2 months old

I am so ashamed of my self! I have totally neglected my blog.. and its the thing that means the most cause its my journal! I havent been posting alot cause its just much easier to upload pics to instagram and facebook right from my phone.. even though I am like the only one in the world that doesn't have a smart phone! I am goin to try and be better though.. since this is the only thing that matters and not fb ha

I cant believe Briggs is almost 2 months old. I feel like he has been here forever and at the same time I cant believe he is already here and 2 MONTHS OLD! He hasn't been weighed in like a month and a half so I am anxious for his appointment next week to see how much he has grown. He has been a great baby for the most part but definetly has his days... he has been pretty colickly lately and doesn't sleep that much which is weird for a newborn but then he will have days where he wakes to eat and then goes back to sleep... i don't know whats goin on.. and it could just be that i am still tryin to get use to having a newborn! Usually at night he gets the worst but Jake has quite the little bounce goin on and it always calms him right down..Thank goodness for daddies:) It probably is just cause Briggs is with me all day and he just needs his daddy. He has been so so smiley and it just seriously melts my heart every time he smiles at me.. He makes me feel so so special when he does. He smiled for the 1st time( well an acknowledged smile anyways and not the ones in his sleep) when he was 3 weeks old at my sister Camille. She was so happy about that:) I cant complain though cause he really is so so sweet and just has the sweetest spirit to him.

Things have been a little crazy with 2 kids. I cant even explain it and you will only know unless you have 2 kids.. If we go anywhere it I have to start gettin ready like 2-3 hours before. I try to time it so I can nurse him right before we go to.. The days seem to go by alot faster now which I love.. and I'm not tryin to wish the days away but I just love it when Jake comes home from work and everyone is pretty much happier:) If we go out of town it takes me all day to pack and then when we come back it takes me like 4 days to un pack enough to pack up again for the weekend ha.. The hardest thing yet has been tryin to figure out nursing and everything that goes with it cause I didn't with Paisley and the 2nd hardest thing has been when I am nursing him and then Pais wants something right then but I cant cause I'm nursing briggs and she just bawls until she gets what she wants.. mostly her sippy filled... but I think its good for her.. to learn patience! Some times I have tried to be wonder mom and help her while I nurse.. man its quite the sight.. but you gotta do what you gotta do! As much as nursing has been a challenge I have absolutely LOVED it! I cant believe I never went further with pais.. I nursed her for about 2 weeks and then pumped and fed her that for another month and then my milk eventually tried up.. I could never relax with her though enough for my milk to stay cause I was so so busy with drill team and stressed.. I really could have made it work but I just gave up so with Briggs I had no excuse not to give it my all and it has been so worth it.. I hope my milk can stay solid until he is a year.

We recently got family pictures and after viewing them I told Jake that I look super old.. and hes like well you have 2 kids you are old.. haha.. I guess I should still feel like I'm 20.. haha even though i am just 24.  So just a funny thing that I want to remember is just this morning I was workin out.. nothin to intense just more of a toning work out I was doin and Pais was copying my every move.. can I just tell you how hard it is to be doin push ups and she is gruntin and tryin her hardest to do what i'm doin and all i can do is just laugh haha I guess I will just be flabby forever! hahaha I need to have Jake record it one of these times cause its hilarious.

So posted above are his announcements and I am so happy with how they turned out! The front picture was takin by my good friend Sammy and it was funny cause we were at the pool in Park city and he was just layin on my laugh and she wipped out her camera and was takin pics of him and she snapped the one of him smiling and it is the cutest ever! I just had to use in even though I hadn't planned his outfit or really done his hair but it worked! And the back pictures I found off pinterest so I just took those pics and then Jake put it all together for me.. One thing I forgot to put was how much he weighed which is almost a must on a birth announcement haha woops! Don't you just wanna kiss his cute face all day long?? Me and pais sure do:)

Briggs Arrival

Last night as a family of 3!!

Leaving for the hospital:)

LETS DO THIS!!

He's here!!!

Briggs Jacob Dyreng 7lbs 11 oz 20 inches long

Love Dr. Laine!!

First time meeting brother!!!

First pic as a family of 4!!!

Nanna loves her babies:)

Goin home:)

 I cant believe Briggs is finally here!! His birth story is rather boring..nothing to exciting which I wasnt complaining at all. I still want to write about it for my records though.. We are so in love:)

Friday, Aug 31 I was schedued to go in at 8 that night to be induced. I wanted to have him in Sept so thats why it was late. My parents and sister Sierra met up with us around 6 and we went and ate at Sizzler.. it was so nice to go out and just relax and get somewhat filled up because I knew it would be awhile before I would be eatin again. I was suppose to call the hospital at 7 pm to make sure it was ok that I came in and they didnt have any room for me so i had to call back at 8. So we just hung around our house and talked with my parents and what not. So 8 rolls around.. call them.. still way busy call back at 9.. ok kinda frustrated! Call back at 9.. still way busy so call back at 10.. Called back at 10.. no room.. k now I just wanted to cry and I just said how bout I get a good nights rest and then come in early in the mornin instead of playin this game all night. They said call back at 11:30 and then if there still isnt' any room then they will have me come in in the morning. It was a full moon that night and was raining which they say alot of women go in to labor with it being a full moon and it was raining so thats like double! So I was hopin that 11:30 would roll around and that they would be able take me cause I just cant take it any longer and I am so anxious to meet our little guy!! They called me back at 10:30 and said COME ON IN! Best words ever! I was so excited.. Jake had to throw some things in his bag and before we left our house I asked Sierra if she would like to tag along and witness her first birth.. she was all for it and joined us. It was so fun having her there. I probably ruined her for life but she said it was such a neat, beautiful experience!
- We didn't get to the hospital til about 11:45 pm and by the time they asked me all sorts of questions they finally got me started at 1 am.. I told them I didn't want my epidural until I absolutely needed it. So we got all settled in our room and was just hangin out watchin my contractions on the screen that I wasnt feeling. A couple hours went by and they check me at 3 am and I was only at a 3+ so they decided to up my pitocin to get things moving right along. Well they came back in at 5 am and I was at a 6 and so they decided to turn the pit down cause they didn't want to me to go into labor just yet . They wanted my doctor to get a little more sleep and they didn't want to stress the baby out to much so we just basically tried to get more sleep but I was getting to excited cause I knew it was getting close. I felt so good! My contractions started to get more intense so they called the anithisiologist (?) in and he gave me my epidural but it started to go in to my blood stream so he had to take it out again and do it again... he acted like it was no big deal which i'm sure it wasn't but i just didn't want to have to go through that again even though it doesn't hurt.. i just have to mentally prepare myself haha... I hated my epidural this time though. It took away the pain which is so nice but every 15 min I kept gettin little shocks of it again and then my legs would go way numb again and then I could start to feel it wearing off and then all of a sudden I would feel them goin numb again.. every 15 minutes.. it was so annoying but I guess it was worth it to not feel the pain:) Around 8:30 my doc came in and broke my water and they she was goin to head over to another hospital and do some deliveries there and I remember thinkin .. why are you leaving I could possibly have this baby with in like an hour.. but she left and bout an hour later the nurse checked me again and said I was ready but they wanted to wait for My doc to come back and so i was just layin there at a 10 for about a half hour and Dr. Laine came in and  her and the nurse got me ready to start pushing.. Which I loved having her there to help me push cause with Pais my doc didn't come in until she was ready to come out so the nurses did everything. I pushed through 2 contractions and he was out and the most beautiful thing ever! We were so happy.. they laid him right on me and I got to hold him for a good half hour before they cleaned him or anything and I loved his smell and he was so so warm. I am so glad they let me hold him for that long. I love the skin to skin method and feel like thats why he is such a better nurser then pais was. We were all shocked to hear how big he was since pais was so small I just thought I would have really small babies but he was perfect size!! We were so anxious for Pais to come to meet her new brother and see her reaction. She didn't get it and wanted nothin to do with him. Not that she hated him but she just was not interested. She didn't show any interest until all the family left and even my mom when she came to stay with us a few days. It was so fun to have family come and meet out Briggs. We feel so blessed that he is ours and we're so glad that he is finally here and healthy and perfect as can be!! We cant wait to see what he will be like and the boy and man he will turn into:) We love you Briggs!!

July 7, 2012

I had a ton more pics to go with this post but my computer freezes up when I try to upload them so this collage will just have to do. Camille and Mikes wedding couldnt have gone any more perfect then it did! The sealin was absolutely beautiful! I am so glad I got to be apart of it and to hear the amazing words the sealer had to say. Both Camille and mike teared up and it was just precious. They are so in love and I love it:) The luncheon was so good and the Wardle family had decorated it all so cute and Mike surprised Camille by singin to her and he did so good. He sang this song that I had never heard before but it was perfect! Then on our way home from the temple it started to rain so we were kinda nervous but it didn't rain in Kanosh at all and the reception turned out to be perfect also. It really was such a perfect day.. Everything went as planned and they had a great turn out. So glad to have Mike in our family. He is such a good guy and I have no doubt in my mind that he will treat Camille better than she ever imagined. They are goin to have a good life:) Happy Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Wardle!!

To my family-

Dear sweet little Briggs of mine- I cant believe in just a few short weeks-week-days I will be meeting you for the first time. Your dad, sister, and I are anxiously waiting to hold your sweet self and wander when that time will be. As much as I am ready to be done being pregnant I am sad to see it come to an end. I have loved being pregnant with you and have enjoyed feeling your kicks and shoves and hiccups. We are so excited to see what you look like and the kind of person you will be and become and what you will do with your life. When I got this picture taken of you I was 35 weeks along and although it was a process finding a doctor since the move to Bountiful I was so anxious to get to see your sweet face again. The last time I had seen it was when I was 21 weeks and thats when we found out what you were goin to be:) Thats even the last time I had heard your heart beat. When I saw your face again at 35 weeks I couldnt help but tear up just lookin at your face... I was lucky enough to even get an ultrasound being so far along with you but we had to to make sure everything was just fine with you! You look so peaceful in this picture and your dad even said that this pic of you reminds him of your Uncle Travis when he was a baby.. will soon find out though what you really look like. I love how cuddled up and cozy you look in this picture. I am so excited for your sister Paisley to meet you and get to hold you. I am sure you have heard her many of times inside of their.. whether it was screaming at the top of her lungs, singing, jabbering, patting my belly saying "baby". I a a little nervous to how she will react to you but I know through time you guys will become the best of friends. We love you so very much and find this such a privelege that Heavenly Father such you to us and that he trusted us with one of his chosen children. Good luck for the time being in mammas belly and I hope you know how much we love you already and cant wait to meet you!!

My sweet little Pea-- where do I even begin with you. Your dad and I cant even begin to imagine our lives without you! We cant believe its already time for you to be a big sister because it just seems like yesterday we were bringin you home from the hospital. You have brought us so much joy this past year and a half and look forward to the many more years to come. Thank you for being the cute little girl that you are. Although sometime you make me wanna shave my head all of you cute smiles and words take that feeling right away! Although I am sad to see this time come to an end with you being our only child and us always being able to come to your every need I am so excited whats up a head for our little growin family. You are goin to be the best big sister ever to Briggs! Its goin to be a little crazy at first but we know you will just fall in love with him and want to help out with him all the time. Thank you for being who you are. You are constantly making your dad and I laugh and we know that will only continue on. We love you so much and we hope you never forget that. Hugs and kisses little darlin!

Dear sweet lover boy of mine- I absolutely love life with you! I couldnt be any happier then I am with you. I have loved living life with you and its been completely different then what I thought it was goin to be but only better! I am so grateful you chose me to be your wife for eterenity and the mother of your kids. You are so so good to me and treat me like a queen! I am so very grateful for how hard you work to provide for our family. I am also grateful for the many challenges and trials that we have faced over the past 5 1/2 years. Those times have really helped us grow together and I know that whatever is thrown our way we will conquer it and overcome it. Thanks for being the best dad in the world to Paisley and to Briggs thus far. I love watching you play with pais and to see her face totally light up when you walk in the door from work. I cant wait to see the things that you will teach Pais and Briggs. I don't know what I would ever do with out you in my life. Even though times get crazy and we get to wrapped up in our little parenthood life I want you to know how amazing you are to me. You still give me butterflies when I see you and still get lost in those eyes of yours. You are my everything and I cant wait to see what else is in store for us. Love you my sweetest babe!

Independence Day

Dont let this little innocent face fool you... in this picture she looks like she is enjoyin the parade but in reality she was so onery and wanted nothin to do with it.. thats ok cause i "caught candy for her" but really ate it all myself haha

Love this picture of hazel!!

I love that pais is actually somewhat smiliing for a pic but jakes smile is my favorite!! haha such a good daddy!!

Always time for a family pic right? Exactly 7 months prego in this pic.... were on the countdown!

I sm soooooooo in love with this picture of Maddux!.. priceless right?!X

Cutest little brogen ever!! his smile makes my heart melt:)

July 4th is always so much fun in Gunnison! We went to the parade in the mornin and then hung out at the park for a few hours and then Jake took me to Salina to meet ryan and bri on there way from New Mexico so I got in the car with them and we headed over to kanosh. Jake had to work the next couple days so thats why I went over with them and to help my mom out the last couple days before Camilles wedding. It was so fun being home with Ryan and Bri and Jared and Shannon came up to so we got lots of catchin up done. Things were a little crazy at times gettin the yard ready and last minute wedding stuff done. My parents put in a huge play area for the kids with a swing set andd helicopter thing.. mini trampoline.. and sand box so it was so nice having that for the kids to just go outside and play.. Hope everyone had a great 4th!!

June

My sisters wedding announcement that Jake made! Didn't he do amazing?!

Arent they such a cute couple!

We had a shower for Camille and it was so fun! She got alot of ctute things and pretty much every gift was lingerie.. lucky girl! haha all the pics i got of her opening gifts were blurry and i'm so mad! Jake changes the settings on my camera and i forget to look before i take a pic and i'm so mad but now i check  but whatta ya do....

Pais and her cousin Dale watchin a movie.. isn't that the cutest?!

These pictures were taken when Pais was about 15-16 months and I think their hilarious.. she usually wakes up so so happy but this morning she just wasnt having it... it was hilarious!

Over the weekend ( Jun 28-29) we headed on up to YMCA Big Elk Creek Ranch in Idaho for our every 2 year Blad reunion. I LOVE the Blad reunions! Not only is it so good to see everyone and catch up but there is never a dull moment at these reunions. We did so many fun things! Every meal we had a different holiday-- so we celebrated Easter and had an egg hunt for all the kids, christmas and had a nice dinner and white elephant gift exchange, halloween and had a trick or treatin party, and the 4th of July where we had a nice patriotic devotional and rose the flag (which jake got to be apart of)... I loved the holiday idea! We also got to play games during the day... like latterball ( which by the way that pic of me I am 30 weeks.. holy belly i know) and we also played cards and we did a fear factor which was so so fun! If you notice in one of the pics above of my 2 uncles tryin to give a belly hit to each other... they had won their game of latterball... thats just how fun my uncles are. If I could only record the sound they all make when they all laugh.. its hilarious! being around them you would never have to ask yourself where i get my loudness from hahahaha... These reunions are the BEST and I am so excited for the next one which will be in WASHINGTON! woot woot! Cant wait for 2014! Love you all my Blad family!!

Couple weekends ago all of us Dyreng cousins got together and went up 12 mile camping. It was so fun to be with everyone and I wish we could only do it every weekend. Jake wishes he could live up there and has so many memories growing up on this mountain.. it was his second home. Cant wait until we get to go up again:)

 Anyways.. as you can see we have a a pretty busy month! I have been busy alot helpin my mom out with Camilles wedding comin up this weekend and its been so fun helping. Its goin to be so cute and my parents have done so much to their yard it looks so so good! I have also been busy getting the babies room together. We found some deals on ksl of the crib and changing table so I have recently been busy repaintin them and I ordered fabric to so I will be starting on the bedding after this wedding! I cant believe that in 2 months we will be meeting our little Briggs! Yep... we finally decided on a name and it feels so food.. We came down to Briggs and Emmett but Jake likes Briggs better so thats what it will be... We are getting so excited to meet him. He is constantly moving around but not quite as active as Pais was which I hope is a sign that he will be a more mellow child than miss Pais.. man oh man is she something else! I have been feelin really good except for the fact that I hate wearin clothes !! I am pretty sure that I am as big right now as I was with Pais when she was born which is funny cause i have gained about 17 lbs so far and with Pais I gained 30.. who knows though I could possibly gain 10 lbs the next 2 months.. I havent been to the doc in 10 weeks.. i was suppose to go 2 weeks ago to my new doc but medicaid has been so gay and I have to get things figured out with them until my doc will see me. I was thinkin about goin to Ogden to have him cause I heard good things but now I'm thinkin just Salt lake. which is closer to me but will see.. i hope everything is ok with since I havet been in awhile.!
Pais is at such a cute stage which i'm pretty sure I say that everytime I post about her. She is startin to say more words and is just turnin in to this little girl. Everyone has been telling me lately thats how much we will be amazed when our little guy is here and we will realize how big Pais really is. Anyways I am so excited for this week! On tues we will head down to Gunnison to go to Camilles endownment session, then wed is the 4th, thurs and fri I will be in Kanosh helpin out with last minute wedding things and hanging out with Ryan and bri, jared and shannon, celebratin my moms birthday on friday then sat is the wedding so this week will go by so fast!! But I live for weeks like this:) hope everyone is having the best summer so far!!

Sundays

This is what our Sunday consisted of today except for Pais in her dress-- those were takin last week right before church.. We actually were ready in time for church and were even early and we have 9:00 church so we decided to take a few shots.. i was hopin she would do her cheese for one of the pictures cause its the cutest thing ever but she didn't so we got a few ones. But today Jake as you can see took her on the motorcycle and she was IN LOVE with it. She was having a blast and didn't want to get off! Then we headed off to the park to let her run around and help her get tired so she would go to sleep tonight haha.. We had so much fun. After that we drove around Bountiful and up in the hill and looked at all the pretty house.. Its so pretty here! Nothing like a good sunday drive! Thats all folks!

Goin Private!

Hey Yall!! I have decided to go private with our move and boy on the way so here we go.. Leave me your address ifyou want to continue reading about our life! Hopefully I will be able to figure out how to make it private haha.. Chow!!

Memorial-

I might add that I am almost 26 weeks in this pic. Pais is startin to get a little chair when I hold her.

The friday before memorial day I met my Grandma Knott, A. Margo, & A. Teresa down at the graves. I say graves because my mom, Grandpa Knott, and Uncle Steven are all buried there. We went down to clean up the graves even though I didn't do a thing cause I was to busy chasin Paisley around but they sure did make them look so nice. My grandma would even go around and clean other peoples grave.. She is hilarious! It was so fun to be up so close to here now and to be able to take part in this. I have never been able to visit them on Memorial day or ever put flowers on their grave so it was so nice to be able to now. I did good with holding it in until I got in the car then Jake called me and then I lost it. I loved the sweet pic of Pais with my moms grave and how she is slightly puttin her head on it. So precious! Wish I could have visited all my loved ones that day that have gone on before me. For Memorial weekend we went down to Jakes family cabin. It was so much fun as always  and to get to spend time with family and cousins is always a bonus!! Sadly I didn't take any pictures:(

My cutest little sis graduated last week and I cannot believe it! She is the last child and I cant believe its time for her to move on to big and better things. I cant wait to see what she does with her life and where life will take her. She let me take these pics of her. Isn't she so beautiful?! She is the sweetest thing you will ever meet! Love you sister!

 

So I also just have to jot down a few funny things about our 18 months old Miss Pais. She has been so so funny these days. Its crazy that she is 18 months old cause I have anticipated this age since she was born. Not that its a bad thing but thats how old I was when my mom passed away so I have always wanted to see how I was at that age and since my dad says that pais acts JUST LIKE ME when i was that age I can kinda get a glimpse of what I was like. Its sad to me that I dont remember her at all. To look at Pais and ask myself would she be able to remember me at all if I were to go? She relies on me so much for everything and I'm sure I did with my mother and it breaks my heart then I cant remember her when she did so much for me. Granted I was still very young but hopefully you get my drift. I am so thankful for the MANY home videos my dad took.. I could watch them for hours.

-Pais favorite movie right now is Little Rascals and she is so funny to watch it with. At the very beginning it shows 2 boys fishing and their hooks catch onto each other and they start tippin back and forth and so pais has to lean back and forth also and makes the whooaaaaa sound that they make. Also, when the boys meet at their clubhouse Spanky shakes everyones hands so Pais has to go around shakin everyones hands. Then when Darla and Alfalfa are on their little date in the boat and he sings to her, Darla does this cute little laugh and Pais does the laugh and then Alfalfas hair pops up and then Pais makes this other little laugh. She also makes little noises and does little actions all throughout the movie and it so so funny!

- Yesterday we were face timing with Jared and Shannon cause they found out what they were having:) So we were facetimin with them and Pais could see in the background their light switches and she is fascinated with light switches lately cause she loves to turn them on and off so she saw theirs and was tryin to turn them on on the screen. We got a pretty good laugh at it.

-I cant believe Pais isn't sayin full sentences now from all the blabbering she does. She doesn't say a whole lot but for some reason I can understand her and its so nice at this stage to be able to know what they want. 

-She makes the cutest little kiss noise and will kiss us on the lips all the time. My favorite it when Jake is holdin her she will grab his head and kiss his head, cheek, or neck. I'm not sure how long I should let her kiss his neck though hahaha. Its so dang cute though!

-Its so crazy to me that in just 3 short months our lives will be changing again. Sometimes at night when I rock Pais to sleep I think about how I probably wont be able to do that harldy anymore. And I have no idea how life is with 2 kids so who knows I still might be able to but just the realization that I wont be able to be able to just run to her every need and that she will need to learn patience fast when our little guy comes. I already know that she is not patient so I'm a little worried but we will all learn with time right. I cant wait to see how she will react to him. I am sure I will have a lot of days where I will cry tryin to get use to our new life with 2 kiddos but I sure am excited! I love to think about what he might be life and of course look like.

-I have been feelin really good and really have nothing to complain about except for I eat way to much sugar! Good thing its getting warmer and hotter cause all I want to do is eat fruit. I have gained 11 lbs so far and but I feel and look like I have gained 80!! I just remind myself that its all for a good cause.

-Jake and I have been so busy lately helpin with things for my sisters wedding comin up in just 5 short weeks. Jake designed the wedding announcement and man they are so cute!! He did such a good job! I would post them but I am goin to wait until their out in the public. I have been busy workin on her wedding book where people will write in for the reception and I just finished it last night and I cant wait to see it in person. We also will be makin her wedding video so we need to get started on that cause July is goin to be here soon! Cant believe June starts tomorrow!