Addilyn Grant

While I had a few minutes to myself with both kids sleeping I thought I would use the time to write down Addilyn's birth story.

So beginning the night of Friday, July 3 I was up most of the night with painful contractions. After being up with them for awhile, I woke Jake up around 1:00 am and asked if he would help me time them, he graciously agreed. After timing them for an hour he felt like we needed to go to the hospital since they were very consistent, coming every 3 minutes and lasting between 40 and 60 seconds.  I was so nervous to get in the car and head to the hospital because I didn't want to get sent home like I did with Kason. We also would have had to call Jake's cousin over to come and sleep with Kason, and I didn't want to disturb her unless it was the real deal. I decided to call Labor and Delivery and see what they thought.  They recommended taking some Tylenol and if the Tylenol didn't help then to come in. Unfortunately, the Tylenol helped and I fell asleep around 4:30. We were kind of disappointed in that we were hoping for a 4th of July baby. The 4th of July weekend was fun, but no baby in sight. On Monday morning I woke up feeling a little off, and began to once again get my hopes up.  As the day went on, I began to feel better and better, much to my disappointment. That night we went to bed around 10:30-11:00.  About 11:30 I began to feel some contractions, but nothing major. I decided to take some Tylenol and see if that made them go away or not. By 12:00 am they were feeling pretty intense and I began to time them. Once again, they were coming very regularly and lasting a minute, but they weren't any more painful than the ones I felt a few nights before. At 12:30 they really picked up, I woke Jake up and told him that I thought it was time to go to the hospital. He jumped out of bed as if he had been expecting it the whole time! We quickly called his cousin (who lives next door) and she was over here in a minute. As we left, I told her I was really sorry if it wasn't the real deal and we were sent home. ( I was still feeling like I might get sent home.)

Although, by the time we arrived at the hospital at 12:45 I was feeling pretty confident that the baby was coming. They quickly hooked me up to the monitors and we discovered that I was at a 7! A 7 for reals? I got all the way to a 7 that quickly? Well, then the panic set in. With Kason I missed my window for an epidural and I was panicking that I would once again miss the window since you can't be past an 8 to get one.  Lucky for me there were four other women having babies that morning and the anesthesiologist was already at the hospital ready to roll. Around 1:30 I got my epidural and he told me I shouldn't have waited so long to come in....well I didn't wait that long, I only had contractions for an hour before we made the quick decision to come in. The epidural was great, it eased the pain and for a couple of hours I could actually enjoy the experience. Around 3:00 the pain started to get really intense and sure enough I was complete and ready to have a baby.  They called my doctor at 3:05 and my amazing doctor was in my room at 3:12, scrubbed up with a smile on his face.  He broke my water at 3:15 and  I began pushing.

Sweet baby Addi entered this world at 3:23 AM on July 7, 2015. Weighing in at 7 lbs. 15 oz, measuring 21 inches long. She beat her brother by 2 ounces and 1/2 an inch. We spent all day Tuesday and Tuesday night at the hospital and we were headed home by 11:00 on Wednesday morning. She was born with a head full of blonde hair just like her brother and she is a complete sweetheart. Other than being a little jaundiced, she is healthy and happy. Although, she hates being on the jaundice light bed. Kason loves her dearly, he loves to give her kisses and hold her. He also likes to watch her as she sleeps and say, " Be-be Ah-ee seeping."  (Baby Addi sleeping.) He is learning how to adjust to having a baby sister around, it is difficult for him sometimes to have share his mom with her, but overall he is handling it better than expected. He also doesn't like having to be quiet all of the time.

Addilyn Grant

Kason meeting his baby sister for the first time

First family picture

Jake spending time with Addi

More getting to know each other

Kason sure loves "his" bee-bee Ah-ee

Spending time on her bili-bed. She hated it!

As a little side note, if you read Kason's birth story, I mention how my dad predicted his due date. (Kason was born on his due date of August 19, 2013) and my dad predicted that he would be born on exactly his due date. Well my dad did it again! My official due date for Addilyn was July 10, 2015. At my 18 week ultrasound for her she was measuring a few days big to be born on July 7.  The doctor didn't move my due date since it was only by a few days, but knowing this, my dad predicted that she would come on her unofficial due date of July 7, 2015, and what do you know? Addi was born on exactly that....July 7, 2015. That is twice now that he has correctly predicted my baby's due date! With my next baby if I want to know when he/she will come I will just ask my dad since he has a pretty good track record!

Hello All!

Um whoa! I just realized today how long ago my last post was! When I started this blog years ago, I had every intention of keeping this blog as up to date as possible for history's sake, well, you can see how that is going! I have found that I just don't have as much time during the day to blog like I used to. I guess having an almost 2 year old will do that!  I also have a few little projects going on right now that take up my free time when Kason is asleep or napping.

So much as happened since my last post. I guess the first major event was finding out that we were expecting another baby. I am due with baby #2 next month! My official due date is July 10th, but you know I would definitely be okay if baby decided to come a bit earlier than that. Also, we found out that baby #2 is a little girl. I am so excited to be adding a little girl to our family. Kason is already so cute with "Be-be." He loves to kiss my belly and call his sister by name, he also loves to throw all of his stuff into her crib for some reason. I hope these last 2 and 1/2 weeks fly by! We are so anxious to welcome the new baby into our home. 

Kind of being shy and not wanting to show her face. 

The next major event was getting to spend Christmas in Croatia. It was so fun to be able to spend almost 3 weeks with Jake's parents and siblings. We were able to see and do so many fun things while we were there.  There are some really beautiful sights in that part of the world that we were lucky enough to be able to see. The traveling over there was a bit of a stress.  We had Kason who was 14 months old at the time and it was a tad bit stressful trying to travel 20 hours with a toddler. We had multiple layovers, a canceled flight, and hours spent waiting in line, but we finally made it, and considering the circumstances, Kason did really quite well. 

Cathedral in Centar

Christmas Decor in Centar

Lake Bled in Slovenia

Such a sweet picture!

Lake Bohinj in Slovenia

Adriatic Coast in Zadar, Croatia

After returning from Croatia we spent time with family. We enjoyed having Jake's siblings visit us the month of February. Almost every weekend we had someone staying with us and it was so much fun. We really miss getting to spend time with the Grant family now that my in-laws are in Europe. We don't get to see everyone as much, and it is so fun when we get the opportunity to do so.  Jake's brother was married in April and we were able to see everyone again for the wedding festivities. We also got to attend the Saturday morning session of General Conference while we were up there, what a neat experience that was! 

Family picture at the SLC temple

Saturday morning session of General Conference

Jake graduated with his Bachelor's and Master's of Accounting degrees at the beginning of May.  I am so proud of him and all of his hard work.  He has balanced school work, working part-time, and being a father and a husband so gracefully. He has accomplished so much the last few years and it is great to see him succeeding. It is so so so great to be at the finish line of school. Even though I graduated a couple of years ago, it has still felt a bit like I have been in school with Jake. I worry along with him when he has a test or a lot of homework, I also read and edit any papers he writes. 

The last few months have been a little more quiet. We are just anticipating and getting ready for new baby. Jake is working on his last few summer classes and doing so well.  We are also getting excited to move in September. We are starting to think about places to live in Las Vegas and getting a new car to get us down there. We just found out today that our beast of a Saturn is finally in its final days. The transmission has been going out on it for the last four years and we were told that the car would not make it more than a year. Well here we are four years later and it is finally really about to die. We were hoping the car would get us through school and sure enough, it did! We took it in for an oil change just today and the mechanic said the car was not even worth an oil change, he recommended just driving it until it dies, or selling it to a junk yard. What a good car the Saturn has been, but it is time to move on.  Big changes coming soon!