Lots of Random Pics!!!

I finally got some pictures!!

At the cabin:

My "baby" nephew, Danniel, holding Lilly for the first time.

Lilly and Daddy!

Oh, please don't take my picture! I'm so embarrassed! 

Relaxation at it's best!

Lilly LOVES her playmat! One of the best purchases yet!!

Just chillin' with mom!

With Dad in her muscle shirt! (It's an undershirt, she doesn't normally wear this!!!)

Check out my muscles!!

2 Months Old!! Where did the time go?!?!

So cute!!

Hidden Talent...

Click Here then click on segment 5, if it doesn't go there directly, and enjoy!!

RANDOM...

SO I did not get a new computer from my work!!! I guess they figured I did not need one for only 5 weeks!! My current computer is still not reading my camera. I'm getting mad about it! So, again, no pictures! 

So we went to our cabin this weekend. It was good to just get away and relax. We didn't do a whole lot. We hung out, napped, ate yummy food, sat around the camp fire, ate fresh fish that my bro and nephews caught, karaoked, did a puzzle, played games, and went on a walk. Ok, maybe we did more than I thought!! It was fun. Lilly enjoyed her first trip to the cabin. The dogs, of course, had a good time as well! Thanks to my family for a wonderful time!

Just FYI, my school has been nominated as the "Cool School" this week on Fox 13 News with Big Buddah! We will be on the show on Wednesday from 6-9 AM!! It should be interesting, watch and see if you can find me!

Hopefully I will figure out a solution to my picture problem this week. 

Sorry!!!!!!!

I know it has been a while since I have blogged!! Sorry! I have had some people send requests for an invite, and I am now just getting around to that, so I apologize for that, too!!

Another apology, there will not be any pictures! :( Our laptop powercord died, so no battery juice! Our desktop does not read my USB cord, and my work laptop SUCKSSSSSSSSS! I should be getting a new laptop on Monday, so hopefully more pics......Keep your fingers crossed!

4 weeks ago I went back to work. :( It has been an adjustment! Lilly has been going to my mother-in-laws, my sisters, and my parents. When I come home from work, I just want to spend time with Lilly and go to sleep!!! I haven't been taking as many pictures lately either!! :( I know these moments are so precious and I REALLY need to be better at taking pictures and blogging!

On Friday, Lilly got her 2 month shots! I know how many moms say that is the saddest thing in the world, but it REALLY is! She was sitting there as happy as a clam, and all of a sudden, WWWWAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! For those of you who know her, you know she is a calm baby that rarely cries, so this was the first time she has REALLY cried and for a long time! The worst part about it? They were out of one of the shots, so we have to take her back in for the other one!

Also, we are trying to sell our house in Logan. We went up there on Monday and will be going up there again this Saturday. We have been cleaning and painting. We REALLY want to sell it, so we are doing what we need to.

I hope to be able to post on Monday!

Lilly's Blessing

Lilly was blessed on April 26th, 2009. Trevor blessed her and gave her a beautiful blessing. We had a lot of family and friends who attended. Thank you for the support! We really appreciate it! Here are just a few of the pictures from the big day! Sorry about the sideways pics! I forgot to rotate them before!

My mom and dad:

The shoes!
The smiling baby!

Pointing and looking up to heaven!
Three generations!
The grandmas from Trevor's side
The new happy family!!!
The whole family! The proud parents with their beautiful daughter, Lilly and their special son, Trent. We don't let him out very often!! (Don't mind me! And NO, I am not grabbing myself!!!)

Like Mother, Like Daughter!

If you happen to be one of my former college roommates, you will appreciate these pictures!! After I take a shower, I love to put my bathrobe on and just chill in it for a while! My roommates in college quickly became used to this!! The other day I was in my robe and Trevor told me to put Lilly's on so we could take pictures of us matching!! Isn't she cute?!



One of our neighbors brought over a present the other day. Tied on top was this little plastic phone. I had Lilly hold it. She was a natural! She put it right up to her ear, but I couldn't get the picture fast enough!! Oh well, these are still cute!!

P.S. As for the blessing pictures, my sister has them on her camera. As soon as I get them from her, I will post them! Until then, these will have to do!!

Happy Easter!

Here is our precious little Easter Lilly! The Easter Bunny (my mom) left a basket with a cute little First Easter outfit that had little bunny feet and a little cotton tail. It also had a bunny that said First Easter on it, and the cute little dress at the bottom. She was the cutest little thing in her outfits and we had fun showing her off!! We can't get enough of our sweet angel!

Lame!!!

So I tried to change my blog last night and it deleted my list of blogs!!! I think I have almost everyone's back on, except those that are private!! Could you either leave a comment or send your blog address to my e-mail? Thanks!! melissav28@hotmail.com

I know I for sure need:

Tiona's
Jamie's
Natty's

Thank you!

Too Cute!

My sister has a friend that does photography and she took some pictures of Lilly! Her name is Mary and she did an AMAZING job! We are going today to pick which ones we want! So many cute ones, it will be hard to decide!!!! Check 'em out: www.photographybydmc.blogspot.com then scroll down to the title that says Lilly!! Tell me what you think...

Pretty Princess!!!

Lilly came out with super long fingernails! They were so perfect and pretty that I couldn't resist painting them!! Sorry about the quality of the pictures! I wish I had a nice camera, or photoshop! Trevor's Grandma Noble gave Lilly this cute little pearl ring! Thanks Grandma Noble, we LOVE it!!

Daddy's Girl!

Last week Trevor had the whole week off. It was so nice to have him here the first week as we were getting adjusted to having our sweet baby girl home with us. This Monday he had to go back to work. It has been different having him gone. It was so nice to have him here helping and taking care of me and Lilly. My mom and sister have come up this week to help, but it's different than having Daddy home! So this is a tribute to my sweet husband and Lilly's daddy. Thanks for all you did and continue to do for us! We love you!

The Arrival of Lilly Belle Foust

On Thursday, March 19th (my mom's birthday) I started having contractions. I started timing them at 7:00 p.m. At 8:00 they were 5 minutes apart. I told Trevor that tonight was the night and we were going to the hospital. He did not believe me and went about playing his computer game. As I was having those wonderful contractions, I made sure I had everything I needed for the hospital. Around 10:15 I said, ok let's go they are now 3-4 minutes apart. Trevor still was skeptical, but decided we would go. He used to work at a hospital and saw how many women were sent back home because they weren't ready yet, and he thought this was going to happen. We got to the hospital around 11:00 p.m. They checked me in and had me change into a gown, lay down on the bed, and started to monitor me. I was there for a little while, then paged the nurse to see if I could go to the bathroom, they said the nurse would be right in. Lilly had the hiccups, and about 30 seconds after I paged, my water broke!! I paged them back and said my water broke! The nurse came in A LOT quicker!! She had me go in the bathroom and get cleaned up while she changed the bedding. At this point, I experienced the worst pain in my life! I had a contraction that went all through my spine, up to my head, down through my toes. I yelled for Trevor to come in and I just held his hand, then another one came. I told them I needed an epidural as soon as I could get one!! At this point I had dilated to a 5. Before they could give me an epidural, they needed to start an IV in my arm. The nurse tried 3 times unsuccessfully, then the anesthesiologist took 2 tries to get it in! Let's just say I look like a druggie! I got the epidural, which wasn't too bad. All I felt was A LOT of pressure. Once that baby kicked in, I was in heaven!! It then took 4 hours for me to dilate to a 6. The nurse said they were going to give me pitocin to speed things up. Well, there was a crisis going on next to me and they were busy taking care of that lady. They had 20-30 people taking care of her. So I was just taking it easy hanging out with Trevor. When they were able to get that situation taken care of, they came in and started me on pitocin. Once that worked and got me to a 10, I pushed for 2 hours and then the most beautiful baby entered this world! Trevor helped the whole time. It was just Trevor and the nurse in the room until the very end when the doctor came in. Trevor held one of my legs and counted to 10 every time I pushed. He was so great and did an awesome job! The doctor put Lilly on my belly and I touched her for a second while Trevor cut the cord, then they rushed her off to take some tests and get her to start crying. She was under a lot of stress during the labor. Her heart rate kept dropping and picking back up, so they wanted to do several tests to make sure she was ok. While they did this, Trevor was able to be with her and see her weighed, measured, etc. I had to stay on the bed and get stitched up!! LAME!! Anyway, everything was fine with Lilly and with me. Here are some pictures of the beautiful little angel. Enjoy. I love being a mom! I would do it all over again in a heartbeat! She is definitely worth every bit of heartburn, every contraction, every stretch mark, etc. I love you Lilly Belle!!!

Update...

So I had a doctor's appointment scheduled for Friday the 13th at 4:10 p.m. I was excited to meet with the doctor, find out where I was, at least schedule an induction date, etc. So I walk into the office and the office manager was looking at me kind of funny. Here is the conversation:

Me: "Oh sorry I'm a little late."

O.M.: "Oh, did you have an appointment because we're not seeing patients today."

Me: "Yes at 4:10"

O.M.: "Well he's not in, when is your due date?"

Me: "Tomorrow"

O.M.: "Oh, so you need to see him! Let me see what I can do." (She left to talk to another doctor)

While she was gone I went digging through my purse to find the reminder card. Sure enough it said 3/13/09 4:10 p.m. The stupid receptionist scheduled me on a day the doctor wasn't even in AT ALL!!! She came back and I showed her the card to prove that I'm not crazy. She apologized up and down for the misunderstanding. She said none of the other doctors could see me because they are family practitioners and could not do the exam. She told me the doctor would be back in the office on Tuesday and scheduled me an appointment.

Needless to say, I was very frustrated. I didn't even know my doctor would be out of town. I would have been EXTREMELY upset if I went into labor and went to the hospital only to find out my doctor would not be there!!!! Oh well!

So we have been trying natural labor inducing techniques this weekend. We went on a nice big walk today and I think the only thing it did was give me sore legs!!!

I will update everyone on Tuesday after my doctor's appointment. The doctor said he would induce me after a week, but I am not sure exactly what day that will be! Wish me luck...

More Love...

So I had 3 more showers!! 

4) My ward shower. I do not know a whole lot of people in my ward, so I was a little surprised that they had a shower for me! It was really nice. About 30 people came!! People came that I did not even know! This ward is great and so supportive! I mostly received clothes and a few books, blankets, and toys. 

5) My work shower. My team at work had a shower for me when we went back on track. It was a lot of fun! Almost everyone in the whole school came!! I, of course, was spoiled and received several wonderful presents!! Thanks team, especially Jaclyn, for putting this together!

6) Foust Family shower. Trevor's mom had a shower for us. They do them with the whole family, so there were quite a few people there. It was also fun! We had yummy food and visited with each other. We got more clothes, a diaper bag, toys, books, blankets (My MIL made us 3 receiving blankets and a big fluffy blanket, Shanna (SIL) made a cute Winnie the Pooh blanket, Kimberly (SIL) made a cute pink monkey fleece blanket, and Trevor's Aunt made a beautiful peach quilt).

I am so grateful to everyone for showing us their love and support! We have so many things for our little girl! Now we just need the baby!! I am down to 5 days! I will let you all know when Miss Lilly decides to make her grand appearance!! We are anxiously awaiting her arrival!