Pretty in Pink

It's so much fun dressing Jaylee up all cute with bows and cute outfits! So of coarse I had to take pictures and even got ones of her smiling, lucky me!

Jaylee's Birth Announcement

Grandma Voorhees

We have been way spoiled by having people come and help us out after Jaylee was born. Blake's mom was able to come out over memorial day and we were way excited to have her here! The weather wasn't super great here in Spokane but we still had a lot of fun just resting and holding Jaylee. Thanks so much mom for your help!

Jaylee's Explosion

Jaylee is definitely a good pooper. She starts grunting and pushing and then explodes. It's like a torpedo! Ha ha. It shoots out and believe me I know cuz she has already pooped on me twice. I was lucky enough to catch one of these explosions on film.

Jaylee's Explosion from Amy Voorhees on Vimeo.

JCPenney Pictures

We went and got Jaylee's pictures taken a couple of weeks ago and they turned out way cute!

Our first two weeks

My dad has a saying that he loves to use all the time, and that is "Once you have children life as you know it ceases to exist" and I now believe it. The life that Blake and I once had is gone and a new one has begun. I already love this new life, even with the late night feedings and her pooping all over me. All that I have ever wanted to do was to be a mom and now I finally get to be one! It is tough sometimes, especially when she is crying because her tummy is upset and it makes me cry cuz I can't do anything for her except hold her close and wait. But it is so fulfilling every time she grins or falls asleep in my arms or the way she looks at me when I am talking to her. Blake loves to comment everyday that she is such a good baby and she really is! We feel way lucky to have her.

Here are some pictures of our first two weeks with Jaylee



Our visit to Manito Park with mom and Lacey



Our first experience eating out with Jaylee at the Spaghetti Factory




Cute pictures of Jaylee with Grandma, Grandpa and Lacey





Jaylee's first bath tub experience (she loved it until we took her out of the warm water then she screamed at us!)




Jaylee chilling in her swing

Meet Jaylee!

The long wait is finally over! Jaylee was born on May 6th at 3:03pm. She weighed 6 lbs and 14 oz and was 19 inches long. It was a crazy experience starting out with a regular doctor's checkup and ended up a natural child birth. When I went into the doctors I didn't feel like I was having regular strong contractions but apparently my body was because when the doctor checked I was dilated to an 8! So he told me to go straight to the hospital because there was a bed with my name on it. Ha ha so to the hospital we went. When we went to check in the front desk lady was like "can I help you" and I said "ya we were just sent over by Dr. Maughan", and she was like "I expected you to be in a wheelchair, who walks around dilated at an 8?" So we laughed and got settled into our room. Now don't get me wrong I was having cramps but I wasn't bent over in pain like I thought I should be. When I was hooked up to the monitor I kept asking Blake if I was having a contraction (sick I know!) So when the doctor came I was at a 9 and he broke my water which actually seemed to slow down my contractions so they started me on pitocin and man did that get things going! About 5 minutes after pitocin entered my body the contractions hit hard. They had discussed the possibility of getting an epidural but said it could slow me down and I would have to deal with the after effects, so we decided that we would wait to see how it went. But it turned out that I was only in pain for about an hour and a half which included 45 minutes of pushing and out she popped! We were way surprised to see lots of hair! They did end up having to cut me twice but I still consider myself lucky! Here are some of our pictures of our cute bundle of joy!


Here we are checking in and as you can see they were renovating!



Blake trying to study, he had a final the next day


Me dilated to a 9!



My doctor and the resident that helped deliver






You can NOT take my binky!





Don't worry we did tighten the car seat straps, we aren't horrible parents



Ya we made it home!

More Cute Baby Things!

My friend Trisha was nice enough to throw me a shower with our friends and people from our ward here in Spokane. It was so much fun! Trisha had decorated her home all cute and even made a diaper cake and a edible fruit arrangement which was very impressive. I was able to get more cute baby things and now feel pretty set for our little girl to come!


Thanks Trish and all those who came!

Spokane Sports

We love the nice weather that we are having here in Spokane. After we watched the Masters on TV, Blake was itching to go golfing so we went out with our friends Michael and MeiLani to the driving range. I decided that it would be better if I sat out because I didn't want to be more uncomfortable than I already am.







We also had our very first Shock experience thanks to our awesome friends that hooked us up with tickets. It was fun to see all the red neck Spokanians go all crazy for their indoor football team. I even joined in with the crowd which made it more exciting until I got a headache and my back started hurting. After that I was done so we left a little early but they still won. Go Shock!

Easter and Baby Showers

I was lucky enough to be able to go home for two weeks over Easter to visit our families and it was so nice. Blake even got to come for the Easter weekend and that made it even more fun. We got to relax and take a break from work and school and it was very refreshing. Both of our families have fun traditions that we missed out on last year so it was nice to celebrate with them. We got to go roll eggs down the Murray park hill and chase after seagulls and also experience a difficult Easter egg hunt (Blake's dad is a master at hiding them he had to eventually help us in the end). It was so much fun!



While we were there our families threw us a couple of baby showers and it was fun to be able to see everyone. We were able to get a lot of cute stuff that we needed and are now almost set for our little baby to come. Thanks to all those who helped out and came to celebrate with us! We are so grateful and love you all.