ITS A GIRL!!

So yesterday at, i think, 7:23 PM, I gave birth to a very beautiful baby girl! She weighs 7lbs. and 12oz. and is 18 1/2 inches long, very short if I do say so myself. Exspecially considering that her dad was a twin and was early and that is how long he was. She is such a doll and I know that everyone has been waiting for the new post of pictures to see her so since I am up at 2:45 AM doing nothing I thought I would do my job. Be waiting for some more photos though because I dont have a ton on my camera and plus she looks different everytime I look at her. She was really swollen at first so everyone that got a photo of her right after doesn't even know what she looks like because she doesn't look anything like that picture anymore :)

oh and I think we are naming her Alexis Grace Whitaker. Brandon told me whatever I want and that is what I want and that is what everyone is calling her.... but I haven't filled out the birth certificate yet so if it changes I will let you know.

mom at the start of the day (hottie)

mom after one very great epidural (oh yes I had an epidural) I was having contractions 1 to 2 mins apart from 10:00 AM until 5:00 PM with no meds and I was still dialated to a 2 the whole stinking time and then I couldn't handle it anymore because the Pit was making them so stinking strong and then I had some other medicine to control pain which made me a fruitcake and I was falling asleep and in pain so I gave up and luckily I did because they think that is what finally dialated me :) because I was headed to a C- section

....and yes I was in the middle of pushing trying to change the channel on the tv in this picture. WAY TO GO epidural!! :)

Our baby right after she was born and her daddy is cutting her cord... and yes she is a little blue which was really freaking him out but the cord was around her neck so they had to just get that off and warm her up and she was all good :)

her and her daddy when she was getting all warmed up

Alexis Grace Whitaker

7lbs. 12oz. 18 1/2 in. long

May 21, 2008

34 weeks... and counting!!

Here I am at around 34 weeks, gall im getting BIG!! (and the flowers that my mom and dad sent to me cause they couldn't be here when I had to go to the hospital)

HELP

So I am sick of my page and I want to give it a little make over. So if anyone has any advice as to how I do that, then that would be great because I dont have a clue how to make a cute updated page on blogger.

Baby Picture

So I saw this picture that someone had done and I thought it was way too cute so I had Kristen (my sister-in-law) take the same one for me. Hope you all like it!

Baby problems

I just thought I would update everyone so everyone knows what happened. On Tuesday morning Brandon left for work at 3:15 AM like he always does and when he left I was having some contractions, nothing major just like braxton hicks. So I got as comfortable as I could and I went back to sleep. I woke up again at 7:00 and was having really bad contractions that were definatly not braxton hicks. I tried to lay different and that didn't help, I tried to get up and walk around and that didn't help either. So I called Brandon at work and told him to call me back in an hour to check on me because I was having contractions really bad and they weren't going away, by the end of our conversation I had changed my mind to having him call in 30 mins. So I tried to eat and take some tums to see if I just had a stomach ache and that wasn't the problem either, then I tried to get in the shower and that also failed to give any relief at all. I had called my mom to see if she had any advice because my doctors office wasn't opened yet and she called my old doctor who said I should go be seen which for me meant a 3 hour car ride and Brandon getting off of work, so I really was not wanting to do that. When 8:15 rolled around I called my doctors office and asked to talk to a nurse and left a message for a nurse to call me and I told the girl on the phone that I was almost 34 weeks pregnant and that I was having contractions. In the mean time Brandon called and said that everyone at work told him to leave and take me to the hospital and so he was on his way home and if the nurse called back and told me otherwise then he could just go back to work, so I agreed to that solution. Brandon got home and I was packing some clothes, just incase and he hurried and showered. Well as we were walking out the door my doctor called me back and he said that I need to come in and be seen and he wanted me to go to his office, then he asked me some questions and quickly changed his mind and told me to meet him in labor & delivery. At that point I was getting worried because that meant that it was serious. Brandon drove us as safely and quickly as he could and when we arrived at the hospital it seemed like everyone was waiting for us. They hooked me up to a monitor and gave me some tributaline to stop my contractions. It worked for a while and then they started to come back so they gave me more. Then they were coming back again so they gave me some demoral and phenogrine hoping that would do the trick. They slowed down enough that they felt comfortable sending me home and so they gave me another dose of tributaline and send me home with some pills to take if I started having contactions again. The doctor told me that I have to be a lady of leasure and told Brandon that he gets to take cold showers for the rest of my pregnancy, I had to laugh. So now I am in Fallon at my in-laws with no husband because he had to go back to work and I am trying to stay laying down but it is not easy or fun at all.

Our Story

Brandon and I met in Jan. 2006 at my cousins wedding reception. Brandon fell in love from the start and would constantly ask me to marry him or at least date him and me being me I would always refuse. We were introduced by my cousin Matt and the three of us and my cousin Tyson would go on lots of fun trips together and would always have so much fun together. Brandon had met basically my entire family on my dad's side and they all just loved him. Of course they would all tell me how nice of a guy he was and then proceed to tell me that they thought that he really liked me, time after time I would tell them "we are just friends and I like being just friends." The crazy part is that I really did like Brandon alot too and I didn't feel that brother/sister thing with him, but I just didn't want to date him and mess everything up because the way it was always worked out so well for us. So Brandon and I would text and call each other all the time and we always knew where one another were incase we needed anything or if we could meet up. (he was living in St. George, UT and I was in Tremonton, UT and then I moved to So. Cal and he moved to Round Mountain, NV) He had tried to get me to move to St. George and I just wouldn't so he left for better money. Well one day Brandon called me to tell me that he was "GETTING MARRIED" to this girl from Reno, NV and lets just say that I wasn't the supportive friend that I normally was when he called. I gave him every reason in the book as to why he shouldn't marry her. First of all they hadn't been dating for very long and second of all, and most important, she wasn't LDS and I just thought that would be really bad when they had kids. Okay and I will admit I was a little jealous, okay extremly jealous and Brandon had never dated another girl because he was so caught up on me. I was the one that dated other people and called him with my boy drama, not the other way around and so I was not happy. Brandon sensed my jealousy and he realized that I really did like him, which was a very good thing. He broke things off with her and was once again waiting for me, dumb dumb dumb. We tried to meet up at Thanksgiving because he was headed to Manti, UT for his sisters little boys blessing and I had moved home and was working in Gunnison, UT, but I was at work and Brandon came with his whole family in one car so they would of all had to come and I didn't know them at the time so that wouldn't of worked for them. and then after that we were just back to texting and calling each other when we had time. Well on Jan. 1, 2007 around 12:30 AM I called Brandon with a boy problem and he talked to me and made me feel better like he always did and then after that I could not get him out of my head. We had talked about him coming to visit me because he was gonna have 7 days off of work and I was at my apartment in Ephraim, UT all by myself because everyone was home for the holidays and at the time I didn't have a bed at my parents because they were living at my grandparents temporarly. We had decided that the trip wouldn't work because I once again had to work. Well, on Jan. 3 my work called me at 3 in the morning to tell me that I didn't need to come in because it was too slow and so I got off the phone and called Brandon and told him that I didn't have to work and I wanted him to come see me. He got up at what would be 2:00 AM for him and packed his stuff and came to Ephraim. :) We had a really good time and went snowboarding and to dinner and watched movies and just had a blast and for the first time Brandon kissed me. Well after that we started dating and about a month later I asked him to marry me, haha I know so funny. We were married on May 19, 2007 and we are now expecting our first baby. It is a girl and she is due on May 25, 2007 but my due date keeps moving up, which I must say is kinda nice.

Getting closer

So it is really getting close to time to deliver and I really thought I would be more prepared and have everything and I thought I would have a name set in stone and that my house would be clean because I am home all the time but let me just say that this isn't exactly my reality right now. Today for example I woke up around 8:30am and made some breakfast and ate in in bed. Then I put my plate on the floor and fell back asleep until 1:30pm, wow I know. So I just can't get so modivated and everyone has told me that it is normal and that I should get rest while I can blah blah, I really should clean my house!! Anyways so I know that there are things that I really need that I just dont have and I have been trying to get everything but my brain lately has went to garbage so if anyone has any suggestions of things that you just can't or couldn't live without being a new mom then let me know because I am totally up for suggestions. Also if anyone has any good advice on so called "easy delivery" (haha) let me know. I know some people have an easier time then others but really some people have given me great advice that I have really taken to heart and I think will really help me and I would love to hear more things that have helped :)