Wrapping up and starting a new year

Looking back at the past nine months it is hard to believe that we were at Snow graduating and off to Oregon; now were staring into the beautiful eyes of our daughter Lexi. It's been awhile since i've written last so I will just breifly explain what has happened. The last three months of my pregnancy were so long, just waiting for the little princess to come, and getting ready for her to be here.  In November my mom, sister, aunt and cousin threw me a great shower, we got basically everything we needed and I got to see a lot of friends and family.  We also got to see our best friends Travis, Kyla and little Hazel too! Also in November we spent a week at my aunt and uncles house while they were in Hawaii. I would have rather have gone to Hawaii but a nice big beautiful house was enough.  We also spent Thanksgiving with Nicks family and went to Chuck O Rama, which was something way different and new for me, since with my family we always have it at someones house. 

Then the week we had been waiting for for nine months came and no baby, my birthday which is also her due date came, and still no baby. After a week late of nights falling asleep crying, I went to my midwife and finally she suggested that I be induced since I wasn't making very much progress.  So friday the 14th of December I went in and they inserted a balloon into my cervix and blew it up til it was about 4 centimeters.  Then they taped it to my leg so it would dialate my cervix.  After a long night at the hospital hoping that that would put me into labor, around 4 in the morning the baloon fell out and they started pitocin and a couple of hours later I still was only at five centimeters, so they uped the pitocin and broke my waters around 10ish. Then I started to feel the contractions regularly about a min apart sometimes sooner than that and when the nurse came to check me she said I was almost an 8. The contractions were very hard and I had back labor as well so I was in double the pain. I really wanted to do my hypnobirthing which is what I had been practicing for three months to do, and I tried really but it was so painful. The midwife came in to help me breath and focus but I was already out of it, I was tired and finally after being an 8 1/2  I asked for the epidural, something I said I would never do, but at the moment it was much needed.  Lexi's heart rate was dropping plus Nick was getting that look in his eye, the look where you know they can't handle the pain your in anymore, so he said to do it.  After I got it I could breath and relax, so nice after hours of not being able to.  I had oxygen on and Nick by my side soothing me along with my nurse and midwife. I have to admit I did feel like a failure because it didn't go the way that I wanted. But with all my support telling me that it was normal for the first birth to go that way, I started to feel a little better. My cousin Merili came to see me, I got to be her first birth story( photographed birth) in which I was very greatful. My family came to see me even though they were sick, and I really just felt loved and greatful to be there. Anyways time went by and I was dialated to a 10, the nurse and midwife had me practice pushing. The first couple I could not feel anything, the epidural wiped out the bottom half of my body. So they had to take the epidural off so I could feel to push, that took forever, I felt like I was pushing for hours, and by the end I really had been. I was pushing for almost three hours. Then towards the end when she was crowning I felt everything becuase they hadn't put the epidural back on, and at 5:18pm our little girl was born. What a wonderful, amazing, extremely hard but totally worth it experience it was. I would do that again and again if I could get that experience again. I am so greatful to be a mother, I never knew I could love someone so much that I hadn't seen before. she was truely beautiful despite the gross goop all over her. Even though it didn't turn out the way I wanted, like the hypno birthing, Nick cutting the cord( she had to be rushed to the table  because there was a little myconeum in), me holding her right away. I got the best experience in the world, holding Lexi in my arms with my loving husband and father by our side.  I will try my best to keep updating my blog so my readers know whats going on in our lives. Until then

Love the Johnsons

The start of our birth story

Right after Merili came. I had just gotten the epidural, I was 10 centimeters dialated, Oxygen in my hand, and very happy!

 

My family came to see us right before she was born, it was nice to have some company

After 12 long hours of labor, and 3 of those hours pushing, at 5:18pm she was born!

My wonderful midwife Angel, she seriously was one too.

Right as she was being brought to the table and they sucked up her nose, a good cry to hear.

She was so mesmerised looking at Nick

Hospital identity, she is ours.

7lbs. 11oz.

After she was all cleaned up the family came back in to see her. My sister surprisingly fell in love.

New Daddy, and a good one!

Proud new parents

O how they love her, they are so excited to be grandparents, and an uncle and aunt.

 

 

 

Day TWO

Her little bucket, she didn't spend much time here, needlesstosay she is very loved

 

precious baby feet

So sleepy

My favorite, first daddy daughter pic

In the hands of a wonderful man

Holding mommys hand

Smiling for the camera

My favorite, this is so sweet!

Looking at mom

Happy family

 

 

 

 

Two weeks old

So sleepy, you would never had guessed it took forever to get her like that.

 

Holding our baby girl

Sweet baby feet

Looking at Dad

So in Love with this little girl

Hi mom

My favorite!!

Little angel

Loves from mommy

 

Another one of my favorite pictures, she is such a little model

Thats my wedding veil by the way.

 

 

Finally another post

So i'm not going to redo everything that I had posted during the summer. Because one, it took forever, and two, I worked so hard to show everyone what we did over the summer and when I was almost done everything shut down and nothing was saved. Very disappointing! So i'm refusing to post any of it. If you want to see photos, go to my facebook.  But I thought since I am getting over being mad at my blog I thought I would update on what is going on in our life right now.

So I will start off by explaining to all you who didn't know, during this summer me and Nick went to Medford Oregon so Nick could work. He worked for a satellite company called Satton marketing and would go door to door trying to sale people better t.v.. While we were there I didn't work, call me lazy I know, I sat around, read lots of books, stayed by the pool and hung out with some friends. I wish I could tell you it was worth it. In short lots of drama, don't want to talk about it.  While we were in Oregon we got to see our little baby on the ultrasound and my stomach grew, resulting in me having to wear stretchy shirts and maternity pants yuck! NO but I do have to say they are the most comfortable things to wear, and BEST invention ever! We also got to find out the gender of our baby, If you don't already know we are having a little girl on Dec. 8th, and also if you didn't know that is my birthday. We are going to be naming her Lexi Day Johnson, we are so excited and very blessed to become parents.

When we finally got to come back to Utah we moved into Nicks cousins basement which is a wonderful place and a mansion compared to our last apartment. There are three rooms and a huge living room with a kitchen and a bathroom, it is so perfect for us and I really couldn't ask for more. Nick started Pharmacy school at Roseman University located in South Jordan, he is very busy and studying all of the time, but it is paying off, he is passing all his quizes and tests and is still getting some free time to spend with me. I know your thinking, what am I doing while he is at school and call me lazy again but I have looked for a job, no respose, so I am here in my house I clean, I have finished a baby car seat quilt, baby binki holders, and sandals, and a hat, and a headband, and starting to do a little scrapbooking. I go shopping for food when my mom can take me and have been trying to get all the information for medicade that I can. By the way, thee most rediculous process ever, I know we will be so greatful for it when we are on it, I just wish people would get back to us faster, it should not take a month to get all this information.  I also spend time on thursdays to go see my brother play football, this is his first year playing and he is not that bad. I enjoy being very close to my family, they help out a lot and give me company. 

Baby winter hat I made for Lexi

Headband I made

Binki holder

Baby sandals made out of an old T-shirt

Hardest but funnest to make, carseat/stroller quilt

Right now I am 28.6 weeks along in my pregancy. I absolutely LOVE being pregant, I love feeling her move around and I am slowly getting used to talking to her, I know she can hear me cause usually she starts to move when I sing or read to her.  I feel so blessed to be holding her and can't wait to see he beautiful face.  Nick loves to see my belly and touch it to feel her. He loves to talk to her as well, most of the time she starts to move when he does, and it's so awsome to see and feel.  Right now i'm not too scared about anything but i'm sure when it gets closer the my due date.  But for now I will just worry about where to put things in her room and what stuff we need before she comes.  Since I have written your ears off I guess I better put some pictures up to show what I look like.

26 weeks

28.5 weeks

So I also like to take pictures of the things I decide to try and make. I am going to try and post the things that I am making as well as things that I try from pintrest, because I know I like to see how things turn out from other people so I am deciding to do the same, so hopefull you will see more of what I am doing. 

This is from the LDS cookbook, it is called chinese chicken, or something like that. It was really messy but not too bad, don't know if I will make it again, but we did like it.

These taste as good as they look. They are just chocolate chip cookies, thanks to my good friend Kyla Cecil I am now good at making a cookie! These are to die for.

This is just a simple meatloaf recipe from the internet, it turned out really good, both of us liked it very much. I will definetly have to make this one again.

This is Zucchini bread that I found off of pintrest, really not bad just not Paulas so obviously not the best! But in all fairness it was the first time I have ever made it so i'm sure it can improve a lot.

Baby Johnson # 7 is on the way!!

On APriL 6th 2012 we took a trip to the store to get one test to make sure we were pregnant. We are so excited that this day had come and even though we were a little scared because of the big change, we were so ready.

My pregnancy has been soo great. I have never really gotton sick, no wierd cravings just really relaxing and so wonderful. The only thing that has been really different is I cant stand the smell of steak or the taste of it, which if you didn't know used to be my favorite thing to eat. Also I have been getting headaches every so often but other than that I have really loved this pregnancy. Nick better watch out, if all of my pregnancys are as great as this one we are going to be popping them out like crazy I can tell you that much. 

This is about 12-13 weeks first ultra sound.  We were so excited to finally see that there was actually something in my belly not just a positive pee test. Our little guy or girl was moving like crazy and turning around, just so amazing to see. Our midwife was super nice and told us a lot of good things to remember.