2 months.

This baby girl is 2 months new. 

She's a good little sleeper. 

A little on the high maintenance side. But we are working on that.

She is full of smiles and is starting to talk back. 

Ryker loves her to pieces. Everyone around here can't get enough.

Afton Joann Cottle

June. 2, 2013. We blessed this little angel! 

Ryan gave her the sweetest blessing ever. He is such good daddy. He was pretty nervous the morning of. (I don't know why? He always does amazing!)

Thank you to all who came and shared this special day with us. We love ya baby girl!

Memorial Day 2013

Memorial Day is a time where we venter up to Malta Idaho to Grandma and Grandpa Cottles house. We have done this every year we have been married & I love it. 2012 Memorial Day. And our first 2008 Memorial Day. 

We relax, visit graves, play games, ride wheelers, a little yard work, shoot guns, and new on the list feed baby calves. 

We decided to head up a day late. So we missed visiting the graves. But made it in time to celebrate this… My SIL Amberlie is prego. We are so excited!!! She found out what it was before telling her kids she was even pregnant. In the piñata is candy telling us the gender.

 

 

We broke the piñata off the string. So she decided to stop and tell them why we were doing this. 

You can tell we are all so anxious to find out boy or girl. To bad I didn't get any pictures of the candy dumping out. (Afton needed me) Well its a GIRL!!! And we are so so excited!

And welp this is the other pics I got while we were there. I still have prego brain. ha. Great Grandpa Cottle holding Afton & Ryker & daddy milking the baby calves. 

Graduation

Look who graduated… 

Alyssa (Ryan's youngest Sister) Graduated this past weekend. So proud of her. Love this purdy girl. 

Mothers Day

The day before mothers day we scheduled pedicures with cousins, aunts, mom and grandma. It was so nice because we 4 went without any kids while they stayed home and watched them. Then they came down. Relaxing.

Mothers Day morning was really relaxing. Just hung out al morning. Ryan made me my favorite breakfast waffles with chocolate chips. He's the best cause he doesn't really care for waffles.

He did build me a gorgeous deck for mothers day. 

So beyond grateful for the opportunity to be a Mother to these two littles. They are my everything +1. 

Happy Mothers Day to my own mother who has taught me so much! And happy Mothers Day to my mother in law who takes me as one of her own. 

1 month

My babes is already 1 month. Time is flying.

In this month I discovered a lot. Trying to be a mom of 2.

Afton has been a little more fussy than Ryk. Which makes it difficult to put Ryker down for a nap/bedtime when she is screaming. 

She has colic at night like Ryker :( But, She's a great eater. She sleeps great at night. Stretching between feeds up to 5 hours!

Ryker has adjusted a lot better than I thought. When I don't have her in my arms he always ask "Baby go?" He's a great big brother. 

Crazy to think I have 2 kids! I am so blessed to have the opportunity to be a mother. Yesterday (mothers day) was great. 

Woke up to breakfast and snuggs from these two adorable kids! Ryker has been extremely generous with his kisses (only to mommy?). 

So I got plenty of those yesterday. As well as the start of a new deck outside. Yay! Thanks babe for making it such a great day! 

April the Tenth twenty thirteen.

A long day waiting… Right? One i've waited for almost 9 months for. 

I got a phone call the day before. I kept my phone close the whole (just in case). Late afternoon it came.. In the middle of doing a client. 

Asking if I would still like to be induced tomorrow. "Of course" It almost made me second guess my decision though. Ha. Funny?  

She said if so plan to come in @ 7 AM! Woo Hoo! 

Last pics of Family of 3.5

No. I did not sleep the night before. Its like Christmas. Plus you think through everything… Do I have everything. Any last minute things I really need to do? ha. Stupid. 

On top of the swollen'ness in the morning. Extra water weight. Chinky tired eyes. READY TO BE DONE!!!

So.. Here we are dropping Ryk @ my moms. Poor kid has Nooooo Idea. He was wide awake too. (stupid flash)

...Headed to the hospital. Room 1. Changed into my gown. Felt like I had just done all this not too long ago… 

Oh Wait.. I did like 2 years ago… (not that long ago)

My least favorite part was about to his. Good ol' IV. They checked me I was already to a 4. Started the pitocin @ 7:45. 

Dilation: 5cm @ 9…. 6.5 cm @ 9:45. Contractions STRONG. I decided then maybe I should get an epidural. Asked for it @ 9:45. Dude didn't come in till 10:15. 

I wanted to be big and see how far I could go. But that 30 minutes… Was a dang long 30 minutes. Props to all the mothers who can do it with out an epidural. I CANT! 

Epidural 10:15. ahhh… Better. Nurse came in around 10:30 I'm @ a 9++cm… Paged the Dr. Who took a while to come in… She was posterior. So he flipped her with 2 fingers

(Ry said that it was so crazy how he did it. ha.) We waited for the contractions 4 times… And she was here. 4 PUSHES! I was in such shock how fast she made it here. 

11:03 My baby girl was here! Afton Joann Cottle. 

Weighing a whopping 7.12 lbs! Big girl for being a good week and half early! 18 inches long.

Yes. I hogged her and loved on here for quite a while. 

Proud papa! 

Bath time.

The first thing out of Ryans mouth was… "This girl needs a bow". Ha ha. I told him I had a bracelet in my bag if he wanted to put it on. Of course he did!

I love it. She has tugged on those heart strings. Definitely going to be one of those girls who has daddy wrapped around her finger. 

Then the little man found us. And loved on baby sister! I think they have already known about them. And secretly doesn't say anything to us about it. He was so excited about it. I love these pictures. Priceless!!

Our family of FOUR!!!

We had a few visitors that day. Got a few pics. 

 

Lucky me. Everything went in my favor and they let me go home the next night. (I hate being checked every other hour… I wanted out ;))

I came home to a spic n' span house! Thank you to my wonderful Sister-in-laws. 

I have felt so blessed. My mom has come over and helped with Ryk, Or helped me bath Afton. Grocery shopped, made me meals along with banana bread and let me catch up on sleep.

She has been a saint! I have been overly blessed with meals from friends and ward members. So grateful! Thank you everyone!