Baby Tate is born!!!

Tatem Charlie is here! We couldn't be happier and more in love with our new little boy! He's so handsome and we couldn't ask for more! He was born September 16th at 4pm. 6lbs 2oz! On his due date no less!

I was so lucky to have had an awesome pregnancy and equally great birth experience. I went into labor Wednesday afternoon and just decided to wait at home for the contractions to get stronger and make sure it wasn't false labor. At about 5 am Thursday morning, my water finally broke and we decided to head into the hospital...about an hour away!! We got to the hospital at about 6:30am and I had hoped on having a natural childbirth but my blood pressure was very high and it was suggested to me that I get an epidurral (or how ever it's spelled!) About 5 hours later, we started pushing with the doctor about 20 mins away (not my doc, he had had surgery the week before and was out of the office for 6 weeks due to unexpected complications, luckily I have heard he's beginning to recover and do much better!) after two pushes the nurse looked extremly worried and told me to not move one inch because he was coming! They ran out in the hall and grabbed the first doctor they found and before the doctor had his jacket on, my next contraction had pushed little Tate out all on his own! This boy thinks for himself I guess! But I really don't mind him sparing me the work!

Me and my BELLY at the awesome shower my mother in law Raegan threw me a couple weeks before Tate came.

He looks like his daddy! Lucky! But he's kinda brown like his mommy! And lots of dark hair! We think he's a keeper!

Even newborn clothes are too big for him!

Uh oh! Immodest! This is Tate's first bath!

Our First Year

It's crazy to say that our first year is already over! I guess it's true to say that time flies when you're having fun! Right after we were married, we moved up to Logan, Utah where I (Taylor) went to Utah State University- I was originally going into Elementary Education with a math emphasis but I quickly learned it wasn't my passion and began course work on Family Life BA eventually leading to Marriage and Family Thearapy if all goes as planned. I now have only a few semesters left that I hope to finish online. I also worked part time at a loan comapany in collections. Tanner worked at Big J's in Richmand, UT which is a chain to the restaurant that Napolean Dinamite was filmed at so it was a proud moment for us! :) In October, 4 short months after we were married, Tanner left for basic training and AIT for the National Guard. He was

(Tanner and his friend Colton Jensen (left) from basic training)

in Oklahoma and Virigina for his various trainings. He was gone almost 7 months and came home in December for two weeks for Christmas and New Years....it must have been a good visit because in January, on his graduation day, I found out we were expecting our first baby! haha! We were so excited! I texted him that the test was positive as he was lining up to accept his diploma!

In February, I was starting to have a harder time than I expected living in cold, snowy Logan totally alone, a little sick and pregnant so Tanner and I decided it would be best for our family to end up in Stansbury again so I moved in with my parents and put the majority of our things in storage while we waited for a townhome in the area to open up. In March we got into our townhome and Tanner came home April 29th, and shortly after that we officially moved in.

Now we're happy to be settled in our home (that's triple the size of the last one...we feel like we're in a mansion!) and we have a great ward of old and new friends. We feel so blessed to live in such a beautiful place, be expecting our first son, and to have such a good job (Tanner works at Directv as a technicion) that will alow me to be home with our kids and for Tanner to begin coursework at SLCC in January! We really couldn't ask for more from our first year and feel extremly blessed and grateful for Heavenly Father's hand in our lives everyday.