A trip to the canyon

This was Paytons first time up the canyon. She loved it. We took her stroller with us and we had to do some off-roading to get to a spot. She smiled the whole time she was bouncing and jiggling around. We are glad that she likes the sunday drives!

Bones!!

We have taught her young :)

Look at those Dimples!!

This is our first photo of the 3 of us. You can't really see Payton's shirt but it says 50% MOM 50% DAD, we all know those percentages are bogus!!
We were able to catch one of her big smiles on camera for once. Doesn't she have the cutest dimples and chins!!!
This is Mommy's favorite outfit that Payton has. She is growing so fast, hopefully this one fits for a while!

One month already!!!

WOW!! Here we are one month later and she is cuter than ever. We have learned alot this past month and Payton has grown so much. She is starting to sleep better in longer chunks which is so nice for us. She has started to get a personality and give us smiles every once in a while. It's the little things that make being parents worth the while!!

Paytons First Bath

Payton had her first bath at home and it went really well. Mom and dad were more nervous than she was! She does love her daddy and was glad to be finally warm in her towel!

Our little Baby Girl!

Well here she finally is. I guess we should start from the beginning...... It all started about a week before she actually was born. Mandy started having mild contractions on Saturday the 8th. They would come and go for about 3 hours every night and then stop. She was 80% effaced and ready to go. On thursday they started to get more painful and all in her back. Friday morning was her 40 week appointment and she was dialated to about a 2 and fully effaced. Dr sloan said that since she was on call all weekend she would start her on saturday morning if she wasn't already in labor. Well all day Friday we had contractions every 10-15 minutes until about 5:30 and then they got to about 6 minutes apart. Then they would go back to about 10 minutes. They got to be to much about 5 am so we went into the hospital.
She was dialated to 3.5. They broke her water at about 9:30 and they decided to have them go for a walk to get the contractions closer together. At about 11:30 she finally got her epidural. YEAH! But she still wouldn't dialate any faster and was only at a 4. So they started the patosin drips. To make a really long story short Payton couldn't handle the contractions once they got closer together. Her heart rate would drop rapidly after every contraction. So they gave Mandy something to stop the contractions all together. At about 7:30 the doctor said that she didn't know how much longer the baby could handle the contractions and Mandy was only at a 5.5.
So it was decided that she needed to have a c-section. So after 15 hours of labor Payton was born at 9:25 pm. She was 7 lbs 13 oz & 19 1/2 inches. She is the most beautiful baby and such a blessing to Mom and Dad. She is such a Daddy's girl, Justin can calm her down just by touching her and talking to her.

We are ready.. we think!!

After all of the AWESOME showers we think that we are finally ready. We want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who threw those showers and all who came to support us. She is going to be the hottest chick around!
THANK YOU, WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Nursery Fun!!!

Well it seems like we have been working on this nursery for months... wait we have :) All we have left to do is a few stencils on the walls and hang pictures and she is set. We figure if she is to come soon this is good enough for now.We are finally just over 37 weeks and have 19 days till D day. Mandy can totally feel that things are starting to progress. We just had our 37 week check-up and everything is looking good. Any time now really :)

Baby's first Ultrasound Pic's

Here are a few of her first pictures. These are our favorite, we got a lot of her feet but this one is the best. You can actually count all the toes. She was very lady like and kept her ankles crossed for a big part of the visit. It did however make it kind of hard on the Tech.
You can tell she is going to have her moms long fingers..how cute!! We love this profile shot. Her mouth was open because she was drinking the fluid. You could actually she her gulp and swallow on the video, it was really neat!
These were taken at 20 weeks so she is much bigger now....MUCH :)

What about me?

For those of you who have not met me I am Jaxon. Also known as Jax, Jaxy Boo Boo’s, ect. I really am the first baby. I turned two on April 4th. I love to play with my noisy bones and drive mom and dad nuts.

It will be very interesting to see how Jax does with our little baby girl. We hope that it doesn’t come as too much of a shock to him. I think that he will get used to her and not getting all of the attention. It will take some time, but he will do great. He has done a great job of showing us a glimpse of what it will be like to have kids.

Just the beginning!

It is official. We have started our family blog. We are so excited for our little girl to be here and we wanted to share it with everyone that we love. Hopefully we can keep it updated so you can all watch her grow, even if you are far away.
We know that life as we know it is about to change, but we are (hopefully) ready for it. It is hard to believe that we are going to be parents and start our family. We love you all and hope that you can enjoy this as much as we will!

We are down to 8 weeks. July 15th is going to be here before we know it. We are finishing up the nursery and getting excited for the up-coming showers. Mandy is going to the Doctor every 2 weeks and looks pretty close to being right on track. She has had the regular pregnancy aches and Braxton hicks, but can't complain she has had an easy pregnancy.