her arrival~

well the morning that i was to be induced everything went pretty normally. we got up early and called the hospital to see if everything was still on to be induced. it was and so we dropped the boys off at a friends and headed to the hospital. i was feeling pretty confident with this being number three but anxious and nervous all at the same time. you never know what can happen and i always try to not think about the bad stuff on the way to the hospital just so i can stay calm.

(one of the few pics you will ever see of me in the hospital-the pics never are very flattering!)

anyways we got to the hospital and i was having contractions on my own every 3-4 minutes and i was at a 4, so they broke my water. i thought that everything was going great. i thought that this little girl would be here by lunch and that this delivery would be my easiest by far.

boy was i wrong. by the time i got to a six i requested my epidural. they doctor came in and did everything that he needed to. it was not my best experience and i thought right off the bat that something might not be right. it felt funny and kind of hurt going in. two things i had not experienced with he boys. so after my epidural was in the doctor decided to turn on the pitocin to try and make my contractions stronger and a little bit closer together.

here is where everything started going all crazy. they were slowly increasing my pitocin but as they would increase my pitocin my blood pressure would drop. the baby was always perfect. she was showing no signs of distress but i was!

so they turned the pitocin off and gave me 3-4 shots of ephidra (i know i butchered how you spell that) to bring everything back to normal. well once they got it in a normal range they turned the pitocin back up. the second time my blood pressure dropped they started to get concerned. at one point it was like 49/? .

by this point it was like 3:30-4:00. i was sad i was still in labor and worried about everything that was going on.

finally my doctor walked in and said that they were turning off my pitocin again to get everything regulated. she said that if they turned the pitocin up again and my blood pressure dropped again i would have to take my epidural out and just go it on my own.

at this point my epidural was pretty non existent anyways. i was feeling my contractions and could feel everything from about waste down. third time was a charm. because my epidural was not really in effect, when they turned it the pitocin up the third time my blood pressure stayed fine and things progressed rather quickly. I went from a 7 to a 10 in about 20-30 minutes. i was feeling a ton of pressure and yelled at garran to get some help NOW!!

the doctor and nurse came in rather quickly and told me i could push whenever i was ready. (funny side note. i had just had that ultrasound on monday saying she was 8lbs 8 oz-however when i started pushing my doctor said "oh meghan i think we have a bigger baby than we planed on." garran and i just looked at each other. in that moment that is not what you want to hear your doctor say)

so a few minutes later briea was here with us and we were glad that everything was done, everyone was healthy, and that all of my problems were gone!

thanks to everyone who came by to visit. it was great to have something to do while i was in the hospital.

if you want to see a few other pictures you can click HERE!

welcome-welcome~

baby girl-g is here!!

i am just going to post a few pictures right now. i will post all our news about the exciting day later. it did not go as planned but everyone is healthy and happy, so in the end it all was OK.

her she is~

briea-jossi maureen -march 4th @6:13pm.

9 lbs 3 1/2 ounces! (8lbs 80z, we thought that might be off!)

21 1/4 inches long

we are convinced that most of that 9lbs is in her cheeks =) she is very sweet and a pretty good baby so far. we will see how we all deal with going home. like i said i will post more info later. i thought i would just post a few pictures for family and friends.

daddys little girl - we all knew that would not take long!

flashback~

found these and just had to post them. what a cute chubbers!

cullan used to be so chunky.

getting ready~

trying to take care of my to do list:

• getting my ipod ready-i need music to get through this=)
• double checking my hospital bag!
• double checking baby bag-got to have the cute clothes!
• going to store to get some snacks for garran. b/c he will get to snack while i do all the work! LOL
• get camera ready. you know we will be taking some pictures of this sweet new one.
• get paperwork for hospital together.
• figure out sitters for the kiddos~

im sure there is more but im off to do the work. i keep saying a little prayer that we don't get bumped. but if we do oh well, its just another day!

good news~

ok people here it is. the good news and answers we have been waiting for.

so my appointment went pretty good today. they did an ultrasound today.

she is weighing in at 8 lbs 8oz. (ultrasounds can be off by a pound either way)

so keep that in mind!!

so i had dilated a little more, and am still having contractions-just not regularly or regularly long enough to land me a spot at the hospital. so we are on for wednesday morning. they wanted to due it thursday but thursday was booked so they bumped me to wednesday. my doctor said that if one of the women scheduled for thursday goes into labor on her own, then i will get bumped to thursday because that is technically her day. but if that happens she will call by tuesday night and let us know. so as of right now we are planning on meeting this little one on wednesday.

now we are just doing little things around the house to finish up and get things in order and figure out scheduling for the kiddos.

woo hoo for wednesday!

(or maybe thursday =)

ice cream sunday~

what fun would it be without a little ice cream on sunday?

single digits~

ok so if you look to the righ,t do you know what you can see?

my baby ticker that says that i am finally in the single digits starting today!!!

tomorrow we have a doctors appointment.

they are supposed to be checking her size and giving us a date to be induced.

the deal was that if i had not had her by this weekend we would set something up on monday at my appointment.

WOO HOO! THE END IS IN SIGHT.

the only thing better would be if i just went into labor or my water broke tonight.

keep your fingers crossed! hopefully we will be posting good news and cute pictures soon.

at our house~

this is ...... some " na-naughty cheese".

how the boys came up with this i have no idea. but when they are hungry for macaroni and cheese that is what i hear. "please please have some na-naughty cheese mommy!"

false starts~

well i have decided that i am not going to get excited about this baby coming until monday. last night garran and i went to this Mongolian restaurant and ate some spicy food. then we walked around the mall and i was excited because i was having regular and strong contractions. i was so excited. so we came home and called labor and delivery. they said take some Tylenol and a hot bath. i did and i was so bummed-my contractions slowed down. so i stayed up till about midnight waiting for them to get stronger to no avail. i finally decided to go to bed and just forget about it. so now im just going to try and enjoy my weekend and wait for my doctors appointment on monday! i know we will know for sure then when this little girl will be coming to join us.

hope everyone has a great weekend!

sweet little boys~

playing with a different lense! happened to get these!

cuteness in a snapshot. to see more you can go here.

so glad its friday~

i am ready for this weekend. even though garran has to work a little bit this weekend, i am still happy it is friday. i have been patiently waiting for this week to be over and now it is=). we dont really have anything big planned, weekends just seem less stressful.

on a side note i thought i would post just a couple quick pictures i took of kael that other day. he has been having a hard time lately when cullan gets to go to mom school and he has to stay with mom. so i decided to have some fun with him. he kept trying not to smile and would say "no mommmy, no picture no more" then i would act like i was putting the camera away and he would start being cute again. plus im trying something a little different thats new! (im still learning=) i don't know if anyone can tell or not but i love it. i did not do anything to these they are straight out of my camera!

i want to try and play some more if i get around to it.

baby-baby-baby~

well today was my checkup.

we had made a little progress which was a nice change.

almost 3 dilated and 50 % effaced!

for most people that is not a big deal but for me huge.

with both of the boys i had not dilated at all when i went in to get induced.

so i feel like im on the move. all though i am not to excited because i know some people are where i am for weeks.

however i have another appointment on monday and my doctor said if i did not have her over the weekend that we would talk about inducement~

so soon this little girl will be here.

i have given up and went out and bought a baby name book tonight. i gave up on the websites. so we have it narrowed down to six i think. they are on a piece of paper that we will probably just end up taking to the hospital =)

poor baby girl. she has such indecisive parents.

anxious~

today i am feeling anxious.

i am counting down, waiting for my doctors appointment tomorrow.

after a week and a half of contractions, cramping, and back pain (not from my surgery, just normal pregnancy back pain) i am hoping for some good news.

at first i thought this little girl might come on her own, but now i am back to thinking i might have to be induced again with this one. if that is the case im going to push for next week.

i am ready!

so wish me luck and that my doctor will be sympathetic to a grumpy pregnant lady, LOL!

random~

but i still had to post it.

i found this on my SIL's face book page.

look at those curls.

look at that sweet face.

who wouldn't love this kid!

dreaming~

i dont know if anyone else can relate...but pregnancy hormones due crazy things to my dreams.

so much so that i decided to blog about them. garran laughs at me in the morning when i tell about what crazy thing i have dreamed about the night before.

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for all you 24 fans you will appreciate this dream. i had watched 24 and went to bed. in my dream garran and my pregnant self were working with jack to try and take down Dubacko. (im sure i butchered the spelling of that) anyways half way through our mission i went into labor. however i refused to go to my OB because i was convinced she had been compromised by Dubacko. garran kept trying to convince me she had not, but i would not listen.

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a few nights later i had a dream that i was checking the mail and two rabid ferrets got into my house and were holding the boys and i hostage. for some reason we had an abundance of fruit in the house that i would throw at them. who knows

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the third one is a little blurry. but i was a spy of some sort and very pregnant.

i can not remember all the details but i remember it was pretty funny.

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oh well only two more weeks at most of crazy dreams... did you seem i am under 20 days on my ticker! WOO HOOO~

today we~

this weekend has been a weekend of small projects and organization, trying to get ready for the little girl to arrive. whenever she decides to make her grand appearance!

the boys have been very patient with garran and i and so we thought it would be fun for them to make t-shirts saying something about being big brothers that they could wear to the hospital. well they got a little carried away and ended up just painting on t-shirts and we will work on the big brother shirts a little later. (we got about half way through and mommy started to lose my patiences!) i have to admit that lately my patience and energy have been running a little thin. thank goodness my kids are so understanding. i try to keep my cool but im sure some of you know how it is. and here is the finished project.

the boys had so much fun. i think they really needed something fun today.

plus who doesn't love getting all messy with paints =)

kael & his hats~

i have been meaning to blog about this for awhile but never got around to collecting all the pictures i wanted, so i figured i would go ahead and do it now before i forgot.

kael is so funny. he always has something on his head. this is one of his favorites. however if he cant find a hat he will use a blanket, any old shirt, a sock, etc.

it is the funniest thing. i love that he is just himself and has not yet started that phase of worrying what people think. the other day we went to walmart and he wore a santa hat. ya he got some looks but if you asked kael he would have no clue what you were talking about!

that is on thing that is great about being a kid!

walking..walking..walking~

tonight we went a walking.

walking...walking..walking!

been so uncomfortable all day. cramping and contractions.

im hoping something happens tonight, however i am not holding my breath.

i have never gone into labor naturally, i have always been induced.

so i have no idea on what to expect time wise or if anything is going to happen at all!

so is everybody sick of listening to me complain about this yet? =)

will we ever decide~

here is a pregnancy ranting blog.

i want to know what we are going to name this baby.

it is driving me crazy.

we can not decide on anything.

i hate this. i like to be able to pick a name and know that is it.

nothing has really just fit like cullan and kael did.

i went through and entire baby name website last night and this morning.

we could not agree on anything i wrote down.

now it is garrans turn.

i am beginning to think she will just be known as "tricks" for a while.

good thing cullan came up with a cute nickname right?

family time~

today i decided that i was sick of wondering when this baby was coming and that we should go do something fun with the boys. cullan had a great day at mom school. niki said that he participated really well and was very polite. if anything cullan has great manners! =+)

so we ran a few errands while waiting for garran to get out of class. both the boys were so happy and well behaved. we got some lunch and then headed to pick up garran. the boys were super excited about what we had planned and with the fact that daddy got to go this time. usually he does not get to go due to school or work. however today we decided to go to chuck E cheese, get some tokens and just let the boys play for an hour or till their tokens were all gone.

they had a blast and it was fun to see them so excited about getting to play all the games with daddy!

-garran and the boys playing the spider game. it is one of their favorites-

-the boys on a rollar coaster ride. i love that they put their hands up all on their own-

-i had to take a short video. they were so funny.-

-cullan the cowboy. getty up!--kael on the merry go round. for some reason he looks so chubby in this picture. -

(what a cutie!)

-cullan again, pretending to be a cowboy-

-of course we could not leave without a little booty shake from kael-

hope everyone had a fun tuesday!