Family Baby Shower

My mom and her sweet friends through a baby shower for my family members and family friends.  One of my favorite people in the world, Cherilyn offered her beautiful home for the shower and the food was beyond amazing!!!  Our family and friends were wonderful and beyond generous.  This little boy is going to be so pampered and loved!  I am so very grateful to all those who love and support us and our sweet little boy.  So much fun!

B A B Y P A R T Y !!!

We are so blessed to live in such a wonderful neighborhood and even more so, to belong to such a great ward.  Some of our sweet friends from our ward threw us a couple's baby shower.  It was actually more of a "last night out before having a baby" party.  It was amazing.  We knew about the shower (when and where), but everything that was going to happen was a complete surprise.  Everything about the night was about our favorite things!  For dinner, we had a variety of mexican food (my favorite).  On the tables were peanuts (Eldon's fav) and m&ms( my fav).   We played some great baby games such as who can drink the juice from the bottle first, the clothes pin game of who can not cross their legs the longest (p.s. eldon won that one!), who can dress a baby blind folded the fastest, which candy bar (poopy diaper) is which melted.  We also had a DANCE PARTY!!!  yep, its true.  A full on disco lights, balloon floor filled, dj music'ed dance party.  It was awesome!!!  And again, my fav!  And the best part was, our friends totally rocked out with us, and even Eldon danced!  It was a blast!  We truly had such an amazing time with our dear friends, and they were all so very generous that we got some amazing gifts for our sweet little Xander.  Lets just say that he will be rollin in style for quite some time thanks to the generosity of our friends!





One of the major highlights of the evening was the parenting advice we received from our friends.  I hope you enjoy as much as we did.  It was some amazing advice!!

We just wanted to thank all those that came and played with us and especially give a big THANKS to those who organized the night so that we could party and feel so very loved by those around us!!!!  We know we are so very lucky and we know that Xander will be all the more lucky to grow up surrounded by such amazing people!  We love you all!

Baby Update

Baby Xander Update

Gestational Age: 38+ weeks

Measuring: Right on Target!!

Approx Weight: 6 lbs 5 oz.+ (this weight was at 37 weeks)

Status: Healthy, growing and perfect!

 The countdown has begun.  In less than a week, we should be holding this sweet little boy in our arms.  I am beyond exstatic.  It still feels so surreal that the time has finally comes.  This has been the longest pregnancy ever!!!!  But it is finally time and we are so anxious to bring this sweet little boy home.  Unfortunately due to some recent happenings, Carolyn is no longer able to come to Arizona to deliver the baby.  We are not very happy that our plan did not work out, but that has been how things have worked in our life lately, so we will move forward and change our plans to go to Florida.  Since she wont have the chance to see his nursery in person, and because we think it is super cute, I just thought I would share a few pics of what it looks like.  Of course, it will be so much cuter once there is an adorable little boy living there.  In the mean time, enjoy....

I made these letters to go above his crib.

our friend made this cute little chair. Love it!

Unlucky Lucky Number 7

So we had a happy little secret.  No one knew. Which was big for me, because I am terrible at secrets.  Unfortunately, the happy little secret became a sad announcement to share.  I was pregnant, but at our 10 week appointment, there was no longer a heartbeat.  We were devastated.  This little one was the 7th biological child of ours.  We were so very hopeful with this pregnancy.  This was the first time that I had become pregnant without medical assistance.  That in and of itself was a huge step forward.  This was also the first baby other than the twins to make it beyond 6 or 7 weeks.  We were in absolute shock just at becoming pregnant, and then as the days passed by, we began to have hope that maybe this one would be the lucky one.

Our hearts are broken once again.  Once again, we suffered the heartache and pain of losing another child.  And once again, I had to endure a procedure to remove a baby that would never come home.  This little one brought hope again to my heart that it may be possible to have a biological child, but now we do not know.  This little one did however make it far enough for testing to be done.  So we are currently anxiously awaiting the results to see if there is anything that can be done in the future to help me to carry a baby to term.  I am already missing the sweet feeling of being pregnant.  Even though I am miserable when I am pregnant, it was so very fun to have a happy little secret inside me.  Someday we will have you again little one.  In the meantime, you brought us hope.