Easter-ish

Grandpa Styler came by for a visit:)

Two weeks ago Trevor and Lashel came up for the weekend to meet "baby Jade" as Koleman called her:) It was so fun to have them stay with us! They totally spoiled us and cooked us some amazing meals! WE are pretty lucky!

We ventured out with Jadelyn for the first time by going to eat at Barry's and then we went to a park to enjoy the good weather and let the boys play:)

Then Easter weekend we headed down to Delta. With my family we ate some delicious food, played some Rook with Aunt Linda and Uncle Bill, watched the jazz game, and let the grandparents love on Jade;)

We also went to the annual Styler family Easter egg hunt at Tom's aunt and uncles house! Holy so much candy! I cant wait til Jade is old enough to participate so I dont feel so guilty stealing me some candy! Its always fun to see the Styler extended family and of course we ate tons!

Then we went up to Tom's moms for the rest of the day and got to spend some good time with Grandma and Grandpa Probst, Kimi and Sadie, and Michelle and Larry

Overall it was a great Easter weekend with lots of food and family! Perfect! And Tom will kill me for putting this picture on here but I can't help myself...it melts my heart.

Our new love

Jadelyn Kay Styler arrived on Friday March 16th at 3:09 pm weighing 7lbs 11oz! So at about 1:20am on Friday morning we were sound asleep when my water broke! It was so crazy! I just remember standing in the shower laughing and my hands shaking! The realization hit that we were having her today! So Tom and I grabbed everything and we headed to the hospital. On the way there the contractions were really starting to come. We got to the hospital around 2:30am and I was dialated to a 2.5. Time was so crazy at the hospital, all the sudden it was 5 am and the contractions kept on coming and gradually getting worse. Around 8am ?I think I was dialated to a 4.5 and got the epidural (thank goodness!!) Wow what a miracle! So from then on I was pretty comfortable and we even took a nap until I got to a 9 and then wow the pain was pretty bad again but thankfully the anesthiseologist (sp? :) was going by to check on me and gave me an extra dose:) I was finally at a 10 around 12pm but we had to "rest and descend" for an hour. aka the doc wasn't coming for an hour:) So i started pushing at 1:50pm and at 3:09 pm the doc stopped me mid push and said "just breathe" I was like what?! thinking why are we wasting this contraction. Then he said "look down" and oh my heck- There was her head! And then he just pulled her on out! It was by far the most amazing thing in mine and Toms life! Oh Tom...I could not have done it without him! He was/is amazing. So all was fine and dandy for about an hour and a half, Tom and I were finally alone in the room just basking in it all when i looked down in the blanket when i realized she was not breathing!!! I freaked and pulled her out and she was blue! we were smacking her and she gasped but went limp again. I hit the nurse button and told them she stopped breathing and about 4 nurses ran in and took her to the little baby station and started working on her. It was the most sickening feeling i have ever felt to sit there helpless and watch them lift up her arm and watch it drop limp. I thought- are we going to lose her?! What happened?! Did I smoother her? Luckily she was quickly revived and the docs had no explanation. They took her to the NICU for a couple hours just to watch her and Tom went with her. Thankfully everything was fine and Jade has been perfectly healthy ever since. We are so in love with her and our little family! It is amazing how your life literally changes the moment you meet your little one! Life is good and we couldn't be more blessed. Thank you to all our friends an family for all your help, love, meals, and support !

Last pic of just the two of us:)

Check out that cone head! 7lbs 11 oz

Crying like a boob:)

hated her first bath

Poor Tom finally got to hold his little girl after they brught her to us from the nicu

First family pic

Lots of visitors! I didn't get pics of everyone that came to see us but thanks for coming Millers, Stylers, Jones, Byrds, Hills, Hunts, Kings, Fowlers, Bunkers, Chelsea, Grandpa Styler, Kimi, Conlan. I hope i didn't forget anyone.

Heading home!

First bath at home

Our amazing friends Jeff and Claudia Hill did her newborn pics! Here are just a few. More to come!!!

Valentine's Day

Usually for Valentine's Day we go out to dinner, but this year I wanted to make Tom a nice dinner. And I did it!! I cooked a legit dinner all from scratch! (Except the breadsticks, whoops) And I'm pretty proud of it so I'm blogging about it:) First we had Ceasar Salad, breadsticks, and Zuppa tuscano soup (similar to Olive Garden's sausage potato soup) honestly the best soup either of us have ever had!!!!! Seriously if anyone wants a delicious soup recipe, hit me up. Shopping for the ingredients was like a whole new experience! I had no idea what kale was and good thing I watch food network or I would never have know how to get into that garlic!

Then we had Chicken Cordon Bleu's for the main course. Good thing no one watched me prepare this meal because I'm sure it would have been pretty entertaining. So you are supposed to pound out the chicken breasts to 1/4 inch thick with a meat mallet (who has that??! not me) so I improvised with wrapping the chicken in saran wrap and using the side of our hammer to pound it out:) worked like a charm! Anyways they were pretty darn good as well!

Tom was pretty impressed and surprised when he got home from work! And I was pretty impressed as well! But one thing I learned for sure, that cooking...really cooking... not the way I normally molly mormon cook, with Cream of Chicken in everything...is freakin expensive and time consuming! But really good! After dinner Tom cleaned up and did dishes (aw) and then we watched Dolphin Tale (because it was my date and I wanted just a happy feel good movie! Cheesy I know but it was soo cute!! we loved it! Tom also brought me home these roses and pretzel M&M's!! yes!! he knows the way to my heart!

So all in all an awesome Valentine's Day date at home with the love of my life! :)

More baby stuff!

We finally have a baby room all set up for our little one!! When Tom was painting I went to check on him and found him doing this:) So you can kind of see the before... hideous lime green...

...and here is the after!!

Here I was at 34 weeks

Look how cute these two precious babies are!

Last week was kinda crazy! Tom was gone to Houston TX from Monday morning until Thursday night for his work training so I missed him a ton (especially since I was SUPER sick on monday and had to call in sick with no one to comfort me:( ) So I'm so glad he is home again. On Saturday, Stephanie, Brittany and Jenni threw me an awesome baby shower!! Thank you so much again ladies! I have the best friends in the world! Look at this spread! It looks like a reception!

I didn't take any pics during the shower but here are some I took at the end!

Here is Jenni rummaging through the gifts to decide which ones she was going to take home with her:) haha

And afterwards the husbands came over to eat the leftovers and hang out.

Hayden, Bridger and Gage playing with all the toys!

It was such a good night and we got so many amazing gifts from everyone! We are very grateful for all the family and friend support in our lives:)