Babies are here!

Cara did great this morning and is recovering and doing great. Edith Jane Owen was born at 9:32 am weighing 7 lbs 3 oz, 18.5 inches. One minute later Whitman Jackson Owen was born at 8 lbs 2 oz and 21 inches. Here are a bunch of pictures. I will try to put Edith's pic's first, but sometimes this messes up the order.

Happy birthday Mom!

Today is my Mom's 60th birthday. We really, really, really wish we were in Salt Lake to celebrate with her but we are glad that we get her for the next couple of weeks starting Friday! So anyway, here are some random factoids about my Mom...

1. My Mom is incredibly talented. She. sings, paints, quilts, sews, cross stitches, and makes amazing floral master pieces.  She is very artistic.

2. While doing all that fun stuff she manages not one, not two but THREE family businesses.

3. My Mom started out as a BYU fan ( which is why I thought rise and shout the cougars are out was a wake up song until I was married and Jackson set me straight). She may object to my use of the past tense but we all knew her loyalties had changed when she stopped in the salt palace to watch some of a Utah/BYU game and started vocally cheering for the U!

4. In high school she was Ms. Soda high (or something like that). She was also the head of the Cardettes, the drill team. She was a pretty big deal.

5. To this day one of her favorites floor sitting positions is the 'w'. a gene that Camille and my niece Virginia have inherited.

6. She is pretty much the best Mom ever. I was telling Jackson about the my favorite birthday treat to take to school growing up and it finally dawned on me how much work it must have been for her to make 20-30 miniature chocolate pudding pies. The week before Christmas no less! They were so tasty though, she's the best!

Lately

The iPhone uploads pictures in random order so I never have any idea how the post will turn out. We have a little over two weeks left until the babies get here so we are mostly sedentary and boring. However, my dad did come out two weeks ago so we ventured up to georgetown for Savannah's first soccer practice and Jackson's ifirst sod laying practice. My brother Trevor is trying out four different types of grass to see which he likes best, his girls were just thrilled to have grass to run and jump on. We have also finished all but a few things in the nursery. Bring on the babies.

Belly Pictures

Cara is almost 33 weeks now. Here is a progression of belly shots. Hopefully they end up in order. If not, I am sure you can figure it out.

Multi-tasking

My legs get sore and twitchy at night. Jackson, being the good husband that he is, helps me stretch them out. Tonight he got a little creative to enable him to watch the Colbert Report while helping me stretch.

New Year's

Back tracking a little to New Year's. We had a shower with our friends (we had another shower in Salt Lake which I didn't take any pictures because I was busy catching up) and then we had our annual New Year's party.

The Jenny's stayed true to tradition and drank full sized Martinelli's. Most of the rest of us downsized.

We watched the ball drop and played a game, I think it was about lying or something. It was fun...

Happy New Year!

Cruise part one

In January we went on a cruise with the Godfrey family. It has been years since our last reunion and it was so fun not only to be on a cruise but to be with my family. Since this set of pictures is from Jackson's iPhone they are going to be all mixed up and I am lazy enough to not want to change that...

We watched many of the boys play basketball on the cruise, that is when their game wasn't being interrupted by people randomly walking on the court.

I couldn't go on the zipline so Jackson and I went on a tour of a 'plantation and great house' that sounded way cooler on paper than it really was. We did learn everything there is to know about banana trees though.

My brother found a hole in the wall restaurant in Mexico. The food was delicious and luckily no one got sick.

This is the cruise ship, the largest in the world, docked in "Haiti". I put quotations around Haiti because we went to a private beach that I am pretty sure does not represent Haiti as a whole.

In our cabin hanging out. Jackson liked taking pictures of towel animals.

Learning more about banana trees and so thrilled about it.

Eating in Mexico

Chelsea and Jesse at Dunn River Falls, more about that in the next post.

The Royal Promenade was pretty fancy

Karaoke night. My family rented out the karaoke bar for two hours and the employees could not believe that we were all stone cold sober.

It wouldn't be a Godfrey trip without flattering pictures of people zonked out.

Jackson thought this was hilarious and was pretty sure his brothers would too.

The 'great house' in Jamaica. I was not that impressed, it was kind of run down.

More basketball watching.

Jackson ate like a pro. He ordered two entrees and desserts every night at dinner, usually with an appetizer.

More karaoke

and more basketball

Recently Jackson has taken an interest in large vehicles of transportation and having me stand in front of them for comparison. Here is me and the cruise, coming up is me and the overly large truck in our neighborhood.

80's night dancing. I did well for a while and then my ankles started swelling...

The beach in Haiti. We didn't take many pictures here because we were mostly lounging.

Back in the US of A.

and I barely fit in the airport Chili's booth.

You are all lucky I only put two of the towel animals in here, there were many more pictures taken.

The only coolish part of the great house in Jamaica.