Happy Turkey Day

For Thanksgiving we stayed in New Mexico, but we were very excited to have Cory's older brother, Stevie, come to visit. I was even more excited when he said he wanted to do most of the cooking! It was just the three of us and little Jordyn but we had a good time and ate a lot!

Here are some things I am grateful for this Thanksgiving

My new little family

Gospel

Motherhood

The fact that I have all the necessities in life: food, shelter, etc.

Friends

Education

Loving Parents

Siblings that have become my best friends

My In-Laws

Health

Our family realizes how blessed we are and know that it comes from Heavenly Father. We know that if we continue to strive to live like him we will be blessed with the things that truly matter in this world. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Jordyn and Uncle Stevie...right before she spit up on him!

Our Thanksgiving Feast


Jordyn is one month old today! Happy Birthday Jordyn. We love you and are so grateful for your sweet spirit!

I can't go without mentioning that we go home in 20 days!!! I CAN'T WAIT:)

Cute Pictures of Jordyn

A lady in the ward came and took Jordyn's pictures. Before she came I thought I would try my hand at photography. I think I actually got some good shots. Jordyn will be a month old this coming week; I can't believe how fast time has gone. She truly brings us so much joy.

I wanted to get her better situated in this picture and take more but she peed right when I snapped this shot!

We are Thankful for Grandmas and Grandpas

Even though we don't live very close to our families, we have been very blessed to have both sets of Grandparents come and meet our new addition. Grandma Olsen came the day after Jordyn was born and spent a week with us. Grandpa Olsen joined us later in the week. We enjoyed their company; eating good home cooked meals by my sweet mom, playing games, and holding and kissing Jordyn. Grandma and Grandpa Judd also were able to come and spend a week with us. Jordyn loved staring up at Grandpa Judd and stayed pretty content in his lap. The weather has been nice enough that we were able to take Jordyn in her stroller and walk around Old Town. Jordyn loves her car seat and stroller and she loves to sleep in them!

We have enjoyed all the company and we can't wait to come home for Christmas in four weeks. It is going to be such a fun holiday season, spending tons of time with our families. Jordyn is excited to spend time with her grandparents, and meet her aunts and uncles. But most of all she is excited to meet all of her fun cousins!

So Big... So Fast

Why oh why does she have to grow so fast? She is almost three weeks old and she has grown so much. Her little cheeks are getting a little chubbier, but she still has major bird legs! Jordyn is such a good baby and hardly ever cries. When she does cry though she has a raspy little shriek that will break your heart. She has been smiling a lot when she falls asleep and we are happy to find that she definitely got mom and dad's dimple on the right side and we think there could be one on the left too! We love you sweet Jordyn.

Seriously mom?! Another picture of me sleeping!

These last two pictures are my favorite of her so far!

Friday Family Fun

When Cory got home from work on Friday we decided we wanted to watch a movie. So we blew up our air mattress, got in our comfy jammies, made some yummy apple crisp, put Jordyn in the middle of us, and enjoyed our new little family. This just might have to become a tradition of Friday Family Fun!

A cute picture of daddy and Jordyn!

Sweet Dreams Little One

I could watch Jordyn sleep for hours. She is so cute and always holds her hands up to her face. She loves to sleep on her side and has occasionally maneuvered her body all the way on to her tummy. What can we say she is quite advanced for being one week old! Cory picked out her pj's and they are so cute on her.

One of my favorite parts of the day is when her and I get to cuddle and take a nap together on the couch. The other day I woke up and our noses were touching. I absolutely love being her mom even though it has been more of an adjustment than I thought it would be, I wouldn't trade it for anything in this world. She truly is sent from heaven.

I could hold her and kiss her ALL day long! And sometimes that is exactly what I do.

Bath Time

Jordyn definitely does not take after her mommy in the fact that she HATES bath time. She just cries and cries. To make matters worse her bottom lip quivers constantly, which is enough to break my heart.

Jordyn's Exciting Entrance into this World

On October 24th 2008, Cory and I played around with the idea of driving to Arizona. You see my whole family was going there to see my nephew Kaleb get blessed. I really wanted to see my family but after talking about it on that Friday night we decided it probably wouldn't be a good idea.

Cory woke up bright eyed and ready to go at 7:00 AM. I was thinking "why in the world is he awake so early on the only day he gets to sleep in?" I rolled over and said "if we are already awake and have nothing to do then lets get in the car and head to Phoenix!" We got showered and ready and were in the car by 9:30 AM.

We didn't tell any of my family that we were coming so they were quite surprised when they walked into the house and we were sitting there. It was so nice to see them and spend the weekend with them. The blessing was awesome and it was nice to know that I would see my parents fairly soon to welcome our little girl.

Cory and I got into the car at about 3:00 on Sunday afternoon to make the seven hour trip home. Little did we know it would be the longest ride of our lives! We had been in the car for about five minutes when I felt like I had peed my pants. I turned to Cory and said "promise you won't be mad? I think my water just broke!" That is when we got stuck in traffic for an hour. In that hour we called our midwife and asked her what we should do. She was pretty ticked that we went in to first place. She said that I needed to get penicillin asap because of my GBS. She suggested that we stopped at the Flagstaff Hospital and either stay there and have the baby or ask if they would give us the first dose of antibiotics and send us on our way. We got to Flagstaff and I had not had one contraction. The doctor said that he strongly suggest that we stay there and have the baby. I was SO overwhelmed with the doctors and nurses in my face telling me what to do that I just broke down and started to cry. Cory turned to me and said "Gen, what is your motherly instinct telling you what to do?" I told Cory that I didn't feel like she was coming anytime soon and I thought that I could make it 4 1/2 more hours to Albuquerque. We quickly left the hospital and started to drive as fast as we could to the hospital.

We arrived at the hospital and 12:30 AM. I stood up to get out of the car and I felt a gush of water. I was soaked all the way down to my knees. We walked in and got checked in. Our midwife happened to be on duty that night; she walked in the room and said "My wayward travelers! What in the world were you thinking?" We were quite embarrassed to say the least. They started my IV and immediately followed with the penicillin. I still had not had one contraction.

The midwife decided to give me a pill that would hopefully start contractions. NO LUCK! At about 9:00 AM (Monday morning), they decided that with my water broken and my GBS that they needed to induce my labor. They started the pitocin.

My contractions started small but they kept coming into the room and upping the dose of pitocin. They started at a level 2 and told me that they could turn it up to a level 20! When I got to a level 12 I couldn't handle the pain anymore.

Cory was the sweetest thing I have seen. He did anything and everything for me and I kept falling more and more in love with him.

At 2:30 PM I asked for the epidural. I was so scared to get it but it really wasn't that bad. More awkward than painful. Thank heaven for epidurals; within 20 minutes I felt nothing. Cory and I started playing cards, watching TV, and sleeping. At this time I had only dilated to a 3.

Jordyn's heartbeat kept going all over the charts so they had to come and rotate my positions every so often to get it to go back up. Let me tell you it is really hard to move when you can't feel a THING. I felt so funny and Cory would have to come and help me lift my body.

I think that it was about 6:00 PM when I had dilated to a whopping 5. Things seemed to be taking FOREVER. At 8:00 PM I got to an 8. And things started to progress fairly quickly. At 11:00 PM I started to push and continued to push for an hour.

Jordyn made her entrance at 12:03 AM on October 28, 2008. It was an amazing feeling to watch my husband and I become overwhelmed with joy. And see that in that single moment our lives were changed forever. We are so grateful for Jordyn and her sweet spirit. She is a really good baby and we couldn't love her more.

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