May Catch-up

So as I said, I'm pretty behind on my posts!  Mostly because we didn't have the pictures from the camera on the computer and I was so tired all the time that I just didn't have the energy to do much after working all day and being totally pregnant! 

So I left off with Clint's birthday.  Clint turned 29 this year!  Holy smokes!  I am married to an old man!;)  At least I like to tease him that he is!  We celebrated by giving him presents and then going to dinner.  Ellie and I also decided to get him tickets to a Real Salt Lake game!  His birthday was on May 21st, a Tuesday, and we got the tickets for a game on the 25th.  We had birthday dinner with his family right before, and then headed off to the game.  It was so much fun!  Happy Birthday Clinter!

 Ellie LOVES to help open everyone's presents!

 Yay for Real tickets!

On Memorial Day we went around and visited the graves and then had a BBQ that night.

 I saw these drinks on Pinterest so we decided to try them...they turned out so cute!

That's our catch up for May!  Next is June!  I'll try to make it short!

Welcome Home Levi!

He's here!  Our little man has finally arrived and he is such a joy!  Levi Gary Petersen was born on Saturday, July 13, 2013, at 1:14 pm.  He was 20 1/2 inches long and weighed 7 lbs 8 oz. 

Our day was a little unexpected though!  I was supposed to get induced that morning, but he had different plans and woke me up at 3:00 in the morning with crazy contractions.  I still got up and showered though, knowing me, and called the hospital to see if we could come early.  We got to the hospital around 6:30 and I was already dilated to 7 cm so they hurried and got the anesthesiologist in there to give me my epidural.  We were expecting to have Levi by 8:00 that morning, but then at 8:00 my nurse remembered that I tested positive for the Group B Strep this time, so they had to put me on an antibiotic for four hours.  So at noon I was ready and waiting but my water hadn't popped yet.  They sent my doctor a text saying I had received all of my antibiotic so my water was ready to be popped, and as soon as they hit the send button my water broke on its own!  Levi was ready to get out of there!  So as soon as my doctor arrived they got things ready and I got him out in about 4 minutes, with only 4 pushes!

He has been so much fun to have around.  Granted, he eats like a mad man!  And we definitely are lacking in the sleep department around here!  But we are so grateful that he is here and healthy and we are so happy to welcome the newest member of our family!  Welcome home Levi!

 Ellie was pretty excited to have Baby Brother here!

 

 Don't laugh at the pink head support...it was from when we had Ellie, but hey, it still works!

Carly made Levi a little Welcome Home sign for his first day home. 

 

Thanks to all of our friends and family that helped us out with Ellie and meals and everything during these fun times!  We couldn't have done it without any of you!

 

Next post I promise will be a catch up from May until now.  I just wanted everyone to see our little guy and how handsome he is! :)



Funny Randoms

We still need to download pictures from the camera, but Clint took some pictures off of his phone and I found these pictures.  It just shows that Ellie is one stinkin' funny girl.  We love her so much!  She makes us laugh more than we knew we could.

 Clint has a picture like this when he was a teenager, where he held up a tube or something while he was camping, and it looked like he had no clothes on.  Ellie definitely takes after her daddy! :)

 The whole time we were bouncing on the tramp we had to sing the "Tigger Song" and she would just laugh and laugh and laugh.

 Sitting behind our apartment eating snacks.  She wanted to wear her swimming suit that day, so she looks pretty stinkin' cute!

 Ellie LOVES stickers, and loves to put them all over EVERYTHING!

 This was during sacrament while I was trying to get a whole bunch of tape rolled for sharing time.

Like I said, Ellie is such a funny girl!  We didn't know how fun life could be until she came into ours and we are so grateful for her and for the little bundle of joy we're going to get to meet in a week! 

Life is good and we love it!