Andrew James Hawker

I am so proud to introduce my Son: Andrew James Hawker!

His 3 older sisters... this boy will never be neglected!

MaKayla protecting him from Emily and her curious hands.

Izzy so proud!

Getting to know each other! Emily looks so proud!

On the 23rd at 9:30pm I went into the Hospital having contractions 4 min apart for 60 sec. They sent me home at 10:35pm because I was not dialating any more even though I was having contractions. I came home very upset and depressed I was certain it would be another week of contractions and no baby! So, I took a nice hot bath, relaxed and went to bed at 12am expecting the contractions to go away. I woke up an hour later at 12:50am in a LOT of pain! After a few intese contractions, I was sure this time things had changed, so we went back to the hospital.... I was right! At 1:50am we were checked in and getting an epidural. I was progressing 1 cm per 45 min. At 6am I stalled out and they gave me a little pitocin. 7:15am the Dr. Came in I was at an 8 and he decided to see what would happen if I pushed, well 1 and a half pushes later we had our little boy Andrew.

Andy looks just like his dad! So far his hair is black and eyes a chocolaty brown just like Brad's.

Born at 7:22am, 19 in long, 6 lbs 150z. Everything went fine, me and baby did great!! We stayed 2 nights at the hospital and came home today.

Thanks to everyone who called, prayed, and came by for us. I feel very blessed to have such a wonderful family and friends!

Also, the staff at DRMC were so great to us, they always provide exceptional care and took care of everything for us!

Labor Day Vacation 09

For Labor Day this year we decided to go somewhere new. Neither me or Brad had ever been to Yellowstone and decided to it would be fun to go this year. My brother Mike lives in Montana just 1.5 hours away from there and his youngest happened to be getting baptized the same weekend. I also needed to get my maternity photos done so we bundled it all together and had a little road trip.

Thurs. night we rove to Springville and stayed at Brad's brother Scott's house. Friday morning we got up and his wife Luann took my maternity photos (they will be on seperate post).

After the pictures Friday, my mom and step-dad met us and piled in the car with us for the remaining journey.

Friday night we arrived in Montana at my brother Mike's house.

Saturday we went to my nephew's baptism then, Brad and Keith went fishing, and me and the girls went exploring. My SIL's Step-mom was there and taught MaKayla to make Mile High Mississippi Pie:

It was also my nephews birthday, so we had a little party for him that night!

Sunday we got up early, said our goodbye's and took off to Yellowstone. We saw lots of different animals: Buffalo, Elk, Deer, etc. everything but a bear! It was so much fun, but we only got about 1/4 of the way through what we wanted, if you are going there, 3 days is needed to see everything for sure!!

We made sure to see Old Faithful. Brad has always worried that it would stop unexpectedly before he got the chance to go see it, but luckily it is still working!! :) It was so cool and a lot bigger than I thought it would be.

Another cool thing was crossing the continental divide. It was funny cause right there was a pond and all the water held still as if it didn't know wich way to go down the mountain!

Then when we left we passed the Teton's. They are so beautiful, my pictures do not do them justice at all!

Sunday night we stayed in a cute little cabin in Jackson. We then drove down and saw some cool rapids.

We had so much fun I am we are so lucky to be able to do fun things with our kids. And my parents even survived and still speak to us!

Hunger Games

For my birthday my SIL gave me this book. When I sat down to read it, I finished it in 2 days, I could not put it down. I loved it. It is a fiction book about the future where 20 kids are put together and have to kill or be killed. One winner will be set for life. There is no choice to play or not, if they are choosen to go, they go unless there is someone who will take their place. All kids are between 12 and 18. Sounds odd, but it is so so good! I highly recomend this book! It is actually written for a young audience, so it is a fast easy read.