Little man burying mommy!!

Mommy feeds Bry, Daddy feeds Mommy, Daddy's big enough and don't need anymore:)

Good to be with fam for thanksgiving dinner 2012... Unc Kev and Aunty P!!!

Ok this is back in Oct of last year.  But I thought I'd try and catch up a bit:)

Can you believe how big this kid is getting!!!

Catching Up Is Hard To Do....part 2

In JULY

We had many opportunities come our way to spend time with both sides of our families. First of was a family reunion on my mother's side of the family (the McDavitt clan) at the beginning of the month.

My older sister Cassy was also able to come out for the reunion and stayed an additional week to spend some time with family and also introduce us all to her boyfriend Matt (now husband).

Not the greatest picture of all of us, but its really the only one we have...don't mind the stripling child, he got hot, so we let him roam around in his diaper.

After which she went and got herself engaged to said Matt, who is a really great, neat guy in our opinion. We are happy for her that she found a wonderful man to spend the eternities with. They will be getting married on September 1st ( Mount Timpanogos Temple).


Towards the end of July we were blessed to be able to make a trip out to Utah to see Ryan's sister Katie & her husband Cory sealed in the St George Temple.

 We were also able to hang around and have ourselves a little vacation while we were out in Utah. So after the sealing we went and hung out in the Salt Lake area at Ryan's parents house. We were able to enjoy lots of various activities while we were out there and Brysen had several firsts as well.

First Airplane Ride

First Time Playing in soft grass! and without worrying about chiggers (nasty little red bugs)

First time riding in a go cart (it was a first for me too!)

First time playing with cars! He loves them! These just happen to be the ones Ryan played with as a kiddo.

First time climbing a mountain and playing in the stream!

Enjoying the Pioneer Day fireworks with Aunt Kate!

Ryan shooting off some firework for us in the street ->

Family Pic, atop the Conference Center in Salt Lake City

Playing workshop with Aunt Kate

Playing with Sadie! She is an awesome dog! Extremely well behaved

 Awesome Mountain Views!!!

 This one is a picture of the mountains from the front lawn of the Jordan River Temple.

 The rest of these pictures are from up in the Cottonwood Canyon Mountain area. 

Catching Up Is Hard to Do....part 1

I feel like there is so much to update on here that I don't even know where to start....so I will just go month by month and do a summary....sounds like a plan to me, we will see how well that works.

In APRIL
 We had the temple open house for the Kansas City Missouri Temple. What a wonderful experience that was to be able to help out with and be a part of furthering the knowledge of the gospel in our area.

We also had the opportunity to take a friend of ours through. As well as Ryan's parents and sister Katie & her husband, came out to visit during the open house so we were able to go on a tour with them.

Finally having a temple in our area and so close to where we live is exciting and truly a blessing!

On MAY 5 & 6 the Dedication Sessions were held. We were able to attend the Sunday morning session at our local stake center while a friend of ours watched Brysen for us. Later that day after the last session was over, Ryan had the wonderful opportunity to help clean the temple and prepare it for opening the following Tuesday. They had to put all the furniture, decorations, carpets, etc. back into their proper places and everything cleaned and organized back to perfection. He stayed and helped out for several hours while Brysen and I walked around temple grounds and talked with people from different wards and stakes that were also walking around the grounds enjoying the peace and tranquility of the temple.
We also watched a terrific thunderstorm roll in, at which point the rain came we were allow to wait for Ryan inside the temple in the waiting room. All in all it started our month of May off great!

Ok, so its been several months since I have updated our blog with a post of any kind. Pretty sure that means I am slacking horribly. Its been interesting adjusting our life around our little boy, our life has just revolved around him since he entered it. And since I went back to work in February its been crazy trying to be a working mom, working Dad and loving parents all at the same time while getting help from those around us in watching our little monkey. I say that because Brysen has turned into quite the ball of energy.
Here are a couple pictures from the past several months....I will try and do some more updating of the blog later this week/end.

Brysen Dean Rosenlund (born Dec 16, 2011)

Well since our little baby boy wasn't acting to keen on coming on his own we finally decided to go with getting me induced. So on Thursday evening (Dec 15th) I was admitted into the hospital and started on the first round of my induction process and hooked up to an IV.

My Labor/Delivery/Recovery(aka LDR) Room

By 10pm they started me on picton.....




This is my chart around 4am (Friday 12/16)


And by 10 am my water had broke and I was in full on labor before you could say the word. They quickly got me back in bed and got my epidural started. Yes, I got one despite the talk about originally not wanting to, I was just in a whole lot of intense pain really fast and they needed to relive some of it fast because I was beginning to hyperventilating. SO they also put an oxygen mask on me, which the smell of it made me want to hurl. Which is weird to me, but anyway within 2 1/2 hours after my water broke our little baby boy was born.

Brysen Dean Rosenlund was born. He weight 7lbs 12 oz and was 20 inches long.

Still here and waiting...

Well we are still at home waiting for this little boy to make his appearance. It seems he is way to comfortable and doesn't want to come out yet. My due date (Dec 7th) has come and gone (or at least one of them, they changed it so many times) and we have been in standby mode since our last doctor's appointment Tuesday evening (Dec 6). And really we have been on standby mode since a week before that.

Briefing of Dr Appt- November 29th:
My doctor was sure I would go within 72 hours of my appointment if not sooner, due to being dilate to a 2, with a bloody show. She also stripped me that day to, to help the process along.

Briefing of Dr Appt- December 6th:
Again my doctor was sure I would go into labor within 24 hours. I was dilated to a 3 now, bloody show. She stripped me again in hopes to help things progress faster....again to no going into labor for me yet.

Contractions have been bearable and in all reality hardly noticeable unless I am paying attention to them. My body is really wearing down on me and I am ready to have this little boy. Its not like I am sleeping much at night right now anyway. I can't get comfortable and with this consistent cold I can hardly breath without coughing up a lung in the process.

Me @ 40 Weeks


And from what I have found out in the last week from talking with my mom, she had what is to be considered fast/short labors on all 5 of my sisters....downside to that would be that her water only broke on its own once and that was with my youngest sister. So at this point I am hoping (and planning on even begging if I have to) my doctor will just induce me this week at our doctors appointment. Because to be honest with you, I can't take being pregnant much longer and I want this little boy in my arms. And I think Ryan is getting tired of my complaining, he's been an amazing sport this past week putting up with me while I have been off work. I am so use to being busy and working full-time, its been hard for me to adjust, slow down and just take things one at a time.

Week 38...2 more to go (Nov 23)

Just a quick picture update from last week...once I get thanksgiving pictures downloaded I will be able to do a post on that as well. So for now enjoy a picture of my fat baby belly at 38 weeks :)

My Marine

I told myself many years ago that I would never marry a man in the military because I thought life would be too hard and I didn't like the idea of constently being away from the man I loved enough to marry for eternity. Little did I know that our Heavenly Father had a military man in store for me all those years ago.....

In 2001 when the terrorist struck the twin towers my now husband was off serving in the Marines. He found himself and his commrades in Okinawa, Japan that fateful day and once they heard about US Territory being attacked they were on fire and ready to "kick some butt" per se.

I was 15 at the time and I can pretty much guarantee that I was not thinking about marriage or boys. I was shy and pretty much kept to myself, my family and close friends. So the last thing on my mind was worrying about "my man" getting ready to go and fight a war. And to be honest with you I believe that I was a bit naive in what all was going on in the world....I considered my world to be very small and simple, that was until I stepped into college and realized that I was wrong. The world was a big and often scary place to be in by yourself. I was extremely grateful for the chance I had to go to college. My husband did not get that chance since he chose to go the military route a few years after high school. Anyway, getting off my little tangent now.....

I am very grateful for his service in protecting our country and giving me the oppourtunity to exercise my freedoms. Some people may consider him damaged goods from everything that he went thru in the military, but I believe otherwise. I believe that his experiences have made him a stronger individual, a leader and an amazing person.

I am even more grateful that he came back alive so I could meet him and marry him for time and all eternity. And by the end of the year we will be blessed with our first child, a little baby boy who I think (from the ultrsound pics) looks just like him. Which I am totally fine with :)

I feel bad for him on days like today, Veteran's Day, as well as all the other holidays we have to honor our military....he lost many of his commrades while serving in Iraq. For I know how much he misses them, but I believe it is safe to say that they are all in a better place, safe from wars and the need to fight off the evils of this world.

Thank you to All the Military Service Men and Women, the Veterans past, present and future!

36 down, 4 more to go!

We've hit week 36, only 4 more weeks to go til this little guy comes into the world. Lets keep praying he keeps growing and remaining health and strong.....and it wouldn't hurt to throw in a few for my ribs that he seems to get a kick out of kicking :)

Had our doctors appointment yesterday and all's good. Brysen's heartbeat was reading good and strong in the 130's....and so was my weight although you couldn't tell by looking at me. I keep telling them all the weight gain lately has got to be all him, cause there is no way the weight is packing on me anywhere. Its been hard for me seeing the scale keep going up and up every time they weight me in. I am so use to the scale barely reaching over 95-100. I have been in that weight range since I was like 15 and haven't change much since then. I guess the good thing is that I haven't really tried to gain weight with this pregnancy, and thankfully they haven't haggled me over the need to gain weight. They have been satisfied every single time as long as I had gained something since the previous appointment.

I am defiantly not use to weight more than my tiny little 100 and as weird as it sounds I can feel the strain on my body. I can tell its having to work a whole lot harder to do some of the normal every day things. I have definately had to check myself a few times when I've started to over-exhert myself, as hard as it may seem to forget, but some days I forget that I am pregnant and try to go thru my normal routine and find myself extremely exhausted at the end of the day and not being able to complete tasks....drives me nuts sometimes. Its been hard for me to accept help, let alone ask for it to begin with. I've found out that I am extremely independent, which I am sure my parents figured that one out years ago :) I guess I never realized it til now, that I need to ask for help when I need it and stop trying to do everything myself...like my younger sister use to say when she was little "I do it myself!"....trying to get rid of that mindset/attitude.

We've been very blessed and consider ourselves extremely so that we have had no complications at all with this first pregnancy. Daily counting our blessing and thanking the Lord for this little boy that he is giving us to raise. We are starting to grow more and more excited as we feel like we are finally getting somethings together and getting stuff done around the house to prepare for Brysen. His nursery is, for the most part, ready. Ryan was able to finish getting all the trim painted white last week, which really helps the looks of the room (sorry still haven't taken a picture yet) Finally getting things in order, yay! And so excited for my baby shower on Saturday that my mom and sisters are throwing for us....mainly excited to see people I don't get a chance to see very often anymore, so yay for reasons to get family and friends together!