Miss Gwen turns 3

The thing she was dreading about turning 3? Throwing away her nap-time binky. The thing she was most looking forward to? Her Minnie Mouse Party! We're still working on the whole taking naps with no binky thing, but her Minnie Mouse party was a success. Good thing she's easy to please! We bought some Minnie Mouse plates at Walmart, made a Minnie cake, invited the fam over for dinner and called it good. She loved it.

I ask her to smile pretty for me, and I get this. Gwen is certainly not lacking in the personality department!


The Garners came over and Mom and Dad (Crosby) were here too, in between their stay at the MTC.



Gwen keeps us on our toes and smiling!

The first week

First bath at home, courtesy of Dad and Miles



First bottle feeding. Deciding who gets to feed the baby is the new things Miles and Gwen fight over.


Sister cuddles


Grandma Crosby came to help!


Dad had the week off so he did lots of fun things with the older kids


Russ, Nat and family were in SLC so they came to visit


Sunday Best!



Grandma and Grandpa Crosby came back up to stay overnight with us before heading to the MTC on Monday. Jenn drove them up here, so we got to see her!

Family of 5!

I had my doctor's appointment on Friday morning and was hoping he'd tell me I was ready to go into labor and delivery. No such luck, but I was pretty sure I was beginning to have contractions, so I was hopeful she would arrive before or on her due date. I went and got the kids from Grandma's and then we went to the DI. Came home, had lunch, put kids down for naps, watched some Netflix and started timing contractions. :) By the time Richie got home from work, I had the go ahead from the Dr. to head to the hospital. The contractions weren't super painful, but steady every 5 minutes. The Dr. had warned me that the way she was positioned etc. that I could progress very quickly and he didn't want me to have the baby in the car, so that I should get checked in asap.


I was surprised to find out I was almost at a 6 when we got there! We got checked in around 6, the Dr. came and broke my water, I got an awesome epidural and then we settled in for and Office re-run marathon. After all this talk about my labor going quickly, I was sad that it seemed to be slowing down. Around 11 pm we decided to turn the lights off and try to get some sleep. That's when the contractions started coming every 1-2 minutes and fairly painfully. After about an hour, I asked the nurse to see if I could push yet, and sure enough I was at a 10. The Dr. came over, told me to push on my next contraction, and boom, she was here.




Born at 12:40 am... March 8th 2014... 8lbs 10 oz... 20.5 inches long... lots of dark hair...Lindy June Garner...cutest lips you've ever seen...Richie's eyebrows and toes...poops like a champ :)...has some reflux...most tender little cry...content...




The kids are in love. They have been so ready for her to get here. When we brought her home last night, they ran to get her some toys. They searched for her binky if she whimpered, they showered her with kisses. Miles even decided that baby June should have his special blanket, the one he's had since he was born. Richie's whooped of course. I'm in awe. We're happy.