B+C+B+C+B+C: MORE delivery day photos

Saturday, September 4, 2010

MORE delivery day photos

As if I haven't posted enough already....

Daddy and babies

Brian keeping tabs on the nurses per my request.
I didn't quite trust them.

Confession: I don't know which
baby I'm showing Brianna.

I was hoping Brianna would somehow magically
kick the thumb sucking habit when
the babies arrived. No such luck.

Our good friends the Gardners visiting.
They had to get to know the babies right away,
since they knew they'd probably end up babysitting our kids a lot. :)

Courtney...with gas.

C & B

B & C

Brian practicing the double hold


Confession: we accidentally took one of these striped blankets home and I doubt I'll bother to go return it after the $9K bill we received.

Nonny, Brianna, Courtney and the bili-light-pad

Brianna wouldn't look up for any pictures.
She just stared and smiled at the babies all day.

Brianna about to leap on to my c-section scar.
Mom contemplating stopping her.

This photo actually captures a monumental occasion -
Brianna's first time EVER sharing HER blanket with ANYONE!
She decided on her own to share it with her little siblings!
Seriously, I was really surprised and touched.

Nonny and Brianna taking the babies on a stroll in their metal bed.

Do you know how hard it is to take a picture of
two babies while holding them?

The night before delivery mom gave me a pedicure! LOVELOVELOVE that woman.

This is the ridiculously massive camera Brian took into the operating/delivery room to film the event. Kind of embarrassing. I just posted it for sale on craigslist. Someone please buy it.

Sixteen days post delivery, putting on my shoes to head out for my first run.
It felt awesome. I miss it. If I wasn't such a clutz, I'd be
ready for the Cedar half marathon in a couple weeks.


My girls. And I look like I'm on drugs... because I am.

5 comments:

The Gilson Girls said...: duh!!! what a great idea of putting a bow on C; the 2nd day after the girls were born, I put a different color hospital hat on Justine, so I would be able to tell who was who in pics.; September 7, 2010 at 2:03 PM
LaddandKatieMarshall said...: You're crazy for running--I guess having three kids will do that to you :)
Thanks for sharing the pictures!; September 8, 2010 at 2:13 AM
Jami & Mark said...: So I didn't know that Ginger was one of your nurses!!! Love love love her!! In case you were drugged up, she's the one in the first pic & has a southern accent. She was our RS president in Cedar.

Thanks for all the pics!!! Being far away and crazy busy makes me feel sad I haven't played with them!! I will make it down there to play, promise!; September 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Jami & Mark said...: So I didn't know that Ginger was one of your nurses!!! Love love love her!! In case you were drugged up, she's the one in the first pic & has a southern accent. She was our RS president in Cedar.

Thanks for all the pics!!! Being far away and crazy busy makes me feel sad I haven't played with them!! I will make it down there to play, promise!; September 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Ivy Lou said...: Oh, Chels. The babies are wonderfully cute. I hope you are doing well. What a change, eh?! It gives me warm fuzzies to look at your blog and the fun things that are happening in your life. Yay!; September 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Quotes I want to remember

"The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence."
-Ezra Taft Benson

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children will somehow get the drift of your beliefs on their own.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

"We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith."
-Neil L. Andersen

"Certainly there are times when getting the family together to read the scriptures does not stack up as a spiritual experience worthy of a journal entry. But we must not be deterred. There are special times when the spirit of a son or daughter is just right and the power of these great scriptures goes down into their heart like fire. As we honor our Heavenly Father in our homes, He will honor our efforts."
-Neil L. Andersen

President Hinckley admonished both men and women to be nurturers. He said, ‘How much more beautiful would be the society in which we live if every father . . . and . . . mother regarded [their] children . . . as gifts from the God of heaven . . . and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.’ ”
-Susan W. Tanner

"Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife of former U.S. president George Bush, spoke wisely: 'Your success as a family, our success as society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.' "
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
-Henry B. Eyring

“Reverent behavior is not a natural tendency for most children. It is a quality that is taught by parents and leaders through example and training. But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence.”
-Margaret S. Lifferth

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."
- M. Russell Ballard

“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Security for our families comes from learning self-control, avoiding the excesses of this world, and being temperate in all things.”
-Kent D. Watson

Saturday, September 4, 2010

MORE delivery day photos

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