He's getting chunky :)

Okay, well, our lives consist of Paxton and school. Oh, and trying to sleep. So to capture our lives in pictures...here it is:

They gave him this hat our last night in the hospital and insisted we bring it home. So, now we use it in the morning since it's FREEZING...he looks hilarious in it. :)

I love babies/toddlers in overalls. I'm SO happy they finally fit. :)

Just me and my best bud :)

Trev wanted a picture. He loves when Pax puts his arm around him like that. :)

The most handsome baby...I think

Trev does "tummy time" with Paxton every night. He even has a song that he sings about it. Haha. Paxton fell asleep. Haha. Trev was disappointed. I just laughed..a lot.

Luckily, he woke up (for Trev's sake). But Trev is hilarious when he does tummy time. He gets really intense into cheering Pax on and trying to get him to lift his head up. He reminds me of the refs at wrestling matches, when they get down on their stomach and are watching every move.

He's starting to smile a lot, but it's hard to capture on camera. I got these two shots while doing homework. I didn't realize he was going to do a FULL smile right after I took the second one, dang it.

Here are me and Pax doing my homework. I never shower until I have to. So I look gross, but whatever. He's cute :)

Pax will be staring at you right in the eyes and you think he's wide awake and adorable and then he suddenly does this. Haha. On campus, everytime someone passes our campout spot in the conference center he is doing this. He's a crowd pleaser. :) Oh...and notice his growing double chin. He is starting to pack on the pounds haha

Truly, he's SO cute. :)

I usually pull Pax into bed with us for the last hour before we get up. He is adorable and SO cuddly. :)

But since school can't be put into pictures, here is the latest news. Trev graduates in less than a month now. Woot. We are still waiting to hear back from the rest of the PA schools that he has applied to. It's now down to 3 schools in California and 4 in Pennsylvania. So we'll see.

And me? I just found out I can graduate in July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To say I'm stoked is an understatement. It's going to be a long and hard and busy and crazy 2 semesters, but I'm ready. So I'll be taking 16 credits of family classes this next semester and hopefully my last 2 credit religion class. Then in Spring I will be taking my practicum which is like unto a mini internship, my internship which I will hopefully be doing at the local foster care agency, and a research methods class and one online class and I will be done!!!! :) That's the hoping! I might have to do my religion and last online class online in the fall, but yep! I'm excited and hopeful! :)
That's all! P.s. I sure wish my sisters and sister-in-laws would post more often...just sayin....:)

Steiner Reunion, Labor Day 2011

So I forgot to blog about Trev's immediate family reunion. We went to Red Fish Lake/Alturas Lake, which are a little bit past Sun Valley, ID. It was a lot of fun going for two nights to a girls camp, where we stayed in a cabin. The downside? Mice. Gross.

Hence why Kylie and I stayed on the table for the first 3 hours we were there, while waiting for the rest of the family to get there....(My face is my version of rebelling against Trevor telling us to smile...)

But anyways, before we got there, we passed through Arco, ID. One of the smallest towns I've ever seen. I honestly don't know where the people live...but here is their main street....

And the side of the street we are on? Oh, just some war memorial things and the sweetest mountain...

This is the top part of a submarine...

A missile...with some sort of slouching creature in front. Embarrassing.

Luckily, Kylie's ancestors (or grandparents) come from here and so she knew what this mountain was all about. Every year the graduating class goes and paints their year on there. Cool.

So we got there, and it was fun. I forgot to take pictures of the BEAUTIFUL mountains and lakes with my camera..they are on Trev's camera which is currently broken. But here are some pics from the internet. It's much prettier in real life, but whatever. They are FREEZING cold though...no swimming took place because of it.

Alturas Lake

Red Fish Lake

Why is it Red Fish Lake? Because every fall, the Sockeye Salmon do their spawning here. They travel from the ocean and all over for the big event. Anyways, that's all we wanted to see were the salmon, which turn bright red when spawning and they get humps. Anyways, we looked and looked, and finally found some. VERY cool.

They aren't the best pictures, but it really was cool to see them.

And of course, Trev fished at every and any time he could. This is the tiny fish he caught by the cabin in water that was about 2 inches deep.

And after a VERY restless night the first night at the cabin, because I could hear the mouse eating stuff, and had seen it in every room of the cabin (I have never had to sleep in the same room as a mouse knowingly..it was hard), we captured it just before bed the second night. Thank goodness. Trev and I were seriously considering sleeping in the van because I couldn't handle it.

Yeah, gross. But still we were victorious.

And what is a post from us unless we show you the latest in spiders that have entered our apartment...:)

What is that you may wonder....just the close relative to the turantula. :) No...we can't figure out what kind of spider it is. Last time we got our spider coming through the crack between the door and door frame it was that big but definitely a hobo spider. They love us. But it was gigantic and luckily Trev saw it come in. Gross. And yep, Trev made me spray this one, just like he did the other one. What did he do? He climbed onto the counter...again. Haha. (But in his defense, I had shoes on and he didn't.)

Welp, that's all folks...until we post our many pictures of Paxton..again. :)

Here he is again....

I thought it was funny he pulled his arms up in his sleeves...it was cold I guess

This is a REALLY good picture of what he looks like in real life

He always does this one eye open thing..haha

Haha. His angry face

He's just cute...

Working on homework at home...he looks super cute in this :)

Him and his hot dad! :) Trev helps out a ton. He was rocking him to sleep while I talked to my mother on the phone. :)

For some reason he is ALWAYS doing this in his swing. We have no idea what he is looking at. 

He hates bathtime..

I just think he looks funny in this one

He is ALWAYS crinkling his forehead. It's adorable.

So this is our cutie! :) We love him lots. He is a very good baby (besides at night...:)), which we really appreciate since we are both going to school full time. We have been super blessed with him and with our schoolwork since he has come. We are still getting a hold of this new life, but we love every minute of it. Sorry there are so many pictures, but he's cute and my family doesn't get to see him this little in real life. :)

Paxton Joseph Steiner!!!

For some reason this video came up here and at the bottom..sorry. My mom taught him to suck his thumb, and the video shows him a little better than the pictures. Pictures of newborns never turn out very well and kind of skew their faces and eyes...

Welp, we had him. On October 13th, I was induced, and finally had Paxton on October 14th at 8:39 am.
Since I am a detail oriented person, it takes me forever to tell stories, so I figure if I just do a bullet list of facts about my labor and delivery, then people won't get bored, it won't be as long, and it won't take as long for me to blog about it....so here we go.

-Went to the hospital at 11:30 on Thursday morning and had my water broken at 12. I was at 2 cm.
-Watched movies with Trevor as they progressively cranked up the pitocin and my contractions got stronger and stronger and more painful and closer together. At about 5 I was dying and they checked me...still at a two. Kill me. So I had to keep enduring. By 7:45 I was maybe crying and wanted an epidural more than anything, but had to wait until the Dr. came to check at 8:30. I luckily was a 3 by then and got that miracle put into my back. I have never been SO grateful for medical professionals and technology. They read me the little precautionary thing about how it could cause paralysis, brain damage, death, etc and asked if I was okay with that. normally that would bother me, but I told them confidently that I was going to die without it and so I was willing to risk it. They finally got it going.
-Baby's heart started to do crazy things at 11 on the monitor, so the nurse as calmly as possible put oxygen mask on me and tried frantically to find the baby's heartbeat with the monitor. They couldn't get it and so they put a scalp monitor in Paxton's head so they would know EXACTLY what his heart rate was at all times. I was up most of the night watching his heart rate on the computer monitor. It kept dipping with contractions after they got it more stable. So all night they progressively cranked the pitocin all the way down until it was off in hopes of getting his heartbeat to regulate again and quit dipping. Oxygen mask went back on everytime it wasn't regular.
-At 4 I was at an 8. Woot!
-At 5 I was having pushing pains (yes, I could feel them, so I started having to push the button for more epidural) quite consistently. They checked and I was at a 10, but still about 95% effaced. So they waited and at 6 I was just about ready to start pushing.
-6:20 am. Trevor was woken up and we started the pushing phase. This was definitely the worst experience of my life. Why don't they show this part on movies? Because it's the worst. Why has no one ever mentioned it? Because it's the worst. The end.
-For 2 1/2 HOURS I had to push. They said with first babies it usually takes 1-2 hours. It was the worst. My epidural had run out and I was feeling a lot of pain. Do I regret it and wish I had had it for the pushing over the contractions? No. I would rather have not felt pain all night like I had it, and feel the baby slowly coming out and then all the way out. But it was the most discomfort and pain I've ever felt probably. The problem is that with pushing, once you start you can't stop. You also don't get a break, at all. Because even if you don't push with every contraction, your body still tries and it's worse than actually pushing. I had to use oxygen in between each pushing time because I was so tired and couldn't breathe very well. Plus, it was very calming for me.
-My dr. got off and a new dr. came in. I met him in all my sweat and glory, and my baby half way down the birth canal. I wanted to kill someone, or at least cry, but held it in. It was awful.
-I FINALLY got the baby crowing and ready to come out. By this time prayer had become my best friend and I was barely sticking it out. By this time my silent suffering was over. This happened on Tuesday during the catheter thing too. There comes a time when I can't keep my thoughts and angry feelings inside any longer and I start letting everyone know exactly how I feel. So this is when my thoughts of killing people, how bad my pain was and where it was, how uncomfortable and tired I was, etc all started spilling out of my mouth. I probably looked AWFUL and delirious. I was.
-The dr. gave me my episiotomy, which I luckily didn't feel thanks to the numbing shots I did feel. Then the baby started to make his debut. He came out very slowly it seemed. I didn't think his head would ever come all the way out, and felt every milimeter of that movement as he slowly came. It was awful. BUT, like I said, I'd rather have done that pain then all night every other minute contractions. His head finally came out and the dr. started saying stupid things like shake his hand and feel his head. I told him no and kept pushing. Then when his shoulders finally made it out, the dr. instructed me to pull the baby out. I was in the most pain and exhaustion I have EVER been in and told him to just pull him out. He wouldn't. Geez louise. So finally I just grabbed Paxton, pulled him out, and up onto my chest where they'd put a towel. Now that I'm done with that awful time, I am glad I got to hold him right then even though he was disgusting and I couldn't keep my eyes open, but it was still weird. I looked at Trev staring at Paxton and he had tears in his eyes. It was SO cute. He's the cutest. But then they took the baby and went to get him a bit cleaned up after Trev cut his cord.
-The dr. then stitched me up. That was gross and not so fun. I felt about half of them because he hadn't numbed the whole area. As he was stitching me up they kept trying to give me the baby. I told them no because I was in so much pain and I was exhausted and wanted to enjoy when I actually got to hold him and look at him. So they asked Trev to come hold him and he told them no thanks. I laughed and told them he is nervous around newborns, so they made him. :)
-I finally got cleaned up and was done with the whole procedure and got to hold the baby. :)

Anyways, there is my first birth experience. It definitely was not fun, but VERY worth it. I didn't think it really was going to be while going through it, but it is. The great thing about our bodies is we can experience BAD pain, but not remember what it felt like afterward. I remember that it was awful, but not the actual pain. I'm grateful for that. So I have pretty much forgotten about it and we just love and adore Paxton! He's a cutie!

SO..here are pictures. Sorry that was STILL so long. Oops.

My friend asked to see a picture of me pregnant. So here I am just before heading to the hospital. I was measuring at 34 weeks.

Me and Paxton the night he was born

Our family!!!

The hospital did a "stork" meal for us with breaded shrimp, steak, a baked potato, little martinelli's, a roll, salad, and cheesecake. It was yummy!

Trev's dad got him a stuffed husky when he was born, so Trev decided to pass on the tradition and went and got this dog for Paxton. And Paxton at one day old!

My last night in the hospital we did a family date night on my bed and watched a movie together. It was fun!

Paxton at home with his jaundice face. :) He had a mild case of it.

Going home from the hospital!

He's just super cute!

I captured a picture of him half smiling. :)

After his first bath at home and in his new pajamas.

Trevor is basically the cutest dad on earth. He LOVES Pax and is SUPER cute with him. Here he is brushing his hair after his bath with so much care.

Just cute...again. And awake.

My mom taught him to suck on his thumb. He LOVED it. He already loves his pacifier too.