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!!