Visitors at the Hospital!

This post is out of order but wanted to put in the pictures of Peyton with all of her visitors while she was in the hospital! She is a very loved little girl. Papa, LouLou, Uncle Taylor, Uncle Josh, and Grandma and Grandpa Thompson were all there after she was delivered. They had waited patiently in the waiting room for her arrival. Uncle Don (Phil's best friend) showed up to because he was on the night shift as a Police Officer in Douglas County. It was so great that they waited until the early hours of the morning to see her!

Grandma Cheryl

Grandpa

Silly Papa with his eyes closed!

Grandma Lou Lou

Notice Taylor's crazy hair from sleeping in the waiting room!

Uncle Don

After the birth, Peyton had many visitors come during the next two days to visit her! It was so fun to see everyone!


Uncle Steve and Cousin Kylie

Craig Hall

Aunt Angie

Aunt Patty

Cousin Skyler!

Great Uncle John

Uncle Josh and Grandma LouLou

My favorite roommate Amanda Locke and Melissa and Raluca from work also visited but I don't have pictures:) We are so blessed to have such great families and friends!

Bath Time!

Peyton is still a little unsure about bath time! She always get a look of concern when I put her in the water! Her facial expressions are so funny and she looks concerned quite often.
Her first bath was in the kitchen sink! I can't believe how little she was! She especially likes to have her hair combed during bath time!
I am looking forward to when she enjoys her baths and will splash and play with toys! Wait no, I am enjoying every minute with her and don't wish these days to go any faster! She will grow up soon enough! I just love her!

Peyton Lola Thompson

Our baby girl finally arrived from heaven on August 24th, 2011. I went to the hospital the evening of the 22nd to be induced. They gave me a drug to get my body ready that evening and the next morning they started me on pitocin to get the labor started. I had steady contractions all day but I was not progressing at all. The doctor finally came in about 5:30 that evening and broke my water. That is when the fun really started! The contractions became way more intense and painful and not to long after I was at a 4 and after a couple of more hours a 9! At about 8pm I finally got my epidural and man those drugs are sent straight from heaven! I began pushing at a little after 1am on the 24th and Peyton Lola Thompson arrived at 2:58am! It was so amazing to see her after carrying her for 9 months. They laid her on my stomach and she was looking right at me. It will always be a very special memory for me!

Daddy was pretty excited to see her!

The new family!

Peyton our beautiful daughter!

We are getting used to each other now and Phil and I are loving every moment with her! We have a ton of pictures from her first bath to all the visitors that have come to see her so I will updating the blog again soon!

The Waiting Game

It is now August and I am 37 1/2 weeks our baby girl could come anytime! The nursery is ready the house is clean on most days, work is pretty much handled if I can't make it in anymore and now we wait!! Part of me really wants her to come and the other part tells me I should just enjoy this time and she will be here soon!
I am pretty uncomfortable because she has dropped and in the birthing position and I get pretty fatigued everyday but nothing too major to complain about! The only other problem is I don't have much of any appetite, I think I have eaten cereal for dinner the last three nights.
Overall it has been a good pregnancy! Can't wait to see this little one and see if she has hair, whose eyes she has, etc. She will be beautiful no matter what!!

Our Baby Nursery!!

We have been greatly anticipating this baby girl for some time but now it is time to get everything in order for the big day! We have been slowly cleaning out the guest room so it could become a nursery!

We purchased a crib, diaper table and glider and finished setting it all up in June. We still had a few things to take care of and we kept trying but we couldn't get it done!

Than I had a fabulous shower thrown by my sisters Lindsay, Julie and Erin on July 6th and got more baby stuff that we needed to find a home for! This past weekend I also went shopping to picke up some remaining items!

Phil and I kept meaning to work on the room each evening but we had other things we had to take care of first. So on Wednesday I came home for lunch and again we discussed that we wanted to get the room finished! To my surprise when I got home from work Phil had completely taken care of the room! He had even put the bedding in the crib and put things on the changing table and cleaned it. It was the best present ever! I love walking by and looking at it and am very excited to have a baby who lives in that room! Thank you so much Phil!! I love you!






The little outfit in the crib is what we plan on bringing her home in with a cute little yellow bow that I got from Erin at my shower!

I am also planning to get butterfly decals to decorate the walls with this weekend!!

Utah Valley Marathon

Last October when Lindsay, Julie, Phil and I were running the Denver relay and Denver half marathon we decided to run the Utah Valley Marathon after seeing a booth at the Denver race expo. I signed Phil and I up for the full marathon as an anniversary present. Julie and Lindsay followed by signing up shortly thereafter. Phil and I knew I might not be able to run it if I got pregnant but knew I could defer my registration to 2012 if needed. We were right, I was pregnant by December and the race was out for me.

In February, Phil started out on his marathon training! There were many ups and downs and it was harder because he didn't have me or his friend Justin as a running buddy. Fortunately, Phil and Uncle John were able to get a few long runs into together! Phil was really discouraged towards the end of training and didn't feel like he was doing very well but after some motivation from Julie and I he was determined to do the race!!

We arrived in Utah on Friday afternoon and had a yummy carb-loading dinner with Julie, Lindsay, Adam, John and some of Lindsay and Julie's friends who were also running the race to get prepared!

They all spent the night at the Marriott and woke up very early to head up the mountain for the race.

The support team headed over to the race around 8:30 to make sure we were there in time for the big finish. We just didn't know who would finish first and how fast so we were there in plenty of time! We enjoyed watching all the runners come in and had much anticipation waiting for our runners! First Adam came in at about 4 hours. He did a great job!

Than we waited a bit more and suddenly I got a text from Marilee saying the Julie's dad had seen Phil and was headed to the finish! He finished just under 5 hours official time. I was so proud of him!! John finished about 2 minutes after that and than Julie and than Lindsay finished it out! They were all fairly close together! We were concerned about Lindsay because Julie said she had a foot issue possibly a stress fracture:( but she finished like a trooper!

I was so proud of all of them and am excited to get to try it out next year! It will be motivation to get back in shape after the baby comes!

Here are some pictures to enjoy!

26 Weeks!!

As promised here is a picture of the growing belly at 26 weeks!! All is going well so far, I had the glucose test done today so hopefully all is well there! We registered for gifts last week which was a tad overwhelming with all the baby stuff out there! This week we have a hospital tour scheduled at Sky Ridge. We are also planning to order the nursery furniture soon so we can get our baby girls room all ready! We are very excited! I knew once May hit things would start flying by and they have! I am sure during my last month it will slow way down again!

We are having beautiful Baby Girl!!!!

Yesterday we found out whether we were having a girl or boy next summer!! It was so fun to watch the ultrasound looking at everything and seeing our baby! We asked the tech to please wait until Grandma LouLou got there before she told us what we are having. Everything is growing really well....and after much anticipation we found out we are having a baby girl! Here is a picture of her!

Of course I started crying tears of joy because it made everything so real! Phil pretended he was tough but got teary eyed too! LouLou and Phil had a hug and we kept on with the ultrasound! We love her so much already! We do have a name picked out but are choosing to keep that a surprise! Her middle name will be Lola after Grandma Wilson!
Phil is super excited and she already has him wrapped around her finger! Now he has two girls in his life he can't say no too! He will be such a great Dad!
A fun side note was when we finally saw the doctor she pointed out that our girl has long legs!! So surprising since her mother has no lack for legs!!

Belly at 16 weeks!

Here are a couple of photos of my growing belly at 16 weeks! Things have gone pretty well! I am still pretty tired but don't feel sick to my stomach anymore! So far I am growing all out in front and hope it stays that way but we will see! We have been able to see the baby twice on ultrasound and heard the heartbeat yesterday! It is so cute to see Phil's eyes light up at our doctors appointments when we get to see or hear our precious baby! We are very excited to find out what the sex of the baby is on April 21st!! Sorry about the 2nd picture, I had no make up on for the day yet!

Close up of belly!

Sorry for the no makeup!

We're Pregnant and Christmas!!

Two weeks before Christmas Phil and I found we are expecting our first baby!! We were super excited and anxious to tell everyone but thought it would be the most fun to wait and announce the news on Christmas Day! It was tough to keep the fun secret....especially when the Brinks were over for dinner and Papa asked why we had pink and blue frosting and did we have something to announce?? The frosting was just a coincidence but we had to play it off!
We decided we were going to create a card for each of our families and have them opened on Christmas Day! These are the pictures included on the card...



We were successful in keeping the secret from family until right before the Christmas chaos began....we saw this really small stocking next to ours and thought someone had figured it out. Matt saw us talking about it and put two and two together. Come to find out the stocking was going to be used for Savannah but it was great that Matt new so he could videotape when Papa and LouLou opened the card.


It was a fantastic Christmas morning and was so fun to share the news!! After the presents Phil and I headed to Castle Rock for a lovely Christmas dinner with the Thompsons! We were again excited to share the news with loved ones! Dad opened the card but it took him some time to figure out what was on the card! Cheryl figured it out immediately and started jumping up and down!


It was such a great day and we are extremely excited to welcome our baby next August! We know with both of our great families our baby will be very loved!

Thanksgiving 2010!

For Thanksgiving this year, we decided to stay in Denver and spend a quiet Thanksgiving with Papa, LouLou, Josh and Taylor!! We had a great time watching football and eating, eating and eating! I headed over Thursday morning and provide lemon jello, deviled eggs, 7-layer dip to fill our tummies! I enjoyed watching the Macy's Day parade and taking some time to rest after a busy week of work! Phil drove down that morning and made it in time for a delicious feast! Here are some pictures to enjoy from that day!

Fun October Weekend!!

So my birthday weekend Lindsay and Julie decided to come to Denver to visit during the kids fall break! TJ and Colton also decided to come just a day later! As usual we had many events we wanted to do!
On Friday, we headed to Taylor's Cross Country meet to cheer him on! It is amazing how fast he is! I wish I could run 3.1 miles in 20 minutes but I hit about 30 minutes!




It was fun to see him do so well and that we could all be there to celebrate!

Afterwards for a yummy birthday dinner we headed to my favorite mexican restaurant for my birthday dinner! It was so nice to have so many people there for my 32nd birthday!! Phil bought us yummy cupcakes to have for my birthday dessert!
Saturday we headed to Josh's football game! While they lost the game it was fun to be there cheering him on together!!
Sunday Lindsay, Julie, Phil, Taylor, Justin (Phil's good friend) and Lou Lou headed downtown for the Denver RocknRoll marathon!! Phil and Justin were both running their first half marathon! Lindsay, Julie, Taylor and I made up an awesome relay team!! Lou Lou was our driver and did a great job for us! Phil did an awesome job and finished in 2 hours 7 minutes! We are pumped to try to run a marathon in Utah in June!! Our relay team kicked butt too all doing well on our runs!!
It was a fabulous weekend and had so much fun with everyone!