Another Chapter

It seems this time of year many things start to change and new chapters of life begin. Emily moved home from Provo. She graduated beauty school and moved home as a hair dresser and eye lash extension specialist and a more mature woman, we are so proud of her for all she's accomplished! Yay Emmers!

So for her graduation they got to present models. Some girls did high fashion but emily did a "new" mom look

so I got a hair cut and color, make up and I got to wear emily's cute shirt!


This little road warrior drove 16 hours broken up 4 hours hours each day! He slept pretty much the entire way! Love the baby stage!


After the graduation we went to Tocano's with emily's friend katrina, her fiance and his sister. They resturant brings you meat on spickets and has an awesome salad bar. We had such a good time!

So on Saturday morning we got up at the crack of dawn and helped pack emily up and than had a visit with kameron's mission buddy Dustin. We then headed back to Hurricane and went to a christmas party that night. It was so much fun hanging out with people our age. There were so many kids! we had a really good time and we also got to meet little Ryan Anthony Jones, Kam's cousin Kicki's little boy, they are 3 weeks apart.

We also spent some time with grandma and grandpa Ewell. We always have such a good time when we go to Utah and always leave thinking of ways how we could move there someday...

Another chapter has closed in our lives, Kameron's most difficult semester is over and he now only has one full semster left! We now are on the hunt for an internship this summer. I feel like time is flying by, but we are so excited for each new fun thing that comes up, like christmas!!!! It'll be here before we know it!

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!

I love this season! Thanksgiving and Christmas! family and food what more could you want? This thanksgiving we went to Thatcher, I actually went down to mesa early (kam's idea) and spent the beginning of the week at Janel's house. The kids got to meet Jeter, and we just got to have a fun time with the Lamb fam! it was just what I needed!

Dayton holding Jeter

Bri and mom came on Tuesday. My mom was supposed to have her foot surgery on wed but it didn't get scheduled? Maybe it was a good thing so we had regular mom and not a mom on drugs. the surgery was rescheduled for today! good luck mom!

we picked up emmers on wed and headed for thatcher!

Dad was sneaky and came home from his job in Nevada! he had a nasty cold, I think it was bronchitis. we had to take him to the ER tuesday night it was so bad. By the end of the week he was feeling much better!

I LOVED getting to be around bri and killian! there's always a blanket laying around and wipies at every turn! These two are just too cute!

yummy dinner!!!

we had so much fun playing games! we also had fun watching Killian pout!

little jeter sleeping away

Grandma Fensteremaker and Jason

I was so excited for Kameron to meet up with us on wednesday night! He is almost done with the hardest semester ever!

Janel and the kids came up Friday and us "little" girls went to see Harry Potter! so good! Janel even took family pictures of kam, jeter and I. I'm so excited to see how they turn out! And happy birthday to mom on thanksgiving day! we also helped her put up the christmas tree and decorations.

Bring on Christmas!!!

WELCOME CONNER!

baby conner arrived on thanksgiving morning! we stopped by on sunday on our way home to meet him. he's soo cute and little! I can't believe how big it makes jeter look. crazy!!!

Let it snow!

Once again my pictures are in the wrong order but oh well! It was snowing on Sunday morning, wasn't really sticking though. But it's fun to see the winter season really start to kick in! I don't think I have a good picture with Jeet yet, and since my hair is still wet I still don't know if this is a "good" picture of us.


we like to take naps after a long night of waking up, I'm usually sleeping right beside him!

just chillin

so we got this baby carrier from kam's mom. I think they look goofy but when you want to get stuff done it makes it nice to have. It's hard to get him in and out of it by yourself. But he loves being in the middle of things. He likes being carried around while I try to kitchen chores and laundry. He loves looking at the lights and I think the walking calms him.

I love this little outfit. My mom and I went to old navy while she was here...the baby section is dangerous.

we are so excited for Thanksgiving this coming weekend! Me for family time and Kameron to be done with a rigerous work/homework schedule. It will be so nice to spend time together, which is a rare occassion these days and eat lots of food!

Oh, and Jeter turned a month old on Friday! He will be 5 weeks on Tuesday and I think he's about eight lbs.! he's growing so fast!

what we do

Babies are tough. Eat--every two hours, spit up, bottle warming. Sleep--but wake up every two to three hours, with mom and dad because anywhere else just isn't good enough. Poop--on dad, on mom, in the night, in the day, and it stinks.
Now all of this was expected don't get me wrong! But living it is a lot different than just thinking about it. Good thing my body is adjusting to less sleep and I am able to function in the night a lot better.
But at the end of the day we have the cutest baby who gives us cute smiles and little coos. We just love him SO much!!
Tummy time! Jeter can turn his head side to side. Quite the accomplishment for our little boy!

bath time! Jeet had his first bath a couple of nights ago. he liked it, at first. the cold wet thing is just no fun! did I mention we need real baby bath tub?

Daddy and Jeter

After bath time is the best. All clean and warm

I have a new appreciation of moms, especially moms with more than one kid. Too bad we don't have three arms, as strange as it would look it would really come in handy *no pun intended :)

he's just so cute!

Go FSU!

Happy Halloween!

I can't believe how fast time is going by! My little Jeter will be two weeks old on Tuesday! Being a new mom is something I never could have prepared for. I've never worried about someone so much. Kameron is a great Daddy. These pictures are out of order but that's okay...

This is on Halloween and I was able to get a smile shot!

This was our halloween costum-pumpkin beanie!

This was on Saturday-trying out the swing-wasn't a fan, maybe in a month or so...

Yay for Moms! I'm so glad my mom stayed with me I never could've done this without her. Doing my laundry and cleaning my house. Just to have someone say "that's normal don't worry" was helpful! And not to mention my mom held the babies in heaven makes her the number one napping spot!

On Friday Brianna came to pick my mom up and we had a fun time introducing cousin Killian to Jeter! They're about 7-8 weeks apart.

Buddies!

Jeter Davis Johnson 10-19-2010

Our baby boy is Here! Jeter Davis Johnson born Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 10:07 AM 7 lbs. 5 oz. 20 Inch. And SUPER CUTE!

How it all happened:

So I poster earlier about being induced-well scratch that plan :) Monday night I started having those contractions again by 10:30 pm they were about 5-6 minutes apart but I kept saying to myself-I'm being induced-this is happening. I think I was scared deep down because I knew. Well I have these contractions and at about midnight Kameron and I are thinking we might have to just go, but I'm still just sticking it out. about 12:30 am I have this really hard contraction and my water breaks! Strangest sensation ever! So Kameron jumps out of bed and I go into change and my mucus plug falls out (TMI but that is how this whole experience goes...) we get to the hospital about 1:00am and get checked in. I was dilated to 4cm and get to 8cm by 3:30 am-ish. My mom, Brianna and Janel and little Killian get there and things start to slow down. We waited till about 6ish till I get to 9cm. My dad gets there and we just kinda wait. There are so many physical, emotional, and mental details this could go one Forever. I start to feel ready. Not a lot of pressure but just ready. By about 9am I am at 10 cm and ready to go! I was actually terrified to push. I was just so nervous! but they start me pushing and they say I have a lip and my pubic bone was in the way so I eneded pushing on my side the rest of the time. I got a window of pain-the epidural just stopped working there--it actually was in the same spot as my mom had with me. So I push for about an hour and finally this little dark haired baby is born and I have the most relief rush through me! It was insane! Crying and hugging and just this amazment of what just happened.

I think the main thing through all of this is you have to know things are not going to happen the way you think. Pretty much everyone stayed in there with me through everything! Not what I had planned but I wouldn't want it any other way.

So here are pictures of our adorable little boy and the crazy day of October 19th!

We took this right as we got settled in. No machines or epidurals yet

my excited face

He came out with his eyes wide open

me and Jeter

Grandma Tina, first little grandbaby

the happy little family

The proud daddy and his baby boy

Grandpa Kevin and Jeter

Janel and nurse Nikki. She was awesome! I couldn't have asked for a better delivery nurse. She had some humor that was a nice change from the high emotions going on. She was just awesome.

And Janel was an awesome birth coach too! I seriously Never could have done this without my amazing family. I don't have a picture of Bri, but she was so supportive, rubbing my feet and getting me to my happy place...chocolate cake :)

All ready to go home! The nurses were awesome. I did't especially like staying in the hospital, but it was a good place to get so much helpful information and make sure me and Jeter were healthy.

Now we are getting to know this handsome little boy and learn how to be good parents. With the help of my mom for the next two weeks. I could never do this without her! The first night at home went fairly well. Who needs sleep right?

It's Go Time!

Part One:
October 18th 3:30AM-I wake up from a dream of a little girl crying to her mom because she's in pain, little did I know that was me in pain! Dreams are funny. I was having contractions...first of all Do I even know what a real contraction feels like? Nope. But whatever was going on hurt real bad and was coming every 6 minutes. Count it out for about an hour. Finally Kameron is awakened by my moaning, and from there on they get further apart..6, 7, 8, 9 minutes. Talk about a let down! Kameron was able to go back to sleep-lucky-but I would fall asleep for a few minutes than be woken up by pain. This goes on until Kameron's alarm at 6:45am. Get up-just have very irregular "contractions" some strong and some not.
Part Two:
Finally get about 45 minutes of sleep, but once again pain wakes me up so I just lay there wondering why I have to go through this and why is this not the real thing?! But I do have a Dr. Appointment at 11:20 to check the baby and talk about "options" So finally I am at the Dr.'s and she asks if I'd like to be induced. Let me tell ya, I was so prepared to hear "Go home, wait it out" But the little guy scored an 8/8 on his well-being test! And she says I can be induced Tuesday at 5am. I'm so caught of Guard I start rambling about who knows what. Thank goodness Kameron was there to help me sort my thoughts and make the plan to be Induced on Tuesday Morning!
Part 3:
So now I'm having menstrual like cramping that intensifies..contraction? every so often and getting more and more nervous that by tomorrow night I will have a baby in my arms. A little helpless person I am responsible for. Why have I been pregnant for 9months and this is just coming into my head?

Well the next couple of chapters of this adventure are yet to come! I thought "I am ready for this!" now I'm like "Whoa I don't know what I'm doing!" Probably one of The most scariest things I've ever done. But I just know it'll be worth it in the end!