Birthday & Weight Guesses

Here are the guesses so far, keep sending them in!

Ryan - Nov 5, 7 lbs 2 oz (I'm hoping it backs up to a weekend so I don't have to miss school or work)
Ashley - Nov 9, 7lbs 12 oz

Andy Fields - Nov 8

Joe Cunliffe - Nov 12, 14lbs
Tiffany Cunliffe- Nov 11 @ 11:11, 7lbs 3 oz
Jen Barber - Nov 8, 7lbs 5 0z
Kristin Reeder - Nov 9, 8 lbs 4 oz
Aunt Norma - Nov 10 @ 10 am, 10lbs 10oz
Aunt Kathy - Nov 5, 7lbs 5 oz
Leandra Call - Nov 7, 7 lbs 13 oz

Carly Nielson - Nov 12, 8 lbs 1 oz

Donna Channell - Nov 7, 8 lbs 3 oz

Aunt Terri - Nov 13 @ 7 am, 7 lbs 11 oz

Kelsey Waddell, Nov 2, 7 lbs 2 oz

Chris - Nov 7, 7 lbs 7 oz

Courtney Channell, Nov 9, 8lbs 2 oz

Tom Channell, Nov 11, 7lbs 12 oz

Andrew Waddell, Nov 12, 5 lbs 10 oz

Taylor Gorby (5yrs old) - Nov 10, 1 lb

Morgan Gorby (7 yrs old) - Nov 19, 12lbs

Erin Gorby -Nov 3, 7lbs 4 oz

Debbie Waddell - Nov 6, 7lbs 4oz

Chris Geary - Nov 14, 7 lbs 6 oz

Scott Channell - Oct 31, 7 lbs 6 0z

Dave Waddell - Nov 12, 7 lbs 8 oz

Full Term Status!

So today is Ashley's 37th week of being pregnant! That means we have reached the full term status and our baby should be fully developed and just packing pounds from here on out. We have been pretty busy with school and work. Ashley is still working hard and is currently training her replacement. She has one more week left and then she will just hang out and get our house organized for the baby to arrive. I have been really busy with school. I am taking a business finance class right now, and I had the first mid-term on Friday. It took me 3 hours for only 25 questions!! It was pretty hard and I ended up getting an 84%, which I was pretty bummed because that isn't that great for hours and hours of studying. Well turns out the class average was a 60, so for the first time in my life I was one of the curve setters haha!

Well enough about school and work. Here is a picture of Ashley I took today to mark her 37th week.

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My little brother Andrew, celebrated his 23rd birthday on the 18th, we went up to my Aunt Kathy's for a nice Sunday dinner and cake. On Monday we took him out to Kelsey's pizza restaurant and ice cream.

Here is Ashley at week 36. I don't think you guys realize how hard it is for me to 1) get this pictures and 2) post them.

So you might be asking yourself, why is Ashley at the hospital!?!? Well last Wednesday (without getting into to many details) Ashley had some pregnant issues and she called called her Dr. for advice and everyone she talked would only tell her "Go to the hospital." We were pretty sure everything was OK based off Google, but we didn't want to be crappy parents before she is even born so we decided to go to the hospital to see if they could answer Ashley's questions. Of course the hospital won't just answer your questions though without admitting you. So we were there for an hour, they ran some tests and everything is ok, and we got our questions answered so hopefully we won't have anymore hospital visits until D-Day.

Now since we are full term we can start the guessing of the delivery date and baby weight. Unfortunately I could not find a widget to track this, and I know its obnoxious to leave a comment if you don't have one of the 4 allowed accounts, so email me at rywaddell@gmail.com and I will start a new posts with everyone's guesses. Remember she is due Nov. 10th. The winner will get to choose the babies middle name, because we can't come to an agreement...... just kidding do you think I would really trust you with even the middle name of my child!? Your crazy!

Hot Pregnant Lady...

Here is a picture of Ash from last week, so about 33 weeks in.

B-day & Ultrasound #4!

Last weekend was Ashley's 26th birthday weekend! Due to school and work we had to post-pone birthday celebrations until the weekend. On Saturday we woke up and had an awesome french toast breakfast at Kneader's. Then we drove the Alpine loop which had an some pretty fall colors. (We also did the loop again today and saw a moose 5ft off the road!) Here are a few pictures from our trip.

This Thursday Courtney, one of Ashley's sister's, planned a surprise visit for the weekend. We had a blast hanging out with her and pigging out at every single yummy food place in Utah including J-Dawgs, Tucanos, and Kneaders. I seriously think I gained 15 lbs this weekend. It was well worth it though.

On Friday we went to our 4th and final ultrasound. Unfortunately we didn't get any new pictures of her but according to the Dr. the baby looks great and is super active which is a good sign. She is weighing in at approx. 5 lbs, so if she keeps pace Ashley might have a good size challenge in front of her!

So we are right at 34 1/2 weeks now. At 36 weeks we start seeing the Dr. on a weekly basis. I can't believe how quickly these past 8 months have gone. Ashley is doing great, but between us I think she is getting to the point where she wants this baby out. She is having a very difficult time getting comfortable, sleeping, eating, and living. But if you're concerned if that has affected my sleep at all, no need to worry I am doing fine.

Speaking of me, school is going great. Part of the Facility Property Management program requires a certain number of Construction Management classes. So I am taking an electrical wiring class, a structural framing class, a finance class, and a marketing class, with a few others. I am learning a lot and having fun.

We hope all is well, leave us a comment (even though we don't respond, and you may see no benefit on your part to post a comment, we really enjoy hearing from all 3 of our readers).

Ultrasound #3 & Update

Yesterday Ashley, Kelsey (my sister), and I all headed to the hospital for our third ultrasound. We got the same person as our first time, and if you remember she did not think I was funny so we don't like her. First she took all the baby's measurements. Currently she weighs around 2.8 lbs. We got to see a cool view looking directly at her (which was weird it almost looked 3-D) that showed her lips and nose. The tech then checked the heart and legs and everything looks great! Our baby got a slow start and was measuring 6 days past 11/10 in the beginning but now she has caught up and is in the 50% and should be arriving as schedule, or sooner! Here are the pics we were able to take home.

This past weekend we were able to head back to Sacramento for Ashley's baby shower. We had a blast hanging out with friends and family. We got some great gifts and are excited to start putting the baby room together. Thank you for all the nice presents!

Ashley is feeling great, and is still working at the Dental office. She is starting to transition from the front office to a dental assistant to allow her to work part-time after the baby comes. I was excepted into the Facility Property Management Program at BYU and start this Fall. It should take two years for me to finish so I will graduate in April 12' (yes that is exactly 10 years since I graduated from high school, so what!?).

We have one more ultrasound scheduled for Oct. 2nd! We will keep everyone updated as we get down to the wire. Only 11 weeks left!

P.S. Vote on our new poll! Help us decide on a name (but lets be honest we are going to name her whatever we want, even if you think it's stupid). You guys didn't do so hot on the last one as 13 voted boy and 10 for girl, so I expect better results!

Ultrasound Round 2

Today Ashley and I went in for her 20 week ultrasound. And we were able to find out what we are having. So without further ado...... it's a girl!!!!!

We had a great time with the ultrasound tech. She was really nice and spent about 15 minutes showing us the baby and explaining what everything was, which was really helpfully to me because those ultrasound pics are like those blurry 3-D pics that were super popular in the 90's. You have to stare at it for awhile until your eyes adjust and finally can make out what it is.
The baby was super active and a bit camera shy. She was flipping and rolling around, and sucking her hand and running away from the camera. Here are a few of the ultrasound pics. The tech was nice and printed out 10 different shots.

The Dr. then came in and did another ultrasound to check for any abnormalities. Thankfully our baby is looking great!

Here is the confirmation that it is a girl. It is hard to tell because the shot apparently is if she was sitting on a glass table and you were looking up at her (which is kinda of weird and gross to think about). The mouse arrow is pointing to the direction of the "girl parts"

We were able to watch her drink the fluid which I am told she pees out only to re-drink it. Yummy! You can see this shot she has her mouth open drinking some nice refreshing amniotic fluid mixed with pee.


This is a shot of her foot.

For the second half of the ultrasound she was curled up in this really tight ball. Here her elbow is touching her knee. She must get her flexibility from Ashley because I come nowhere close to touching my toes when, make that if I ever stretch.


And last but not least this is the first outfit that I will buy my daughter. A seer sucker dress to match my seer sucker suit! We are so excited and can't believe we have already it the half way mark.

Please leave us comments and name suggestions! I am a very picky and have vetoed 90% of Ashley's suggestions so far. It won't be easy for us to settle on one.

Oh you can also start sending us baby presents. We also accept cash. Hahaha!

Love,

Ryan & Ashley

There is someone we would like you to meet...

So as most of you know by now Ashley is pregnant. Yes I know she finally broke me down. Depending on who you ask she is 12-13 weeks along (the Dr. says 12 but Ashley says 13). Anyway we had our first ultra-sound yesterday and it was really cool. It was at the Provo Hospital (the old building Mom so I guess your old stomping grounds).

We walked into the room and the lights were off except for two soft mood lights. The T.V. was on and I instantly made a joke about how we needed some Marvin Gaye playing softly in the background and some candles, and I got NOTHING from the Nurse... I don't even think she looked at me. So the boring, dry nurse started the ultra-sound and was just cruising along doing her thing taking weird measurements of Ashley's insides. I then made a joke about how I thought I saw the cheeseburger Ashley had for lunch, and again NOTHING!!! I mean I don't consider myself Chris Rock or anything but COMMON ON!

So after the robot nurse finished everything she needed, she then started to focus on the baby. That's when it got serious, because the possibility of Ashley being one of those women who wants a baby so bad that they force their body to create all the signs of being pregnant went out the door.

But it was way cool because we got to see some really good shots of the baby. And he/she is quiet active! It was bouncing around, kicking its legs, moving its arms, and I think I even saw a few dance moves in there. The nurse then started to get these weird views which made us see the babies skeleton and I made a comment of how our baby looked like a cyborg T2000 from Terminator after its face melted off and again NOTHING!! So that was my last attempt.


So she took a couple snap shots of the baby and printed them out for us and this is what we got to take home.





Afterwords the the Dr. came in and she was awesome. She was sarcastic, witty, and cracking jokes, so I really liked her. We also get to do a super tech ultra sound at week 20 so we should have some more cool pictures to post then. And that is when we get to find out what we are having!

I have added a new question to our blog. Please fill that out so we can see what everyone thinks we will have.

So far Ashley as been feeling pretty good and hasn't been crazy sick so that is really good. Although she sleeps like every second she isn't at work I think. But other than that we are doing great and really excited to have a Ryan Jr. soon.

Feel free to leave us comments!