Introducing James Brayden Griffin

James was born at 2:42 a.m on Monday October 10th 2011. He weighed in at 6 lbs 12 oz and 20 inches long. Labor went pretty quick. From the time of my first contraction to birth was 1 hr and 42 min. I only had two contractions, the second was never ending and I started bleeding so Brady and I rushed to the hospital. When I got to the hospital I was already dilated to a 9! I asked for an epidural but the anesthesiologist was no longer there so they called him and my Dr. The baby's heart rate was down to 60 when it should be around 140. They kept turning me in the bed trying to get his heart rate up, but no success. When the Dr. got there minutes later I was to a 9 1/2. They were afraid I had a placental abruption because I was losing so much blood. James' heart rate was not getting better at all so they had to do an emergency C-section. The anesthesiologist showed up just in time to give me a spinal block and they got James out in just minutes. His umbilical cord was wrapped around his foot twice and tied in a knot. In spite of all this stress he was as healthy as ever. It was quite a traumatic morning, the nurses said that they had never seen anything like that end with a good result. Its really a miracle that he is here. We are so blessed to have him and couldn't love him more.

Brady was such a great coach through the whole thing. Im glad I have him and he is a wonderful dad :)

Brady and I are so blessed to have this little guy in our family. We have never felt so much love for anyone or anything before now. We cant get enough of him :)

Visitors at the Hospital

Here are just some of James' visitors at the Hospital. James got to meet all sorts of new friends. Sorry we didn't get pictures of everyone. If you want to get on the blog, you'll just have to come visit him again.

A proud canner

There are two pear trees in our backyard. One big one, one little one. Little did we know, there came about twelve big boxes of pears from those two trees. Thats alot of pears!!! I gave a bunch away, Brady and I ate a bunch. And then... I learned how to can! I never thought I would know how to can, but I do and its actually pretty fun! A couple ladies in our new ward offered to help me can my pears. So we just divided the cans equally among us. It was so nice of them to help me.
Then I decided I still had a plethora of pears left and wanted to try something different. So I made pear sauce(its like applesauce but with pears instead). Thanks to Brady's sister Kati for giving me pointers along the way . It was quite a fun experiment. I made one batch with regular sugar and one with brown sugar. Brady votes Brown sugar is better but likes them both.
So I ended up with 11 cans of pears and 9 1/2 cans of pear sauce.

My favorite room in the house:)

Our little James will be here in just a few days now. My Dr is going to start me on Tuesday Morning, so hopefully he will be born that day:). We can't wait to meet him!
Here are a couple pictures of the nursery. I love just going in there and thinking that there will be a little baby boy in there real soon! It makes me smile. I really can't believe its here, its finally here!

COTTON CANDY MAN

At the beginning of September Brady made cotton candy at my sister in law Bonnie's sisters wedding reception. He was the Cotton Candy man and it literally became entertainment for the guests. It was hilarious, at times Brady was covered head to toe in Cotton candy. He had the most fun of anyone there as you can tell from these pictures. What a fun husband I have:)

My rocker :)

So I don't have a before picture but this is my finished project, thanks to my mom who did most of the work:).
Brady's grandparents found this rocker at the DI for $5 and gave it to us. It was in pretty good shape, all I had to do was cover the cushions.
Rocker =$5
Material at Ikea= $10

A fun and spunky and comfy rocking chair for my family room= $15
I dont think you can beat that :)

35 weeks

Well here I am. I feel like I look huge! My hands, feet and face are all in all...PUFFY! I think I have come to the conclusion that " A Good Nights sleep" is no longer part of my life:) But that's okay right because its all totally worth it.
I think about our little boy ALL THE TIME and cant help but smile.
He is so my favorite!
My dr is wanting to start me a week early which would push my due date up to October 10th(25days away!). We will see for sure at this next weeks appt!
I almost cant believe this is actually happening to me, Im having a baby and im going to be a mom! Ah! Can life get any better?