Pre-Thanksgiving

Since I married Cory and moved close to his family we have gotten to celebrate A LOT of holidays. Basically any excuse we can come up with to have great food and a party is always a reason to celebrate. We pick our favorite holidays (such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and the Fourth of July) and do two celebrations for each one.

So last night we had Pre-Thanksgiving and it was sooo worth it! We had all the same foods we do on Thanksgiving day and since Cory and I are going to Idaho for Thanksgiving this year it doesn't feel like we missed this holiday with his family.

The only downside to having Pre-Thanksgiving is that I immediately wanted to go home and put up the Christmas decorations. Since Cory has a strict "no Christmas decorations or Christmas music until after Thanksgiving" rule, I have to wait a couple more weeks. Oh well. I don't know anyone who would complain about getting two Thanksgiving dinners :)

Thankful

In light of Thanksgiving coming up I wanted to make a list of 10 things that I am most grateful for. I believe everyone's lives are full of countless blessings but it is up to us to realize the magnitude of how greatly we are all truly blessed.

1. I am so thankful for this little girl in my life. She has helped me to have a new perspective on life and I just love her! 

2.  I am thankful for a wonderful family who supports me and loves me unconditionally.

3.  I am thankful to live in a country where so many freedoms and opportunities exist.

4.  I am thankful for my awesome husband who is always there for me and who gives me someone to look to to become a better person.

5. I am thankful for Christ's perfect love for me and how it gives me an opportunity to improve everyday no matter how bad yesterday was. 

 6.  I am thankful for Christmas music, hot chocolate, and fuzzy socks.


7.  I am thankful for my in-laws. They are always so helpful and they have become more like my 'real' family and not just people I am acquainted with because of marriage. They are so fun to watch with Cailyn.

8.   I am thankful for an education.

9.  I am thankful for Cory's brownies and cheesy potato soup.

10. I am thankful for Thanksgiving because it gives me the opportunity to think of all the great blessings in my life.

One Month

I can't believe my baby is already one month old. Where did the time go? In many ways I feel like it has been the craziest yet best month of my life.

Since our family loves to celebrate and will use any excuse to get together and have a party, Cory and I decided to have a fun little dinner for Cailyn's one month birthday. We had "soup night." We made a bunch of different kinds of soups and finished it off with pear crisp. Although Cailyn slept through most of it, it was still fun to get together and celebrate our little girl.

I didn't get any pictures of the dinner so here are a few recent ones of Cailyn.

 First time going to church

 Enjoying some tummy time

 First time going to Cabella's 

 Such a funny baby 

Rockin the leg warmers

Nothin But Cute

The past few weeks have been pretty low key for me and Cailyn. We have just been hangin out getting to know each other and of course I have been taking lots of pictures :)

Baby's first bath

 Snugglin with dad

 Ready to go shopping

 Dad ready to burp the baby

 Look mom! I found a finger!

 Dad adoring his girl

Cailyn's fish face

We have been having so much fun with this cute little girl and it is always hard to put her down! I can't believe how fast she is getting bigger. She has already grown out of some of her newborn clothes! Which means in order to get her to wear all her clothes I need to change her outfit more often! Love you baby girl!

New Addition

I have greatly neglected this blog but since we have a cute little addition to write about, I am going to try and be better about blogging! Little Cailyn Marie Reschke made her entrance (and boy was it an entrance) on September 18th at 4:08 am.

Cailyn's original due date was October 2nd and Cory and I were actually taking our last trip as a couple without kids in Salt Lake.  For our "babymoon" we went out to a fancy dinner at Zy's restaurant and then went back to the hotel room and watched a movie. Later in the evening we went on a walk outside of our hotel to get some fresh air. Shortly after we returned to the room my water broke. I hadn't experienced any contractions so we weren't in a huge hurry to get to the hospital, but I still wanted to get going since we had to drive from Salt Lake all the way to Provo.

On the way to the hospital, I started getting contractions which made me nervous because we were at a dead stop on the freeway because of construction. So by the time we got to the hospital, my contractions were coming every 4 minutes. The nurses hooked me up to all of the monitors and they immediately started to worry because the baby's heart rate was extremely fast. So after trying 3 different monitors the doctor finally came in and looked at an ultrasound of the baby's heart. Cailyn's heart was going 270 beats per minute which is about twice what it should be at.

As soon as the doctor saw how fast her heart was going, everyone moved into action and I gave birth about 15 minutes later via c-section. Cory had time to call his parents at 3.47 and Cailyn was born at 4:08. As soon as she was born her heart rate went back to normal and she has been healthy and happy ever since! We are so lucky to have a healthy little girl and we are extremely grateful for the awesome hospital staff who did a great job.

It has been really fun to get to know this little baby and welcome her into our lives. We feel so blessed to have had such a good experience at the hospital when things could have gone in a completely different direction.

We love you Cailyn! So excited that you are here!

Here are some pictures from her first couple of weeks.

This is the only pregnancy picture that I allowed and it happen to be the day I had her. 

2 days old and looking adorable

On the way home from the hospital. She didn't quite know what to do with her hands :)

First time trying out the boppy and having fun looking around

Meeting Grandpa

Just chillin out with mom

BB & B Friends & Family Day

It's that time of the year again... let the holiday shopping begin. If you have any shopping to do at Bed Bath & Beyond this year we are having a friends and family day where anyone can come and get 30% off your ENTIRE PURCHASE. It will be Sat. November 7th at 7:00 am. If you are interested shoot me an e-mail so I can make arrangements to give you my discount. It should be tons of fun and there will even be breakfast!

What a Week

First I just wanna say... if you haven't gotten a flu vaccine yet DO IT! I have had the flu all week long and it has been miserable to say the least. I think I came down with H1N1 although I never when to the doctor to get diagnosed. I was stuck on the couch for 3 days straight and my poor husband starved. I missed work and internship hours.

So this is my public health plug for the month. Sick people please stay home so you don't get other people sick. People who haven't gotten vaccinated for the flu yet, you really need to do it. This year's flu is killer. And employers don't be mean to your employees when they call and tell you they have the flu. The End.