Fun in the snow!

Most of the winter I spend complaining about being cold and cooped up in the house, but we went with some friends to Idaho and spent a fun weekend actually enjoying the snow. We got to do some sledding, snowmobileing and snowshoeing, and equally as fun, hanging out, playing games and eating good food (healthy food since we were on our health challenge)!

Ivory - 2 months

She had her 2 month appointment this week, although she is getting closer to almost 3 months!  I am so sad that it seems like her baby hood is going by way too fast. She is a healthy girl!  She weighs 12 pounds, about 50 % and is in the 60% for height.  Tristan didn't weigh that much until he was almost 4 months old.  The doctor said she should be in a baby contest because of her beautiful eyes, hair and skin, he probably tells all moms these things, but I like to hear it anyways:) She took her shots like a champ, the worst was when I was putting her in her carseat to go home, I poked her in the eye accidentally and that was just one too many hurts for her:(   She's the sweetest baby, pretty smiley, unfortunately she has to learn to entertain herself since she has a pretty attention demanding older brother.  She loves Tristan tho anyways, she always has a smile for him.  Right now she's a mama's girl and since Tristan's a daddy's boy right now it works out.    These are when she's almost 6 weeks old

 (These ones are right before discovering she'd gone poo and it was leaking out her diaper so she has a funny look on her face)

  I need to take more pictures of this girl, here are a few

 All bundled up and ready for church

 So small in this big bed

 haha, looking a little worried here..

Hello 2014

As I review 2013, I realize I completed none of my goals. I know that because I can not even remember what all my goals were.  To rationalize, I did get pregnant, decide to buy a house, move, and have a baby, I should've probably still been able to complete whatever those goals were... but I didn't.  This year, my goal is to make goals every month of what I want to accomplish.  For January, we are starting a health challenge (similar to the ones Annaliese has done) but this one we are on a team, that we pay money to enter, so I'm hoping since we are accountable to other people it will really help us get into better habits and lose weight.  It goes for 2 months so watch for an update... My other goal in January is to get our family room more decorated.  I am hosting a baby shower and Ivory's baby blessing  on the last weekend of Jan. and hoping to get it looking more finished before then.  Oh and last but not least, sleep train Tristan, again, he goes to sleep in his bed so easy at night and then wakes up in the middle of the night and sleeps the rest of the night in our bed.  I never thought I would let my kids sleep in bed with us on a regular basis, but somehow its happened and I want my bed back!

Holidays

The last two months have been a blur of trying to figure out this taking care of two kids thing, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

2 kids thing-  Tristan Loves his baby sister, sometimes a bit too much:)  He is always wanting to touch her and hold her which is cute except the words, be gentle, mean nothing to him and there was a few times when him waking her up from her nap for the 3rd time in one day made me want to cry and/or scream.  As the two month mark rolls around I am feeling good and getting more used to balancing both kids at home.

Thanksgiving-  We decided to go to St. George the first half of the break to spend Thanksgiving day with Ryan's whole immediate family which was there and then came back the day after Thanksgiving to hang out with my siblings that were in town.  

Bath time with cousins in St George

 So nice we could go to the park and play outside in the leaves.

 Sleeping in

 Car ride down to St. George

 Dinosaur musuem

Christmas Festivities-

I say this every year, but this time I really mean it, I am going to get my Christmas shopping done early.  I love Christmas with kids, it is so fun, and this year especially, Tristan just Loved it.  He was so excited for all his Christmas presents.

The part I don't like is rushing around trying to buy presents, not that I don't like giving gifts but it adds stress and instead of spending spare time at the store I'd like to spend it doing more fun things or just being at home and... sleeping.

Going to see Santa! Tristan hadn't said yes to any question asked of him for a long time, we're talking at least a month, probably longer until we asked him if he wanted to go see Santa.

 Tristan loved the huge Christmas tree at the outlets store

Ice sculptures at Thanksgiving Point

 2nd Annual seeing the Christmas lights at Thanksgiving Point.  Last year we rode the trolley this year all the seats were sold out on the trolley so we rode on the trailer which was just as fun, but colder.

 Christmas morning!  This was the first thing Tristan saw when he came down stairs and it was the cutest thing, he got inside, (the video is 10 min long or else I would post it) but he got inside and looked up at us and said TankYou, in his cute little voice:  Train tent $20, Thank you: Priceless

  Tristan's gifts from Santa!

 Tristan loved his Mater pj's from Grandma Sue

 After dinner and Christmas presents at Grandma Cindy's house

 Ivory, Christmas night in her cute little Christmas outfit, goodbye Christmas until next year

The newest addition

                                        Introducing.....   Ivory Elaine Egan


Early Monday morning October 28th, we went to the hospital for the C-section.   Everything went a lot smoother the second time around, just knowing what to expect makes you so much less nervous.   It is still weird to be awake while they are cutting you open and pulling a baby out of you.  They really had to pull to get her out too, Ryan said there was two nurses basically putting all their weight leaning onto me with their elbows to get her out and it actually kinda hurt and I was numb from my chest down.  Finally, I felt a big release of pressure and heard her cry.  This time I actually stayed awake the whole time but unfortunatley when they brought her over to show her to me I got really sick and threw up, so again not the tearful heartfelt greeting I imagined upon seeing my baby for the first time.

 I am 100% sure I would have never gotten this 8 lbs and 9 oz baby out of me naturally so I am glad I did not attempt to try labor again.      By the time the sun was rising I was back in the recovery room.  After an hour they brought me down to the recovery floor and I got to see this cute little girl.  

View out of my hospital room the morning of.

We got most of our visitors the first day. Great grandma and grandpa christensen, then Penny, Tim, Becky, Libby and Elliot.  Then Grandma Cindy and Tristan, and later Erin & Jake, and Tyler and Tiffany.    The rest of the hospital stay was pretty chill, minus getting sick again, (throwing up and C-section is not fun in case anyone was wondering)  Tristan could only come and visit for a few minutes  a day before wreaking too much havoc in the small hospital room.    Nursing was so much less stressful, I don't know if its because I knew better what to expect or she is just a better eater but overall everything seemed to go smoother this time around.  By Halloween day I was ready to go home.   So far this girl is so chill,  the only time she ever seems to fuss is when her diaper is dirty (this has never bothered Tristan).  She is such a good eater and has already regained and surpassed her birth weight.   She is just so sweet!

Going home from the hospital

First day home

 Ivory and daddy staring contest