2 Months

Brooklyn is 2 months old today!! I love being able to dress her up and take pictures. She is so cute! I am loving being her mom, I have such a wonderful little girl that I have the opportunity to spend all day with. She is such a blessing in our lives!

Her smiles are heartwarming! Each and every smile I get is so worth the long days and nights, as well as the crying. I love her so much! I can't believe how blessed we are to have her in our lives. I am grateful everyday for the spirit she has brought into our homes and the joy she brings into our everyday lives! Here is one of her smiles that is so wonderful!!

Brooklyn's Blessing

We blessed Brooklyn today!! It was a great day and a fabulous weekend. We had so many people come up and we loved having the company. The blessing circle was big with both families. I was excited to have all of my brothers in the circle. Shawn and Julie weren't able to come up where Julie is so close to her due date, but the other four of my brothers were able to be in the circle.

I asked my mom and Tyson this morning if it was expected for the mom of the baby being blessed to get up and bear their testimony. They both said that the majority of the moms do but that I didn't have to. I decided that I was going to get up since I hadn't ever done it before. I was a nervous wreck all morning. Brooklyn could feel my nerves so I really had to work at calming down.

The blessing was great. Tyson did such a wonderful job. When he held Brooklyn up after the blessing, he looked like such a proud father. My mom commented on it and said he looked so happy. Brooklyn looked so cut in her dress and tractor socks. She didn't fuss at all during her blessing, which was great because I got to hear the whole thing.

My plan was to be the first one up to bear my testimony so I could relax through the rest of Sacrament Meeting. However, three other people made it up before me. Tyson told me if I was going to get up there, I would want to get up quickly and wait on the stand. He knew I wanted to be the first, so I could get it over with. I decided to get up and wait on the stand so I wouldn't chicken out. The standing up and walking up to the stand was the hardest part. I cried at the beginning of my testimony but after a few seconds I had a feeling of peace wash over me and I relaxed. When I was done, I walked back to my seat and felt amazing!! I didn't realize how special it was to bear my testimony. I felt the spirit so strong. Jason was able to hold Brooklyn from the time I went up to the stand to the end of the meeting. He was such a happy uncle!

After Sacrament Meeting, everyone went to Tyson's parents' house for lunch. We all had fun sitting around and talking. Everyone wanted to hold Brooklyn so I was able to sit and eat with everyone else. Brooklyn was really good with everyone that held her and they all enjoyed it so much!

I am so grateful that Brooklyn came into our lived. She is such a blessing and brings such a wonderful spirit with her. I look forward to spending each day with her!

1 Month

Today our little girl turned 1 month!! I can't believe it. She's growing up so fast. She's happy and healthy as usual!! This is the dress that my mom gave her and it looks absolutely adorable on her. Tyson's sister Kari made the blanket that she is sitting on. I just LOVE being a mom to the best little girl ever. Here's her one month picture, in one of the dresses I made for her. My little bumblebee!

Our Little Angel

Visit!!

Shawn and Julie came up for a visit and took pictures and videos of Brooklyn. They got some really cute ones and I absolutely LOVE this one. Her expressions and smiles are so much fun!! We can't wait until they're little girl is here!! It'll be so much fun to get the two girls together to play when they get older. It has been so great having them and mom here, it definitely made my first week home with Brooklyn better. It was nice having family around to hold and play with Brooklyn so I could catch up on a little sleep.

Tyson has been home all week too and that has been GREAT! He's been so helpful and I have enjoyed the extra time with him. Brooklyn has been such a good baby, she only wakes up once or twice during the night to eat and she sleeps a ton during the day. She loves to be swaddled nice and tight to sleep as well as during the day! She has been such a blessing to us and we are enjoying every second we spend with her!!

Here's a video of my mom trying to get her to wake up! It took forever, Brooklyn can sleep through anything. Even when she's being passed around from one person to the next. She's our little angel!!!

First Photoshoot

Today Shawn and Julie helped me get some really good photos of Brooklyn. We had so much fun. We put a blanket on my bed, put her down and started taking pictures! She had so many cute pictures that it was really hard to pick which ones to post.

Shawn and Julie came up to get mom since she was here all week helping me with Brooklyn while I recuperated. It was so wonderful having my mom here for a week!! She helped me so much with figuring out how to take care of my new blessing. I'm nervous for her to go home. Being a mom is so much fun. I love getting to hold my beautiful baby girl!!

New Arrival!

So I was asked all day yesterday about if I thought I would have the baby early. I told everyone that the baby hadn't dropped so I assumed she would be late. As we were going to bed I got some pains in my abdomen but it felt like a cramp at first so I tried to get some sleep. I laid there for an hour as the pain got worse and worse. I finally got out of bed and went into the office to look up labor contractions on the Internet. The descriptions that I read sounded a lot like what I was feeling so I woke Tyson up. We called up to the hospital labor and delivery department and asked them when I needed to come in. The nurse that I talked to told me that I should come in when the contractions lasted a minute and were about four minutes apart. She also said that it could be false labor so I needed to take a warm shower. If the pains went away, then it was just false labor. So I got in the shower and the pains didn't go away. By this time, the contractions were 45 seconds long and about 3-4 minutes apart, and when I got out of the shower, they were about a minute long. So we hurried and got dressed and ready to head to the hospital.


Tyson went out and shoveled the walkway and started the car so it would be warm for me when we got in. He is the best husband ever!! We got in and headed to the hospital. It was about 1:00 am when we left and I was admitted by 2:30 or 3:00 am. They let me get in the jacuzzi tub which felt so good during the contractions. I had Tyson call my parents who were surprised by his phone call and they said they would leave when the freeway opened. They left around 8:00 am when the freeways opened back up. After being in the jacuzzi for a while, it started to get too warm and I had a panic attack. Tyson got me out quickly and he took me back to my room. I had not planned on getting an epidural but after the contractions got to be too much to handle, I asked if I could get one. The nurse told me it would take about a half and hour to get it because the person who administered it had to drive up to the hospital. When I heard this, I was so shocked. I was thinking that they could give it to me immediately. I wished I had said something a half hour earlier!! So around 4:30 am I was able to get the epidural, and I must say that it was a lifesaver! The next few hours went much better and around 9:00 am the epidural started to wear off. It wore off on my right side first and then my left. The last hour and a half of labor I had no numbing, which was okay after it was all over with.


Pushing only took about an hour and labor was only about 11 hours long. I was soooo blessed. At 10:52 am this morning, our beautiful Brooklyn was born. She weighs 7 pounds 12 ounces and is 19 inches long.

Brooklyn Jean Coles

Tyson's parents were the first ones up to see us, and my parents and brothers and sister got there around noon. Everyone was so excited to see us. This was the first grandchild on my side and it was the 28th on Tyson's side. Everyone had a lot of fun holding Brooklyn and I had the hardest time staying awake. I was so exhausted from labor and delivery and the extra medicine they gave me when the epidural started to wear off. All in all it was such a wonderful day and we are so proud of our new baby girl!! I am so grateful that Tyson was there through it all and for all of his help. He is the love of my life and I am so glad that we got to bring such a precious baby into this world. We are one happy family!