Easter 2011

Our Easter was actually really low key this year...shocking I know.
We did our baskets after church and since Sunday's are so long we dyed a few eggs too.
These are the pictures from our egg dying and we only have these pictures thanks to Jeremy mostly!

Reading the Easter card from Grandma made for all three of the grandbabies.

The egg dying

I look totally disgusting in this picture...pretty sure my hair and face is unwashed.
Buuuuuut, this is the only picture with JJ, proving that in fact he was there for his first Easter.

Hope you all had a great Easter. Ours was nice and low key, complete with Jeremy, JJ and I taking a two hour nap together...awesome.

Time is flying by

JJ will be two weeks old tomorrow! Here are a few pictures from the last week.
First bath at home:

They always love the hair washing.



Eva learned how to make cream puffs from Grandma...they were so good!



We've been dealing with JJ being jaundice and having to be under the biliblanket since Friday...what a pain.

He really hated it at first, he's use to it now so that makes it easier to deal with but I can not wait till we don't have to deal with it anymore! He goes in tomorrow, his two week appt, to get tested again. Which I'm also dreading because this poor boy has had his little heels pricked and poked so much, it's so sad.

We had a baby shower.

And we also said goodbye to Grandma. She had been here for a month, she came a couple weeks before JJ arrived and she was so much help. Truly, it was a great visit and we miss her tons!

Grandma left us with many wonderful homemade things that we can cherish for a long time.

It's been a crazy two weeks, I feel really great, I think I can thank natrual labor for that. But man am I tired! I forgot how much nursing can take it out of you the first few weeks. I'm looking forward to when JJ gets older when he sleeps more, which means I sleep more!

Jacob is here!!

I woke up at 5am with contractions on Thursday morning the 7th that I couldn't sleep through any longer. Around 5:30am I went to the bathroom and the contractions started getting harder. I woke Jeremy up around 5:45am he took a shower, then I did. I took my time in the shower which wasn't probably the best idea but the hot water felt so nice on my back. Once I got out I realized I needed to get going. We were all in the car (me, Jeremy and my mom) after 6am, got to the hospital at 6:35am. I literally took my clothes off, hopped into the bed and after a couple contractions my water broke, I had one more contraction after that then they had my push...I pushed three times and he was here at 6:44am. That's right people, 9 minutes after I got to the hospital.
SO CRAZY! It's still blowing my mind how quickly it all happened.
But what is really blowing my mind is that he was 9lbs 15oz!!! That is ONE OUNCE away from 10lbs!!
The girls were only 7lbs! I still can't believe I pushed out this giant baby, and only tore to a 2! I tore to a 2 with Elle and a 4 with Eva!

And now we have a son!! I wanted a mama's boy really, really badly and I'm so excited!! As soon as they put him on me I knew he was our sweet Jacob we'd been waiting for all these months, our sweet boy.

I'm still getting use to saying "him" and "he." All though since we don't find out it's always a few days adjustment for me to call out babies by anything other than baby.

His nickname is JJ. When Jeremy and I were dating he said he always thought it would be cool to have a sone named JJ because he thought it would sound good at school sporing events, "Up to bat, JJ Brower!" and a few months ago Eva brought up the name JJ and said she wanted to be called JJ for a while, then decided if we had a boy that we should name him JJ.
We decided on a "J" name, I've always loved boy names with "J" and I've loved the name Jacob for a while.

His middle names (that's right, plural, this is our only son people), are Robert after my grandpa who meant and did so much for me when I was young before he passed away and Lance after Jeremy's dad whom we both admire and look up to so much. Jacob Robert Lance Brower.

And now for some pics!

37 weeks!

Spring for Kids Run/Walk March 12th, 2011

Eva completed her first 5k today with Jeremy! I can't even explain how proud I am of her and all she's accomplished the past few weeks.

Yesterday after school we headed to Five Star Sports to pick up her race packet. Jeremy took Friday off so we got to all go together to get their packets for the race.

At home going through all the goodies...she was mostly excited about the coupon to DQ.
Sounds about right.
Luckily Jeremy was able to get a shirt on Friday, we had already gotten one for Eva and we were so happy that they still had some to purchase.
Here are our racers this morning:

I think Jeremy's non-smile is due to being anxious for Eva and the adrenaline starting to pump through his veins.

She was so excited about having the shirt...I'm pretty sure she'll be working it into her wardrobe for the next few weeks.
The next few photos are blurry...my bad.

It was raining...barf. Luckily right before the race started it stopped long enough for some pictures and then it was kind of a light drizzle. I was happy about that! I thanked Heavenly Father right then and there! I didn't want Eva and Jeremy to be soaking wet throughout the whole thing...what a crappy first experience! So I'm glad it lightened up.
Elle and I just hanging out before they sounded off the gun.

Before the gun went off. I was so glad Jeremy had on a neon hat and red coat...he was easy to spot!

Finally, they're off!

You can see Eva behind the girl with the white shirt on and Jeremy's neon hat to her left.

It really sucks these are all blurry :( So much for experimenting with my camera.
Jeremy pointing Elle and I out to Eva.

You can see her big excited smile!

And they were off!
Elle and I walked around and she pet a few dogs...then I told her mommy needed to sit for a while, so we headed to the car to warm up and rock out to some tunes for a few minutes.
Once we headed back over to the finish line Elle was really excited to cheer on the other runners.

Here they come around the corner! I was SO excited! You can see them buy that blue truck.

Coming around their last corner.

Jeremy cheering her on for last few feet!

On their way to the finish line.

They did it! They crossed the finish line.

Then Elle and I made a beeline towards them as quick as I could waddle over there.
This is the first picture I got of them afterwards...she had already gotten her participation medal and a few coupons from the volunteers at the race.

She was on the brink of tears right afterwards.
The last run she did before this was really hard on her she hadn't eaten like she normally does so she got a stomach cramp and it freaked her out. Plus, last night she was acting like she was getting sick and we weren't even sure if she was going to be up to running this morning but she was fine when she woke up.

When she saw me she was rubbing her eyes and I thought she was going to start crying, I just gave her a big hug and told her how proud I was of her. Then she took a deep breath and asked for some water!
So cute.

She then enjoyed a carb feast on some yummy rolls they provided and we took it easy while they rested a little before we left.

There they are! My two runners. I couldn't be more proud of both of them Jeremy has really been teaching Eva about running properly and explaining it all so well to her. They have these special little things they do on their runs together and it's just so sweet and such a great blessing to see them bond as father and daughter. It took everything I had not to cry because I was so proud...I'd like to blame the pregnancy hormones on that but, I'm pretty sure I would have had to bite my tongue no matter what.

I did tear up a few times but I held it together.

After this we went home, changed into some warmer clothes and headed out for a family treat to Jamba Juice. The girls were both really excited to go there and Eva wore her medal proudly...and she still has it on as I type!