1st month

Well the first month of being parents has gone pretty well. There have been mostly Ups but some Down times to. Alayna sleeps good during the night but doesn't like to sleep during the day. We have had 2 bad nights where she decideds not to go to sleep after her 3am feeding, so I (sarah) just get up and take her in the family room to watch tv. Ron has to go to work so we don't want to keep him up. At her 1 week check up she weighed in at 8 pounds 11 ounces. She was down a couple pounds from her birth weight. But don't worry at her 2 week checkup she weighed in at 9 pounds 7 ounces and was 21.5 inches long. My milk had come in so that obviously helped. Today we went for her 1 month wellness check. She now weighs 11 pounds 3 ounces and is 23 inches long. She's getting so big, and time is going by so fast.

She went to church for the first time last sunday 9-11-2011. She did so good. She slept in her car seat the entire time. Here is a picture of her first day going to church.

Im pretty sure this is my favorite outfit. I love the shirt the most :)

This is my 2nd favorite outfit. Super cute!

She LOVES her bouncer!!

 This past weekend was my birthday so we were able to take a trip up to my sisters cabin in Panquitch Lake. It was Alayna's first trip. She did great in the car, slept the entire time.

Dad, Alayna and Jet relaxing at the cabin

Our little snow bunny. It was pretty cold up there so it a good thing we brought this warm blanket. She loves her blanket.

We are blessing her in church on sunday 9-25-11, so I will post pictures after that.

Our New Little Addition

So as you know I was pregnant and just waiting for the day our new little girl would come. Well I made it all the way to 40 weeks and was begging my doctor to induce me.  I went to my 40 week check up and practically got down on my knees and begged him to schedule an induction. He set it up for the following Tuesday night 8/16/11.

I was to report to the hospital at 9pm to start this drug called Cervidil. Now the reason my doctor was hesitant to inducing me was because I was only dilated 1 cm for 3 weeks. So he decided to start me on Cervidil which would have to stay in 12 hours before they could start the patocin. YAY!! We were in for a long night.
We showed up to the hospital at 9pm only for them to send us home because they had no beds open. They told me they would call when they had an open bed. So we went home and I went to bed. Mean while Ron was to anxious to go to bed so he stayed up. He finally decided to come to bed, and right as he got in the bed they called and said come down at midnight. She said they had an open room at 11 pm but they would have to charge me for the entire day even though I would only be there and hour that day. So we waited until 12:01am to check in. She hooked me up to the machines and it turns out that I had been having contractions for the last week or so. The nurse went over everything got me ready but before she could start me on the Cervidil we had to get little baby Alayna to move some more. So she made me drink soda yuk and she put me on an IV, and man she pumped that thing into me. This lasted about 45 min and by 2:45 she started the Cervidil. The only thing we were thinking was "Great now I have to wait until 2:45 pm to start patocin. This is going to be a long day."
We tried getting some sleep, but anyone that has been in a delivery room knows that you can't really sleep for a couple reasons that I have listed below...
1. The stupid machine beeps like non stop
2. The beds suck (especially when you are tall)
3. The nurse is constantly checking on you
4. They are pumping fluid into you so you have to pee every 30 min.
So neither of us got any sleep that night.

The sun came up and my mom came to be with us. Well at 10am I started having pretty bad contractions. They were 45 seconds long and about 1 min apart, but they weren't consistent. So the nurses called the doctor and he said to give me some lortab. The meds didn't help so the doctor said to take the Cervidil out and give me and epidural. YAY!!  I got the epidural at noon and Dr. Juarez came in and broke my water.  Now we just wait and see what happens. Doc said hopefully the epidural will help me relax so I could dilate more bc I was still only at 2 cm. The nurse came in every 2 hours from then on and each time I had dilated 2 more cm which was enough to keep me from having a C section (thank goodness!) By 8pm I was fully dialated and the nurse had me start pushing. The only problem was that I couldn't feel anything so how was I to push??
Oh haha let me back track... The Epidural Rocked!! I couldn't feel anything and I didn't even push the button to get more the entire time. Well I kept sliding down almost off the bed bc I couldn't use my butt muscles to keep me up so Ron and the nurse would scoot me back up the bed. One time they were moving me back up the bed my leg fell off the bed and the nurse says "Oops let me get that for you" HAHA I looked and my leg was on the ground. I didn't even know it had happened. Ok so back to pushing... the nurse told me not to push the button because I needed to be able to feel something. So I didn't bc by this point I just wanted this over with. Well 9:30 rolled around the nurse came in and said we are going to start pushing and the doctor will be here at 10. 10pm came and the doctor noticed babies head was not in the right position so he got the forceps I pushed 1 time and he pulled her out. I don't want to make it sound like I only pushed 1 time bc I had been pushing since 9:30 I just pushed once while the doctor was there. Kinda nice, and I didn't feel a thing. :) So baby Alyana was born at 10:35 pm on 8/17/11. She was 8 lbs 15 oz and 20 inches long. We were able to go home Thursday night. 
There are a couple more details that I didn't touch on, like having to give my baby to someone bc I was going to throw up. That was right after they put her in my arms clean for the first time :( Passing out 2 times the next morning bc of the amount of blood I lost and bc I hadn't eaten any food in 28 hours, that wasn't fun. I think that's about it. It was a fun adventure. All for this little beauty!!

Our new little family

Ron changing the first diaper. He got to change a lot that night bc my epidural didn't wear off until the next morning. Go Ron!!

This is Alayna and I back at home on Friday. Ron had to work so Mom came and took care of me :)

Lincoln holding Miss Alayna. He wouldn't give her a kiss lol.

Daddy and Alayna

Just after her first bath.

Her poor little eye is swollen and is goopy with green stuff :(

A Tutu mom and I made for Pictures on Saturday.

Practicing for her New Born pictures on Saturday!! We are super excited!

Latest and greatest!!

Ron and I had some pictures done for a girls camp fundraiser and I thought I would share them. Here are a few.

Ok so the only thing is I haven't figured out how to rotate them yet. But here they are. These were taken back on April 30th and you can hardly even tell Im pregnant, how nice. Well we went to Bonnie springs Rach to take actual maternity picutres on May 30th and you will see the difference in the Belly size. Here they are.

I thought this bird was going to attack us. It flaired all its feathers and was coming at us.

This big guys name was Bulls Eye. He had a ring in his nose :) Oh and all of these pictures were taken by Ron's mom Kelly. She did a great job!

So there are some of the most recent pictures. Hopefully I will have more pictures next week :)

Ron and Sarah Lyster

So I'm going to try to start writing things down b/c I am horrible about it.  The past few months have been crazy. We bought a new house. YAY we are finally out of that 800 square ft apartment!! We are now in the Greenway Ward.  I'm still am super sad that I had to leave my old ward. :( I miss my Girls.... But I just have to keep telling my self that there is a reason we are in this ward now.  We still don't have any callings but we will wait patiently for what Bishop wants to call us into.

We are having a baby Girl in August, and we can't wait. Her name is going to be Alayna June. Alayna just because I like it, and June for my Grandma June. We hopefully will get her room painted this weekend. We are doing it Lime Green on top with a pink boarder and white on bottom. I didn't want to put Pink on the walls so we went with the Pink boarder and pink accents. If I can figure out how to put pictures on here I'll put one up of the set I want from Target.

This past weekend we went up to St. George for a Triathlon. Ron did great!! He said his bike gears were acting weird. Like skipping gears. So he really did the hole think with only 4 gears. Man he's good!! We think the gears got messed up because we had it smashed in the back of the car, oops :) but we were trying to save money on Gas.