New pics

We brought Conner home last Sunday night and have been enjoying him every minute. These are some pics from this past week.

He loves to be swadeled in this swadler that the hospital gave us.
So I think this may be a little to big right now.

He loves his swing and is actually in my baby blanket. We wrap him in it all the time.

This is when we brought him home in his little bear outfit.

Don't we look happy? We just love our little Conner.

This is his main sleeping position AKA the hallelujah shout pose.

He always gets the hiccups and if he is eating he keeps trying to eat during them. Or if he is choking he will keep trying to eat, basically no matter what is hapening he will keep trying to eat. He is going to get huge!

CONNER NATHAN GILBERT

Little Conner Nathan Gilbert was born Friday Febuary 20th at 4:11 A.M. he weighed in at 7 pounds and 12 ounces and 20 inches long with a full head of blond hair. We went into the hospital Thursday night and were induced at 8:20 P.M. and after 8 hours of labor which is actually pretty fast for a first time birth, little Conner came out to play. Unfortunitly about an hour after he was born he turned purple and the nurses whisked him away to the NICU. He was born with a complication that I do not remember what it is called and I couldent even pronounce it anyway. But it is fairly common and goes away in two to three days. What it does is makes his lungs so they can't absorb enough oxygen so his little body was becoming oxygen depleted. So they had him on oxygen for about a day and a half until he could sustain himself on room oxygen. He has been without his little breating hood for a little over a day now and is doing great they are still keeping him in the NICU to observe him and do tests, they did bring him into our room this morning for about an hour and a half to try and feed him which was difficult since all he wanted to do was sleep. We have learned breast feeding is actually pretty difficult. Things are looking on the up and we hope we will be able to bring him home tonight.

Here he is just minuets old.

This is when he was scaled off alot like a big fish.

This is where he has spent the past couple of days hooked up to 5 monitors and his little right foot has an I.V. in it to feed him since we werent aloud to until he could breath.

Thats his little breathing hood and of course he is asleep, I have only seen him awake twice so far.
This was taken this morning when they brought him to us to feed.

Officially ready!

Here is the beautiful cradle that my dad built for our little baby boy. It took him alot of time to do and one of the coolest things is that the oak that he used is from the old pews of the Ephrata stake center. So our child will be sleeping in a holy place. So now we are complete and ready for him to come we have plenty of diapers and now a place for him to sleep. Thank you daddy for building this beautiful cradle. It is defenitly somthing that we can use for all our kids and they can use for their kids and they can use for their kids, I think you get the idea. A quick update on Steph she is 80% efaced and dialated to a 1 which doesnt mean anything other than her body is preparing for birth. We go to the doctor again this Wednesday to find out more.

37 Weeks

Here is Steph at almost 37 weeks and ready for him to come out. She is having a really hard time sleeping so we are already going without sleep so we are prepped for when the baby comes. We are just waiting for him to come now. But we will keep you posted.

A new job.

Just a quick update on us, I was recently offered a job with North West Farm Credit Services to be a credit officer and I accepted the offer. We will be moving to Twin Falls Idaho in April after we graduate where I will train until November and then from there we are not sure where we will be, it should be somewhere in the Twin Falls area. We are trying to get them to let us go the the office in Boise so I can continue school and get my MBA which they will pay for. So that is what is going on with us after graduation.

Pregnancies and toy boxes

Here is stephanie at 31 weeks she is now 35 weeks so we will put up a new picture next week of her.

Stephanie and her sister Alissa being pregnant together

Here is Lena who we are having a race with to see who will have their baby first. Lena is due 4 days before us we measured their belly's here and they were exactly the same size, we are pretty sure Lena will be beating us at the birth race since she has been on bed rest for the past month.

Here is the toy box Stephanie asked me to make her for Christmas this is during the sanding stage which I did in the apartment since it is freezing outside but we were cleaning dust off of everything for a couple of days.

This is during the staining process which took a long time, we put on 2 coats to make it a little darker.

This is one of the final things to do laquering the left has the laquer and the right is just the stain so it shined it up really nice. This took a really long time again we put on 2 coats to protect it and you have to wait a long time in between coats and turning the box.

Here is the finished product I cut out the letters at home and Steph painted them. We are pretty happy with it, it is currently filled with diapers the toys will come though as the diapers dissapear.

Oh Christmas Tree.

This past week we went up to Stephanies families cabin in Island Park, where we spent a couple of days and cut down our Christmas tree. We left the cabin and had Thanksgiving at Stephs grandparents and it was very good. We then woke up at 3:30 in the morning to participate in Black Friday which was totaly crazy but we wre able to get everything that we tried to get and a few other things. We got most of our Christmas shopping done for cheap. Luckily we never got trampled or had anything stolen out of our hands, but we did talk to some people that had stuff taken from them by other people, people are so crazy to save a couple of bucks.
That is our most recent adventure.

Here we all are up at the cabin.

My father in law trying to get a little to close. Trying to intrude on my three feet of comfort zone.

Well this was the origainal tree we were going to use but we decided that 30 feet was a little to tall.

This is what later became our tree we just cut the top off of the tree.

Here is Steph decorating the tree for some reason the camera would only take fuzzy pictures maybe from all the tree lights.

Here is our completed tree.