Yes, we are moving

You heard right. The Burdett family is packing up and moving. We are moving to the wonderful town of Cochrane. Anthony is working at CNRL for 8 months. It is part of his schooling as it is through the co-op program they have at the U of L. I wasn't too keen on it at first because I really did not want to move. I have lived in Lethbridge my whole life and I have never lived more than five minutes away from family. So this will be quite different than what I am used to. I also wasn't too excited because I recently got called to work with the Young Women at church. I feel like I am leaving all my new best friends behind. 

In life you have to be able to look at things in a positive light. I am excited to go because it will be a new adventure that only my little family will share together. We will only be 15 minutes away from the Calgary Temple. Cochrane is really family oriented. We will be 2 1/2 hours closer to our B.C. family. There are new people in Cochrane that we will meet who will impact us for good. I am sure of it. 

Anthony and I try to live our lives in such a way that when God speaks to us we can hear. It is one thing to hear but it is often hard to listen to what we hear. Sometimes we know what is right but we don't follow through with it because it doesn't fall in line with what we want. It is scary. Well hey, life IS scary sometimes. What I have found is that when we follow Gods plan for us, things will always work out. 

We do plan on moving back to Lethbridge after we are done with the co-op job. Anthony will have to finish his schooling. It is weird to think, but when we come back, Brigham will already be one! And Jeff will only have a year left on his mission. CRAZY! 

Here is to looking forward with faith and believing things will all work out for good. :)

Lydia misses her Uncle Jeff

It seems like every time we go to my parents house to visit, Lydia will run to the top of the stairs and start calling for her Uncle Jeff. I'm sure it is a cute but unwanted reminder for my mom that her baby boy is gone on his mission. 
At my house we have a globe. Anthony and I will point out on the globe where Jeff is on his mission. when she sees the globe, she will point at Russia (not even close to where Jeff is) and say: Jeff, Mission! Jeff, Mission! I have no idea why she points at Russia. It could just be the odds, seeing as Russia is the largest country. haha. 

For all those who are wondering, he is really enjoying his mission in the West Indies. He is in St. Lucia which is a small island. He and his companion opened the area that they are in right now. I guess there aren't too many members so they don't get fed very often. Jeff will have to learn a thing or two. I am pretty sure the only thing he knew how to cook before he left was ramen noodles. :)

Uncle Jeff and his nieces and nephew

Brigham Rodney

I don't know why, but I love to read birth stories. They are all so different! Since I like to read them, I figure I should write Brigham's down so others can see how it went the second time around for me.

I started having contractions on August 26th at about noon. Anthony, Lydia and I were at the Helen Schuler Coulee Centre just checking things out. We went for a walk outside after we saw everything there was to see in the building. I was getting pretty uncomfortable about every five minutes. This pregnancy I had Braxton Hicks contractions so at this point it wasn't really anything different than what I had been feeling for the past week. But they stayed. So we drove over to my parents house and Anthony persuaded me to get on the treadmill to keep the contractions coming. While I was on the treadmill the contractions came 3 minutes apart, but they weren't painful to the point where I felt like I needed to go to the hospital. I went on and off the treadmill for a couple hours and the contractions would speed up to every 3 minutes while moving and down to 6 minutes apart when I was just sitting down. I got an app to measure contractions and by the time I went to the hospital they had been averaging about every four minutes. I didn't go to the hospital until about 8PM after I realized that I hadn't really been feeling any movement from Brigham. I figured he was just tired from being squished all day. After my dad, Anthony and Jeff gave me a blessing I went to the hospital with my sweet husband.

When I got to the hospital I was still in really good spirits, nobody really believed me that I was in labor. I didn't really believe it at that point either. I was certain they were going to send me home. They hooked me up to the machine to monitor Brigham's movements. I had to be hooked up longer than normal because he was sleeping. The monitor picked up a few movements and the nurse said he was doing perfectly fine. My contractions had slowed down to once every 7 minutes or so. The nice nurse lady checked me anyways because the whole labor and delivery floor was empty. She was very surprised to find that I was 5 cm. My water had not yet broken but she said that she would call my doctor and get him to break it for me.

He came and broke my water around 10:00ish and they put me back on the monitor and my contractions were still only 7 minutes apart. so I went for a walk after they took some blood from me. I immediately got a hematoma in my arm. It just looked really swollen. At about 11:00PM I was feeling something. haha. I went back into my room and endured through contractions coming every three minutes or so. Soon enough the nurses were looking nervously at each other and then out the window. The one nurse kept on checking her watch. I was really feeling it at this point and I thought to myself I don't remember it being this painful. haha. She just helped me breathe through it and finally the doctor showed up just after midnight. Brigham was born about 5 minutes after he showed up. I was soo happy that I only had to push for 5 minutes!! I pushed for 2 hours and 45 minutes with Lydia, so this was a piece of cake!

Brigham Rodney Burdett was born at 12:15AM on August 27th, 2013. 6 days early. He weighed 7 lbs 15oz and was 21.5 inches long. He has been an excellent baby and lets me sleep. Lydia on the other hand had a bit of jealousy and started waking up in the middle of the night after having slept through the night for over a year! So between Brigham and Lydia waking up I got only a few hours of sleep the first couple of weeks.

Lydia has since been cured of her terrible sleeping habits, but has not been cured of her pinching habits. She definitely loves her little brother and hugs and kisses him all the time, but she is still almost a 2 year old.

Having two kids is definitely hard, but so fun at the same time! They are both so cute and I totally get what is meant when they say you will have joy in your posterity.

 Lydia meeting Brigham for the first time.

 The Burdett Family:)

Leaving the hospital

The results are in!

First off, can I just say how grateful I am to be given to opportunity to bear children. I know there are many out there who want nothing else, but aren't given the chance. I look up to and respect these women and the strength that they have.

I have been blessed with a strong testimony of eternal families. I am so thankful to know that my family will be a forever unit. I can't imagine bearing children without the knowledge that I would be tied to them beyond this earthly life.

 I am extremely grateful for an incredibly good looking and understanding husband. I can't imagine what I would do if he wasn't good looking. Haha. Only kidding. He is an amazing father to our little girl Lydia and I know he is going to be an amazing father for our next child.

So without further ado I will enlighten you as to the gender of this little nugget.

He's got his daddys calves! That's right! It's a BOY!

We are very excited!

When we had Lydias ultrasound I was completely in the dark even though 

I was looking intently to see if it was a boy or a girl. 

This time, there was no doubt. Haha. 

Now it looks like all the girl names we picked out will have to wait.