Blakley, Camden & Oakley!

Our little girl!

2010-04-30T10:48:00.000-07:00

So I'm finally posting since I had Oakley! I feel like I have so much to say and catch up on! So I guess we will start from the beginning!

LABOR.... Well it went a little different then how I thought and was told it was going to go. Lets see... the girls in my family all have gone a couple weeks early, they're labors were pretty fast, and pushing wasn't to awful! So, that's what my mom told me I was going to be like... OH BOY was she WRONG! I went into labor February 3 at 7:30 in the morning which was the day before I was due. My contractions started off pretty strong, they were 3 to 5 mins a part and pretty painful. So I went to the hospital after having contractions like that for 2 hours. Well I was dilated to a 4 and 90% effaced, and after being at the hospital for an hour with contractions so bad I was throwing up in-between they sent me home with a shot of morphine. I couldn't believe it! I was so upset but what could I do. I labored at home for another 4 to 5 hours before I couldn't take it anymore! I went back where they checked me and I was dilated to a 5 and ready to be admitted and was given my epidural! After a few hours Oakley started having problems. Her heart rate kept dropping. It was because I was having 6 contractions in 10 mins and they were very strong and she couldn't handle it. They stopped my labor for 2 hours to give her rest. After my labor started back up and she was doing fine I finally reached a 10 and could start pushing at about midnight. I then pushed for almost 3 hours when she was finally born at 2:49am on February 4, 2010! It was by far the most painful exhausting thing I have ever done, but it was worth every bit of pain! I have my baby girl who I love more then I ever thought was possible!

This is me when I went to the hospital for the first time.

My little girl Oakley Lynn Cook born at

2:49 am On Feb 4, 2010 weighed 7 lbs 15 oz 19 1/2 in long

and was born at American Fork Hospital.

Horrible picture of me! :) but this was the first time I got to hold her!

Very tired! Had been up here for almost 24 hours!

Proud daddy!

Her first birthday cake! Her gamma brought it for her! It was so cute!

Gamma! She LOVES that baby!

She looks like her daddy and not me!

The Cooks!

Getting ready to go home!

All ready!

2 Days

3 Days

6 Days

2 months

This is her at her 2 month check up!

April 5, 2010

Length: 23 1/4 in 75%

Weight: 11 lbs 5 oz 75%

Head circ: 39.1 cm 50%

Getting her shots was SO SAD!!! Made mom cry!

Oakley was blessed by her daddy on April 11, 2010! She did awesome! She didn't cry one bit during the blessing! Camden did such a good job and blessed her with so many wonderful things!

This is the face that I get to wake up to every morning! She is such a happy baby! Specially in the mornings!

Oakley loves:

eating every 2 hours

when you talk to her

to stand when your holding her

loves to be faced out when your holding her

HER BATH

to poop! this girl poops SO MUCH

her swing

Oakley hates:

to wait for anything

is not a big fan of the car

when something scares her

she doesn't hate a lot of things because she is really a happy baby! She is the best little sleeper. She goes to bed between 9 and 10 wakes up to eat between 6 and 7 then goes back down till 9 or 10!

I love her so much its crazy! I can't imagine life without her!

Getting Closer!

2009-12-22T13:55:00.001-08:00

34 Weeks pregnant!

I only have 6 weeks left till the due date! I can't wait but I am also kinda nervous! I have 6 weeks left of life as I know it! I know that my life is going to change so much! I don't know if there is anything to make you 100% ready but I hope I do a good job and adjust well! I hope that I am the best mom to my baby girl! I'm also really anxious for her to get here! I want to hold her and kiss her and just have her here! I can't wait to see what she looks like! I'm excited to be done being pregnant! My poor husband is really ready only because I have been a little more ornery and little harder to live with! Ha Ha!!! I snore now at night keeping him awake! haha. I just tell him you try to breath with a basketball in your body pushing against your lungs! I think though and I never thought I would say this but that I will miss being pregnant at times! I will miss feeling her move! I love that part! Other then that I don't think I will miss anything else! Hopefully these next weeks go by fast and maybe I will be a lucky girl and she will come a couple weeks early! Boy would I love that!

A little summer, fall, and baby!

2009-10-31T20:10:00.000-07:00

So I know I have said this before but I am a terrible blogger! It has been so long since I have blogged about anything! Hopefully after I have my baby I will feel like I have more interesting things to blog about! Things with the Cooks have been going good! I am just working full time still at the salon and Camden is just doing the fireman thing! It's nice that summer is over cause I kinda feel like I have a husband again except now he just hunts, which is fine with me.

My pregnancy has been going good. I really can't complain about it. I would say the hardest thing about it has been the emotional, hormonal part. I have defiantly felt like I needed to be put on some sort medication at times to control my mood swings! haha Poor Camden, he has seen a different side of me through all this, and I really do good for the most part its just sometimes! I am defiantly anxious for our little Oakley Lynn to get here! It will be so much fun! I have started getting things for the nursery and getting it put together! This has been by far the most fun out of it all! So Here is a little sneak peak at what her room is going to look like. I still have a lot of things I want to do but it's starting to come together!

Her curtains are freaking cute!

26 Weeks pregnant!

Camden, Tron and I went for a hike just up the road from where we live. We didn't know this trail was even up there so we are glad we found it cause it's actually a nice little hike!

I chopped my hair off and lets just say it was the biggest mistake I have made in a long time! I don't know if it was because I am pregnant and already emotional but it seriously sent me into a slight depression where I cried every single day for like 2 weeks straight! Stupid I know... but really I will NEVER CUT MY HAIR SHOT AGAIN! haha!

22 weeks!

Camden went on his big hunt again this year up in La Grande Oregon and got lucky this year. Shot this 5 by 5 just 4 days before the season ended! Good job baby!

15 weeks

13 weeks

This summer we went on a camping trip to the snake river, and I am thinking camping area, trees, grass right near the river where you could jump in and swim, ya, NO it was terrible! It was really a trip for Camden and Cooter and I somehow just went a long with it. If I would have known what it was going to be like before, I would have never went. It was in July and in the 100s the whole time. We stayed in a freaking gravel pit. No cover, no grass, no nothing. Terrible! I was also just 8 weeks pregnant so when I got hot I got sick! The river was kinda near us but you just wouldn't want to walk down there and jump in and lay around. There was no really no spot to.

Poor Tron, I thought he was going to die of heat stroke!

This was our gravel pit! Nice huh!

The only plus about the entire trip was that I caught a nice catfish!

2009-07-02T21:34:00.000-07:00

Here is another little look at our baby! This is 10 days from the last ultrasound... I can't believe how much it has grown and and how it is really starting to look like a baby! It is starting to get leg buds and arm buds! I am falling in love with our baby more and more! Camden was there to hear the heartbeat and see it! I think it became a little more real to him! So anyways things are looking great for our little baby!

So it's been a long time!

2009-06-23T16:29:00.000-07:00

So I know I am not any good at this! I haven't updated in a REALLY long time! The weird thing about it is that some really neat things have happened in our life that are must posts! So here we go!

Well I got to go home to Florida and spend 8 days with my best girlfriends from high school! It was a ton of fun!!! The weather was beautiful and the beach was amazing!

Joann, me, Jenna, and Jessica!

Camden and I got sealed on our 1 Year anniversary!

It really was a great way to spend it! We had close friends and family with us! It feels so much better knowing we will be with each other for eternity and that our children will be with us too... Speaking of children.....

WE ARE PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baby Cook will be joining us February 4th 2010! (that's if I make it till then. Us girls tend to go a little early!)

This ultrasound was taken when I was 7 weeks 4 days. I know it's a little early to be doing ultrasounds but over the weekend we kinda had a scare with some spotting going on, so Monday morning they checked me out and everything looked great!!!! I even got to hear my precious baby's heartbeat! It was the BEST sound I have EVER heard! It made me realize how real this is and how amazing it is that I get to carry life in me!!! They also checked my HCG levels and they said they were over 100,000 and so that was good news too!

I found out that I was pregnant on a Thursday night and waited to tell Camden on that Saturday. I was kinda shocked and wasn't sure how I wanted to tell him.. So I gave him a little present to see if he would catch on! He did before even opened it! It was fun! He is excited!

Now my parents have been waiting for a grand baby and I have known that I was going to tell them this way for a long time! I made a little official grandparents-to-be kit! Camden and I went up to their house Sunday morning and put it on the porch then rang the door bell and ran! The next thing you hear is my mom screaming!!! The whole neighborhood heard her screaming! It was so funny! She is so excited!!! Kent is too! It has just been fun all around!

Me at 5 weeks! How big will I go?

Tron dog!

2009-02-15T11:51:00.000-08:00

So I haven't updated my blog in a little while... I don't have a lot of new things going on. Just working and hanging out! Camden is getting really busy with SA. He tries to go skiing when he can which hasn't been as much as he would like. I'm getting really excited for spring to come! I can't wait! I want to plant lots of pretty flowers and enjoy the warmth! I'm getting tired of the snow! I'm also excited for summer to come so I can have my house to myself again! I don't mind his brothers living with us for the most part but it will be nice when its just Camden and me! Our animals are growing big! They are our children so its something to blog about! :) Tron is 17 months old and Huge! He weighs probably close to 150 and well as tall as me if not a little taller when he is on his back 2 legs! He is the sweetest dog! Naughty sometimes but for the most time very sweet! Bella is 7lbs and she just got fixed! She did really good! She is one sweet kitty!

Bella likes to sit on my shoulders and just hang out! She is so cute!

This is last sunday! I'm looking a little ruff because thats all we do on sundays... go to church and lay around! It is my favorite day! I don't like it though when Camden has to work!

He loves his daddy!

Cruise!

2008-12-17T08:48:00.000-08:00

So we went on a 7 day cruise to the Mexican Reverie! It was a lot of fun! It was nice because we got to spend time together and get away from the day to day life and just relax! We went with Camden's company Signature Alert. There was a total of 16 of us. My brother and his wife got to go so that was fun being with them.

This is still in LA before we took off.

First day on the cruise... Can't you tell.. we were both white!

This is us at dinner! The food gets old.

Our first day at port was interesting! We went four-wheeling! All I'm going to say about this is by the end 2 of our four-wheelers had broken down, we were covered in dust, and all we got to see is stray dogs and how poor mexico is. The thing you have to do is just smile your way through it because no matter how mad we were we knew we wern't going to get our money back.. its Mexico!

So all the boys decided to jump off this rock. They all had fun! We later went snorkeling around this rock and it was amazing how big it really was. It was so deep and the rock just went straight down to the bottom. The snorkeling was so pretty in Cabo. There were so many pretty fish. This was the best day on the cruise!

Camden's captin told us that The Mango Deck was a great place to go in Cabo. So we went there and it was. Good food! Nice place to lay out!

So Camden and I went jet skiing in Mexico! It was a lot of fun. The waves were huge so we had a blast on them. Ignore the hand jester, thats Camden just being Camden! :)

2008-11-05T22:22:00.000-08:00

WHAT IS YOUR HUSBAND'S NAME? Camden Michael Cook
HOW LONG HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN MARRIED? almost 5 months
HOW LONG DID YOU DATE? 10 months
HOW OLD IS HE? 29
WHO IS TALLER? He is!
WHO CAN SING BEST? He doesn't sing in front of me...so me!
WHO IS SMARTER? He is... but hey he's got 7 1/2 years on me!
WHO DOES LAUNDRY? I do
WHO PAYS BILLS? He does right now. I have been in-between jobs so whenever I am back on my feet I will take over my part!
WHO SLEEPS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED? If you are looking at the bed, he does.
WHO MOWS THE LAWN? Camden..but if he is not home and it needs to be done I will do it for him.
WHO COOKS DINNER? When Camden is home I will cook for him!
WHO'S THE FIRST TO ADMIT THEY ARE WRONG? Well half the time Camden doesn't usually know he did something wrong ( thats because I have a hard time telling him) so whenever I explain to him why I'm upset or whatever he will admit and try to make things better... He is really good at talking... I'm not.. so thats where I go wrong! But if I have done something I will admit!
WHO KISSED WHO FIRST? Let me just tell you, I am a very affectionate person. That doesn't mean I want to kiss all the time.. I just like to snuggle, be close. So on our first date we got to his house, put a movie in and sat on the couch. Me being the way I am snuggled right up to him, not trying to hint anything. He being a guy automatically thinks... This chick wants me! So he went for the kiss!
WHO WEARS THE PANTS? I would say in some ways I do... in most ways he does... thats only because as HIS friend Dave tells me..I don't realize how much power and control I really have. :)

UPDATE!

2008-11-05T21:37:00.000-08:00

I know I have not updated in a really LONG time but we are still alive and doing great! Things are going really well! Camden is gone right now hunting and should get home maybe tomorrow or the next day! He hasn't got anything yet this year but I'm sure he has enoyed just getting out of town to hunt... but I'm not going to lie I hope this is the last one! I'm ready for him to stop leaving! Actually it really hasn't been to bad but I think any wife would miss there husband when he is gone! But anyways I'll go through somethings that have happened this summer and get everyone caught back up! We will start with our kids!

My sweet little kitty Bella! She is so dang cute and sweet and she loves me! She has to be everywhere I am at in the house! She follows me around everywhere! She has to sleep with me every night... she even just sits on the counter whenever I'm getting ready in the mornings! She really is so funny! She is getting bigger! Which is sad but good cause she is such a wild little cat that the older she gets she will mellow out!

So we set daisy free! This was the last picture I got of her at her new home! She is a wild and free deck! It was harder than I thought it would be! When we set her free all the other ducks came over and started really pecking at her and were not being very nice. Thank goodness that only lasted a minute and then they were fine with her. She was kinda a lone duck but after a couple of days she was fitting right in! We set her free at a pond that was near our house so we could go visit her often! It was a very good experience having her and raising her!

Daisy really loved Tron! She would follow him everywhere he went! She would get right up in his face! He would be laying there and she would go up and pick at his lips until they were even bleeding a little bit and he just laid there. He never would snip at her or anything! They were pals!
Tron is doing good! He just had a birthday not to long ago! He turned a year old! 140lbs and all puppy!

One Year at the Fire Department!

2008-11-05T21:17:00.000-08:00

It has been one year since Camden has been working at the Fire Department! On there one year they get a badge! For the first year they are on a thing called probation. They are carefully watched through the year, take test every month and don't have certain privileges that the other fire men do! Well Camden is off his probation! October 10th 2007 was the day he started there!

How cute is this cake his crew got for him!

I got to pin his badge on him!

Us!

His crew! He really has had the best crew and I just have grown to love them! They are all such good people and we just get along so good with them! It will be sad in January when they get split up!

Camden's Birthday!

2008-11-05T20:58:00.000-08:00

So Camden's birthday was on October 5th! I decided to have a birthday dinner for him! We invited just family and his friend Dave that he works with at the fire department because they are good friends and they share the same birthday! It was such a good night! We had baby back ribs, potatoes and rolls! It was nice to have our family there and just have a good time!

I know.. I could be a cake decorator!

Camden and Dave about to blow there candles out!

Us!

This was Camden's favorite present! Dave got him a pistol! He has been wanting one for awhile now! It is a really nice gun and that was really nice of dave to do that!

It's perfect!

2008-11-05T20:21:00.000-08:00

So Camden and I got ourselves a little travel trailer ! It's 20ft long and perfect for just the 2 of us! We bought it from the cutest couple and they took great care of it!

Camden I went up for a night in our new little camper and camped! It was nice to get away for a night and spend time together!

Elk Camp!

2008-11-05T19:26:00.001-08:00

So every year Camden goes to La Grande Oregon to go hunting! This year Tron and myself got to go experience it for ourselves!

Tron was ready to go! He absolutely loves to be with Camden! He was so excited to go! He did get to stay with him the whole month and it was a nice little break for me! I love Tron but he can be a bit of a handful at times! This is why we don't have kids yet.. if I think my dog is a handful I cant imagine what a baby is like! Maybe in a year! ;)

Camden and Tron!

This is Elk Camp. Thats the kitchen area where is friend Tony cooks some really, really good food! They really do eat very good out at elk camp! I was surprised!

Camden took me out and showed me all around where he would be hunting! It was so beautiful up there! I'm really glad Camden took me up there so I could see what he loves to do so much! It was really nice to just to spend time with him like that! I really didn't get to see him a lot this summer so spending a week straight with him was very good for us!

Bedroom

2008-07-18T18:00:00.000-07:00

Our NEW bedroom!

So with the money we got from our wedding I got to use it and decorate our bedroom! Let me give you a description of what it looked like before... white walls, LOG bed frame, and NOTHING else! So I had A LOT of work to do! My mom came over and helped me which was so much fun to get to do that with her! She knows how to decorate!

The room turned out to me... AMAZING!

The nice thing about doing this room was that I got to take a room and really make everything my own. Whenever we got married he had already built this house that is mostly decorated and beautiful, but to take one room and really make it my own made home feel like home!

Our Children!

2008-07-18T17:57:00.000-07:00

We have more than just Tron!

This is my little sweetheart that Camden let me get! Her name is Bella...ya from the twilight series! She is 9 weeks old and a fur ball of energy! especially at 5 in the morning!
This is Daisy! Our little baby duck! Camden was in the Wal-Mart parking lot and she was just by herself around. She was lost from her family and we saved her!
Bella trying to help with laundry! Lets just say I still don't know where those socks are!Bella just wants to play with Daisy or eat her! I just haven't let her play long enough to find out!
Tron got a little surgery! He's not a real man anymore!

Honeymoon

2008-07-18T17:53:00.000-07:00

We went to Yellowstone National Park for our honeymoon!

We left Saturday morning after our wedding to head up to Yellowstone. We actually stayed in Island Park at my grandparents cabin. It was so much fun! The weather up there was beautiful!

We are on our way!
This picutre was right near the west enterence to yellowstone! It was beautiful!
Did I tell you that we brought out dog Tron! He is 9 months old and 120lbs! I dont know want to know what he will weight whenever he is 2 years old! His dad weighed 190lbs! But it was fun having him and he loved being with mom and dad!
Oh Tron! :)

Our wedding day!

2008-07-18T17:29:00.000-07:00

We got married on June 13, 2008!

The day was so beautiful! I loved our wedding! I don't know if there would be anything I would change about it. We had so many of our family and friends there with us! It was great to see everyone!

Camden loved the wedding (like many men do)! All the people, the celebrating, and of course ALL the pictures! Actually he did very well! He was telling me that the wedding is for the girls only, he could just got to Vegas and be fine! But stuck through and we are both happy to be a married couple now!

Natalie Is showing me how to start a blog!

2008-07-18T17:04:00.000-07:00

I have decided to start a blog! Its a good thing my cousin knows what she is doing because I don't! I think that this whole blog thing is a great idea and am excited to get started! My next step will be to tell my husband we need a computer so I can keep on it!