Look What We Made!

Well, I did most of the work. Kind of like when you have a group project at school and one kid does 90% of it but everyone gets the same grade... yeah. That's ok though, Zack would've done more if he could have I'm sure. Enough rambling, here is the proof:

The night before going to the hospital to be induced. Just over 39 weeks along.

In labor at the hospital all day. Living off of suckers and ice chips.

Finally she is here!

Berkley Ann Morby

Born Thursday 1/21/2010 at 9:35 pm

7lb 1oz; 20in long

Proud Daddy.

Mommy and baby at about midnight that night (we got there at 6am.) Long day but definitely worth it!

Brand spankin new.

Long, skinny feet.

First family picture.  Yikes! 

Perfect little face.

She was so tiny in her carseat we could barely get the straps tight enough!

Plenty of room to stretch out in the crib! (Even though she sleeps wrapped up like a burrito.)

Long fingers. Great for scratching her eyes with.

We love all of her crazy hair!

My favorites!

Here she is reading eurotuner at 2 days old.

Definitely Zack's daughter.

She is pretty much perfect and we love her to bits!

I just wish I could make her stay this little forever.

Preparations

Well the time is near and here is what I have to show for it:
We were too lazy to take a picture at 36 weeks but here I am at 38 weeks. She dropped between 36-37 weeks so the belly pokes out a lot more now that she's lower.

Remember when I thought I looked pregnant at 20 weeks? Pahaha, what a joke.

We had both of my family showers on Saturday, January 2nd. (Thanks Lisa, Rylee, Misty, and Merrisa for throwing those for me! They were great!) So after that I spent time organizing and finding places for everything.

These are some shoes Zack picked out at old navy for 97cents. He loves them and kept them hung up on his dresser forever. When I was packing our hospital bag he requested that I bring a going home outfit that matches these shoes so she could wear them home. Pretty cute.

This girl definitely won't go naked! She ended up with a bigger wardrobe than her parents put together! Thanks everyone for the cute outfits!

We also got TONS of diapers. Even after this picture was taken we were given a huge costco box of 216 more diapers! I've been told they go through them way fast but I think it will take her poo quite a while to fill up all of these babies!

One of my projects was a bow board. Zack made the frame for me for Christmas and backed it with the extra fabric from our rocking chair pillows and I added the ribbon.

Now I just clip all of her bows to the ribbon and it keeps them organized as well as being a cute decoration! I also made most of those bows and there is room for plenty more!

Here is the crib Zack handcrafted out of walnut. He did a great job in my opinion! It converts into a toddler bed and a full-size bed too so we will always have a use for it. How practical.

I decided against buying a ridiculously expensive crib bedding set and opted to buy these bedding separates on clearance at target. They are cute and that way I didn't feel bad about getting something not so gender neutral. Don't worry, that pillow is from the rocking chair and she will not be sleeping with it.

Speaking of the rocking chair, here she is in all her glory. Lisa helped me re-cover the pads and pillows. If we have a boy in the future, the pillow fabric can easily be changed.

And here is the lovely dresser Zack built. He did it antique white and walnut to tie everything together. I think it's pretty gorgeous.

And for the grand finale, here it all is. I have one last project going above the crib. It may or may not be finished before the baby is born but I'll post it when it's done.

Bye Rylee!

Zack's sister Rylee left on January 11th to volunteer at an orphanage in Tanzania, Africa for 3 months so, naturally, we had a goodbye dinner for her on the 10th. She was, of course, way excited to go but really sad that she'll miss 3 months of her first niece's life. She's almost more excited about the baby than we are! Just bad timing...

She loves spongebob so Zack and I made this cake for her!

It took both of us hours of intense laboring but she loved it so it was worth it!

We love you Ry!

The Holidays

We had a wonderful, busy holiday season full of family, friends, and food. Probably similar to most of you guys. Here's a little rundown of the festivities.

We enjoyed getting cards from our family and friends. This one was our absolute favorite. No, they are not gay, just hilarious.

We had some friends chop down a tree for us from the Uintahs. We requested a short, fat one and this is what we ended up with. Whoops.

After Zack chopped the bottom half off it turned out pretty scraggly. We decorated its 5 branches with our ghetto, homemade ornaments from our childhood and it looked great.

Here's a beautiful mountain view we get to experience often in this great state.

December 14th we took the frontrunner (for the first time) down to Salt Lake with Zack's family. We rode on the top floor. Then we took tracks to the gateway, had some dinner at rumbi, and took a walk around temple square to see the lights.

We heart public transit.

Beautiful...

December 15th we went down to Bountiful to see Merrisa's choir concert after a fabulous dinner at firehouse with the Woodbury girls. It was nice to get into the Christmas spirit with some holiday tunes. It's too bad we didn't go the next night to see the girl who fainted. Risa did a great job as far as I could tell. It was difficult to hear her over the other hundreds of students though.

December 20th was the Schvaneveldt family (my mother-in-law's) Christmas party. It was complete with a nice array of hot soups and a $1 gift exchange.

December 23rd was the 3rd annual ugly sweater party hosted by our friend Nate. We ate some great food and had a nice, rousing game of white elephant. I ended up with this santa door hanger and Zack got a signed photo of his friend Mike Dove, the ultimate fighter, and a mouth guard from his fight.

Close-ups of our sweaters.

December 24th we made our way down to Bountiful again for Christmas eve at Grandma Toolson's. We had an excellent feast, played all the traditional family games, and topped it off with Grandma's homemade chocolates. I was chosen to read the Christmas story out of the bible because, in my Grandpa's words, "Callie's about to have a baby Jesus of her own." Yep.

We spent Christmas morning together at our apartment. We opened presents, had a nice breakfast, and watched elf. Here's Zack playing his new wii deer hunting game on our new tv.

Who needs little kids when he's around? He had just as much fun playing with his new "toys" as any little kid would.

Yeah, he's going to build us a new entertainment center. That tv doesn't quite fit...

On Christmas evening we made our way to the Morby family party featuring all sorts of appetizers and a Santa Claus who really resembles Grandpa Morby.

December 27th was the last of the family get-togethers. We had a nice dinner with the Woodbury family and an intense game of mad gab.

December 28th was our 3rd anniversary. I know, it's hard to believe it's been that long! We were pretty tired out from all of the festivities so we just spent the afternoon together shopping, went to dinner, and watched a movie at home. Yeah, we're old and boring. I did surprise Zack with some Jazz tickets. We've been wanting to go to a game for a long time so we're excited to go in March!

Last of all was New Years Eve. We just went to our friends' house and played games and went home at about 12:15. Once again old and boring. We had a really great month though as I'm sure all of you did as well!