Jackson's Baby Blessing

On June 3, 2012 we had the opportunity to give our sweet baby boy a blessing.  We were lucky enough to have a lot of our family here to join in celebrating this occasion. Thank you to everyone who was able to make it and we really missed those that weren't. We had a really fun time relaxing and enjoying everyones company on Saturday and then on Sunday we blessed Jackson.  He was exhausted from Saturday so he slept like an angel through the blessing and lunch afterward.  His dad did such a wonderful job on the blessing.  I am so grateful that I have such an amazing husband who is a worthy priesthood holder and who could give Jackson this blessing.  Jackson is a lucky boy to have such a wonderful dad who is such a great example to him and who will teach him to be such a great man.  I just love them both so much!  We are so grateful to have Jackson in our lives and will cherrish every moment we have with him.  Here are some of the pictures from the blessing.

He is such a sweet and handsome boy!

Our wonderful families that got to come!

Okay so I am still very far behind because Jackson is almost five weeks old, but my amazing neighbor Cindy Steel is a photographer and she took some adorable 2 week pictures of Jackson for us.  They turned out great and I am so excited that we will have these wonderful memories to look back on. Especially because he has already changed sooo much! We just love Jackson more than anything in the world and are so happy to have him in our lives <3 Oh and just a side note, we went in for Jackson's 2 week appointment and he weighed 8lbs 9oz and was 21 1/2 inches long!

Jackson Kal Schank has finally arrived!

Okay so this is very long overdue considering Jacksin is almost 4 weeks old, but I feel pretty proud of the fact that I am getting to it at all.  So here is the story.  My due date was April 21st, but on april 19th Jackson decided it was time to get out of there. And I am thankful he did! My water broke at about 1:30 pm and it just happened to break right as Kal walked in the door for lunch and right when I was going to the bathroom.  I know this is a little too much information, but it was great because there was no mess and it was perfect timing.  I was pretty worried about knowing when I was in labor and when to go to the hospital, but since I was one of those lucky 10% whose water broke I did not have to worry about that.  I hadn't really been having many contractions that morning so I wasn't really prepared.  When my water broke I had to finish packing my hospital bag and Kal had to pack his stuff too.  We got to the hospital around 2 and they determined that yes, my water had broken and I would be having Jackson within the next 24 hours.  They said that we should expect to wait about 2 hours for every cm and I was only at 1.5 cm.  We thought we were in for a very long night!  But, Jackson had a different plan and it only took4 hours to go from 1.5 cm to 10cm.  Unfortunately Jacksons heart rate kept dropping because I dialated so quickly and they had to get him out very fast.  So as soon as I hit a 10 they started vaccuming and I only pushed for 10 minutes.  And finally at 6:41pm Jackson Kal Schank had arrived!  He weighed 7lbs 12oz and was 19.5 inches long (Although at his 2 week check up he was 21.5 inches long, so it is more likely that this was his length at birth).  He is absolutley perfect and we are so in love! He already has us wrapped around his perfect little fingers.  We love you Jackson and are so happy to have you in our lives!

Oh and just a little shout out to daddy. He was so wonderful and helped me so much! I was honestly worried that he might pass out or something, but he was a pro! He cut the cord and everything and didn't even blink. Thank you for all the love and support babe. I couldn't have done this without you!

It has been 7 weeks already since I last posted and you can definitely see it on my belly!  I am 39 weeks and 2 days today! Hopefully this means our little guys will be here any day now.  I have been having contractions, but that has been going on for like 2 weeks so who knows if they actually mean anything or not.  Because it has been so lon since I posted I never got a chance to thank everyone for the wonderful babyshowers and the gifts! We really appreciate it all so much.  Well, we are definitely getting anxious and excited and we can't wait to meet our baby boy.  We already love him so much and we just know he will be the perfect addition to our family.

So I am 32 1/2 weeks pregnant and I feel huge (my belly anyway)! We had a doctors appointment last week and the doctor said that our little guy is smaller than average, but he is still in the healthy range.  We are very glad that he is healthy, but we had to laugh at this because I feel soooo big, so when the doctor said that he is smaller than average all I could think is "how the heck can that be?".  Anyway, the doctor said that everything seems to be going well and that if I carry him to full term he will probably be about 7lbs.  This is news I was very glad to hear because I keep imagining this 10lb baby and how there is just no way I could deliver him.  7lbs however, seems much more reasonable!
I can't believe how fast the time has gone by with this pregnancy.  This morning Kal asked me if I had realized that since today was March 1st we could now say we are having a baby next month.  I hadn't realized that! It is getting so close and we are getting very excited for the arrival of our baby boy!  

26 Weeks

I decided that I should be doing a better job documenting this pregnancy since it is a first for me and I want to be able to show our little boy someday.  The last picture I posted was at about 20 weeks and I wasn't really that big.  Now six weeks later my belly is about three times that size! It felt like I just woke up one day and had tripled in size.  The baby is moving all of the time now and if you watch you can even see the kicks and punches! It is so fun that Kal can not only feel him now, but can see him.  He has already got his daddy wrapped around his little finger!  We love him so much!

It's a Boy!



20 weeks

We were going to find out whether we were having a girl or a boy in Utah on November 11th, but we ended up not being able to go so we had to wait (very impatiently I might add) until December 13th.  Well even though it felt like the day would never come it finally did and we are having a boy!!!! We already love the little guy so much and can't wait to meet him!  It is weird how finding out the sex has made this whole thing seem so much more real.  It was so amazing to be able to see him and such a blessing to know that he is healthy and everything is going well. We are so grateful to be starting our family and so happy that this little boy is going to be the first addition.