Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Meet Cooper Jacob Balls!!!

On Thursday December 9th, 2010 Cooper Jacob Balls came into this world at 9:30 AM.
He weighed 7.7 pounds and 20 inches long.

Our little miracle


I had started having contractions at 9:00 Wednesday night. We went to the hospital at 3:00 in the morning, got an epideral at 4:00 and it was smooth sailing from here!

We are so blessed that everything went so smoothly. We feel so lucky to have our little guy.

Jake is already an AMAZING daddy! He's been so much help, made my life soooo much easier!




We've already had plenty of dirty diapers and late nights but bring on the many more to come!
It's very challenging to be new parents, but we are making the most of it as we figure things out with our new little man! Lots of question, but luckily we have lots of help!
We couldn't be happier to have our little man home!!!

Sunday, December 5, 2010

BIG changes SOON to come!

We've had lots of fun things going on lately and a LOT of big changes SOON to come!!!

We had a great Thanksgiving with all our family! We have so much to be grateful for and are so blessed! We LOVE all the yummy food, but love the chance to be reminded of all that we have even more.

Jake's had the chance to go hunting and has even been able to take Koda out a little bit. They've both LOVED it!!!


Our friends Kamille and John got married and gave us a good excuse to all get together! Congrats to the happy couple! We love you guys!


Jake finished his student teaching at Mt. Ogden Junior High and is just awaiting GRADUATION!!! This Friday is the BIG DAY!!! I'm so proud of him!!! Wrestling is also in full swing and they start their tournaments and duals this coming week! In addition to the high school wrestling, Jake also started a little league program this season which allowed him to work with boys kindergarten through 6th grade. I'm not kidding when I say he's been busy!!!

We've also been spoiled with several baby showers!!! Thanks to all our great friends and family who have supported us and helped us to get ready for our new little one! You are all GREAT and we couldn't have done it without you!




We are hoping to make it through Jake's graduation without going into labor. After that if he doesn't come the Dr. wants to induce us this coming weekend.

It's so crazy to think that we're going to be parents in such a short amount of time. It's seemed like forever ago that we found out I was pregnant and now it's hard to believe he's almost here!

It's going to be weird making the plunge into the next stage of life... we've tried to prepare for it, but we know there are going to be lots of surprises and hard times. Hopefully we'll have some help in figuring out how to be parents!
We are getting extremely anxious to meet our little man!!!! The countdown is on!