It's a boy!

Our Little bundle-of-Joy!

4 days before Tyson was born

Tyson Kalun Bragg, born January 14, 2010.

7 lbs. 10 oz. 19 inches

with Dr. McCulloch

Tyson's 1st bath at the hospital

I loved the orange cap the hospital gave him.

This shows off how truly cute he is. 1st bath at home.

with big brother Jackson and big sister Skyler.

This was a quick delivery! I had been having contractions for a few weeks and my Dr. suggested getting induced, which I turned down. I had been able to go into labor with my other 2, and really wanted to go on my own. But by Tuesday I had had enough. The contractions were getting stronger, but still wouldn't progress, so Wednesday afternoon I called just to see about the possibility of an induction, and have one scheduled for the next week just in case. My doctor scheduled it for the next day! With Skyler's labor being 28 hrs. they wern't sure how long it would take and at very least he would be born by Friday and my doctor would be here for it.

The hospital couldn't get me in until 12pm on Thursday, and even while they were getting everything set up, I was having contractions. They started me on petocin around 1 pm, and luckily I was able to get and epidural in time. Tyson was born at 4:45 pm, just under 4 hours. It was all very quick, and we pushed just 3 times, all on one contraction and under 2 min. We were a little worried because I was strep B positive and they were not able to get all the antibiotic in before he was born. They took him to the nic unit for testing and he seems fine now, we'll just have to keep a careful eye on him for the next little while. We all seem to be doing good, just tired and happy he is here healthy. I have forgotten how little sleep you get, but how awesome the sleep is not being pregnant, and for that I am grateful.

Christmas 2009

3 weeks to due date!
Thanks so much to my good friend Hillary and her family, the Bednash's, and Jo for an awesome night of pampering and makeovers. This is me with my good friends Hillary and Tiffany.

Grandpa took Skyler to see the Nutcracker.

She loved it and has been dancing around the house ever since.

Skyler and Jackson love to get all geared up and play in the snow together. Living in Cache Valley we have seen alot of snow this year.

Jackson and Skyler Christmas morning 2009

Halloween 2009

Halloween this year was alot of fun. We went trick-or-treating all day! We went with some good friends to downtown Logan, a couple of grocery stores, and the mall during the day where they had the fire trucks out passing out candy to the kids. And then ended the day trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. It was long an tiring, but we made it. I also had a halloween party with some of my friends earlier in the week and here are our awesome costumes.

Jackson's 4th B-day

For Jackson's birthday, we took him to a corn maze and rode the tractor through the haunted scarecrows cornfields. It was alot of fun and I can't beleive my little buddy is 4 already. He is such a little ball of sunshine everyday. It amazes me how cheerful he is all the time. His favorite things are: his cars, his transformers, his blue blanket, his big sister Skyler, and his computer time.

2nd grade and new baby is healthy!

It's a BOY! We took Skyler with us to the ultrasound to find out. She was less than thrilled to find out it's a boy, but has come around to the idea now. I have to admit, I was really hoping for a girl, but thought Jackson would at least be happy. Nope. He was the most upset out of anyone, and for days following the appointment, he would get mad at anyone who called the baby his brother, because he was having a baby sister, and he wants two of them. I don't know where all that came from, but now that we're throwing names around, he's a little happier. They did a more extensive ultrasound, as they have classified me as a high risk pregnancy, and we were so releived to hear (in their words) that we had the most boring ultrasoud of the day. The technician told me that most of what they do is deliver bad news to people, so to be boring is a very good thing. Everything looks good, and they can't see any problems with the baby. So we are very happy and excited to show you our very boring pic of Baby Boy Bragg: Skyler started 2nd grade! She loves her teacher so far and we happy this year. We got her a bunch of new school clothes, the only new thing she wanted to wear were her shoes, so here she is in her favorite outfit on the first day of 2nd grade:

End of Summer Fun

Well the summer ended badly for the Bragg family, first my burn: and I hesitate to even post this ugly pic, but some people really didn't beleive me. The day before school started I took the kids to Bear Lake for the day with some of my friends and their kids. I am 35 and just never seem to learn that the sun just isn't my friend. I sprayed my hands and the kids good with sunscreen, set up the rest of our "camp" and just forgot to spray the rest of me. For those of you who don't know I have a condition known as vitiligo where I loose more and more skin pigment every year and we think that because I'm pregenant, it spread a lot more this summer and hit my feet for the first time. Well it caused a 2nd degree sunburn and my feet swelled beyond unbeleif. The burn actually caused some nerve damage in my feet that we're still not sure will go away. I was unable to walk or put any pressure on my feet for about 5 days, and was bed ridden. Thankfully the burn has healed now, we have cleaned up the house from the kids taking advantage of my perdiciment. I hopefully have truly learned my lesson and do not plan on spending anymore time in the sun w/o sunscreen. This pic was taken on day 5, after most of the swelling had gone down, but it's still UGLY, so sorry.
Well just as I was recovering from this burn we all 4 got terribly sick and in the doctor's office to find out we all had broncitis (sorry, I don't know how to spell it). Aaron's, because of his Ashma, has now turned into phenominia, and we just found out that Skyler has Strep throat. Jackson has seemed fine through it all and we hope to get everyone better soon, but what a way to end summer and start out the school year!

Jackson helping Grandpa with our garden. This was a great year for our garden, we had a lot of yellow and green zuchinni, tons and tons of cucumbers, our herb garden, 3 types of tomatoes, and corn for the first time. So far I have talked grandpa into canning pickles with me (this was a first for me), and we plan to make more salsa this year. We had frozen peaches from Brigham City last year and I picked up some raspberries from Bear Lake so I also made a bunch of peach, raspberry, and rasppeach jam this year also. The kids love the garden, I just wish we could get them to eat the food!

Aaron has a new hobby: GeoCaching! He takes the kids out quite a bit to look for "treasures" they love it. We're the Braggsters for all you other geocachers out there. Here we are the Hyrum State park after finding a few caches, we let the kids play. It's the end of summer, and wow, are my kids blonde.

In August, we took a day trip to Bear Lake with some friends. We set up a volleyball net, ate lunch, and had a good time at the lake. We could take the red tube out pretty far and it was still pretty shallow, but Jackson always the careful bug, wouldn't let me get too far before he'd come running after me and pull me back to shore. It's amazing to me how different my kids are. We've always had to keep a real careful eye on Skyler not to stray too far from home. She is just full of adventure, spice, and a real curiosity for life. Jackson had never strayed too far past mom. He is much more careful with a sweet demeanor. However, we used to think he a bit on the shy side. That is not the case anymore. Thanks to the infulence of his big sister whom he adores, he has become more outgoing with other people and has become quite the chatterbox just like Skyler. Here's some pics of our day at Bear Lake.

Have I mentioned that Jackson can sleep just about anywhere?! And here he is with my missing diet sunkist that he loves so much.

Skyler's Birthday party! Skyler turned 7 in July, and we decided to do a "girls" late night party, with pizza, an ice cream bar, games and then watched the movie Tinker Bell. It was a lot of fun. Skyler was sad to not have all her boy friends there(she has promised to marry 4 boys in the neighborhood), but this way by far the simpelest, easiest, and way fun party that she wants to do again next year.