Brooke is home!!!

It truly is the greatest thing ever to be home! We left Provo Friday just before noon and didn't have to deal with any storms, which was wonderful! We are loving being home. Tyler tore through the house like a mad man going from room to room just making sure everything is still here! :) It was pretty funny.

I knew we were gonna be in for it when Brooke was in my belly and about 1o:30-11pm every night she would get very active. Yup, we were right - she's a night owl and we are now zombies. But - it is the greatest blessing that she is here, healthy, and went home with us. I am in 7th heaven. I am doing good. Slowly recovering from my c-section. I like to think I can do more than I should - then I really hurt and regret thinking I need to be busy. Ryan is loving home life too. He has been playing in the snow with Tyler and doing lots of "boy stuff". He's been great keeping Tyler happy and away from climbing on me!

Tyler is so happy and he really loves his baby sister. It seems he has really grown up this last week or so. He doesn't seem like my baby anymore. :( He is being such a big boy which makes me a little sad. He was thrilled when he saw how much snow we had at our house and he really had been missing our Christmas decor - especially the tree. He is so excited about Christmas and sings "Santa Claus is coming to town" on a regular basis! He is so much fun.

Brooke Kristine has made her big appearance!!!!

And wow, she is beautiful. I am completely in love! :) She was born at 1030 this morning via c-section and is doing great. She wanted to grunt when she was born so they had the NICU Dr come down along with a respiratory therapist. She passed with them and went to well baby. Can you believe it? I had a baby and she went to well baby and will go home with us?! Crazy. Anyways - she is 7 lbs 3oz and is 19 inches long. She has strawberry blonde hair and the greatest round cheeks. Tyler is loving her and thinks it's pretty cool. He likes to look at her and has asked to hold her a couple of times! Here are a few pics and I'll post more tomorrow night. :)

We made it!

Well, we're on our 11th night at the hotel and we are SICK OF IT! But.....we made it and my c-section is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 0930! We will go in at 0715 and I am so so so ready. :) I am taking my laptop, so hopefully we can get pics up by tomorrow night-ish. Wish us luck and in 11 short hours I will be holding and kissing my sweet baby! Love to everybody! :)

Killing time....

We're seriously getting SO bored. How many stores can you walk around, really?! Especially with no money, seems how it's all getting dumped into our motel and food bills! We're getting sick of being around people constantly, so we retreat to the motel but that gets boring too. Our typical day goes like this: I'm awake by 5 or 6 (I'm just not sleeping anymore so I'm pretty much up all night off and on) but have to be quiet until the boys wake up. Ryan is up by 8ish and Tyler is closer to 9. If we're up & going before 9 we go down to the breakfast, otherwise we eat the stash we have saved in our room. Then we all get ready and head out around 11. Wander some stores, drive around, eat lunch and we're back to the motel around 3. Ryan "tries" to nap, Tyler plays and I usually get on my computer. Once again - the sleep thing isn't working for me and it is so uncomfortable to lay. Ryan and Tyler go swimming around 5 for an hour or so. We then go get dinner. Lately it's been picking up a quick dinner and eating at the motel. It's a lot cheaper than restaurants every night. Then - we chill at the motel, watch anything Christmas-y since it really doesn't feel like Christmas being shacked up in a motel or anything good that we can find and crash around 10-11. What a life! It really does suck. I just want to go home.... Here's hoping the full moon will help us out tonight. Otherwise, I have a feeling we're waiting until Tuesday....

We took Tyler to Krispy Kreme the other night. He loved it! Can you tell?! :)

And....here's Ryan about 5am crashed out on the sofa hide a bed that's on the floor since half the springs are broken. I was awake, bored and decided to take pics. Luckily, the flash didn't wake them! :)

Is it really a "home" away from home?!

Our new home - Super 8. At my last appt my Dr said I really need to stay in Provo until the baby is born because I'm dialating and he didn't feel good about me being so far away. So......we went home, packed our bags, wrapped up things at our house and moved North. Nothing like being 8.5 months pregnant, living out of a suitcase, having to eat out every meal and sleeping in a crappy motel bed for the last *and most uncomfortable* 5-10 days of your pregnancy. Ughhhhhhhhhhhh......Can this baby PLEASE just make a grand entrance so we can go home and see our cute Christmas decor and sleep in our own beds? What does a girl have to do?!