Its been forever.... I know

So Its been forever since I have posted on my blog. I have been super busy with the new baby, and forget that I should be posting here. Having a baby has completely changed our lives, and we LOVE it. So what if we don't get any sleep. Landon has been a good baby. He started teething at 3 months. Wow that has been wonderful to deal with. At 5 months he decided he wanted to start on baby food!! He loves him some sweet potatoes. His doctor is just amazed at how well he is developing. He does most everything a normal 5 month old baby would do. Landon loves spending time with his Grandma Tilly (my mom) every Monday and Tuesday. Grandma has really taken her job as a grandmother seriously. She has all kinds of toys for Landon, and reads fun books to him every day. I am fortunate enough to have family that watches Landon during the week so that I am able to work full-time.

We were finally able to move into our new home, and it has been great. We are still trying to get everything unpacked and the house decorated. We will be putting a fence and a yard in this spring. I can't wait to have a yard and flower beds and all that fun stuff!!!

Cory and I went on a little vacation in February. It was really nice to get a break, but of course we picked the worst time to go to Florida. It was cold and windy. We actually went on a cruise to the Bahamas.

Until next time......

Home....... but without baby

I'm home and recovering. Landon will stay at the hospital for while longer. I know he is in great hands, but I'm still so scared. Cory is being the best husband ever and lets me cry whenever I need to. I love my family and can't even imagine what I would do without them. Here are some pictures of the baby.

Our little Guy

So Landon David Hutchings was born on October 8th 2009 at 1:30p.m by c-section. Landon was extremely anxious to make his appearance into the world. He weighed 2lbs 7oz and was 15.5 inches long. He will spend some time in the NICU at St. Marks Hospital.
Landon was born at 32 weeks gestation, but looked more like he was 26 weeks. Mom's placenta was not working correctly so he was not getting the calories and nutrients he needed to grow. Tuesday night I was not feeling well and was having contractions, which is nothing new. I relaxed at home, and got the contractions to stop, and I thought that was the end of it. Wednesday morning I still just didn't feel well, but wen to work anyway. While at work I started having regular and very painful contractions. As I tried to work through the contractions, I just felt as if something was trying to tell me that something was wrong with the baby. I knew I just couldn't ignore this feeling, so I had a co-worker find my doctor, who happened to be working in the OR that day. He came to where I was working and I just started bawling as I was trying to tell him about the contractions and about my feeling. He walked me straight over to Labor and Delivery where I was hooked up to all the monitors and we watched Landon for a while. It was very clear that I was having contractions. What we didn't anticipate was that when I would have a contraction Landon's heart rate would drop very low and he would have a hard time getting the heart rate to come back to normal. Seeing this, my doctor decided that I should get steriods to help develop Landon's lungs just in case he decided to come early. I was then told I would stay the night in the hospital just to be watched and to get another dose of steroids in the morning. I did just that, and during the night Landon started to become more and more distressed. An ultrasound to look at my placenta and umbillical cord was ordered and at 4am it was done. It showed that Landon was not moving well, and was not getting adequate blood flow from the placenta. It was then decided that we would move forward with a c-section. We needed to wait for the steriods to do there job, so it was scheduled for noon on Thursday. He is here now and I am am so thankful that I listened to my body and didn't ignore a feeling I had. Thank you to everyone that has included Landon and myself in there prayers. I'm sure we will need them.

It has begun

The building of our house has begun. We actually have a hole dug, and tomorrow morning footings will be poured and foundation will be soon to follow. We are still on track to be in the house before the little one arrives.

ITS A.........

So I found out that we are going to have a little boy. So Lera our little guys are going to be friends not lovers!!! We are both so very excited. I had a feeling it was going to be a boy, but Cory was so sure it was a girl. He was so shocked when I told him, but then he started crying because he was so happy.

My Alien

This is our little alien!! We don't know what the gender is yet, but our next appointment is at the end of June and we should be able to see.

My mother loved going with us to the appointment to see the baby on ultrasound. Of course she cried when we heard the heart beat.

Pregnancy is going better. I'm not as sick as I have been. I still don't have any energy, but I'm sure some day it will get better.

Cory's Father

So the last week has been crazy for Cory and I. Last Saturday Cory's father called to say he didn't feel well, and that he was going to stay home from the races, which isn't like him. Sunday he called and said he still wasn't felling better, and with his symptoms I told him he needed to go to the Emergency Room. He did, and they found a huge iliac aneurysm, the artery in the groin area, and they shipped him off to the University of Utah. In my opinion that was a huge mistake. I am not a big fan of the U and if I would have known what was going on I would have insisted he go somewhere that people were going actually care about him. So after sitting in the ER at the U for who knows how many hours he was finally admitted to the hospital, after finding out that he had had a heart attack on Satruday. Anyway long story short he needed to have open heart surgery pretty urgently, but of course the surgeons at the U were "busy." I said BullSh** and had him transferred to St. Marks hospital where I work and he had surgery the next day. He is doing well from the open heart surgery and will have another surgery today to fix the aneurysm. Hopefully he will be able to go home Thrusday or Friday of this week.