Eric, Hillary, Q & A: Summer

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Morning Snuggles while watching a movie so Mom can shower!

Love this girl!

Swimming at Grandma Dolders pool. It was funny that the shirt fit but the bottoms were way too big!

More morning snuggles. He was pretending to sleep

Laughing and smiling in her sleep.

Kisses from mom.

Family supporting BYU during the first game of the season!

Audrey, Grandma Dolder and Dad at Deception Pass.

Family pictures on Whidbey Island. Q was loving all the bubbles by this shop!

GO Hawks!

Brunette!

He never does this! So tired he passed out.

Deception Pass

Small smile

Mariners Game with Brittany!

Cousins supporting the Hawks!

What better time then 4 am to update the blog! Well we added a new family member to our little family. Audrey Jane was born on August 13, 2015. She weighed in at a whopping 6 lbs 14 oz. and was 20 inches long.

For those of you that care about the birth story you can keep reading. If you dont and just want to look at pictures scroll down.

I made it to 39 weeks with Audrey, although I think they miscalculated my due date and I should have been at 38 weeks. But thats ok! I was SOOOOOO over being pregnant! With Q I only made it to 36 weeks, so this was the longest I had been pregnant. I was miserable. I had no energy to chase around Q, I wasn't sleeping very well and I had terrible heart burn. I went to my foot zoner with the soul purpose to put my into labor. She was awesome and while I was there I started having contractions, however these felt different then Q so I wasn't sure if they would stick around. I drove home from my appointment still having twinges of pain but again it didn't feel like my contractions with Q so I ignored them. About an hour after I got home I called Eric and told him he needed to come home immediately. These contractions/twinges were really really painful and I couldn't hide it from Q. Every time I winced he kept asking me what was wrong, and kept petting my head. He is a super sweet little boy. I was trying to brush it off and play with him and laugh so he didn't get too concerned. But i was super relived when Eric got home. He had called his mom who was on her way over, so she could take Q while we went to the hospital. I got him all excited for his fun day at Grandma and Grandpa Dolders house, and he basically ran out the door when she got here.

Eric and I then headed to the hospital, which is about 25 minutes away. At this point I knew I was in labor, it was still feeling different then Q, mostly that it hurt a LOT more. I mean I couldn't talk through the contractions and it was like an intense stabbing pain. Q's contractions were just more annoying then anything. Got to the hosptial, got all hooked up to the monitors, started my IV (in the car I decided I wanted an epidural... I was thinking of trying to go natural but this was really painful). Doctor showed up, said I was dialated to a 3, I knew I dialated fast so she said she would stick around.

Here is where the story gets awful. My epidural took 2 hours to kick in. I'm not sure of all the details, but the anesthiaolgist was trying to get it to work for 2 hours! I almost started crying. At first one of the needles wouldn't push the medicine in, so he had to start all over. Then it was only working in my legs. There were a lot more problems, but I wasn't really aware of them, because my water had broken right before he came in, and I'm pretty sure I passed out. Once my water broke my contractions were continuous. There was only about a 30 second break between each one. I dont really remember the labor aspect very much. I remember being in a ton of pain, and asking why the epidural wasn't working, I then getting really hot and thinking I was going to throw up, so I asked for a fan. At some point I was put on an Oxygen mask that I was told to keep breathing into.

At some point the pain went away, and I was able to relax a little. My doctor rechecked me and said I was now at a 10 and could push whenever I wanted. I however was exhausted from those 2 hours and just wanted to rest. But the baby had other plans, and I couldn't stop the need to push. Thankfully my doctor was still in the room, so when I said I wanted to push she had everything ready to go quick. 2 pushes later Audrey was born. Eric said it was literally a minute and a half of pushing. Remember at this point we still had no clue if she was a boy or girl. We had decided to be suprised so we were super excited to find out. She wasn't breathing when she was born so she was wisked away and Eric didn't get to see if it was a boy or girl, so he went over to where they were checking on her and said it was a girl! Then he was able to hand her to me, cause she was crying at this point, and again, I almost started crying! I knew the instant I held her that her name was going to be Audrey. That wasnt the name I thought we were going to name her, but when I held her it just came to me and I knew she was Audrey.

She has been a super sweet baby ever since. She doesn't cry nearly as much as Q and all I want to do is cuddle her! Q got to meet her on Friday and seemed to like her, although he was more excited to play with his grandmas and grandpas. My mom and dad flew in on Friday and hung out with us.

We were able to go home on Saturday, and my parents took Q to the zoo so we could relax and do nothing once we got home.

For our 6th Anniversary we went extra special and went to John Howie. Neal and Michelle had been raving about it, so we were excited to try it! The fried bacon was pretty amazing!! It has a special maple syrup spicy sauce that goes on it. Could go there just for the bacon and be happy.

Before dinner though Eric and Q had a little golf practice. Eric ordered these golf balls that glow in the dark. They are pretty sweet. At night it is fun to watch Mike and Eric hit the balls from their deck onto the green.

Q got tired so he decided he wanted to watch. He is so funny where he picks to sit and watch.

A few days later Q woke up coughing, so we gave him a little more of his breathing treatment, but as the day went on it seemed he kept getting worse. By the time Eric got home from work I knew we had to take him to the ER because he was only breathing if he was crying to grunting. When it comes to struggling to breath they have a scale from 1 - 12. 1 is breathing fine and 12 is really struggling. When we first got there Q was ranked at an 11. So they immediately put him on a nebulizer. Unfortunately nebulizers take a lot longer for Q then most kids. They should only take about an hour from start to finish, but because the medicine makes Q's heart rate increase to really high levels we have to keep stopping to let his heart rate get back down to a lower level. Since he was so high we were really worried that he would have to stay the night. We said a lot of prayers and gave Q a blessing, and luckily when they came back to re rate him, he scored a 3! So we got to go home!

This last week has been SO HOT! My apartment still doesn't have air conditioning and being pregnant it makes the heat unbearable. So we went to a splash pad with a playgroup from church. He had so much fun!

Then that night we went to the Lake with Eric and the Bastians. They have an inflatable little boat that we took out. Q thought it was a blast. We may have to buy one!

Then we went up to Lake Stevens and enjoyed the lake as well. This water was a lot colder then Lake Washington. Q still had a ton of fun playing in it though, and we did bring a little inflatable tube that he thought was amazing. He just like floating around in it. My kind of day at the lake.

We also found a townhome to rent! Eric officially got his job in Bothell so we found a fabulous place near by. We got the keys on June 1st and will slowly move in once Eric is done with school. We are excited to move to a HUGE townhome... its like 3x the size of our current apartment. We are going to miss all of our friends but luckily we can still come visit anytime we want.

My parents moved to California. I have been pretending they have been on vacation, so I haven't been able to see them. That helps more then thinking they have moved. Between me going there or my mom coming here I get to see them at least once a month. :)

At the end of August, Q and I headed down to California. Q was pumped.