Brigham Jared

 Our sweet angel finally arrived on Monday, August 22 at 8:10 am. Brigham Jared weighed 7 lbs 7.7 oz and was 20 inches long. It was such a miracle to be in the delivery room during his birth. We arrived just as his head was crowning. He was born five minutes later. Brig's birthmom Lonia did amazing and she didn't even have an epidural. There was such a sweet spirit in the room as Jared cut the umbilical cord and Brigham was handed to me. I breathed a deep breath as a feeling of great relief and peace came over me because I knew I was a mom. Such a precious moment. But even better was seeing Jared holding him in his arms and with great emotion telling him how much he loved him. I am still shocked that we have been blessed with this beautiful baby. My gratitude toward our Heavenly Father and to Lonia is above and beyond anything that I could express in words. Miracle of miracles!

Brig is such a happy baby. He hardly ever cries, even when I do something wrong- like not putting on his diaper fast enough! Haha good thing he is forgiving because he has rookie parents. He does really well at night. He whimpers a little when he is hungry and so I feed him and he usually falls right back asleep. Jared has been such great help. I have never seen Jared so happy. He can't wait to teach Brig to shoot some hoops. :) The first thing I noticed about him was his full head of dark hair. Next was his long feet and toes (everyone says they look like mine). He has hair on his shoulders and on his back. He is very attentive and if he hears a voice he will look around the room to try and find the source. From the very first day he has been very strong- he can easily lift his head up and move it around quite a bit when he is on my shoulder. And just now while Jared was holding him in the other room he had his first little giggle with a big smile. I am only able to put a few pics up because I left my camera cord for the computer at home. So these pictures are from my cell phone. We have over 200 pics/videos on our camera. LOL from now on this blog will probably be all about Brig. We can't wait to be home! It will probably only be a few more days. The large photos on here were done by Effie Grey Photography. I won their giveaway for a photography session. I highly recommend them! They took a ton of pictures but these are the ones that they posted on their blog and then we will be getting a cd with the rest of them soon. They just couldn't stop taking pictures of Brig because he is stinkin' cute. So stay tuned for more pictures!

Me holding Brigham for the very first time.

Father and son. I just had to get a picure of his long, skinny legs!

Jared's Mountain Bike Race

I am so proud of Jared. He competed in his first mountain bike race with his brother Ryan. It was 50 miles of uphill terrain. He did really well the first 27 miles and then his legs started cramping so bad he couldn't go on. Overall he is very pleased that he made it that far because that is the farthest he has ever gone. I say he did awesome for not training at all beforehand. Ryan has been in several races and he said this one was the toughest one. He finished the race in about 8 hours. Great job Jared and Ryan!

We are Beautiful Because We are Women giveaway!

My good friend Tasha has a great blog that I follow: "We are beautiful because we are women!" Click on the link to check out her cute blog and to enter to win the free photography session with Effie Grey Photography :) I hope I win...I'd love some newborn pictures of Baby Brig!

Dylan and Mauri's Wedding

 Weishaar summer wedding #2 consisted of a kids parade, the Shelby Fair, hiking in Waterton Lakes National Park, spending the night in Cardston, enjoying Canadian delicacies, and of course Dylan and Mauri being sealed together for time and eternity. It was a beautiful sealing and Mauri's grandpa was the sealer. It was fun to reminiscence on our sealing over 4 years ago, in the same temple. Congrats you two!

 Shelby holds a kids' parade every year. Lots of children ride their bikes, dress up in costumes, or walk their dogs in the parade. Ryan and Melissa's kids got ride in the caboose of the train. How fun is that?? You can see Jonah waving out the window up above.

 We looked at all of the animals and exhibits at the fair. This is Jared's buddy, Elliot. This horse loved Jared, and only Jared.

Zac loves animals

 We even got hot and fresh donuts at the fair. Yum!

 The next day we went to Waterton. Too bad it rained most of the time we were there. This is us taking shelter on the top of Bear Hump Mountain.

 The lovely Ariel.

 Jonah was smart and crawled under the only real shelter at the top of the mountain. :)

 Brock is feeding a chipmunk in this picture. I think this friendly chipmunk was the highlight of the trip for the boys.

 The view from the top. My camera doesn't do it justice.

Ethan

Brock and Ryan

The crazies.

 On our way leaving the park we saw a black bear.

This is Chief Mountain

 This is what Waterton looks like when its not cloudy and rainy. Beautiful.

 After Waterton we headed to Cardston. Here is the temple from a lookout near our hotel. That night we went and swam at the public pool. It was freezing cold because it was only 60 degrees out but we had a lot of fun on the rope swing. I guess I didn't take any pictures of this which is just as well because all of our lips were blue. We also ate poutine. What is poutine?

This is poutine (poo-teen). French fries smothered in gravy and melted cheese. Sounds gross but I think the Canadians knew what they were doing when they put this combo together. Incredibly tasty. Incredibly unhealthy.

This picture makes me laugh. None of the Weishaars like photo shoots and so they got the pictures done so fast I barely had time to pull out my camera to take a picture of them walking away.

 

All of the Weishaar kids are married now. I think Wayne and Sherry can relax a little now! My good friend Christal was the wedding photographer. I think she is still working on editing the pictures but she has a lot of talent if you want to check out her blog: http://danielandchristalbridge.blogspot.com/