BASSINETT PROJECT

So I meant to post this a while ago. I got this bassinett on KSL for $20. I refinished it and sewed some bedding for it before the baby came. It was fun to see the difference.

FATHER'S DAY

With the chaos of getting ready for the baby blessing and everything else. I feel that Cory got a little shafted on his Father's Day. Although, blessing your baby on Father's Day is about as appropriate as you can get. I just wanted to let him know that he is a GREAT father and husband and his boys absolutely adore him as a dad!

MCQUADE'S BABY BLESSING

I really have become horrible with taking pictures or updating my blog. I will just slowly try to catch up. Sooo... here is McQuad'es birth announcment and baby blessing invite. We blessed him on Father's Day. I didn't even get any pictures that day. It was SO chaotic. But I had taken a picture of him in his blessing outfit before. Thank you to everyone that came!

HERE WE GO...FINALLY!

Introducing McQuade Terry Hardy

Born May 8, 2009

1:57am

7 lb 14 oz

19.5 in

Here we are doing the waiting thing. Trying to hold off for Cory to fly in. I went into the hospital at about 4:30 having contractions 2-3 minutes apart. I called Cory to catch the next flight out, which wouldn't get him here until about midnight. So we were trying to hold on until then. Kim and Cindy were definitely keeping me company. They kept me entertained with blowing up glove balloons, playing Phase 10, having rolling chair races, setting off their car alarms outside to scare people... and more! At about 11:45pm Cory walked in! At 12:12am they sat me up to give me my epidural and my water broke everywhere. Then contractions starting coming HARD!! I went from a 7 to a 9 in 5 minutes. They prepped the room and told me to start pushing. Only 2 contractions and 6 pushes all in 5 minutes Baby McQuade was born. It was such a different experience then my last time. I was so coherent and everything went so fast I couldn't believe it. Poor little thing got a bruised face from coming down so fast.

Mason was so excited to come see the baby. He was so disappointed when he walked in and the baby wasn't in the room. He was so excited to see his daddy when he went to pick him up at my sister's house.

We've had many friends and family come to visit!

My mom and sister were so excited to give him his first bath. Since Cory is back in Washington until June my mom came to stay with me for a week off her mission.

Pictures of McQuade throughout his first week of life. He is such a sweet little boy. He sleeps through everything! Baths, toe pricks in the hospital, his big brother Mason, and even his circumcision!! Yeah. I was shocked when the doctor told me that. His blood sugar even started to drop because he would never wake up to eat - we used cold hands, cold wipes on his body - he wasn't gonna get up for anything. Now he wakes up just enough to eat and he is back out again. He's even doing well at night time!

I thought this was funny with his ultrasound picture he is sucking on his hand and seeing him do it in real life was so cute to me Ü

Thank you to all friends and family for their help and support! Especially while Cory is gone! I could NOT have done it without you!

BUNCO NIGHT!

I hosted Bunco Wednesday night and I had so much fun!
We all luckily escaped with only one smashed finger, a few strong braxton-hicks, a couple pair of almost peed pants, and a minor case of "swass" ;)

I made my first fruit bouquet. It turned out alright if you didn't look to close Ü We also had deviled eggs, spinach dip & bread, asparagus wrapped in salami, chicken sald crescent sandwiches and easter cupcakes.

Thanks everyone for coming!!

SHOWER FUN

Mason and I were making faces at each other in the shower the other day. I was laughing at some of the faces he was pulling so I decided to take some pictures Ü

REMINISCING

When I was going through baby clothes I found Mason's hosital hat they gave him. I can't believe how fast the time has gone and how big he has gotten. I couldn't find a hospital picture taken with his hat on. I thought I had one.

4-WHEELER RIDE WITH DADDY

Cory took Mason on a 4-wheeler ride a couple weekends ago. Mason was so excited to go. We tried my helmet on Mason's head and it fit pretty good! I have a freakishly small head. It's a size XS.

and then.... he fell asleep. Cory rode with him like this for about 45 minutes going up and down the hills.

LOOKY, LOOKY WHAT'S COMIN'!!

Is it just me or does he look better in this picture?? Hmm, maybe it's photoshop. Anyway, I'm excited to see it. Mark your calendars ladies!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME...

My birthday was simple and great! I got a ton of emails, phone calls, texts, letters, and facebook shout-outs for my birthday! Thank you everyone you made my birthday a happy one.

Cory and Mason made me a cake the night before. Here's the pictures Cory took with his phone:

No, the cake is not on fire. That's what I first thought when I saw the picture of Mason looking in the oven. Cory did try to make his own frosting but he said it had a burnt taste. Overall, they did a good job.

Blowing out the candles with Mason's help.

Cory brought home pizza and we got redbox and just enjoyed the evening together as a family. Cory was nice to cater to me and get Mason ready for bed. I did get some new clothes from Buckle which is always fun - cause nothing fits!! Thanks again everyone for making my birthday so special!

MATERNITY PICTURES

So I felt kind of bad that I hadn't taken one picture of me this whole pregnancy. This last week I was in St. George and my friend had started her own photography business and asked her to take some pictures. I think she did such a great job! Thank you so much Bran! Anyway, here's a sneek peek she gave me of some of the pictures.

Here's my friends website if you are interested in taking some pictures Ü:

http://momentstorememberphotography.blogspot.com/

MOTORCYCLE RIDE

With the warm weather Cory got out his motorcycle and took Mason for his first ride slowly around our complex. He absolutley loved it! He is always asking to go for a ride.

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR

Daddy gave Mason his old Air Force belt and Mason was wearing it around all day. He then found daddy's boots and put them on himself and came up to me and said, "Buzz Lightyear, to the rescue!" Very funny.

I also had gotten out of the shower later that day, and wasn't dressed yet - when he came up to me and pushed my boob and said, "Star command, come in star command!" I was trying not to laugh - while teaching him not to touch my boobs. I had to call Daddy on that one.

CUTE HAIR-DO

I found Mason in the bathroom and he was doing his own hair - using a comb, toothbrush, squirt bottle, gel, toothpaste, and deodorant. I think he did a pretty good job actually. We went for a haircut that day and the lady thought he did pretty good too. She was laughing at the toothpaste in his hair.

WHAT I'VE BEEN UP TO...

PROJECTS! PROJECTS! AND MORE PROJECTS!!!

all being done at the same time - TOTAL CRAZINESS!

Thank you to my mom and sister for staying with me for a week to help with projects! It was so overwhelming!

MASTER BEDROOM:

We repainted the walls to look like centerblock stones. And got a new comforter set. I still have to decorate the room but haven't yet so I'll post those pictures later.

Painting while Mason was sleeping

Oh yeah, and we were all sick again. If you'll notice the vaporizer

MASON'S ROOM:

We bought this bed for Mason off of KSL.com - We took all of his furniture and put it in the baby's room and got him new stuff. We painted the bed black, and Cory's old dresser black, and are turning it into an outdoorsy room.

It was such a mess!!!!!!! Living conditions weren't that great when it was being switched around.

We had to paint everything in the kitchen because it was too cold outside to paint. It was insane!

Here's what it look like right now.

I still need to make curtains, a little pillow for his chair, and a bear clock for his reading corner. I'm also going to be painting an outdoor scene above his bed in the vaulted part of the wall.


BABY'S ROOM:

Turning our office into a baby's room...

Of course, I'll put a picture of the baby instead of Mason up there - but I was just seeing what it would look like. I'm changing the color of the changing pad from blue to a cream color.

BASEMENT:

We moved our office downstairs so we could have another bedroom upstairs for the baby.

It was such a mess to go through!! I still have some more filing to do but this is what it looks like at this point...

We have also started building a bathroom downstairs which is making things really dusty. I can't wait for everything to be totally finished, hopefully before the baby comes! Ü