Walker Gunn

 Walker is 4 weeks old now and doing great! He was born 10 days early on Saturday Nov. 3 at 6:30 a.m.

Quick summary of his birth:

David was in Las Vegas for a car show with his dad and brother and planned to come back Saturday afternoon. For no particular reason other than to avoid paying for an extra night at a hotel, they decided to head home Friday. But before they left Vegas, David's brother Andrew surprised David for his birthday and took him on a bunch of roller coasters. They went on a few and had planned on doing 1 more, which would have taken a couple of extra hours because of a long line, etc. But David gets motion sick and didn't feel like doing another so they just started for home around 6 p.m. Friday.

I started having painful contractions around 9 p.m. They were pretty irregular but on average about 7 min apart. I called David and said, "you'd better get here fast." He got home around 2 a.m. and that's when my contractions really started getting intense and they were about 2 min apart. We called my mom to come stay with Olivia and we left for the hospital around 4 a.m. When we got to the hospital, I was dialated to an 8!!! I got the epidural and Walker was born at 6:30 after only 7 min of pushing.

Many prayers were said in those hours until David got home and it is a miracle he made it. We are so blessed!

 

 

Olivia really is a great big sister. It has been an adjustment for everyone but she has been so helpful, sweet and loving.

We spent Halloween night in the E.R. getting stitches on her head. She fell into a corner of the wall in our hallway and got 5 stitches. She was a champ though! She is so tough.

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Highlights

 Happy autumn! The leaves are beautiful and we are enjoying the cool weather. I am especially looking forward to it because the closer we get to Thanksgiving... the closer we get to having this baby!

We still have our cat Lynx, who has turned out to be a good pet... for a cat :)

In between conference sessions last week, we took a drive to a nearby canyon to go for a little walk. It was refreshing and beautiful.

 Last month we went camping with the Francis's. These dads are so awesome. The kids loved fishing in the paddle boat with them.

We also took a little trip to Ontario, OR for Nadine and Naomi's baptisms. Olivia had a great time with her cousins. Here's Burke and Olivia!

 

David is growing out a beard until the baby is born. It has been about 5 weeks now and it is a lot more full now than in this video. The most common reaction from other guys is that they love it and they think he should keep it. Women usually ask how I feel about it. Truthfully, David doesn't like it very much and neither do I. But he can so he might as well... for now. I still think he's handsome. But in my hospital bag I'm going to pack a few razors-for him.

 

Summer 2012

So I selected a bunch of pictures to post and this is the only one that came up. Sometime when I'm feeling more ambitious and I feel like doing that again, I will add more. We have had a great summer. It has been busy, like summer usually is, but we've had fun. Right now we are harvesting and canning and getting ready for baby! His name will be Walker Gunn Stevenson, after his great-grandpa. We are so excited and are trying not to count down the days so it will go faster.

It's a.......

BOY!!! Growing healthy and on schedule, according to the ultrasound. As the lady was measuring everything, the head, the abdomen, the heart, after a few min she said, "so you know what you're having, right?" And I said, "no, is it obvious?" She said yes and then showed me. Obviously we had no idea what we were looking at. We are excited, of course.

Potty training is going well. We just finished the first week and I think she's getting it. Yay!

2 Weeks of adventures

 Last weekend the 3 of us went camping near Coalville to a remote little pond with a paddle boat! We were so secluded and we enjoyed just being together. Olivia flew the kite by herself and the wind was so strong, I am amazed she held on.

 

 We caught 4 fish with her little fishing pole. We told her to kiss the fish, thinking she would refuse, but she actually tried and we had to stop her!

This weekend David took his scouts on some trails above our house and ran across a rattlesnake. Being the protective/brave/crazy person he is, he killed it with a stick, brought it home, and skinned it. He's going to make a hat band for a cowboy hat out of it.

We're Having Another Baby

Yep, it's true! Number 2 is on the way. I am due November 13 and we are excited, excited, excited! No pictures this time, I'm just too tired. One of these days I'll get around to posting some of our recent adventures. Until then, that's our news!!!

Our little girl

Our little girl is not a baby anymore! She talks nonstop and will repeat everything you say. Most of the time we can understand her but sometimes not.

She loves being outside,

loves feeding the ducks but is afraid of the geese (understandably),

likes to play "mommy",

dress-ups,

loves her cousins,

HATS!!! (can't emphasize this one enough) This one is actually a little doggy bed, but to her anything could be a hat.

Organizing and putting things in order (notice that Olivia and all of the stuffed animals are in a line looking at some kind of food item)- this is in Aunt Lizzie's pantry,

purses and bags- she has 3 purses here that her Aunt Annie made-PURE GIRL!

Tea parties (notice the fairy wings and Mom's high heels on the table)- again, PURE GIRL!

Olivia is the prayer police. If someone is not folding their arms during the prayer she will point and loudly say "fold arms!" Her nursery teacher said that during the prayer Olivia said to her little friend, "Ally fold arms!"

She also likes to "tean woom" (clean room). She likes to pick up her toys and put them away. She also likes to put things in order. She will line up her books on the floor and sit and read them out loud. The words are totally made up and it's hilarious and so cute.

Sometimes I am amazed at her memory. I will ask her to remember what we did today or even the day before and I am surprised at the details she recalls.

We love our little girl so much!!!

Happy New Year!

We're already in the middle of January but Happy New Year! And Merry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Halloween.

We can't find our camera. We think it might be in a hotel in Cedar City or something. Or under a bed, or in a backpack. The point is we can't find it. So I am going to try to upload some pictures from my phone.

Thanksgiving and Christmas were wonderful. Olivia got a wiggle car for Christmas and LOVES it. We did the sand dunes and went to St. George for the Stevenson family reunion. All fun, of course.

We finally took down all the wallpaper in our house and painted our kitchen and 2 bedrooms. We lost a big beautiful walnut tree in our backyard during the "wind-pocalypse" we had here in Ogden. We are so sad it's gone. We also lost many shingles off our roof and were out of power for 4 days. We stayed at our parents' houses and when we came home it was 40 degrees inside!!! It made us realize how much we depend on electricity and remember how grateful we are for family.

Olivia had her 2nd birthday! She is getting so big and talking up a storm. She can sing her ABC's, count to 10, jump, run, climb, recognizes letters A-K, loves her stuffed dog and wearing shoes and hats, knows Jesus and President Monson when shown a picture, loves books and the movie Up, can pray by herself and loves to be thrown into the love-sac. She is so cute and we love her so much.




This was a hike in St. George called The Crack. Olivia and David started going through and it was so narrow that David got stuck. Olivia was quite a ways ahead and was crying because she couldn't get up the next set of rocks and she was scared. David had to inch his way up so that I could go under him and help Olivia. This is after I caught up with her.