Introducing...

We are excited to introduce Katie Rae Bennett. She was born on April 12 at 5:28 pm. She was 7lbs 9oz and 20" long. We are so excited to have her here! The doctor broke my water at 8am and started me on Pitocin. That really got the contractions going. I got my epidural about an hour later. They had to try it twice. The first time hurt like you wouldn't believe and apparently that isn't supposed to happen! He tried it again and it was fine the second time. However, it did stop working on my right side by the time I was fully dilated. That was a treat. Katie was caught on my pelvis and her head got pretty banged up. I also got banged up and ended up with almost 30 stitches to prove it! All that aside, though, it went faster than I thought it would and we are home now. I actually feel better than I thought I would after all that. We think we will keep her.

Oh Baby!

Well, the day has finally arrived. I saw the doctor today and he agreed to induce me tomorrow. He will be out of the office all week next week (right when I am due!) so he will start me in the morning. He told me he wanted to be there himself instead of his on-call doctor to deliver me since he had so much time invested in getting me pregnant in the first place and he would be really disappointed to miss it! I thought that was very sweet of him. It is funny to think that it has been nearly four years of trying with lots of drugs, money, procedures, more money, more time and on and on. We are so excited to finally have her here. I will get some pics posted as soon as I have them! We are hoping for a quick and easy delivery (Doc thinks it will be) and hope to be home by Monday....but, never say never!

Update...

Well, we are now 9 days away from our due date. I will tell you, it totally sucks to be this pregnant. I never really appreciated how miserable it is. However, it is nice that the end is in sight now. It might have been easier to make it through these last weeks if I had been working and had something to keep my mind off of it, but that would probably have been hard, too. Oh well. Enough complaining from me. We are just so excited to have our baby here and to get on with things! Brady has been playing with our new camcorder to be sure he knows how to use it when the time comes.

We really enjoyed Conference this weekend. It is nice to lounge on the couch and hear the words of our leaders. I especially enjoyed hearing President Monson speak to us for the first time as our new prophet. It made me think of all the comments I have heard since President Hinkley passed away. Many people felt a lot of genuine sadness at his passing. I, however, was happy for him that he finally gets to rest and be with his family. I was blessed with a strengthening of my testimony of the continuity of the church and was reassured in my heart that we would always have a prophet of God on the earth. My testimony of the reality of life after death and the sealing power of the temple was also renewed because I know that it is real. I will admit, President Monson has always been my favorite Apostle, and I know he will continue to be a wonderful leader for us.

We got to spend Sunday with Brady's family and then my family. It is so nice to be able to see them all and enjoy their company. I love that our parents and all of our siblings (11 including us!) live within just a short drive of each other. It makes holidays and birthdays more fun because we can actually see everyone in the family!

I suppose we aren't that exciting and we don't have much to tell. I will be sure to post some pictures of the baby when she gets here. For now, I am sitting around and reading and watching movies and trying to be patient!

Our Song...

This song reminds me of how we feel about each other and our life. I wanted to share it with you!
Bucky Covington-It's Good to Be Us

Well baby, there ain't no maybe about it
I ain't made of money
So I know that you ain't hangin round for that
If it grew on trees
The branches on mine wouldn't have no leaves
On a shoe-string, saving every dime we made
No Cadillac cruising, no boat on a lake
Out in no-man's-land on an old two-lane
Yeah but we like it that way

It's good to be us,
good to be breathing
Day after night after day, this feeling
Feels the way it should
If this is as good as it gets, then good
It's good to be us

Aw, give me this air and give me this land
When I lay down at night girl, give me your hand
I can take any hurt this world has to give
As long as I got you, as long as I live
I'll make your life as sweet as I can
I'll move every mountain to be that man
That gives you space and a place to land
You wake up smiling, knowing that

It's good to be us,
good to be breathing
Day after night after day, this feeling
Feels the way it should
If this is as good as it gets, then good
It's better than best, yeah we got it made
In the shade, in the sun, in love this way - yeah
We got lucky baby, we've been blessed
Couldn't ask for more, wouldn't settle for less
It's good to be us, yeah, it's good to be us