(trumpet sound) Announcing: Dillan Romney Knutson

So Dillan is almost six weeks old now, and is as cute as ever! I know we are slackers but here are a bunch of pictures.

Really scary picture of me but aren’t all first baby pictures with their mother? Dillan arrived on Sept 14 at 8:02 p.m.. They started me that morning, but we never made progress (because he was so big). The ultrasound we did the day before guessed his weight to be 9 lbs. 7 oz. Luckily, he wasn’t quite that big. He weighed in at 8 lbs. 15 oz. The doctor gave us the option of going home and trying again the next day or having a C-section that night (that in his opinion was the best, because we would most likely have to have one anyway). We decided to have the C-section. Everything went great, and now we have the most perfect little boy!

My boys are so cute! This was his first bath (at home). Given to him by Dad and Grandma Hulet. He didn’t enjoy it.

He has a crazy swirl cowlick in the very front of his hair line. Apparently it is a Stewart family thing.

He is a pretty smiley kid, but as of this week he started to smile when we talk to him.

(Brennan writing now) We do miss our sleep (poor Emma hasn’t slept for more than 3 hours at a time for over a month) and he is kinda messy (we’ve certainly put our new washer through its paces) and sometimes he can be pretty Loud (particularly his flatulence) but we wouldn’t change a thing because there’s nothing we love more than our BOUNCING BABY BOY!... except maybe each other. ;)

Football, walk, and a talent show

Brennan (and Trevor) is on a flag football team, and I am really excited to go to the games. He already had one so Dillan and I geared up (okay is was only 65 degrees, but in Moab that is COLD). We will most likely stay in the car next time.

Their team name is the Spicy Lumberjacks. Isn’t it obvious?

The game has some pretty goofy rules, but in spite of that Brennan was actually on his feet for most of the game, and he only blocked his own teammate once! And they managed to stay on the scoreboard … their little zero stayed lit up the entire time! If you squint it kind of looks like it could be an eight though. We took Dillan on his first walk yesterday there are some really fun trails inside of Moab, we will have to explore them all.

Although we are not in the Moab 1st ward (we bought a house!) we went and participated in their talent show. It is a talented ward. We saw skits, dances, songs, some stand up comedians, a lady with her “trained” pets (which sadly I missed on account of a stinky diaper), awesome cross stitches and other sewing projects, paintings, wood carving, etc. Brennan thought we should put Dillan on the display table and say, “Look what we made”. In the end we sang a song as the Van Knut Family Singers (Mom, Dad, Reyce, Trevor, Sarah, Brennan, and I). It was a song called “The Testimony Song” (I think) it is really funny, look it up. Dad, Trevor, and Brennan also did a Humorous reading of “Chess” also very funny. Brennan and Trevor did the sound effects and some of the characters while Dad narrated. It was really fun, and even though we didn’t get to be in the first ward very long I still feel like we are grandfathered in because we are Knutsons :)

Dillan Up-date ( this post was actually written about two months ago, I was just having technical difficulties)

Dillan is the most exciting thing that has happened to us EVER… we just wish he would get here. I was looking at a couple in our old ward’s blog. There baby was born at 25 weeks! They are amazing people, and were so fun to get to know. My heart aches for them. This is their third baby, she is still alive, and it sounds like doing really good for not having a very big chance of survival (their two other kids both lived a few hours and then passed away). It really puts my life into perspective of how blessed Brennan and I are to have a healthy baby boy, and an uncomplicated pregnancy.

Dillan was making progress working his way down and then he got stage fright. The doctor thought he might come a little early because he was making progress so quickly, and at our last appoint, yesterday, I think he was trying to consol us because Dillan could be a while. Here is a picture of him at our last ultrasound (it is really fuzzy). His head is on the bottom right (profile) and the two floating knobs are his hands. The cutie is sucking his thumb. I just hope it won’t be a hard habit to break when he gets out. I was going to be really good at taking a belly picture every month, but that never happened. This is one of the few we have taken (Brennan wanted his belly in the picture too). this is me at ninish weeks.

Here I am full term at 39 weeks. I feel really big, but doctors and nurses keep commenting on how fortunate I am because I haven’t gotten gigantic.

People keep asking me what I do all day when Brennan is gone, so I’ll tell you. • Unpacking our stuff to the halfway house (now I get to do it all over again in our new house). • I’ve been making Dillan a quilt (the top is not quite finished I still have to sew on the boarder) • I made an elephant for him. I’ve made quite a few stuffed animals but this one was by far the hardest and most complicated it took me months. I also made him a couple of crochet cats which only took about two days apiece (go figure. I am going to have to find some more crochet patterns because they are SO much faster than knitting). • My Mom came and visited us for a couple days and we finished a super cute advent Christmas calendar. • I have been doing tons of research on everything involved with buying a house. • Proudly, I have joined the extreme couponing world as well. I am still a beginner but I saved $72 on one shopping trip! • On Sundays I get to teach the 8 and 9 year olds; which has been fun. They are super cute kids. I also to sub in Sunbeams for a month. That was an adventure. Now I can officially say that I have taught every Primary class • We have been washing and organizing all of Dillan’s stuff which has been hard considering we don’t know when we will be moving officially. • Reading books (of course) • I can’t forget sleeping either. Everyone keeps telling us how we are going to be tired from now until our last child has gone to college, so I’ve been taking advantage of the opportunity to sleep. • And of course chores around the house. I have really enjoyed being pregnant and feeling Dillan, getting to hear his heart beat, etc., but I’m also looking forward to being able to play with the little guy, roll over at night, not die from heartburn, or have my hips pop all the time (Brennan told me I sounded like rice crispy cereal (snap, crackle, and pop)). Some day soon!

Catch up

Yikes! I did it again. My goal was to be a more consistent blogger, but I get easily distracted and am technologically challenged when it comes to blogging. I love reading other peoples blogs. So when I mean to update our blog I spend all my time looking at other peoples. Anyway our lives this spring/summer have been crazy. Starting off we graduated Yeah! To celebrate we went to Disneyland. It was Brennan’s first time and I hadn’t been since I was seven. We had a blast, and I am really excited to take Dillan when he is older. Next time, I want to go when I’m not pregnant. I haven’t swollen the entire time except at Disneyland, from all the walking. We ate tons too. After all what is a vacation without tons of food? Outback Steak house, Cheese Cake Factory, and the giant covered strawberries in the park Yum! I also gained about 8 pounds which is what I wanted (I never thought I would write or say those words, but I was behind on my pregnancy wieght)
Brennan was really hot so he played in the water with all the other little kids:) We pretty much were little kids the whole time screaming and laughing on all the rides.
In this picture I think I am about 23 weeks pregnant.

After Disneyland we moved to Moab. Brennan started his job and that weekend was Grandma and Grandpa Stewart’s 60th along with the Stewart family reunion. I am slowly figuring out who people are and how we are all related. It has been really fun getting to live closer to Brennan’s side of the family, but of course I really miss my side. Especially being able to go to soccer games, birthday parties, dance recitals, etc. It wouldn’t be so bad if we could visit more often but I’m in my last trimester. I am really looking forward to Dillan’s baby blessing when they come over. We did get to go to Parowan for the fourth of July (which I still don’t have pictures of Mom (hint hint0) and for my Baby shower April and Sandy gave me (thanks again!).



Brennan participated in the annual Moab Library Cardboard Boat Race. The Elders Quorum decided to do it as an activity. I am not going to lie I was skeptical. There plan was for eight men to fit into the boat (more row power). Brennan would go up to the shop and work on it a couple of evenings a week. They started a month early which paid off in the end because they got second! They figured out the weight in the boat it was 1755 lbs. WOW! The Young Women and the Young Men both competed too. The Young Men’s boat survived, and the Young Women’s boat disintegrated within 5 feet of the shore. Its alright though because they still got a bigger trophy for the “most like the Titanic award”.


We have had tons of fun this summer and can't wait for Dillan to come!!!

Its a...

BOY! We got to see more of our baby last week and found out we are having a boy. We are going to (most likely) name him Dillan Romney Knutson. We are so excited for our little guy. He is pretty wiggly and big! He measures a week or two big for his gestational age (20 weeks (half way there!)). Brennan was really big when he was born. I am a little concerned:/ Anyway here is a sneek peek of our son.

This is him at nine weeks (he is an inch long in this picture).

Graduation Update

For anyone who is interested we are graduating this weekend! Clayton Christensen (my Mother's cousin) is speaking on Friday afternoon at 4:30, and we are walking on Saturday at 1:30, both in the Centrum. I never really thought graduation would come. It was always this far distant dream that never seemed to get closer. But WE MADE IT! I am graduating with an Elementary Education degree with an emphasis in Integrated Studies (Summa Cum Laude) and Brennan's is a Communication degree with an emphasis in Broadcasting. We went to the SUU Media Awards banquet a couple weeks ago. They gave out awards (gold, silver, and bronze) for radio, newspaper, and the T.V. station. Brennan leaned over in the middle and said, "So, I am most likely not going to get an award at this thing, but hey I have a job so...thats all that really counts." At the end of the banquet they gave two awards for distinguished service in all the communications programs and Brennan got one of them. Conclusion: Brennan is amazing because he already has a couple job opportunities and got an award for his outstanding contribution of SUU's radio, T.V. station, and newspaper. The only draw back...his name reads Brennan Knutsen.

Happy Birthday to us=D

April is a great month because we get to celebrate four birthdays, but the best part is that two of them are ours. We got spoiled this year. I got a Cricut and rocking chair (sometime in the near future), and Brennan got a book, movie, and an iPad (also sometime in the near future). We also got gift cards and money for dates. So Thanks everyone for the great gifts and cards!

Ketchup Pictures

Here are some pictures we have been meaning to post for a while:/

We finally got to eat the top of our wedding cake! Brennan has been begging me all year to let him eat it. The cake tasted really good for being a year old. Also for our anniversary Brennan bought me baby stuff and I took him to the "King's Singers" concert.

These next pictures are from Christmas. Brennan was trying to bounce three kids on a giant exercise ball...it didn't end well, but there were no tears.

Over Christmas we hiked "Bow Tie Arch"



My goal (now that I am done with school) is to be a better blogger, so look for more posts soon:)

Bwah huh?!?

Okay, lemme splain ... on second thought, too much time, lemme sum up ...

It is well past our bedtime, but Emma and I are both at the computer lab while she finishes some of her Americorp service stuff. I just finished cleaning for four hours, and frantically trying to put together a newscast.

In preparation for graduating this upcoming May, Emma is virtually half way through her student teaching (WOOT!) and I am taking a bunch of filming classes that are required for my major, but irrelevant to my chosen career path, including being the sports producer for SUTV news every Tuesday. Don't ask me how that one happened. One of the regular news anchors was sick today and I ended up taking her spot. We have half an hour to fill and were running about 15 minutes fast. After stretching my sports section, my co-anchor and I then ad-libbed our way through the final five minutes of the show. Quite spectacular. Check out the newsbreaks on suunews.com.

I am however doing a radio show every saturday morning at 10 am. I have a co-host there as well, and we pretty much run our hour like your average morning show. We made an on-air wager on our respective superbowl teams that the loser would have to karaoke to a song of the other's choice live on the show and well ... I'll be sure to record it to share. Maybe I can post it somehow.

I no longer write for the newspaper, but am the Copy chief. As such my involvement with the paper is greatly reduced, which I am very thankful for.

Emma no longer works at Deseret Book, and i am trying to balance three part-time jobs and be a full-time student/husband/home-teacher/ward mission leader. YAY! Meanwhile Emma has to deal with a bunch of delinquent second graders for 8 hours a day, and then spend the rest of her day getting ready to do it all over again. Personally i wouldn't switch places with her if offered the chance. We get to spend about an hour a day with each other in the afternoons ... usually in the form of a nap.

Tis life! Anyway, it is now our bed time. More later ... hopefully not 4 months later. =S