Announcing.......

KALE MATTHEW ROWBERRY!

Born: November 20th 7:41 pm Logan Regional Hospital Logan, Utah

Weight: 7 lbs 10 oz

Length: 20 inches

This is right after his first at home bath. He hated both matt and I right about now!

Finally settled down after his bath. He is so precious!

Love getting a couple of pics of him without his o2. He had level 3 meconium, and as a result got an infection, and had to be in NICU for 3 days. We brought him home from the hospital with oxygen, but are just SUPER grateful that he is okay. There are sooo many sick sick babies in the NICU, he was about the healthiest of them all. It really made us realize how much we have to be grateful for. THere were little twin girls in there who each weighed less than 2 lbs. So sad. He looked HUGE compared to all of the other babies.

Papa is just smitten as a kitten by our little man. Of course all 4 grandparents are! I just thought this picture was way to cute not to share!

I know I kinda look like hell here, but I love my 2 baby boys! Scout has been SOOO good with Kale. He is super protective and goes in his room to check on him about every 10 mins, or whenever Kale makes even the tiniest peep. Soo cute!

Mama and Kale in our hospital room

We are now an official family with one human baby, and one fur baby. Matt is the proudest daddy ever, and melts my heart every time he holds or talks to Kale. I am the luckiest girl in the world!!!

One last pic of me right before we left our house to got to the hospital.

Here is the story (mostly so I don't forget any of it):

I got my membranes stripped on thurs the 18th. that night i had bad cramps and minor contractions all night. Went to work the next day, and lost my mucus plug. Decided to go home and rest about 11 am. at about 3 or 4 my contractions started up again, and by about 6 or 7 they were getting fairly bad, but I felt great. Went to DI and home depot with matt cuz I was dying to be up and walking around. Came home and made party snacks for matt and me. By about 10 that night I knew stuff was starting to get crazy. My contractions were super intense, but only like 20 mins apart. ALL NIGHT they kept getting harder and closer together. Matt slept while me and scout stayed up. Scoutie was soo concerned about me and would just lay his head on my lap until i had a contraction, then he would stand up and look at me and just snuggle up to my side and whimper. I woke matt up about 5:30 and told him they were almost 5 mins apart, so it was gonna only be a couple of hours before we should go to the hospital. He started getting really worried. I made him take a shower and relax. Finally about 7:30 I started trying to get ready and put on makeup. We got to the hospital about 8:15 and my contractions were only 3 mins apart. THe gave me a pain releiver through IV, and about 10 I got my epidural. THe nurse was super concerned that matt was gonna pass out while they were doing my epidural, but he did fantastic. After that it was a breeze. I couldn't feel any contractions, and we just chilled for most of the afternoon. I continued to dialate, but stalled out at about a 6, so at like 3 they gave me pitocin. I had dialated to a 10 by about 4, and pushed once or twice, and they could tell then that the baby had meconium. i got really scared and started crying. I started pushing at 5:30, and it took a little over 2 hours for me to get him crowned. once he was crowned, they put the vacuum on his head, and he came about 4 mins later. Matt got to cut the cord, but they had to take him right away and suck out his nose and mouth so the meconium didn't get any worse. We then got to hold him and love him for most of the night. At about 5 the next morning, they realized that his oxygen saturation was low because of an infection from the meconium, so they took him down to NICU. That was really sad and hard. I called my dad and had him come give him a blessing that morning. He is a little fighter, and his stats continued to improved with antibiotics, an IV and oxygen over the next 3 days. We brought him home tuesday morning.

We couldn't be happier, and its been about a week now, and Im starting to feel lots better. We just love him to death, and are soooo very thankful for him. We have had tons of help and support from fam and friends, and couldn't have done all of this with out them.

Lotsa Catchin up to do!

This is a recap of what we've been up to for the last little while:

MY brother Trev and his cute wife Kristin are here visiting from Seattle. I love love Rigdon and Madilynn (my neice and nephew) and love every second I get to spend with them.

Here is Rigdon bein a cutie as always

He LOVES to take pics! He took this one of me.

He was showing us how if you put a flashlight up close to your skin, it glows (only, the lights were on ;) )

I told him to show me his train wreck. Cutie pie Kash was showing me too, but got distracted.

Here's my little buddy. Soo fun to have kids around!

At the hotel that is just adjascent to my work, there was a charity event that involved owners of limited production cars, and we walked over to see them. They were sooo nice! It was pretty fun to see them. Here's a GT

My boss's daughter Devani posing by a bentley

Viper

Lamborgini

My cute boss, Melissa with some Hott cars.

This pic of me is really scary, and I look pretty chubby, but here is Me and my sis Mikela at the Famous Preston night rodeo :)

We went boating with some of our best friends, Richie and Brody for Richie's 25th bday last weekend. It was a blast! The water at Willard bay is definitely warmer than Bear Lake!

Me and matt on the tube

RIchie and I just enjoying the awesome water temp.

Matt and I chillin in the boat.

The weekend before Willard Bay, we went up to a place called Scare Canyon with Justin and Jamie (Good friends of ours) to Justins cabin. THe morning when we woke up there was a moose like 100 yards away at a salt lick. It was pretty cool.

We've also been to Bear Lake a bunch. Here is my awesome neice Jenna and I trying to be cool while the men work on putting in a new deck on the boathouse.

Here is a pic of some of the progress. Matt and his dad and brother-in-laws worked really hard for more than one weekend on it, and Ill have to take a pic of the finished product. It looks GREAT!

Last but not least, here is my most recent belly pic. This is me at just about 24 weeks. I have 3 months and 14 days left until my due date. I CANT WAIT!!!!!

Spring Flings

These are in no chronological order, but this is a few pictures of what we have been up to lately.

Scout trying on the babies new bathrobe ;)

Handsome Hubby

We have so many pretty flowers at this house. Here is a lone pink tulip out front

What a cute picture! He loves the snow being gone and playing outside!

Pretty little flowers in our irrigation ditch

Tree in full bloom. This tree in the middle of a warm day is soo loud buzzing with millions of bees!

The latest belly shot. all I have to say is Ugh... ;)

At Dinner with some work friends when my good friend Jenny quit. This is Karolina and her pretty girl Baysha

Me and Jenny and Olive Garden

Random Things we've (I mean I've) been up to...

Yesterday some friends of mine had a bridal shower for one of my very best friends Heather Schiffman. It was SO MUCH FUN! We had a room upstairs at Cafe Sabor (yummy Mexican restaurant in an old train depot). She and her fiance Dakota are getting married in Hawaii next month, and because of work Matt and I cant go! We are super bummed!! Anyway the shower had a bit of a Hawaiian theme. So cute!

Me, Jamie and Marlene. LOVE THESE GIRLS!

Becky (mother of the bride) one of heathers friends who I cant remember her name, and Heathers sister in law, Amy.

**THe BrIdE** She is SO photogenic, and I love her smile in this picture--it is SOOO her!

Me and my friend and old EK boss--Brit. She is awesome!

Laura--good friend and coworker, Heather and Jamie

THis is a little Crafty that I made last weekend. Love modge podge! :) LOVE

The whole project

Cute pic of me and 2 of my very best friends and Conservice Homies, Richie, Me and LIndsay. These 2 are some of the funniest people I've ever met. Seriously :)

**I just noticed that Matt (my sweet hubby who I do love) isnt in this post at all. Sorry Honey )

M.I.A.

So, we have been way busy lately, and Ive TOTALLY slacked on blogging. I know, because some of my friends have reminded me how bad I suck... :) haha. THese things are being posted in no specific order. I have hardly taken any pics in the last month. Oh well. Here goes.

Halloween! Matt and I were gladiators. I loved our costumes :) Matt kept saying how comfy his "dress" was. Funny!

Me, Ali, and Jamie in our costumes. Gladiator, Robin, and a Geisha. What a deadly combo we were.

Me and Matt. We had so much fun at a party at our Friends the Kirschbaums. We all made Spooky treats, and ate a ton. Fun times!!

My team of vampires at work.

Trever, Kristin, Rigdon and Madi have been here since about the 18th or so. We have had SOOOO much fun spending time with them. What precious little kids. I would totally claim them as my own.

Here is Madi rearranging the end table in the living room. (note: the cute engagement pic in the back.....im just sayin...)

2 sweet boys-My lil bro James, and Kash.

Oma (gramma) and Madi J

(bad pic) Me and Madi--She is always smiling. They call her Peaches. Rigdon says it SOOO cute :)

My weird brother taking his own picture :)

Scout saying "CHEESE"

Ill try to be better on the bloggity. But, with my life as crazy as it is right now, Im not making any promises :) HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!!