He's here!!!

On Tuesday morning at about 1 AM Kristie went into labor and later that morning we had a little boy. Kristie and Brigham were pleased as punch to be done with the whole labor thing by 7 AM and all they had to do for the rest of the day was relax and recuperate. Sleep would have been nice but that just doesn't happen for a new mother.
Brigham was 8 lbs and 13 oz as well as 20 inches long and had a good head of black hair. Mom was really happy about the hair and Dad was just happy.
It took Savannah a little while to warm up to the hospital and wasn't quite sure what to think of Mom in the bed with a tube in her arm. She took her brother pretty quickly and wanted to hold him all by herself for the rest of the next day.
She even sported her newest favorite shirt to let everyone know the good news. And don't mess with her bro because she'll come get you.
We are grateful everyone is doing well and the Lord has blessed our home with a new baby boy.

Still Pregnant

Here I am at 40 weeks. We are 1 day overdue. I have a doctors appointment today and maybe we will find out more. So we are still pregnant:( Hopefully our next post will be of our baby.

Memorial Weekend

We had a fun weekend hiking, playing, and decorating a cake. Yes I did go hiking at 38 weeks. I had hiked Donut Falls before so I knew it was a short easy hike. Too bad it didn't make me go into labor. Here are a few pictures.

Donut Falls are behind us. Savannah didn't want to pose for the picture.

Daddy and Savannah posing. Savannah wouldn't smile.

Donut Falls - there is a round hole if you look close where the water disappears into and then appears again further down the rocks.

This is the tinkerbell cake I made for Sabrina's birthday. It was inspired by Sophie's cake.

Cute Girl

So Savannah doesn't usually take naps at all any more. Just on rare occasion. We this is the sight I came home to on Sunday after doing visiting teaching interviews. Her dad had gone into the spare bedroom and laid down on the air mattress (we had set it up for a visitor a couple of weeks ago and they didn't end up staying with us and we haven't put it down) to read because it is cooler in that room than in the master bedroom and Savannah brought her dried pears into the room and crawled up on the bed and ate some dried pears and ended up falling asleep while eating pears beside her dad. Sometimes I wish she would still take a nap because she gets aweful cranky, but then we suffer because she won't go to bed until 11pm. So there are trade offs.

Almost Done

We are now actually 38 weeks but this was the last picture I took. So close enough. We have two weeks until our due date and we hope he doesn't wait that long to make his appearance. But family history is not on our side. He will probably be late, but I can keep hoping.

Victory!

On Friday Mitchell took his second actuarial exam (FM). Well half way through his exam he wasn't feeling so good about the test. Three hours after he began he still didn't feel good about the test, the test ended and up popped on the screen "Congratulations!" Yeah he passed! He was thoroughly surprised. The test was very hard. He has taken it before and he said this one was harder. But he was actually prepared this time and good thing he was. We are very proud of him and very excited for the possibilities this opens up for us.

Potty Training

Well about a month and a half ago we got serious about potty training. Someone game us some pullups they didn't need and we were tired of changing diapers on a child who was too stuborn to go on the potty. Well the pullups worked very well for Savannah and encouraging her to go on the potty. She did very well right off peeing in the potty. Going #2 was a different story. She has been dry all night long since she was 18 months old so I knew she could hold it. She has has trouble with constipation for the past 10 months. But a couple of weeks ago over conference weekend her daddy took her to the potty and made her go #2 on the potty a couple of times and then something must have clicked in her head because it has been two weeks now and we have had no accidents! Yeah for us! I just hope we don't have a set back when the baby comes. For now she is doing great and hopefully it will continue to be so.