BEST WEEK EVER!!!

I can't believe our little Avree is already 1 week old today! She is so sweet and so fun, we love her to bits.

Here is how she got here.

My due date was Sept 11. That day I was having braxton hicks contractions ALL day and in the evening they were 5 minutes apart so I was thinking we were going to be going to the hospital that day, but I decided to lay down and get some rest, and just like that the contractions all but stopped. On Sunday morning at about 10 AM I started to get REAL contractions. Holy cow! We went to dinner at the Laidlaws and I felt like I was ready to die so we went home and I showered and got ready to go to the hospital. We got to the hospital at 3 pm and I was dialated to a 5, so they checked us in and we kinda hung out for awhile. My nurse was awesome, told her that I wanted to TRY to see how long I could go without an epidural. She helped me breath through the contractions which helped. By the time I decided I was ready for an epidural the nurse said I was an 8 and Dr Benham was on his way to break my water and Avree was ready to get here. 45 minutes later Avree made her debut at 6:55! It was the hardest few hours of my life!!!
Our little Avree Bug

Jeremy cutting the cord
Our little Family :) Loves

Proud papa

8 pounds 1 oz. She was bigger than everyone thought

Jeremy's cousin Brittany was Avree's nurse and my friend Melissa was the tech. We had lots of good people taking care of us. The nurse, Melinda even stayed late for her shift to help me, her kids kept calling her. She was so sweet

24 hours old! Ready to go home!

Jeremy is such an amazing dad, he is so dang helpful and is not afraid of poopy bums...lots and lots of poopy bums

She has the most beautiful hair, its so silky. That is the reason I ate my weight in tums

On the changing table, where she spends a ton of time

This melts my heart

cousin Peyton

This is my friend Tiffany's little girl Kambree on the left, she was born 2 weeks earlier than Avree

Avree is so much chunkier.

Avree is starting to figure out what night is, I think I am pretty spoiled. She is a pretty good sleeper and eater. She even gained weight her first week, which is uncommon for babies. She weighed in at 8 lbs 5 oz on Friday at her 1st drs apointment which is the 70th percentile. I can just sit and watch her make silly little faces all day long. She even smiles-right before or after a good toot :) She can scream like a banshee when she is hungry. We just can't believe that she is ours forever!

Summer Love

I'm pretty much the worst blogger ever. Not that our life is super interesting though. Since summer is wrapping up and our lives are about to get a bit more chaotic I figure I better do something on here.

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We just went to a BBQ for my moms work

Little Miss Davi climbing the wall
Peyton came back from the slip n slide looking like this

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This weekend we went up to Salt Lake City and Park City- my sisterAshley helped us win a gift package to Park City and a chance to win a 16 day trip to Kenya for a safari, We needed to be at the Hogle zoo on saturday for the giveaway so we made a weekend out of it. The getaway package we won had the hotel stay, dinner, olympic park ride tickets and a summer lift pass. we love free stuff!

Here is our hotel, when we had our room service come to our room it was a girl I went to high school with-small world. We had such a nice relaxing weekend, we needed to take advatage of it since we can count the remaining CALM weekends we have on one hand :)

On Sunday we went to the olympic park. I was "highly advised" not to ride any of the rides but it was still a lot of fun

This is the little zip line, I missed getting a shot of everyone on the big extreme zip line that went about 50 mph

The olympic skiers were practicing jumping into the pool, it was pretty cool. This guy was from Australia and bustin out the douple back flips like it was nothing.

We went on the ski lift ride, it was way pretty. These lifts make Brianhead look like nothing

Just chilling on the top of the mountain enjoying the view of Park City

Here's the belly at 36 weeks, I had to get permission to come up north, I promised my Dr she wouldnt come while we were gone. Thank goodness she didn't

We went to the baby elephants birthday party for the safari giveaway. cute little Peyton

Me and Davi

This is how we avoid loosing little kids in our family... I wrote Peytons moms number on her arm... just in case, fortunately it wasn't necessary

Here's the baby elephant trashing everything, it was pretty cute

Here is the momma elephant picking the winner. We all had pretty good odds, there were 25 people in the drawing and 6 of them were from our family-my family is amazing at winning things. I was crossing my fingers but my sisters brother in law ended up winning the safari! yay Buck.

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Jeremy "needed" an upgrade, he sold his '04 450 crf and got an '07. He got a good deal... or so he tells me.

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Annual Beaver Mountain trip

I hope Avree gets Jeremys eyes

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Lake Time

We took my family to Gunlock

Peyton wanted Jeremy to jump off the back of the boat with her ALL DAY

Me and the Peyters

She was so worn out she was drooling

Davi

Emilee, my little cabage patch doll

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We are just trying to get everything set up for little Avrees arrival. she should be here in less than 4 weeks!! It is so crazy to think about how different our lives will be forever

Panguitch

Last weekend was the balloon festival in Panguitch and the Laidlaws went up to enjoy the cool weather. Jeremy and Nate took their bikes up for saturday, I didn't go because it was my friends baby shower. My sister in law Brittany is an awesome photographer and she took some pics of the boys riding. I have no idea how to resize them without making them fuzzy-so look closely :)

Jeremy jumping the canal

Jez & N8 the supermodels

Here's the baby bumpage at 29 weeks. Everything is still going really good. She is super active and wiggles and stretches all day. It blows my mind that she will be here in just over 2 months. ahhh!!! I'm so nervous/excited. She already has jeremy wrapped around her tiny little finger

Lake Meadness

We got our camp on this weekend at Lake Mead with the Johnsons, Callisters and N8 and Alisha. The weather wasnt perfect but it was still fun to chill with everyone. I have to admit its a total bummer not wakeboarding... next year i will be back at at though. I'm looking forward to the rest of the summer and many more lake trips

Our campsite
Jeremy bustin out the old backflip like its nothing

straping back in after a good wipeout

Tyler surfing

N8 tearin it up

showing us their muscles before they jump. of course my camera is aweful and this.....

....was all i got of their jump