Her birthday took place on May 12, 2013 Mother's day. we were very blessed with the comanie of our friends and family.
Our sweet girl is growing well and ever so fast! She is eating table food, she is crawling everywhere pulling herself to stand and moving along furniture! walking is just around the corner I'm afraid! She loves to sing, she has her favorite songs, it's just too cute! Her doctor is still blown away about her height, that is until she walks in the room to see Hyrum holding her. Annabug certainly knows her name, as we need to often reminder what is and is not appropriate, ha ha. Everything is well, life is moving on, at an intense speed. I am just so overwhelmed with gratitude and love for our heavenly father that has provide us with each other to have every blessed day!
Our sweet girl made her arrival through a planned C-section May 13th, 2012. Which is Hyrum's birthday AND mother's day this year! The surgery was wonderful. Hyrum did not watch the entire procedure, just the moment she made her grand enterance. The first thing out of the Dr.'s mouth was "oh my! what long eyelashes!" and she has had compliments on those beautiful eyelashes ever since! Annabelle was very quite when she came out cried for only a moment and then was content in the arms of her father. When I was put back together agian we went back to my labor and delivery room, where my Dad his wife Mary and my two little sisters along with Hyrums mother and father where waiting for us. I was FINALLY able to hold my princess at this point and had her for just about long enough to get maybe 5 pictures in... then the nurse came in to just Sweet Annabelle's vitals. She wasn't breathing all that well on her own and her color was off. She was taken to the NICU. Hyrum went with the nurses and I was left in a room with everyone looking at me with the expression like they were thinking "oh crap when is she going to lose it" LOL. Oddly I wasn't worried in the least. The previous evening our wonderful home teacher Tyler came over and gave both Hyrum and I a blessing. I know that is was the power of the preisthood that was comforting me in a time that was one of the most frightening. I knew that Hyrum would have the strength he needed to support and be there for our daughter. When that comfort is in your presence I believe it is impossible to doubt that everything is going to be just fine. Annabelle was in the NICU for 2 of the 3 days of our lovely stay, then she was able to spend one night in the nursery and the following day I was able to go home early because I was doing so well. I think I handled everything pretty well withtin 5 minutes of being home i was already running errands and feeling pretty good. I was SO BLESSED to have an abundance of offers for Help and i am so grateful to my sister in-law Jen and my neice Riann for driving down from North Salt Lake to stay with me in my boring apartment. And I was so very privileged to have my mother in-law Pam to always be a phone call away if i wasn't able to have help when i needed it. My Dad and step mom called me everyday to check on me and that meant alot, even if i was groggy from no sleep and medication ha ha. I'll be honest I am not sure if i was so good at accepting help as I should have, I felt really bad and lazy ha ha. But I am grateful for the naps that I was allowed to get when my family was over to help.
BRING IT ON!
Riann literally almost suffered a heartattack waiting her turn to hold Bug
Daddy visited every night after work.
Doing what i was born to do!
FINALLY!
