INTRODUCING SKYE MARIE

Skye Marie made her grand entrance into the world on Dec 22nd at 1:53 am! She weighed in at 8 lbs 5 oz and 22 inches long! I will probably post tomorrow letting everyone know how things went, right now my baby is hungry and this mama needs some sleep, besides we all know what you guys really want is the pictures ;) so here is our precious little angel, it is amazing how much we love her already!

Update

So for those of you who haven't heard the news, no baby yet! She is officially past her due date and her mommy and daddy are officially antsy as can be to meet her! I met with my doctor on Monday and because of my measurements and the fact that everything seems to be pretty right on for her due date she thought we should set a time to induce if she doesn't come on her own to avoid the risk of her getting too big and having to have a C-section.

So unless Skye gets her little tushy into gear, I will be going into the hospital Sunday night at 5 to start getting some meds to get me ready for labor and then Monday morning they will start the meds to induce labor. I will be at the hospital overnight sunday as well. I am still hoping and praying she comes on her own the next few days to avoid inducing, but either way our little girl will be here in a few days and we can't be any happier about that! Keep the prayers coming and I will try my best to keep everyone updated! Hopefully the next blog will be to announce the arrival of our little sweetie!

Waiting for Ms. Skye

Scott and I have been pretty antsy waiting for little Ms. Skye to make her grand entrance so we have been coming up with some fun activities such as dominoes...somehow we just can't seem to get her out of our mind though! We are very excited and can't wait to meet her! On her due date we were driving and there was the most beautiful pink sunset, we were hoping that was maybe a sign, but no such luck :( It was beautiful anyways though, so here are a few pictures!

Catching up!

I am quick taking some time to upload some pictures from the past month of the Brekke/Fischer baby shower, thanksgiving and Donna's birthday since I had them sitting around and I am thinking I will need to clean all the older photos off of my camera before a certain little girl gets here! So here they are :)

Donna's birthday cake at the "theatre"

Thanksgiving
All of Skye's loot from her baby shower
Adorable diaper cake Heather and Jen made

38 weeks!!

Just a quick update...yesterday Scott and I went in for my 38 week check-up as well as the concern that I had been having what felt like muenstral cramps all day. My doctor got pretty excited at that because I have also been having mild contractions that are quite sporadic, but starting to get them a lot more often. So she did a check and I am just dilated to one, but she thinks I am showing signs of early labor so hopefully our little girl will be here soon. She basically said the same thing she has been saying, I could see you back here later tonight or I could see you next week for your 39 week check-up. Either way- our baby girl will be here this month!!!! YAY!!!

We also did a tour of the labor and delivery unit at the hospital and I was so surprised. It is AWESOME! I told Scott it felt a little bit like a spa instead of a hospital, I guess I had watched too many baby stories with white walls and small cube rooms! These came with very cute decorating, couches that pull out in both the delivery and recovery rooms as well as cute furniture for other people who may be there. They also had flat screen tv's and huge bathtubs that look like I could swim a few laps! For those of you who will be planning to visit I must tell you their rules for visitors, no more than 4 people can visit at one time. This has been enforced strongly because of the h1n1 going around I guess. So if planning to visit just let us know and we will try and make sure that we can get some type of schedule worked out! 

37 weeks!

Hi everyone, well some word probably has gotten around and I know some of you have been waiting to hear the story...so this morning scott and I headed up to the Brekkes to pick up their trailer with a load of dirt to do some landscaping around our house before snow comes. We got a pretty good load, only about half the trailer and started back for home...we made it about 5 miles and all of a sudden the trailer started fish-tailing. Scott tried to slow down a little bit (we were only going about 50mph) and it got even worse, next thing we know the trailer had whipped us around and we were facing the opposite direction facing oncoming cars. We were very lucky there were no cars in the other lane or directly behind us when it happened or it could have been pretty bad.

Luckily Scott is very calm in those situations so he was able to hand it good and keep us from rolling the truck. On the unfortunate side it ended with the trailer Jack-Knifing and putting a pretty good dent right over the gas tank which Scott and my Dad had just done work on a few months ago. Hopefully it is drivable and we will just worry about the body work later.

God was protecting us and our little Skye! Just wanted to let everyone know we are ok though since I know it is easy to get bits and peices of a story. I also had my 37 week appointment this evening and she is perfect! Heart beat and size is great :) I also had some contractions yesterday...very sporadic but still a good sign I guess! Keep us in your prayers-love you all!

36 Weeks 2 days and counting!

I had my 36 week appointment on Tuesday and everything looked very good still, it seems we have a very healthy, active little girl and are so pleased everything is going so well. Of course I am beginning to get to that stage where it is hard to move around and I can't sleep, but luckily I have a very sweet husband that does all he can to try and keep me as comfortable as possible. 

Skye had a baby shower at our home this past Saturday with the Brekke and Fischer sides. It was so much fun...Donna, Heather and Jen put a ton of work into it and it turned out great! Thanks to everyone for all the great gifts and company! Now that all the excitement of baby showers is over, we are just counting down the days until she is here :) 

I will have pictures from the shower up later...for now I will just post pictures my friend Abbey took for  us!