Cousins

Quinn has a couple cousins that were born within a week or so of her. It's fun to see them grow together. Hopefully they'll be friends when they get older. 

There's Cameron (Dane and Molly's little one) who is ten days older. 

Little miss Cameron

Of course, this fits their personalities. Cameron is calm and Quinn is being her diva self. These were taken at the Jorgensen family reunion out at FMC Park last Saturday.

And then there's Blake (Brett and Nikki's little boy). They are exactly one week apart. Quinn looks like such a chunk below!

Two months old

The Quinnster turned two months last Saturday, August 10. She had her checkup today and shots.

She's a little chubster. She weighed 12 pounds. 75% weight. 47% height. 67% head. She squealed quite a bit when they gave her the shots, but she's doing fine now. 

On the way to the Doctor. Little did she know she was about to get poked! :(

 

Bandaid thighs

 

Love my little Quinnie.

Our first camping trip

We were unsure about going camping with a two month old but when we found a little trailer for a really good deal with thought we could make it on our annual trip to Colter Bay!

The first night we were there it was rough because we didn't know how the furnace worked and I didn't sleep a wink because I was so worried Quinn might be cold. I told Cole that I don't think I could make it another night up there, but then we got the furnace working and we all slept really good after that. Quinn slept even better in the trailer than at home! 

Quinn loved it up there. She loves being outside. It was very exhausting to have a newborn camping though. We were so tired when we got home. We mostly just hung out at the camp spot and went on walks, but we did go to Yellowstone, and Cole and I went on the boat while Grandma and Jill watched Quinn. 

Every year, I have a million pictures of the Tetons, animals, and boating, but I was looking at my pictures and all of them were of Quinn. I guess we are just all about her right now and that is how it should be. 

Here are the pictures from our trip! 

Our new little trailer

On our way! 

Everyone just sat around and stared at Quinn (first grand baby/first niece)

Quinn and Cole's brother Nick

All bundled up. Man that hat makes her cheeks look chubby!

Cole changing her onsie in the car after she spit up all over it.

Daddy starting her off early ;)

Auntie Jill bought her these pjs in Yellowstone 

Had to get a family picture of our first trip before we headed out. 

Quinn thinks I'm funny

I told Quinn a joke and she thought it was hilarious. A real knee-slapper I guess. 

Grand Tetons and Quinn's first big road trip

If you know Cole and I at all, you know our favorite place in the world is Grand Teton National Park and Colter Bay. We went to Hawaii last year and loved it but both agree that we still love the Tetons even better. I guess we are wide-open-spaces kind of people. 

We decided to go for a little day drive up to Jackson Hole and Colter Bay yesterday (one of the perks of now living in Idaho Falls is being a lot closer). We wanted to introduce our little bundle to our favorite place. Even though she slept practically the whole time, it was nice to get away for the day and realize that we can still get out and "do stuff" with a baby.

At the General Store at Colter Bay

Colter Bay and the Teets :)

 

It was cloudy at first but turned out to be a beautiful day.

We went back to Jackson Hole and picked up some dinner to eat at the park. Quinn loves being outside.

It was so nice to get away. The drive is beautiful and it was nice just chatting with   Cole the whole time. Until next time Tetons!

Being a mommy

I cannot believe Quinn has been here a month!! It felt like being pregnant dragged on and on especially near the end. Now time has been flying by and I swear every time I pick Quinn up, she's heavier. 

Motherhood has been good. It is definitely an adjustment, but it is amazing to know that this little girl is mine. I feel pretty lucky. She is a good eater and has pretty good temperament. She smiles at me all the time. Is that normal for a 3-4 week old? She is super active. Her legs and arms are constantly moving and she often works herself up because her arms are flailing all over. If I hold her arms down or swaddle her, she calms down.

I've been able to get her to sleep four hours at a time. So I feed her and put her down at 12:30 am and she'll sleep until 4:30 or 5 am. She'll eat again and then sleep from 7-9 or 10 am. So I guess I can't complain. She is so loud when she sleeps. She's a major grunter. I makes me wonder if she has an upset tummy. She grunts for hours! But she doesn't seem bothered by it so I just ignore it and try to sleep. 

I think the hardest thing for me so far is losing my freedom. It's hard when I can't even shower or eat or go to the store on a whim. But giving up my freedom is totally worth it when I look at my cute little girl. 

I can't wait to workout!! I should be able to start in a week or two. It will be interesting trying to balance getting back in shape and breastfeeding. 

Motherhood has been everything I've imagined and more. I feel so blessed that  Heavenly Father entrusted me with a healthy baby girl. I hope I can be the mommy she deserves! 

My new favorite picture of her.

Cole is such a great daddy. 

This picture makes me laugh. She's like yo yo...doing a gang sign

Chubster

Can't kiss her little cheeks enough

One month postnatal. Can't wait to get this body back in shape. I haven't been sweaty in a long time and I can't wait to get my sweat on!

Quinn

Quinn Geneva Seamons was born June 15, 2013 at 4:22am and weighed 7 lbs 8 oz and was 21 inches long. She almost made it on her due date, but decided to come a few hours late. She has already been here a week and I can't believe it. She has totally changed our lives! Less sleep, less freedom, but totally worth it. We love her so much! She is our little gift from heaven.

I wanted to share my labor story because I always love reading other blogs stories and hope to turn my blog into a year book. 

I had a doctor appointment June 10 and was only dilated to a 1. My doctor was going on vacation June 18 so we scheduled an induction for the 17 which I was not happy about. I didn't want induced at all especially on my first. I woke up on June 13 at 5 am and was having cramps and soon realized they were contractions. I didn't realize that contractions would feel like really bad menstrual cramps. I started timing them, and they were only 10 mins apart all day and until about 3am the next night they ran from 4 to 6 minutes apart. So I called the hospital to see what they thought. They said that because it was my first, I had to wait until they were 2-3 minutes apart. Ugh. I was in a lot of pain. I didn't get any sleep. I tried to pass the time, by staying busy, but it was hard when every 6 minutes I had to bend over and "he he haw" breath. I sat in a hot bath a couple times and just waited...

Cole had decided to go to work

since I was progressing so slowly, but when he called me to check on me, i started crying because I was scared. He said he was going to just come home so I didn't have to be alone. He was sweet and brought me some flowers. 

I knew I should just call my doctor and see what he thought, but I am so stubborn, I didn't want to sound dumb because my contractions weren't being consistent. Cole finally just called our doctor and he was so nice. He had us meet him at his office even on his day off. So we went in and he checked me. I was dilated to a 4. He said, you guys wanna have a baby today?! I was so excited especially since it was her due date and I wouldn't have to be induced. He told us to grab some lunch and head over to the hospital. Yikes! Cole and I couldn't believe it was time. 

So we went home and hung out for a couple hours. I'd rather do most of my laboring at home than at the hospital. 

We got to the hospital around 4:30pm and they had me change and got my IV started. They had me start my antibiotics since I tested positive for Group B Strep. I had to get two doses of that before the baby got here. Each one had to wait 4 hours. Sheesh! Now it was just more waiting. It wasn't what Cole and I expected at all - lotsa waiting. Lotsa walking to get things moving along. I was still only having contractions about 6 minutes apart. 

Coles parents were so excited, they came to visit and wish us luck. They ended up crashing at our house because it took a long time. 

I'm not sure exactly what time my Dr. came in our room, I think it may have been around 10pm and said let's get things moving. So he broke my water. I was so nervous for this. I though it would hurt, but it didn't hurt at all. It did increase my contractions though. My contractions became much more intense and hurt sooo bad. I practically squeezed Cole's and the nurse's hand off every contraction. I made it to a dilation of 6-7 and decided to get the epidural. It was kinda hard to be still getting the epidural and having an intense contraction at the same time. But boy was that epidural heavenly. I know all I kept saying was why doesn't everyone get this, it feels so much better!! 

They turned off the lights and let us sleep, checking on me every hour. My dilation was progressing I think because my body was finally relaxed. The nurse came in I believe at about 3:30am and said okay, are you ready to push? I was so nervous and excited because it was time for by baby to get here. 

The nurse said this will probably take 2 hours and in my head I thought, I am no way taking 2 hours to push this baby out. I pushed and pushed hard. I pushed so hard it made me throw up. The Dr. kept saying she has dark hair. i could believe it. Cole looked so nervous, but he did such an amazing job coaching me along. It only took 45 minutes and she was here. They set her in my chest and she squealed. She was the most beautiful little thing I've ever seen!! 

We had to stay in the hospital for 2 days because of my Group B Strep. It was probably a good thing because we were able to get more sleep. 

She has been such a good baby. I could just hold her and stare at her even when she is awake through the night, I am so content holding her in my arms. We love you so much Baby Q!! 

Cole holding her for first time.

Grandma Marsha and Quinn 

Second day home

Such a good daddy

Nap time with mommy

Cousins Quinn and Cameron meet - only 10 days apart 

Funny faces

1 week old!!

What's going on?

Life has been busy and has gone so fast since we've moved here. I was so lucky to have my company in Boise let me work remotely in IF until just last week. I think that I might have gone a little crazy with out working a little each day. Especially since Cole has been working really hard and long hours at his job everyday. We like Idaho Falls. We miss Boise because of the weather and all the stuff going on there, but we are happy to be closer to family. And it always takes a little while to get used to a new city and new people.

We made a ton of updates to our house and we are sick of painting!! Well, Cole is. I didn't really paint. But I got sick of watching Cole paint. :)

The baby is going to be here anytime now, but I'm due in exactly three weeks. I can't believe we're going to have a little human being to take care of in less than a month. Yikes! I'm so excited to meet her and see what she looks like.

I have felt so good this whole pregnancy except this week has been miserable. I was hit with a cold and it hurts so bad to cough with a big preggo belly. And I've been having some horrible hip pain to the point where I can't even walk...I guess it's my body telling me that I need to slow down. I've been so used to just go-go-going. I had to go to the chiropractor to get adjusted and it scares me so bad. I hate being popped. I feel so bad for the baby being twisted at the chiropractor today and me coughing so much. She's probably wondering what is going on out here. I hope I feel better soon because this has been a miserable couple of days.

I know I've been bad at my blog. But I've really wanted to keep it going because I wanted to keep the whole "Health" part up for after the baby comes. I'm really excited to track my progress about getting back into shape after having a baby.

Here are a few pictures of happenings since we've moved here.

Right after we moved to IF, I actually flew up to Portland for two weeks and watched my sister Molly's kids for a couple weeks while they went to Hawaii. Her kids are so great. I was nervous to watch four kids by myself, but I don't know what I was worried about because they are the best four kids I know.

I attempted to be an entertaining aunt by getting stuff for making jelly bean and toothpick creations. I think they like it. 

Calvin and I went to the dump truck graveyard at least four times. This place is sweet. People brought their old toy dump trucks to this sand pit at the park and left them there for other kids to play with. There was probably 30 trucks and Calvin loved it. We would always pack a picnic and then walk to meet Campbell and Jack at their elementary school afterward.

 You close enough to the TV, Calvin?

We made a little sign for Molly and Lee to welcome them home. The kids were so excited to see their Mommy and Daddy and hear all about their cool trip.

Back in IF, I used to spend a day or two working at Starbucks just to get out of the house. But then this "regular" started showing up with his cat so I put an end to that. Who takes their cat to Starbucks?

We have been working so hard on redoing our kitchen and we finally got it done. We repainted all the cabinets and got new hardware. We got new appliances and also tiled the floor.

Here's the before

Here is the after

There was wallpaper everywhere. We had a heck of a time trying to get it down in the bathroom. Here is the before of my mom trying to take it down in our bathroom. 

  

Here is the after

Here is the little forest decoration I put up in the baby room. It turned out really cute and only cost $20 on Amazon.

Cole's sister Jill got us this Notre Dame baby blanket which Cole loved. That girl is a fan of ND even though she isn't even here yet.

Jill also threw me a baby shower. It turned out super cute and fun. This was the only pic I got. Doesn't Cole look thrilled?

A few weeks ago we went to Salt Lake City for a "Babymoon". We had a really great time. This is us at a Salt Lake REAL soccer game. 

We went to temple square and went to Music and the Spoken Word. 

We also got to hang out with my Brother Kyle. It's always fun to visit him.

And...here is me at 37 weeks.

The preggo belly makes for a nice snack shelf.

I think I'm ready for the baby to come. Everything is set up, the hospital bags are packed, and I am uncomfortable so in about a week you can come okay baby girl?

 Well next time I blog, it may be a post about our baby girl's arrival. Stay tuned!