Monday, June 24, 2013

We moved!

As if having a new baby wasn't enough change to our lives, we decided it would be a good idea to move into a bigger place too!  We have always been able to keep life interesting :).  It has worked out really well though.

For the last two and a half years that we've been living in Bakersfield, we were in a 2 bedroom apartment.  It was fine for us then, and we didn't know how long we would be living down here.  It's looking like we will be here for a while though, so we needed a change.  We have much more space in the new house to accommodate four of us, and a huge backyard for Luke to run wild.  Of course we still all sleep in the same bed, but I'm not ready to give up all the baby cuddles quite yet! My family went to our house in Orangevale and got a bunch of our furniture.  Then they brought it to us down in Bakersfield and helped us move everything here.  Needless to say, we couldn't have done this without their help! Thank you!

The main room is really most of the house, which makes it easy to keep an eye on everyone.

We have a little guest room/nap room for our occasional visitors.




The best part of the house is definitely the toy room! We spend a majority of our day in here.


 Luke spends a lot of his day pretending to be Buzz Lightyear with his arms outstretched to fly.
 Hilarious!
 

 I had these prints made for the boys from etsy (link here).  I love how they turned out!
 Running around.
I had to have one girly room, so I made it the guest bathroom.

We also have a big master bedroom and bath. There is one more small room that Jon has all of his music stuff and some of my crafty stuff in.  It's not picture ready yet though.  So far we are really enjoying the house. We bought a lawnmower and an edger so that Jon can maintain the grass (and weeds in the backyard since we haven't taken the time to plant grass yet).  Luke loves spending time outside working with Daddy on the sprinklers and digging holes.  I can't wait to have two little boys running around out there!


Thursday, June 13, 2013

All about Jake

Jake was born on March 28th 2013.  It was one week before my due date and I was already around 5-6 cm, so the doctors decided it would be fine for me to go in and "urge" Jake out a little.  I hadn't had any real forceful contractions, but somehow my body had already started the process.  I got an epidural (that worked well this time!!) around 9:30am.  Water broke around 10:30am.  I never had to feel a single bad contraction! It was great!

 
A few hours before Jake arrived.  We look drugged, but I'm pretty sure it was just the camera flash :).  We did have a second to sit down and relax together though, which was very nice.

Then around 3pm Jake was ready to come.  I pushed him out super quick because I just couldn't wait any longer to see his face (and it hurt really bad and I wanted to be done)! He came out screaming his head off, the most beautiful sound you can think of at that moment.  He was a bigger baby for me at 7 pounds and 14 ounces.  Super healthy with beautiful skin, and lots of blonde hair!  It was such a wonderful Birthday for the little guy!

 Admiring our brand new little man.


 So glad that my Mama was able to be there and help things go smoothly for Jake's birth.

 Luke was able to come meet Jake within the first hour after birth.    This is our first official photo as a family of four.  Luke had way too much fun hanging out with Grandpa and Uncle Cory while Jon and I were at the hospital.  He hardly even noticed we were gone.

 Ready to get out of here and go home!
 Hanging out with Grandpa.

 Papa and YiaYia came to visit.
 Grandma with little Jake.

 
 Aunt Melissa tastes yummy!
Uncle Kyle talking to Jake.

Uncle Cory rocking him.

 
 Second Mommy Mia came to visit and took some great pictures of Baby Jake.


Jake is such a blessing to our family.  He is very sweet and loveable.  He's a bit of a chunky monkey compared to his big brother, and I love it!  He's a good eater, a fairly good sleeper, and he loves to smile and is almost laughing already!  He's 2.5 months now, so I'll fill in some of the details in a later post too.












More Jakey pictures

Love his sweet little face!









 Most of these were taken by my fabulous friend Mia at Emmy Cube. A few by my Mom too.  Thank you!!