Britax Carseat Giveaway

I meant to do this post a week or two ago...but with moving our stuff and then Nathan coming earlier than planned....it just didn't happen! This giveaway ends TODAY, but if you get a chance to go enter, DO IT!!

This is one of my good friends from high school and I posted before about her cloth diaper review blog. A Britax carseat obviously has NOTHING to do with cloth diapers, but she has a pretty amazing story about this carseat saving her daughters life and because of it, she got Britax to do a giveaway on her blog. Pretty awesome.

Britax Carseat Giveaway

Nathan Fred White

So I have a few minutes by myself this morning at the hospital. Little Nathan is having a car seat check (since he was born early, they have to monitor his breathing while he's sitting in a car seat for an hour or so) and Joshua and Justin haven't gotten here yet...so I thought I would blog!

Our little guy is here! My due date was Sept. 1st, but Nathan decided he wanted to come a little early. Good thing he wasn't even a day sooner, because we just moved all of our stuff to California and got back early Wednesday morning. I was so wrapped up in moving our stuff to CA, there were a lot of things I was "putting off" until we got back. I figured I had at least a couple of weeks before the baby would get here. We hadn't packed a hospital bag, set up the baby's bed, bought diapers, and a few other little things. But oh well!! My water broke on Thursday morning (though I wasn't really sure if it was my water or not). I kind of watched it throughout the day, and still couldn't tell if it actually was or not, but finally around 3:30 Justin and I decided to go to the hospital and just get it checked. The nurse wasn't sure at first either, and even pushed up on the baby's head to see if anything leaked out and it didn't. She said to just wait for a few minutes to see if any "gushes" came and then she'd try one more test. So I pretty much decided it was a false alarm when WHOOSH! The gush came. The nurse came back and said, yep you guys are having a baby.

It was close to 5 by this time and so I thought for SURE he would be born before midnight, which I was looking forward to. They always say your 2nd labor is even shorter than the first, right? Well, since he was 3 1/2 weeks early, I had only dilated to a 2 by that point, and by midnight (yes, 7 hours later) I was only at a 3. Talk about disappointing! The one silver lining was that our nurse was a friend from our ward when we lived on 2nd south...that made things fun. I would be moving forward, with regular contractions, and then they'd slow down again...it was frustrating. Finally they thought I probably had a fore sac, so they brought the doctor in and he popped it and then the contractions started regular again. I started progressing faster, but then the baby's heart rate started going all over the place. I could tell Elizabeth (the nurse) didn't want to alarm me, but she seemed worried after a little bit. She brought the Dr. back in (I was dilated to 7 at this point) and the Dr. looked and said he was going to stay there til we had the baby, which wouldn't be long. It was probably 15 minutes later that Nathan was born.

He had the cord wrapped around his neck pretty tightly which was causing his heart rate problems. Luckily the last little bit went very fast and I hardly had to push at all so he could come before they had to do a C section or anything. PHEW! We are sure glad you are here little guy!



He weighed 6 lbs. 0 oz. and was 19.5 inches long (that is pretty long for just a little tiny guy!) He is super skinny and every time I pick him up I feel like I am going to break him. He just sleeps and sleeps and sleeps...I honestly can hardly get him to eat even! He has hardly cried at all (because he's too busy sleeping) and I love him to pieces.

Love for the Gambills

Have I told you about Margaret and Nate? Well, I am in love with them. I have heard people talk about the fact that after you get married, you still date, but you date couples. The other day, before Nate and Mags came to visit us, Justin leaned over to me and said, "Do you think Nate and Margaret want to go steady?"

I hope they do!

I just have to give them major points because we have already hung out with them TWO TIMES and they haven't even been married a month. How many couples do you actually enjoy hanging out with who have been married less than a month?



I stole this picture from Jaclyn's blog, because I don't have pictures of my own yet. This is from June 26th when the adorable couple got married. (I thought I'd also show you my 7 month pregnant belly-don't worry, it's even bigger now)

Showing off

This is purely to brag and because I think it's pretty much the cutest thing Joshua does these days.



And he's not even two yet! We're proud, since he started off so far behind in his speech. GO JOSHUA!

Fun with cousins

I have been busy scrapbooking and hence have NOT been busy blogging. Here are a few pictures from a couple of weeks ago when Katie and her kids were visiting Logan. Actually all of my siblings were in town, so we had a little 'family reunion'! We took the four little boys (soon to be 5! ah!!) to a little farm park to see some animals, swimming, and to the playground. It was a fun week!

The Cloth Diaper Report

One of my really good friends started this blog more as a resource to post info about those who are wanting to use cloth diapers for their kids. She features lots of great products on her blog, and they aren't JUST cloth diaper products, but good products for mama and baby in general. She is doing her first big giveaway on the blog and the product looks awesome! It's called Maggie's Soap Nuts. It's totally natural and safe for the most sensitive skin (nothing synthetic or artificial). She also uses it for her daughters wipes and and also made a cleaning solution with a 10:1 ratio, water to solution. For a more detailed review and a chance to win, check it out at:

The Cloth Diaper Report

Competition and promotion

So I know everyone wants to know how I did in the competition right? Well, I got 4th again. But actually it turns out to be not so bad. I win this:



It is the desk "top". So it can go on top of whatever desk I am using and I can have some nifty little drawers that I will be able to see into--I think it will be very handy. I already decided after we move to CA this is the set up I am getting from Ikea:



I am super excited. So thanks everyone for helping out. I REALLY appreciate it!

I have one more "scrapbooking" tidbit for my post. I don't know how many of you out there like to scrapbook or make scrap cards or anything like that, but I have a little promotion going on. If you didn't know already, I am a consultant for Close to My Heart, an AWESOME scrapbook company. I mostly do it because I like to get the discount, not because I really actively sell that much (I am not really a great sales woman...). BUT, this month I am offering a 20% discount on ANY thing that you might want from their catalogue. I just have to sell a certain amount by the end of June to keep my consultant status and with being in Europe and being pregnant I haven't sold anything yet, so I am trying to do so before June 30th.

Anyway, if you're interested at all, email me or post a comment on my blog. I have extra catalogues (they come out with new ones every few months). Products include:
-paper packets with coordinating plain card stock and designed paper
-stamp pads/pens
-acrylic stamp blocks and stamps (if you use wooden stamps still, you REALLY need to check this out...)
-card kits
-lots of accessories and fun things!!

Let me know if you're interested!! :)