Sponge Bob & Chuck E Cheese

Yesterday we went to Evan's 6th birthday party! I made the cake to go with his Sponge Bob party theme. It turned out really cute - way better than I expected.

Tiny Cowboy

Griffin LeRoy at 1 1/2 Weeks Old

Our tiny little cowboy had a great time at his cousin Carson's 2nd birthday party. It was a little Buckaroo theme and all the kids had a really fun time.

Here's the birthday boy

And Sophia enjoying her cupcake

So Cute!

My friend Joy is so crafty. She made this cute little diaper cake for Griffin. Thanks Joy!

Kiddie Pics

Easter Ham

She is such a ham-ball in all her pictures!

...and one of Baby Brother

Hope everyone had a happy Easter. We couldn't be more thankful for our many, many blessings from God.

Happy Birth Day, Griffin!

We are so proud to announce the birth of our son,

Griffin LeRoy Hussey

Griffin was born last Tuesday, April 7th

He weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces, and was 21 inches long

And the biggest surprise of all... HE HAS HAIR!

The birth went really, really well. I'm feeling great and Griffin is soooo easy. We came home Wednesday and have had a lot of visitors, so I haven't had time to post until now! Sophia loves him very much and is so gentle around him. Kyle and I couldn't feel more blessed. We are all so happy. I'll post more pictures in the days to come.

Congratulations to the Happy Couple

Mr. & Mrs.

Zach & Kimberly Wyckoff

Father-Daughter Dance

How the Party Started

And what Sophia has been waiting for

for months - DANCE PARTY!

No Change

Well, I had my doctor's appointment today. And she said there is no change since last week - which is good and bad. It's great because it means there will most likely be no action this weekend during Kimberly's wedding. But it's not so great because it means I didn't make any progress in a week to get closer to labor day. Which is not only just annoying, we hope it doesn't mean there will be any problems with me attempting a VBAC.

My due date is next Monday (April 6th) and my next appointment is scheduled for Wednesday. My doctor said we will wait things out until Monday the 13th of April, and if there is not enough progress by then we may need to discuss scheduling a c-section. Which is disappointing - but not as disappointing as it was with Sophia. At least I would know what to expect. I'll just keep my fingers crossed that Baby Boy will get uncomfortable at some point and decide to come naturally.

Kora's Birthday Celebration

My sister-in-law, Kora, turned 30 last week. Happy birthday, Kora! We celebrated last Saturday at El Sarape on the westside. It was a fun evening. Kyle, Sophia, and I ducked out about 8:30 p.m. The rest of the party headed into the bar for karaoke - it sounds like they all had a good time! Here are some of the pictures Kyle & I took before things got too wild.

39 Weeks & Counting

Well, I had hoped Baby Boy would be here by now. I'm pretty uncomfortable and just plain tired. Kyle was also hoping for his arrival this weekend, so we just kind of hung around the house and got stuff done. We got all the floors mopped and vacuumed upstairs and downstairs (again), dusted (again), cleaned the toilets (again), the shower, the kitchen, the laundry room, I got a lot of ironing done, all the laundry is washed and put away, we got all up to date reading the baby books about labor and delivery and bringing baby home.

We talked about names a lot and re-read the 50,001 Baby Names book, but still haven't decided. Kyle is very indecisive and keeps bringing in new names, and names we threw out about 4 months ago! Needless to say, this is very frustrating to me. I have my four top names:

1. Emmit (Kyle's not too sure about it)
2. Nolan (Kyle hasn't said anything negative about it)
3. Griffin (He's not too sure on this one either, but didn't rule it out)
4. Mitchell (Kyle liked Mitch a lot, but not so sure about it anymore... Ugggghhh)

I don't think any of these are overly trendy right now, and they all sound nice and manly and not too childlike and not too made-up. Everyone I know suggests Jackson (Jaxon), which is an adorable name. But VERY popular right now. For the middle name we will do a family name. Kyle is the 5th generation for LeRoy as a middle name on the Hussey side, not to mention his Grandpa's name on his mom's side was Leroy. So it will either be LeRoy or Don to honor his dad.

For those of you that know pregnancy lingo - at my appointment last Thursday I was dilated between 1 and 2, and about 75% effaced. I was really hopeful that something would happen this weekend, but still there is no sign of labor for me. I have a few Braxton Hicks contractions throughout the day, but no more than I've had the last month or so. There is still a lot of baby movement, and he is definitely further down in my pelvis each morning. There is no way around waddling at this point.

Sophia was funny this morning. She was downstairs in bed talking to herself (it's fun to listen to her on the montior) and I yelled down and told her to come upstairs. (Sometimes she comes up on her own, but most of the time she waits for me to come down and get her, or to yell down to her to come up.) Anyway, I said to come up and she yelled back up to me "Is the baby out of your tummy today?" I felt bad saying no, he was still in there. No baby today, yet. I think she's getting just as impatient as we are.

I wouldn't be quite so worried about when he was arriving if Kimberly's wedding wasn't this weekend. We'll be spending Friday through Sunday up in Seattle for all the wedding festivities. I really wanted a one-week old, or I want to still be pregnant and for sure not go into labor. I don't want to miss her wedding, and I definitely don't want Kyle to miss it! I'm sure it will all work out fine - if not, what do you do? Just go with it. But for all that know me, this not-knowing thing is very difficult!

This is what happens when...

...you have your first baby,
AND it's a girl,
AND it's the first grandchild and niece,
AND you live 10 minutes away from the Carter's outlet,
AND you plan on having another girl.

And, believe it or not, this is after I just spent all morning weeding things out and cramming it even tighter to save on space... Ugh. This is also after I removed all the stuff that baby boy could wear too. A ton of white onesies and burp clothes and bibs and probably about 6 sleepers.

If we have a 3rd child and it's not a girl, I will be completely annoyed that I saved all of this and took up so much space for so long. But everything is just way too cute to give away. I want to use it again. :o)

More Nursery & Baby Update

So here are a few more pics of the nursery. I still plan on hanging a few cowboy hats above the rocking chair where the ceiling is really tall. It looks so empty without anything up high on the walls. But here is what Sophia and I did today and yesterday.

A little lasso

A tiny cowboy hat - I may end up moving it...
Some tin signs that finally all arrived

And in baby news - all is well. I went to the doctor today and everything looks good. Baby Boy is still head down (yeah! Sophia was breech...). But no dilation at all yet. I would like to get a few more things done this weekend, and then I am totally ready for this baby to arrive. I feel very heavy and uncomfortable all day and all night. I haven't gotten any size estimate from the doctor at all, but he just feels bigger than Sophia did. We'll see! And hopefully soon. :o) Maybe when Kyle gets home I'll have him take a picture of me and I'll post it. My tummy is way out there!