Playing Dress Up

Little girls can be so cute!!!

Picture for UW dental school...


Madison and her first dress for church


Madison and her lght pink tutu




Madison in her hot pink tutu

Announcing: Madison Mae Bastian!!

Madison Mae, born 5/15/10 at 12:50pm weighing in at 8 pounds 1 ounce, and 19 inches long!

Friday night (5/14) I prayed and prayed that Maddie would come that night, it was perfect--I would have exactly one week without tests, major projects, or papers. This would give me time to get used to my new baby. Around 11:20pm that night I was not giving up hope that she would come when I asked her to. I had completely cleaned my apartment, this entailed mopping every tile by hand, scrubbing the bathrooms, cleaning walls, the molding, the windows... you name it I cleaned it. (Wishful thinking to induce labor!)

At 2 am my water broke and we were so excited! This meant they had to keep us at the hospital and not send us home! It was pretty funny when we left for the hospital, Neal had me sit on a plastic bag as to not "wet his seat." It totally cracked me up.

After about 2 hours I hadn't dialated, they started up the Petosin and those contractions started kicking in pretty hard! Once actual labor kicked in, I was fully dialated in a little over 2 hours. I was excited to start pushing, and the nurse came in to tell me that the doctor had an emergency C-section and that I needed to wait. WAIT? What? So we waited, about 2 more hours... and waited... We started pushing and an hour later Madison Mae came out!

We think she is super cute, and we are having a lot of fun with her. I am doing well, it has been pretty hard with school, I tried to go to school 3 days after giving birth and I was pretty uncomfortable, to say the least. But after about 6 days I was ready to head to class and hit the books. I just finished two pretty awful tests, these are two of the hardest classes I have taken at BYU and I think this will be a good test to see what I am really made of!

well, without further adieu, here are a few pictures!

Maddie and Mom-check out her hair!


Maddie and Daddy


Maddie's first bath


Maddie Chillin in her crib


First Pedicure


Man Dad is Good!


Visits from Grammy


Visit from Aunt Michelle

I have a new obsession

This post will be short and sweet... I am in LOVE with this blog! Natalie Yost my MTC companion shared this website with me, and I am obsessed! There are cute homemade binki clips, homemade bibs that are waterproof... so CUTE!! Anyways I had to SHARE, it is just too exciting, I just clicked on "Baby" and went to town. I am in love with this blog!

http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2008/12/binky-clip.html Click here!