Eleanor Barlow Part II

Here is the latest installment of pictures of Eleanor at the hospital with an update at the end. Enjoy!

Mom and baby are doing great. The doctor did a great job on the delivery and the nurses have been great also. The tests for Eleanor have all come up well. Jenny is doing better each hour and even got up, showered, and got ready without assistance this morning. Look forward to her upcoming blog: "Tips on how to make giving birth look easy".

You can see from the pictures that Eleanor has a big round head and chubby cheeks. She has dark hair with a bit of a curl to it. Grant got to come visit her yesterday; he said "hi baby Eleanor" and then he was mostly distracted with the other people and gadgets in the room. He really enjoyed the present that "Eleanor" got him: a kids digital camera. He took at least 30 pictures while he was here and already learned to navigate the 5 buttons on the camera. We'll have to post some of his photos later. Thanks so much for all the well wishes.

Eleanor Barlow

Eleanor Barlow

Born at 1:10pm on 8/7/10

9 lbs; 22 in

More Pictures to come; stay tuned.

JULY

This picture is from my cousin's wedding about a month ago. I am not really the biggest fan of myself in this one but Grant and Chris more than make up for it. Look at those smiles!

Well, today is my last day to be pregnant for awhile. I go in tomorrow to be induced. I had forgotten how miserable you feel at the end and I am glad to have this part behind me for awhile.

I wanted to do a little catch up on this last month before the focus changes tomorrow. I don't have all the pictures I would like to accompany this post but it will just have to do I guess.

The month of July was quite a bit less busy for us, well especially for me, but it still went by really fast.

We had Chris's 10 year HS reunion that I actually really enjoyed going to. Chris went to school with really nice friendly people and it was fun to meet and visit with them.

The 4th of July festivities were alot of fun as usual. I didn't quite enjoy all of it nearly as much as I usually do but I assume that had a little something to do with the fact that I was about 8 months pregnant. :) Chris got to go in and watch the Stadium of Fire show this year with his sister and nieces. Grant and I hung out with my family at our usual picnicing spot. Chris sponsored the annual Gary's to Grandma's 5K race and we enjoyed breakfast, the Layton parade, and barbequing with the Barlows.

Other fun activities this month were more swimming for Grant and I at Surf N Swim and Cherry Hill. Running through the sprinklers with cousins. A trip to the zoo for Grant with the Barlow family and then a Bees baseball game for all of us. A campout at Grandma and Grandpa Barlows house that yes, just involved Chris and Grant and not myself. Maybe I'll try that next summer. Visits with friends. And a little relaxing.

The biggest event for us recently was that the basement here at Julie's house was finished enough to get us moved down there. There are a few little things to finish but for the most part it is all done and so nice. There are 3 bedrooms, a bathroom, a little kitchenette area, a living room and a storage room. It is so comfortable and nice to have a little more space. Julie has been a miracle worker in getting it ready and us moved before the baby came. I'll have to get some pictures up once things are a little more settled.

Grant and I on one of our swimming excursions.




Grant with his cousins.




Grant dancing to the music at the Bees baseball game. He was doing some beatboxing too.



Grant loves being the center of attention.





Grant with his cousins. He always loves to do what the big boys are doing.

Summer Games and Cabin Weekend

Here are some pictures from the relay race my dad and his brothers ran at the Summer Games in Cedar City. They ran the 4x400. They have been training for this for a long time now and all did amazing. They all ran faster than they were expecting and without injury too. :) It was really fun to watch them and made me want to try this some time in the future. I have always wondered if I would have liked to do Track in high school.

My dad and uncles with their medals after their race. They came in first for their age group. Way to go! Although, they were the only team in their age group. :) They all did really well and ran faster than they expected and even felt pretty good afterwards.

My dad finishing his lap and getting ready for the hand off.

Discussing how it went.

This is part of the group that was there to cheer on the runners.

After the race Chris, Grant and I headed up to the cabin for the weekend. I figured it was my best shot at getting up there this summer with the baby being due in August. It was so pretty up there and we had such a good time. We got to see Annie and her family and then have my parents and the Reynders come up for part of it as well.

My Marlboro Man. :)

Grant called him "Cowboy Daddy."

The first night we were there we put Grant to bed on a spot on the floor. A couple hours later when Chris and I came to bed we found him like this. Sleeping like he was so proud of himself for taking my comfy spot on the bed. It was pretty funny. And I sure don't blame him for choosing our bed over the bed I had made for him on the floor.

Grant loved spending time on this swing. Isn't he a cutie?

Grant also loved jumping on the trampoline. I was proud of myself for actually managing to get a picture of him when he was in the air. Thanks to Uncle Matt and many others that spent time with him out on the trampoline.

Taking a little break. Comfy huh? I would have picked the bed with all the pillows like Grant. :)

Throwing rocks and chasing frogs into the Frog Pond always makes for a good time.