Sophie's Blessing

Our sweet girl was blessed on Sunday, June 26. We had lots of family and friends share the experience with us, and it was perfect. She was didn't cry and Jordan did a beautiful job. I selfishly held her through the rest of the sacrament meeting and didn't let anyone have a turn until we got home. I have been looking forward to this day for a long time, and I loved that everything went so well. I had several nightmares leading up to the day, including Jordan mysteriously disappearing and not caring that he was supposed to be doing the blessing. Of course, none of my bad dreams came true, he was awesome. We love this little girl to pieces and we're so glad she got her special day.

Family Time

June was such a crazy month for us! Family and friends in-and-out all month, which made it really fun. We got to go to Jordan's family reunion which was great, we loved that everyone got to meet Sophie, it was a great afternoon.

Girl cousins

Grammie and Sophie, she got Sophie to smile faster than anyone!

Me and Chels

Ciara and Sophie, she surprised everyone by flying out from Boston, we loved having her here!

Jord, Ian and Sophie

Ian and Sophie

All the Hill cousins!

Baby Sophie is 6 weeks old today and gave me a great grin to celebrate!

So, since she is 6 weeks old I had my Dr. appt yesterday, everything looks great so I was cleared to exercise again, yay! SO I was eager to start this morning and decided to start small with some floor exercises, legs, abs, pushups, etc. Everyone said doing crunches for the first time might be a little depressing, it actually wasn't too bad. However, what was depressing was deciding since I felt so good I should go for a run around the neighborhood, just a quick 1 mile lap. Ha. THAT was where the reality check set in. I would like to blame my pathetic excuse of a 13:00 mile on the fact that it was much hotter outside than the last time I went running, and I was pushing a stroller. We'll chalk it up to that for now...in the meantime I've got some work to do!

Good thing I have such an adorable baby to distract me :)

Sophie's Newborn Pictures

Here are Sophie's two week old pictures. We are so pleased with how they turned out, they were taken courtesy of Brooklynn Photography, Brooke did a fabulous job and we absolutely love them!

2 Weeks Old

Just a little update! We went to Sophie's first Dr appointment (almost a week ago) and here were the results:

Height: 21 1/4" - 83%
Weight: 8 lbs 4 oz - 48%
Head: 14 1/2" - 71%

So she's definitely growing! We are getting more comfortable with this whole parenting thing every day and it gets easier every day too. We've enjoyed lots of visitors and we love it!

This is often how I find her sleeping, Jord hates it!

Claire and Sophie

With cousins Jane (6 mos) and Jackson (2 mos)
Not the greatest pic but we did our best!

With Nana's quilt

Getting bigger!

Sophie Michelle Hill

She is finally here! It's hard to believe for the most part.
Here I am just waiting...and waiting...and waiting...

My water started breaking at about 9:45 am on Tuesday the 17th. I didn't really think that's what was happening, since I imagined a huge gush of water, this was more like a slow leak every 10-15 minutes. I was at work and I just kept working thinking I was being paranoid. When it kept happening I got suspicious and called my mom, who told me to leave work and get to the hospital. So off I went. Jord met me at home and we were on our way. I was just praying that they wouldn't send us home!

Once at the hospital they confirmed that my water did break and hooked me up to everything. I was only dilated to a 2 so I figured I had a way's to go. By 6:00 pm when my doctor came to check on me, I was still only dilated to a 3, leaving me a little discouraged! So they hooked me up to some pitocin to get things moving. I started really feeling the contractions within about a half an hour, and ended up getting an epidural at about 8:00 pm, then I felt great!

They checked me again at 10:30 pm and I was still only dilated to a 5. I thought we were going to be there forever! They told me to try to get some sleep so I'd have energy when we had to deliver....easier said than done! Kinda hard to relax when you know you're about to have a baby.

The nurse checked me again at 11:30 pm and I had jumped to a 9 and by midnight I was a 10. Then I really started getting nervous! The doctor had me rest and descend for an hour so things would be a little easier. I had to push for about 25 minutes, and finally she arrived at 1:34 am on Wednesday the 18th. She weighed 7 lbs 15 oz and was 19.5 inches long. Bigger than everyone expected but we were happy she was nice and healthy.

I was SO relieved to have her here and to not have to worry about pushing anymore, it completely wore me out. I was so exhausted by this time that I just wanted to go to bed, which didn't happen until about 4 am so I was completely fried.

Our first family photo, yes, we are tired!


The doctor and nurse said we really had the perfect delivery. Things went very smoothly and we were all so pleased. The hospital was honestly kind of a blur, and when we prepared to leave I couldn't believe it was all really happening. Jordan was half convinced they wouldn't really let us leave! They assured us we'd be fine and of course we have been. We are definitely still adjusting but we love her so much and feel extremely blessed to have her in our lives. She is beautiful and we can't believe she's really ours!

Little feet

Ready to go home!

Forgive the long post and boring details, I just wanted to record it all while it was fresh. She is one week and one day old and I have yet to really go anywhere, we are complete hermits! I am just soaking up as much of her as possible.

Baby Shower!

A couple of weeks ago my mom and sisters gave me a baby shower, it was so fun! It was so fun to visit with everyone and just enjoy the afternoon. Jordan's mom and sisters were even in town so it was a lot of fun to have them there as well. Everyone was so generous with gifts and we feel so lucky to have such sweet family and friends, so thank you everyone! Unfortunately my sister's camera was having some issues at first so some of these pics are kinda blurry, but we did our best, and I'm so glad she took what she could because I spaced bringing my camera altogether!

Start of the shower, this is the best pic I got of my belly, sorry!

Mani and Kelly, they'll probably get mad at me for posting this but I thought it was cute. Mani was kind enough to write down all my gifts, even if she did need some gentle reminding once in a while...:)

Opening the gift from Ambre and her mom and sisters, her mom made me that cute quilt and a car seat cover, so nice!

Mom and Kristen gave me the Very Hungry Caterpillar, love it! And after I showed Jordan I found out he has never even heard of the book! This will be changing...

Jord's sister Ciara made me a curtain for the nursery, she just graduated from the interior design program at BYU Idaho, she did an awesome job, I love it!

Jord's sis Chelsea, his mom, Michelle, and sis Ciara

And below, Abby wasn't able to make it to the shower but she made me this cute little snuggie for the baby, she did a great job!

Michelle made me this amazing quilt, she spent hours on it and did a lot of embroidery, it turned out so cute and we love it! She is so excited to finally be a Nana.

A quilt Mom made just for fun, I had no idea she was even making it!

The quilt for the nursery, Mom pretty much made the whole thing, but I did do the applique birds on the bottom so I can take just a little credit. I love the way it turned out!

And just a couple of pictures of the almost finished nursery.

All of this is becoming incredibly real now, which is so exciting, but so weird at the same time. I am just over 36 weeks and getting kind of nervous, but ultimately we are just so excited that I can't get too nervous. I told my doctor he just needs to let me get through finals next week and then I'll be good to go whenever! It's been really fun preparing for this little girl to arrive and we can't wait! Thanks again to everyone who has helped us out through this process, you are the best!