Adelyn's Blessing

We were lucky enough to be able to bless our little girl while Casey was here. My Uncle and 3 of his boys came, my grandma and her husband, my grandpa and his girlfriend and my family were all able to come. We also had a good family friend (Gwen and Jim Liddell) that came, they kind of adopted Casey when he lived in Arizona and they are the family that actually introduced us to each other. It was a beautiful blessing that Casey gave to our little girl, it made me cry. It is a wonderful thing seeing your husband use the priesthood to give a name and a blessing to your daughter and then hold her up in front of the ward.

 I am so great to have had my husband here for the past two weeks, it has been a special time for us. He has gotten to know his daughter, he hasn't put her down the whole time he has been here. I have just sat and stared at them, and marveled at how wonderful it is to have my own little family. Its the best thing in the world, better than I could ever have imagined it to be. He is my soul mate, and they are my whole world now. It has been special to have him here and I am grateful that he had 19 days to spend with Adelyn and I but I am so sad to see him leave. He leaves on Saturday we have to have him at the airport at 350am.  Hopefully the next few months will go fast, he is hoping to come back from Iraq in Aug and should be home in Sept. We might even get to celebrate our second anniversary together. I pray that he will be kept safe and the other soldiers with him will be kept safe.

Busy busy busy...

So having a kid and having my husband home has made it so I haven't done much of anything, but I realized that I haven't updated my blog in awhile. Like I said I haven't done a lot, I am still trying to get use to being a mom. It is a crazy challenge, but one that I am loving and wouldn't trade places with anyone. Our little girl is fabulous, she really is a good baby, she doesn't cry a lot and she has the best facial expressions! Casey has been home since Tues the 15th and will be here until March 5th. We are totally enjoying the time together! We just had his mom, dad and sister Coree here for three days, and then we just went and had family pictures done yesterday. We are also blessing Adelyn on Feb. 27th. I will post both family pictures and pictures of her blessing when I get them. 
I do have a picture to share, we told Casey's niece Zoe that Adelyn could fit in a pocket, and she said no she can't so Casey went and put his military pants on and we shoved her into his big pocket and here is the picture from that. :) Enjoy

Our little Princess....

I went and got Adelyn's newborn pictures done yesterday and she has already gotten the first few back to me. The gal that did them is fantastic, her name is Laura but her business name is Sophie Jacks Photography, she has a blog of her pictures if you are interested in looking at them. Here are the first ones and I will post the other ones when I get them.

Comparison....

So I know probably not a lot of people care about how different my body looks but I am interested and I want to document it so that I can see in later years. So here are the before and after.. the first is 36 weeks and I delivered at 36 and 4 days. The second is a week after delivery. 

Adelyn's Hospital stay

So we are back in the hospital, our little girl went to the Dr. and her bili was 19.1 which on Saturday night it was 7.5 so that was a big jump so they admitted her to the pediatric unit at the hospital that I work at she has been under a bili light for photo therapy. They drew her blood after 6 hours of being under the light and it was 17.2 so it is going down slowly but surely. My milk still hasn't come in but I am pumping and getting colostrum, so I am feeding her that. She also breast fed for 25 mins tonight which is the longest she has ever done so she is doing good. Here are the pictures that I have taken.

She had to get an IV, she did really well with it though.