Happy Birthday Nate!

We had so much fun this weekend celebrating Nate's birthday! We missed Jaxson every second, but it was a great get-away. We hung out on sunday with Nate's brother Cory and they sang to him, that was very thoughtful! Troy and Sherrie and TJ were there as well. Then we got to spend the night in the Trump Hotel! It's a 5 star hotel, and there were no slot machines in the hotel at all, that's the part we loved the most! We probably should have done this trip on our anniversary...it was just very special. Happy Birthday Nate! I love you so much!

Suprise

SUPRISE FOR YOU! (If you are the fastest!)

My friend, Melissa, posted this to her blog. So here is the catch and here is your chance to be surprised too! What a fun and great way to do something for someone else.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw, paint or sew something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who enter on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they posted this wins a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! I love the thought of making something just for you. I love this idea!
* Now if you don't have a blog, that's ok you can still sign up and pick 5 people on your own- surprise them!

Baby Tag

It's amazing how different everyone's experience is... so I tag everyone who wants to share their experience.


THE QUESTIONS:
1- Where were you when you first found out you were pregnant? Apt in Provo
2- Who was with you? Myself
3- How did you find out that you were pregnant? Weird body changes, because we weren't trying I wasn't expecting it, then I suspected and finally took a pregnancy test, and it was negative, then did three days later and It was positive.
4- What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? shockers
5- Who was the first person you told? Nate, I had to wait three days to tell him because I suprised him on Valentines day
6-Did you plan to get pregnant? no
7- Did you tell everyone else right away? a few weeks later
9- Did you go out and celebrate? yes, dinner, yum
10- Did you want to find out the sex? yes
11- What was the sex? BOY
12-Did anyone throw you a baby shower? yep, Nate's sisters did, and my mom
13- If yes, who?
14- Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew you weren't going to put on your baby? Yes, hideous knit booties that were so girly, but blue.
15- How much weight did you gain? 25
16- Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? I lost 20, then gained 15 over the course of a year
17- Did you get a lot of stretch marks? yes, the last week of the pregnancy, crappy
18- What did you crave the most? ice cream, strawberries grapes, candy, orange soda, pickles
19- Did you crave anything crazy? everyone makes fun of me when I was eating pickles and strawberries at the same time.
20- Who or what got on your nerves the most? money
21- Were you married at the time? Yes
22- Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? just sick for 4 months
23- Where were you when you went into labor? at BYU waiting for Nate to get done with his homework, but it really was all day before that too.
24- Did your water break? Kinda, it's the weirdest thing, Jaxson pooped in the amniotic fluid and when I walked up the stairs home, I thought my water broke, and it was green, but not a ton of fluid, and contractions got SO painful after that, then when I got to the doctor they said it hadn't broke, just leaked.
25- Who drove you to the hospital? Nate
26- Did you go early or late? We were pretty late getting there, I was dialated to an 8 when I got there, and peed my pants ha.
27- Who was in the room with you when you gave birth? Just Nate
28- How long were you in labor for? 2 hours
29- Did you have any drugs for the pain? nope and boy I wished there was time for an epidural, the labor hurt like crazy, especially afterward when the doctor had to scoop out the never ending blood...ouch!
30-Did you go Natural or have a c-section? natural
31- What was your first reaction after giving birth? dazed
32- Did your Husband cry? A little, almost passed out from all the blood (but there was not normal amounts of it, so give him a little credit)
34- What did you name the baby(s)? Jaxson Kenson Holt
35- Does his/her name have any significant meaning? Yes, Kenson means humility in japanese because he was born under humble circumstances, and Jaxson is just a continuation of grandpa jack, aunt Jacquelyn, mom Jacquelyn, and Dad's middle name Jack.
36- Did you have any visitors? Yes, thanks mom for coming up in the middle of the night from St. george to Orem, and in laws, grandma, and even busy twin Amy!
37- Did the baby(s) have any complications? Yes, he was under stress, and swalled the mechonium and ended up getting pneumonia. He was a trooper though, after one week he was able to breastfeed, and after two weeks he came home, and was on oxygen for three months.
38- How old is your baby today? 17 months almost
39- When is the next one(s) coming? there is a next one? jk. probably when jaxson is 3 or 3 1/2
40-If you could, would you do it all over again? in a heartbeat, especially knowing now how fabulous Jaxson is in our life right now, what a character and sweetheart.

8 things

I've been tizagged so many times before and I never ever do any of them. Well I decided since I'm bored in my stress management class, that I would do one of them...

8 things

tv shows i like

1. Biggest loser

2. The office

3. American Idol

4. Lost

5. Prison Break

6. Heroes

7. Lie to me

8. So you think you can dance ( can't wait)

favorite restaurants

1. Samurai 21 (or anything japanese)

2.Goodwood BBQ

3.Olive Garden

4. Pasta Factory

5. Tucanos

6. Carrabas

7. Mexican restaurant (any)

8. Cafe Rio

8 things I did yesterday

1. Slept in (yay presidents day)

2. Booked Nate's suprise birthday present!

3. Homework

4. Went to costco with Nate (thanks babe)

5. Sunday we travelled back from Salt Lake for our weekend trip

6. Saturday we ate sushi for valentines!

7. We also had a volleyball tournament, the girls got to the gold bracket this time! Yay!

8. Played with Jaxson!

things I'm looking forward to

1. Family reunion in Seattle in July

2. Nate's birthday this Saturday

3. Volleyball tournament on saturday

4. To see Jaxson today after my long day at school in Cedar

5. To lose weight

6. To be done with school...who knows when

7. For Jenny to have her baby!!

8. For Christ to come, haha.

Things on my wishlist

1. Go to New York again and visit Amy

2. Money for reunion trip

3. A new dress

4. More time to spend with Jaxson

5. To lose 20 lbs

6. Nike Reax

7. My hair dyed

8. Twin babies, not for a while though.

people I tizag

1. Jenny

2. Heidi

3. Hollie

4. Jacquelyn

5. Mindy

6. Cicely

7. Stacey

8. Melissa