Here is a quick slide show of our new little Baby Girl! Her name is
Elle Michelle Fackrell. She was born on Monday, September 22nd at 11:00 p.m
and weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz. and was 20 inches long. She is the cutest little girl with dark brown hair, blue eyes, cute chubby cheeks and a double chin! She is beautiful and perfect! We are so blessed to have a new little girl join our family! More details and pics to follow soon! Today is our 1st day home!
So Ashley and Brett got married and throughout all of the wedding festivities, no baby! Riley and Sunny looked so cute and big in their new wedding clothes! It was awesome to watch Ashley and Brett get sealed to each other, and then get all of the traditional pictures around the temple. Regan was the crepe chef that day. He made 400+ crepes! I was really proud of him because I don't know too many husbands that would stand at a crepe bar and make all of those crepes for a wedding! He was so talkative and fun at the crepe bar as well!
I had some contractions throughout the day, but since the baby didn't come, I had to do something to freak everyone out who was worried about me! As Ashley and Brett were driving off in the moonlight to their honeymoon, Regan poured a cup of water behind me and I screamed, "My water Broke, AHHHH!" It was so fun to see people's reactions! My dad and brother were totally worried, until they saw that the water that was on the cement had ice all around it!
Give me a break!! I went to the Doctor this morning at 9 am in high hopes of being even close to delivering this baby, but NO! The doctor informed me that I am still dialated to a 2 and have not progressed since last week! How is that even possible since I was doing a ton of stuff for the wedding last weekend? This baby just has it's own time table I guess! He said that if I am still prego next week for our next appointment, than we are scheduling an induction on Monday, September 29th which is still forever away in a pregnant ladies mind!
I went to the health store today to get me some blue cohosh (my research has shown that if you take this 4 times a day in capsule form that it will open up the cervix and you will have the baby in 3 days!) but it just was not meant to be because they had just barely run out! Apparently, there are a lot of prego women in September wanting to get their hands on this wierd herb!
I have been having a TON of contractions; it's just that none of them are consistant or regular! Maybe I should name the baby boy Braxton since I am having so many Braxton Hicks Contractions!
This weekend I am going for the next thing-Spicy food! I really want Regan to take me to a Thai place and get some really spicy curry!
Anyway, just wanted to give you the update on this baby of mine that will not come out! I am ready more than I have ever been! I am uncomfortable, I have heartburn, I am so huge, and more than anything, I am just getting antsy for this new little arrival to join our family!
Wish us luck! We are going to the BYU game this weekend-maybe my water will break at the stadium!!!!
So Regan and I have been having a hard time deciding on baby names now that we are down to the wire! We love the name Ellie (Elle) for a girl so that is a for sure name for a girl! For a boy, the options are Ryker, Tage, Crew but I want some more options! If anyone has some cute boy name ideas, please leave a comment on this post so that I can start thinking of what this little boy's name will be! Also, vote on the existing names on the side as well!
Thanks for your help!
Yesterday I went to my doctors appointment and these are the results:
Dialated to a 2
75% Effaced
Dr. Smith said, "You could have this baby tonight or in 2 weeks-there is just no way of knowing when it could happen!"
Well, that is wonderful...I could be at the Salt Lake Temple watching Ashley and Brett getting married and my water breaks!!
Wish me luck!!!
This is exactly what I needed as a 9 month prego lady! I cannot even reach my feet these days, let alone paint them and make them look pretty, so this was pretty deluxe!
All of the girls went to get pedicures together and let me tell you...it was so relaxing and just what the doctor ordered in my opinion! It was so much fun to be with my sisters and my awesome mom!
Afterwards, we went to Citris Grill for dinner which was the same place we went to after an all day wedding dress shopping day! I am so lucky that I have 3 sisters and a great mom to be able to do fun things with and to have girls in my life that I know will help me whenever I am in need!
I made this cute B monogram for the happy couple for one of Ashley's showers! I think this is my new favorite craft and I want to start making more! It is fun to add embelishments after all of the paper is glued on, but it is a little difficult to cut out the paper exactly the shape of the letter. I will need to work on one for Riley and Sunny's room since I already have an F in my scrapbook room (which has not been used at all lately!)
5 more days until Ashley and Brett's wedding!!! All of the girls got pedicures and went out to a fabulous dinner last night at Citris Grill and it was so delightful! I haven't been that relaxed in a long time! I only have 1 dilema now...my lime green dress looks hideous on my prego body so I am on a search to find a cute white shrug or cardigan to put over the dress so that I don't look even larger than I already am! I will keep you posted on the wedding festivities! I absolutly LOVE weddings! Especially when they are in the family!
Today is your last day to vote on our boy or girl poll. I want everyone to vote so we have some idea if people think we will have a boy or a girl! Let's see who was right!!!
Does anyone have any advise of going into labor? I would love to go into labor right after Ashley and Brett ride away from the reception! How awesome would that be to go straight to the hospital after the wedding? Leave the advise on the comments if you think anything will work! I am ready right now to have this little one!
The week before Labor Day, we took our little family on a little adventure. We took the kids on Trax and rode to Salt Lake City for the Rib Festival downtown. The festival wasn't that great, but being downtown with the kids was a lot of fun. Riley loved going through the waterfall at the Gallivan Center, then we went to The Gateway and had the kids run through the shooting water!
We had dinner and my favorite treat at the Gateway: Apple Pie Apple at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (carmel covered green apple, then covered in white chocolate with cinnamon sugar on the outside!!) The kids thought riding on Trax was fun because it was like being on Thomas the Train they said. Riley fell asleep on the way home!
At today's doctor's visit, I had some good news! I am 36 week and have dialated to a 1 and am 70% Effaced and the head is down! This is great news for me because about this time with Riley was when he was breech, so I had to have a c-section. Since I am dialating and effaced, that is good news for the v-bac (vaginal birth after cecarean). Anyway, the only not good part of all of this is that Ashley, my sister is getting married next Saturday! WOW-that would not be good to have the baby close or on the wedding day! Anyway, my doctor told me to register at Alta View where I will be delivering now so that I am all ready to go if anything does happen!
So last night Regan and I took the kids to the park and as I was pushing them on the swings, one of Riley's friends came up to him and said in these exact words, "Riley, why is your mom so fat?" Riley looked at his friend and just shrugged his shoulders. Okay, even Sunny, whom is 2 years old knows that there is indeed a baby in my belly and she will rub it and give it kisses and talk to our baby, which is in my belly! How could my 4 year old not defend me and say, "My mamma isn't fat, she has a baby in there!!!" But NO--this goes back to the sensitivity issue I think. If Sunny were more aware of the situation last night, I know she would have defended me, but instead, I couldn't let this friend think that I was fat, so I stood up for myself and said, "Riley's mom isn't fat, I just have a baby in my tummy!"
Well, let's just say that I had a rude awakening about the difference between girls and boys yesterday. I taught a violin lesson in the morning, and as said goodbye to the student and shut the door, I ran to the sink and started throwing up a TON! Riley and Sunny saw what was going on, and these are their reactions:
Sunny: My sweet little princess ran to my leg and held on to it saying, "mommy okay? Mommy throwing up? Mommy okay?"
Riley: Riley was in the other room watching me throwing up while shouting to me, "Mom, I want to play with a friend-just call Luke mom!!"
Okay, if that doesn't show the difference between a sensitive little 2 year olf girl and a 4 year old boy who could care less that his 9 month pregnant mother was in some pain and trouble, I don't know what else could!
It's like my mom said yesterday as I was retelling her this story. She said, "Well, just be grateful you have a girl so that you will always have a sensitive one."
Do you ever wonder what is going through your kids minds? I ended up making an Indian Hat and painting their faces because they wanted to run around the house pretending they were indians the other day! Riley and Sunny are the best of friends and the worst of enemies all at the same time! One minute they are giving each other kisses and hugs and saying how much they love each other while they are reading books together, the next minute Riley is in Sunny's face teasing her while she is trying to hit him! I had to capture this moment the other day while they were working together to get the cherry tomatoes off of the vines in our backyard together! I hope that the new baby will be a good addition to the sibling love!
WOW-can I just tell you how proud I am of my Iron Man of a husband? Last weekend, Regan was in the Half Iron Man competition in Provo. The Swim was 1.2 Miles, the Bike was 56 Miles, and the Run was 13 miles! He was SO tired by the end of the race! He and his friend Jared really just wanted to finish the race, but both of them ended up doing very well and Regan placed 8th in his age division! He is in the best shape of his life right now! You go Regan!
Our friend had his birthday party in style a few weeks ago! I am just sad that I wasn't able to participate in the fun because of being so large! Colby and Amanda Wells are our really good friends and they definently are very adventurous! They set up a 250 foot slip and slide at a park that had a very steep hill. They covered it with dish soap and had a water hose connected to it. I could not stop laughing as all of my friends were going SO fast down this slide! At the end, they couldn't even open their eyes because they were covered in dish soap!
Fun times...maybe I will do it next summer!!!
I am happy to say that we are back in the game of having a computer! We had to buy a new computer and a desk to go with it, but we are back in action! It was a long 2 1/2weeks without having a computer: no blogging, no email! WOW-it actually does dramatically affect your life, for good and for bad. I got a lot of stuff done that I probably wouldn't have, like sorting through our basement-1 large DI pile and 1 large throw away pile and 1 large pile of bins for Regan to make shelves in our garage for!
I realized though that I was out of touch with a lot of friends and family, so when Regan connected the internet to our new computer, I have to admit that I did some blog searching. Yes, I went through my blog contacts and saw what was going on with all of them! I love blogs for the fact that you can see what is going on with your friends and family without having to have an hour conversation with them each! It would probably be good if I were to do that, but with not a lot of time, this is a great choice!
I realized something though...people that don't blog forget that there is such a thing and don't check on your blog occasionally to see what is going on with the family. It was interesting to me that Regan's dad called the other day and wanted to know what was going on with our lives and Regan asked if he ever checks our blog and he said rarely. Regan then went forth to tell him everything that I had blogged basically. It is a great invention, the blog! It is a way for people to check on you without having to do much! I love it and I am really interested in beginning a hard bound book of my blog so I can keep all of the posts and entries, just like a journal!
Anyway, just wanted to let you know that we are back and ready to blog again!
Maybe this will keep my thoughts away from having the baby! I am so anxious it's just not even funny anymore! I want to deliver this baby tonight if I could, but I have 6 more weeks!!! Plus, my mom said that I couldn't have the baby until after Ashley's wedding! I'll keep you posted!
ps-because our old computer crashed, all of my pictures are gone as well! Does anyone have a suggestion if how to get them back? Go to Best Buy to the Geek Squad or what? We figured that the computer crashed because it was in the laundrey room and lint and dust were getting inside of it and it was overheating in that small room! Darn, not I guess I will just have to use the extra desk space for my scrapbooking!
It was bound to happen, but it sure was a sad day when it did happen! Our computer crashed and so we are now left with now way of communicating through email and blogging! At first it was really hard to not have the computer, but I am getting more and more used to it, but it still is hard! I am at my parents house on a computer and I feel like I have no idea what is going on with my friends since I haven't blogged forever!
Anyway, just so you know, here is a mini update on our family!
-Regan is doing his 1/2 Iron Man this Saturday!!!!!
-Andrea is WAY TOO anxious to have this baby! I want to have it immidiatly instead of waiting, but the little one still needs to cook a little bit more!
-Riley is learning to write his name and is getting so excited for preschool!
-Sunny is still running our household with her cute girly attitude!
-Andrea is helping her sister Ashley with wedding stuff while the parents are in Argentina for a violin tour with my sisters.
Anyway, hopefully we are back in the world of the internet/computers soon, but until then....
This past weekend, we took the family on a very quick trip to Burley, Idaho for the SpudMan Triathlon! We got to the triathlon at 6 in the morning and me and the kids camped out as we waited for him to start and finish his race! Luckily, there was a little park where Riley played with lots of kids and Sunny and I sat on our chairs and read books.
Regan told me that he was predicting that his time would be a little under 3 hours so I was thinking to go to the finish line before then. Next thing you know, I hear Regan's name on the loud speaker, so I run with the kids over to see him which was obviouslly too late! I felt so bad that I missed him at the finish line! His time was great though! If he predicted to do a 3 hour olympic triathlon and got 2 hours and 22 minutes, that is GREAT!
One thing that wasn't so great is that a 60 year old man died in the swim at the SpudMan and I was right there when the scuba divers found him and they performed CPR on him! I was just waiting for Regan to finish when they brought him out of the boat onto the marina that I was by and I got so emotional! The swim in a traithlon is pretty scary since you are not wearing a life jacket. Anyway, I was very grateful and relieved when I saw Regan and gave him a hug after he finished his triathlon!
HERE ARE REGAN'S TIMES:
Place Number Name Home Town Class Swim min/100yd T1 Bike mph T2 Run min/mi Total Time Back Penalities
2042 Regan FACKRELL HERRIMAN UT USA
03 M 25 - 29 00:17:13.500 00:01:08.9 00:02:53.200 01:06:55.800 22.4 00:01:40.100 00:53:41.800 00:08:39.6 02:22:24.4 +00:00:00.000
TOTAL: 2:22
We have had a FUN SUMMER so far! We went to Thanksgiving Point (Noah's Ark) with Regan's mom one day and the kids couldn't get enough of the water shooting out of the animals. Sunny was being so funny with her chocolate milk and lid in her mouth, and then Nana bought them a HUGE ice cream cone which they couldn't lick fast enough!
We also went to the Draper Parade and Draper Days, my home roots! It is so much fun to show the kids where there mom grew up and what I used to do growing up! We played so many games at Draper Days and the highlight was getting faces painted. I couldn't believe how still Riley and Sunny sat for the lady to paint their faces!
I still can't believe I did this, but my fun in the sun was a celebration of the summer birthday girls so we decided to go to Seven Peaks Water Park in Provo. Okay, the picture of all of my friends at the water park is slightly embarrasing since they are all so beautiful and skinny, and there is me...large and in charge! I was able to go on a lot of tube rides, the lazy river and the wave pool and it felt so good since I have been DYING of heat lately! What do you expect for being almost 8 months prego?
Anyway, I am trying to do as many fun things with the kids as I have energy for because I know that things will definently slow down once this baby comes! It is hard to do stuff outside with the kids since it is so hot, but I am trying to be that good mom that is fun and exciting! I have found that cleaning my house has been a very hard task! Bending over a lot has made me feel a lot of pressure in my lower area and I sometimes feel like the baby will just fall out! I need to keep this little one inside for 9 more weeks and then it can come out, but until then, I just hope our house will look okay!
Last Saturday, Regan and his 2 friends competed in something called the Tour de Donut! WOW-it was quite the site for me to see Regan enter an eating contest, which is great at, and a biking contest, which he is also great at!
Well, needless to say, Regan won the whole competition! The way the race works is that you ride 7 miles, come to a donut pit stop to eat as many donuts as you can (each donuts take 3 minutes off of your biking time), bike 7 more miles, come to another donut pit stop, eat as many as you can again, and then bike another 7 miles. All together, you ride 21 miles.
Regan ate 18 donuts the first go around, then 7 more the second time. This makes a total of 25 donuts!!!!! SICK!!!!! His ending time was -4 minutes because of the amount of donuts he ate. He was smashing 3 donuts together, drinking a ton of water and just trying to pound all of those donuts down! People were filming and taking pictures of him like he was mickey mouse at disneyworld! Quite the celebrity! And then people would say, 'are you his wife?" and I would say yes very quietly!
WOW-Regan got a huge trophy for his efforts as well as a dozen krispy kreme donuts which he didn't even want to look at after the race! Needless to say, he did throw up after the race and I think some guys that were filming a documentary on the race got it all on video. When the video shows up on youtube.com, I will let everyone know!
This is right down Regan's alley-eating and biking! Gotta love it baby!
So far, our Summer Temple Trips have included:
-Mount Timpanogas
-St. George
-Jordan River
Yesterday we took all of the kids to the temple to get another picture! They had a fun time playing on the grass and looking at the beautiful temple. After the pictures, we took them to the splash pad and ate lunch. This is a cool tradition and hopefully we can continue to get a picture of the kids in front of all of the temples in Utah this year!
