A Quick view from mid August 2013 to January 2014

August 2013

Grandma Leonard spend some time with us after Grafton was born. Our first walk with the kids and nail painting with Grandma Leonard.

September 2013

 

Grafton at 1 month old and loosing his hair! Still one happy little boy.

Happy Birthday Heidi!! 

October 2013

 Joe join a 5K run for raising money for the local hospital for cancer patients.  Isabel joined him in the stroller cheering him on!

 Heidi's photo's for photography class.

 Grafton's Baby Blessing!

Halloween 2013

November 2013

Random Cuteness

Grafton Rooting for his Broncos!

Isabel got her hair cut!
 

December 2013









We spend our Christmas with cousins in AZ where it's warm!

We visited Flag Staff to see the observatory there. Isabel was excited!

Family pictures!

Heidi's make up class mid-term and Final exam

Scar from Lion King

Old man or Santa

January 2014

Brother and Sister love!

Fun bowling night with friends!

It's hard to find picture when it's been so long! But at least here are some to sum up the rest of Aug to January! It was a busy semester with Joe and Heidi going to school. Just one more semester and Heidi will be graduating!

Our family received a surprise Christmas present a couple days before Christmas. Finding out that Heidi is pregnant again!! A big shocker but excited to bring in a new little one into the family. Heidi is due Aug 16th, 2014 - Grafton's 1st birthday!!

Baby Grafton is here!

So the morning of Aug 16th 2013, Joe and I went in at 6:30am to the hospital to get ready for surgery. I got prepped and ready to go. It was surprisingly very calm and we both felt so anxious to see our little boy. By the time I got in to the surgery room was when I started to get really nervous about the surgery. Once they let Joe in to be with me I became a little less nervous. It was a very  different experience going in for a scheduled C-section then ending up with an emergency one. As well as not going through all the labor. My pain only got to about a 4 at most with contracts that day. So I'm guess he was going to make his debut on that day or the next if I was not going to have a C-section. So we timed it pretty good. =)

So Aug 16th 2013 at 9:50am Joseph Grafton Hovey Jr. was born. 6.4 lbs and 19in long.  Once he came out -- Joe told me "yup it's a boy for sure!" Once they did his first check they laid him next to my head while they were sewing me back up. It was amazing to be able to see him and hear his first cry. Since with Isabel I did not get that experience.

We were at the hospital from Friday till Sunday afternoon. It was nice having someone take him during the night and hold him so we could sleep between feedings. The nurse told me he would just cry if he was put down so they all took turns holding him. Luckily there weren't to many baby's there that weekend.

Isabel loved Baby Grafton off the bat. She was all for holding him and talking to him and especially singing to him. It's amazing how well Isabel has taken to being a "Big Sister." She has been telling every stranger that says hi to her how she is a big sister and she is 4 years old. It's so cute. She is one proud sister.

So far Grafton has been one happy content baby. At first his cry sounded like a seagull or something and it was rather funny. He now has a cute newborn cry as I call it. He doesn't really cry much though. He just fusses and moves a lot and it's pretty easy to tell what he wants. So far he has been much easier to handle than Isabel ever was. Such a sweet little boy.

 I took off about a week and half of school and now starting up for the new semester. My teachers have been awesome with working with me with be absent and understanding about my work load being a little more hectic right now,

it's been really nice. Joe also last minute decided to start school as well. He finally decided on a Business degree and is doing online classes this semester so he can watch the kids while I'm at school. Joe is really excited about going back to school and so far they have put him as a junior only needing his upper divisional classes unlike Weber State where he was having to start all over. Isabel starts up preschool on tuesday and she is excited to go back and she will be starting up her ballet classes up again as well in a couple of weeks.

Things here at the Hovey house are going well and very busy!