April 29, 2010 (Saipan Time)

6 am the doctor comes back to check on me... Contractions have STOPPED! Doctor says I am 6cm dilated, but since I wasn't having contractions, he was going to send me home. If nothing happens come to the doctors office tomorrow... 9 am... finally get to go home to my bed.


We slept from 10am until 4 pm... got up showered, did my hair, watched some TV, went grocery shopping in order to have some food at the hospital to snack on; that's if she ever came. Picked up some Pizza. Watched some more TV. went to bed about 10 pm...

April 28, 2010 (Saipan Time)

Its 1:15 am and I wake up to a contraction. I headed to the couch so that Mark could get some sleep... about 30 minutes into it, I call my BFF Kara back in the states because it is was still just evening... we talked for about an hour, in between contractions. We hang up and I finally fall back asleep. 4 am rolls around and I finally wake Mark up.

We head to the hospital where they admit me and hook me up to a fetal monitor and heart rate monitor... Mark and I watch Chuck Norris and Law and order inbetween contractions. They finally make me get up and walk around... for a good 3 or so hours.. finally I crawl back in bed... 3pm rolls around and my dear friend Jen brings me a delicious Chocolate Milk Shake... so good I wouldn't share it with Mark. More TV, sleeping, walking... even some card playing. 7pm Rolls around they decide to try some pitocin... they said hopefully it will speed things up and let me get some rest too... I slept for a good 3 hours or so... Called families, gave them an update, talked to mom... slept some more... contractions begin to slow down....


Great. 

April 27, 2010 (Saipan Time)

On April 27, 2010, Mark and I went in for my routine weekly appointment. This week I was 37 weeks. I was feeling fine, tired and ready to meet our little girl, but knew she would probably be late so I wasn't stressing... I had had some slight cramping, but didn't think of anything because I had had it throughout my whole pregnancy... 

After Dr. Lamar examined me, he asked me if this was really my first pregnancy.. with a puzzeled face and a laugh I told him I was sure... he then proceded to tell me that I was 3 cm. dilated and having contractions! Yah right I said. So he hooked me up to a monitor, and sure enough I was having contractions... 

Needless to say, he told me that if nothing happened that night to come back tomorrow for another check up, and to get my substitute ready at school...

 37 week table. so Gross. not the belly, the food.

At the doctors office hooked up to a monitor to see if I was really having contractions...

More of the story to come tomorrow....

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter from the Sawyer Family! He is Risen, He is Risen Indeed! 

Hatley was sure excited about her new puzzle she got in her Easter Basket! It must have tasted delicious! =)

Happy Girl on Easter Morning!

Our Family on Easter Sunday at Church!

We pray you each had a blessed Easter with family and friends in Celebrating Christ's Resurrection! We had a wonderful day with family and friends at church and thanking him for such a tremendous sacrafice!

Then off the Pullman we went to have a beautiful Easter dinner with our family! It was Yummy! And so great to have most of the Sawyer family together!  Oh and below is a video of what Hatley did to surprise us all during dinner =) Good thing we had been keeping an eye out on our girl!

She is growing up WAY to quick!

Hatley Mastering the Stairs.. we are in trouble!

April so far...

One tired girl at dinner time...

Hatley's new favorite thing to do when Mommy & Daddy are not watching, and they also forget to close the bathroom door.

A Pretty girl ready for Sunday breakfast and church!

My loves on Sunday morning.

Papa & Nana (Brit's parents) came to visit for a weekend. Hatley sure does love wrestling with her papa...

I think Papa likes it too!

It was 58 degrees here today. Spring just may show up this year on the Palouse!

Daddy had to calm Hatley down one night because of her darn two front teeth coming... Mama wondered why it was so quite in her room =)

Tuesdays, once a month, are Taco Tuesdays for the Sawyer family! We get together with Marks sister Angela and her family, Marks parents and us for Taco Tuesdays Dinner! Then we play for awhile after... just so happens this particular Tuesday we went and played on the school playground, and Cousin Allison thought she needed a lift home too. Cousin Hatley sure didn't mind either!

My first pony tail! Daddy didnt like it, he thought it was too goofy looking!

Our Sweet "little" Hatley

Last November Mark, myself and our sweet girl went to visit Marks sister Julie, her husband Rob, and sweet cousin Mya.

Hatley is almost a year old (9 days to go!) and it is so sweet for me to be able to look back and watch this movie. Hatley still looks the same in this movie, however, there is something missing.... OH YAH! Her MOVING! She is a sweet little girl, but MOVES constantly! not like this movie =).

Today she discovered that it is okay to stand all by herself... without holding anything.... will she walk before her first birthday? We will see... but mama is just fine the way that she is...

Enjoy our sweet Hatley video, and enjoy the loveable giggles!