Makena and Madden

   My two M&M's.. I love them so much and they are super cute together. Makena is a great helper and a wonderful big sister. Madden loves his sister, he get's so excited and has a big smile on his face every time she walks in the room. It melts my heart.
  Madden blows bubbles, rolls over, makes a lot of cute noises, holds a bottle, looks at his hands and feet all the time, grabs his toes, long hair and pretty much whatever he can get a hold of. Madden loves being sung to, loves his jummperoo and has a belly laugh (my favorite). He has a double ear infection right now but is still oh so happy. He is four and a half months.Time has just been flying.

 

Easter 2013

This year Makena got to do three egg hunts and color a lot of eggs.... She loved it! Also it was Madden's first Easter. He was only a few days away from turning 3 months old so he really did not know what was going on :) Makena woke up early to look for eggs around the house and loved her dress from the Easter Bunny. GG and Great Grandpa gave the kids and us a box full of easter things (they always spoil us) It was so yummy getting our favorite Canadian candy. As you can see in the picture where Makena is jumping on the tramp, she was having the time of her life :)

1 Year Anniversary/Baby Blessing/Sealed to Makena

    For our one year Shea took me back to the spot where he proposed. It was really nice to hike and go back to our spot. He packed the food and made all the arrangements for the kids to be watched. Sitting there with Shea and talking about the year we have had brought back so many great memories. It was perfect...
   Where did all the time go? This first year of marriage has gone by so fast but has been filled with wonderful events... Shea and I had an amazing wedding and honeymoon. It was a lot of fun to have a Utah and Calgary wedding reception. Makena and I moved to Spokane to be with Shea while he finished his first year of law school after all the wedding stuff was done. Then we all moved to Utah for the summer while Shea worked. That summer (June 2012) we found out that we were going to have a baby and told Makena (she was super excited). Both of our grandmas passed away (We are so grateful we could attend both funerals). In the middle of August we moved back to Spokane so Shea could start his second year of law school and Makena could start preschool (September). In October Shea and I were very fortunate to get Makena's last name legally changed from Adams to Owens and to find out that we were expecting a baby boy in February. I got to have two awesome baby showers (I have the best family and friends ever!). We went to Panguitch Utah for Thanksgiving and spent Christmas in Utah with our families. In February Madden was born (we love having him be apart of our family, we can not get enough of him).

    In March we went back to Utah to bless Madden. It meant a great deal to us to have him be blessed on our One year anniversary. We were so happy and everything went very well. The other reason we went to Utah in March was to be SEALED to Makena in the Mount Timpanogos Temple. We are so truly blessed to have had this chance to be sealed to Makena. We had been praying and fasting for this opportunity ever since we got engaged. These were two joyous times for our little family. We love our family and friends and are so thankful that we could share these special moments with them.

Right now we are in the process of having Shea adopt Makena (such another great blessing we are so thankful for). We are living in Spokane for the summer, Shea got a job working for Cooney Law Offices and I am so proud of Shea for making the Dean's List throughout his whole second year of law school. All of the hard work, effort and late nights he has put in are paying off :) but the best part is seeing him accomplish goals that he has set for himself. I love you Shea and I am so excited for the rest of our journey together :)

He Is Here!

                     Finally my little man is here!

He was born on February 3, 2013. Weighed 8lbs 1oz and Height 19.5 in.
Madden came very quickly in to this world at 7:08am. It was crazy but very exciting for us.
My due date was Feb. 4 and I was going to be induced that morning at 7am. Instead on Sunday morning around 5am I started having contractions. After about one hour of contractions I decided to wake Shea up and let him know what was going on. He got out of bed and put the stuff in the car and woke up Makena, it took him about ten min and by that time I said to Shea that we need to go to the hospital and that we did not have time to drop off Makena at his brothers house. Shea's parents were staying at his brothers and were going to watch Makena and bring her over to the
hospital after everything was done but because I knew we did not have time to drop her off Shea just called them while we were driving and asked them to meet us at the hospital. As we were driving Shea called he hospital to let them know we were on our way and that I wanted them to have the epidural ready, The nurse said they would have to check me first. As Shea parked
in the hospital parking lot I had a contraction and it felt like the baby was about to come out. We got inside the emergency room and the nurse wheeled me in to the room. They gave me a gown to put on, I got the gown half way on and had another contraction, the baby was not going to wait any longer. Shea helped me with the rest of the gown and helped me to the bed. As soon as I sat on the bed my water broke, two pushes later baby was here......
Because of the shift change timing there were no nurses in the hall to watch Makena until Shea's parents got there. Poor Makena was in the room covering her ears and putting her head in a chair in the corner. Shea and one of the nurses were covering me so Makena could not see anything. The nurse delivered the baby. While Shea's parents were in the hall they heard the nurse say it was a precipitous labor and they were wondering what that was and if everything was okay so they looked it up on their phone and it just means a labor(start from first contraction) to delivery(child born) was under three hours. We got to the hospital at 7am and Madden was born at 7:08am. I did not have time for an epidural but I would way rather have it this way then with an epidural, yes it hurt more but the pain was tolerable and the recovery was much quicker.Way worth it to me.

Makena was so happy and excited to see her new baby brother. She got to see the nurse weigh and measure him, she even got to help the nurse bath him. She is so cute with him and such a sweet girl. Shea loved watching the Superbowl with Madden (their first football game, cute!). It was so fun to have family and friends come visit and we are very grateful for all the help, thank you.  We all love him so so much!

Christmas 2012

Before we left for Utah Makena and I decorated the house and Christmas tree. Shea and I also took her to see Santa. The stockings are from my G&G Adams and have been in the family before I was born. Makena and I have one, There are one's for Shea and the baby. I just need to put their names on them. 

It was very nice to spend Christmas in Utah with both of our families. We were there for about three weeks and each week was full of fun things to do. Makena loved playing with her cousins and seeing everyone. Makena got a new pair of skates from Nett, Brett and the twins so they all went skating. It was Makena's first time ever skating and she did such a great job, by the end of the night she was skating short distances by herself :) I did not skate because I did not think it would be such a good idea considering I was due in about four weeks :)  so I watched and took a lot of pictures and videos.

Makena, her cousins and Shea found a huge icicle outside G&G Owens house. The kids were so excited and couldn't believe how big it was. Makena built a really tall snowman with Poppy and a little snow fort with him. The dogs loved jumping over the fort and Makena while she threw snowballs at them. It was really cute :)                                                                                                                      

Makena has always loved to wrestle and she got to do a lot of it with her uncles. 

Another fun place we went to was Scheels. The kids bowled, played in the play place, checked out the sweet guns ( Makena loved the pink gun). 

  They also went tobogganing on tubes and had a blast.

My grandpa read the story of Jesus birth (family tradition we do it every year) and my dad did an activity to help Makena remember the true meaning of Christmas. I am so happy to have these things be apart of our family.
Before Makena went to bed on Christmas Eve she left cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for his Reindeer. She said the carrots would give the Reindeer strength and energy so they could keep pulling Santa's sleigh :) She wrote Santa a note letting him know and he ended up leaving her one. Makena was so happy to find that note when she woke up. It was awesome to spend Christmas with my grandparents and aunt & uncle. We do not get to see them much so it was really fun.