He's here!

Sweet baby Mason is here! Mason was born on August 17. He weighed 7 lbs 11 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long.
We went in to be induced the night of 8/16 at 10pm. Since I wasn't dilating we started with medication to help. This caused really strong contractions! I ended up getting my epidural at 2:30am followed by an ambien to help me sleep since we were going to have a long day the next day. A couple of hours later the nurse came in and made me lay on my side. Mason's heart rate dropped so they wanted to see if that would help, and it did. Then it happened again. I was in a deep sleep and I woke up to a group of nurses putting oxygen on me and they gave me a shot to stop the contractions.
That morning Dr.Ryder came by and broke my water and started the pitocin drip, which was going to make my contractions much stronger and more frequent. Mason did not like that! His heart rate dropped again and the nurse said he had 1 more chance. It happened again so she came right back in and gave Alex his scrubs and prepped me for the c section. 15 minutes later we were in the operating room and Mason was here at 1:41pm! He's perfect. We couldn't stop staring at him!

Sweet Stella!

Stella Jones was born on 7/1 and we were so excited to meet her! Since I found out Melissa was pregnant last November we've been anxiously waiting for this little girl! She's perfect!
I can't wait until Stella gets to meet Mason! Hopefully soon :)

Here's a picture of her when she was 2 days old

Mason in 4D

We had a 4D sonogram of Mason this past weekend! It was amazing just watching him in there! He was asleep when we started, but once I started moving around he woke up and gave us a good show.

Orlando

We made our last trip before Mason comes to Orlando. We have a timeshare there so we went for a couple of days and it was very relaxing! I spent most of the time in the pool, which felt so good since I've been so hot lately! Here are a couple pics from the trip.

 Alex played gold one day, and I drove the cart. It was so nice out that day!

 This is the biggest inflatable slide! Alex had to go on it.

 We saw these little guys outside our condo!

We went to downtown Disney one night and ate at Fulton's Crab House, it was so good and it was nice to walk around and see all of the elaborate Disney set ups!

We had a great time and I'm glad we got to relax for a couple days!

28 Weeks!

I'm already in my last trimester! It's going to be a busy last couple on months! Alex and I are going to Orlando next week and California June 19-21! Then I'll be done with traveling, at least for a couple months. Hopefully Mason will like to travel as much as we do :) We also have a couple of showers coming up and we're really excited!

Here's an updated pic. Mason is moving a lot more now, especially at night. I had my glucose test on Wednesday and he went crazy after I drank the sugery drink! The doctor said everything looks great and he's on track for August!

21 Weeks (A little late:))

I've been bad about posting pics of myself!

Here's one at 21 weeks. I'm 25 weeks tomorrow so I will post an updated pic!

A much needed trip!

Alex and I decided to take a quick one night trip to New Orleans last week since we were off on Good Friday. Here's a picture of the hotel we stayed at, it was the Renaissance New Orleans Pere Marquette Hotel. It was right by the French Quarter so we were able to walk everywhere which was convenient!

 We stopped at Cafe Du Monde and had beignets!

 We ate at an outdoor restaurant and had crawfish and a muffaletta sandwich.

And Alex got to enjoy New Orleans a little more than I did, I stuck with water :)  It was a fun trip and it was nice to travel since it's been a while for me since I wasn't feeling good for the first 14 weeks! We will definitely try to travel more before little Mason is here!