Sunday, December 28, 2008

The Great Escape


For the last three weeks of pregnancy Carter was trying so hard to escape. He would pull his knees close to him and then kick upward at the top of my uterus causing him to jam his head to the bottom of my uterus over and over again. He had been trying so hard to get out of there, he just did not have enough room! after three failed weeks of his escape, I went to the doctor's office at 9:00 on Christmas Eve and got my membranes stripped. I was already dilated to a 4 and 90% effaced. I was cramping all day and having some contractions, but I didn't think I was in labor yet.

When we got to the hospital at 8 pm I was having major contractions two minutes apart for hours but it wasn't going anywhere. They have had a few girls come in before that have had their membranes stripped and had contractions for three days before they had their baby, so they were worried that that would happen to me so they wanted to keep me there overnight and see how everything was in the morning. They wanted me to sleep that night just incase this would go on for a couple days so they offered me some vicodin for the pain but I was worried it might slow things down or stop them completely, So they asked if I would atleast take a sleeping pill. They gave me two sleeping pills by 11:00 and I probably would have slept better had it not been for the major back pain going on because of Carter's body being sideways.

After waking up several times I called the nurse in to check up on me and she said I was at a 5 now and without warning me she popped my water and it just gushed everywhere. I was so shocked she did that, that I jumped up a little. Now that I was in active labor they called the anesthesiologist to my room to explain the epidural and how they put it in just incase I changed my mind later and decided to get one but I fell asleep 4 times while he was talking! So Matt constantly was waking me up while he was talking, I felt so bad. I guess he was getting pretty mad about it, but they gave me two sleeping pills, I should have been out like a rock. And i continued to fall asleep while the nurse was trying to talk to me. My whole body was falling asleep and the hand that had my I.V. in fell asleep and cramped so I couldn't even move it for a while. My hands were just shaky because my body wanted to fall asleep and i hadn't eaten anything in a while but i did fall asleep between every other contraction on accident.

From 2:30 when they popped my water until 4:00 I had dialated to an 8, then they checked me about twenty minutes later and I was at a 9 and just a few minutes after that I was keeping back the urge to push while they got the doctor over who had been opening up presents with her family. So she just took her precious time getting over there. Meanwhile it was just the one nurse, matt and me there. The nurse grabbed one foot and matt had the other while I pushed to get things ready for when the doctor came. By 6:18 am he was born. 7 lbs 8 oz and 19 1/4" long. Carter Matthew Mecham has atlast escaped that horrible place and probably decided he wanted back in where it was warm! I can't believe Matt held my leg up for the doctor and watched the whole time I was pushing. He did tear up a little when he saw his little boy come out. He has been so wonderful and is the cutest father ever. I am so thankful for the blessing that I was given before I went into the hospital. It was just what I needed. We love our cute little baby so much! And thank you so much to Mom Mecham for cleaning the basement and making it homie for when we got home, it was so nice.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

The Cartster is here


Here are a few picture of Carter 







Thursday, December 18, 2008

Wintery Wonderland

This is what we woke up to seeing today.



That mound next to Matt is not a house.. It's the van!




This is how much snow was in our driveway this morning after Matt had shoveled three times yesterday.



Sunday, November 16, 2008

Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam

These are our reverent sunbeams. They were finally all there at once. This is their reverent "serious" picture. No really, we asked them to be reverent for this one and that's what they did. It's pretty much what happens every time we ask them to be reverent...






They are definitely a handful every Sunday, but we have so much fun. We are really going to miss them when we leave.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Cradle

We built a cradle for Carter


Saturday, October 4, 2008

Updates

Here is a picture of the almost finished living room, I just have to put the base boards on.

Well it has been a while since we've blogged anything, so here is a little update

We both have been pretty busy. Em is working all the time at Wal Mart shes been moved to the Deli so she doesn't have to lift anything over 5 lbs. The pregnancy is going well. We are planning on naming him Carter, so Carter is very active and moves all the time.

Matt - for a while I was working 2 jobs, I was roofing in the morning about 6 - 12 and then went and did some random clean up job from about 1 - 5. but the construction is slowing way down and I kind of got laid off but now I just go to my second job earlier. I started school last month, and I hate school...

we are moving...... back to Rexburg, ID so it's not really exciting but we're both going to be going back to school there so we can finish our schooling. we both have about 4 semesters left to do. we're moving in January. I'm going to school for Construction Management, and Em is going for Music Education.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Fireplace




after we torn the rockwall down this is what we did, it took a lot longer than we thought but it is now done.

Monday, July 28, 2008

We're having a BOY!!!


He was a little embarrassed about this picture so he is hiding his face

Everything is going well with Em and the baby

Friday, July 4, 2008

Rock Wall

We tore down the rock wall around the fire place
look here my sister in law posted it already so just enjoy her post

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Em

This is Em playing the Flute with Mandy Wiberg Playing the Piano

There Is A Green Hill Far Away

Thanks Nate for putting this on here for me.

Monday, June 9, 2008

Update

We had our 2nd doctors appointment today. we were scared out of our minds cause of what happened last time. But everything is looking great. We heard the baby's heartbeat today, it was nice. Em is doing great she's almost 12 weeks now.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Baby Mecham

Well probably everyone that reads this already knows but we're pregnant!!

We're due December, We are very excited
we think the baby looks more like me, what do you think?

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Aliens!

I was driving to work the other day and I saw this

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Cool Stuff

So my wife is the greatest ever! look what she got me.



We got Playstation 3, the only way Em would let me get it was if we got RockBand, so we did. and then we were looking for a TV just a nicer one but we didnt want to spend a lot of money. anyway we found a 56 in. HD TV for very cheap. and it works great. it was a lot less than a little TV so we got it. and its AWESOME !

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

POST

I don't really know what to put not much is going on with us right now. school just ended for me so I started work again, and thats fun, I guess. It will be nice to get 2 incomes again. Em is doing awesome and just moved to the meat department of Wal Mart which gave her a little raise and full time. Emily got called to teach the sunbeams a while back and I help her after I teach my Sunday school class. I have a very small class but we have 9 sunbeams.




Saturday, February 16, 2008

BUY NONE GET ONE FREE

Today Emily and I went to the mall for a little bit to look at a few things. At AnchorBlue they had all their mannequins wearing this shirt saying, "Buy One Get One Free" So I thought the shirt was cool and asked if they were selling them. Turns out they weren't but they told me to come back on Tuesday after the sale and they'd see if they could give me one. anyway to make a long story short they ended up giving me one today, for FREE! and told me to come back on Tuesday to get another one if I want.
This Made my day.


Saturday, January 26, 2008

Weekend Project

Last weekend we had a little weekend project of painting the laundry room. It was fun.....


Here's Em getting readying to take the old wallpaper off


Mom vacuuming about 20+ years of dust and who knows what else


Me painting


Again


Ryan came and helped out


The reason we painted the room was for Mom's new washer and Dryer

Sunday, January 20, 2008

DRUMS

Em let me get an electric drum set!! how cool is that? Now I can learn to play the drums and record them with the songs I write. I'm way excited.

Em Likes them too





Weekend Project

Last weekend we had a little weekend project of painting the laundry room. It was fun.....


Here's Em getting readying to take the old wallpaper off


Mom vacuuming about 20+ years of dust and who knows what else


Me painting


Again


Ryan came and helped out


The reason we painted the room was for Mom's new washer and Dryer