Our First Thanksgiving as a Family

Well now the holidays are officially upon us. We had our first Thanksgiving as a new family. We got together at The Petersen house with Rod, Kris, BJ, Zoey, and Tyler. Rebecca was not able to be with us for dinner. :o( Also joining us was my brother, Justin, my parents were in Boise with my extended family but Justin had to work Friday so he couldn't go up. It was so much fun. Emma slept most of the time, she has a little head cold. The fun part was we ate in the unfinished new addition. It made for a lot more room in the kitchen for dishing our plates. Then later we played this game called "Things" its way fun for a bigger group. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Emma's Blessing Day

So we had Emma's blessing day on November 1st. Brock did an amazing job! Emma's dress was make by Kris when she was pregnant with BJ, her oldest son, in hopes that one day she would have a daughter to use this dress for. Well most know that Brock only has brothers, so this dress has been waiting for a little girl to use it and Emma was the lucky first one to use it. Emma also has a special blessing day blanket that her Aunt Zoey crocheted for her, I don't have a picture of that yet but when I do I will add it to this post. They are both so beautiful!! We were happy to have so many family and friends in attendance for this special day!! Thanks to all those who helped and attended.

My Sweet Emma

This was after her first acutal bath in the tub. She didn't like it so much but she was happier afterward. Plus we just love this towel on her ;op

No more hoses and we are very happy about that!!

When we went to her appointment the Dr said she did not need the oxygen anymore, she weighed 8lbs and 8oz so she gained 10 ounces in a week and a half from when we left the hospital, and she is in the 60% range in her head, weight, and length. We get to go back for her 2 month appt and then we get shots (lucky mom :os). But as you can see she is doing great!

One Crazy Week

Poor Baby Emma with all her tubes and hoses.

Proud New Daddy!

Our Beautiful Emma!!

Finally going home

First bath at home

Daddy-Daughter nap time

My Baby is One Week Old today!!!!

Emma Kristine Petersen

Emma is finally here! She was born on September 27 at 8:25 am. She weighed 8 lbs 3 oz and was 20 in long. I was going to be induced on Monday the 28th along with 8 other women so the hospital was going to be busy and we might have not been able to be started that day anyway. Saturday I started having contractions and by that night we were headed to the hospital. I was quite the eventful delivery. Emma had stained the amniotic, wrapped the cord around her neck, and aspirated the fluid when she came out. She had to stay in the NICU while in the hospital. Brock and I were discharged on Tuesday and Emma had to stay til Wednesday morning. Here are some pictures of the steps along the way to getting her home.




Brock and I shortly before Emma was born.




Emma right after she was born.



Our New Family

Emma's Room

This Little Miss is so loved already...... here are just a few pictures of her room. It will look better when we get some picures up and other decorations.

Peach Days!!

I LOVE PEACH DAYS!!!!!! We do the fireman's pancake breakfast and the parade then of coure the booths and you always have to have some peach cobbler!! We did it all this year, even though all the walking did not send me into labor. (dang!)



I am so proud of my cute fireman!! I turn into such a cry baby when i see him driving the firetruck in the parade so proudly! Next year he will have Emma with him in the truck, you can bet i will be crying then too.




BJ is driving this mustang with his sister-in-law Whitley on top who ran for Peach Queen. Bummer for BJ huh? Can't tell by the mischievous grin on his face!

Thanksgiving Point Dinosuar Museum

So we went to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point on Labor Day which was so fun! Just to two of us, there were some amazing dino skeletons there.

Bees Game!

On Saturday August 22 we went to a Salt Lake Bees game with my parents and Justin and Allie. When we first got to the game we had seats in the 100+ degree weather which was not the funnest but once the game started the sun had gone down below the staduim so it started to cool off after that. In the first inning the bees scored 8 runs and they didn't score another run the rest of the game but they still won 8-2 against the Las Vegas 51's. Plus the big bonus was there were fireworks after the game. (Don't mind my blue teeth, that was from the snow cone)

Yellowstone and Bar J Wranglers

This was our trip to Yellowstone, Jackson Hole, and Bar J Wranglers. We had so much fun! We went into Yellowstone park and up the east side of the first loop toward the Yellowstone falls which the picture above is the upper falls which is actually the shorter of the two falls. They were both Breathtaking. The upper falls was a 109 feet drop and the lower falls had a drop of 308 feet which was unbelievable! The next day we went to Bar J Wranglers which if you haven't been to see them you should go. They are a dinner and cowboy comedy show, and I can tell you we have been the last two years and have not been disappointed either time. The food is served chuckwagon style and you would think that having food served in mass quantities like that may not be very good, but it was actually way good food. The show was HILARIOUS! They sing old cowboy campfire songs along with comedy.

They are just aboslutely amaxing. It is so much fun every time we go. When we were driving in Jackson we passed this smart car that was parked perpendicular to the curb when all the other cars were parked parallel. Now Brock absolutely loves these smart cars and wants one so when he saw this he was that much more in awe of them.