A baby beaut.

So to catch you guys all up, I should start with the birth of Austin and Chantal's baby girl! In case I haven't mentioned it or it got lost somewhere, Austin is somehow my distant cousin (not going to get into how we are related, my family is HUGE) and after high school, I moved into their house to do work and school and we became rather close to say the least. In mid-September of last year, A&C told me the good news that they were expecting again! They already have two boys, Owen and Kellen. We were all secretly hoping it was a girl but we just wanted a healthy pregnancy. Anyways, one day I was watching the boys while A&C were at the ultrasound. Chantal called me with the wonderful news that everything was okay and it was a girl! Then came the long months of anticipation and they had brought the idea earlier to me that they wanted me there for the birth. Chantal is a nurse and wanted a natural birth at home, she had a positive experience with Kellen and I began to get even more excited to be there to witness everything. The baby was due on May 11. May was a busy month to say the least- I had a church convention 5 hours away from the 2-5, a speech to deliver on the 9th, my sister's college graduation the 18th, and finals the following week. We were all on the edge of our seats through this. Church convention came and went, May 11th came and went, studying for finals came, and on May 17th at 5:30 in the morning, Austin bursted in my room saying she was in labor. I groggily walk out to the living room to find 3 midwives wondering how to work the Keurig machine. Funny sight actually: hey lets make a living out of delivering babies but coffee machines are not our forte. Seriously, I was laughing at the sight of them. We instantly bonded, I liked them because they liked coffee and they liked me because I knew how to get them coffee. And on our day went. I got the two younger ones up for breakfast and then ended up taking them to grandmas. around 10:30 that night, it was time.

Most incredible thing I've ever seen. People ask me if it scared me to even have my own kids- no it didn't. You really can't describe it. I am so grateful to A&C for letting me be there for this and to watch their baby's first moments and to live with them and let their kids be around me.

Isabel Jean Myers
5.17.13
11:02 pm
7 lbs 15 oz

I call her Lu.

California born&bred, Montana living.

Okay so lets just do a thirty-second recap on my life since my last post: I put on my big girl panties, I packed up my room and a good amount of furniture from garage sales, left my favorite babies (cousins), and moved. Moved 1100 miles away to my favorite place in the world- Bozeman, Montana. I'm in love with it here. Its a place where I practically grew up. A place I know as good as the back of my hand. A place where I spent so much time riding horses, snowboarding, snowmobiling, and having insane road trips with my family. This place makes me happy. It's a place that doesn't know pain to me, a place that will always stay the same, a place where I feel my family's history. I love the mountains, I love the people, I love the professors and I love the fact that I can see Costco from my apartment window; I am my daddy's daughter! So for now, I am a California girl living in a Montana world.