Sam, Kristol, Daxton, and Danaka

Here is my last picture before Daxton was born. Daxton arrived Monday night, June 22 at 7:07 PM. 7lbs. 3 1/2 oz. 21 inches. Monday morning at 12 AM I woke up crampy. I went back to sleep, only to wake up again at 2:00 having contractions. They weren't bad, but I knew we may be going to the hospital that night, so I got up and put my makeup on. Sam woke up wondering what I was doing. Neither of us could go back to sleep, so we watched a movie until about 4:30 when the contractions became more consistent. We drove 50 minutes to the hospital. It was nice because my contractions were about 5 minutes apart, but not too bad yet. I was checked and was only dilated to a 2.5. So we went and got breakfast. Then we visited Lynly, a friend who had her baby the previous Saturday and was getting ready to go home. But visiting her my contractions slowed down. So Sam and I decided to go walking and take stairs around for another hour or so and my contractions got a lot worse. At 9:30 AM I was adm...

I wanted to thank all those who threw me showers. I was lucky enough to have three. One with family, one with friends and neighbors, and one with my work friends. This first one is the family shower that was a double shower with my cousin Kolbi. She is due with a little boy two weeks before me. Her mom, Mindee, and my mom threw this shower. Check out the food. It was amazing. My aunt Darci made this 'diaper cake'. My goal is to be this creative someday. These are pictures of a shower thrown by my long time friends Nicole Broadbent and Andrea Bohman. Everyone tied an adorable quilt that Nicole did for me. Thank you Lynly, a friend from work, who threw me this shower. And she is due just 4 days before me with a little boy as well. And thank you Ryan for being man enough to come to a baby shower. :)

Sam's first baby picture Kristol's first baby picture. Yes, were are on the same blanket. I guess all the hospitals had the same 'first picture background blanket' back then. :) I couldn't help look at these and try to think what our little guy will look like.

Dying Easter Eggs at mom's house. Easter Dinner at Grandma & Grandpa's house, outside! Austin & Mom After all the Easter egg hunts were over. Me and my pregnant easter bunny. Shanna and Mom got me a pregnant easter bunny. I laughed so hard!

When I came home today, I was so excited to see the crib Sam had finished and had set up in the nursery. He has been working on it for a few weeks now. We designed it together, and it turned out way better that I had even imagined! It is made out of rustic cherry. You can also see in the picture the walls Sam painted pin-striped light and darker green. Then he put up molding around the top of the stripes.We're getting there. Sam has put so much time into everything. He is making a dresser/changing stand next. It is all coming together. We are getting so excited. As I have had a couple of friends say, "You spend months getting the nursery ready, you bring the baby home and put him in it, then you just look at him. And you think, now what do I do with him?! :)" Yeah, that will probaby be me. You can see the darling baby quilt my mom made. There is a close up of it below. Someday I'll learn how to quilt, and maybe I can make the one for our next kid. She made me a bigg...

OK, so I only rode as passanger for a couple of rides, and forgot my camera. Sam took it easy because he is trying to sell his machine. But we had a great time at the dunes. We went with some friends, Sean and Jenny. Here is the one picture I got of Sam and Sean chillin' inbetween rides.

This is a 3D ultrasound of our little guy at about 23 weeks on Feb. 19. I am a little behind posting this. You can see his head in profile, with his leg curled up around the front. His hand and foot are hiding part of his face.