Halloween Fun!

Cooper and Mommy
Sweet baby Cooper and Gramma

Our little punkin

Baby Cooper in his Halloween onesie!

My Beautiful WIFE =) haha

Devin dressed up as Florance Nightingale for his Halloween Carnival for school
Devin and one of his teachers. They both won best costumes!

What we have been up to Lately- We went to a couples Halloween party for our ward members last week and had a really great time. We already love our neighborhood and everyone in our ward is really great. The pictures of Devin as Florance Nightingale was for his school Halloween Carnival. He got extra credit to dress up as a girl nurse! good stuff. I couldn't stop laughing at him, he looks so funny as a girl! He is gonna hate that I put these pictures on here, but I couldn't help myself. It isn't everyday that my husband dresses up as a girl! For Halloween we went to dinner with Devin's parents and then came back to our house to play cards. We had a great time hanging out. It is so fun living in Gunnison and being so close to family. Also Devin's parents have been great to help watch Cooper for us when we need to go out. They are the best! Happy Halloween!

Life with Cooper

Mom and Gramma Rae came to visit baby Cooper! We had a great time visiting! thanks for coming to see us!

We have had so much fun with Cooper home. He is such a good baby. I love being able to stay home and play with him all day. Its the life, I love being a stay at home Mom. Before having kids everyone would tell us that our lives were going to change and things were never going to be the same. Now that I am a Mommy I agree that having a baby does change things but in the best way. We love being parents! Cooper brings so much happiness to our lives and we love our sweet baby.

Looking Back

Dating Engaged
Our wedding day! September 8, 2006

Above- Our first year Anniversary!

Now- 2 years together and parents to baby Cooper!

So I didn't get to write on our 2 year anniversary cause I was in the hospital recovering from having the baby. September 8th was our 2 year anniversary. I can't believe we have already been married 2 years. and I can honestly say they have been the best 2 years so far and I'm so glad I get him for eternity! I love being married to Devin and couldn't ask for a better Husband. He takes such good care of me and we have such a good marriage. When I was still single and would dream about what married life would be like I couldn't even imagine it this good because my marriage is even better than I had dreamed it would be. Devin is such a good Daddy and I love watching him with Cooper. He is so good to help out with him. When he knows I am super tired he will get up with him in the night to feed him and let me sleep. Last night I wasn't feeling very good and he told me to take a nap and he would watch the baby. When I woke up he had folded the laundry and done the dishes. He is so thoughtful. One of the things I love most about our relationship is he is always making me laugh. He knows just how to cheer me up and he is the only one that can make me smile when I am mad. Thanks babe for 2 wonderful years, and here's to Eternity!

Cooper comes home!

I finally had a minute to update my blog, and I really shouldn't be doing it now either, I should be resting! Having a new baby home doesn't really mean tons of sleep. But we are so unbelievably happy! We finally got to bring our sweet baby home from the hospital. It has been a long hard month, but we survived! The pictures show Cooper's journey to get big and come home from the hospital, the one at the very top is one I took today, so that is how big he is now. it is so nice to be home and together as a family again, I love getting to see Devin every day. It was killing me to be away from him. We bought a house in Gunnison and finished moving all of our stuff in last weekend. My mom came up and stayed with me for a few days and really helped me put my house together, I couldn't have done it without her. She has been an angel throughout all this and has taken off over two weeks of work to be with me over the past month, we have had a really fun time together I loved getting to see her so much. I love you Mom! Devin's parents have also been great to take care of Devin while I was up north! Now we are just home and loving life. I love waking up to the sweetest cutest little baby and taking care of him all day. I love being his Mommy! Since Cooper was born premature and it is coming onto RSV season we are homebound for the next 6 months until he is big enough to fight a sickness if he got one. So we are going to be home bodies for a little while, but after being away for a month I am just happy to have him home!

Cooper Devin Ball

Wow I don't even know where to start. For those of you that don't know Devin and I welcomed our beautiful baby boy into the world on September 5 at 9:38 pm. He was 3 pounds 3 ounces and 161/2 inches long. We named him Cooper Devin Ball. It was quite a surprise to have a baby 9 weeks early but we are so thankful he is so healthy and doing so good. On the day Cooper was born I was on bedrest so I was reading, talking on the phone, and I even updated my blog that day. At about 3 in the afternoon I started getting a really bad migraine, a migraine is a symptom of Preeclampsia and so my Dr. told me that if I got another one to go into the hospital. I decided to rest instead. Devin got home from school about a half hour later and that is when I started feeling worse. The migraine was getting to be unbearable but more than that I had this horrible pain from my ribs down. Devin finally convinced me to go into the hospital and see what was wrong. We got in there and they took my blood pressure- it was really high, which is another really bad sign that the preeclampsia was getting worse. The nurse left to call my Dr. and by the time she got back I was in such bad pain I was sobbing. My Dr. was in provo that day and so they told me that another Dr. was going to come in and have a look at me. I couldn't stop crying, I hurt so bad and I was so scared my baby wasn't going to be okay. The Dr. finally got in there and checked me, they decided something was definately wrong and since it was still 9 weeks before my due date that they would be sending me to provo in an ambulance. When the ambulance people got there they told me it was a liability thing and Devin couldn't go with me in the ambulance. I went hysterical. I was so scared to go alone, I needed my husband. The Dr. turned to the ambulance driver and said this is a special situation and her husband will be going with you. As soon as we got to Utah Valley Medical Center they got me right in and the nurse looked at me and said I think she is abrupting, get the Dr. in here. He was in the room within minutes and introduced himself to me and said Well lets have a birthday party! I instantly liked him, his attitude was so calming. The next thing I knew the epidural guy was there telling me to lay on my side, I hate needles but I wasn't scared at all I was in so much pain that I loved getting the epidural. Within minutes my pain was gone and I was in a very relaxed state. I looked over at Devin and he was all dressed up in a white suit with a face mask signing papers to let them give me an emergency c-section. All my pregnancy I had told Devin that having a c-section was my worst fear and here I was having a c-section. But honestly in the situation I was so scared my baby wasn't going to be okay that I would have let them cut me open anywhere to get him out. They wheeled me in the operating room and no kidding like 4 minutes later showed me our sweet baby and then whisked him away to the NICU. It was all very surreal to me. Now, looking back, I am so thankful that we were being watched over and that we got here just in time to get our baby here and that he is thriving and healthy. My placenta was abrupting when they delivered him and it was already 60 percent abrupted. If we had waited any longer we wouldn't have sweet baby Cooper here with us today. Cooper is just over three weeks old and I can't believe how much my life has changed in that time. I love being Cooper's Mommy, it is such an honor to be a mom and I love my sweet baby so much. Cooper is still in the NICU at Utah valley but is doing so good and growing like a weed. Last night they weighed him and he is 4 pounds 7 ounces. He is starting to eat really good and once he gets the feeding down he will be coming home! I can't wait to bring him home! I pretty much live at the hospital right now so I haven't had time to get pictures up but I will as soon as my life slows down a little bit! Thanks for all the prayers and love from family and friends. It means so much to have wonderful people behind us!

Baby update!

Belly Shot- 31 weeks along
New Haircut!
Update on us and baby update! Dev started Nursing school and is gone from 8-4 and then once he gets home he studies most of the night. It is going to be one busy year for him I can already tell. But I'm so proud of him for working so hard and studying his brains out. I have been trying to get stuff ready for us to move into our new house, once they have the carpet laid and the last touchups done we will be able to move in. Last weekend we moved all our stuff up from our storage unit in Cedar and it is now in the garage of our house just waiting to get it all moved in. As far as the pregnancy goes I was feeling really sick on tuesday and made an appt to see my doctor. We did some blood tests and it turns out that I have preclampsia and am now on strict bed rest until this baby comes. We had a scare because my levels were so high that we might have had to enduce me this weekend but thanks to lots of prayers from family and a priesthood blessing from my sweet Husband I am looking better and am just on a strict watch to make sure they don't go back up. It is pretty much week to week of when our baby will be here but we are really hoping that I can carry him until 37 weeks. Thanks to everyone for the prayers and support. I am so thankful I have such a good doctor that is so attentive to me and my needs and even realized there was a problem. Thanks to my family for the regular phone calls that keep me going. And to my wonderful Husband that eventhough he is so busy with school he takes such good care of me! It's going to be a long couple of weeks but I can't wait to be a mommy and to have my sweet baby!

Fish Lake!

This is Jan'l giving us a gripping rendition of one of her stories. Look how mezmorized we all are!

Here is the three girls modeling their oversized sunglasses.
Here is Jan'l, Davin and Kaeden. Doesn't Kaeden look really Happy :).
Here is us sitting on the picnic table.
All the cousins sitting around the fire. It was harder than it looked to get them all to sit there long enough for us to get a good picture of them but it sure is cute.
Twins?
Here is our fishing bait. ha ha
These are us on the fishing boat that we rented for the day. It was alot of fun to hang out on the lake all day.
Dottie is checking out the lake thinking maybe its time for a swim!
After Lake Powell with the Ball family we headed to fish lake to spend with the Petersen Clan camping. We had a lot of fun spending a couple days together in the mountains. We rented a big fishing boat and spent a whole day on the boat fishing and hanging out. We had a great time staying up late around the campfire telling stories and roasting marshmellows. Our last night there we stayed up playing phase 10 and laughing cause we all had what Dev calls the TJ's (tired jollies). It was our first camping trip since getting married and it was a lot of fun! I love family! it is so good to be home! It was a perfect ending to our summer to get to spend the weekend with both families! Now its back to school...