Jayda's Newborn Pics

We had Jayda’s newborn pictures taken on her two-week mark.  It was a lot of fun dressing her up and having her picture taken.  Mal was a great photographer and so fun to work with!  I am so glad I was able to have her do all of our photography.

Jayda is already changing so much.  These pictures were taken a month and a half ago.  She doesn’t even look the same at all anymore.  She is getting so big so fast.  She is really starting to smile and tell us stories now.  Right at 7 weeks she really started interacting with us and it has been so much fun to watch her grow and develop.  She is so sweet.  And such a good baby! 

I had a Baby?

So I had a baby. What a wonderful experience. I am so grateful I had the opportunity to share it with my husband and our moms. I also had Mal Walker there to document the entire morning with photography! I'm so glad she got the shots that she did so we can remember every minute of this special day. Bracken was also a huge help. Supporting, encouraging, and comforting me. We had a little party in the delivery room between Bracken, our moms, Mal (the photographer), the delivery nurse, the nursery nurse, three student nurses, and Dr. Meek. I had my own support group and I loved it. They were all so helpful and so encouraging!

Jayda was born one week before her due date. I am so glad Dr. Meek offered to start me a week early because I was dilated at a 3 and 90% effaced for two weeks straight. It’s a good thing he let me go early because she was about a pound bigger than he predicted and what I was expecting.

Okay, we checked into the hospital on Tuesday February 21, at 12:05 in the morning. The first thing we did was paid for the delivery and hospital stay then got checked into our room. After being hooked up to the monitors and IV’s we were finally able to fall asleep around 2:30 a.m. They started my pitocin at 4:00 a.m. I was able to sleep for most of my contractions, which was very nice. I didn’t even know I was having them. Around 7:00, my mom and Dr. Meek came in. Dr. Meek broke my water and that’s when the pain began! My contractions became worse and worse! I wanted to wait as long as possible to get the epidural, but once my water broke and I could feel the contractions I was not waiting any longer. So by about 9:00, I was dilated at a 6 and got the epidural. It was not bad at all. I didn’t feel a thing!

After that, I dilated a centimeter an hour. By noon it was time to start pushing. Everything was all wonderful until about a half hour into pushing. I started to get frustrated and discouraged because there was not a lot of progress after that half hour. I became very exhausted and couldn’t figure out why the baby was not here yet. I kept pushing and pushing, even though I felt like I couldn’t push anymore. She still was not coming. So after about two hours, Dr. Meek came in to help me out. He did an episiotomy and he had to use forceps. I was super nervous for the forceps because of the pain and the side affects, but he did a great job and we had no problems. By this time, the epidural had worn completely off and I was able to feel EVERYTHING!! What a joy! It was the hardest thing I have ever gone through in my life. Just when I wanted to give up and quick, I got one more burst of energy and was able to get her out. Even though getting her here was a lot harder than I expected, I could not be more grateful that my baby girl was healthy and beautiful!

Jayda Kae was born at 1:42 p.m. on 2/21/12. She weighed 8 lbs, 1 oz and 20 inches long. She was absolutely perfect! We are so blessed and so lucky to have such a sweet baby girl. I am so grateful for her and her health!

I am so glad the delivery is over and we are home from the hospital and get to enjoy our sweet baby girl!!

My support group!

So glad he's having a good time haha

What a relief! :)

My healthy, chunky baby! Love her so much!

Getting stitches without any medicine! :(

Our happy little family!

We love Dr. Meek!

Found her tongue the day she was born!

So.. It's been a year!

So a lot has happened this last year. I don't even know where to begin? I guess I will try to sum it up into one post…

January – we went to a few Jazz games, did a lot of homework, and spent a little bit of time with family and friends.

February – was a little bit more exciting. We went to another Jazz game, stayed at the Smoot’s cabin and went snowmobiling, and went to Elite Academy #2 in Salt Lake City.

March - was very mellow. We didn’t do much. We played the Wii with some friends, went to a Jazz game with the Morrell’s, spoke in sacrament in our new ward, and helped my parents move into their new home!

April – was a great month. We got to play basketball at the Energy Solution’s Arena with Spencer and people from work. We also experienced a very intense hailstorm and lots of snow. Finals week was the third week of April, that was lovely as always. After finals we went down to Vegas with Bracken’s family for his cousin Brady’s wedding. That was a lot of fun; shopping and laying out in the sun! We are so excited to have Natalie in our family; she is so fun and cute!!

May – was pretty busy. First of all, we went on a CRUISE! That was a blast! We went with my family, the Womack’s (family friend), Grandma and Grandpa Simon, and the Jordan’s! We ported out of Florida and visited The Cayman Islands, Honduras, Belize, and Cozumel. It was amazing! I loved the islands, the sun, and the food! Also in May, my little Brother graduated from high school, got his mission call, and we spent Memorial Day weekend in St. George… with the Jordan’s.

June – was busy again. I went to summer school this semester. Yeah, I was crazy busy with homework. We attended Elite Academy #3 in Salt Lake, went through the temple with my brother, and hit the lake a few times.

July – not much went on it July, okay not much in the beginning of the month. Besides doing homework and working full time, we didn’t do much. Hung out with the family and went boating a few times. We managed to make it down to Lake Powell twice in a matter of two weeks. It was wonderful!! We went down with my family for 4 days and stayed in a house in Page. It was so much fun spending time with my mo

m, dad, and siblings. Cliff jumping, tubing, and laying out about sums it up.

Then we went back down 4 days later with Bracken’s family, and stayed on their houseboat for 5 days. That was a lot of fun as well. We went tubing, jet skiing, wakeboarding, and, of course… layed out a ton!!! We also watched movies and played cards.

Also this month, Bracken got to go up to Tacoma, Washington with his family to pick up Braiden from his mission. They had a great time visiting his mission and Bracken finally got to see his little brother after 4 years.

August – We went through the Logan Temple with Nate, Suni, & Ryann. We had an accident in our back yard. We were getting ready to go to a wedding and as we were putting the dogs in the back yard to leave, we noticed our tree was inside our sunroom. So we changed our clothes spent the night cutting down what was left of the tree. It was so sad and our yard is bare now. We also took a few couples up to the Jones’ condo and went boating at Pine View. That was a lot of fun.

One night after work we met both of our families at raging waters for family night, then ate at Winger’s for dinner. We also had Jadon’s farewell on his birthday. That was really neat. He had over 600 people at his farewell meeting.

September – starts my 9^th and final semester of college! Wow what a feeling!! We also took Jadon to the MTC. That was fun and not as emotional as I though it would be. It was a good feeling. Bracken finally put up a fence in our backyard for my dogs. We also celebrated Bracken’s birthday with some friends at Texas Road House and went to Wellsville for the Famous Founder’s Day Celebration and the buck-a-roo rodeo!

October – was pretty exciting! We hiked a mountain. It took is all day, but we did it. That was an amazing feeling.

We were hot and tired, but it was a neat experience. I also attended Elite Academy #3 in San Diego! That was a blast. I got to listen to some amazing stories and learn a lot from some really neat people. I left Bracken home this time and went with my mom, dad, and brother. I missed him a bunch, but it was fun. Halloween was a lot of fun. Bracken picked out our outfits! He even got to pick out two more wives that night. He was the luckiest husband at the party.

November – went by so fast. I had the opportunity to take the Marketing Club up to Park City to meet with Skull Candy and see the advertising department.

Thanksgiving was fun to see Bracken’s family that he hadn’t seen in forever. We spent the day down at his cousin’s house in Eagle Mountain. That was a lot of fun meeting the rest of the Jones’ family.

December – was my most favorite month this year. Besides celebrating my birthday, anniversary, and Christmas… I graduated from College!!! I now have my bachelors of science in Business Marketing. It was so much fun and a lot of hard work, but I made it! Thanks to all of the support of my family, and I was successful in fulfilling one of my childhood goals. I am happy to be done with school, now I just have to figure out what to do with my life. I guess I will help Bracken get through his last year of his bachelor’s and go from there.

This month was also full of lot’s of time with friends and family. We spent Christmas Eve with Bracken’s family and stayed the night at their house. Santa was very good to us this year! THANK YOU SANTA! We had a blast on Christmas morning with his family. We then traveled up to Logan to spend the afternoon and evening with my family. We opened a few more presents up there and played games. My dad surprised all the kids with iPads. That was a lot of fun and a huge surprise. We had such a good Christmas and are so grateful to have not just one, but TWO wonderful families like we do.

How is that for a year in review??? J

We had a great year and are looking forward to 2011. I am going to try to be better at this blogging business. Please forgive me for being such a slacker. More posts COMING SOON!!! Stay tuned…