Anna's Blessing Day

My Mom actually made her dress! Isn't it so cute, thank you Mom!!

This is Anna's Great Grandma Murphy.

I like this picture of Anna.

The famous I'm sleeping leave me be Anna pose.

One happy family.

Anna's blessing

Well I don't have a picture to post yet but I will put some on here of Anna's blessing. What a special day that was! Every time a baby was blessed when I was pregnant I would just cry thinking that soon my baby would be blessed by my husband. Wow what a wonderful thought to have the Priesthood in my home! It has been such a blessing and I know that it will continue to be that way for the rest of my life and I'm so grateful to Zach for keeping it so sacred.
Anna's blessing brought great joy to my heart and I truly look forward to watching her grow up and become the person I know that she can and will become. The one thing that I will write about on here is about her smile. She's started smiling at me now and it brightens my day every time I see it! How precious her smile is and how much I love to see it! Zach got her to laugh the other day and it was so cute. It's so crazy that she's 2 months old. Time flies. I love having a baby though it's so much fun and she has brought so much joy to my heart. I know that she will bless many peoples lives with her smile.

I haven't taken the time to get on here and thank everyone for all the help with Anna. What joy she has brought into our lives. I love being a Mother, I know that having children is something that Heavenly Father sent me on this Earth to do. I know that families can be together forever through the sealing power that is only found in temples. I'm so grateful to be sealed to Zach and then have Anna be sealed to us as well.
A little about the holidays. It has all gone by so quickly and with just having a baby I have to say that I probably didn't take as much time as I should have to reflect on the Savior and what he has done for me. But I know that he lives and I'm so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. On Thanksgiving we spend the day with Zach's family. It was good to see Heidi and Jeremy and their family as well as both sets of Zach's Grandparents. The day after Thanksgiving we had the opportunity to go to Queen Creek with the Pearce side of my family to celebrate Thanksgiving together. Christmas was spent in Show Low with all my family. All my brothers and sisters were there and that is such a treat because I don't get to see all of them together very often. Then the day after Christmas we headed down to Mesa once again to attend a party my Aunt Dorcie put together. We also got the opportunity to learn the cha cha from my Uncle Ross who is a dancer. Then the next week we celebrated Christmas and New Years with Zach's family. I'm so grateful for such great family all around me! I will have to say that it's kinda nice to just be home with Anna for a while. I do go to the Marshall's with Zach to do respite care on Monday and Wednesday's and some Saturdays but other than that I get to stay home! I'm just so grateful that we can take Anna with us out there. Thanks again everyone!

Play Time is Fun

Anna is mesmorized by her flashing/singing toy

Anna can smile!!

Daddy and Anna


Look at me smile!

Making cookies with the Teachers Quorum

So for mutual I made cookies with the Teachers quorum. We frosted them and then took some to widows in the ward. The boys had lots of fun and we enjoyed eating them too. A couple had a "frost-off" and this is the outcome. You decide who did better.

This one is made by Joseph Dampt

And this one was made by Grayden Bond

Zach had mentioned on our blog earlier that I had a c section. Well I thought I'd share a little of what happened that day, at least how I felt about it. So I woke up Wednesday morning and I thought I might be losing my mucous plug. Well I was worried because all morning I was bleeding. Zach and I went and took pictures at the temple with Andrea cause I wanted some pregnancy pictures. Well I couldn't have timed that better because I had her that very night, lol. I called my Doctors office and told them what was going on and they said that if I didn't stop bleeding then I needed to go down to the hospital. Well it wasn't stopping so at about 11 or so we decided to go to the hospital, crazy!!!! We get there and I was only dilated to a 1. About the same time I started having hard contractions about every 3 to 5 minutes apart but they weren't consistent enough so after doing an ultra sound they sent me home. They said to come back if my contractions got regular enough or if my water broke. The funny part was she said and if your water breaks it won't just be a little bit it will be a puddle and it was. We had planned to go to Zach's Parents that night but needed some stuff at the store so as I'm in labor we are at Fry's, can you imagine the looks I got. Well I told Zach that I wanted a blessing before we went to his parents so we came home and he gave me one, which really helped so much when they told me I needed a c-section. The most embarrassing part of the whole day was spending about 2 hours in the bathroom at my In-laws. I finally decided that my water had officially broken and so I told Zach we need to go. Well we got there about 6 and they asked what had happened so I told them my water had broken and a lady came around the corner and said, "yup your water broke," as I had looked like I'd peed my pants. Well I finally got an epidural at 9pm which I'm really grateful I decided to get it because around 12 or 1 my blood pressure was getting really low and every time I'd have a contraction Anna's blood pressure would drop. The nurse decided to check me and there was a lot of blood in my amniotic fluid so I think at that point they got worried. The Doctor came in and they told me to push 2 times. I was at a 9.5 but she was only at a station 1 which means I could still be pushing for hours and she needed to be out sooner than that to make sure she and I were both healthy. So after talking to Zach we decided c section was best. At that point I was so grateful for the blessing because I felt at peace and I knew everything would be okay. Probably not more than 10 minutes later I had a baby. Wow what emotions come with having a baby! It all happened so fast! Sorry that was kinda long but I wanted to share my side of the story.

I guess when I added the others I forgot these. I really like them so I thought I'd go ahead and add them.