Look-a-likes

Everyone keeps asking us or trying to figure out who Liam looks the most like. So, to answer the question here are pictures of all three of us as babies for you to decide for yourself! (Personally, I think he looks just like Tanner.)

Take a look and take a vote!

I'm back!

Thank you to Tanner for keeping the blog alive while we welcomed our little William to our lives. I know he satisfied a lot of "adoring fans" (ha ha) while I was out of comission. What a great husband!

Since getting home from the hospital a lot has happened. We now have a little guy ruling our days and especially our nights. He is a joy even when he is a lot of work. This morning he woke me up at 5:00am to eat. It is still too early no matter how used to it I am becoming. But today was nice. We were lucky enough to get a little extra sleep with Tanner's mom being here to help for a the last few days, and I think that made waking up not too bad. Anyways, while I fed Liam, Tanner woke up and we just got a chance to talk and listen to some music and just have some quiet "us" time while we tried to get Liam to sleep again. Really it was just so nice. I can't think of a better word to describe it. It was just simply nice. That kind of time, I am already realizing, is hard to come by with the baby, Tanner's school and all the other everyday stuff. I think I have a better understanding and appreciation for "early to bed early to rise". At least for today.

So now for the crazy. We have been home from the hospital for 2 weeks now, but lucky me got to have an extra little visit in between. Last Sunday I got to have my first (and hopefully only) visit to the ER. I had had a fever of 101 for over 24 hours and was advised by the doctor to get checked out at the hospital. I found out I have a kidney infection. What a fun thing to add to my list of crazy stuff going on in my life. While I was there my fever went up to about 103.8. I have never had a fever that high. I got to get stuck two more times in the arm for an IV and a blood sample. Not a fun thing when you hate needles. And I had to take a urin sample of course. They told me they test just one drop of the urin sample for white blood cell count. Usually a person in my current situation of just having a baby has about 2-5 in a sample, but they stopped counting when they got to 200. So it was a pretty good infection. They gave me some antibiotics and I started feeling better the next day. But let me tell you-- don't ever get a kidney infection after you have a baby. NO FUN.

Showered with fun!

While we were in Utah for Thanksgiving a friend of our family's threw me a baby shower. It was so fun! I think the whole world came and I had a blast. I got so many cute things including the cutest mini-man clothes, tons of bath stuff, a bumbo chair and one of those sweet baby boppy things. And a little guy cowboy hat! Ha! It is adorable. Thanks so much to everyone especially Mom, Rachelle and everyone who was so thoughtful.

Me with tow of my prego cousins Michelle and Melanie. We were having a contest. Well, not really since Melanie just had her beautiful baby girl this week and Michelle is due the day after Christmas!
Here is another bump picture just for record. We took this on our anniversary at about 27 weeks.

Late news of past stuff :)

Well summer is long over now but here are a few fun things we did before we got to our new home in Nebraska!

Right after school got out in June we went on a famous Jones Family Disneyland trip and had a blast!Next we went through Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Teton National Park and Yellowstone. I think we saw every animal alive there! We had so much fun just doin' the road trip thing.
We finally made it to Billings and had fun there visiting all our wonderful family and seeing the awesome fireworks my cousins put on!

It was a great trip and we even found out we are pregnant! And for anyone who actually reads this, I'm sure you already know this since this is, you know, 5 months late :) Oh well, now the news is actually posted and I guess official.Now, I can post some actually relevant and current stuff to really keep you updated!

Graduation X's 2!

We are finally graduated! We did make it out alive believe it or not. Tanner graduated from BYU in biology on April 24th. It was an exciting ceremony (as exciting as a college graduation can get ;) because the ever optimistic and amazing Pres. Uchtdorf spoke. It was a great talk and I really enjoyed it. I knew BYU was huge but really know how huge it was at graduation. We got there early and sat clear in the top section! Tanner's parents were able to come down from Billings for the weekend and it was so great to see them. It doesn't happen often enough.The next weekend I graduated from UVU in elementary education on May 1st. It was very different from Tanner's, but great. Since my school is a little smaller than BYU it didn't last quite so long (thankfully) and I could actually see my family :) At the big ceremony Pres. Monson spoke to us. It was neat to have the prophet there to send us on our way, "out into the world". I also loved seeing my good friends again. Of course our family was there too. Thanks to my parents and grandparents and of course Holly and Robbie for coming. Tanner's parents were able to come down too. I am very lucky to have such good in-laws to come down two weekends in a row just for us to sit in really long ceremonies. Thanks! So for two weekends in a row we had big ole' celebrations eating tons, I mean tons of good food.

After all it is good to be graduated. We are through one chapter of our life and have gone through a great experience. I am so glad we chose to go to school and get an education. It feels good to accomplish this. After this we are headed to more school (at least for Tanner) to Lincoln, Nebraska to the University or Nebraska Dental School. I am so proud of you Tanner! We are excited for a new chapter in our life!