Merry Christmas

With a 2 week old baby in my arms I left the picture taking up to Arthur. Here are a few snap shots he took to document the holiday.

Ella is pretending to eat an ornament that looks like a cookie!

McKenna and Rapunzel! Ella and Jessie (from Toy Story).

 Me and Sawyer-before we head over to celebrate with extended family.

 Daddy and Sawyer.

 Papa and Sawyer

 Mammie and Sawyer.

 Our baby boy!



Sawyer @ Eight Days

Blizzard Baby

I'm working a on a few posts. Mostly more info about our time at the hospital and the first weeks at home. They'll be posted soon, I hope.

In the meantime, I encourage you to checkout this link: Melissa Miroslavich Photography for some super sweet eye candy! Isn't he sdorable? Aren't the pictures fabulous?

Snapshots from the hospital

It was interesting to see how McKenna and Ella responded to everything. Even before we got to hospital Ella was holding back tears. She was afraid and didn't know what to expect. She was concerned about me and my well being. She is so sweet and compassionate.

McKenna was so curious as to what they were doing to me. She was also a little grossed out (all she really saw was the IV go into my hand). She kept asking if it hurt me and why wasn't I embarrassed to have doctors and nurses looking at my body so much. She was excited and had a hard time keeping quiet and calm.

Sawyer was born at 11:27pm. We were all asleep at about 2am. I wish to goodness that I had a picture of the girls camping out on the floor of our room.

Sawyer weighed 8lbs 3oz

Daddy likes to check everything out

Ella's a big sister now!

You'll notice that the girls are in their pj's. That's because they had just woke up. Remember, no one could get them so they cam to the hospital with us! Their grandparents took them the next day.

just a few minutes old...

Big Sister shirts!



Mom and son



Man, they really bundle those babies up!

leaving the hospital

Sawyer Michael

Saturday, December 11th 2010 was a big day here in Twin Cities. A snownami hit the Midwest! There was a lot of snow and to make matters worse, the wind was blowing it EVERYWHERE. Even snowplows were pulled from the highways. They just couldn't keep up. Somehow, Arthur managed to keep our driveway clear. He had to go shovel about every 60-90 minutes though. Many roads weren't even plowed. Thankfully, ours was.

I believe that a few friends posted to my Facebook page that they were praying I didn't go into labor that day. I actually triedto be pretty low key....trying not to encourage contractions that day. Well, God (and the baby) had other plans.

Around 7:00pm the girls were watching a movie and I decided to get down on the floor between them. What do ya know? My water broke. There was no doubt in my mind! I calmly went down and said, "Arthur?" Instantly, he knew. "Is it time?" He asked. Yes. He quickly gathered himself together and got a few things. I called a few of the people lined up to watch the girls and NONE of them could get out of their driveways much less come to our house. So, the girls got to come with us to the hospital! Wahoo! That's just how I wanted it (dripping with sarcasm!).

So, once we were settled in our room, the girls put in  a movie. Arthur unloaded his things. The nurses hooked me up to all of the monitors and IV's required. I'll skip on the medical details of dilation and the lack of pain meds combined with Sawyers shoulder getting stuck. I'll skip the parts where I screamed things and Arthur had to leave the room. I'll skip the part where I yelled at the random OB doctor who was retained on the floor due to weather. I'll not mention the part where I hyperventilated and lost all feeling in my hands and arms. I won't mention that they had to give me oxygen. I won't mention how I wouldn't lay down and insisted on sitting all the way up regardless of what the doctors said.  I'll skip the part where my regular OB doctor had to tag team in after the head was delivered. Thankfully the girls were walking the halls with a nurse and were not a part of any of this.

Happy ending...Sawyer Michael was born at 11:27pm that night. He weighed 8 pounds and 3 ounces and was 21 inches long.

Here he is! Sawyer Michael @ 5 days old!

Thanks to Michelle @ Michellle Lockwood Photography

a fun project

Here's a little project we worked on for Christmas presents...

These are pictures for a calendar.

January

February

March

April (oops, I should have rotated this picture)

 May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December



After we printed a picture for each month, I went online and printed calendar pages for the year. I took them to a printer down the highway and had them bound with a spiral binding. Six calendars, a lot of fun, and $10.00!!