Jack Rawson Buhler

Little Jack is here! He was born Thursday morning at 3:33 am. He's just a little guy, weighing in at 5 lbs 10 oz and 19 inches long. He was about a week and a half early - and I was planning on him being a week and a half late - but I guess he just didn't want to wait any longer.

Here is a brief (ok, not so brief) rundown of his birth - I started having some contractions towards the end of work on Wednesday, and as the night went on they started to get more and more frequent, and more and more painful. I called my mom just to let her know and she insisted that she and my dad come down and be with me just in case, because Jason was at the fire dept that night. I didn't think it was the real thing, but thought it would be nice to have them anyway. My dr had told me numerous times to wait until the contractions were 5 minutes apart for at least an hour. Well I didn't want to be an overreactor, and my contractions were all over the place, anywhere from 3 to 8 minutes apart, but by 12:30 in the morning the pain was getting really bad so we decided to go in. That morning I had a dr's appointment and he had told me I was dilated to a one, but when I got to the hospital I was a 3 1/2. The nurse told me I was really in labor so I hurried and called Jason to come home from work and they started hooking me up to IVs to get me ready for the epidural, which I was really needing at this point. It was about an hour later that I actually got the epidural, and I'm sure glad my mom and dad were there to tough it out with me because the contractions were REALLY frequent and REALLY painful. I just need to say right now that I love modern medicine! The person would invented anesthesia is my hero.

So Jason got to the hospital right as I got the epidural and they checked me again and I was dilated to a 9. They told me to wait for the dr before pushing because I was so close, so when he got there about an hour later he noticed that the baby's heart rate would drop every time I had a contraction. I guess it made him really nervous because he laid it all out on the table for me and told me that most new moms push for at least two hours but that Jack would only last through about 20 min of pushing, and then he'd have to do a c-section. I really didn't want a c-section so I pushed with all my might through 3 more contractions and he was here! They discovered his dropping heart rate was due to the cord being wrapped around his neck and body 3 times! He hardly cried at all when he came out, so the respiratory team came and gave him oxygen and all of that but they soon decided he just wasn't crying because he had a good attitude so they took him off all the machines and Jason got to help with his first bath.

Well that was supposed to be the quick version but it definitely turned into the long! I'm so happy that little Jack is here. I've never seen anything so precious in my entire life. He is such a little angel and its true what everyone tells you about love at first sight. I still can't believe Jason and I are parents but it sure is a blessing to have a healthy little boy. We just got home from the hospital tonight and I really like having Jack home. Here are some pictures of the little guy. You can also go to hospitalportraits.com and see the picture the hospital took of him, it turned out really good.

Baby Showers

Baby showers are so much fun!! I get so excited for tiny, little baby clothes and things because it just makes me want to put them on a tiny little body! I've had some really great showers over the last few weeks with my family and friends so I thought I'd post some pictures for memories. The first one was with my mom's side of the family. Here are all the cute girls in my family!

I also had a shower with my dad's side of the family but I forgot to bring my camera! I'm not surprised though, I forget a lot of things these days. :)



And here are some pictures from the Buhler family shower! This is little Bucket, which happens to be Jason's baby name of choice.

And all the ladies from Jason's family. I married into a really great family, I'm a lucky girl!

I think this is the cutest thing ever. Ahh, the creativity!! Thanks again to all who came to my showers and brought me such adorable gifts. I finally feel like I'm ready to have this baby. I even packed my hospital back tonight....

New paint - before and after

So we have successfully finished painting the baby room! We're not done with our painting projects, however. We started the baby room about a week and a half ago and were finished within a few days, and then last week Jason decided to be spontaneous and painted our entire bedroom while I was at work on Tuesday. It was a total surprise - he even picked out the colors on his own! I was very impressed, it was the best surprise ever! We learned, however, that red walls take A LOT of coats in order to look good, so these pictures are not the final product. There was also an accident in the process involving our bed and some broken rails, so our bedroom is anything but put together right now. The bedframe is currently in the baby room with clamps and glue and our mattress is on the ground for now. Oh well, it's a small price to pay for a room I didn't have to help paint!

Baby room before....(someone spent a lot of time and effort on these stripes, but let's face it, they're pretty awful)

Baby room after....

Our bedroom before....

Our bedroom in process....In case you were wondering, that's a portrait of daisy, corvette racing flags, and the bottom says "the chamber of secrets has been opened...)

Our bedroom almost finished....

The Beautiful Oregon Coast!

Just before Thanksgiving Jason and I took a little vacation to see the Oregon coast. Neither of us had ever been there before, but we'd heard great things so it seemed like it would be a nice getaway! Well I know it was a while ago now, but I couldn't pass up posting these pictures because it's just so beautiful there! I would definitely go back again. Maybe a summer home...

Until recently I didn't know the difference between seals and sea lions. Apparently these are seals, and they're much cuter than sea lions.

These are sea lions. Kinda blobby. Still cool.

These are at the aquarium where you can walk through tunnels in the tanks, it was way cool!

The fish could even swim below you!

This shark swam right over our heads - hence the weird angle.

This was the first lighthouse in Oregon. It's supposedly haunted....

This lighthouse replaced the first one a few years later. We got to go up inside this one.

Lighthouse #3

This was a lightkeepers house, now its a bed and breakfast. I asked Jason if he would buy it for me and he said yes so I'm sure he'll surprise me with it any day now.

The world's largest sea cave. Sounds a little cooler than it was. It was supposed to be full of sea lions but they were all out in the ocean that day.

i rescued a laptop

i put out my second car fire today. it was in the U of U's parking lot, where you have to drive passed a guard shack to pay your fee's with one lane going in and 3 coming out. due to the position of the flaming car, we drove lights and sirens in going right into traffic which caused quite a panic. i jumped out and got to the nozzle first so i could squirt it out. it was flaming up pretty good, we knocked that down then popped the hood to even bigger flames. tons of smoke, lots of fire, but we got it out. then we got into the car to check to see if the fire got in, and there was a lap top under the dash right by where the fire was. without thinking i climbed into the non flaming, non dangerous car, and moved the lap top to the back seat. i'm no hero, just doing my job. the owner of the car came up in time to see his car flaming and a fire man breaking his window. he lives in provo but goes to school at the U. i told him thats probably a sign from the good lord that he should've gone to BYU.

fire house station tours

things have been slow around the ol fire house lately. the most action i've had has been when i put on all my fire clothes to power wash all the showers in the station (i got soaked, which is why i wore my fire clothes. imagine washing your shower out with a fire hose). today was we gave a tour, which we commonly do, to an 18 year old boy with down syndrome and his grandpa. it was by far my favorite tour we'd done yet. this boy was so excited to see the fire truck, and his face lit right up when we let him get in. he honked the horn (not so bad inside the fire engine, deafening standing next to it) and turned on the lights and he sprayed some water from the hose. his grandpa said he'd never seen him so happy and excited. his grandpa was really funny to, so we all had a great time.

birthday presents!

i had a great pre birthday party with my sweet wife and family. we had my annual spice cake (which i recently found out was cheap enough i can have it whenever i want) and some iced cream, followed up by presents! linds got me a neoprene life jacket to enhance my waterskiing abilites and my siblings and sibling in laws got me madden 09 to hold me over thru the winter until i can use my chafe-proof life jacket. thanks again to all of them! i was so excited that when everyone left i tried both of them out together