My Mother's Day

Mother's Day just a week after having the baby. 

I recieved a sweet gift, little Bryce, coming into our family.

Amanda and Kaitlyn sure do love him!

 Here is Kaitlyn with her picture and envelope of little service things she would do for me.

Amanda with her sweet "My Mom Book", card and plant. 

She was so excited to give them to me.

This is a card all the kids made for me with Daddy's help.

 

 I thought this picture was cute.  They even have the dog in the picture.

Kaitlyn drew this picture.  It is a picture of me.

It was a good Mother's day.  I went to church on Sunday, just a week from being home from the hospital.   I wanted to hear Amanda and Kaitlyn sing their Mother's Day songs in sacrament meeting.  They did a good job singing, but a bit of a handful when not singing. :)  Roy was kind to watch little Bryce at home.  Then we switched places for the rest of the church meetings.  

My little family made such cute little things for me.  It really did make my day special.  Amanda wrote a book called, "My Mom Book".  I wanted to share what she wrote.  It was so sweet and brought tears to my eyes.  My little girl really knows me. :)

"When Mom was a baby, she was adorable.  When Mom was a little girl she liked to do coloring. When Mom waas a teenager she was always nice.  When my Mom met my Dad she thought he was cute.  When Mom got married she looked cute in her wedding dress. When I was born my Mom thought I was cute.  Mom's favorite color is purple.  I really like my mom to play with me.  My Mom cooks the best cookies.  In her spare time Mom likes to make books with me.  My Mom has yellow hari and blue eyes.  The best thing about my Mom is her eyes are sparkling blue."

Thank you my little family for making my Mother's Day special.  Love you all! :)

Welcome Home Bryce Alan!

 Bryce was a bit bruised when he was born around his nose and mouth.  It healed quite quickly.  By the time he came home, you would have never known he was bruised. 

 Amanda and Kaitlyn's first time to see the baby on Saturday.

 Getting ready to take little Bryce home.

 I think he likes his little bear Aunt Becky gave him.

 First day home.  Dad already had a little nap with him.

 This was a picture, I sent to Roy the day after Bryce was born saying, "Bryce says hi". :)

 Bryce is a week old in this picture.  One of our friends, gave us this little outift.  We had a good laugh.  Bryce is already trying to flex those muscles. :)

Well our little Bryce Alan was born on May 3, 2013 at 8:46 p.m!  He was 7 lbs 14 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. We are so excited to have him here.  It was a long day.  We were at the hospital at 7 a.m. and I was all hooked up at 8 a.m. to be induced.  As the day was going a long I asked for the epidural around 2 p.m. and the doctor put in a high dose right up front.  Well my body didn't like it and my blood pressure dropped really fast.  I was feeling like passing out and felt I could throw up.  They hurried and gave me some medication to bring my blood pressure back up.  They ended up turning the epidural off for about 4 hours.  I was so numb.  I couldn't even move my legs.

As time went on Roy was noticing my contractions were from an 8 to a 2, and notice the pitocin wasn't dripping.  We had the nurse come in and there was an error message on the screen, but it wasn't beeping.  They ended up having to replace the pump.  Also, the contraction monitor wasn't reading correctly and they ended up putting one in internally.  As the day went on not much improvement was happening.  My Dad had showed up to visit a couple of times, which made the time go a lot faster.  Then the third time he stopped by around 8:20 p.m. with my brother, Glen.  I was starting to feel bad...we still hadn't had the baby.  Well, the doctor came in shortly after they arrived, and wanted to check to see how many centimeters I was.  He had the nurses, Roy, and I make a guess.  Then he said I was a 9.  He mentioned they would slowly get things ready to have this baby.  Roy left to tell my Dad and Glen we were going to attempt to have the baby.  Dad mentioned they would wait a bit.  Well, before we knew it after pushing 5-10 minutes...little Bryce was born!  Dad was able to hold the baby after he was dried off.  I was so glad he was able to see him, and be there shortly after he was born.