Introducing Baby Kelley

Sunday morning at 4 Am I woke up with contractions. Around 6 Am I woke Kyle up letting him know that I was having contractions and I needed him to start timing them. After about 20 minutes of timing them we found out that they were every 3 to 5 minutes apart so we got up and texted some friends to see who could come over and watch the girls while we went to the hospital. Our friends Mark and Kjerstie were the first to respond and they were at the house by 7sh. Kyle and I took off to the hospital sometime around 7:30 Am and ended up checking into the hospital. They hooked me up to all the monitors and found out that I was in fact in Labor but was only dilated 3 cm. After an hour no progress so they got me up to walk the halls for about an hour. After an hour of walking the halls I only dilated 1 cm so they ended up telling me to go home and walk up and down my stairs.. I WAS NOT HAPPY!!! I didn't want to be one of those girls that jumped the gun and ended up getting released due to false labor.. good thing was I was actually in labor but just wasn't dilating as quickly as they wanted. So we ended up going home around 11 Am. I was so tired of walking the halls at the hospital that I came home sat down on the couch and passed out for about two hours. Then woke up and decided it was time to walk the stairs. After I had taken all the boxes of girl clothes down to the basement and brought the baby bassinet up to our bedroom and other little baby things upstairs I decided it was time to sit down. After a few hours of walking and sitting around 6 PM I decided that the contractions were just getting to the point where I couldn't bear it.. So Kyle and I packed everything back up and headed back to the hospital. We got back to the hospital around 6:30. It was really funny going back because the front desk lady as well as the nurses from the morning/day shift were just leaving and they all made sure to come say hello. The only one that was still on from that morning was the on call doctor and she made sure to come in and stay with me. They took me to my room checked my dilation to see that I was now at 6 cm so they decided it was time to get me my epidural. The anesthesiologist came right in and hooked me up. After I got hooked up they waited 15 minutes and decided that it was time to break my water since they had just called my doctor to come for the delivery. They popped my water at 7:15 and baby Kelley entered the world at 7:35 PM on Sunday April 10, 2011. The labor portion on this pregnancy was a lot worse considering I had to do a majority of it at home but the delivery was probably the fastest and easiest I've ever had. It wasn't until Monday evening that Kyle and I finally picked the perfect name for our little boy. TROY ALLAN KELLEY!!!

Me right before going to the hospital in the morning...

Our room for Labor and Delivery Troy Allan Kelley 7:35 Pm April 10, 2011 8lbs 2oz 20inches

Mommy and Troy

The girls meeting their baby brother for the first time

The girls with Troy

Our family

Allison and Abbigail giving baby Troy a hug

Me and Jessica

Mark, Abbigail and Kjerstie

My cousin Nick and Troy

Troy, Nick and Allison A VERY PROUD DADDY WITH HIS LITTLE BOY!!!

Allison, Troy and Daddy going down to the nursery

Kyle and Troy in the nursery

Abbigail and Allison waiting outside of the nursery with everyone

Troy getting his hair washed

It's a boy

The girls looking in on Troy

Allison watching her baby brother

Troy in the nursery

Daddy and Son

Troy and Kyle

Grandma Kelley meeting baby Troy

The girls watching the nurse with Troy

Abbigail trying to help give the nurse a blanket for Troy

Troy and I ended up coming home from the hospital on Tuesday afternoon around 12. It's great to be home with our little boy!

Happy Birthday Nick

April 3rd is my cousin Nick's birthday and since the 3rd was on a Sunday this year we celebrated with Nick on the 2nd and the 3rd. Saturday the 2nd after the priesthood session of conference we met up with Nick and all his friends at the Provo Beach Resort for the guys to all go surfing. It was a lot of fun watching the guys. I think it would have been cool to try out but being eight months pregnant I didn't think it was a wise idea... So I ended up being the official photographer of the evening. Here's some pictures of Saturdays events... Kyle Surfing

Nick Surfing

The Group of Guys surfing that night with Allison and Abbigail

Then Sunday we celebrated Nick's birthday with some cake! Happy Birthday Nick!

Abbigail

Okay I'm looking for your opinion's here...

I'm starting to think it's time to start potty training with Abbigail.. here's a few reason's why:

1. She loves wearing Allison's underwear.. She will find Allison's underwear in her drawer or in the clean clothes on the couch and put them on.
2. Ever since she turned 1 she likes to sit on the toilet and "try" to go on the toilet and she also likes to wipe herself.. She's gone a few times on the toilet
3. She's now to the point where she's starting to take off her own diaper after she's wet... Thank goodness she hasn't done it with the other...

So what do you think? She'll be 2 in May... Do you think she's ready or do you think it's still a little to early..

BYU BASKETBALL

As most of you know we are HUGE BYU fans... I don't think we ever miss a game (football or basketball)... We normally watch all the games from the comfort of our own home but this past week our neighbor who happens to be the BYU basketball coach gave us 4 tickets to the BYU vs. CSU game... THANK YOU DAVE!!!! I loved going to the game... I've gone to a few games in the past but they're just the $5 tickets and so we are always sitting with the students on the benches... Don't get me wrong it was still fun to go those times but being pregnant it's not fun sitting on the benches and the students stand the ENTIRE game so it made it a little difficult at times to see so again THANK YOU DAVE!!!! We were able to sit just 8 rows up behind the team and in the chairs (YAY)... It was so much fun and I could actually see the entire game... I loved it...

Us girls in our BYU gear...
Allison getting ready to leave

Abbigail in the car ready to go

Us after the game!!!

Again a huge THANK YOU Dave Rose family for the tickets! We also need to thank the Ringer's (our other neighbors that we sat with) son in law who caught the BYU ball and gave it to Allison.. Thank you!!!

Happy Birthday Kyle

This year Kyle turned 29 years old!!! Crazy to think that next year he'll be 30.... This year was a very nice and relaxing birthday for Kyle (at least I think so)... Usually for birthday's we do a big birthday party or dinner or something huge to celebrate.. this year Kyle made a request to just keep it small and not do a party so I respected his wish and didn't do a surprise party or invite anyone over... It was just Kyle and his girls at home relaxing.. Since his birthday was on a Sunday we got up went to church then came home and just let Kyle sleep the rest of the day...

Kyle's birthday cake... (better of the best cake or better than sex cake) he made a special request to have this cake and I'm so glad he did because I usually make him an ice cream cake and this was so much easier for me to make so THANK YOU KYLE!!!!
Blowing out the candles...

Kyle with his two girls

Kyle opening gifts

I'm so happy to married to this amazing man! He's the best husband, friend and father! I could not imagine my life without him in it and I'm so glad that he picked me to spend his eternity with! I love you Kyle Zachariah Kelley!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Baby Boy Kelley

BABY BOY KELLEY

January 2011

This was from our last ultrasound with the specialist in January...

Okay so I've noticed that I really haven't blogged much about being pregnant.. I went back and I think the last time I blogged about it was like in November or December when things were crazy and they didn't know what was going on... well as most of you know I've had a blood clot and so I've been having to go see my doctor as well as a specialist at the hospital. I go in to see my doctor each month to do the normal check ups and then each month I have to go in to see the specialist. The specialist will do an ultrasound and will take measurements to see how the babies growth is coming along just to make sure that things are going well with him. Then they will measure my clot to see if there's been any progress with that. In December there was not much progress and so they kept me down. In January we went back in and they noticed that the clot had shrunk a bit and so they gave me the green light to start moving about a bit more and getting back to my daily activities. As for me I've been feeling well throughout the entire pregnancy. I did have my usual nausea the 1st trimester but not nearly as bad as it was when I was pregnant with the girls... It was just a different kind of nausea... smells did not bother me as much as they did while pregnant with the girls. So minus the whole blood clot I think it's been a pretty good pregnancy. I'm now 8 months along and now to the point where I see my doctor every other week so we're getting closer... I also go in tomorrow to see the specialist so we'll have to see what they have to say...

I'm very excited to be expecting our first little boy!!! I'm also very nervous as I've never raised a boy and I'm just use to everything girl... but even with that I'm super excited for him to be here and I just can't wait to hold him in my arms... As for his name we're still not 100% sure of a name. We do have a few in mind but we will not be telling anyone any time soon!!! You will all just have to wait until he arrives...

I just can't wait any longer can't it be April already????

Changes

A year or so ago Allison decided to help mom and dad clean the house by getting a bottle of tilex bleach out and bleach the floors... She ended up bleaching the stairs, Abbigails bedroom, furniture and clothing as well as in the hallways. Well we ended up calling our insurance company to see what we could do and they ended up covering the cost of replacing the flooring throughout the house. Then about six months ago we found out that our kitchen doors were leaking and ended up damaging our wood floors so again we called the insurance company and found out that they would cover the cost of refinishing our wood floor. So with this all in mind we really needed to make the change and replace the flooring. Kyle and I looked into a lot of different options but the one that made the most sense was to rip out all our carpet on the main floor and replace it with wood flooring. We did end up leaving the carpet down in the living room but that to will be getting a face lift within the next year. Kyle and I moved a majority of the smaller items as I just couldn't lift the heavy items at 7 month pregnant. So we had a ton of family and friends come to help Kyle move the rest of the furniture as well as rip out the carpet and pad. It took the flooring guy about two days to lay all the new wood and then another day or so to sand it all before we started to stain it. Once they started staining the floors we had to move out and live in a hotel for about four or five days while the house aired out. Below are some pictures of the whole process...
I didn't get any pictures of the house before we started tearing everything out or during but here's the front entry and the front room with the carpets all torn out.

Another view of the front room, dining room, stairs and hallway.

Our office

The front door with the new floors installed and stained

The office with the new floors and all stained

The front room, dining room and hallway with new floors and stained

Our kitchen already had wood floors that were the same color as the cabinets we had them sanded down and stained to match the rest of the house.

The rest of the kitchen with the new stain coloring.

It was a long process but totally worth it. I absolutely love my new wood floors... Now just to get some area rugs made....