A few pics

Here are a few pics I've taken the past 2 weeks with Brew around

 I don't normally have him sleep in his crib, but we are trying it out a few times a week just so he'll get used to sleeping wherever.

 Twinsies!

 So out of it after a nap, but love this cute outfit my mom got for him

 Hangin out

 Dal's brother Cory sent him a pic of their new little boy Brogan dressed up on Saturday in a BYU beanie for the BYU game so Dal had to put him in his Utah State one and send a pic to them.  The boys are only 2 weeks apart so that will be fun!

 First walk on the last warm day we had up here.  We'll be stuck inside for the next 6 months it feels like

 After his first real bath at home.  I love a baby right after a bath, its so cute

 Dal says he got 2 things from me, his open mouth sleeping and his crying ha

Heres one of his newborn pics that Raquel Young did for us.  I'll get the rest of them up soon, they all turned out so cute!


Brew will be 3 weeks in just a few days and we're starting to figure life out a little.  During the day he eats every 1-2 hours, for anywhere from 30 min to an hour, and at night eats every 3 hours if he doesn't fall asleep during his feeding.  If he falls asleep he'll wake up in about an hour and a half and want to eat again so we've got to work on that.  He naps so good during the day and hangs out awake for awhile during the day now, so he's starting to be more alert which is so fun.

I'm healing good and feeling a lot better this week.  Just excited to start working out and being a normal person again.  I don't go anywhere during the week normally so lets just say getting ready doesn't really happen anymore ha.

Brewer Dallan Webb

He's here! I have probably waited too long already and have forgotten alot about his birth story, but I figured I better get down what I remember before I forget.  Its going to be a long, detailed post for my journal, so sorry!

On Thursday October 31, I had my membranes stripped and oh gosh, that was so sucky.  I will most likely never get that done again.  I did start contracting from it though, and by Friday night I had been having contractions at that point for over a day, and was 5 days past due anyways.  I had been timing them and they were consistant for awhile and then would fade off, so I didn't think much of it.  After Dallan got home from work Friday night they were about 6 minutes apart, so we figured we should go in and just make sure.  We didn't really pack much and weren't super prepared because we figured for sure they'd send us home.

We go in and they hooked me up to the monitors and my contractions were showing up but were not very strong at all.  They said they'd monitor me for an hour and let me know.  So as we came up on and hour we were talking about how we'd go and get food at Sonic and go home and sleep in the next day.  The nurse came in as soon as we got excited about getting some food and said that they were going to keep me! I was so excited, yet slightly pissed because I was starving at that point and now I knew they wouldn't let me eat until after he came.

They started PIT and said to try to get some sleep until I had dilated.  At this point I was only a 2 which I had been at for weeks and only 70% effaced.  So we both fell asleep and around 3:30 I work up feeling bad contractions.  I put up with the contractions for awhile before I told them to give me the epidural.  I knew that I would be much more willing to have them shove a needle up my back if I was in pain from contractions, rather than just give it to me willy nilly.  The epidural was not near as bad as I thought! I don;t know if it was cause my contractions hurt so bad or what, but it was more of just a weird feeling, rather than super painful.  They got it all done and we went back to sleep until this nurse girl came in and said she was gonna empty my bladder with a cathedar.  I could totally feel everything! I told her I could and she told me I couldn't because of my epidural, and I said, no I can definitely feel it.  So she asks why I hadnt pushed the button for the epidural to kick in more and no one had even told me about it! After that I started just pushing it like crazy cause I didn't want to feel a thing.

Anyways, I dilated from a 5-9 really fast and they said they would have me start pushing, I think it was around 8:30am.  We told our families and they kept texting and calling us asking if we'd had him him yet, but I hadn't started pushing yet cause my doctor was delivering another baby.  They were all sure I had to have an emergency C-section cause we didn't answer for so long .  I finally started pushing around 9:30-9:45 ish, and the hospital was short staffed so it was just a nurse and Dal in there.  I was pushing and couldn't feel a thing, it was awesome.  Nothing like the movies ha.  Finally they are talking about seeing his head and talking about his hair, and the doctor is still not there.  My nurse just says to pretty much not move or push because the baby is about out and we don't want him to come before the doctor gets there ha.

Finally Dr. Blackett gets there and within a couple pushes he's out and Dallan is about to pass out haha.  He was holding one of my legs and said that about did him in to see him come out.  I had them clean him all up and all that before I held him cause lets face it, I probably would have gagged and thrown up knowing me and gross stuff haha.

Brewer ended up coming at 10:57am on Saturday November 2 and was 7.3 lbs and 22 1/2 inches long.  Such a long, skinny boy! The nurses said they never see 22 inch babies, so hopefully he ends up being really tall, but I would like to fatten him up.

 First pic of little Brewer boy!

 His first bath that Dal and the nurse gave him and he did NOT like it

 Dal and Brew

 In the middle of the night I took this pic of him, and the flash woke him up but I didn't care haha.  I had him stay with me the whole first night cause I was so freaked out about a Code Pink and someone stealing him (it happens) so I didn't get much sleep.  The next night I let them take him and that was the best decision ha, that was my last real night of sleep I've had!

 Going home! He is so tiny in that big ol' carseat

 My mom came and stayed with me in the hospital and then stayed for 4 days after we got home and it was so nice.  She slept at the hospital with me and Brew so that Dal could get a good night's sleep because he still had school and had a huge test the Monday after he was born.

 She cooked us tons of food and fattened us right up

This is our morning activity.  We wake up, get a little ready for the day, then have our morning nap together, its the best.




So all in all everything has been so good! Ya I'm tired and not knowing what I'm doing but it really is so fun.  He's been such a good baby, other than today he feels like he needs to be held to sleep, so hes sitting on my lap right now crashed out.

In the hospital Brewer would not latch on to nurse.  We eventually met with a lactation consultant and she had us start using a shield.  He still struggled with that so we did S&S, and thought he was doing fine.  Well the day after we got home he hadn't had a dirty diaper all day, so that afternoon they told me we needed to bring him in.  They weighed him and he had dropped down to 6.6 lbs which is too low to drop to.  Basically I had been starving him and didn't know it, it was so sad! So they had me start supplementing formula and pumping and giving it to him in a bottle.  I was super anti formula so I fed him a couple bottles but mostly just pumped and made sure he got plenty of milk that way.

When he was a week old I just said screw it and spent all day making him try to latch on (even with the shield) and he finally got it! He started gaining weight fast and is up to 7.5 and eats CONSTANTLY.  I'm so glad he's nursing now cause pumping was a freakin pain in the butt.

Getting There...

Well I'm 36 weeks now, so it's coming to an end, but I still think I'll go into November.  My doctor said he thinks I'll go full term for sure, which I think he's basically saying I'll probably go over without actually saying it ha but me and Dal both called that I'll have this little boy on Halloween...mark my words.

So this one day Sagan asked me to send a pic to see how big I was getting so I sent her one, so next thing I know shes sending me a pic pushing out her stomach wearing the same thing, basically showing how much more massive I am than her right now ha, I didn't even get it at first, I just thought we were wearing the same shirt that day.  She had just colored her hair with color and instructions I left for her, and I liked hers way more than I liked mine after seeing it in this pic so I colored mine a few days later, so now we really do look exactly alike other than the fact that I'm "honkin huge" (as Bryir would say) and she's not.

 Don't mind my messy bathroom, or onery look in this pic ha

 This was after my baby shower in Salt Lake at Olive Garden.  We had SO much fun talking and all the girls giving me advice and we sat there and laughed for hours.  I look MASSIVE in this pic, probably not the best outfit choice on my part, it definitely makes me look bigger than I am ( I hope?). Thanks to all you girls for coming and all the cute gifts, I can't wait til he comes so he can wear/use everything!

The other night I was FREEZING and wanted hot chocolate so bad, so I went to make some and it had been expired for 2 years, apparently I don't drink hot chocolate fast enough, so we made a little stop at Mooch's (best gas station ever) and I got a steamy hot chocolate and Dal gets a freakin Frazil even though it was like 40 degrees outside.  I'm pretty sure it's a drink that only 4 year olds get ha but he loves them.



We are still just working away and waiting for this baby boy to get here, but definitely not holding our breath.  His room is done, we got his newborn sleeper in the mail today, and I think I honestly have everything that I have to have when he gets here, so I'm feeling pretty stress free.  Other than the fact that I actually have to push a baby out, that thought keeps me up most nights freaking out about that.  Mainly I'm stressed about the epidural, even though I'm set on the fact that I WILL get one.  If you guys know me and my sisters you know how scary a needle is, it's one of the scariest things in the world to me, so I feel bad for the poor guy that has to give me the dang thing.

I'm still working full time and I love that I have something to do while I'm waiting these last 4 weeks.  It keeps me busy and its actually a lot better to stand all day than to sit.  Sitting upright seriously cuts my breathing capabilities like in half and is pretty uncomfortable...does not make for a fun 3 hours at church when I can't sprawl out the way that I want to.

Dal is still working and going to school, he's so barely I don't see him very much but luckily this is the last semester that it will be this way, and one month down already so I think we'll live.

Midway and Jake and Alyssa's Wedding

This last weekend we got to go down to Lindon and go to one of Dal's best friend's reception.  We had to miss their sealing because Dal had class but we made it for the reception and it was SO pretty. It was at the coolest farm and was just perfect.  Afterwards we picked up my mom and went up to Midway to stay for the weekend and my dad met us late that night.  I had never been up there and I am in LOVE.  We stayed at the Zermatt Resort and I'm already trying to talk Cheyna into going and staying there, she loves hotels more than any person I know.

 The front of the Zermatt

 We don't really know how to play chess so this game didn't really happen haha

 Such a cute place!

 LOVE all the flowers everywhere, makes me want to go to Europe so bad.

 This is the way my dad and Dallan like to spend their vacations....sleeping.  Dal has taken up the Shumway way of napping.

 View from our room, so green!

 The boys at the reception

 This is how they do receptions, watching some random college football game on a phone, obsessed I'd say.

They sent this pic to Marcus, so mean! This is Marcus and Maria's little boy Braxtyn, cutest little guy.  These boys haven't seen him for quite awhile, and they tried to make Marcus a little jealous I think;)

It was a quick weekend but it was so fun to get away and go do something new like stay in Midway.  We probably won't really go anywhere now until after the baby comes so it was a nice little "last" getaway before our life completely changes ha but we are so excited and he can't come soon enough! (Even though I do want him to grow quite a bit more, I don't want him to be too flimsy!)

32 Weeks and First Day of School

I will hopefully be blogging a lot more consistently because Simone put me in charge of keeping her blog up to date every week, so since I'm already on doing that I may as well blog, which will probably be a bunch of nothing cause our life is just pretty chill and boring!

 Dal and his mom.  Liz, Jenny, Marci, Jill and Mike all came up and ran in the Top of Utah Half Marathon last weekend, it was so fun to have some visitors! They all did so good.  Also, Dal does have other clothes, I feel like he wears this shirt EVERY time we take a pic.

 This is from the demolition derby in Preston.  We went up to watch our friend Nick derby and it was so fun! We went to the Juab one this year too which was good because there were so many cars, but this one honestly was ran way better, it kept me entertained the whole time for once.  Dal is obsessed with derbys so we actually go to quite  a few!

 First day of his senior year...needless to say he was not pleased about going to school or having to take a pic. He'll be glad when he's an old many that I made him take all these pics though.

And here is me at 32 weeks.  I am starting to feel quite freaking massive.  I still feel great for the most part though which is good.  Bending over takes my breath away, I either sleep like a dead person or sleep TERRIBLE, depending on the night, I'm still able to go running, and I pretty much just hate getting dressed for work ha. Working in a salon you pretty much have to get decked every day and thats not the absolute funnest thing when you just feel massive so good thing leggings are still in because I live in them.  The style right now works perfect for a pregnant person haha. 

I start going every 2 weeks now, and then it will wind down to every week til he gets here! It feels so far away but so close at the same time, its crazy. His room is almost done, I'll post pics when it's finished.  

So far Dal has been busy but not hating his life, so that's good.  He usually is at school from about 8-3 then comes home until he works at 5, so honestly his schedule is pretty good this semester so far.  This should be the last hard semester and then his spring semester will be pretty easy is what we've heard.  

Work is good, I didn't realize how much I missed doing hair until I started doing it again full time.  It's such a chill job and my clients are seriously the best.  I've been working almost every single day for the past 2 weeks, so way more than full-time, but this next week it should chill out a little which will be nice.

End of Summer Picture Overload

So since I sucked at blogging again, I just threw a bunch of random pics up here

 At the lake with my parents' new boat. I'm pretty sure this was after the day that we had such a fun day and then when we went to leave the boat wouldn't start...I thought we'd die because there was lightning and finally we got "rescued" by the Park Service and they made us sit on the floor of their boat like we were Mexicans being deported.  So freakin embarrassing, I think I peed my pants laughting about the situation at least twice ha.

 She WOULD NOT smile for a pic, so this is the best we got

 This is from FOREVER ago at the 20 week ultra sound.  He kept sucking his thumb and when the tech would move him around to get another view he would move his arm and then start sucking his thumb again, it was seriously so cute.

 This is Shayne's tattoo that Dal drew with permanent marker while we were camping.

 And this is when Dal caught me in the camper downing the confetti cake right out of the pan.  We actually were hiding this from everyone so that we wouldn't have to share ha. It's like our favorite treat!

 My first day working with my friend Kelli up in Logan, she's the funniest, cutest girl, I just love her

 This is after Dal chased Shayne down one day because she decided she wanted to go to school, so she ran across Center Street and went to school ha

 Dal and Bry girl with their Icies (?) from Canyon Country.  She wanted a "No Cone" so bad but they were closed so she settled for a "Boo"one of these.

 I just love this pic of her and her moneys

 Me and Sim at her going away dinner. She's at the MTC now, her blog is simoneshumway@blogspot.com

 One of our last days at the Rez in Delta.  We spent so much time out there this summer and had so much fun, we were sad to leave.

 Dropping Sim off at the MTC.  Pretty sad day!

 At the derby in Nephi. Dal looked forward to this thing all year, and it was pretty good I'm not gonna lie.

Dal and Logan, we watched her for a full day and it was actually so fun, she is such a good little girl!




Well we are back up in Logan again, it is kinda bittersweet.  We had such a fun summer just playing and not really having much of a schedule, but I was a little ready to get back to a schedule and have to get up and get ready for the day.  We got all moved into our new apartment and we LOVE it, it's such a cute little place and we can't wait to get the baby's room all finished and get him here!

I'm a little over 30 weeks now, so we're on the countdown finally.  I still feel really good, still running and for the most part feeling normal. The only time I get super uncomfortable is when I've been sitting for a long time and his room gets restricted and he starts kicking my ribs, or when I've been running or walking for a long time and he relaxes and slumps WAY down.  I already carry really low but he gets even lower when I'm active for a long time.

I will update again soon, I hope!