A Very Happy Birthday

He's here! Emmett Michael Gleue decided to be his mothers favorite birthday present and was born on November 3, at 5:48am. He was 8lbs 10oz, 21 1/2 inches long!

I started having contractions early Sunday morning around 3am. They continued all day until we decided it was time to go to the hospital around 6pm Sunday night. When we arrived I was barely dilated to 1+. Which was really disapointing since I had been laboring for about 15 hours. They decided to monitor me to see if I would keep progressing and thankfully 2 hours later I was dilated to a 3 so they admitted me. By 2am I was complete and we started pushing. The baby was still really high, so they warned me pushing wasn't going to be easy. Well, long story short 1 hour 1/2 later the checked to see where the baby was and he was still really high, and wasn't moving. They told me he was too big and wasn't fitting through my pelvis. So we decided it was time to settle for a c-section. I was pretty disapointed after going through all that I did, but by 4 in the morning going on 25 hours of no sleep and hard long labor I was exhausted and didn't think I could keep pushing even if they thought he would fit through. At 5:48am we heard that little cry and he was born.

We will be in the hospital until probably Friday. He's healthy and beautiful and we are so in love with him. We couldn't be more thankful for this little miracle.

So We Keep Waiting, Waiting on the World to Change

I woke up the other day with that song in my head and thought it was pretty fitting for my life right now. My last official day of work was last Friday, one week ago. Probably up there in one of the happiest days of my life. Its been a long ride, and it feels so good to be unemployed. I'm to the point now where I don't even like going out in public anymore. I have about 4 shirts that still fit, and I've resorted to wearing Mike's t-shirts now because at least they're modest. So to be able to stay hibernated in our little house is quite nice. My one adventure is going on my daily walk around the neighborhood. But I try and go when people are all at work or at school. Things with the baby are going well, found out I'm dilated to a 1cm which made me feel great and I have a lot of Braxton Hicks. So at least something is happening.

We also celebrated Mike's 29th birthday last week. I asked him what he wanted to do, as in where to go to dinner, or a movie, or whatever. But as a typical Mike thing to say he said he just wanted to have a cookout with some friends up the canyon. So we did.

Mike's birthday pumkin pie. We only used 1 candle cause I wasn't sure if the pumkin could handle 29....

Good News and Bad News

I went to the Dr. today and we got some good news! The baby has turned head down! I really didn't want a c-section if I could help it. So hopefully he'll stay that way until d-day. He's getting so big I don't know how he has much room to move anymore period. Other than that everything else is looking normal and uneventful.

Our bad news is that Mike's 4Runner is officially dead. Like, time to sell it for scraps if we can. Its been running badly lately so we took it in, and they told us it needs a new engine. Considering its almost 20 years old, its not worth it. The timing is awful. And I now get to take him to work, or have him take the bus until we get another one. We both think that cars are the biggest waste of money and so the thought of spending our money on a new car makes us well....sick. Especially since we're about to have a baby here in a couple weeks. Oh well. Everything happens for a reason right?

Baby Update

Well, I don't know why I'm posting an update because not much is new in the baby department other than I just keep getting bigger and bigger. I even had someone ask me if I was sure I'm not having twins. Yep. Definitely sure of that. He's definitely taking up his fair share of my lungs too. It depends on the day, but 3 out of 7 days of the week I can never seem to get a full breath of air. It feels like I'm having an asthma attack. The doctor simply said the only way to relieve this is DELIVERY. Great. At least its not constant and this baby does give me some breaks. I did go to the doctor today, he checked me to see if I was dilated at all, and I'm not. No surprise there. He said that's normal for this point in pregnancy and if I was then its just an 'added bonus'. Who knows if I'll even be able to deliver this baby, he checked his position and currently the baby is laying SIDEWAYS. Like he's in a hammock. He said he still has time to move, but if he doesn't its a definite c-section. So we're hoping he gets out of his comfy hammock and moves down!

Alpine Loop

This past weekend Mike took me on his all time favorite fall drive, the Alpine Loop through American Fork canyon. I thought it might be a little too early to see the fall leaves changing color, but we were pleasantly surprised. We went with our friends Katie and Curtis. The weather was perfect and we had a great time enjoying being outside.

Me looking 'slightly' pregnant. :)

Mike looking 'slightly' pregnant. :)

Nursery

We've finally completed the baby's room! It has been a HUGE project, and I'm still amazed that we actually finished it with time to spare...and I'm amazed that its actually the same room we started with. Here's a couple pictures to remind you of what it looked like back in May when we started:

This is when we just started to peel back the old paneling

Mudding, sanding and painting...

And the finished product: (going clockwise around the room)

A couple close-ups of the bedding:

I know this isn't the most interesting of posts, but we've had people asking us to post pictures so here you go!

Baby Shower

I had my baby shower recently and had a ball. My good friends Katie and Emily put it together and did an awesome job. I couldn't thank them enough, along with all the wonderful gifts I got from everybody that came! Here's a few pics...

Emily and Katie, don't know what I'd do without them!

My friend Katie is SO talented. Here's a preview of a few of the things she made for my shower:

The Invites

Baby Tips book

Take home gifts/favors

4 years

Happy Anniversary

1. What's his name? Jared Michael Gleue

2. How long have you been married? 4 years

3. How long did we date? 6 months dating, 2 1/2 month engagement

4. How old is he? 28

5. Who eats more? Mike usually does, but ever since I got pregnant its definately a toss up.

6. Who said I love you first? We were both too freaked out to say we were actually in love when we knew we were...so we kindof mutually "decided" that we loved each other one night!

7. Who is taller? Mike, by exactly 1 ft

8. Who sings better? Probably Mike, but neither of us are very good. I say Mike because he actually laughs at me sometimes when we sing in church cause I'm so bad.

9. Who is smarter? Mike definately. He's a brainy. I wouldn't have passed any of my college courses if it weren't for him probably.

10. Who's temper is worse? I don't think either of us have a temper. But I tend to have less patience.

11. Who pays the bills? Me. Mike probably wouldn't have any idea how much money we have in our account if it weren't for me. And- if Mike were to pay the bills they'd probably be late every month.

12. Who does the laundry? We kindof have a system going...Mike changes the loads (cause I hate going to the basement to do it) and then I fold it all when its done.

13. Who cooks dinner? Both. Or whoever has the time to do it after work.

14. Who drives when together? Usually Mike.

15. Who is more stubborn? Me. Mike is the most patient person I know.

16. Who is the first to admit when wrong? Mike-kinda goes back to that "who's more stubborn question" :)

17. Who wears the pants in the family? I have no idea. We both are pretty opinionated about some things, and then not so much with others. We make a pretty good team.

18. Who eats more sweets? Me. I always have to have something sweet after every meal to balance it out. Mike would eat a carrot over a candy bar any day. However, he does have his indulgences every now and then. Particularly with chocolate covered nuts or turtles.

19. Who mows the lawn? Mike

20. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Which way is "right"? I think my side is the right way.

21. Who kissed who first? Mike kissed me first. After watching a late movie in my apartment. I was half asleep and wasn't expecting it. It sure woke me up though.

22. Who asked who out first? Mike asked me out first. Our first date was snowshoeing.

23. Who proposed? Mike. He proposed at the Manti temple after watching the pageant in June 04. He staged a story that our friends we were with were going to get engaged that night and we were in charge of taking their pictures...but instead it was actually for me.

24. What is my favorite thing about him? I love it when he gets really excited, he cracks me up. I love watching him open a gift. I love whenever we buy a new "contraption" to put together he always immediately gets to it, cause he gets too anxious to let something to work on just sit there. I never get sick of being with him and I can't stand being apart. I love knowing he would do anything for me. He's my favorite person in the world, and aside from being in love, we are still best buds.