What a BIG week

Gabes started to Smile at me on purpose! He wants to talk and laugh REALLY bad....I can tell

He Prays now

Gabes is not too fond of going out and about but we made it to uncle Jake's Graduation!

Blessing day!

Also first day at church. He LOVED staring at the big bright popcorn ceiling. He was saying

" I LOVE THIS PLACE" with is little eyes.

Ben and I were really happy for our Baby guy.

Grandma and Gramps got to come over to give Gabes lots of loves

Yay for Family

Cousins came to town for his Special Blessing! What a cute group of kiddos!

Is There any Question as to whether Gabes will be a Football fan?

With a Daddy like his... I think not.

First nap in his crib!

What a little baby I have! He has been so busy this week, even moving into size 1 diapers!!!!(I'll spare you that photo) I just love him soooooo gal darn much.

My Special Delivery

I went into my 38 week check up on a Thursday knowing my tummy had not grown since the last time I was at the Doctors. He told me there was no need to worry but would set up an ultra sound for the following Monday and if anything was wrong I could be induced but he made it sound VERY unlikely. So Monday came and I was still nervous but now just excited to see some more pictures of my little Boy! As the ultrasound tech was checking me she was like " Well it looks like you will have this baby really soon!" Ok.. What? Why? I start to get really worried. She said my fluid was really low. I was at a 7 and that normally I needed to be at like a 24. Something crazy like that. Well now my next doctors appointment was on Tuesday and he was not on call or anything that day. I was asking his nurses if there was anyway I could talk with him that day, I was just not ok with his fluid amount. They just said he would call me if he thought it was a big problem. blah blah. I left the office with Ben so worried and emotional! But not 5 min. passed when one of the nurses called me and said " Um.. we all think you should just go to labor and Delivery right now ok." What a shock! Ben and I were so not ready for this that day but were excited. We went with no bags packed, Ben cancelled all of his meetings for the next couple of days and just went to have our Baby!

Since I had an epidural and thankfully could not feel the lower half of my body I was concerned about how hard I could push? I didn't know how and I told the nurse my concerns. She just said Just push and it will work. Later Ben told me I was pushing so hard he thought the baby was going to shoot across the room. That was funny.

I had the on call Doctor deliver Gabriel. I just loved him so much! Everyone called him old school because he was... old. But I was so thankful for all that old man knowledge. He made all the scary pre-delivery problems seem super smooth and I was just so happy he was old and had done this forever.

Gabe was Born Tuesday at 2:59am July 21st weighing at 5lbs, 17.5 in. long to a literally deliriously happy Mom and Dad. We were in the Hospital 4 days, 2 of those days being in the NICU and got about 15 hours of sleep that week. To tell you the truth the experience seems like a dream.

Gabes is the Most sweet baby. He is full of wonderful expressions that make us laugh and has such a wonderful calm spirit. When he looks at you he is very thoughtful and you can tell he is studying your face and really wants to know you. He looks just like his Daddy and loves his hands! They have to be next to his face all the time. If he is bundled up in a blanket he will wiggle and wiggle until he can get an arm out and he is a MAJOR grunter. He is just so ridiculously cute and we love him so much.

Lets talk

I would first like to talk about EXTREME COUPONING. This show, although I have never seen a full episode on TLC is Crazy! It makes me think... YEs, I wanna do that! And then you really watch and you see how crazy the people are! Some of them shop in the store for HOURS before hand then go home, clip coupons for the sale items for DAYS. But when all is said and done they get like $1000 worth of groceries for like $20! It's gross to watch and amazing all at the same time.

On another note..... I love the Old people that work at the Temple. They are all soooooo sweet and someday I hope to be just as sweet and spiritual as they seem to be. What an amazing calling it would be. You could witness so many spiritual things and be so close to our Heavenly Father. I am thankful for callings that make you more active in the church. Even if they seem hard or whatever the reward of having to study and pray more often, serve others more is exactly what we need. How lucky we are for our callings.

One more thing.... I cannot believe I am at 29 weeks Pregnant already! So crazy to think I will have my baby boy for real with me in less then 3 months.