Kyndi's Birth Story

On Monday, March 16th, all sorts of weird things happened with my body.  I was sitting reading a book with Carson and went to stand up and got this horrible stabbing pain in my hip.  It felt like it had been pulled totally out of place!  I literally could not walk or move without severe pain.  It was crazy!!  Then later that night when I was going to bed I got sick and started throwing up.  I told Chad that I hoped this baby came soon because I couldn't handle much more of these curve balls my body kept throwing at me.

The next morning, Tuesday March 17th, I had my 39 week check up.  Of course my OB, Dr. Spencer, was out of town and so I just saw his PA.  She checked me and I was only dilated to a 2...I hadn't progressed at all since last week!  My doctor had scheduled me for an induction on March 23rd when he would be back from vacation, so I knew that I still had a whole week to go.  One week at the end of pregnancy, especially after the day I had before, felt like an eternity.  After I got home and told Chad about the appointment I decided to just come to terms with the fact that she probably wasn't going to come out until I was induced and that I should just look forward to that date instead of hoping she'd come before then.
Throughout the rest of that day I felt like I was leaking a little fluid.  I figured that if I really was leaking that contractions would start, but they didn't so I just ignored it.  That night as we were getting ready for bed I went to go to the bathroom and realized that I was bleeding bright red blood.  I'd never had that happen at this point in pregnancy before so I wasn't sure exactly what it meant.  We called my sister-in-law, who is a nurse, and asked her.  She recommended that I go to the hospital to get checked. That was about at 11:30pm.  We decided to wait another half hour or so to see if anything would happen.  We waited until about 12:30am then decided to call Chad's aunt Debbie to come watch the kids while we went to the hospital.  While we were getting ready to leave for the hospital I started getting contractions that came 7 to 10 minutes apart.

We arrived at the hospital at 1:30am and got put in a labor and delivery room and all hooked up to the monitors.  My nurse checked me and I was dilated to a 3.  By 2am the contractions started coming every 3 to 5 minutes and getting harder each time.  Chad turned on HGTV to help distract me from the pain.  I was checked again and Then all of the sudden right before 3am my contractions started coming really fast...1 to 2 minutes apart and were really painful.  I was shocked how fast they started coming.  My nurse came in and checked me and I was dilated between a 5 and 6.  By this time I was ready for an epidural.  They came in and gave me the epidural at 3:45am.  This time the epidural hurt more than it did when I got it with Brooklyn because they dug around a bit when they were putting in the needle.  I was so grateful when my epidural kicked in at about 4am and I was finally able to relax.  Both Chad and I were exhausted and so we decided to try and sleep while we waited for me to progress some more.

At about 5:15am I woke up and could not sleep anymore.  I was starting to feel quite a bit of pressure and I also felt restless.  I just was ready to meet my baby girl and hold her.  Chad woke up not too long after that and we called in the nurse to check me because of all the pressure I was feeling.  My nurse checked me and I was at an 8 almost 9.  She called the Dr. Hurst, who was covering for Dr. Spencer since he was out of town.  The nurses and Dr. Hurst came in and started getting everything ready for the delivery.  Dr. Hurst was so funny and laid back.  The whole time during the delivery he was just chatting it up with us, which I've never had a doctor do, but I really enjoyed.  Also, they didn't put up a big sheet over my legs and so I could actually see what was going on.  Dr. Hurst had me reach down and touch the baby's head as it was crowning.  I never thought I'd want to do something like that, but actually it was really cool and motivating for me.  I only had to push for 20 minutes or so before Kyndi made her grand entrance at 6:48am.   Dr. Hurst immediately placed Kyndi on my stomach for me to hold her.  There's nothing quite like holding your child for the first time.  It's always a very emotional thing for me since it feels like you've just been handed a little piece of heaven.  I was so grateful that Kyndi was finally here!  After it taking us two years to get pregnant, and stay pregnant,  I was overjoyed to finally be able to hold this sweet girl that I had been wanting for so long.

We love our little Kyndi and we are so grateful that she is a part of our little family!  The kids are so excited and just love her to pieces!

New Table

Ever since Chad and I got married we have had tables given to us by different family members.  -Which we have been incredibly grateful for!  However, I've always dreamed of having a nice big table to be able to host dinners and parties.  So back in November we started looking for tables. After a few months of looking and not finding what we wanted we decided to have one made.  So in February we started the whole process of contacting a friend of a friend and picking our everything for our table.   In May our new table was finally finished.  We had someone make it for us and we were able to pick out everything.  It turned out even better than the picture I had in my mind. He did an incredible job!  I love this table!

April

Here are some of our fun April happenings this year.  

 Carson started his first season of t-ball.  Watching t-ball is the funniest/cutest thing I have ever seen!  Seriously, it's too funny!  It's more crowd control more than anything, but Carson had a great time.  

 This spring was so fun to see all the beautiful colors on the trees.  I just loved this one in our backyard.  

 Looking out my kitchen window to see this view every day makes me happy.  I love my backyard and all the trees!

 The Easter bunny made a stop at our house and these two kiddos made a haul.  Every year the Easter bunny hides the baskets and we all have to search the house looking for them.  After Brooklyn found hers she immediately dove right into eating her candy as fast as possible.  

 Cute Carson looking at his Thomas toys.

 Eating more and more candy.  

The Easter bunny even came for Chad too.  :)

Valentine's Day and Other February Stuff

Valentine's Day around here is pretty low key.  This year I tried to make a little more effort to make it special for the kids.  

Carson had a Valentine's party at preschool that I helped out with and here is his monster valentine box.

I can't help it...I just love watching my kids sleep!  I love going in at night to tuck them in one last time and looking at their sweet faces.  So blessed to have these two cuties!

I heart attacked the kids doors while they were sleeping.  They thought it was so fun to have hearts all over their doors.

 The kids helped me make pink heart-shaped pancakes for breakfast that morning.

 Chad surprised me and came home a little early from work that day.  He helped the kids make some yummy cookies for me.

 I told the kids we were going to make pancakes and they both ran into the pantry and came out with stuff saying they were ready to make pancakes.  Hot cocoa mix and apple cider vinegar is what they chose.  Luckily, we didn't use those ingredients.  :)

 We love to go to the library every week for story time.  I finally caught one of Carson reading a book to Brooklyn.  So sweet!

 The relief society asked me to do a cooking demonstration on how to make chocolate cake mugs.  I made quite a few of these little mugs.  

February

Our best friends, the Wards, who used to live across the street from us in NSL, moved out to Herriman.  We all pilled in our car one day and took a little trip down there to their new house.  Afterwards, we stopped at Ikea to wander around and have a little lunch.  Such a fun day!  Love this family!

The kids all thought it was so fun being in the back seat together.  

We had a few random nice days in February and so we took advantage of those days and played at the park.  I think we all had a little cabin fever and were so happy to finally be able to be outside.  

My kids are both obsessed with the movie "Frozen".  Lately they will sing songs from the movie at the top of their lungs at the store.  It's hard not to laugh.  They love it and frankly so do I.  This is Brooklyn all dressed up like a princess at my Mom's house dancing to "Let It Go." 

We had some fun play dates with friends.  This is a picture of our friend Hailey with the kids pretending to have a sleepover.  

Carson doesn't take naps very often any more, but when he does they usually are in his closet.  He likes to pretend he is camping when he sleeps in there.  So cute!

The kids are really into helping me cook lately.  Their favorite thing to make is pancakes in the morning.  

On Mondays while Carson is at preschool, Brooklyn and I go visit my Grandma Petterborg.  She lives in an assisted living center just down the street from Carson's preschool.  Brooklyn loves to look at all the fish, turtles, and birds while we chat with Grandma.  We love our weekly visits with Grandma!