JRox is Here

Roxanne Elizabeth arrived last night.  She weighed 7 lbs 11 oz and was 20 inches long.  It was a long process, but we are so glad she is here.  I ended up being induced due to signs of preeclampsia and we are glad she is a week early because she was bigger than expected.  She had a hard time fitting through my small pelvis.  Dr. said if she was any larger it would have been a C-section. We spent 34 hours in the hospital (monitoring, cervadil, pitocin; taking forever to dilate from 2-10) before pushing over 2 hours to get her here. Jon was amazing considering that he gets queasy seeing an ultrasound of a beating heart.  He stayed by my side through the whole thing, he got to announce the gender and cut the umbilical cord.  He is totally in love with his little girl.  They enjoyed an evening in a rocking chair watching ESPN Sports Center last night, discussing and teaching her what teams they liked.

 

JRox

Baby Poyer is due January 4th, 2011.  We didn't find out the gender, so in the meantime we call our baby JRox.  If it is a boy we'll name him Jacob and if it is a girl we will name her Roxanne, hence the nickname JRox.
     I know it is kind of late to be posting, (I seriously considered waiting until the baby was here).  However when I was job searching I purposely kept it off of all social media sites.  I have long stopped searching for a job and Jon has accepted an offer with Gallop in Omaha.  I really have no excuses left and I am soon to be very busy with our little one.  I have had a dream pregnancy, hardly ever sick and feeling great.  We are incredibly excited and can't wait for our baby to come.

Mr. Clean

Jon was a big hit at the ward Halloween party.  I was Mrs. Clean, which gave me license to wear whatever because she does not exist.  Still working on a picture of us together, I don't know how to crop on blog.  So look for an update when I do.

This has been my project for the last two months.  It is finally done and I love it!  I am so happy with the results, I have wanted to paint this dresser since I got it 4 years ago.  So glad it is done.

Jessie's Wedding

My long time friend, Jessie, got married at the beginning of September.  I am so glad that I am living in Utah so that I could attend her bridal shower and wedding.  Jessie and I go way back, we met in Kindergarten, and she is one of those friends that I can always pick up where we left off last time we saw each other.  There were not many LDS kids in my home town, so I was lucky to have another girl my age. She made a gorgeous bride and Collin is a lucky guy.

All the LDS kids in Ponca spent alot of time together from early morning seminary, Wednesday mutual activities, weekend service, Sunday school, Young Womens, at least monthly drives to Stillwater for activities and dances, girls camp, long road trips to Dallas, OKC, Navuoo, not to mention we all went to the same school.  Jon laughs when I remember one of their birthdays or recount stories about them, because we knew each other so well whether we wanted to or not.  Now that I am the 12-18 y/o Sunday School teacher in my ward I see so many similarities.  They are very different kids, but they still take care of each other and "disagree" like we did.

Welcome Back

Sorry for the long hiatus, due to a hotmail spam attack we were not able to sign in to our blog--or so we thought.  But thanks to the nice blogger headquarters we are back on track.  Sorry for all those that received numerous spam email from Jon about Canadian Prescriptions.

Couple of quick highlights in the past 4 months.
Our summer closed with a number of road trips.  We went to Panguitch for a family reunion and celebrated the 24th of July by running a 5k with my family.  We went on to Arizona and had a relaxing few days down there working on business contacts and catching up with old friends.

Our next trip was to Omaha for our niece, Danielle's, Baptism.  From there we went with Jon's parents to Minnesota to visit some great friends the Lindquists.  We enjoyed being right on the lake so we could swim and fish all day.

We had some spare time so we went up to the Tetons and Yellowstone.  We spent most of our time camping in Grand Tetons National Park and then spent a day as we drove through Yellowstone on our way home.

We went on our annual Labor Day Trip to Lake Tahoe.  We went with our friends Joe and Lori and sweet baby Grace.  It was blast and we really enjoyed spending time with Uncle Mike and Aunt Karen.

Then school started and we had to stay home.  Jon has been super busy with classes, business competitions, work projects(I like those cause he gets paid), elders quorum president, and being a great husband.  I on the other hand have had a major slow down as funding for my project got cut, along with my job.  Working for the government isn't all that secure.  Oh well, we are scraping by and I am getting a lot of those "some day" projects done. 

We were able to squeeze in a trip to Omaha last week because Jon had some time off.  We spent time with his parents and enjoyed being spoiled, there is never ending supply of cookies at their house. We enjoyed hanging out with my sister's family, Jon loves being an uncle.

Hopefully we stay in the blogging world, now that we know how to login again.