Introducing...

London Dunaway

Before...

This was taken at 34 weeks along

After...

 Born May 16

5:19 P.M.

6 lbs 11 oz

19 1/2 inch long

She is already a smiley girl

London's Birth Story:

When I went to the doctor my 38th week, the doctor told me that our baby was breech (bum first). I had two options: have a c-section or have the doctor try to turn her from outside my stomach (version). If the version was successful they would put me into labor then and if not do a c-section.  We opted for the version. So we went in May 16 (39 weeks). I had two doctors work on my stomach to try to manipulate her to turn and I'm not talking about softly pushing and nudging. I had two grown men pushing as hard as they physically could without hurting our baby. Luckily they had given me an epidural already. After about 15 minutes, the doctor said her bum was lodged too far into my pelvis, I had little fluid, and not much room for her to move. It was time to go have a birthday. So they wheeled me to the operating room and 10 minutes later we were parents. :) 

Notice her legs, this is the reason she would not turn. Her head was at the top of my ribs, her bum down, and her legs spread out like so and folded up to her ears.

Tyler was sweet enough to stay with me at the hospital while I was there. She looks just like her dad especially her cute (aka big) mouth ;)

2 days old

1 week old

I wish I could get a good picture of one of her big smiles. She loves to smile in her sleep especially after she is fed and changed. After being up all night every night these smiles make it all worth it.

2 Weeks Old

A little about London:
She has brown hair (kind of bald on top and lots in the back). She has Tyler's eye's (not sure on the color yet), palms, and mouth. My ears, fingers, and toes. The cutest little body.

London was the perfect name for our little girl. She brought the "London" weather to Utah. It has rained almost everyday since she was born. Tyler loves that it reminds him of England. 

London had her 2 week check up today. She has already gained a pound and grown 1/2 inch. She is 7 lbs 12 oz and 20 inches long. 

She loves to squawk, grunt, and stretch. She loves to be held and cuddled. She loves to peek with one eye before deciding if she wants to fully wake up or go back to sleep. She hates the hic-ups and has them a couple times a day.

She loves her binky and already knows how to suck her thumb. She sleeps with her mouth open and sometimes drools if she is on her side.

London loves taking naps with dad

Penny (Tyler's mom) came and took some fun pictures of London

We love our sweet London

Projects

I decided it was time to start sewing again. I haven't done much since high school and I've really missed it. I decided to take on the baby bedding as my first project. I made the baby bumpers (thanks to this tutorial), crib skirt, and just finished a baby blanket with the rest of the scraps. We have a little more than 2 weeks left and there's still a lot to do. Here is a sneak peak of our baby's nursery. We don't have much room right now so she has her own little corner in our room.

the inside of the baby bumpers

Next project: Baby blessing dress

Tyler has been working on his own project the last several weeks. He has been building a dresser to match our bedroom set. It looks great so far. School has been keeping him pretty busy so it has kind of been put on hold but should be done sometime soon.

Happy First Anniversary

We celebrated our first anniversary Jan 8, 2011. Friday the 7th I came home from work to these beautiful flowers :)

That night we ate at Benihanas and stayed in Park City.

The next day we shopped at the Outlets, visited the Olympic park, and met my family for dinner in Heber at the Blue Boar Inn.

Best Year thus far...with FOREVER to go :)

Highlights of our first year together (2010)

Sorry this is a really long post and really late but here is a quick recap of our first year being married.

Tyler & I were married Jan 8, 2010 in the Mt Timpanogos Temple. Best day thus far :)

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Honeymoon:

We went on a cruise through the Caribbean for our honeymoon. We visited St. Martin, St. Thomas, and Grand Turk. Unfortunately, we couldn't stop in the Bahamas because it was too windy to tender the boats.

St Martin we tried to soaked up as much sun as we could before going back to snowy Utah. We didn't realize till later that we should have put a bit more sun screen on.

St Thomas was rainy most of the day so we did a little shopping :)

 Grand Turk was one of our favorite stops

 We ate in Margaritaville

went snorkeling

 

 and swam with and kissed stingrays

 Unfortunately the sun goes down even in Margaritaville

 The days at sea we played lots of ping pong, golf, basketball and enjoyed eating lots of yummy food!

We had so much fun we didn't want to leave
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Yay for Summer Vacations!
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Rowley Family Reunion:

It's been a tradition in my family ever since I was little to go to Lake Mead each year as a family. It is by far one of my favorite vacation spots. Apparently we had so much fun we forgot to take pictures. Here's the Rowley family clan. Highlights of the trip include: boat rides, wave running, the boys trying back flips on the wakeboard, slalom skiing, air chairing,  knee boarding, eating lots of treats, playing games, and sliding down our slippery slide.

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Zions:

Our parents got together and planned a trip to Zions...

Hiking the Narrows

(Robert, Kathryn, Kristee, Stacee, Ty, Penny, Steve)

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England
We were lucky to be able to go to England to visit Tyler's mission so soon after coming home. We decided when we got married it was something we wanted to do before starting a family and Tyler's mission president made it possible by letting us stay with them in the mission home. Here are some pictures of our trip:

London:

The mission home

Shopping for some fresh fruit

Tyler was so excited when he found out that the mission home was 5 min. away from the Chelsea Football (soccer) Club. We saw some Chelsea players just getting done with practice as we drove by.

Tower Bridge

The Eye of London

Thames river with Big Ben in the Background

West Minster Abbey

We were able to see the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace

I don't know how they keep a straight face all day...

Trafalgar Square. This art museum was incredible

Wimbledon:

Where the pros play

Temple grounds:

The England temple is so pretty! We were even able to go through an endowment session while we were there.

I found some friends

Our Car. Tyler taught me to drive stick on the right side of the car...I only stalled once! :)

 

Castles:

Hampton Court

Windsor Castle

South Hampton:

Tyler served in South Hampton for 8 month of his mission.

We ate at Nandos ... Tyler's favorite

 Shadrak is studying at the University there and we got to spend a couple hours with him...

 Peckham:

As much fun as it was to tour England and all the sites, we enjoyed visiting all of Tyler's converts and friends in each area the most. It was nice to put a face with all the stories that I love to hear about his mission.

 Church in Peckham. Tyler with the boys...

 Elizabeth invited us over for plantain and chicken. mmm

We also got to spend a afternoon with Chef Keith and Utica.

One of the highlights of our trip: Elizabeth asked Tyler to baptize her son (John Baptist) who had just turned 8 years old. The baptism was last day of our trip and we couldn't have ended the trip in a more special way. We had a party with tons of great food afterward.

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Paris:

We decided to take the Eurostar to Paris for two days. One of Tyler's mission buddies (Paul Obrecht) who lives in Paris was nice enough to show us around and let us stay with him and his family. If it weren't for him we would not have gone very far. The undergrounds were all in french and neither of us speak a word.

Crepes for breakfast

In front of the Eurostar

First Stop: The Louvre

The view from the Louvre. The Eiffel Tower looked close enough to walk ... we were way wrong. We decided to walk to the Arch De Triumph and that was a plenty far walk.

Meet our tour guide, Mr Paul Obrecht. Walking through the park to the Arch

Walking down the Champ Elysees. The arch was massive. Exhausted by our walk we rested for a while. Obrecht tried to teach us how to say the alphabet and count to 10 in french. Bahaha I'm sure he's still laughing at our crummy french.

Notre Dame

and FINALLY the beautiful Eiffel Tower.

Obrecht introduced us to his favorite place, Flam's. It tasted nothing like American pizza but it was so good!

We stayed at Obrecht's house about 30 min outside of Paris. They treated us to a legit french breakfast that consisted of baguettes and chocolate filled donuts. Mmm talk about my kind of breakfast, starting the day out with chocolate. :)

 

We were so grateful that for the Obrecht's letting us stary with them. We said our goodbyes and decided to test our traveling skills and visit a couple more places before our train back to England. We went to a castle on a hill (I really think that is what it is called).

We headed back to the Eiffel tower where we walked around some more, sat in the park, took funny pictures, did some shopping, and ate ice cream.

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Dunaway Family Reunion: 

We all participated in a service activity earlier in the year (made blankets) and received free tickets to .... Disneyland!!

This is how much fun we had at Disneyland. Space Mountain, our faces say it all...

We spent a couple days playing at the beach... Here is cute little mermaid Olivia. 

Our impressive sand castle that washed away right after we built it. I should have listened in primary that the foolish man built his house upon the sand ;)

Ty spent most the time mastering skim boarding

Walking the pier

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Sept 13 we found our that we are PREGNANT :) In Dec we found out we are having a little girl. Wow, I can't believe we are going to be parents. We couldn't be more excited. Due date is May 21. 

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I guess we had had so much fun the last couple months we should have seen this coming. Three days after we found out we were pregnant Tyler was playing in a soccer game and broke not just one wrist but BOTH. He fractured his left and broke the scaphoid bone in his right. He had to have surgery on his right where they placed a pin in his scaphoid bone. Here he is right before going into surgery. Don't you love how cute he looks in his hat ;)

Tyler was so nervous about being put under and almost pasted out while the nurse gave him the IV. He was loopy before the surgery even started. Right before they put him under, they put an oxygen mask on him and he raved on and on about how good the oxygen smelt. You should have seen his face light up when the surgeon asked if he would like to take it home.
















Poor guy was in casts for a total of 3 months. It was definitely a crazy 3 months not being able to drive with school, work, and me right in the middle of being sick. We learned to have more patience during this time and grew so much closer together. Both arms are now healed and even stronger than before.

More coming soon...