Big Day

Sunday was a really big and busy day for our family. Bright and early we started off with Reese's baby blessing. Drew did a great job. I feel so blessed to have a worthy priesthood holder as my husband. I was a proud momma and wife! I am grateful for all the friends who came from near and far to be there with us! Thank you so much!

Then my dad got sustained and set apart as the 2nd counselor in the Elliot Groves Ward Bishopric. It was an awesome experience to see my dad up on the stand and to see him share his strong testimony with the congregation.

From there we went straight into my brother in law, Bo, being set apart as a full time Missionary. He is serving in the New York- Rochester Mission, Spanish Speaking. We each got to give him a piece of advice and he shared his testimony with us. Even with Maddux running circles around the room, it was a very spiritual experience and I know he is going to be a great missionary!

Reese at 1 Month

It's been a month! Time is already flying too fast!

*She is finally in 0-3 onesies and even in a couple of Newborn outfits
*Still in Newborn size diapers
*This past week has been rough on her baby acne. (Maddux heard me call myself "pizza face" and lovingly repeats it, telling me that "Reese is Pizza Face -Mommy is Pizza face". Nice.)
*She is the gassiest girl I know. Poor thing cries in pain! I have recently gone off dairy and it seems to be helping. Breaks my heart (for both of us ;) )
*She is a much better sleeper than Maddux was at 1 month.
*I can still count how many times she has spit up so far, which I am soooo grateful for!
*On the flip side, I have completely lost track of how many blow-outs we have had. Gross.
*She loves to stare at the blinds
*She loves her pacifier, but can't keep it in her mouth for long.
*Her eyes were obviously hazel when she was born and I was so disappointed. They have since changed to a dark blue. I couldn't be happier!
*Her favorite way to be held is the sitting-up-burping position.
*She melts my heart every day...Everyone was right...I DO love having a girl!

Talie Rae

Tyler, my awesome bro-in-law, flew Kasey and me out to visit Amber for her birthday, see the kiddos, and meet Talie!
My camera didn't make it out of my bag until the last night we were there. But just picture us eating and laying around and eating...it was amazing!
Thanks again Tye!

So, Talie is just 11 days younger than Reese and they are definitely going to be bff cousins (they don't have a choice)!
You can see here though that my tiny little Reese is a total CHUNK compared to Talie. She really is a little tiny peanut and soooo cute!ps- taking pictures with two newborns is virtually impossible!!

my bud...

This kid is a crackup and he gets me laughing every day. I'm so grateful that he has adjusted so well to "baby sisser" (who he still thinks is named Camden) being home.

We took him to watch the planes the other day, but he ended up being more interested in the rocks than anything else.

Helping mom make cookies....

I got some more pics from my family...so here are just a few more :)

Birth Story:

I started having serious contractions on Friday morning and they were completely playing games with my head. They would start, get strong and closer together then stop. Sometimes they were 40 mins apart and sometimes they were 10. Talk about frustrating! By Sunday when nothing had happened, and I was still in on again off again pain, I decided I was going to walk myself into labor. I walked and walked and walked and then when it wasn't doing anything...I started running! I'm sure it was quite a sight, giant prego lady running around! :) Later at night they started getting closer and stronger and when I finally realized I needed to start timing them, they were down to about 5 minutes apart and VERY painful. YIKES!

Jessica dropped everything and headed over to watch Maddux and we zoomed off to the hospital. I was praying the whole way that we wouldn't get there and find out I was dilated to a 1, like when I was in labor with Maddux. Lucky for me, by the time we got there I was a 6! They got me right in at 10:00 and started the process to get my epidural ASAP. It was amazing. Everything went so smoothly and my family and Wendy came to be with us. By about 3:20am I was ready to push and at 3:55, Reese was born. The only problem that we had was when the nurse had me pushing and Reese started coming before the doctor was ready. There is NOTHING worse than feeling that "pressure" of crowning and having them say "Ok, don't push anymore! Whatever you do, don't push!". Ouch.

Everything has been amazing since then and I am one happy momma!

Happy Mother's Day! :)

She's Here!

I'm in love...all over again!

Reese Maren Ingram

was born 5.3.10 at 3:55am weighing 6 pounds even and is 18 inches long.
She is so teeny and soooo cute!

This pic is on our way out the door to the hospital. Taken in between two horrendous contractions.

More pics to come, just waiting to get them from other people that were in the room who had a LOT more energy to be taking pics than I did at the time. :)

Scary?

Since I can't reach into the tub to bathe Maddux very well these days, Drew has been an amazing dad and taken over bath time every night. When they are done, I hear Drew say, "Ok, go scare mommy". And in runs this "SCARY" Dinosaur and he yells "RRRROOOAAR". It's the most UNscary "roar" you've ever heard and it makes me laugh every night still.

My mom bought him this towel and it's supposed to be a cute Dr. Seuss character. He thinks he is a scary dinosaur.

Bounce Jungle

This place is my new obsession. Talk about a great way to get some energy out of a VERY energetic kiddo! I took 34 pictures while we were there the first time and 30 of them turned out blurry because he wouldn't hold still!!

Update:

i'm big, fat, and uncomfortable.
The end.
:)

Easter

I LOVED Easter this year. Everything about it was awesome. Saturday night we dyed eggs and tried to teach Maddux a little bit about why we have Easter. All he remembers is "Jesus came back. Jesus is happy"! Good enough for me!Sunday morning we had an egg hunt at our house before heading to my parents house for breakfast, conference, and another egg hunt.

They spoke a lot about trials and how we have the ability to choose how to react and handle our trials. We can question our faith, get angry and upset or we can use them as a way to grow and strengthen our faith. LOVED it!!!We had both sides of the fam over to our house for Easter dinner. It was yummy and the company was so fun! I wish I had taken pictures of everything, but I did remember to get one of my cake that I was so excited about!! My dad was kind enough to decorate the top with this horned-peep while I wasn't looking. :) After Maddux was asleep and the family was gone, Drew and I sat and talked about what a great Easter it was. I feel very blessed and I love my family so much!

"Birthday to YOOOOU!!!"

Yesterday was a great birthday. I had a ton of fun and got spoiled by my friends and family. Thank you everyone!

The absolute highlight of my day was after we put Maddux to sleep. He had been upstairs and quiet for about 45 minutes and we can hear this.....

He was "singing" for about 3-5 minutes but I couldn't find the camera fast enough. I only caught the tail end and I think he heard us giggling outside his door and stopped.

The first part of the song was, "birthday to you!!! momma!! yay!! birthday to yooooouuuu! birthday momma yooouu!!!"
(the video is completely dark...nothing to see...just make sure you're sound is on)

Birdhouse

Maddux and Drew decided this week that they wanted to build a birdhouse together. We went to Michaels and picked out a cute little birdhouse kit. The result was my two year old saying his first swear word (mimicking his daddy while trying to nail the cheap wood together) and throwing the kit in the trash.
We went back to the store to buy a pre-assembled birdhouse and Maddux got to pick out any 3 paints he wanted. He had SO much fun painting it and we had so much fun watching!