Announcement

We made a baby announcement because we had some free money on shutterfly from the hospital. I printed a few for doting grandmas, but we couldn't afford to send it to all of our family and friends. So, instead, I posted it to our blog :) You can click on it to see it larger, or even order one if you would like it.

1 week photo shoot

I'm a little behind on getting out a baby announcement, but it's coming :)  Grandma Rowley came to see her first grandson when he was a week old and took some pictures for us.  Here are a few of them, just for fun. 

It was tough to get one with his eyes open, so Grandma Draney and I took this one later when he was more awake.

Special Delivery!

That was supposed to be a stork picture, but we caught some of his diaper. But, since he owns up to the name in the next picture, we didn't dare take it off.

He even got to meet his Great Grandma Christensen this week.

Special Delivery!

I am a little behind, but I wanted to post some pictures for you guys. Here is our little guy,

born APRIL 25th,
weighing in at 

6 LBS 10 OZ, 19.25 INCHES LONG

I was so cold! I had the shakes pretty bad for about an hour after delivery, so they gave me blankets to help.  But Landon's sure a proud Daddy!!

We had some visitors. David was proud to be the first person (other than parents and doctors) to hold the little guy. He brought me flowers and Whitney brought the balloon that are at the end of the post. The blue flowers are from Landon :)

He had trouble breathing at first and was sent to the NICU for a couple hours.

They had a cap to help the cone-head :) along with the tubes 

They finally brought him down to our room about 3 or 4 hours later and I got to hold him.

Going Home!

Conference Weekend and April fun

We were lucky to have the whole Rowley family in town for conference this year. Ryan even came down from Idaho. We got to play some bump (basketball) and sing together around the piano for a while, which was pretty fun.  Although I think I pulled a muscle in bump and it took a few days to recover...

 Landon and I have become avid rugby fans this year as we go to watch David play all the time. I'll be honest with you, rugby is one of those sports where the rules have always baffled me.  But after this season I am finally understanding it.  David plays the lock position for BYU.

This weekend there were lots of Rowley cousins and aunts and uncles in town for graduation and moving kids home for the summer. We had a get together at Aunt Mindy's house.  Makenna thought it would be good to take a sideview pic of the belly, ha.

And here's our good preggers pic with Landon in it with me, we finally had someone else around to take it :) I'm almost 37 weeks. 

Makenna said we had to do the traditional heart on the belly pose. You can see how much I love it...

Baby Shower!!

So a couple weeks ago, Whitney and Makenna were kind enough to throw me a baby shower! It was fun to see lots of friends and family, and get excited about our coming boy!  Here is something the Rowley girls made for me. So creative!

Here are about half of the girls that came (we didn't get the picture before some had already left) 

 And some of me opening our cute gifts. Thanks to everyone! We appreciate the cute clothes and useful baby items--they really helped on the budget!  And I got some good advice here and there from the experienced moms :)

She's Crafty!

The post title comes from a song that my sister's friends made about her in college. It just came to mind, haha. While Landon has been studying like crazy for finals, I decided to get crafty and make some things to get ready for the baby.  People tell me it's that "nesting" thing kicking in.  I just finished a carseat cover. I still have to buy cute buttons to decorate the straps, but other than that, it's done. 

 I also decided to try making a nursing cover, because they looked easy enough, ha. 

Lately we have been trying to find things to decorate the baby's room (Landon doesn't like when I call it a nursery. He thinks it sounds British, ha. Or reminds him of Peter Pan).  Since we're on a budget, I'm trying to do things that make it color coordinated without buying too much.  I decorated these frames to match the bedding set with the Modge Podge I had on hand and a couple pieces of scrapbook paper.

We left our camera at Levi's house, so I will have to catch up on things with Easter and Conference later when I have the pictures, but I was excited to have finished my projects, so I wanted to post them.

March Fun

I'm a little behind... but this was our breakfast on St. Patrick's Day.  We had green waffles.  

And I finally made triple fudge pound cake for Landon to try yesterday.  I just love that stuff.  We had it with some strawberries for fun.

We took these pictures just for fun to mess with the new camera. But they make me smile. 

Landon says this one makes him look tall :)

I have been doing some thinking and trying to get ready for the baby.  It's a little overwhelming. Mainly because I am what I would call a sprinter in life.  I live my life the way I do conditioning :) I would much rather run sprints than distance because I can see the end, which helps me keep my perspective and push hard.  I really have no skills or discipline at pacing myself.  In long distance, the end is so far that I lose sight of how I wanted to run the race, and I just do what I have to to get by.  I think that's what scares me. Having a baby is not something where there's an end in sight. Your responsibility as a mother is forever after you have the baby. I want to be a good mother.  So I'm trying to think of little goals and things I want to do along the way and make a list now.  I have a feeling that once I'm in the middle of it, I will forget that perspective, and just do the bare minimum to get by. If anyone has any suggestions for cool things that you did with/for your baby in the first year, or how to set good goals with them, I'm always up for suggestions.