Friday, May 20, 2011

Hunter's Birth




Wow, what an amazing week I've had.  Hunter Larry Powers thankfully decided to come a couple days before his due date.  I had been having strong contractions the last month of my pregnancy but Monday evening they started to come on even stronger and more intense but they were only 10 minutes apart.  At about 6:00 p.m. I told Cody that we needed to go on a walk to help the contractions come closer together.  We walked and walked and walked until they were coming about 7 minutes apart.  That's when I decided it was too painful and we needed to go home so I could sit down.   As soon as I sat down my contractions slowed down too and they were back to every 10 minutes.  We put Jackson down to bed and at around midnight I told Cody to go to bed too because the baby just wanted to take his time.  I was up ALL night that night with VERY painful contractions coming only about 7-10 minutes apart.  By 6:00 a.m. I was so exhausted and frustrated.  I went in the bedroom and just broke down and started bawling.  I told Cody I couldn't do it anymore and that's how I truely felt.  Well, Heavenly Father must have had mercy on me because at that exact moment my contractions started to come every 4 minutes.  I waited about an hour and told Cody "This is it!  Call your Mom!  We are going to have a baby today!"  His Mom came to the house to watch Jackson and we left for the hospital.  We got there about 8:30 a.m. and they checked me and I was dilated to a 6 and 70 percent efaced.  They put me in a room and by this time my contractions were even more intense and more painful.  I asked for an epidural around 9:30 and they told me that the anestesiologist was busy with an emergency c-section and I would have to wait.  So I got on a medicine ball and bounced through my contractions which suprisingly really helped.  Keri and Tara (my sister in-laws) came to keep me company and that really helped too.  I didn't get my epidural until 11:30 am and by that time I was dilated to a 7 and 90 percent efaced.  The epidural was heaven!  I rested for the next few hours and around 3:00 I started feeling pressure.  The nurse checked me and said I was a 10 and asked me to give her a practice push.  I gave a quick push and Cody said "Lis!  I can see his hair!"  The nurse said we were gonna have the baby NOW and quickly grabbed the doctor.   Tara left the room to go get Sherry (my mother-in-law) who had come to see the baby born.  The doctor came in the room and had me push.  It only took two contractions and Hunter was born at 3:23 p.m.  By the time Sherry got to the room Hunter was already out!  He weighed 8 lbs 8 oz and was 21 1/4 inches long.  He was perfect!  He started to cry right away and they put him on my chest.  He laid on me skin to skin for the next hour and a half and we all just couldn't stop staring at him.  I am so grateful for the little miracle that has come into my life!  He is such a mellow baby.  He is great at nursing and he just mostly eats and sleeps.  I am loving life right now!

Friday, December 17, 2010

Exciting News!

I'll just make this short and sweet.... It's a boy!  We are soooo excited!

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Here's what we've been up to....

Wow! I haven't been on here forever! We've had a pretty busy few months. Cody got a new job working with the same group of companies. He's now a Regional Sales Manager which requires him to travel a lot. Jackson and I also traveled quite a bit this summer. We went to Utah a couple times, went to Disneyland with Cody and some family members, and we also traveled to Las Vegas with Cody for work and from there went to St. George for Cody's family reunion. Things are slowing down a bit and we're looking forward to it cooling off down here. Jackson is getting so big and he does the cutest things every day. He's really into letters and numbers right now so we've been working a lot on the alphabet. He knows all the capital letters and we're working on lower case. He also knows the numbers 1-10. I just can't believe how mature he's getting, my baby is growing up! I will slowly add pictures as I have time. But here's just a few...



Jackson and his cousin Madi at Disneyland

at the beach in California

One of the Utah trips, we got the whole family in a picture!  (except Cody)

This is us in Vegas with Elvis :)

Jackson at the Family Reunion trying to steal the show

Monday, April 12, 2010

The Pheonix Zoo

Cody took the day off today and we went to the zoo. We were a little worried that Jackson might not like it but he was an angel the whole time. We fed the girafes, saw all the great animals, went to the petting zoo and rode the carosel. Jackson loved everything except the carosel, by the time it stopped spinning he was screaming. Oh well, you can't win 'em all, right?

Easter

We had a great Easter sunday.  We got up in the morning and ate crepes and jackson got a little Easter basket.  Then we got to watch conference all day and what great talks this session!  Especially all the talks about moms.  Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Power's house and had a great dinner.

A Play Place for Jackson

So I decided to sacrifice my sectioned off garden area for a sand pit for my little man. His Mommy and Daddy worked for 12 hours straight. Hope he'll know we he gets older how much we love him!

We went from this...
to this...
and finally...

this!  He loves going in our back yard and playing in it now!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Here's a little update...

Jackson is just about to turn fifteen months old!  He is getting so tall, he's starting to thin out but all his shirts and pants are getting too short for him.  These pictures are proof that I shouldn't turn my back on him even for a minute because I swear all this kid thinks about is how to climb, destroy or get into anything he can get his hands on!  I let him down for seriously 30 seconds this morning and he went in the bathroom, got his body wash, and poured it all over the bathroom floor!  What a silly little man. He is at such a fun age where he wants to be outside constantly exploring.  He has now just stopped taking a morning nap and  takes just one long afternoon nap and I like it so much better. 
This is him saying "I didn't do it"
He got into the linen closet and took out all the blankets and used them as a stool so he could climb into the closet
Then, he ran into his room, dumped out his hamper, and then began to remove all of his nicely folded clean clothes from his dresser.  He did this all in a matter of two minutes!

Cody, Melissa and Jackson