Happy Father's Day Owen

Happy Father's Day sweetheart, we LOVE you!
Stacey, Sarah Genevieve and Cecily

Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

We had a wonderful visit to the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple on Wednesday with the girls and Owen's brother DJ. Both girls did SO well. Sarah was so attentive and reverent, it was so sweet to see. Cecily slept most of the time but when she was awake she just looked around and took everything in.
So I know this picture is crooked but I couldn't fix it...Angel Moroni got struck by lightening!!! We took a picture of him and if you look closely you can see his charred arm and face :( Poor guy

I love this picture, Owen and Sarah walking to the car.

This a shout out to my dad and stepmom for getting us the COOLEST double stroller! Thanks so much guys! We love it. It's a Graco IPO Double stroller and we took it everywhere. It has a great design and fits through a stanard door just perfectly. I've pushed Sarah around in a few and I personally like the side by side better than the front and back kind. It's so much easier to push two different size kids, and the seats are rated up to 50 lbs each!

We all had such a nice time, the temple is so beautiful and we are so thankful for the eternal blessings the temple has brought our family.

These Girls Got Talent

Cecily had to two week appointment yesterday. It went really well, she's doing just great. In the last two weeks we've been fairly sleep deprived but Cecily did manage to give us two nights in a row of 8 hour sleep...it was just a fluke though, she hasn't done it since :(

She is a very vocal baby! She makes all sorts of noises, which keep her dad up at night, I can sleep right through it. I tell her she's our little singer.

Sarah has hit a major growth spurt which is nice to finally see, she's been little for so long. She's almost completely in 18 month clothes...she has a really long back like her dad. The only show she will stop what she's doing to watch on TV is So You Think You Can Dance. She will stand in front of the TV and dance! It's so cute. She's our little dancer.

Thank You Stacey Family!

These are the cute outfits my Aunt, Uncle and cousins got us for the girls. (Note to Staceys: I had to exchange them for different sizes so they could wear them at the same time :), that's why they are a different style. I managed to find Cecily a Newborn size that fits her great right now, and the way Sarah has been growing, she's almost out of 12 month clothes...she's a tall girl!)

Sarah's inner monologue..."MOM, get her off me, she's crying". Sarah has been giving us this "face" lately, it's full of attitude...we just laugh at her because its so cute!

Thank you Stacey family for the darling outfits. We LOVE them and the girls look SO cute!

Pictures!

Our sweet Cecily. She has the most beautiful strawberry-blonde hair!Owen and Sarah texting the good news.

Sarah LOVES her new sister! She's being so gentle and patient with her. She loves giving her kisses on her head, snuggles, and binkys...her used ones of course :) she loves to share.

Sarah meets her sister and is SO sweet to her.

A quiet moment for Stacey and Cecily before coming home from the hospital.

An Owen-Cecily moment while we wait for her blood work to come back from the lab. No jaundice yay!

6 days of early labor...don't cough or her head will be here!

That pretty much sums up Cecily's birth experience. I'm sitting here in recovery Utah Valley looking at my sleeping beauty and figure I'll take advantage of the internet service on my blackberry. Here are the details and I hesitate to post this because I know it is VERY RARE that things happen this way!

I do give myself some credit. I went into labor last Saturday! See previous post. Things never kicked into active labor so I came in yesterday for my induction knowing that they would kick things into gear for me.

WELL...
7am we get to the hospital
7:30am we are checked in and in our room
8am IV
8:30 Pitocin
9am water broken, I'm at a 3
9:30am epidural, Dr Lind is amazing!
10:30am Owen runs to Panda Express, he's starving. Told him not to rush...since it takes me forever to dilate.
11am Owen's back and eating, I'm resting.
11:30am nurse comes in to check me, I'm a 5. She tells me to call her if I start to feel "pressure".
10mins later...Owen had finished lunch and we figured we still had a ways to go so he set his alarm so we could cat nap. He had just helped me flip over so I would be more comfortable and I felt Cecily shift in my tummy...it felt weird. With the next contraction I felt an uncomfortable "pressure" so I gave myself a dose of meds. With the next contraction I felt my body pushing! Wait this isn't normal! I told Owen and called the nurse. I was embarrassed because she was JUST in and said I was at a 5.

The nurse rushes in, checks me "don't cough! Her head is right there!" she runs out to call Dr Savage and I start blowing through contractions. I had dilated from a 5 to a 10 in 11 minutes!!!

My Dr comes in minutes later and with the next contraction she has me push and Cecily enters the world as easy as can be. No stitches no nothing, it was so surreal it happened so fast!

After 6 days of total discomfort this delivery was such a blessing! We are so happy to have our sweet baby here happy and healthy.

As soon as we get home we'll put some pictures up!

Cecily Madeleine Williamson

Our new baby girl was born yesterday at 12 noon on the dot! She weighed in at 8.9 lbs...we had NO idea she was so big! She's 19 inches long and has beautiful light strawberry BLONDE hair. At first we thought she looked just like Sarah but as the hours go by she certainly is her own sweet self :)

My exciting night at Utah Valley Regional Hospital!

I say that sarcastically because it was actually a roller coaster of a day yesterday.

Saturday afternoon- contractions start, theses are the strong that regular Braxton Hicks, but not super uncomfortable. They progressively get stronger but I decided to try and go to bed...I was really tired.

Sunday morning- I send my family to church without me, I'm at home contracting again. Now I'm really having to breath through them, they are really strong and really uncomfortable. Family gets home, we go for a walk to return a RedBox movie we didn't even get a chance to watch on Saturday because of these dumb contractions.

Sunday afternoon- Owen and I go for another walk. My back hurts so bad, walking seems to be the only thing that helps it feel better. We get home and contractions are 2-3 minutes apart and now REALLY hurt.

Sunday night- I was hesitant to go to the hospital, I know I don't dilate very fast and didn't want to get sent home but my back pain was now close to unbearable so Owen takes me in. Mom gives Sarah dinner and puts her to bed.

Later that night- Nurse checks me...1+ cm...you've got to be kidding me! They watch me for an hour...1 1/2 cm...so a little bit is better that nothing but I know there is no way they aren't going to let me stay. My Dr. says to walk the halls for an hour...2+...some progression but not enough. If I had been 39 weeks they would have kept me and started things going with Pitocin but I'm still 38 and days so not close enough. Now I am in a TON of pain, my tailbone feels like it's broken, and I am just miserable. My Dr. orders a morphine shot and wants me to go home and sleep.

Really late that night- Man I love morphine! My back pain was gone, contractions had slowed and Owen wheeled me out to the car...walking was out of the question. He gets me home, helps me climb into bed and I didn't move until morning. I love waking up in the same position that I fell asleep in, a mark of a truly good night's sleep.

This morning- Back is achy, still lots of pressure from the baby, but contractions haven't kicked back in...At least I know this baby is coming Thursday morning for sure! I think I can hold out till then if she doesn't come sooner!