Introducing Jonas Doyle Johnson

I know, I know.... it's been two weeks and I haven't even put a picture up of him. Well here it is:

Two Sunday's ago, we went to church and I started having contractions, once every twenty minutes; that lasted for only an hour. When we got home at 2 o'clock, the contractions started again, except they happened every 6 minutes with a few every 10 minutes. I called my mom at 4 to tell her she should be ready for when it happened. She told me she was going to pack up the car and was coming down right then. The contractions stayed about the same distance apart except with a few outlying at 15 minutes. My doctor said to go to the hospital when the contractions were at 4 to 5 minutes. I was getting fed up because my contractions weren't very consistent and they kept getting more intense. I couldn't take the pain anymore and we decided to just go to the hospital at 8 P.M. My mom got there right when we decided to go to the hospital. We all left for the hospital at 8:30 and, by then, I was dilated to a 4-5 so I got to stay. At my 40 week check up, I had only been dilated to a 2. I was glad for the progress. Soon after, my mom brought Abigail home to bed leaving Reid and I (and the nurse). It was really hurting. I never experienced any contractions with Abigail, and I couldn't wait to get the epidural. The nurse got me all hooked up to the monitors and brought my lab work down to be checked so that I could get the epidural.  As the nurse was bringing my lab work down, my water broke. After that, things started to get intense. I got the okay for an epidural and was just waiting for the anesthesiologist to come. The nurse checked me again and I was fully dilated. She told me I couldn't get the epidural anymore, that it was too late and that if I sat up for the epidural, I would sit on the baby. She told me it was time to start pushing and she called the doctor. After 15 minutes of pushing, he was here; born at 10:46 P.M. on Sunday July 8th, 2012.

 He was 8lbs. 8oz and 21 inches long.

 Momma first holding Jonas

Looking up at mom

 Abigail's first look at her baby brother

 Grandma's turn

 "I wanna hold him"

 Kisses

 Happy big sister

First family photo

We are so happy to have both Abigail and Jonas!

Hope you enjoyed!

Growing Things

It is really great to see the progress that our garden has been making. It was just a few weeks ago that I posted about our garden. I meant to post last week when I took the pictures, but it is amazing the difference a week brings. So here are some pictures of our garden now...

 Abigail and the whole garden

 My little watermelons :)

 Even smaller cantalope

 The yellowish plants are eggplants someone gave us (not doing so well if you didn't notice) and then above that is our cucumbers on the left and the 3 big ones are the summer squash. We actually have two little squash growing right now!! Oh and since that picture, we planted a pepper plant right by them.

 At the top are the beans which are now starting to flower and below them are the peas.

 Our sad little tomato plants

And finally the strawberries. They are just kinda sitting there doing nothing.

And because the garden is not the only thing growing... Some long awaited pictures of the growing belly :)

This is a repeat of 22 weeks

30 weeks

33 weeks 

37 weeks

Only 3 more weeks till the little guys due date!!

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