Cohen Paul Brown has arrived!!!

Anne gave birth to our wonderful son on Jan. 29th.  He was 8lbs. and 11oz. and 21 inches.  I am not really much of a writer so I'll just post some pics and let Anne write you a visual picture for you later.   

Cohen Paul Brown has arrived!!!

He's finally here! Born January 28th 1:15 pm, 8 lbs, 11 oz and 21 inches long. I went in to the hospital on Tuesday afternoon to be induced, contractions started about 7 hours later (1 am), and by 12:15pm I was pushing. I only had to push for half an hour!! and he was here. It was pretty wonderful an amazing. He is adorable, with strawberry blonde hair :)  Pictures to come soon...

Palms to Pines and Cafe Aroma

Paul and I figured that this would be our last weekend alone before our lives change FOREVER and we welcome Cohen into our family, so we drove up to Idyllwild; a quaint little mountain town above Palm Desert. These are some of the pics we took on the drive. It only took 30 minutes and we had gone from the total desert to heavily wooded pine mountains. It was really pretty. It sort of made me miss the mountains and beautiful drives we used to take in Utah. Not enough to EVER move back there mind you, but nice to know we can get the same effect here in Cali-for-ni-ay. 

Aren't we cute?!

We had a really romantic 4 course meal at a little Italian restaurant called Cafe Aroma. Paul and I actually sat for over an hour and just enjoyed dinner and each others company. It was wonderful to get to spend quality time with my best friend! I can't wait to see Paul become a dad and watch him with our tiny son. He is such a wonderful husband and man and I know he'll be nothing short of amazing when it comes to fatherhood.

The nursery is ready, now all we need is a baby

17 days and counting until I go in to be induced! Since my doctor is in Encinitas and we live 2 hours away in Palm Springs, I'm being induced a week early so Paul doesn't have to drive a screaming woman in labor 2 hours to the hospital :) I'm a little nervous about it because I know being induced means I will be in labor a little bit longer but at this point having him a week early sounds good to me. We'll have him on a Wednesday, get a few days to ourselves as a new little family and then my mom is going to come out because I'm sure I'll be feeling sufficiently inadequate and will need some support at that point! We are so excited and nervous for all of this to happen. I'm so curious what he's going to look like. I have my last doctors appointment on Monday and I'll get to have another ultrasound so I'll post those pics next week. If anyone wants to play "what I wish I'd known/done when I had my first baby" I would more than welcome the advice. Since I'm the 'baby' in my family and Paul is 3rd of 8 in his, he's the more experienced of the two of us...

36 weeks. You'll have to excuse my belly sticking out of the bottom. I feel like a fat beer belly man these days because almost all of my shirts seem to be creeping up on me. Not so cute to have your belly hanging out of your shirt, even if it is due to a baby and not beer :)

Car seat, stroller and bouncy seat thing (I obviously am not experienced b/c I don't know what this is called :) ) Since taking this picture, our bedding finally came in the mail and I've gotten that all washed and put together too. We decided to go with a chocolate brown and mint green set so we could use it for a girl in the future too. It has houndstooth patterned sheets which I love.

This is an amazing blanket that my sister-in law Melissa hand-made for my shower gift. All of my other sisters have been given one so I was stoked to get mine. So adorable!

Lots and lots of onesies and teeny tiny socks

Cohen already has his own shoe collection: Pumas, Nikes, Adidas, DVS...can you say spoiled?

We survived our first real earthquake! It wasn't really that big, just a 4.5 but it was a little weird to have your house start shaking out of no where

Entertaining ourselves and waiting on Cohen to come

35 Weeks and SOOO ready to be done. 

Last Saturday Paul and I decided that we needed to entertain ourselves out here in the desert so we drove out to the Salton Sea, kind of like the Great Salt Lake, and pretty much it was the most ghetto little dirty town surrounded by a really smoggy big body of water, haha so we then decided to go look at model homes . I think I am one of few wives whose husband enjoys this more than her! He loves to look at how they're built, what materials were used, etc while I just pay attention to the decorating inside, not even noticing much else :) Anyway here are a few pictures of one of the homes that I just adored. It was decorated in a kind of beach-chic fashion and was so cute.