Hospital stay

The next few photos were taken with my phone and they are out of order but it's SO annoying to move them around so just pretend ok?

A little splotchy after the trauma of being born!

I started feeling like a human again and thought it needed to be documented. :)

Charlie has super scratchy nails and they grow super fast! At the hospital we didn't have any mittens yet so we improvised.

The next few were his first few hours at home!

These are the very first pictures of Charlie taken with our camera. At this point I was still pretty drugged up but I just remember feeling so happy that I could finally look at that sweet face that I had been dreaming about for months and months!

 One day old. Trav pulled out the camera and took some photos of the little chub.

 Trav actually gave him his first bath but there are no photos since I was still out of it in recovery when that happened. Haha. Here is a pic of his second bath. He was obviously thrilled.

 The day we finally got to take him home! We stayed in the hospital three days because of the c-section and we were glad to get out of there. It was nice to have help from all the nurses but mostly it was just annoying that they had to keep jabbing me in the stomach every two hours.

Proud daddy!

Little bear is ready to go home!

Brothers in Iowa

Right after I got home from Idaho a few brothers drove out for some John Deere presentation. It was so fun to get to show the boys around Ottumwa (even though it's a little ghetto). 

They were SO tired when they got here since they drove all night and I thought it was funny they all sort of passed out when they got here.

Touring the John Deere plant. They LOVED it. Like little kids in a candy store. Actually the whole weekend was like that!

When you tour the plant you have to wear these boots. They have a whole closet full for people to borrow but of course they don't have any for women (or I guess men with small feet) so I was stuck wearing these huge clonkers. Haha.

So Saturday we were on our way to Omaha for the John Deere presentation and on the way we stopped in Des Moines for the Iowa State Fair. It was crazy! There were SO many people there!
But this is the famous butter cow!

Oh yeah and it was like a million degrees that day.
Daniel, Ben, Me and Andy.

So I took this picture because at the fair we got some yummy lemonades and then when we left we were still thirsty-well the boys had cream sodas in their car but they weren't cold so Trav poured his in the lemonade cup because it still had ice. Well it totally looked like he was chugging a beer! Ok maybe you had to be there.

This was at the John Deere thing in Omaha. They showed a bunch of the new products and then we all got to walk around and check out everything. Again-the boys loved it, and I was just glad it was inside and not hot. Haha.

It was so nice of the brothers to drive all the way to Iowa just for a few hours basically! We seriously crammed so much into that tiny amount of time. So fun!