2 updates in one month!

We are liking Idaho Falls. We have met some great people, visited some beautiful sights and are enjoying a change of scenery from Provo. We like to think of this as a practice run for when we leave Utah for graduate school hopefully in January.

Cambry and her cousin Crosby: Crosby the tank was born 5 weeks after Cambry and weighed 9 lbs 5 oz. That night he was born, we weighed Cambry and she weighed in at 8 lbs 9 oz.

At the Idaho Falls Temple Visitor Center they have murals of photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope. This is a picture of a spiral galaxy and my whole world.

Cambry falls asleep in a baby swing most nights because she seems to be most calm when she is moving... (Hmm sounds like both her parents) We tried out the swing at the park and it definitely didn't have the same calming effect.

Idaho Falls has their very own mirnor league baseball. The team name is Idaho Chuckars. If you're wondering what a chuckar is, the mascot is in the back ground... It's some sort of nappy bird. It was another wonderful event that our little lady slept through ;)

Isn't she a California dream?

I'm not sure why you have to be disabled to get a front row view of this sweet 12 foot high stall. Idaho can be a little strange.

The First Post of Cambry's Firsts

This last week has been a big week for us and Cambry. She had her first move. Devin got an internship working for Idaho National Lab for the summer. She did so well riding in the car for 5 hours up to Idaho Falls for a 3 week old baby. There was some road construction along the way and traffic was moving an inch a minute it seemed. Right after I passed an exit, Cambry started screaming for lunch. Of course the shoulder was closed and there was no where to pull off. Luckily, her lungs are much stronger than before.

Cambry also had her first vacation to Yellowstone.

The family on the road to Yellowstone

Cambry didn't talk much, but we think she was excited... Yippee!

Cambry's first visit to a waterfall. This is called Mesa Falls. We found it on a scenic byway on our way to Yellowstone. We thought the "white noise" of the falls would be relaxing to her, but apparently the sun in her eyes over rid any relaxing sound.

Cambry's first trip to Big Springs. Side note: This place was one of the stops Devin and I made on our first vacation together with the Airhart fam.

Flashback: February 2008, our first vacation together.

Cambry's First Swim. She was such a fish! We were a little nervous she would freak out in the water, but we gave it a whirl. We only got her lower legs in the water, but she was loving it. She especially loved her toes in the hot tub. A lady came and said how horrible the water was for her heart. Look at the pic with Devin... does that look like a baby in cardiac arrest?

Cambry's First Hike: Fairy Falls

Although Cambry didn't see much more than Devin's hoodie, this place is beautiful, and we had a good time. We had some unplanned obstacles along the way, and didn't get to finish the hike though...

Two buffaloes were standing guard on the trail and had a lot friends to back them up. We decided to call it quits at that point. Good thing, though, because it started to rain on the way back.

Top: The Guardians, Middle Left: Road-side Buffalo, Bottom Left: Joslyn in a buffalo herd, Right: Firehole falls

Overall, it was good trip. We can't wait to visit Yellowstone again.

Baby Cambry is here!

A few nights before Cambry was born, I was teaching Devin how to swaddle a baby using a stuffed animal. The next morning, I woke up to this. Classic!
I went to my OB appointment Friday morning May 14, and he said "You are dilated to a 5. You are in active labor." I looked at him surprised and said "Oh! I thought it would hurt at least a little bit!" Little did I know what was to come!
This was from a shower Cristy and Jessica threw for me in Salt Lake. It was so fun to see people I love and spend the afternoon celebrating the upcoming birth of Cambry. I got advice from current mothers ranging from "Don't trust anything the nurses tell you at the hospital- they have no idea what they're talking about" to "Go see a doctor immediately if you ever have thoughts of drowning your child." Good times.

Cambry Rappleye came May 14 at 8:43 pm after a pretty quick labor. She was 19 1/2 inches long, 6 pounds 11 ounces.

People told us to prepare ourselves for that first time we hold our baby as a new parent. There aren't any words to describe that overwhelming feeling of love we felt.

Siblings at the hospital.

she was a sucker for the binky her second day. The nurse took her to poke her with a needle and brought her back with that in her mouth. The lactation specialist had just been into my room saying, "Never EVER, for ANY reason give your baby a pacifier!" I took one look at my baby girl sucking away so contently and decided to take some of the advice from the baby shower.

Praying Mantis: her lounging position of choice. When she's not swaddled, she seems to always wiggle her way into this position.

Thankfully, one more person avoided the curse of cube feet, that has been plaguing Airharts for generations, probably tracing all the way back to Fred Flinstone himself.

Miniature babies have to do something big. This girl can yawn! She hasn't found her big voice yet, which Devin and I are especially grateful for at night.

Ok, One thing I've noticed is every time people come over to our house to meet Cambry, the men that don't have kids are always so stiff and awkward. A lot of them don't even want to chance "breaking" something so small. If they do hold her, it's because the wife makes them do it. A few days after we brought Cambry home, Devin said, "Babies aren't as scary and boring as I thought."

Precious family of 3

It's a GIRL!!!

We are so excited to be having our first baby and that it is a girl. We feel that this baby is the best gift that we could get for Christmas. So, we went to the doctor a week before Christmas and asked him to put the results in an envelope and then we would open it on Christmas morning. We were so excited to open the envelope so we slept by the tree!

Joslyn woke me up at about 5:30 a.m. and asked if I had been having dreams about the envelope, to which I answered 'yes.' She said, "I can't take it anymore!" So we opened it.

FLASHBACK: We announced our prenancy on Halloween in this fashion....

Christmas Tree

This year, we went for a Christmas tree hunt. We drove down to Fish Lake and hiked around in the mountains for the perfect Christmas tree to take home. We followed a trail of good-looking trees up the mountain until we found this 9-foot beauty!

Timber!!!

I carried it back to the car....

While, Joslyn played in the snow with the girls.

The finished product. Isn't it a beauty!

BYU Football

This year and last year, we have been fortunate enough to own season tickets to the BYU football games. Last year, we had mono, but it was still fun. However, this year, it was much more enjoyable. We had to include some pictures from the best game of the year, the Utah-BYU game. It was nail-biter. This game alone would have made our season tickets worth it!

Of course, the fact that BYU won the game made it so enjoyable.

The crowd rushed the field after Andrew George made the game winning, catch, run and TOUCHDOWN!!! We were so high up. It took us a while to get down there, but we made it!

Devin was so drunk with excitiment and delight that he got to go mingle with the players after the game on the field!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Last year, we didn't even think about making a Christmas card. This year, we took a picture but didn't make a Christmas card. Maybe next year, we'll get over the hump and make the Christmas card. Anyhow, we just wanted to wish all our friends and family a Merry Christmas and at least you can see our picture that we took (see above). We love you and wish you the happiest new year!