Introducing Jack Jack

Jack Tolman Warner made his grand entrance into this world on Saturday the 14th of November at 11:20 am. He was 7 pounds 5 ounces, has a full head of hair and 10 fingers and toes! We had a bit of a scary start, but luckily both Jack and I are doing great.

Friday the 13th started out like every other date night. Jeff and I went to Wingers for dinner and then hit up that 2012 movie. During the movie I started feeling some more consistent contractions. About 2 in the morning I thought that my water broke, so we packed up and headed to the hospital. We got all checked in and hooked up to the monitors and then tested the fluid only to find out it wasn't my water that broke. So just about the time we were ready to pack up and go back home one of the nurses noticed something a little off with Jack Jack's heart rate. My contractions weren't close enough or strong enough to admit us, but every time I would have one poor little Jack Jack's heart rate would drop. At about 7am I had gotten up for a minute, and when I laid back down his heart rate had a major dip and at that point a nurse came in and told us we weren't going anywhere.

Around 9am they broke my water and started me on pitosen. They kept telling us that we would most likely be having a c-section, but they wanted to at least try to induce me and see if his heart rate would stay stable enough to have a regular birth. Probably around 11:20 the doctor came in and informed me that they were going to take us into surgery unless I was dilated to an 8. Being that I was just at a 6 ten minutes prior we thought there was no way we would be at an 8, but to our surprise we were there! The next 20 minutes were almost surreal. They rolled in a bunch of equipment, then next thing I knew they were asking me to push, and two pushes later little Jack was here! They got him all cleaned up, rolled out all the equipment and brought in lunch. It was so weird, one minute we are going into a c-section, and the next I am sitting there with a baby in my arms and lunch on the table! Jeff and I just kept looking at each other like "what just happened???"

In the end we found out that Jack had the cord around his neck 2 times, so with each contraction the cord would get tighter causing his heart rate to drop. We can't say thank you enough to that nurse, who's name happened to be Heather, that caught the drop early on and kept us from going home. We feel so blessed to have this happy, healthy and beautiful baby boy in our lives. I am so excited to finally be a mom, and I can't remember another time in my life that I have felt so content and fulfilled. Being a mom is the best feeling ever!

Here are just a few of the bazillion photo's we have of the little guy...


Mama's little boy...


Our little family...


Proud Daddy...


Grandma "Dym"


Grandpa Kent


Grandpa Rick and Grandma Sheryl


Grandma Patsy


Look at all that hair!


Heading home from the hospital!


All my boys!


My congratulatory drink! Jeff's brother Tyler gave me this special Dr Pepper, and I have been waiting for the perfect occasion to drink it. Well I think Jack's birth definitely constitutes as that!

Baby Shower

First off I have no new baby update... But I am hoping I will have one soon! Secondly I have been a horrible blogger lately! Blame it on the summer, nesting, work or whatever, it just haven't been a priority. I do have to apologize to my friends though because they threw me an awesome baby shower a couple of weeks ago and I have yet to post the pictures. So here are just a couple of pictures of my fabulous friends, and a couple of me looking very pregnant in all its glory :(























Thank you to all of you came and for all of the fun and wonderful presents! A special thank you to Amy, Erin, Lacey and Nat for putting on the production!

Primary Childrens

Bauer and I had our first solo visit to Primary Childrens on Sunday. It went awesome! Bauer just climbed into bed with the kids. The kids loved it because he just layed there with them and let them pet him, and of course Bauer loved it because it was constant attention! I can't wait till next Sunday!

Happy Anniversary!

On one hand I can't believe its been a year already, but on the other hand I feel like its just always been the two of us. Strange how that happens. Anyway for our first anniversary we wanted to get out of dodge for a little rest and relaxation, and what better place for the two of us to go then Vegas baby!

Vegas holds a special place in our hearts because it was there at a conference years ago that I think we both realized maybe we were more then friends. Also it is where Jeff proposed to me.

This time we decided to take it pretty low key being I am 6 months pregnant, and we didn't want to spend a ton of money. So Jeff went to one of his timeshare presentations and "scored" us a free 3 night stay in Vegas. Well I should say we thought he "scored..." About a week before we left we got a call from the timeshare place saying we had been "upgraded" to the Sahara hotel. UPGRADED??? If the Sarah hotel is an upgrade then where the HECK were we staying before??? Jeff had never been to the Sahara and he still wanted to check it out, I mean it was free and this is my frugal husband we are talking about, but he agreed to look at some backup plans. Long story short is that we got to Vegas pretty late, so we checked into the Sahara really because we both just wanted a bed at that point. The hotel wasn't as bad as I had expected, but it was no peach either. I was actually okay with staying there for a couple nights as long as we got to go somewhere nice for our actual Anniversary. As I went to sleep I remember thinking if I am okay with this place, Jeff has got to be because my standards are definitely higher then his, right? Guess not, the next morning I woke up to Jeff just laying there staring at the ceiling, and the first words out of his mouth "pack your stuff, were leaving."

I have to say I was relieved, so we ended up checking out this hotel called South Point down the strip a little ways which was a great find from our friend JoJo. For anyone heading to Vegas you should check this place out. Its a new hotel with awesome rooms, great air conditioning, a nice pool, a full on theater and bowling alley inside and its cheap!

From that point on Vegas was awesome. We lounged by the pool, drank our virgin Pina Colodas, and got some baby shopping done. Here are some pictures of some fun things we did on the trip.


We shared a piece of Cheesecake from the Cheesecake factory. We had to eat here because when we were here for our conference years ago I saw Jeff seriously pissed for the first time in my life. Actually now I think about it, I don't know if I have even seen him that mad since then.


We saw the show Mystere, which was awesome... though not as good as "O" in our opinion.


We ate our year old wedding cake! I am a nut case I realize, and I have this thing for traditions. So I made Jeff go get me a small cooler just so we could take this cake down to Vegas with us. It just wouldn't be right to eat it on any other day but our actual Anniversary!


And for those of you who wonder what a one year old cake looks like... here ya go. It did get a little wet in the cooler which I am sure didn't help, but not quite what it looked like on our wedding day. Regardless I have to give it to Carrie's Cakes because it still tasted fantastic!


Lastly we ended up eating at some Mexican restaurant that for the life of me I can't remember the name. No name Mexican restaurant on an Anniversary you may ask? Here is the story. Jeff's brother Tyler and his lovely wife Bethany now live in Vegas. Tyler just graduated from law school in the spring and while we were down there Tyler finished up taking the Nevada bar. So we had planned on taking him out for lunch when it was over so we could hang out with him and he could relax from his crazy studying he had been doing for the past couple years. Also Jeff had really wanted to hit up a buffet while we were in Vegas so I have this brilliant idea, since I despise buffets, that we should do the buffet thing with Tyler so at least he will have someone there that is actually enjoying the food with him. Looking back this was a horrible idea. Not only was the food terrible, but we didn't eat until 2. So by the time we were suppose to head to some fancy and romantic steak restaurant neither of us wanted much to do with food. I think Jeff was still too full, and I was still disgusted by the taste left in my mouth from eating that buffet. I do have to say the Mexican restaurant was pretty good, even if we barely touched our food, and I would go back again... but probably not for an Anniversary.

Well there you have it, one year down with many more to go. Happy Anniversary Jeffy, I love you with all my heart.

Heather

Updates...

Life continues to be busy these days, mostly consumed by work, but we always make the time to get out and have a little fun. Here are some updates on what we have been up to...


Happy Birthday Jeana!

A couple weekends ago we celebrated Jeana's 28th birthday along with Jeana and Steve's wedding anniversary. We all headed up to the Danjanovich's cabin and we had a blast. We stayed up until 2:00 (and for anyone that knows myself, Erin or Jeana that is close to a record these days) playing Balderdash and Madgab along with other games. It probably sounds kind of silly to some, but I don't remember the last time I laughed that hard. Between the definitions that came out of Anchor man and references to Moose's, I had a stomache ache the whole next day.

P.S. This cake is the real deal, no high fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated oils just the way Jeana likes it!


We also celebrated our 10 year High School reunion! How old are we!? I remember thinking that 10 years would feel like forever, but it has gone by so fast. This picture was actually taken our Sophomore year of High School, but it is one of my favorites. As for the reunion, it was a game time decision on whether we were going to go or not, but I am really glad we showed up. It was totally worth it just to see how much Brad Curley has changed! Wow!

I also have to apologize to the rest of the girls. I hunted for a "high school remembrance" photo that would have all of us in it... but I couldn't find one! It was either this one of the mud wrestling one... lol.


We got a grill!

I think this is one of the things you have to check off a list before you can officially say you are an adult. We have wanted one for awhile, but it just hasn't been a priority. Thanks to my Mom and Kent we finally have our very own grill! Don't mind that they were suppose to be giving us their old one... Weird how it looks so new and how they even were able to put it back in the original box with the instructions! Pretty tricky you guys...


Finally I bought my first purchase for this cute little tyke! I have been waiting for the perfect first purchase, and I just couldn't resist it... Isn't it the cutest thing ever!!!

Bauer Passed His Test!!!

That's right, Bauer is officially a certified Therapy dog! What is a Therapy dog you might ask? Therapy dogs are dogs that have been trained and passed tests that allow them to go into children s hospitals, retirement homes, special needs schools etc. and visit people who need a little cheering up. Anyone who has even met Bauer knows what a snuggle butt he is, and how much he LOVES people and kids. This is the perfect opportunity for me to combine two of my loves, children and dogs, and I can't wait to see those kids faces light up when they see him come in their room. If nothing else I am just hoping that we can take all of their worries and stresses that come from being in a hospital bed away even if just for a little while.

His test was this morning, and I have to say I think I was way more nervous then he was, because he soared through it with flying colors. There are about 25 temperament/behavioral tests dogs have to pass to certify, and Bauer scored the highest you can score on all of them but 1... he gets a little nervous when people try to stick there hands in his mouth (doesn't bite or anything, just pulls away), teeth brushing is the worst part of his week.

After the test we met with one of the program directors of UAATA and she thinks Bauer is perfect for Primary Children's hospital. Since Primary's is such a secure and confidential hospital I do have to go through some more training with them and they will have to do some background checks and I'll have sign a load of confidentiality forms, but they said within a month or two we should be able to start. How cool is that!


And this is him after the test... sleeping of course!

Its a boy!

That's right Jeff and I will be having our first baby, a sweet little boy, sometime around November 18th. We have known since March, but since we were a little gun shy we decided to hold off on telling anyone until after the scary months were over. We finally told our families on Mothers day, and now we can tell everyone else!

I do have to tell everyone an interesting story. It was around the end of February, a week or two before we found out, and I was at Yoga class. I was in the back of the class because I am one of the most uncoordinated and flexible people ever and it would just be distracting if anyone had to watch me. Anyway at the end of class the teacher always says to "roll onto your right side unless you are pregnant, then roll on your left." Well for some odd reason I roll onto my left side and everyone else rolls onto their right so now everyone is staring at me! At first I am just in awe because at that moment I knew I was pregnant, but then I started to second guess myself and worry because now all these people in the class either think I am pregnant or don't know my left from my right! It was weird. But I did come home that night and tell Jeff I thought I was pregnant. Of course he thought I was crazy because it was way too early to tell, but a couple weeks later the pee stick proved I was right! Ha!

I would claim that I have great womens intuition... but being that I was totally convinced I was having a girl until that penis popped up on the screen, I guess I can't claim my intuition is error proof.

Anyway we are both EXTREMELY excited, and now if we could just agree on a little boys name we would be golden! Any suggestions are welcome!


I don't know how they make out anything on these... I mean its like looking at the matrix...

PS. I saw the cutest pregnancy widget the other day and now I can't find it. So if you find one that is a cute pregnant lady in high heels, will you please let me know where to find it?

Birthday's and Mothers Day

April and May bring more for me then flowers... It also brings a marathon of Birthday's and then Mothers day! These couple weeks of the year are so much fun, but me and my wallet are both a little relieved when it is all over. Lol. I love you all! (BTW if the pictures don't load, click at the bottom of the post on the "comment" portion like you are going to leave a comment, and then use your back button and they should load.)

April 16th

 

Happy Birthday Randell! I mentioned to Jeff today that I have lived with you longer then him! Lol. I told him we finally had to split from being roommates because if we gave it another year the state would have considered us common law. Anyway I cherish all these years we spent together and look forward to many more.

April 30th

 

Happy Birthday Natters! So many stories, so little time. I can definitely say you are one of the craziest/ funnest girls I know. I am sorry I am such a crappy friend and totally spaced it this year. I owe you one huge Smart Cookie!

May 5th

 

Happy Birthday Pat! I hope you have a great time in Indiana at Tyler's Graduation. Good luck at Ohare!

May 7th

 

Happy Birthday baby brother! I would say little brother, but we both know you could take me in anything but a thumb wrestle. I have to say I have loved you from the moment I met you. You were the 2nd baby sister I always wanted (admit it, you look good in a bow). Thanks for always being my side kick when you were little and to this day one of my favorite people.

May 9th

 

Happy Birthday Spangie! I wish I could say I also loved you from the moment I met you, but from the look of this picture, it looks like it took me awhile to get use to not being the center of attention all the time. Thank you for sticking with me through everything and always being my favorite sister!

May 10th

 

Happy Mothers day mom! I am so lucky to have such a patient and supporting mother. You are everything I strive to be. You are going to make one fantastic grandma!

May 10th

 

Happy Mothers day Patsy! Thank you so much for raising such a great son. I am truly lucky to have both you and him in my life.

May 10th

 

Happy Mothers day Sheryl! I hope your kids made you a tasty breakfast, and you got to do some relaxing today.

May 12th

 

Happy Birthday Erin! Let me see this is the 16th time I have wished you that! I can't believe you have put up with me for that many years. You are such a great friend and I don't know where I would be without you.

May 17th

 

Happy Birthday Amy! Look how tan we were in this picture, we really need to get back to Cabo soon! Anyway I hope you have a fantastic Birthday since I am a crappy friend and won't even be here for your big day. Thank you for always just being one phone call away, and seeing me through everything.

Sunshine Cleaners!

Every year a group of my friends from work get together for the Sundance Film Festival. Some of us work it, others of us just enjoy the festivities, but we all have a great time. This year I never got around to posting the pictures I had from our adventures, and I had totally forgot until yesterday when I saw an add for Sunshine Cleaners! Sunshine Cleaners was my FAVORITE movie from Sundance 2008. I would seriously encourage everyone to go see it. I don't know how many theater's it will be in, but if you can I would go see it. Its hilarious! Its about these sisters that take a job cleaning up after crime scenes, and its just so funny if you like Sundance type of movies.


Me and the girls.


I did manage to drag Jeff to a couple films too... even though Sundance isn't really his thing...


And the Amstel Light dog was just too cute to not post a picture of it! Don't you just want to adopt him!