Oaklies discovered her toes!

Girlfriend discovered her toes awhile ago i'm jsut now posting the video!!!

Christmas

Christmas this year was fun! Thor has to work a major holiday every year so he choose to work Christmas this year so he would be home next year when Oaks is a year and a half old. So this Christmas I went to IHop with my brother and sister. We had alot of fun. I got Thor a ps3 and two video games, Oaklie got an excersauce and a baby einstein, I got a new hair straightener that came with a free stand and free mini travel one! I also got this peanut baby blanket for Oaklies car seat! I love it! Oaklie got croup and she has been miserably sick! Thor is now getting sick too so I have two sick babies at home. We also took Oaklie to meet Santa, she did so good she did not cry and we got a pretty good photo! Lots of photos!


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Merry Christmas everyone! I just wanted to say I am so greatful for the life I have, and the wonderful people who surround it! I'm excited to end this chapter of my life and welcome 2010!! Feliz nuevo anos!!

Family Update

These last few months have been crazy! Time for a quick 5 min family recap!

Thor- Thor just got a raise at his job as a tech 2!! way to go! He is still working 40+ hours a week at the lab which he is loving! Its always nice to have a job you enjoy as much as he does his job! He works with really amazing people too so thats another bonus! The semester just ended and Thor passed all of his classes with either a B or A! He took 11 credit hours! Way to go! Next Semester starts the second week of January and he will be taking 14 credits!! Ouch!! I know he will do great! (because he has a great wife to help support him and cook him meals and do laundry! tehehe JK)

Natalie- I've been busy working 3-4 days a week at the dental office. We just went digitial and so we are in the process of going ALL paperless! Its amazing, but I have to spend alot of my day scanning papper work into the computer and having people fill out the new papper work! I have been asked to come be a Q and A guest speaker type thing for Arestin (a dental product) at a dinner! I will be talking to dentist about how our office uses the Arestin RX!! its a huge honor but i am really nervous, more nervous about trying to find the perfect outfit! hehehe!! I am officially working at Hoppers again! I work 2 nights a week (either friday, saturday or sunday). My favorite days are wednesday when I get to stay home all day with baby girl and take naps!!

Oaklie- She is now 5 months old!!! She HATES peas and bananas!! she LA LA LOOVES apple sauce!!! She has discovered her toes and loves to suck on them! She can roll over from front to back and back to front like a pro! She has officially started crawling! She hasn't figured out the arm leg coordination so she lays her head on the ground and scootches with her feet! She goes in circles for hours! I turn around and she is gone! She has started sitting up on her own! She will only sleep on her tummy (which makes mommy nervous! I know she is doing it on purpose! lol). She loves to roll her R'sss! Kinda like a gurggled Grrr sound. Her best friend is the cute baby in the mirror they could play for hours. She has slept through the night for one week and then decided it wasnt for her and she prefers to wake up at 4 am and come snuggle in between mommy and daddy. Her favorite toy is a garrafi. She CAN put her binky in her mouth by herself, she is learning how to hold her bottle but she gets into eating that she rubbs her eyes with her hands! She still refuses to nap, we struggle with that one. Still a full time pooper (usually once a day but its as if she is saving it up for me i swear!). and last but not least she loves to touch mommy and daddys faces and pull on them! Its so funny to see her discover new things and want to eat everything that she can get her hands on!!!!

Life here is busy, but that seems to be the way we love it! We take photos with santa tomorrow!
Here is a picture of oaklies christmast present! She plays in one at her nannys so i had to get her one!

To my Mama

Mom, I took this video when Oaks was barley 4 months old. She was learning how to crawl. By time I got the camera out she was starting to get frustrated. But, you can see her move her legs up and see her try! She had earlier that day gotten the ducky! also, notice her sweet bald spot on the back of her head?? hahaha! She is now a better crawler and I will get a video soon for you!!!

Singing

Baby girl loves to sing along!!!! (this was taken awhile ago)

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Big week!

This last week was a very event full week for Oaklie. She has hit alot of "first" in her life!
She is a pro at rolling over.....
On Monday she rolled right off the bed when I turned my back for a second and bonked her head on her crib. (she is fine)
Tuesday- she started to crawl across the floor!
Wed.- as we were bathing her i dropped the shampoo bottle on her head and gave her her first boo boo.
Thursday- She peed her bed for the first time
Friday- She woke up with a fever of 100.9 and the Dr. said she looks fine and thinks she might be starting to teeth!
It was a very event full week!! Next week were going to start solid foods! Our Dr. said her poop is going to start changing weird colors. I asked if we should start taking pictures of her poop weekly every time we add a new food and make a scrap book. He asked me not to do that... lol. I think Oaklies boyfriends might really like it??!!!

Halloween

Oaklie had her first Halloween! She was a scary skeleton that glowed in the dark!! I cant wait till next Halloween so we can take her trick or treating and get candy!!

Chuck Norris aint got nothing on my baby!!

ANNIVERSARY!!!!

Yesterday, September 8th we celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary!! I ordered a chocolate pineapple rum cake from Leslies bakery which is thors favorite. Then we had lunch together then thor surprised me with roses!

Thank you Thor for being not only the greatest best friend i could ever ask for, but for being the Love of my life and the man I cant wait to spend the rest of my life with! You take the greatest care of me and your daughter and i cant wait till our next anniversary!! (maybe next year we can actually celebrate with out school, work and a baby that refused to sleep haha)

I LOVE YOU!!!! xoxoxoxo

Bath time and Sleep

Touch down I get to sleep with mommy!!! tehehehehe

FOOTBALL SEASON!!!

Football is officially started!! Oklahoma played BYU on satuday and lets just say it was a sad day! I cant believe BYU beat us and to top it off take out our QB!!! at least oaklie was dressed for the occassion!

I dont have any sooner gear for her yet so she wore team colors!! (okay so it looks pink but its red and white! I dont have any black baby gear haha)

Labor Day Weekend.

Over Labor Day weekend we decided last minute to go to Logan (were Thors parents live). Once up there it was like a mini vacation, we did not have to cook, clean, or get up with the baby! Thors mom aka grandma rogers got up all night with miss oaks! it was soo nice to be able to sleep in for once and just relax!!
Thor works saturdays so we went up saturday around 6 and just hung out at the house. Sunday we slept in and played with thors MANY brothers and sisters. Then Monday we went to the Logan zoo, its free! Then we went and saw the movie UP! it was so cute! Oaklie loved it all, and most of all we had DELICIOUS food the whole time!
Thanks grandparents for the relaxing time!

baby einstein

We received a baby Einstein video from a friend of thors. a "lullaby time, soothing sounds for baby" video to be exact. For everyone who does not know what "baby Einstein" is, its a series of dvds to help stimulate ur baby with sounds, shapes and animals and such.
we'll... being the new parent that i am i thought i should pre-watch the movie before showing it to Oaklie. You know, making sure the animals arent' naked and saying inappropriate phrases, like when the dog says "wolf" instead of "bark". I found that phrase to be offly offensive. So as i'm watching the video i feel asleep! i guess the lullaby einstein video really does work and helps put your child, and you to sleep! I totally recomend it!!! haha thanks alex for the great gift!! :)

Whose Hungry??

Does Pulling Your Hair Hurt?? Ask Oaks....

Work, Showers and Still no Sleep!

Our baby is the most spoiled baby ever!! our great neighbors threw us a shower the other day (that makes number 7!) and we got a stroller!!! we have almost everything we need for this girl now! we actually had to buy our first set of wipes and diapers the other day!! Thank you to everyone for all of the love and support its truly been a blessing!!
I've now officially started back at work! I work at a dental office as an office manager/coordinator 3 days a week which i la la loove that schedule! my boss just gave me a really NICE raise for coming back to work (he was afraid i was gonna stay home with baby so i got rewarded! hehe). I now work Monday, tuesday and Thursday. Thor works Tuesday through Saturday so he stays home with miss oakley while i'm at work. On tuesdays and Thursdays Oaks goes to our friend Rachels house. Rachel is my sisters boyfriends sister. She is so fabulous! her baby is one years old and so she has everything Oakley needs at her house. i just take over bottels and milk! She is such a good friend and a good sitter!!
Oakley has started something new... she has decided to get up and scream every other hour! the last two nights the only way we could get her to sleep was by having her sleep in our bed with us! oh geezse looks like were gonna have to upgrade form a queen to a king!!
Thor and i start school next week!! Thor is gonna go back FULL time and he is gonna become a med tech! after that he is gonna continue on and get his dr's in pathology. i'm gonna take a couple of online classes and get my generals out of the way since i'm more then half way there. So life is gonna get even more crazy with working, school and a new baby! i'm very excited to continue this lack of sleep program i'm on hahaa!
Just to brag on thor.... he got a semi promotion at work! he now is the official individual who does all the training for his lab! and next month he gets promoted to lab tech 2! it pretty much means he is doing great at his job and moving up in the company!








Oakley at Rachels and her gaurd dog!!














Oakley and Rachels baby Ella! there BFF's





Oakely at the Shower being stinkin cute!

Baby girl LOVES her daddy!!

Oh the joys of being a new parent! Yesterday we ran to the snow cone shack to get a snow cone, too bad they were closed due to the utah holiday! When we got home I ran to the store and left Oaklie with Thor. While i was away Oaklie pooped every were!! she pooped so much she pooped onto every piece of padding on the car seat, through 2 blankets and all over herself!! It took Thor 30 mins to clean it all up!!
Then.... Later that night, Thor had finished feeding her and we had bathed her and was getting ready to put her in bed when.... blah! Oaklie puked ALL over herself and Thor!!! it went all over our bed and we had to re-wash baby, change her clothes and change the sheets!
After her second bath Thor went to change her diaper and as soon as we took it off she peed all over herself and her bed!!! so we had to wash her body again! blahaha!!
Baby girl had a rough night....but at least she waited till daddy got home!! Whose mommys best friend! haha!!!

Oaklie's FINALLY here!!

Yeah we finally have a baby girl!! Oaklie Rogers, born 7-8-09 (which is cute because my wedding anniversary is 9-8-07! were ment to be a family)!!!! she was 7 pounds 10 oz and was 20 inches long!!! so after 12 hours of labor, 2 hours of pushing and an emergency c-section this princess finally decided to grace us with her presence! Here is the story of how she came!!
We go to the hospital tuesday july 7th to start a pill call cervidel to help my cervix start to soften. I was contracting too much for them to be able to use it. They decided to hook us up to the potossum which is the medicine that helps you dialate instead. At 5:45 am on the july 8th my water broke. The nurse asked if i wanted an epideral, she said the anestesiaologist was getting ready to go into surgery and would be unavailable until 8 am. i said i would wait a little while, well... about 30 mins later i wanted one! So he quickly came in and gave me one and it was beautiful. They checked me at that time and i was dialated to a 3.
5 hours later the epideral starts to wear off and i'm in ALOT of pain. so the anestesiaologist comes back in to give me more medication.... we'll to sum it up i didn't get numb after a 30 mins. He was just amazed that i didn't get numb! she he took it out and placed another epideral into another vertibre and this time it shot pain on the side of my back. he was like "i've been doing this for 30 years and this should not be hurting there. i put it in text book perfect.". he said that it didn't hurt when he flushed it but only hurt when the medicine went in. so he took this one out and i got a 3rd epideral placed and this time i got numb. the anestesiaologist said that if i couldnt stay numb this time that the epideral probably wont work on me and i would be doing this natural! the nurse checked me at this time and i had gone from a 3 to an 8 in 5 hours! the nurse said that, that ususally dosent happen to first time pregnancys and no wonder i was in pain!
A couple of hours later they checked me and i was completley ephased and dialated to a 10! yahoo time for pushing!!! right before i started pushing i noticed i didn't feel well, they took my temp and it was at a 102 and some how i had gotten an infection!
So we start pushing and after every 3rd push i puked ALL over myself!! after an hour and a half of pushing my dr. said if she dosent come in 30 mins we would have to do a c-section becuse she should have come out because i was pushing just fine. she said she couldnt use clamps or a vaccuum to help because she couldnt see how the baby was positioned.
During that time the epideral started to wear off, 30 mins later i was in some pain. so my dr. said "okay c-section time". as thor got dressed i got a contraction that contracted so hard i couldnt breath! it refused to let up and let off the baby so the dr. said no time we have to do this now! and wheeled me off to surgery! Once in the operating room i was NO longer numb at all and i was screaming and crying and couldnt breath due to the contraction that still would not let up! The anestisologist said "were gonna have to put her under i cant get her numb!" So since i was being put under thor wasnt allowed in the operating room. Luckily i had asked my nurse from my ob office to be there with me. since she was a nurse she was allowed in the room, Florance (the nurse) came to the hospital on her own time to be there for me and was able to calm me down and coach me and help me to breath. I felt like i was going to pass out and die! Then i feel asleep to due the drugs.
Poor thor is sitting outside hearing me scream, then silence, then 5 mins later heard our baby scream! he was relieved! after 10 mins they let him in the room to hold our baby! My dr. is very good and stitched me up and i hear from all the nurses that it looks so good that i probably wont scar! Due to my infection they put me on 3 different antibiotics since they didn't know were the infection was coming from. They kept me pretty druged up the next day.
I dont even remember much from wed. or thursday. I didn't even hold my baby till she was 3 days old! Thor however was able to give miss oaklie her first bath!
My fever finally broke and i was able to hold my baby and the dr. came in and said our baby had jaundice and needed to stay in the light for 24 hours. i started balling, i finally got to hold my baby and be a mommy and they take her from me!
then the anistisologist came in to our room and apologized! it was shocking because he was so nice! he said that he has been doing this for 30 years and has NEVER seen what happend to me! he said that the epiderals went in text book perfect and he even called some of his friends to try to figure out what went wrong but nobody knew. he said even when he took them out of my back they were perfect and not bent in anyway. so it was nice to have him come talk to us for like a half hour. then he recomended to never try to have a vaginal birth again and to only do c-sections and that he dosent think a spinal would numb me so probably to be put under again!
After being on so many drugs i wasnt able to pee and i was in increadible pain! the nurse didn't want to give me a cathider so she put one in just to relieve the pressure and took it back out. well when she did that i peed a liter and a half!!! it felt amazing! then 20 mins later i was in pain again and begged for a cathider to be left in, she said there is no way i still had a lot of pee in me. so she did an ultra sound thing to see how much pee was in u and found that there was at least 8 ml and placed a cathider for the night!
My stomach was so swollen i still looked pregnant 3 days after having a baby, thats because i was BACKED up!! it took me 4 days to fart and exactly 1 week to poop!! my dr. actually had to give me stuff to help me go! who knew how much you could appreciate natural body functions!
After Oaklie was done with her jaundice treatment my fever went back up to 102 so again i was too weak to really do much with her! after 24 hours of no fever they released us to go home!!! so sunday we all arrived home were my mom was waiting, she came from NJ to visit us and help! we'll monday morning around 4 am my fever came back and my dr. sent me back to the hospital for test and more antibiotics. since oaklie had already been released she wasnt allowed to stay in the hospital with me unless someone stayed too. so she stayed at home with my mom and Thor. Thor and Oaklie would come every night for dinner and a movie and i just balled when they left. Finally on Wed. I had been with out a fever for 48 hours and had finished a billion antibitocs so they sent me home yahoo!!! after 1 week and 1 day in the hospital. my dr. has kinda put me on a bed rest so i try to take care of my baby as much as i can but i pass her off to my mom alot so i can rest up! it took a great deal to get her here with a looong crazy pregnancy to a loong crazy birth we finally have our gorgoues little girl!! here are some photos for now! hope you enjoy!!!.
oh ps i have the best husband in the world who was there for me the whole time and took care of me and baby while in the hospital! he is now back to work and still does everything he can to play daddy and mommy!! he loves his little girl so much first thing he does when he comes home is picks her up even if i just put her down and she was sleeping! hahah man i love my family!!



blahaha my baby has a fohawk!!!