Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a busy weekend. First of course, was Thanksgiving. We went down to Fruit Heights to my mom's house this year. The food was great and the company even better. Brian went down to Provo that morning to play football with some of his mission buddies and ripped my favorite shirt while making a touchdown. I guess it was worth it. Then we had a wonderful dinner that made me fuller than I've been in a long time. After dinner, Brian went with the brothers-in-law to see Transporter 3. Us girls just stayed home with the kids and chatted for hours. It was great. I love getting together with family. This was also Ethan's first holiday but of course I forgot my camera so hopefully I'll get some pictures from my sister soon so I can post them.
Then we got together again with everyone except Tara to take my dad out for his Christmas present. We went to dinner at the Olive Garden in Riverdale, which was fantastic as always. But it took forever for them to seat us so we had to hurry and eat to get to our movie on time. Then we went to the new Megaplex in Ogden to see Quantum of Solace. It was a lot of fun. I loved the theater. It was really comfortable and that was nice because I was holding Ethan the whole time. Again, another first for Ethan, his first movie theater experience! I admit I was really nervous to take him because he's pretty fussy at night but he did amazing. He just slept the whole time and didn't make a sound. He hardly even jumped when the movie got really loud. It was great to get out and have fun with everyone.
And today, we're going over to Brian's parents' house to have dinner with everyone. I'm really excited to get together with the other side of our family. And hopefully this week, we'll get our Christmas tree and lights up. I love Christmas! It's my favorite time of year. Happy holidays everyone!

Ethan's First Bath

So this is a little overdue since his first bath was last week but I just went through pictures today on my camera and decided to blog about his bath. It was so funny because he cried the whole time except when Brian was taking pictures. He must love the camera.

He loved his head scrubbed.

Grandma doing a good job keeping him calm.

I just love the old man look on his face. So funny!
This was a different bath. Brian said he looked like he was posing for a picture so he took one.

I Got Tagged!

8 TV shows I watch:
1. The Office
2. CSI
3. House
4. Bones
5. Survivor
6. ER
7. Numbers
8. Lost

8 favorite restaurants:
1. Chili's
2. Ruby Tuesday
3. Olive Garden
4. Red Robin
5. Cafe Sabor
6. Iggy's
7. Wingers
8. Subway (I know, not a restraunt but I love it!)

8 things that happened yesterday:
1. Ethan was circumcised :(
2. I watched Just Like Heaven.
3. I watched The Big Bang Theory.
4. My car stalled for the first time. Its an automatic. Weird, I know.
5. It rained.
6. I chatted with my mother.
7. Ethan smiled at me in his sleep.
8. I took a nap.

8 things I'm looking forward to:
1. Christmas
2. Snow
3. Being able to sleep through the night again
4. Ethan smiling on purpose
5. Taking my kids to Disneyland
6. The weekend
7. Thanksgiving, I love food!
8. Getting a rocking chair

8 things on my wish list:
1. Crib for Ethan
2. A vacation
3. My house to be 100% finished
4. A new car
5. Lasik eye surgery
6. Christmas tree
7. Brian to put up Christmas lights
8. Ethan to keep being healthy and happy

8 things I love:
1. Brian
2. Ethan
3. Hot baths
4. Getting massages
5. Sleep
6. Vacations
7. Sitting by the fire
8. Cuddling with my husband and baby

8 things I can't stand:
1. When people chew with their mouths open
2. Bad smells
3. Certian construction contractors
4. Nasty breath
5. People who are always late
6. Slow drivers
7. Fish
8. A dirty house

8 people I tag:
1. Missy
2. Traci
3. Brittney
4. Mandy
5. Emily
6. Heather
7. Jacque
8. Kristin

He's Here!!!!

Ethan John Harding decided to grace us with his presence Friday, November 7th, the day before he was due. He was actually born at 11:17 P.M. so he was only 43 minutes away from his due date. He weighed in at 6 pounds 14 ounces and measured 20 1/2 inches long. He is a sweet little angel and we love him so much already. Everything went really well with the delivery. I didn't even know I was in labor until I went into my appointment Friday morning and the doctor told me my water was leaking and that I needed to go upstairs to delivery because I was in labor. It was all very interesting because that day I hadn't been having contractions when I was having them regularly every other day and I was in labor! So weird. But after about 11 hours of labor and a half hour of pushing, Ethan was born. He had a major conehead from dropping so early but its shaped up pretty good now. We were able to come home Sunday afternoon and its been so much better. I wasn't so comfortable at the hospital so its nice to be home. Ethan's doing really well and he's got a nice pair of lungs too. We love the little guy so much and are so grateful he's part of our family. Its so weird to think that he is our baby and we don't have to give him to anyone. He's ours to keep and we're so happy for that. Brian loves him so much that he even changes his diapers. Its so great. He kept saying before he was born he wouldn't change a poopy diaper but he's changed about five and he does really good. He's a natural! I'm feeling really good and just so grateful for my little angel. He is so sweet and I love him so much!

The before birth/after epidural picture, looking pretty happy.

First picture of Baby Ethan.

Good shot of his conehead, all gone now.

Our first family photo!

We're so happy to have it all done with and to have our little piece of heaven finally here.

Dr. Dracula

I had a very interesting experience yesterday going to my doctor's appointment. I went in and last week I was warned that Dr. Horsley likes to dress up for Halloween. Last year he was apparently Nacho Libre. But I didn't really think much of it until I was sitting on the table, waiting for him to come in and this walked in...

Kind of scary right? I just about jumped off the table. I kind of freaked out a little bit because he had bright yellow contacts in too that you can't really see well in the picture. He looked right at me and smiled and asked how I was doing. I was stunned and didn't know how to answer his question because he was so freaky looking but still acting like the nice guy he is. Imagine being checked by a vampire. It was kind of freaky. But he was a really good sport and let me take his picture with my phone. That's why the picture is so tiny and not very good quality but I had to show people what came into the exam room. Then he was making all these jokes about our baby being delivered by a vampire that night. But still no baby. Instead, we had Traci and Brody and Missy and Brad over to have pizza and play games. Thanks for coming over guys. We had tons of fun. This is also the first year we handed out candy to trick-or-treaters because everywhere else we lived, they either had trunk-or-treats or we were gone. So Brian had fun handing out the candy and seeing all the cute little costumes. Back to my appointment, I am dilated to a 3 which means that Ethan can come anytime. But we'll see. We will definitely be keeping everyone updated. Only one week left!