Our Weekend

Yesterday was a great day filled with relaxing and hanging out with some family. Maya was able to spend time with my aunt Susan, aunt Natalie, cousin brad, uncle Eric, and my mom was "finally" (in her words) able to get some good bonding time with her. Ty went to Salem last night for Alex & Tracy's rehearsal dinner, so Grammy came over to hang with Maya & I. It was a much needed relaxing night!

Today Ty was in his good friend Alex's wedding, so Maya and I made our first big venture out of the house. We did pretty good with a lot of help from our friend Brodie who was our driver, bag carrier, etc. Maya wore her first dress to the big party!

Our friends Nicole, Ty and Jenna also stopped by to visit this evening they all commented on how petite Maya looks in real life. I think it is because she is so long, her weight is really spread out.

The story, in Dad's eyes...

I had to throw a couple of my favorite pics in here, thanks to Aunt Natalie. This was me announcing, "Baby girl!" for the first time. The second one is simply beautiful...

I had the privilege of watching this (the birth) all go down from what I have coined "The Bobsled Position": me sitting behind Molly, counting as she pushed, and getting to witness Maya enter the world from basically the same view as Mom. For those of you who didn't hear the story, we got to the hospital Wednesday morning around 7:30 AM. They induced Moll around 9 AM, and for the next 9 hours, not much happened. Then around 6:30 PM that night, Maya decided it was time, and she wasn't kidding. From that first hard contraction, Moll dilated to an 8+ within an hour. She started the actual pushing around 9, and out Maya came at 10:41.

Everything was perfect. I think it still has not hit me, as it happened so fast, but I couldn't have imagined it going any better. Easy for me to say, I know, but Moll and I both talked about Megan and Bev (midwife and nurse during delivery), family at the hospital, and all the calls, notes, flowers, cards, etc. from all of our friends and family all over the world. The love you all have shown us is overwhelming. To quote Mark Wickman from Joe McLaughlin, "This is life at it's best." I can't imagine any better. More to follow soon! We love you all, and Maya says hello...

Home Sweet Home

My midwife Megan & Baby Maya

Uncle Eric with Maya at home

Maya loving on Dad

Well we made it home from the hospital! It feels really good to be home, but I am so thankful for the time we had at the hospital. Our midwife and all of the nurses are my new heroes, they made our experience so amazing. Maya is doing really well, she didn't really like the car seat but other than that she is awesome. She loves to cuddle!



I have to give a huge thank you to both of our families! They have been so great...words cannot describe how blessed we are to have them. Ty's parents drove down from Spokane to be here and my parents, brother, sister, & Gram have been superstars. Love you guys!

Maya Karen Christine Matthews.

Born: August 20, 2008
10:41 pm
7lbs 13oz
21 inches long.

Molly and Tyler are doing amazing, no internet at the hospital but they will update as soon as possible. :) Maya is the most beautiful baby I have ever saw.
- love the proud auntie (natalie)

Plus 1 week

Today marks being officially overdue by one week.

We took everybody's advice and had a date night last night. I wasn't exactly feeling ready for the public so we ordered pizza and watched the movie "Fool's Gold". It was definitely what the doctor ordered, we had a lot of fun...downed an entire pizza between the two of us and drank root beer! Pretty wild night I know.

We had our visit with the midwife today and I spent about 40 minutes on the baby monitoring machine, baby is doing great (obviously loving life inside the womb!). I haven't made much progress downstairs, but I have had contractions all day today! They aren't painful but I am having them several times an hour. So I hope that they just keep getting stronger!

PS...Can you believe that in a matter of days I will be a mom! Pretty nuts.

I thought that it would be fun to see what people are thinking about Sweet Pea....girl or boy...make sure to vote.

Blog Therapy

So it is Monday August 18th, and no baby yet. I know people are curious so I thought that I would lay the curiosity to rest. Our midwife said that if there is no baby by our appointment tomorrow we will start to talk seriously about labor induction. Of course last week I thought that I would want to wait, but at this point I am thinking bring on the pitocin (labor inducing drug)!

I really did pretty well emotionally until last night when I had reached my breaking point. Over the weekend I felt contractions that were about 20 minutes apart both Friday and Saturday night for several hours and I was just sure that last night I would have then again and I would be heading to the hospital. Well...no such luck. I might have had 3 all night. I was really feeling defeated. We stayed up to watch the Olympics until about 12:30 and then Ty headed to bed, which gave me way too much time to "think" about things. Honestly until that point I hadn't shed one tear over the overdue business. I tried to get ready to go to bed and absolutely lost it. It was about 1 am and I probably cried for no good reason for an hour and did laundry because what else do you do at 1:30 am when you are trying not to wake up your husband who has to go to work in the morning. I decided that work wasn't the best choice for me today, so I am at home feeling sorry for myself...not really I am doing a little better.

I hung out with my gram this morning...bi-mart, Safeway, Jake's for breakfast....all of the important things. Now I am watching O.A.R. on the HD Music Channel...they rock! Who would think that they could pack out Madison Square Garden?? My UO girls and I use to watch them play these little tiny venues in Eugene and Portland. Good stuff.

Love you all...thanks so much for all of the well wishes and comments! They genuinely are the highlight of my day at this point. I will let you know as soon as there is any "movement" down south.

Here is my fabulous giant self at 40 weeks...I have to be honest I don't want to take these pictures any more. I know that you have seen this dress several times, but I refuse to buy any more maternity clothes! REFUSE.

Ty's First Wedding

That is a funny name for a post, but to explain Ty officiated his first wedding on Saturday. It was a scorcher to say the least (100+, can you imagine my 9+ preggers self in that heat, not pretty!). The wedding was for one of his players, Trevor and his fiancee Chrysanne. The ceremony was awesome! Ty spent a lot of time preparing and it really paid off. I know they were really happy with how it went and several people commented on how special it was.

Ty and Jenna came down for the wedding and stayed with us which was fabulous. It was a great distraction to have Jenna here to spend some quality girl time and get my mind off of the obvious waiting game that we are currently playing. Jenni also stopped by on Saturday to hang out for a little bit, as always it was great to see her.