He's Here!

Last night we added a beautiful baby boy to our family! Tanner Michael arrived at 1:55 AM on March 31. He weighed in at 7 lbs 13 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. He is a pink, healthy baby. He is perfect in every way. I am doing well and the labor, delivery, and recovery have gone well so far. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure!

I LOVE Strawberry Jam!

I went to a store yesterday cause they had a sale on strawberries. I had good intentions of only buying one or two pounds so we could eat them. And then when I get to the store, I check the prices and realized that I could get 11 pounds of strawberries for $10. I couldn't pass it up...since the baby hasn't come yet. So I bought 11 pounds of strawberries and made strawberry jam this morning. It's a good thing it goes fast cause by the end I was exhausted...and it only took 2 hours. But now I have lots of jam to go in my freezer and I don't have to worry about it after the baby is here!

These strawberries...


Turned into this jam!!!


And here are a few random things from the last couple of weeks!

This is me at 37 weeks! Only a few more weeks and hopefully he'll come early!


On Sunday, Mason made Montana and I Easter Baskets. It was so cute and he was so proud of what he did! He made a mask for each of us with our favorite animals on them. Montana's was a whale (or maybe a shark) and mine was a tiger. He also added a dinosaur, an easter egg, and two treats! He really can't wait for Easter.

Montana's Basket


My Basket


We took the boys to a park the other day when it was fairly warm. They had a lot of fun riding their bike and scooter, playing at the park, and feeding the ducks.






And last but not least, we had a very green dinner for St. Patrick's Day. (Green Jello, Green Alfredo with Broccoli, and Green Soda.) And we added Irish Soda Bread and Toffee Shortbread. The boys thought it was so fun to have everything green!


After I took a picture of my food, both of the boys wanted a picture of them with their green clothes and green dinner!



Oh and we took Mason bowling when Grandma Randee was in town and I got a video of him bowling that is just so darling cute!

Random Happenings

I went to the doctor today for my 36 week check-up. They checked me and I am sitting at 1 cm. We came home and Montana told Randee that she needed to extend her trip because I was at a 4 and she about died...so we told her the truth. I'm glad to know that my body is working and that the pain I feel is doing something. We'll see what happens next week!

On Saturday we went to Disney on Ice. It was a lot of fun and the boys really enjoyed the Lion King and Lightening McQueen. They weren't into the Little Mermaid or TinkerBell but it was still a cool show.







We have done a lot of work on the house recently. We got the extra bedroom in the basement finished so that when the baby comes and we have over night guests, they will have a place to sleep. Randee won't stay down there right now...she's scared of the basement! But now that we have a place, we need visitors...hint, hint! Montana now has a place to sleep during the day away from the kids! We'll see how it works this week.

Cardiology

Peyton had his cardiology appointment yesterday and I just realized that I should probably post about it. In November, his sats were around 80 and his Cardiologist was talking surgery in the summer/fall. She wanted to see him back in 4 months...right before the baby is born. Well, when we got there, he did great with his weight and height. (His weight is slowly gaining...he's about 28 lbs. and his height is definitely from my family...he's getting tall!) Then, they did the EKG and I say next to him and he didn't cry at all! This is a miracle since he usually screams through the whole thing and it takes forever to get a good reading. He was done with the EKG in about one minute. Then they did his blood pressure (which looked good) and then his sats...and he was at 86! I had to ask the tech if the machine was working right! I didn't want to have false hope. So, when the Cardiologist came in to see him, she couldn't believe how good he looked. She said that we will probably be able to put off surgery for about another year. This will give us time to adjust to the new baby and be able to help Peyton more when the time comes. We will go back in June and they will do another ECHO and keep a close watch on him but all in all, everything looks really good! We always love a good doctor's visit!

Here are a couple of pictures of my boys!


Peyton "cheesing" for the camera!

Tomorrow is Disney On Ice and I'll post pictures of that later!