In Love Again!

Take a good look at the round, plump baby belly and tell me you just L.O.V.E it! Awh, Heaven knows I do!

Being a mother isn't quite what I expected...it's that and so much more! I can't begin to describe the gratitude in my heart I feel for having such a healthy baby boy. He is everything wonderful in this world! No one in this world carries more prayers in her heart than a mom... prayers of thanksgiving, humility, safety, everything. Yes, I have lots of stumbling moments with being a new mom, but I feel like I'm starting to figure this thing out! And it is turning my life into something more rewarding and fulfilling than I can tell you... but I know it shows through the smile and love on my face.

There's nothing more comforting than having Amos's little tiny fingers find a hold on my shirt, and not let go. He does that with every time I nurse, and the sense of dependence on me that he has is a feeling I am in love with. It's indescribable joy to know that he needs me, his mother! Awe- I'm his mother!

Yes I am in love with my newborn son, but indeed that has only deep rooted my love for Kirk that much more! There's something to be said about becoming a father to our children that has made him even more attractive in every way. He is my world and my sweet companion. I wouldn't want any of this without him. Kirk makes me love my life more and more every day by being the biggest part of it.I love sharing my life with him, together forever. Heavenly Father sure knew what He was doing when He designed the family. It's no wonder to me that a family beings with and is suppose to be founded upon a marriage between a man and woman. The more life experience I gain, the more I understand about His Plan. How beautiful it is to have a family!

I LOVE MY FAMILY!

Being a mom makes you fall in love with the best things.....

little bummys

baby sneezes and yawns

tiny diapers

big stretches

baby smells

nursing

snuggling

midnight lullaby's

tubby's

...awhhh, just everything.

He's Here!!!!

This was the best weekend of my life! I feel like I get to have those "Best" moments often...the day I got engaged to Kirk I thought was the best, until we got sealed-and THAT was the best! Until we got pregnant and knew we were taking the next big step and progressing in the Plan- that was the best feeling even more...each experience becomes more and more of a "Best Time of My Life" moment, and I can reverently say that this is another one...somehow, once again, Heavenly Father has found a way to keep making my life the Best. I am in awe at the blessings I have been given. I will never do anything that would distance me from the rich blessings the Lord has given me...

I was schedule to be induced on June 4th but my water broke just in time! At 1am I woke up Kirk and off to the hospital we were! I was SO HAPPY!! I started contracting on the way and by the time we got there I was dilated to a 5! I got checked in, set up and signed up for an epidural at 7cms! I started pushing about 6:15am and 30 mins later he was here! I pushed him out posterior and all :) Which, word on the street, is the most difficult way to deliver. I was quite a proud mama! We got sent upstairs to Post Partum where things only got better! My bff, Chelsey, had decorated our room sooo cute! I gratefully and surprisingly recovered with no pain at all, just stiff muscles. Amos was as healthy as anyone could ask for! APGAR was a 9 at every scoring and he took right to nursing. I will never forget how much I loved having him skin-to-skin & nursing for the first time. I am in love with nursing him...

I'll write more soon!