Getting excited!

This little guy isn't sure what all the fuss is about but he is still excited!



He is such a happy baby. I am one lucky momma




Big sis wanted in on the photo session but didn't want to smile. Love these two so much.




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Updates

I have been wanting to keep this blog updated but my PC won't load pictures and my Ipad won't save drafts! I have to try and get a post out all at once! Life has been good to us. Wyatt is now 2 months old and growing like a weed. Brinley is going to be 3 next month and she is growing up way too fast for me. I am loving being home on maternity leave and having fun with my kids. We have gone to the aquarium a bunch of times, the new natural history museum, a fun trampoline place, bowling, and lots of other fun things. I get to take Brinley to her little gym class and I love watching her.

Wyatt is the best baby ever! He is a great eater and a super sleeper. He is now sleeping 9+ hours at night. He is super laid back and just a happy guy. Brinley adores him. Here are a bunch of pictures from the last while.




This is Wyatt right around Halloween so about 2-3 weeks old.




My little monsters. Brinley sure loves her little brother.




My littlest monster




After our first big snow storm Brinley and Aaron went out to build a snow man. This was the bottom layer. Brinley had so much fun and never once got cold. Wyatt and I stayed inside where it was warm!





The finished product! Too bad he melted and fell over an hour later. I am glad they still had fun.




Nana and I took Brinley to Disney on Ice. She loved it. She loves all of the princesses right now. She also loves Lion King. It was so fun to watch her and see how excited she got. Thanks for taking us Nana! (Wyatt loved it too, he ate and slept the whole time!)




Brinley is my big helper.




This is my happy guy at about 8 weeks. He looks a lot like Brinley did at that age. He is such a smiler.




He is super strong and holding his head up like a champ.




He gets those chubby cheeks from his momma




Practicing sitting up in the bumbo. He really is a sweetheart. I hope to post more soon.
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Wyatt's Story

Around 2am on Wednesday October 5th I woke up with some pretty bad contractions. They continued all night and I didn't sleep much. I called labor and delivery around 630 to see if I should come in. I suspected that my water had broken but I wasn't sure. With Brinley it was super obvious that my water had broken. They told me I should come in and get checked. I woke Aaron up and told him and called my mom to let her know we needed her to take Brinley. We finally made it up to the hospital around 11. They hooked me up to the monitors and I was having contractions about every 6-8 minutes. They checked me and I hadn't progressed any further than my appointment the Monday before. I told them I thought my water had broken and they blew me off. The PA said that she didn't think it was broken. They gave me the option of going home or walking around the hospital for 2 hours and coming back to get checked again for any cervical progression. We chose to go home.



The contractions eventually stopped and I went to work on Thursday. I still felt like my water might be broken and felt kind of off but I didn't want to go back to the hospital just for them to tell me I was wrong again. Friday morning I got up at around 745 and immediately started having strong contractions. I got ready for work and let Aaron know I was having contractions again. I changed my mind about 10 times as to whether or not I should go to work and finally decided to just go. My office is 5 minutes from the hospital so I figured if I had to run over I could. The contractions continued through the morning and I started feeling really crappy. I called my mom and Aaron. I told Aaron I was coming home and that we would probably be returning to the hospital later. As I was walking down the stairs and out to my car I changed my mind and called Aaron again. I told him to drop Brinley off with my mom and to meet me at the hospital ASAP.

I went to OB emergency services again to get things checked out. Thankfully a different PA was on service that morning. They got me hooked up to the monitors and checked me. The PA said, I think your water is broken and I think the baby has already pooped! They did a bunch of quick tests and determined that my water had in fact broken! I told them that I came in on Wednesday because I thought my water had broken and they figured that my water was broken the whole time. I called Aaron and let him know that they baby was coming today! They had me pretty worried because it is dangerous for your water to be broken for so long because of the risk of infection.
They decided to get an IV started and get me admitted. A nursing student from BYU and an instructor came in to start an IV. The poor nursing student had never started an IV on a patient before, only fellow students so she was super nervous. She came at me with that needle just shaking like crazy and she made me nervous. She missed and the instructor wasn't all that helpful so I ended up helping the poor girl start my IV. It was so painful and I think I just about broke Aaron's hand squeezing it so hard. I had to tease the student that they sent BYU students to the U to torture the patients. Once the IV was started and the blood work drawn they sent me over to Labor and Delivery. I walked over there because I knew it would be my last chance to walk for a while.
Once I got to L&D and met my nurse I let them know I would take the epidural any time they could give it. While waiting for the epidural my water really broke. I got the epidural a short time later and we settled in to wait. I ended up dilating really fast and was ready to go by 430pm. We decided to wait 1 more hour to let Wyatt descend on his own. Finally around 600pm it was time to start pushing. I started pushing and got to feel his little head. Then all hell broke loose. I was still pushing and the midwife and my nurse were yelling at me to push harder. I felt like I was going to pass out but kept pushing. Then I heard the midwife tell the nurse to push the button and 15 people came running into the room. Wyatt was stuck. It was a condition called shoulder dystocia. The baby's shoulder gets stuck under the pubic bone and it causes compression of the umbilical cord. It is pretty dangerous for both mom and baby. Luckily he was only stuck for 60 seconds before they got him out. The midwife cut the cord and rushed him to the waiting pediatricians.



Unfortunately he wasn't breathing and we had a pretty scary few minutes while they sucked out all the gunk from his stomach and lungs. I kept looking at Aaron and back at Wyatt waiting to hear that cry. I could see him across the room between all the bodies of all the people working on him and I remember thinking that his hands were huge. He finally cried and I started crying with relief. They gave him to Aaron and I got to hold him for just a minute before they whisked him and Aaron off to the nursery to make sure he was really OK.



I was able to get up and start walking around about 30 minutes after he was born and got cleaned up and changed and settled in to wait for Aaron and Wyatt to come back. My Mom brought Brinley up to the hospital then and I was so happy to see her. I was happy to have some time to hang out with her before she met baby brother.
They let Brinley ride in my lap while they transferred us to our room. Aaron came in to check on us and Brinley was so happy to see him. They got tired of waiting and went to see peek at brother in the nursery.

They finally brought baby Wyatt to us and Brinley got to meet her little brother. She loved him from the very beginning. She wanted to hold him right away. She gave him sweet little kisses and was so gentle with him. I was so proud of her.






Despite the scary delivery and the water breaking early Wyatt is perfect. He is happy and healthy and adores his big sister. I can't believe he is already 6 weeks old. Time is flying by and I am loving being at home with both kiddos. We have so much fun together. Wyatt is the best baby. He is already sleeping 6-8 hours at night, he rarely cries and he is just all around a sweet baby. We are so happy to have him and to have our little family complete.






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He is finally here!

Our sweet little boy is finally here! Wyatt Rulon Preslar was born October 7 2011. He weighs 8 lbs 2oz and is 21 inches long. We couldn't be happier. More to come soon.



















Waiting for brother to come back from the nursery.







Meeting big sister!



Our 2 beautiful kiddos!

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Brinley's First Trip to Lake Powell

My fondest memories growing up are family trips to Lake Powell. I have wanted to share those experiences with Aaron since we first got married. He had only been to Lake Powell this year with Devan and I really wanted us to go as a family. Thanks to Brandey and Devan we finally got to go and share it with Brinley too (and kind of baby boy!).

We had such an amazing time. This was also Brinley's first time camping and I was so impressed with how well behaved she was and how adaptable she was. She didn't bat an eye when we told her she was sleeping in a tent on an air mattress. She slept better, ate better, and behaved better the whole time we were there. We had a pretty crazy wind storm one night and she even woke up during it and went straight back to sleep. The next day it rained and she just took it in stride. What a trooper. We would go out on boat rides every day and she would crawl in my lap and go to sleep and sleep until we were back to the beach. What a great trip, I can't wait to go back with the whole family!

This is Brinley being a ham on the beach. She loved playing in the sand and the water.

Brinley was a little fish. She never cared if the water was cold (it wasn't, its Lake Powell). She wasn't scared of the little fish that kept biting mommy, and she didn't mind the rocks under her feet.

She loved riding in the boats and was awesome about wearing her life jacket. She got a rash on her chin (I so remember that as a kid) but she still wore her life jacket like a champ.

I was surprised that the water didn't scare Brinley at all. She would happily swim out as far as we would let her and she was very good about staying in water below her knees when she didn't have her life jacket on.

Such a good kid. Love this kid.

More playing in the sand. She could pretty much entertain herself all day.

Ruffle Butt

This was our wonderful campsite. Nice little sheltered cove. Camping in a tent at 7 months pregnant wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The nights were a little bit warm but I would do it again in a heartbeat.

I love Lake Powell

Aaron got in some rest and relaxation when he wasn't building sand castles with the kids.

Aaron was so great about setting up shade for his girls. He played in the sand for hours with Brinley while I sat in the water to stay cool.

Brinley and Hailey building sand castles with Aaron

Brinley was so happy the whole time on this trip.

Cheese from baby Hailey (this poor kid will still be baby Hailey to me when she is 15)

Can't wait for next year!

Update

A lot has happened in the last few months. Brinley turned 2 on January 14th! We had a party at the Little Gym and she had a great time. She has been at The Little Gym since she was about 10 months old. She loves her teacher Miss Kim and we are now taking the summer off.


We were so grateful to all the friends and family that made her birthday party so much fun. We feel so lucky to call this little girl ours.



We took a trip to Phoenix for my work and stayed in a beautiful hotel.

The Golf Course Behind the Hotel


In the room ready to go swimming!


Running to Daddy the day we left

We also stopped at Lake Mead and let Brinley feed the fish. I have such great memories of trips to Lake Mead that I wanted to share a small part of that with Brinley and Aaron.

Sitting on the dock feeding popcorn to all the fish

Holy Fish Batman!

So interested in everything she saw

My little Daddy's girl

We lost a couple of memory cards full of pictures from the last few months so I don't have a lot of updates. We are expecting a baby boy in October, I am currently 24 weeks, and we are pretty excited about that.

Baby's Profile

Hello World! I am a boy in case you were wondering

These days we have been spending lots of time outside enjoying the summer heat.

Thats all for now. Hopefully I will be motivated to update more soon.