October was Lukes month to shine (so far)! He just is getting more and more fun as the months go by! The daycare i work at had a professional photographer come in for the kids Fall pictures, we got a discount.. so i decided even if it was a horrible experience because he was grouchy or wouldn't cooperate it would be worth it just to have that memory. But to my amazement he was a natural!!! The photographer actually took way more pictures then he needed. He just kept asking me if he could take a few more. Every picture was all SMILES! What a little HAM! 6 Month luke has been a blast but i am looking forward to my little 7 month old luke! Which he has now been since the 7th of this month! He has been pretty grouchy for a while now because of his teething.... but finally last tueday (november the 3rd) i saw that he had a tooth break through the gums, right in the front! EXCITING!
MY 25Th BIRTHDAY We went to the pirate restaurant in Orem. It was pretty neat. The food was good and fun. Then we dropped little lukey off for a night at grandmas so that we could go to the shinedown concert. It was so much! The best birthday that i have had yet!!!!! It was so much fun to spend time with my beautiful family!
The people who worked there were a lot of fun!
They really seemed like they enjoyed their job!
Luke and daddy had fun, playing with daddies hat and
the silverware on the table! The BEST birthday ever!
Being a mommy has brought me some of the best times and some of the
hardest, but it is something that i wouldn't ever change for anything!
I love my little boy!!!!!!!
September And October Luke (mike and i) got to spend a lot of time at grandmas ( if you talk to her it wasnt nearly enough! Ha Ha!)
Oh man, this sammy is one handsome kid! I love my brothers!
Luke sure loves his aunt rhonda! wish we lived closer so we could have these moments more often!
Luke loves his grandmas jewelery! Especially her beautiful bracelets!! 
LUKES FAMOUS FACES 
This whole tongue thing was a daily thing for about 2 months.
He likes to do the " Deer in the headlights look" Someone told him it was the "best look" to get him into modeling.... So he still continues to do!!!
LUKES 1st HALLOWEEN
This cake was pretty fun to make! it ended up getting dropped when a certain family member
wanted me to get them something out of the cabinet...... Long story... thanks kevin! :)
Luke was a white tiger and a monkey for halloween. i bought the monkey
costume at "the children's place" in september, size 6 month. Which what he was in october. But by the time came to put it on... it didn't Velcro at the bottom or on his little hood.... so i got him a cheap cozy pj like costume from walmart.
Roarrrrr!
The monkey costume was the cutest! I love
my little man!
Monday, November 9, 2009
September and October.... Gone in a FLASH!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
It only took me MONTHS!
So yes i am working now... i currently work at a daycare, it is nice because i get to bring Luke for free ( daycare is OUTRAGEOUS!) and i can check up on him when ever i want! I am in the room right next to him so i can hear how long he cries until someone picks him up. :)
Luke is doing great, he is a ton happier! the colic last till about 3 1/2 to 4 months! He is still pretty grouchy when he gets sleepy and throws fits, but who doesn't get grouchy? He has been smiling for about a month now and has been laughing hard for about 3 weeks! He is rolling over from his tummy to his back but he has to be really angry to do it!:) He loves colors and watching the dogs run around...
He is teething already and has been for about 3 weeks. BUT i took him into the old pediatric dentist i worked for today and asked her if it is possible for babies first teeth to not be the bottom ones in the middle, she said yes but it is uncommon. So she put a glove on and just like i thought he will be most likely getting one of his back ones first on his right side....WEIRD. But if anything is going to be odd and different with a child, it will be with LUKE!
He is just getting over bronchitis ... it has been so sad... he still has a cough but it is getting better. he had to be put on a nebulizer, a steroid, and some antibiotics. We still do breathing treatments. We didnt catch it in time until it got way bad because the pediatrican i was taking him to since he got home from the NICU kept saying his lungs sound fine and the cough is just from the milk in the back of his throat, well after 2 1/2 months of that crap i took him to an other pediatrican here i town. she was so shocked that we hadnt gotten meds for him sooner.... that made me so mad! now i know to ALWAYS rely on my motherly instinct! But now every time i tell people about that doctor and my experience with him, they also have a HORROR story about him!!!:)
Other than that our home is good, our animals are adapting nicely to having luke around and i wish i could get more sleep...lol!
LUKES BLESSING
We blessed luke on july 5th. We had a lot of people show up, family and close friends!
It was beautiful....Michael did such a wonderful job with the blessing!Luke was actually a good boy and didnt cry!:) Both of our families helped out a lot for the special occasion!!!!
I had a besuitful shower that was given for me by my sister and friend sharlet, but my ward insisted on giving me one too! It was alot of fun! we played games, talked, and just enjoyed our time together.
July 24th 2009 LUKES FIRST PIONEER DAY!!!!
We went to liberty park in Salt Lake, boy it was crazy but it was fun! We went with Grandpa Vester and Uncle Jacob!
Just some everyday kind of Photos
GRANDMA BROOKS Birthday Dinner! September 7th
Luke LOVES his aunt rhonda!!!!
Luke is a DROOL master these days!!!!
Just the Girls!
Daddy time.
Holding his own bottle at 5 months! what a big boy!
Daddy couldnt help but put him in the back of the tonka truck at Deacons birthday party!
Taking after his Daddy already...he wants to play the XBOX
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Luke Allen Vester is here and what a Journey it WAS!
I haven't written in such a long time so i have much to update everyone on.
Well i am now a mother of a Handsome baby boy he was born on April 7th at 3:21. He was 4 Lbs and 14oz and was 17 3/4 inches long.His birth was not at all what i had expected. Luke was 6 weeks early almost 8 weeks but thanks to the doctors at IMC and strict bed rest they ordered me to be on... helped me carry Luke to a healthy 34 weeker.
On Wednesday May 25th right before mike got home i had some " Gushing". Usually you hear women who are pregnant often "pee" when they sneeze or laugh, but i wasn't doing either. It happened 3 times so i called the on call doctor for my doctors office. The Doctor who was on call was a complete jerk... i told him what happened and he said well it could be your water or you could have just peed your pants! so when mike got home i was pretty freaked out, but was sure that it was most definintly NOT my water!
I just really didn't want to pay our co-pay for the ER just to hear them say..."YOU PEED YOUR PANTS" but we went anyway to the ER here in town.
I was sent to the labor and delivery.... to make a long story short i was ruptured and the hospital in town didn't have a NICU.So i was supposed to be air flighted to the hospital in murray, but it was snowing so bad that i went via ambulance. That was quite the experience. I didnt have any bags packed or any arrangements for the dogs quite yet. so i was pretty upset.... just cause i wasn't organized or ready.
So when i arrived at IMC it was 1 in the morning, they did tons of tests on me and gave me steroids for lukes lungs.... just in case he was to be delivered quickly. The plan was to keep luke in for two weeks, so that he could develop more.
So i had to stay in the hospital for two weeks, the good news was i did not develop an infection so i was able to go the two weeks. My days included getting an ultrasound every day, chatting with the nurses, eating hospital food, two wheel chair rides a day... and so much more...lol.
I was given potocin to induce my labor at 5:00 the morning on the 7th.... everything was going well until about 2, when my epidural seemed to stop working. Mike called in the nurse and she got me to sit up so that gravity would help it work...as soon as i sat up i couldn't breath (SCARY)...i was put on oxygen. All of a sudden lukes heart rate dropped down to 60. After that it was like a scene from a movie, i was given a briefing on the complications with an emergency c-section then rolled out of the room quickly. Mike was thrown the garments he had to wear in the operating room as we rushed down the hall way. When we were in the room i was given more drugs so that i could not feel anything..plus a few other drugs.... which caused me to convulse and tense up horribly! I barely remember much after luke was taken. They immediately took him to check him out.
I was wheeled back to the recovery room, i really couldn' t talk because of all the drugs. Mike got to see luke about 3 hoursafter he was born. He was perfect. on the APGAR he got a 7 then one minute later he got a 9. He didn't even need to be put on oxygen! Which was a huge surprise. He had an IV put in his umbilical cord and had a feeding tube in his nose. i didnt get to see him until the next morning. But when i did it was the most amazing thing! I was a mommy!
I got to go home 4 days after i had luke but luke just came home on monday the 4th. He spent almost a month in the NICU.
It was really hard to go home without him. I went into the hospital everyday to visit, which was emotionally draining! but he is now 4 weeks and 2 days old.... he is healthy and happy! Mike took monday-Wednesday off and My mom came last night and will be here till monday. Mike and i are just so blessed... we have seen Heavenly Fathers hand in our lives through all of this, financially, emotionally, and physically... it was and is truly amazing to look back and see all of our blessings! I am so grateful to all the people who came and visited and all the prayers that went our way! There is the update for now....
