Presley Claire Robbins

Miss Presley Claire arrived to this earth at 3:53 pm on July 7, 2011, weighing in at 6 lbs. 13 oz. and was 20 inches tall. She is perfect and absolutely beautiful! We are so in love with her and already can't imagine life without her.

The day started off at 8:00 am. We were scheduled to be induced so we made our way over to McKay Dee hospital and by 9:15 am they had me all checked in and started on pitocin. The pitocin jump started my contractions right away and labor was in progress! A little after 10:00 or so my doctor came in and broke my water. That right there really got things going and my contractions started getting stronger and more painful. After a couple hours, I was ready for the epidural! I was hoping that I was at least at a 4, but wasn't wanting to wait any longer! After the anesthesiologist came in and gave the epidural to me the nurse checked me and sure enough I was at a 4+ hooray! I was progressing right along! The epidural was great and helped so much with the contractions! I labored for another hour and the nurse came in to check me again and I was at a 7! Whahooo! Things were moving right along and I was getting more and more excited to meet this little girl! The next hour I was checked again and the nurse looked at me wide eyed and surprised and said, you are at a 10 and 100% effaced! We are ready to go! She called my doctor and within the half hour we were pushing! I pushed for 15 minutes and little Presley was out! We did skin to skin right away which was amazing! It was the most incredible feeling in the world. She was so precious and cuddled right up to me and calmed right down. Joel got to fulfill his dream and cut the cord! haha. Everything went perfect :)

She got a great APGAR score, a 9, and she passed her hearing test and all of her little exams. She is so sweet!

We absolutely love being parents and feel so blessed to have her in our lives. Labor went really good and was so smooth. I had my two very best friends with me through the whole thing, my mom and my sweet husband. I couldn't have asked for better coaches :) they were amazing and I'm so blessed to have them in my life. Thank you so much you two! It was a perfect day! :)

GrAdUaTiOn!!

We did it! And the cool part is that we did it together! Joel and I both graduated on Friday; April 22, 2011 from Weber State University. He graduated with his bachelors in Communications: Public Relations and Advertising with a minor in Japanese and I graduated with my bachelors in Family Studies and a minor in Criminal Justice. Yay for being college grads! :)

Thank you so much family for coming and supporting us! It meant so much! We love you!

Joel and his buddies pretty excited to be done!

Showing off the baby bump! (for posterity reasons of course! I had to document so baby girl could see that she was part of the graduation party)
Me, Cortney, and Shaylee
My friends and I messing around before line-up. Getting ready to walk! :) Woot!
We are all grown up! :) Well kinda.... :)
haha so I know that I look higher than a kite...don't worry, I wasn't of course! But I thought this picture was pretty funny so I just had to post it! There is nothing better then ending a post with a good ol' jumping picture right!? This shows our true excitement hahaha :)

Preggers :)

21 weeks! yucky pic....don't judge :) it was purely to document!
24 weeks
26 weeks

So now I am about 29 weeks and haven't taken a picture of my belly to document yet, but I'll do another post with more pictures. She is growing and it is so fun to see how much my belly changes every week! She is a little kicker, which is good! I love that she moves around because when she is more chill I worry about her! But if she is moving around I know she is ok. Funny how I am already a paranoid mother :) I just get more and more excited to meet her every week!

Today was officially my last day of classes!! It was an amazing feeling (a little bitter sweet though, I will miss seeing all my friends and learning in class-I know...I'm a nerd)!

I aced my final and now I am done! I graduate on Friday and then I will officially be a grown-up :) haha. Now with school and my internship being all done I get to start working on baby girls nursery! I can't wait!! Oh how life will change; but it will be a good change! I can't wait to be a mommy.

Life is good! :)

Welcoming Baby BoStOn! :)

At the hospital, meeting him for the first time! He is sooo beautiful and has a head full of hair! Man we love him! Boston is my sister (Tosha) new baby boy! He is darling and we love him so much!!
Bergen and Boston. The girls couldn't get enough of him! They all wanted to hold him every second! :)
This right here is Boston! This pose is totally him! He is always putting his hands on his face. It is so funny! :)
Britters and Boston! So cute! I love them both oh so much!!
This is my all time favorite picture! Brittny looks beautiful, Elle is so excited to hold Boston she can hardly stand it, and Boston is just trying to snooze! Love it :)

**Updates to come on Brittny leaving for the MTC! (saddest day ever! I miss her sooo much already!) BUT, she is doing amazing and loving it.**

Update!

I feel like I should apologize every time I blog because my posts are so few and in between! So sorry....I have been bad at keeping up!

So many things have happened since last month!

Now that we let the cat out of the bag, I should probably up date you on what is going on!

So...here it goes :)

• We are 18 weeks pregnant! (wahoo!)
• We are having a little baby GIRL! (couldn't be more excited!! especially cause this mama likes to shop and can't wait to dress her all up!) Plus I have LOTS of sisters...so I am glad I am getting something familiar to me! :)
• I would post some pictures, but we are still waiting for her to make her appearance. So...pictures to come...
• We just had an appointment last week and got to see her and she is doing great!

I have learned a lot of things while being pregnant, some more personal, and others just simple learning experiences and am continuing to learn. The greatest thing I have learned though through different experiences is what a blessing all of Gods children are. Every single one! And I am surprised more and more every day how I could love something so little so very much! I would already do anything for her and pray for her continually (I already feel like an overprotective mom haha). I love that all of us have journeys that we go through and each one is tailored to our own life and the experiences that we need to have to progress.

It's amazing how well Heavenly Father knows us, and by trying to follow His will, we learn more about ourselves. Pretty amazing journey we all have to travel don't you think?

As for an update on the lives of us two crazy college students...here it goes...

JOEL-

Joel is one busy guy! He is currently in his senior year at Weber State, studying PR and advertising. He is minoring in Japanese! So hopefully that will help him with his career later on working for some business. He is very smart and doing awesome! I am so proud of him. So, on top of being a full time student, he is also doing TWO internships...yikes...(now you know what I mean by being busy) and working at his job. Luckily we still find a little bit of time to hang out :) thank goodness!

He also just recently got called to be in the Young Mens as the Teachers Quorum advisor. So now we get to go to mutual together! fun fun :)

He is also extremely excited to be a daddy but probably gets tired of me always saying, "Should we put up the crib today!? :) haha

As for me, I'm staying pretty busy myself. I am studying Family Studies at Weber with a minor in Criminal Justice (I know, interesting combo, but they surprisingly fit together quite well!). I am doing my internship at McKay Dee Hospital in the Pediatric unit as a Child Life Specialist intern. I love it! It is so fun to work with all the kids and their parents. I learn new things everyday and try to learn things quickly so I can be more helpful on the floor. I am also working at the University too in the Campus Rec

office. Also, I am in the YW's and absolutely love it!! I am with the beehives and think they are the coolest girls ever! They teach me new things every week. :)

So, that is what is going on with us in a nutshell!

Oh, also I want to give a shout out to my baby sister Tiff!! I got to go spend the weekend in Cache Valley with my family and we got to go to one of Tiffany's bowling tournaments. It was so FUN! And she did so good! She really is awesome and scores way higher than I ever could! She got 4th place and I was SO proud! :) You go girl :) LOVE you!

Also...one more shout out. This one is to Brittny. She is one of the most amazing people I know. Sunday she spoke in church and did such an amazing job. And I am not just saying that because she is my sister! Really, it was outstanding and everyone was touched and learned so much. She is going to be serving a mission pretty soon and I just don't think I am ready for her to leave! She leaves on the 23rd of February and I keep praying it will never come. Don't get me wrong, I am SO excited for her and she will be the best missionary the Netherlands and Belgium has EVER seen! I am just going to miss her....a LOT. But she truly will be amazing and I know that the Lord needs her out there spreading the gospel. I can't wait to hear all of her awesome experiences and stories (she always has the best stories to tell!) I love you Britters and will miss you everyday!

So....We Have a Little/BIG Surprise!!.....

Christmas Time

Christmas time is just around the corner and I can hardly believe it! This month seems as though it is flying by and I wish it would just stop and slow down for a bit. Things have been going by so fast that it hardly seems like Christmas, now that is just sad because Christmas is my absolute favorite! I love the snow, the lit up Christmas trees, the lights on all of the houses, celebrating the Saviors birth, the Christmas music, visiting temple square, hot chocolate, the spirit of giving, feeling the love that Christ has for all of his children, the beautiful Nativity sets, garland around bannister's, and much more. I love to visit my mom's house because she always decorates the house so beautifully and it just feels like Christmas when you walk in! There is just no place like home :) Hopefully as years go by I will be able to accumulate lots of Christmas decor so I can make our home as beautiful.

But what I wanted to really talk about was feeling the spirit of Christmas. Like I said, our lives have been extremely busy and we have been running around ever since school let out for the winter break. Today at church is when I really felt as though it was the Christmas season. In sacrament meeting they put on a beautiful Christmas program full of beautiful music. As I sat and listen I really tried to pay attention to all of the beautiful words that were spoken and sung and as I did the spirit touched my heart so very much! I would find myself getting teary eyed during several of the musical pieces. Today people blessed us with their beautiful talents and abilities and I was so grateful that I was able to be there to listen. Powerful testimonies were shared through music and you couldn't help but feel the Saviors love and spirit so strongly. He truly did come to this earth to save all man kind. We are so lucky to know that and to be able to give gratitude to Him for His selfless sacrifice. I feel so blessed to know about my Savior and know that He loves me. I pray that this year I will be able to show him my gratitude and appreciation everyday.

I know He lives and I know that He will come again. I know that He loves me and I will praise Him all of my days. I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas and that you will feel the Saviors love as you celebrate His birth. It truly will bring your family and friends together this season. I love you all and especially want my family to know how much I love and appreciate them!

Merry Christmas!! :)