New Family

It has been forever since I have blogged anything! I am pretty sure everyone already knows our most exciting news, A.J. is finally here! He came a month early, exactly 36 weeks. My water broke at 12:30 in the morning of August 24th. I woke JonAaron up and said, "JonAaron my water just broke." He replied, "..Really?" We were both wide awake then. I wanted to clean up a little bit, I think I was in shock. JonAaron knew that we needed to hurry though, because the hospital was 40 minutes away. We made it to the hospital safely, and surprisingly I did not have any contractions! We checked in and went to our room. When they first checked me I was dilated to a 1. JonAaron and I were both tired from the MBA picnic the night before. After getting me hooked up to antibiotics and the pitocin, we tried to sleep. Then the contractions started and I finally got an amazing epidural. (I got the perfect one because I could still move my legs, but I did not feel any horrible pain.) I slept for a little while after that. At 6:30 they checked me again and I had dilated to a 4. The next shift came on, and when she noticed the contractions on the screen were different she decided to check me again even though it had only been an hour. I was a 9 1/2! I started pushing about 9:20 and at 10:07 I had a beautiful baby boy! He had a cone head, but other than that he was perfect. We got to take him home a few days later, but his bilirubin level was high. We had to put him under bili lights, which are basically like a tanning bed in a suitcase for babies. He only had to be under it a few days, which was good because it was hard for me to leave him in there. Life with him has been a great adjustment. We love him so much and we will be blessing him October 10, 2010.

School has been going really well for JonAaron. He really works hard, but he enjoys it a lot. He is also playing Flag Football on a BYU league. School is going good for me too. It will be nice in two years when we are all done, but I really enjoy my classes.

That is all of the updates for us. Time is going by so fast so hopefully I will be able to update this more often. It is so great to be a new family!