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I put this on here only because I want to get $10 off my next purchase....But isn't she the cutest! Yes I think so!!!!

Black and White Days!!!

We weren't sure if we were going to make it to B&W days this year, but luckily for us Harper was here a week early so we were able to take the boys to the parade! Normally we hit up the horse pulls as well but with a new baby and the resent out break of horse herpes (yes, you read that right) we just hit up the parade! That was really enough for me anyway! So the boys waited all day and finally when Richard got home from work we drove to Richmond!
Here is me, Harper, Jack and Trey waiting for the parade to start! Lucky for us my Grandma goes and parks her truck in a great spot that morning so we don't have to fight for a place!

Daddy and his boys!

The boys loved hanging out with their uncle Shayne! He was cool with hanging out with the boys even though all his friends were there with him...he was probably trying to impress the girls that were there! Uncle Shayne was even nice enough to walk with me at a snails pace to the parade since Richard and Trey had forgotten that I had just had surgery a week ago!
I love this pic because Jack kept giving all of Shayne's little girlfriends the eyes and they kept giving him candy! Smart little guy if you ask me!

They loved the band!

Trey eating his candy!

Jack finally getting to have a piece! He asked through the whole parade when he could eat his candy!

Also while we were there Harper got to meet Granny Kalee for the first time!

She looks like a pretty proud Grandma for not even being 40 yet if you ask me ;) We had a great time at the parade it was fun to visit with my family and just let the boys run wild and crazy! The boys were sad about not seeing any horses but there is always next year! We had a great time and even little Harper enjoyed it! Not that she saw one little wink of it! She slept in her sling the whole time but I'm sure she still had fun!!!

The First Week!!!

I can't believe that our little baby is already a week old and seriously it has gone by so fast! It was great having Richard here all week to help me out...I never could have done it on my own. I mean did you realize that after you have surgery how much pain you are in ;) Joking I knew how much pain I was going to be in! Luckily for me on my really bad days Richard just let me lay in bed and he took care of everything. But now we are back to reality that now involves 3 count them 3 kids!! I love them all! Trey has been on his best behavior helping me around the house and Jack well he's doing the best that a 2 year old can do. Surprisingly enough Jack isn't the one who has almost stepped on his sister...that would be the other brother! So far this week we have made this accomplishment....

We gave Harper her first bath...and she hated every minute of it! She isn't exactly a crier so we were shocked that she could even make this loud of a noise....I guess she can when she is ticked!

As soon as she was out of there she was just as happy as could be again!

Here she is sporting her super cute preemie jammies! She is seriously the cutest little girl I've ever met! I'm not just saying that because I'm her mom either ...she seriously is!!!

Here she is a few days ago finally awake so you can see her pretty little eyes! I just love this face it's so chubby and she has the cutest double chin! She is a big time cuddler. She like to snuggle with my but she really loves to snuggle with her dad and he loves it too! The other night after one of her baths she got all snugly with him and every time he would move she would just sink farther and farther into him....so adorable! I should have gotten the camera but I was upstairs it was downstairs and at that time me and stairs still weren't the best of friends!
She loves this blanket that aunt Tiffer made her! When ever we put her in it she snuggles up and goes right to sleep! I don't blame her because I want to do the same thing!
Finally to celebrate her being 1 week old she lounged out with her brothers on the floor! I can't believe how big they are compared to her! I was telling Jack that before I had her he seemed so little and now he looks like a little man! Both of the boys are doing great with her Jack likes to "help" me feed her and burp her before he goes to bed. He likes to help swaddle her up so she sleeps good and he loves to give her, her Binky! He also likes to ask if he can try her Binky and then we have to talk about how he gave his to the Binky Fairy forever! He is such a good brother to her though I was really worried about him but he is doing great! Trey is a helper too...he's funny because he likes to be right there when she is getting dressed for the day to help pick out a head squisher! Then he likes to go through all of them and see what outfit they would go with...it's a little funny. He is such a boy so it's funny to see him really into his sisters stuff! He loves to check on her in the morning to make sure she is still sleeping while I get ready. This is probably a little TMI but I don't want to forget this one! He has been very concerned about how she eats...so we tried to explain it to him and he's totally weirded out by the fact that she gets her food from a boob! It's a bit hilarious because whenever he sees me feeding her he gets all crazy and says, "I can't believe Harper's drinking from a boob!" then I inform him that he use to and he gets totally freaked out!
Things are going great though we've been able to stay on the same schedule that we created almost 5 years ago with Trey and it just seems like Harper has always been here! I was nervous about the transition from 2 to 3 kids but it's been pretty easy...Lucky us! We are so blessed to have 3 beautiful kids that are all so great!

She's Here Part 2!!!

Hospital time...my favorite thing that they now do at the hospital that I never had before is that they give your baby a bath right in your room so that the mom can see it! There were alot of babies born that morning so Harper had to wait for a bit to get hers...but she finally got it!

I love this picture! Her feet are so tiny seriously the littlest feet I've ever seen!

Getting all scrubbed up!

She loved getting her hair washed! She just sat there and let the water run through her hair!

This was my most favorite thing...after her bath I got to hold her skin to skin to warm her up and just plain snuggle! I loved every minute of this seriously! It was the best...It made her feel better and it made me feel better!

Our family all together for the first time!

It was so cute the boys brought her these little princess wands and she wasn't shy about taking it from Trey and showing him who the princess really is!

Trey loves his sister and takes such good care of her!

Jack loved meeting his new sister and he is so sweet to her!

Me and my sweet baby girl! And don't you just love my blanket and hospital gown! My sister in law Tiffany made all of this for me! I loved having my own gown. It made me feel so much better to be in my own things and it helped that they were super cute! At first they didn't want me to put it on after my surgery but I didn't care if I was going to be in the hospital I was going to wear it! Thanks so much Tiff! Everyone wanted to know where I got it!
On Saturday morning I was surprised when they told me that I could go home!!! I was expecting to have to stay til at least Sunday since I had surgery! But since I was doing so good they told me I could go home Saturday night! So I got Harper all dressed up and ready to go!

She looks so tiny in her car seat!

The proud daddy taking home his baby girl!

When we got home the boys weren't home yet they were with my dad so Richard took the time to give Harper a tour of the house! It was so cute...She already has him wrapped around her little finger!
Here she is a couple of days old! I think that she looks alot like Richard! She is so sweet! She is a pro at nursing...she took to it so easy and is still great at it! Which I love...I felt like such a failure when Jack wouldn't nurse so I was a little stressed about it with her, but she took to it with no problems! She is sleeping great! She gets up only 2 times at night just to eat really fast and go right back to sleep! Richard has been an amazing helper! I have a hard time getting in and out of bed so he gets up changes her and gets her all ready to eat and when she is done he takes her back to bed. He's been doing everything around the house and with the boys so that I can somewhat get back to myself before he goes back to work...which is tomorrow!!! I'm alittle nervous about him going back but we can do it! I'm starting to feel much better still a bit sore but not nearly as bad as it was at first! We are so happy to have little Harper in our home the boys can't get enough of her and they loving helping out! We just love her!!!

She's Here...The Delivery!!!!

So I'm going to do this in a couple of different posts because there are so many pictures! This one is about the actual delivery. It was a very early morning, my surgery was scheduled for 7:30am and we had to be there at 5:30am. I didn't really sleep the night before because all I could think about was how many more hours until I as going to get my guts cuts open!!! Richard had given me a wonderful blessing to help calm the nerves the night before so I think that I was alot calmer then I could have been. Not to say that I wasn't nervous because I definitely was. But by the time we got to our room and I was all set up I was feeling pretty good.

Here I am all dressed up in my fancy hospital garb signing my life away! You go in so early so that you can do this, get monitored, get your IV and get pumped with 3 liters of fluid all before surgery begins. Needless to say I had to pee...alot!

Here is Richard all fancied up in his scrubs!

Here he is getting my socks on to walk to the operating room. Now this was about 15 minutes before my surgery it was about this time that the nurse came in to tell me that my surgery was about to be bumped another hours because of an emergency csection that needed to take place. Bummer...so we waited another hour that went by really quickly! The anesthesiologist came into talk to me about the spinal and this is were we can cue me and my tears. I don't know why but I was terrified of this more then anything. It was mostly because I didn't want to be in there alone without Richard getting a needle the size of china stabbed into my back! But luckily for me they noticed this and let Richard come and be with me...Thank goodness, because I needed him. It was so easy with Richard there with me because he talked me through it and it was over in a matter of seconds and then I couldn't feel a thing. They started to set everything up wash my belly and then I started to get nauseous which I was told would happen. But it was fixed fairly quickly and pretty soon it was time to have this baby girl!
Here I am just before the surgery started and keep in mind I had just been crying and puking so don't judge! It was a very weird feeling because I could feel pressure and them pulling her out but no pain. She didn't want to come out of my belly so it took a few minutes mostly because my Dr. tried to keep my incision as small and neat as possible...

But in a matter of minutes here she was! Harper was born!

She weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 19 inches long and she is beautiful!

Here I am meeting my baby girl for the first time!

I just love her! I got to hold her for awhile before they took her out! It took awhile for them to finish sewing me up since my Dr. was removing my old scar completely and giving me a fresh new one. Sort of like a mini tummy tuck ;) and soon I was wheeled to the recovery room!
Here she is while she waited for me to snap out of it for a minute! This time around was so much better then the last time. I was able to nurse her right there in the recovery room and it was just so nice to have that little moment alone with her and Richard and to actually remember it! I wasn't in a terrible amount of pain and I could actually be in the moment and enjoy every single minute of it! I had an amazing nurse, doc and anesthesiologist they were all so great to me and helped ease all my fears so that I could stay in the moment! This was by far my easiest delivery and I now have the sweetest little baby girl to show for it!

The Decision!!!

No pictures this time around just words! As far as what decision I'm referring to it's about how on earth we are going to get this baby out! We went to the Dr. on Tuesday like always and like always there is a whole lot of nothing going on. Once again I was dilated to a 1 and that was it, she could hardly even feel her head so we had to make up our minds of what we were going to do. Luckily we had already decided because I had a feeling nothing was going to happen. Last Tuesday after our Dr. appointment I basically cried all the way home because I knew pretty much my biggest fear was going to become a reality. I've been very vocal about not wanting another c-section unless it was absolutely the only thing that could be done. But turns out this baby is only going to come out that way. The reason that I'm not dilating is because she is not dropping which means that she is not pushing on my cervix at all. She is really high up in my rib cage! Now I do have the option to push, but if I did I would be having another long hard labor which could ultimately result in a c-section anyway. I've done the long labors and I'm not a fan! So last week I sat in the car in front of Richard's parents house and just cried because deep down I knew what I had to do. Luckily for me I have pretty much the best husband in the world who just let me sit there and cry and helped me decide what was going to be best. So by the time that I went to the Dr. this week I was prepared and I feel really good at what I'm about to do to myself! So tomorrow Friday the 13th we will be going in bright and early to have a c-section and to meet our beautiful baby girl! Richard keeps counting down the hours and I'm just trying not to think about it that much so I don't freak myself out! I'm nervous because of what happened last time but I feel better about it then I have for the past couple of weeks. I'm trying to have a positive out look on the whole thing. I know that I couldn't do this without Richard and he has been great at helping me see the good in this situation that I never wanted to face again. I know that he will be with me through the whole thing and that makes me feel better, because seriously I don't know what I would do without him! Both of the boys are super excited for Harper to get here and they keep talking about how they can't wait to come and see her. Trey wakes up every morning and says I can't wait for Friday and then Jack chimes in with a "ME TOOOOO!" They are going to be great big brothers! So we will continue to count down the hours to when we meet Harper Ella Davidson!!!!

Mother's Day!!!

I hope that you all had a great Mother's Day because I certainly did!! Richard and the boys took great care of me and let me relax as much as I could...we still did have to go to church after all and getting everyone ready is a team effort by all! In the morning the boys gave me the funniest card it was a Mickey Mouse one and it sang a cute little song but when you closed it, it said, "I have a feeling that today is going to be filled with all the things you love to do today!" I though it was funny because honestly, going to primary and watching over other peoples kids are not high on my list of fun things to do ;) We all laughed about it a little bit! We made the best of it though. Jack actually sat and was pretty quiet all through sacrament which is a miracle these days! Trey was so reverent during primary. It was funny because when we were in sharing time he sat all the way at the end of his row by himself so he wouldn't be tempted to talk to anyone. At one point a little girl in his class came and sat by him and tried to talk to him and he kept telling her to be quiet he was trying to read his scriptures. I told him that I was so proud of him for being so good today and he said, " I did it for you mommy, I wanted you to be happy on your special day!" He is such a little sweetie! He made me some cute things at church his teacher helped him fill out a paper about all the reasons that he loved me and it is so funny to read his answers....one of the things was that I worked really hard at making dinner! I'm a professional chef you know ;) I make the best PB&J around! When we went to pick up Jack from nursery he was so excited to see me because he had also made me a special present! He was so excited for me to open it that he opened it for me before we got home. He made me a sweet little necklace... it was very special! I just loved hearing his cute little voice tell me happy mother's day and telling me how much he loved me. All the men in this house were so nice to me yesterday and it was so nice to be with all of them and there was very little fighting and screaming which was amazing! Thanks so much for making me feel so special and being the great family that you are. I wouldn't trade you for anything in the world!!! I love being a mom more than I thought that I ever would and I can't wait to add to the crew with our little princess!

38 Weeks!!!

I really wanted to call this post "The Anatomy of a Belly Shot" because seriously it was an ordeal today! Richard my "trusty photographer" was here for a brief minute before heading out on business for the weekend so he said it was time for a belly shot! I didn't really feel like it this morning but he insisted so I did it! Here's how it went....

"Richard you cut off the top of my head!!!!"

"Richard why are you pointing the camera at my feet!"

Richard, "because they look like Flinstone feet!"

Looking annoyed and ready to have this over with..

Take a good picture already.....

Finally a good pic! I probably sound like a crazy person but if this is going up for people to see then it has to look half way good! Richard is a good photographer I was just annoyed this morning! Mostly because I'm 38 weeks pregnant and this baby like both of my others just wants to stay in my belly forever! I went to the Dr Tuesday and nothing is looking that promising. I'm dilated to a 1 (but personally I think that she just told me that to make me feel better) but she is still up really high and has not dropped at all! By the way that I'm feeling I'm pretty sure she is not planning on dropping down anytime in the near future! I have contractions every now and then but nothing that means anything! We go back to the Dr on Tuesday and then we will decide what we are going to do with this girly even though Richard and I have already decided I will wait til next belly shot time to share that big decision! Now all 2 of you who read this blog can wait in suspense HAHAHAHA! Other then that my feet started swelling yesterday which I'm not happy about and they hurt. Makes me just want this baby out even sooner! Thankfully Richard the most wonderful hubs ever gave them a nice little rub before he left this morning! Have I ever mentioned how much I love him spoiling me ;) Nothing else to report just more waiting!!!