Lack of Sleep?

These pictures somewhat explain my lack of posting lately. Hallie and her cousin Avery were playing "princesses". Hallie asked me to put this dress on her. With no hesitation, I put it on while Avery is sitting there saying, "Heather, that dress used to have two arms. I wonder what happened to the other arm." I just nod my head and say, "sure Avery, okay." while wondering why the heck she's saying that. (see first picture). Off they go to play.

A while later my sister Natalie comes in laughing and asks, "Who put that dress on Hallie?". My reply, "I did! Why? What's so funny?" She informs me that I have put the dress on upside down (the snaps to the bottom are around her shoulder)! OOPS!I didn't think anything of it. Guess my stupidity didn't leave after pregnancy. Crap :)
Pictures and updates to come eventually! Here's a few of Peyton for now.

One of my favorite things about her is how she always places her hands. She's like a little poser with them.

Peyton Marie O'Brien

She has arrived!!! Peyton was born July 29 at 4:44 p.m. She was 6 lbs 9 oz and 20 inches long. Heather recieved a call Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. saying that she should get to the hospital within the next hour to start the induction. Her due date was the 31st but due to the cirrcumstances with our plans next week her doctor said he would induce her a week early if she was favorable (dialated to at least a 3). Monday we found out she had become favorable but Tuesday was the earliest she could get in. After slowly progressing from a 4 to a 6 over 5 hours, Heather went from 6 to complete in an hour. When it was time to push the baby's head was already coming out. One push later and she was out. Peyton is healthy and Heather is doing well. Hallie was very excited to meet her new baby sister and really wanted her name to be Elmo. Here are a few pictures from the first few hours of Peyton's life. More will be coming.

Wow. Where to begin with the posting. Life has been so busy, so crazy, so fun. Here's a few things we've been up to. And I have to vent and encourage EVERYONE to backup all your pictures and important things on your computer. My laptop crashed and I lost ALL of my pictures and videos from the last year. Totally sick to my stomach? Yes! But lesson learned, that's for sure. Here's some pics from after my little incident. Things are going good here. I'm 38 weeks now! Hooray! Only 2, hopefully 1 more week to go! Can't wait.

(warning: picture overload + more to come)

San Diego Trip

We had a blast in San Diego with my family. Did so many fun things. We went to the beach a few times, Sea World, Padres baseball game, shopping, lots of late night Rock Band and cards. So fun.

So laying on the beach 9 months prego is not super comfy. Aaron dug a chair in the sand for me and my sis's and mom. It was AWESOME! Best idea ever. I didn't want to ever leave!


Can't resist my people watching :) Seriously! Check out that stach!

Happy Birthday Hallie

Hallie turned 2 on July 3rd. What a little cutie she is. I feel so lucky to have this little sweetheart. She had a great day, got super spoiled by family and friends and still loves to talk about her "Elmo cupcakes" and cake.

Fourth of July

The 4th was a fun day. We started it off right with the good ol' parade or should I say "candy fest". They throw out SO much candy. Hallie was our little collector. She ran around trying to get as much as she could. Next, we had a little bbq with some pools and slippin slidin! My belly flop was the best! ha ha. I was so gelous that I couldn't do it. Last we topped it off with some fireworks at night.

Do you think she's exited? Look at that tongue!

"Floods of 2008"

What an eventful year of weather we've had here. We've been having major flooding right now in Coralville/Iowa City. It is so crazy. So sad to see our city being destroyed. The water crested yesterday so hopefully it won't get any worse. We are lucky to be safe where we live. We've lost phone service and internet for a few days but are so blessed to have a home to still live in. Aaron's been out sandbagging everyday along with the entire community to try and save as much as possible. Basically everything is cancelled right now. Church, the entire University of Iowa (15 buildings were flooded) and medical school are cancelled this whole week due to flooding. Aaron has been working in Cedar Rapids for the past 3 weeks at a clinic there. They had even worse flooding there. What used to take only 25 miles to get there, would now take him 275 miles to get there with detours! Pretty crazy! So lucky us that we get Aaron all week! Here's some pics of the flooding that are not far at all from where we live.

These are all pics of the strip that we drive on to get everywhere (school, hospital, church, etc.)

Baseball field where Aaron plays every Wednesday.
This picture makes me cry. This is our most favorite pizza place here. It is divine!
Sonic. I guess no more Strawberry Cream Slushes for a while. How sad that they didn't finish building this not too long ago.
This is the park where we always go to take Hallie to see the ducks. These are the top of the Ferris wheels.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

The dating days...


Aaron and I celebrated our 5th Anniversary on June 12th. Crazy to think we've been married that long already. What a lucky girl I am to be married to such a wonderful husband. My life seems to only get better with him. Aaron was supposed to have a long day working in Cedar Rapids but because of the flooding he didn't have to go in. We were able to go out to dinner and have a good day. I'll be honest though, we spent alot of our time getting our 72 hour kits together just in case and watching the news. We got a little nervous! he he.

A little update..

I'm a little behind on the blogging. Here's some pics of a few things we've been up to.

Aaron's been sandbagging for the past 3 days because we're having flooding here. Last night after I had gotten Hallie all ready for bed, she just stared out the window waiting for "daddy" to come home. When he got home they couldn't resist going and having some fun in the rain. Hallie had a blast. She did not want to come inside.

Hallie and Aaron at the Father/Toddler Campout. Our ward has this every year and Aaron was so excited to finally take Hallie this year. I was just trying to imagine this sight of all these toddlers and their dad's camping. ha ha. Aaron said she had a blast.

We went to the Niabi Zoo in Davenport with a few friends on Memorial Day. It's a pretty small zoo but they have all the animals you need. Despite the humidity and all the bugs, we had a fun day.

I know I look like a beached whale in all of these photos, but hey, it's memories. This was such a fun night. My friend Amie had a "Going out with a Bang" sleepover before she moved away. SO FUN. We stayed up till at least 4 in the morning, eating as much as we could, singing our guts out with Sarah's kareoke machine and just chattin it up. We've all got some mad singing skills (and dancing (Sarah :))! ha ha. We sure miss Amie. Hallie still yells "Abby" everytime we go down our stairs, hoping that she will peek her cute little face out her window.