First off, Jaxon turned TWO on July 2nd! We had a cars themed birthday party for him with some of our close friends and my family (the crayk side was out of town sadly) He certainly got spoiled from everyone that came and he loved having all of the kids together to play. The party turned out pretty well considering I was 9 months prego.
Next, we welcomed BRODY MICHAEL CRAYK into our family on July 23, 2011. Weighing 7 pounds 8 oz and measuring 19.5 inches. He is such a sweet baby and Jaxon loves being a big brother...maybe a little too much sometimes :) THANK GOODNESS my delivery this time went SOO smoothly! I went into labor on my own exactly one week early from my due date. My first contraction came at 4 p.m. on sat. the 23rd and they were instantly only 2-5 minutes apart, but not to painful. After about an hour and a half we loaded up in the car to take Jaxon to my parents house so that we could go to the hospital just to see if I was in "real" labor. When we arrived to my parents house and I got out of the car my water broke! So I knew then that this was indeed the real deal. We left Jax with my parents and drove straight to the hospital. we got there just after 6:30 (2.5 hrs. into labor) and got admitted into our room. I got my i.v. and was checked and they told me I was to a good FIVE cmm and 90% effaced!! Woo-hoo, bring on that epidural! After getting all the meds and getting comfortable the waiting game began. I was just hoping that he would come before midnight so that he wasn't born on the 24th of July. Well, just after 11 p.m. I was fully dialated and ready to push. and at 11:33 little Brody made his entrance into this world. Everything went so much better this time around. A 26 hour labor with Jax and 2 hours of pushing, to a 7.5 hour labor and 20 minutes of pushing with Brody. SO much better!!!!!! I was super nervous about becoming a mother of 2. As most of you know Jaxon can be quite a handful sometimes and I wasn't sure how I was going to manage my time between the two boys. Luckily, James was in-between jobs at the time so he was home with me for the first two weeks and we were all able to adjust together. I am so grateful for that time that he was here to help me all day. It helped me SO much!
Which brings me to number three on the list, James got a new job!!!! After much debate and much counsel from loved ones James quit working at Unifirst and got a job at CHG Healthcare! He went from working 60+ hours a week to a normal 9-5 job! It is so amazing having him home everyday at 5:30 rather than 9 or 10 p.m. He actually gets to see his family now! CHG was rated #27 on the top 100 companies to work for on the Forbes magazine. He has been there about three weeks now and he LOVES it! (not to mention his building is like 7 minutes from our house) I am so proud of him and everything he does. He is such a hard worker and takes providing for our family so seriously. I know he will always take such good care of us.
Lastly, on August 14th we blessed Brody at home. It was such a nice blessing and James did a great job. We decided to bless him at home instead of church because my in-laws were home from their mission! (that should have been number one on the list) They were having trouble with their visas in Bolivia so they got to come home for 6 weeks to get it all straightened out. So they were able to be here for Brodys birth which meant alot to both James and me. Well, 3 weeks after he was born they were ready to go back to Bolivia, but wanted to be here for the blessing. We felt Brody was still to little to go back to church so we had both our families and closest friends over to our house for dinner and did it at home. It turned out so nice. I might even prefer doing it that way??
I think that is all of the big events that have happened up until now. We have been having lots of fun hanging out with friends, and cousins, and just our little family of FOUR! It still weirds me out to think I have two kids. Sometimes I think I'm not old enough to even be married he he
