Getting back to a schedule

We were so excited to get all the help we could get when Coleton was born! He is a little angel but sometimes i just needed a nap. We were so lucky to have Brandons parents come down the night he was born to help us out for a day or so and then take Brandon back to Cedar City to try to get hired there. My mom and dad were also able to come down that day since they were already coming down to see my brother, Brent, who that Sunday was going to be blessing their little girl Alexis. Brandons mom and dad were with us when we came home Monday afternoon and they helped me get situated in the house, helped get prescriptions filled, and other little errands. They were also sweet enough to drive Brandon to Utah so i could have a car in case i needed it while he was gone. When he left on Tuesday morning and i was left home by myself i has so many ward members and close friends that brought meals, help him while i showered, or just came and saw me which was so nice! I then got more help when my mom was so willing to take a week out of her busy Schedule to come and help me. She came on Wednesday afternoon and made meals, deep cleaned my dirty house, let me take naps, went shopping, and kept me company while my hubby was gone. I loved the time i got to spend with her, in such a large family it was nice to have lots of one on one time with her. Well, after a week Brandon was able to come home and finally spend some time with his new baby boy since he left the day after we came home. I would e-mail him pictures daily so he would know what he looked like since they change so fast the first little while. I could not have made it with out Brandon if my mom would not been there to help me out! Brandon has loved being around Coleton and though he has to start school again he is so glad to be home with him.

First Baths

Its always funny how things dont turn out as planned. I knew that nobody likes to be cold and wet so i expected when we gave coleton his first spnge bath after being home two days that he would be quite upset but to my surprise he actually really enjoyed it. He just layed there completely content!
On the other hand, when his ambilical cord fell of just after five days and i decided to give him a real bath in nice warm water he kind of had a cow!
It was the first time we really heard him cry,it was kind of cute that he was so upset. I just could not believe it. I had expected that he would love to be in the tub, boy was i wrong!

Though the bath was more tramatizing that i thought, he really loved when i scrubbed his head!

Like always, things are never what you expect, but its fun learning it as you go!

First Round of Pictures

Here are some pictures of us in the hospital and coming home. Well the plan was to be induced on Monday the 14th so i was going to take a picture of my stomach right before i went to the hopital, so that is not what happened and when started to bleed i tried to get to the hospital as soon as i could so no picture was taken so after i got my epidural we took a picture of me in bed, close enough i guess!
Once i got the epidural we just waited around so brandon chilled in the chair for most of it!
Things went quick and here is them letting me hold Coleton for the first time!!

Here he is crying a little but we really have not heard him cry hardly at all the nurses had to make him cry when he was born because he was content. Him opening his eyes for the first time!

Coleton and Brandon having some time together!
This picture is priceless, three generations of comstocks. Brandons Grandpa Comstock died about a week after we were sealed. We miss him and wish he could have seen Coleton and be part of this picture!

This is a picture of when we got home, all scrunched in a ball.The Cheney family had a cool experience. Out of the six girls (remember that one (Caralee) is 15 years old) five of us that were married were pregnant. The day after we got home from the hospital my brother brent and his little girl Alexis (one month) came to visit us from Idaho Falls.

Its A Boy!!

We are proud to announce the birth of Coleton Brady Comstock born on Saturday April 18, 2008 at Madison Memorial Hospital at 11:51am!! He was 7lbs 8oz and 19inches long!

It all started Friday night when we were out on our date i didn't seem to feel good. Knowing that i was getting closer to my due date which was April 18Th i figured i would be feeling well. i had already dilated to a three and was 90% effaced i could go anytime i still though it was a normal pregnancy yucky feeling. That night after cleaning the kitchen and watch a jazz game we went to bed to see if i could sleep it off. Around 5 am i woke up with a small stomach ache from what i thought was food i had eaten at wingers. I layed in bed and after an hour started to cramp up i went to the bathroom and realized that i was starting to bleed. Afraid that something might be wrong with the baby and calling my sister Caetie, we headed to the hospital about 7am and when we arrived to labor and delivery (which was five minutes from our apt) i was having regular contractions that were 2 minutes apart and i was dilated to a 7. At that point the contractions were much more severe so i quickly asked for an epidural! After receiving that, i was able to rest, call family, and talk with Brandon. Around 11am i was fully dilated and was just waiting for doctor Hopkin to arrive to deliver the little guy! Once he came i pushed about five times and without even feeling him, out came our little man at 11:51am. It was purely amazing Brandon was able to cut the cord and he was taken to be wiped up. His oxygen levels were low and they wanted to take him to the NICU but they decided that skin to skin with the mother was better for him so i was then able to hold him. I am just so grateful that Coleton was born safe and healthy, what a little blessing he is to us and we could not be more happy with him.

Easter Fun

With Brandon being so busy with school we dont get to much time together as a couple so we took advantage of decorating eggs! On Easter Sunday i boiled some eggs and off we went we tried our hardest but really how creative can you really get with eggs?? So i quess you can get pretty creative!?! Well we tried our hardest and it was fun! I just love easter! We made baskets for each other, i got brandon some little toys from the dollar store like a checkers game, paddle ball, basket ball hoop, and of course candy. I think he liked them. He got me chocolates, a stuffed duck, and more chocolates (well i am pregnant!) We are just so excited to be getting our other little gift in a few weeks, as you cant really see i am very much pregnant and just waiting to pop so we will have to just wait and see!

Two Weeks Left

Any moment!!! Well, i am not sure it really is any moment but i am sure hoping that it is. I went to my doctors appointment yesterday and i was glad to find out that i was 80% effaced and dialated to a three! i was thrilled! Doctor Hopkins set an induction date for monday April 14th for me just in case i have not gone on my own. I am just waiting around and am getting a little bored and yet still really tired. I have been trying to get the house in order but there is really only so much you can do if you dont know exactly when its going to happen. Brandon finishes up his classes this week so i am really excited for him. He has 24 credits and he just has two test left until he is done. He just did his seminary student teaching(teaching for a week) to see if they are interested in hiring him to be a full-time teacher and he did so well that they are very interested in giving him a position to teacher here in Rexburg! I though that was great but we are not to thrilled about staying around here so they are allowing Brandon to go down to Cedar City and teach for a few days and see if they would be interested in hiring him down there. They agreed to allow him to go down and teach but he has to go down during the school break which is the week the baby is due so the plan is that when i am induced on Monday the 14th and he has a chance to see the baby he will the drive down to Cedar City and teach Wednesday and Friday at a local high school. It will be interesting to see how things work out but my mom is planning on coming down to help me and drive me home from the hospital since i wont have a car or a husband here!

When will it leave!!

This year in Rexburg, has been crazy. Brandon learned in class that this year had the longest strech they havee ver had of the outside tempurature never coming above freezing and the most snow they recieved in fourty years. With only one car, Brandon and i had to switch off who was able to use the car. Brandon had to get to the school every morning by 7:30am and i had to be a work at 8am. Since I could not bring myself to get up at 7am to get ready to take him to school i decided to just walk(during the summer i rode my bike) the half mile to the sinclair station. With the mass amounts of snow and being pregnant i decided that walking would be safest, well so i thought. In rexburg they are not so great about plowing the roads and shoveling the sidewalks. Once i walked down Trejo Street, where their are sidewalks, i have to cross a VERY busy street, Yellowstone Highway! I would be terrified to walk across in fear i would fall and an on coming car would not be able to stop in time on ice roads. I walked through snow up to my knees and the Call family just were amazed when i would walk into work with a red face and snow everywhere. Now that i am finished working and now longer have to trek through the snow every morning, i wonder to myself when is it going to melt?!? With a month until the baby comes i have noticed that there are still alot of snow all over. I would love to bring our little guy home without snow on the ground but i am thinking that it may be around until we move. We want so bad to be able to go outside but there is just snow everywhere. The locals here say that all the snow has allwayed melted before April General Conference but everyone is afraid that if the snow melts to fast we could definately have a flood on our hands but no need to worry, we live on the second floor!!!

Life constantly changing!

Well with our married ward splitting, Brandon and i were released as sunday school teachers (which broke Brandons heart, he loved that calling) and Brandon was put in as the second councelor in the Elders Quorum Presidency. He was really nervous about it but is starting to get excited. My last day at sincair is saturday February 23! i am really excited for that it will be nice not to have to work 8am-6pm everyday but i hope that i dont drive brandon crazy at home! His classes are going great, he has finished 9 of his 25 credits now so things are not as stressful but he is still constantly busy and since they are almost all online he is constantly home. I am starting to get pretty antsy(if that is how you spell it) to get this baby out of me but am actually loving being pregnant at the moment he is constantly kicking and moving and when brandon talks to him he will kick right at him, brandon is really enjoying it more then i ever thought! Mom and Kari are throwing me a baby shower on March 1. I hope that i have enough friends to come, that is always a worry i have so i hope it turns out great. Brandon and me are heading down to Utah March 2 to watch a JAZZ game! Brandon and his dad get to go to a box suite so he is counting down the days til the game and for me and Brandons mom we are heading shopping for baby stuff which i am so excited for! Hope we find some cute stuff because i am running out of time to get things ready!

A New Year!

With the new year beginning, we are becoming so excited for the upcoming events of the year. As we are waiting the arrival of our little boy we were glad when the day after Christmas our little guy decided he was not ready to come out yet when we had a little scare when i was taken to the hospital for abdominal pain. As i was taken to labor and delivery of Madison Memorial Hospital (five months along) nurses were asking if i had our car seat and if i wanted an epidural if it came to that. Panicking test were run and come to find out it was not contractions and the baby was fine but i did have kidney stone which i finally found and is now in a cup waiting to go to the lab. We were more then blessed to know that the pregnancy was going on as planned and we would soon have him with us but gratefully not yet. I go in for my normal appointment next week.
Brandon on the other hand is working hard on school already. He has almost finished one of his online humanities test and is working on another class right now which we are really excited about. We can wait for him to finish up school this year and we are excited to see where the Lord will put us after school is done. This Christmas he got packman, mappy, the race car game system and has been playing every second he can! He is getting really good with the help of the Carters on all of the winning techniques. Other than that we are just loving the chance to spend some time together without school which has never happened for us!