Blessing

Here are some pictures of our special day yesterday. We are so blessed to have Emma in our family.

Change of seasons

I guess one last visit from the ice cream truck was in order before the official end of summer. I for one will not be sad about this- what a rip-off! And what's with our ice cream truck playing Christmas music?

And now it's fall which means only one thing- football! Oh yeah, and school starting too. Here is Jackson before his first day of his new preschool. He looks so grown-up in these pictures- I feel old!

And here are a couple random ones of my Emma- she's such a cutie!

Finally!

After waiting nearly 4 weeks, I finally got my family picture. Because we stayed in the hospital for such a short time, we never got a family hospital picture. Then trying to get my boys (namely Spencer) to agree to a picture is like pulling teeth. So here it is- I was only allowed one shot, so I have to live with the blurriness and that my boys would not drop the Iphones they were playing with at the time. I told the boys to go sit by their sister to take a picture with her and these are the faces I got. They are such goofballs.

Father of the Bride

Just to give everyone an idea of what I have to put up with:

Yesterday we were flipping through the channels and happened across one of those shows about women buying wedding dresses. One woman proudly proclaimed her dress budget was unlimited (who does that?!?). I said to baby Emma- "your budget will NOT be unlimited", to which Spencer said, "Oh, don't worry about that- I have a plan." Here is his plan for our only daughter's wedding dress shopping. He plans to secretly take my wedding dress to the dress salon, slip the salesperson a $50 to hang it on their rack and steer Emma toward buying my dress. He is certain this will work.

I'm not sure what is more funny- the plan itself or the fact that he has already formed a plan.

Something tells me that when the time comes, he is not going to be able to say no to this cute face :)

Emma

Announcing Emma Marie Wangsgard- born 8/11/10 at 11:10AM. 8lbs 11oz- the first thing the doctor said was "look at those thunder thighs!" She is beautiful and we love having her in our family.

Here she is going home in the same shirt her Grandma Emma AND I both wore home from the hospitals when we were born- just carrying on the tradition.

Confirmation

Mondays are now my favorite day- because I get to go to the doctor and get my hopes up that they will say, "Wow, you are at a 5, let's send you to the hospital". It never happens though. Last week, the doctor listened to my baby's heart beat and (not having read my chart) said, "Hmmm, this sounds like a little brother." That kind of worried me. Then this morning, another doctor listened to the heart beat and said, "Oh yeah, this is 100% boy". That put me into a panic.

Needless to say, I did not have a good day today as I worried about trying to change everything out and the amount of money wasted. Not to mention most of our boy stuff is across the country right now. I'll admit, a few tears were shed (Jackson asked me, "Mommy, why are you dripping?" I guess he hasn't witnessed a lot of adult crying)

Finally, Spencer and my mom convinced me to go get a fetal studio ultrasound. I protested, saying we will find out in a few days, but finally relented. After much suspense, the tech told me that she was postively convinced this baby is a girl. I was shocked. One less thing to worry about! Now if I can just figure out a way to get this girl out of me!

Here are some of the pictures from the experience- unfortunately at 39+ weeks, ultrasounds can't show much clarity because the baby is SO squished. Good luck trying to figure out what you are looking at.

Passing the time...

Since our little bundle of joy is not cooperating with my wishes to come early, here's what we've been up to in an effort to avoid going crazy:

ANY DAY SWEETHEART!
The baby room is complete, except of course for the baby. Clothes and sheets washed, room cleaned, bag packed. Just waiting now.

LOOK AT THAT HUGE HOLE!

We decided to take our boys to the Kennecot Copper Mine for the first time. They got to see the trucks working, tour the visitor's center, and watch a movie touting how freakin' cool the mine is (did you know 17% of the world's copper comes from there?) The boys were somewhat impressed, but Spencer was definitely in his element.

SPLISH SPLASH!

A friend of mine told me floating in the Legacy Center pool for 2 hours put her into labor. Worth a shot, I figured. Though no such luck for me, the boys had a blast. They love that place.

BOUNCY BOYS!

But mostly what we have been doing is hanging out in the backyard. The boys love their trampoline and it gives me a chance to sit down and put my enormous feet up.
(Yes it looks like Jackson is about to snap his neck, but I promise he is usually very safe. He is really good at flips. We've contemplated putting him in gymnastics because he is so strong and loves tumbling.)