting things fixed up and on our way though--- thank you mom and dad Webster for all of your help!!! And thank you Dan for going out in the cold snow/rain to help us figure out what was wrong with our car! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

We were able to spend two nights with Abby, Sean and Baxter (happy birthday Sean!), which was so nice and we are greatful that they let us come visit so often!

Jake and I bought our tickets for the family reunion and we are SO looking forward to that!

I'm 5 months pregnant and everything seems to be going very smoothly, and we feel so blessed for that! Swollen feet and achy pains are a small price to pay for what is to come and we are SO EXCITED! August will be here before we know it!!!

It's a girl! Well, it will be in August... :)

Abby would like you all to know that she was right! ---and 5 others as well, at least according to the poll. Jake and I went in last week for our ultrasound and we got to see our little baby girl! She was pretty stubborn about the whole thing though. It was pretty amazing, while she was squirming around on the monitor I could feel all of her little squirms this time! She gave us some great pictures too, we got a great one of her sucking her thumb and another of her finishing up a great big yawn, in which she stretched her right arm out as she tilted her head back and opened her mouth for a nice big yawn. As far as finding out if she was a boy or a girl--- She was being pretty tricky! If her hand wasn't right in the way it was the umbilical chord she was holding! After about an hour of investigation the woman doing our ultrasound said that there was no evidence of any male parts and that we were having a girl! Jake and I are both so excited! This time is flying by and she'll be here before we know it!

In other news...

Sean (our brother in law) bought a hunting rifle this weekend and is cradling it right now like baby (unloaded of course) but he hasn't put it down since he got it. :) Boys and their toys...

Abby and I tried to be sneaky about making Easter baskets for our husbands and had a plan that while Abby distracted them I would run and hide them upstairs, but I had only made it up TWO steps when I froze in a laugh attack, I couldn't move and could hardly breathe I was laughing so hard! Abby--- laughing and screaming at me to "GO" only made me laugh harder....

We're headed to Utah on the 22nd of this month! YAY!!! We'll get to spend a few days with family and friends, and we are just really looking forward to the break!

McCall is really beginning to melt and thank goodness! I'm craving some warmth and sunlight!!!