3 weeks

Today my little Cohen Jamison (or as I sometimes call him, C.J.) is 3 weeks old. What you may or may not know about him is, he is incredibly easy going, loves to eat, then loves to fall asleep, then loves to do it all over again. Don't you just want to squeeze those little chubs on his arms?

His big sister on the other hand, has never been what I would call "easy going". Sometimes when shes acting up, C.J and I look at each other and I just know we are both thinking "here we go again"...k not really, but I swear thats what hes thinking as she is practically mauling him, or screaming at Jamison and I, or doing one of her crazy dance moves. But hey, she keeps life interesting and exciting and I don't know what I would do without my wild woman.

Attack of the gigantic pumpkins

Earlier this year my husband planted a garden. In it he put tomatoes, strawberries, and a variety of peppers. When he found out his Mom had an extra pumpkin plant, he decided to plant that also. As you can see in below pic, it has now overtaken our entire garden, and is beginning to take over the yard. Not only is this freaking plant incredibly large, but it is sprouting HUGE pumpkins as well (we are obviously pumpkin amateurs, being that we had no idea it would get this big). The below pumpkin I have named Jerry. Jerry is getting bigger by the day. I am hoping he will survive until October. Have no fear. As the summer months leave us and fall approaches, I will keep you posted on Jerrys progress. I am very interested in seeing how big Jerry gets......

I just want to see Harry Potter.

Yesterday was the 24th. Our festivities included: Chase wearing patriotic sunglasses and necklaces, and jumping on the tramp with her cousins Boston and Sawyer (they had their shirts off, so she had to take hers off also). Cohen slept and ate periodically through out the day. We attempted to watch fire works, but Chase is terrified of them, so we ended up watching Chicken Little. It was a good day. A very good day.

One question remains....when do I get to go see Harry Potter??? Hopefully today. Lets keeps our fingers crossed. ( I have a bit of anxiety about leaving the baby, even for a few hours).

The highs and lows

I am incredibly sore, my boobs hurt, my hormones are totally out of control, and its all 100% worth it. All I want to do all day is kiss and smell Cohen's chubby little cheeks. I love watching Chase interact with him. I love that she trys to imitate Jamison and I with the things she says to him. If I let her, I think she would hold him all day long. It has taken some getting used to...this whole having 2 kids thing. A bit overwhelming at times (to say the least).

The hardest part will be tonight. Why? Because Jamison is spending the night at the hospital. Did I mention he is getting his appendix removed? He was up all last night in excruciating pain so off to the ER he went this morning. Turns out he won't be back until tomorrow. Nice timing huh? It will be very interesting without him here. I still haven't quite gotten down the whole handling 2 screaming kids thing. I am just praying everything goes well with Jamison's surgery and I will have my husband back soon.

So, heres to hoping Jamison's surgery goes well, and that I don't have a nervous breakdown tonight:)
(Also,I must say thanks a million to all the people who have brought flowers/food! I am convinced you all have some secret plan to keep me pleasantly plump with all the delish food you have been bringing.)

Introducing

Cohen Jamison Darby.

Making his grand entrance at exactly 1:00am on July 10th.
And it must be said he is the spitting image of his handsome Dad, red hair and all.

Chase loving on Cohen. She ADORES him.

(many more pictures to come)

Update.

I am still very pregnant and ready to have a heat stroke. Yes, my due date is the 17th. No, I refuse to believe I will be pregnant until the 17th. Its all about thinking positive. Hes going to be here any day now. I can just feel it. Every morning I wake up and think "this is the day", and then it turns out it isn't. But thats O.K, because tomorrow is the day. It just has to be. Right?

Chase feeding ducks and pregnant belly protruding.

We did a family picnic this evening. Lots of fun, but the heat about killed me.

What else am I going to do at 3am?

As usual, last night I got very little sleep, so around 3 am I grabbed Jamisons ipod and started checking out some of my favorite sights/blogs online. I found some great things I must say, and I just felt like sharing a few of them. What can ya do?

Now, I usually wouldn't post someone elses wedding pics on my blog, especially someone I don't know, but when I saw these I couldn't resist. I LOVE them. I love her dress, I love the pictures, everything!!

(I came across them via this blog. You should check out all of them. Maybe one of my favorite weddings I have seen.)

Also, I have been debating getting one of these headbands. What do you think?

(found via this esty shop, and this etsy shop)

I can't decide....

Lets just not go home.

Over Fathers Day we headed up to my parents cabin. Oh the joy and relaxation. We would have stayed longer if not for my doctors appt, and the fear I had of giving birth in the Evanston Wyoming hospital (that is the closest one to the cabin). We swam, we watched movies, we ate lots of good food, rode the 4 wheelers, and the list goes on. I thought I could handle a ride (who cares if I'm 8 1/2 months preg?), then decided it wasn't the best idea after feeling like the baby was going to fall out. Although I couldn't ride the 4-wheelers, my uncle brought up his polaris ranger, which, even over the bumpy terrain of the trails, was actually smoother than riding in a car ( I could be one of their salesman).

Chase had a blast with her cousins.

I was very sad when my camras battery died after only the first day, but I did manage to get a few good pictures.

There is the prettiest little pond/lake right behind the cabin with fish galore, but unfortunatly we missed out on the fishing part of the trip.

What I am trying to say is, it was just nice to relax and enjoy the great outdoors, but enjoy the perks of the pool, and big screen tv at the same time.

Sometimes its hard getting back to reality.

riding and swimming.

Throwing rocks in the river

Hitching a ride on Dad

Riding with Dad. I loved how the helmet squished her cheeks togethor. The best is when she would try to smile.


Home and exhausted after a fun filled weekend.

Alice in Wonderland

The plan this afternoon was to blog about our fun filled trip to the cabin this past week, and then describe to you the lameness that was having to come home early from the cabin so I could go spend my morning at LDS hospital today, while my doctor attempted to turn the baby, while it was still in my stomach, with her bare hands, while saying "wow, I am getting a workout". I am sure you can imagine how painful it was. I don't think I need to give any details. All I know is after going through that, that little man better stay put.

Right now there are more important things for me to post about....like the fact that I just read they have finished filming Alice in Wonderland. I love Johnny Depp. I can't wait until March 2010 to go see what I am sure is going to be a marvelous movie.

I should be packing, but instead I am blogging and craving oreos.

Tomorrow we are leaving for the family cabin. I have so much to do, and no motivation to do it...which means tomorrow morning I will be scrambling to get everything ready. Oh well. Thats just me. Thats how I roll. Always putting stuff off until the last minute. Our plan was to stay at the cabin until at least Tuesday, but turns out little boy darby is breech, and he refuses to turn (I swear its because he can hear everyone talking about it, and hes thinking "I'll show them, those fools think I will turn, um no.") So, my doc wants me back in the office Monday....and if baby boy still hasn't turned then I get to go to the hospital Wed., while my doc gets to do a fun little procedure where she trys to force him to turn. Please don't tell me how unpleasent this procedure is...I have already heard it about 100 times today. Trust me when I say I am praying he turns on his own.

Anywho....today was the good ol biweekly play group. We went to Wheeler Farm (which is apparently now just called "the farm" but I refuse to call it that). Chase made good friends with the goat and repeatedly told it "it ok goat, its ok". Guess the goat was sad.

Chase climbing fence to pet incredibly creepy horse.

Now its 10:44pm, and I am totally serious when I say I am going to finish the laundry and eat some Oreos with milk.

NAMES!

So, Jamison and I have had a heck of a time coming up with a name for this baby! We will think of something we love, then after a few days one of us will change our minds....so, against my better judgement (I swore I wouldn't do this), I decided to post some of the names we are thinking about. I think we need some outside input.

These are the names we both like so far:
Carter
Coen
Costen /Koston (not sure how we would spell it)
Ryder
kaleb
Isaac
Owen

Don't cry.

This morning I got a little emotional. As you will recall, it has been happening a lot this pregnancy. Anyways, Chase got really worried when she saw the tears (which were a result of a show I was watching) , and kept saying "don't cry mommy, be happy." Hearing her say that in her cute little voice made me insanely happy. What would I do without that girl?

Lets take a trip down memory lane

shall we?

Are you aware that Jamison and I have known each other for 7 years? Are you also aware that June 17th is our 4 year anniversary? My how time flys.
I still remember the first time I met Jamison. Our mutual friend Scott had just returned from a mission, and my friend Chelsea and I were going to go to Scotts home to say hello, and welcome him back. Chelsea ended up not being able to go, and I didn't want to go alone, but for some reason I did anyway. And there was Jamison. I remember telling him he looked familiar, and I remember we had some discussion about how we were at the Shilo in togethor when Scott left and Jamison was doing backflips and free style walking. I should have remembered him from that time, but I did not.

(It also has to be mentioned that at that time I had very short Platinum blonde/silverish hair
and looking back at pics I looked kindof scary and maybe like a lesbian, and I am surprised that Jamison even gave me the time of day).

Anyways, to make a long story short, the more I hung out with Jamison the more I realized I couldn't get enough. I wanted to hang out with him all the time forever and ever....and look at us now. Ahh cute.

Here are a few of the pics from our past.

This was around the time we started dating (I think)


This was at a wedding (about 6 yrs ago). Look how young Jamison looks!

Believe it our not, this is Jamison and I dressed up for his oldest brothers wedding (about 5 years ago). He got married on Halloween. It was an interesting wedding, and it turns out it wasn't actually a legal union, but it was fun to dress up as a butterfly, and for Jamison to dress up as an ape mechanic. This is a horrible pic of me, but my makeup was awesome (thanks to Chelsea).

This is us on our honeymoon

This is us on our 1 year anniversay. I was about 4 weeks knocked up. We got to business pretty quickly in the baby making department.

Then we had this munchkin.

Then I was scared when Jamison started growing a handle bar mustache, then I got over it. Then he shaved it

Then, before I knew it 4 yrs had come and gone (well almost), and here we are with a crazy 2 yr old, and a Jamison junior on the way. insane!

Heres to 4 years and many more to come!

Its time

for flowers to bloom, for swimming, for spending all day outside, and for me to have this baby. I can only describe how I feel in one way...claustrophobic. I just want this child out of me. I went to my doc today and asked her if I was huge. She said, "no, you are totally normal for how far along you are." I didn't want to hear that. I wanted to hear that somehow there was a mistake and I was actually due today, right then. How can my stomach stretch any more? How can I do this for 4 more weeks? How? I now understand the appeal of having a child in the middle of winter (when ms. chase was born), you don't have to deal with the heat. Sorry for the complaining, today has been incredibly uncomfortable. I am very excited for junior to make his grand entrance, lets just pray it is sooner rather than later.

Why, you may be wondering, are there pictures of a little witch when it is the beginning of summer? Well, one of Chase's newest favorite activities is dressing up in her halloween costume from last year and watching The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. She can only watch it with her costume on. Its awesome. She takes after her parents. Our favorite holiday is Halloween.