Pregnant Again?

Well here we are with another post for our blog. Brayden is now 9 weeks old. Looking at pictures of when he was born and looking at how he looks now, he has grown quite a bit but is still as cute as ever (even with his 3 chins).

Well since it's week 9, could we be pregnant again? Maybe.

But this time.....

...it's Bryan!

In a previous post, I said that Bryan

is always carrying Brayden in some

creative form or another. Well, this

is one of them-this is how he carried

him upstairs-hidden in his shirt.

It's just Brayden! Here he is 3 weeks old.

Bubba

Well it's time for another update with Brayden pictures. We have a lot to post. He is now 8 weeks old and growing fast. He is a happy baby, loves to cuddle, and loves to smile and laugh. He's been able to hold his head up for quite some time along with being able to stand. And he is finally starting to sleep better at night (knock on wood). A few nights ago, he only woke up twice. Oh, if you only knew how exciting that is for me! Anyways here are some pictures. The order is recent to not so recent if that makes sense.

Here's a video of Brayden smiling. We were

trying to get him to laugh like he usually

does but I guess he was a little camera shy.

Our little man just loves to stretch and stretch

and stretch.

Before church.

Getting ready for church. Brayden absolutely

loves baths. He kicks his little legs, flails his

arms, and splashes the water. We're in the process

of getting a video of it.

All dressed for church.

After church. This is his modeling pose. He

got in that pose himself. Bryan is just holding

his head up.

Bryan got to see the President. He's waving

from Air Force One.

Bryan is always finding new ways to

carry Brayden. This is the latest.

Our little Air Force baby

Bryan swaddles Bray so tight that

you can see his arms. He looks like

a little mummy.

This is a naked photo shoot taken about a month ago.

This is one of my favorites of him.

Well, the purpose of this entry is to show off videos of Brayden's first bath. In this first video Brayden isn't in the tub yet, he is just being prepped to get in. He didn't think he was dirty enough so he decided to surprise dad and pee all over himself and the bed. You can see a few drops on the sheets next to his head on the left. In the second video he is on his way to the tub. He may not look too excited to get in the tub at first but after the camera went off he had a lot of fun. The picture here, illustrates how he was and is now when it comes to bath time.

Brayden

We have a new addition to our little family as you have seen from our previous post. We are adding more pictures and since he is now almost 4 weeks old, he's grown quite a bit. He is a joy to have although he keeps mom busy at night. Dad loves teasing him-I'm not sure what he enjoys more, watching Brayden's reaction to it or mine.
















Here he is just a couple days old-still at the
hospital.

















Mommy and baby

















Bringing Brayden home. His outfit is a little too
big on him.
















Daddy and baby sleeping.

















You can't really see his face but this is one of
my favorite pictures. This is right before we are
about to go our separate ways. Bryan was driving
with his dad to Maryland while Brayden and I
were going to Spokane where we were going to
fly from there with Bryan's mom to Maryland.
He was almost two weeks old and had been in
3 different states and on an airplane ride.

















Brayden's first bath.

















Brayden swaddled with his pacifier taking up
half his face.

Brayden is here!

Well, here is a quick post with a couple of quick pictures of our new baby boy. He was born at 7:59 am on Jan 25, 2009. Brayden Matthew Winston weighed in at 7 lbs 3 oz and was 19 inches tall. We are so pleased at the new addition to our family. Thanks everyone for your support! Thats all for now, hopefully we will get a more in depth post added soon.

Christmas-come and gone

Well Christmas was fun this year. We weren't able to go home this time due to me being pregnant (although Bryan would say it was because of the roads-either way...) but we still had a nice day. Bryan came home and we sat on the couch and didn't really do much. It was nice because we had been apart for so long that that's all we wanted to do. The week after Christmas we had to be out of our apartment and things were crazy as Bryan got sick and we still had some packing and cleaning and moving stuff to storage to do. Our neighbors came and helped us out which was life saving. Because of this I was not able to update our blog with pictures and Bryan took the camera and laptop with him so these updates won't have many-if any pictures, but when he comes back, we'll have to add all our pictures.

We spent New Years/my birthday at Jared's, Amanda's and Ella's house. It was so nice to be there and we are very grateful that they opened their home to us. It was fun spending time with them. We went out to dinner at Red Robins and we also went to the Cheesecake Factory. We (well Jared) made a few trips to the airport for us-thanks Jared! It was sad to say goodbye.

I am now living with my grandparents (my dad's parents) until we move to Maryland which will be sometime in February. I am very grateful that they are willing to have me live with them. I've only been here for a day and it is so so much better than living alone.

I have about 4 weeks left of being pregnant, and we are praying that Bryan will be back before our baby boy comes. The pregnancy has gone well so far and Amanda has helped me out quite a bit with preparing for that big day. Thanks Amanda!

It is still white outside and even though it is very beautiful, I am already ready for spring.

This is an exciting time in our lives as there are about to be many changes and adventures coming our way. We both graduated college, are about to have an addition to our family, and I'll be experiencing military life, and we'll be in a whole new area of the country (which I am really excited about-I love the east coast). Thanks everyone who has helped us out in so many different ways. We greatly appreciate it!

It's About Time

It's about time to add another entry to our blog. With Bryan being gone, and me having to do literally everything, it's hard to find time to do the little things like updating the blog. And now that school is out and I'm officially a BYU-I graduate, I have a little bit of time to update this thing. 

Back in November, Bryan graduated from BMT which was a great accomplishment for the both of us. His parents and I were able to go down to San Antonio, Texas to see him graduate. We had a wonderful time and it was so good to see my husband. Our communication was limited to snail mail which I got about once a week sometimes going two without hearing from him. It was very hard for the both of us. So graduation was pretty exciting!

When Bryan was permitted to leave base, he had to wear his uniform which they call their "blues." Although he looked nice in them, I absolutely hated him wearing it because we were not allowed to show any kind of affection-we couldn't even hold hands. All we could do was look at each other.

While we were there, we did the river walk and it was absolutely beautiful. Here is a picture of us on a bridge over the river (which isn't shown). There were trees everywhere-we were under a tunnel of them.  

Here we are standing close to each other because

that's all we could do. 

Here's a view of where we walked from the 

boat ride that we took. 

The little platform behind us (that's in the sun)

is where a scene from Miss Congeniality was filmed.  

Here is a picture of us together.