what we've missed!

First of all, I want to wish my big guy a happy birthday! Hunter turned 5 on Sunday and he is very confused now as to why he doesn't "feel 5!" He cracks us up! Hunter is such a special little guy and is loved by EVERYONE that meets him. He just had his first day of school today! I can't believe he is growing up SO fast!

Hunter's first day of Kindergarten. I still can't believe he's this old!!!
Hunter had his first sleep over on Tuesday with his best bud Bryson! They had a blast and totally stayed up way too late!... Sorry Christy!



His new 2 WHEELER bike! He won't even try riding it yet, Hopefully he'll warm up to it soon.

As always, his famous baseball icecream filled cake. His Favorite!

Bridger's update:
Bridger is doing great! He is now off the oxygen during the day and only at night so calm me! I keep the pulse ox. machine on at night just to listen and if it beeps from his oxygen being too low then I slip the canulas on, but the last 2 nights he had no beeps!! YAY! I am still pretty nervous about him so I'll keep the monitor on for a while!

This is just a cute pic with little bridger when he was still on his Oxygen.

Now the little man weighs 11 lbs. and counting! He had his curcumcision on Tuesday and has been an ornery little fart since! Today was a lot better, I think the pain is wearing off. Poor guy, I imagine that's not too pleasant.

Hanna can't get enough of our little Bridger guy!



He is so working on his 3rd chin! What a chunk!

I think these are my favorite pictures. Bridger can't smile yet but he knows what's going on and looks right at Hunter and Hanna. It's so fun to watch!

A Happy Reunion!

Bridger is finally home! We are so excited to be ending these long past 2 weeks. But I thought I should start at the beginning and just give a breif synopse from where Jon left off! At Jordan Valley Hospital, where I delivered, I was able to hold Bridger for about 10 seconds...the best 10 seconds! Then he was quickly rushed away and weighed and examined. He was making sharp grunting noises which shows signs of fluid on the lungs. They examined him for a LONG time and finally at 9:00 pm ( I had the baby at 1:30) they came in my room...never a good sign... and told me they would need to lifeflight him to University of Utah Hospital to give him the breathing support he needed. Jon followed and I was luckily able to leave the hospital the next morning and have had a really quick recovery!



This is right before lifeflight took him. The nurse saw me balling and said "Mom needs to hold him before we take off." Thank goodness for her, tha was a good moment!

When he got there, they hooked him to a C-Pap machine which supports his lungs and gives them artificial air inflation. It was at such a high pressure that it tore little holes in the side of lungs. They call them Pnuemos. Hopefully the clear up on their own but if not then they need to insert tubes inside of his chest to extract the air getting into his stomach. We were blessed, they cleared up the next day but that added a couple days to his stay in the NICU.

The poor kid could not open his eyes for an entire week. They called him Bubba because he was the biggest baby in there and got the maddest at them for bugging him. That's my boy!

Sunday was the first day we could hold him. THE BEST DAY EVER! They also let me try to feed him that day to see how he'd do. He had been fed through a tube throughout the week so I guess it's very common for a baby to not want to nurse. Bridger once again came through a champ! He latched on and went to town, he must have wanted to come home!

This was our first good view of what our little bridger looks like! He is his own little boy, he doesn't look like Hunter or Hanna. We'll see!

My mom and dad came to visit the day before we came home!

I don't know if anybody beside Jon and I were as excited to hold our little Bridger as much as Hunter was. He must have asked about 15 times every day when we could bring home our little brother and give him a bath! It was the best reunion. Hanna is still warming up to holding him, I think she's a little nervous. She'll come around!

Bridger came home Yesterday, Wednesday August 5th! He came home with Oxygen and hopefully will only need it for a couple more days!

I love these facial expressions! Hunter "This is what I've been waiting for mom, what the heck took so long" Hanna- "Can I touch his hair, he's so handsome" and Me- "Be careful, Be Careful, Be Careful!"

Bridger Jon Harris

This is Jon. Here is my first attempt at blogging!

Bridger Jon Harris-It's a boy!!!
We are glad to announce the birth of our son Bridger Jon Harris born 27 Jul 2009. He weighed just slightly under 8 lbs. The nurses said we would just call it 8 lbs since it was 7 lbs 15.6 oz.


He struggled right after birth with breathing and was quickly whisked away for increased care.


After a few hours of showing little improvement, the Doctor & Nurses decided it would be a good idea to get him increased care at the University of Utah Medical Center Newborn Intensive Care(NBICU) Unit. It was hard to see him with all the tubes being attached to him and being flown away. I chased him in the truck and Ashlee spent the night at the Jordan Valley Hospital. Luckily the doctors let her out the next morning because she is doing awesome.
Sorry I look Drunk. It was a long day. Here he is in the NBICU at the U of U hospital. They put a CPAP on him which I don't exactly know what that is, it helped him breathe and by the next day his breathing had improved, his lungs had cleared out a bit, and his CO2 levels had dropped. They told us those are all good things. He is still in NBICU, but is still improving. We have hopes to have him out of the hospital by the end of the week.

How does pregnancy look?

Well, I guess since we moved out her to boony town and don't get to see our friends very often...not that I would want them to see the huge version of me right now... but I guess I should post a picture of my HUGE pregnant self. It's always good to look back on those pictures to remember how GREAT you feel and LOOK those last weeks! I don't want to see that picture again for a LONG LONG time! Haha, Maybe I'll feel differently in 5 days! 5 days baby woohoo!

Our summer Cabin trip!

We went to the cabin a coule weeks ago ( I know I am a couple weeks late on all my posts, ohwell!!!) And soaked it up because we will only be able to go once this summer where we usually go at least a couple times!

Jon and Hunter had a good time fishing and almost caught one :)

We love it there, it's so nice to get away and just relax! Here are some pics of our fun little trip!Hunter stripped down to go swimming in the lake! I was so surprised he did it, last year there was no way he would do that! It was freezing by the way!

THe whole family wanted a picture...Yeah, not a good thing being 8 months pregnant!!!

Hanna, Hunter, Jordynn, Kyler!

All us sisters!

Hunter and Daddy fishing!

Pregnancy update!

Okay we have an induction scheduled for July 27th!!!!! The doctor says if this baby comes anytime now that there will be no problem with the size! Maybe that's why I feel so ready to have this one! So the swelling continues and the ankles are getting better. 18 days Woohoo!

Everything and anything!

We haven't done much since we moved in but I have some pics I want to put on here, just random things but cute pics for memories!

This was at grandma and grandpa Harris' house! They love to do the American Idol karaoke and the kids got quite involved! Hunter would just sing away...not quite anything similar to what was playing but it was pretty funny!

Okay this was a while ago when we went to Thanksgiving point! The tulips were beautiful (that tells you how behind I have been on blogging!) but I wanted t post some pics of the kids! They were having fun together and I think it was one of those joyous occassions before I'm a mother o 3 that we will have out places together! I'm not quite sure how well I'm going to handle going places with 3 kids!!!!ahhhhhh!

Dinosaur museum!