It's a BOY!!!

First picture after delivery

MY 5 boys...gorgeous!

LOVE THIS BABY BOY

4 days old and in the ER the night before thanksgiving

This little guy was born on Nov. 20th, 2010 at 5:37pm. Boston Richard Jones weighed 7 lbs 13oz and was 20.5 inches long. The labor was exactly how I wanted it to be. I have been dilating and thinning for quite some time. The week I delivered, Garet was in Canada on a hunting trip, and I was home trying not to have the baby until he got back. Well I did it! It is very hard when you are 37 weeks pregnant and ready to be in labor and instead of progressing it along you are trying to stop it. Garet came home on Nov. 20th at 4am. My water broke at 12noon. I didn't want to rush to the hospital because I wanted to progress on my own and didn't want any pitocin. We left the house at 2 and arrived to the hospital in slc at around 3:30pm. Upon check in I told the nurse I wanted to try to go natural IF I continued to progress on my own, didn't have to have pitocin to progress, and if the baby would turn to face down position. I definitely did not want to have the baby flipped while I was delivering. She tried hard to get me to commit to a natural delivery and I wanted to do it but there were so many considerations. When I checked in I was dilated to a 6 and thinned. The pain was totally manageable and the contractions were not too intense. at 5pm things started to change. The contractions and pain were SO INTENSE! I looked at Garet and was like I need help. In my mind I was thinking I still had hours to go and things were going to get much worse. He was asking what he could do to help and I was like I have no idea call your mom and get me an epidural in here asap. At this moment my doc. came in and I told her I needed help. Garet told them I wanted the epidural and the nurse looked at him in shock and said "you didn't tell her?" Then she looked at me and said "he is in a c-section there is no way you are getting an epidural." Garet had told me this, however all my labors have lasted 7-8hours so I thought I had plenty of time. My Doc. Gretchen looked at me calmly and said, "she can have one, don't worry you can have one." She knew I couldn't but didn't want to send me into hysteria. Then I told her I needed to get to the bathroom. She said do you feel like you need to push in your bottom? I was like yes...feeling embarrassed and dieing in pain. She said lets check you I think you are ready to go. And she was right. I was feeling so thankful because I knew I was at my limit. Thankfully the intense part was like 6 contractions and then I was ready to go. about 5 contractions later we had our baby. It was intense and very special and I am so happy I was able to have the experience. The question I am asked repeatedly is would you do it again? My answer... absolutely! It was magical.

So here we are home with our new baby and we love him SOOO much. He was born with Coombs Jaundice and has had to stay on the lights. I am grateful to have lights at home but it is hard not getting to hold and love him as much as we all want too. His bilirubin levels have gotten higher and higher and so I have to pump and feed him formula. On wed. night before thanksgiving his levels jumped to 19. My pediatrician sent us to the hospital to be admitted. About 5 hours after we checked in we were sent home. His levels had dropped to 15.7. What a blessing. We continued him on the lights Thursday and Friday they were still dropping...now 15.2. I hope they continue to drop and we can get him off the lights, start nursing, and hold and love our baby.

He sure is special and has been so good through all the poking, prodding, and not being able to be held much. We love him more than words can say and wouldn't have it any other way.

Halloween 2010

My moms ward Halloween party. Capt. America, Mickey Mouse, Zebra

Spiderman, Knight, Zebra

the above 2 are from shellees ward party. It was fun, we got to take Jason and sally (from new Zealand) with us. It was fun for them because they do not celebrate Halloween.

Halloween night, going trick or treating

I am finally getting around to our Halloween post. We had a lot of fun. No annual family Halloween party this year...big bummer. Therefore I didn't do a theme and Garet and I didn't dress up. We were the party poopers. The kids got into the dress up bin and chose what they wanted to be. It was fun to see what they were going to choose. Gray didn't really have a choice I chose for him and he looked so cute. We did go to my sisters ward Halloween party and my moms ward Halloween party. We were really lucky to have Grandma Kathy come and be with us Halloween night because Garet and Rulon were on a hunting trip.

Mason and Grayson were really into trick or treating. It was so cute. Mason jumped out of the car ran up to the door and yelled trick or treat, said thanks and then was telling me let's go to that house mom. It was raining so we decided to drive around. Grayson was a little slower getting out the door and to the door, but was SO cute saying trick or treat, kank you, and then he would stand there waving and saying bye, bye. Easton was more into answering the door at our house and seeing who it was that was there. Grandma Kathy gave us a trick bowl (hand in the bowl that moves when you try to grab a treat) and the boys thought it was "spooktackular". They really did scare a few trick or treaters.

We had a great Halloween. Lots of fun memories.

Baby update

37 weeks today...HOORAY! Time is passing so quickly and before you know it our new little one will be here. I went to the doc. today and have progressed to a 2.5 and thinned. Good progress. I have been taking it easy this week trying not to progress things along. And it worked! I know that sounds weird but when your husband is going to be out of the country for a week,especially the week when you have given birth to 2 other children, NOT having the baby becomes your first priority. So from now until Nov. 20th I am going to try to not have the baby. If it does happen though I have all of my family on call to assist and we will try to not have things happen until Garet can get to me. We looked into flights but the flight will take 12 hours which is how long it will take to drive home. So IF it happens and this baby decides to come he will drive as fast as he can. I feel pretty confident that all will be well. All the boys have been early E 37weeks, M & G 38 weeks to the day. So this time I will try to go 1 week longer and see what happens. The good news is that up to this point I don't get to a 5 or something and then POW here comes baby. I don't labor fast so time is on my side....I think???

Lauren and Miss A...

This is from a long time ago but Lauren and Addalyn came to town and we met up in Logan at

Great Grandma Clo's house and went swimming. All of the kids LOVED it to say the least. Grandma Kathy, Carloyn, Amber and Camden came too. We had a really fun time swimming together.

Also while Lauren and Addy were here we got to have everyone come to our house for a baby blessing. It was fun to have all of the cousins together. Actually we are missing Coraline but these kiddos sure were cute and had a lot of fun together. My boys LOVE little Preston and fight over who is going to hold him. Makes me excited to get our baby here. They will be good helpers. Addalyn is so CUTE! She is so cuddly and loves the boys. Everytime they would come into the room she would laugh and scoot over to them. She wanted to hug them and play with them. She is very lovable and soooo snuggly. Miss her, love her and can't wait to play with her again.