Cabin Trip

So, we recently discovered that my Dad has a part ownership in a cabin in Lamb's Canyon (which is only about 30 or 45 minutes away). We were able to go up this last weekend and it was so awesome!

To get to the cabin you wind up the mountain and the cabin is almost at the very top. It has a gorgeous view.



We mostly just enjoyed being lazy and relaxing. We all had a great time...and we got some great pictures of Dominic

Baby's first trip

We decided to go visit some of our friends and go to Dinosaur park for a little family vacation. It was a nice first vacation for our little man...with a drive that he could handle.

We enjoyed relaxing with our friends, doing a little hiking and just getting out of town for a few days.

Dominic's blessing day

Today was the day that our son was given a name on the record of our church and a blessing. It was so beautiful! It was so special to see my son surrounded by men who love and support him.

Justin and Dominic both wore kilts to honor our Scottish heritage. Justin wore his kilt for our wedding reception so it was fun to keep up the tradition and they both looked so awesome!

I'm a terrible blogger....but here are some fun pics of the little man

Well, our little guy is growing so fast... as of last thursday he was 13 and a half pounds!!! He is starting to smile, laugh and coo. It is so fun.

I started back to work last week and I have mixed emotions about that. It is nice to get back to work but I feel tired all the time again (apparently that doesn't go away just because your baby sleeps through the night). I also miss my time with him...even though I know I am really blessed to still get so much time with him. I can't believe how much I love the little guy :)

HE'S HERE!!!

Here are a couple pics of our cute little one. He decided to arrive after a very short labor (at least at the hospital) and delivery.

Dominic Junius McEwan arrived at 3:05 am on Wednesday March 23rd. He surprised everyone by being big at 8 lbs 13 oz and measuring 22 inches long. I am really glad he didn't decide to stay in till his due date! Not sure I would have survived delivering him much bigger.

We brought him home yesterday and seem to be adjusting fairly well. I am a bit overwhelmed with the responsibility but simply love him!

Better late than never...

Well, I think I hoped that my last post would be the last one before our little guy arrived...but I guess not. I am now 37 + weeks and I don't see much of an end in sight.

I was just realizing I never posted any thing about my baby showers. My mom and sister were awesome and threw me a baby shower a few weeks ago and it was a LOT of fun! It was so fun to see so many people since I was feeling pretty lonely being on bedrest. We had some fun "minute to win it" games, lots of amazing food, and baby got some fun stuff :)

here is a pick of me looking VERY prego at 35 weeks at the shower:


The super cute cake:




and last but not least some awesome pics of guests at the shower playing our baby version of the minute to win it game "Face the cookie"








I also had a couple really sweet girls in my ward (Melinda, Wendy and Amy) throw me a baby shower for my ward. We at a LOT of chocolate including homemade chocolate fudge and chocolate dipped strawberries. It was very yummy!! It was great to see the sisters in my ward. They are all so amazing and I had missed seeing them at church the last few months.

Now a days I try to go for walks and go out shopping to try and get our little guy to come meet us...but so far he seems quite happy inside :( At least I know that the docs wont let me go past April 8th (but I am hoping to convince them that that is too long...we shall see)

I will try and post again soon

Pregnancy pains :(

Well, I guess that I can now update a bit about the last week or so. I was pretty frustrated on Sunday so I figured updating the blog was probably a bad idea. I would scare away my few readers ;)

On Friday afternoon I started to have more regular contractions so I went in to L&D. They said I was dilated to a 2 and 50% effaced and since I was 34 weeks they would just let me have him. Well, after talking to the OB I decided I wanted to have the steroid shots for babies lungs so they started those and gave me a drug to stop the labor. I guess I went back to being dilated to a 1....and there I have sat since.

We stayed at the hospital through Sunday evening to make sure I had the steroids in for 48 hours and to watch for any more signs of labor. I have continued to have contractions for 5-8 hours of the day since they started on Friday but they don't progress my labor. So, now I'm at home again...trying to sleep when I can and HOPING that the time goes by fast. I will admit that the logical part of me is gone and all I want is him out...but I'm trying to be good and follow doctors orders to give little man more time to grow. The good news is that I have barely over a month till my due date...so there is an end in sight. YEAH!

Well, I head in to see my doc in a few hours here and maybe I'll have more answers after talking to her. I'll update when I know more.