Two Month Check Up

Spencer's stats as of Dec 14th!
Length: 24 1/2 inches, 90%
Weight: 12.5 pounds, 75%

Spencer's weight as of Jan 1st: 14.5 pounds!

We really can't believe how much he is growing each day! He is definitely becoming a little boy. He has started cooing this week and his smile has become more prominent throughout the day. He also giggled the other day while playing with Mark. It was possibly the cutest thing I have ever seen! We really love watching him grow and are blown away each week with all the new things Spencer does!

Spencer's Blessing Day

Spencer was blessed on December 5th by his dad, who did a wonderful job! The Spirit definitely filled the room as soon as Mark started. Spencer was very content while in the circle and throughout the rest of the day while being passed from person to person. He was a lucky little boy to be surrounded by so many friends and family. He is so loved! Thank you so much to everyone who made the trip to Bountiful to be with us on this special day!

Spencer...

We were lucky to have Spencer's newborn pictures taken by Dan and Carrie when he was just six days old. He is so adorable that we have hundreds of pictures to choose from. Here are just a few of our favorites! Enjoy!

THE WEEPIES!

Posted by Mark:

First off, can you believe that loaded five new posts today! crazy. Kimmi is a blogging machine! So yeah, make sure you scroll down to see all the latest news from the Dibb household.

I wanted to get in on the action so I decided to write about our first date away from the little one.

As you all know, I'm a big fan of concerts. It's just something about being surrounded by a bunch of other weirdos who have the same taste of music you do. It's intoxicating. Anyway one of my favorite bands came to town, The Weepies. They are more on the mellow side of my ipod bands, kind of folksy, but defiantly in my top ten all time favorite bans. I've known and listened to them for about 4 years now but they've never actually toured (mostly because they had a baby together and they wanted to take care of him for some reason.)

Anyway a few months back Kimmi called to tell me that they were actually touring and coming to SLC. Since Kimmi is a fan too I instantly bought tickets and I'm glad I did because the show actually sold out! Ken and Linda were kind enough to watch Spencer while we went out (they didn't need much convincing to spend a night with their only grandchild)

The opening band (Joe Pugg or something) was quite boring.... but it was worth suffering through because The Weepies are an excellent live band. They plaid a fantastic set which included almost all my favorite songs.

We had a great time and I look forward to many more dates with the wife.

A few pictures from the night:

I liked this venue. For one thing it was over 21 only so no punk teenagers. Also they had church pews set up in stadium seating format so we got good seats and didn't have to stand the whole time.

Spencer's stats

Posted by Kimmi:

We had Spencers two week appointment yesterday. He is doing wonderfully! He is eating and sleeping like a champ. The proof is in his stats (and his diapers!).

Height: 21 1/2 inches, 90th percential (at birth 20 1/2 in)
Weight: 7 lbs 9 oz, 40th percential (at birth 7.1 lbs)

Spencer has been a great baby. Minimal fussing, mostly when he is hungry or trying to poop. He has set his own feeding schedule from the beginning which on average is every three hours. And he is getting plenty of sleep (I wish I could say the same).

Mark and I just cant get enough of our little man!

The Garage

Posted by Kimmi:

I have not had the pleasure of parking my car in a garage since before Mark and I got married. That's 4 1/2 plus years! But last night we had the wonderful experience of pulling into the driveway, pushing that small gray button on the visor, then driving forward into a clean, usable garage! I have a wonderful husband who for the past couple days has been cleaning and organizing the garage so we can use it before the snow hits. Perfect timing!

So amazing we had to take a picture to document the momentous occasion.



Additional comments by Mark:

I am a cruel husband. Like Kimmi said, she's never parked in the garage since we were married. Our first apartment didn't have a garage, our house up in Twin Falls only had a one car garage and I was quick to claim it as my own...especially when I bought my car. We then bought our current house back in April and the garage immediately got filled by ripped out carpet and our kitchen demo. When we got rid of that the garage got filled by our new appliances and all our new kitchen cabinets. Once those got installed I used the garage as a staging ground for all our countertops. But Saturday I installed the counter tops and it became my new goal to get the cars in the garage. I am a firm believer that garages should be used for what they are intended...CARS and the past six months have been hard on me because it was being used for everything BUT cars. Anyway yeah I'm very pleased that Kimmi will no longer have to scrape the ice off her windshield or get into a 600 degree mobile oven.....I am very grateful for her patience.

P.S. I'm excited to have my car in the garage again too.

I know I am no where near pregnant anymore.....

..... But I had to post my second session of maternity pictures. I can't not show off this talent! Once again, these pictures were taken by our friends Dan and Carrie. They do such good work! I believe I was 36 weeks pregnant at this point. Here are some of my favorites!






We just had Spencer's newborn pictures taken as well, so look forward to seeing pictures with this adorable face soon!

My Delivery

Posted by: Kimmi

I thought I should document my delivery story somewhere for my sake, so here it is. Feel free to skip reading this post if you would like.

I started off the morning of the 11th thinking my water may have broken, but I wasn’t totally convinced (no big gush of water for me). So I finished my morning routine and headed off to work. I spent the work day concerned about my water, but I wasn’t having regular contractions and I still felt fine. I decided to wait for my non stress test appointment I had that afternoon and see what they had to say. But by 3:00 I was pretty sure that my water had indeed broken. The diagnostics center sent me straight to Labor and Delivery.

They quickly got me checked in, but I wasn’t seen until 4:30 because of how busy they were. Too many women tried to self induce to have their baby on 10-10-10 I guess. When I was finally seen, the midwife did a quick test to see if the liquid was amniotic fluid or not. It was! She also checked how dilated I was and I was actually at a two. During the check, she broke my already ruptured bag, and then I got that huge gush of water. Such a strange feeling! Luckily, I had called Mark minutes before the exam telling him that I was sure it was my water and to head up to the U. He was smart enough to be heading up anyway. He arrived a couple minutes later, and then we were then admitted and taken to our room.
The delivery room was really nice. Very homey and warm feeling. We both really liked the idea that we would stay in this room the duration of the delivery, and even better was the fact that Spencer would stay in the room as well. All his tests, stats and clean up would happen there within our sight.

Once settled, I received an IV and got pitocin going on a small drip. That was soon followed by an epidural (which is my new best friend). We tried to sleep though all the nurses, machines, monitors and noises, but not very successfully. At about 11:30 I was checked for the first time since admission. I was dilated to a 4 ½ and effacing steadily. The resident was happy with my progression, upped my pitocin, and asked that we try to get some rest.

I was checked again at 2:00 am and to everyone’s surprise I was fully dilated and fully effaced. The resident announced it was time to push! Talk about unexpected!! He went to update Dr. Sharp (who is my OB and thankfully was the doctor on call that night), then came back and got me started. After 2 ½ hours of pushing, Spencer joined our little world!
Spencer Neeley Dibb was born on October 12, 2010 at 4:52 am. He was measured at 20 ½ inches and weighed in at 7 lbs and 1 oz. He has those strong Dibb genes. He has big feet and big hands. He is long and lanky just like his dad. He even has Mark’s swirl cowlick on the crown of his head. Love it!

Thanks to all the friends and family who have visited us at the hospital and at home. Thanks to those who have brought meals and treats and of course, support and advice for the new parents!

We have loved having Spencer in our home. He is a wonderful baby and absolutely adorable to look at! Mark and I have decided that we will keep him!

A few more pictures of the little one

Spencer Neeley Dibb

He has arrived!

Spencer was born at 5:00am October 12th 2010. He weighs 7lbs 1oz and is 20.5 inches long. Baby and mother are both doing fantastic. More pictures and the story of last night's events will come in a later post but I wanted to put up a picture for all the world to see.

The chair

Posted by Mark:

So I don’t exactly know what it is about Kimmi and me but we seem to be drawn to the things that are old. Twice we have bought a house that most people would consider “too much work” but something inside of us can look past the shoddy old shells and somehow see exiting possibilities no matter how much work will be involved. Personally, I think it’s just because we’re cheap. We both love vintage stuff that is remodeled/refurbished, but just don’t like the high price tag to go along with it. Therefore we decide to do it ourselves...

Case and point? Our search for the perfect rocking chair.

When one prepares for an upcoming birth of a child you must own a few essentials. Call it nesting, but it becomes almost essential to have the perfect crib, car seat, cute little nursery, AND a good comfortable rocking chair. Kimmi and I knocked off the first few items on the list quite quickly but that rocking chair proved to be elusive. We saw and sat in a lot of chairs but either they were too low in stature or they possessed the biggest negative in my book of having too low of a back. Thus if I imagined myself dozing during the wee hours of the night whilst rocking my son to sleep, my head would inevitably flop over the back or off the side and in turn ruining any chance of ever being comfortable.

The few chairs we did find that met our criteria were either way too expensive or they weren’t rocking chairs at all. Either way we were left without a rocking chair and this was a problem. The child’s arrival grew closer and closer. Finally though after searching KSL classifieds on a daily basis I found this little Gem:


Obviously at first glance it is a tad repulsive. And upon closer examination it appeared to have a few hundred thousand miles of wear and tear. (My favorite being the indistinguishable sign of bite marks ingrained deep into the wood) However even with all its faults we took this little beauty home for three very important reasons. 1) It was super comfortable and had the really high back I was looking for. 2) It seemed like an easy enough job to fix all its imperfections. 3) It was only 40 bucks!

So upon getting it home I got right to work ripping out the old fabric and sanding out the years of imperfections.


Finally after re-staining, refinishing, and the hardest task of all (agreeing on new fabric) we took the chair to a family friend for the final process of reupholstering. So without further ado I give you our rocking chair.


In the end we are extremely pleased with the result and we look forward to many years of enjoyment and use in our new chair.

Maternity Pictures

Over Labor Day weekend, we had our good friends Dan and Carrie Bischoff take some maternity photos for us. We just got the CD back and I am excited to share their amazing photography skills with you! I am 35 weeks along in the pictures.








I think these pictures are pretty much amazing! We had photo session number two last night, so I can wait to see the results. Soon to come will be a newborn session as well! Under four weeks to go at this point!

Thanks again Dan and Carrie!

If you want to check out more of Dan and Carrie's photography, please take a look at their website at www.photographybydc.com

Liar!

Posted by Mark:

I was looking through my phone and found a few photos I had been meaning to write about. So yeah enjoy the following three quick posts corresponding to these pictures.

So does anyone REALLY know where these little white spots on your finger nails come from?


My wife has a theory..... She tells me as a kid her mom would inspect their finger nails and that the white spots represented the number of lies that they had told that week..... and the SIZE of a lie corresponded to how large the spot was.

That may sound like something fun to do to impressionable children but Kimmi still continues on with this tradition today! Typically while we sit in church she will take my hand and count the number of spots on my nails. She will then shake her head if she finds a particularly large spot and begin questioning me as to what the lie might have been.

We have a good laugh through all this but I fully anticipate continuing this tradition with our own kids no matter how flawed this theory might be.

I can only make out the fat players!

Posted by Mark:

This was my view last Saturday at the Utah vs. UNLV game.


There are 63 rows in Rice Eccles Stadium..... Our seats? Row 60!

Really, I'm not complaining. I enjoyed sitting here. My good friend Davis and his brother-in-law Nate got us these tickets from the U of U employee day and really going to Utah Football with the Davis family is about as normal for me as breathing. It was a great day......We won, I didn't get sunburned, and I got to eat my customary half time cup of Dippin Dots.

Thankfully, this won't be my last home game that I'll be attending this year. If you didn't hear the news (my joy caused me to yell it from the roof tops), I got a set of season tickets from a guy at my work for only $75! I was pretty excited to say the least. Not only were the seats pretty dang good (row 24), but after the sadness I went through in not getting season tickets a few months back I'm pretty happy with any season set that didn't set me back $400.

Anyway Go Utes!

What the What!

posted by Mark:

So I walked out of my front door on Saturday to do a few odds and ends around the house and this sucker was sitting on the side of my house! It was huge to say the least and it sat there most of the morning.


This dragonfly did reminded me of a memory from my youth. As I've mentioned a few times before my grandparents have a home up in Midway and it has a rather large yard. As a kid growing up we'd go up to Midway often during the summer. This large yard led me to have many fun adventures. Night games, riding around on the mini 50cc four wheeler that my dad bought us and we drove for YEARS until it finally gave up the ghost, catching lots of gardener snakes, playing in the creek, ect.

I must have been bored one day, but I noticed that there were a lot of blue dragonflies flying around the yard and decided I was in charge of doing something about it. I grabbed one of those large red plastic baseball bats and went on a summer long rampage chasing down and killing violently any dragonfly that crossed my path..... As a kid you don't really perceive the impact activities of this nature have on an ecosystem but I am quite positive I DECIMATED the dragonfly population for many years to come. I say that because I recall noticing a steep decline of dragonfly sightings. Whether or not since the days of the Midway Massacre the dragonfly population ever did regain a foothold in the area I can't really say. But I can say that over the years I have gained a greater appreciation for these freaky looking bugs.

Anyway I guess I'm not only sharing this experience for your humor and enjoyment but it leaves just one more warning to prepare my good wife for the future and inevitable hellion that will be our sons early youth. Sorry wife...love love

36 Weeks...

Sorry for the horribleness of this picture, but people have been asking me to update. So, for your viewing pleasure, here is my 36 week preggo picture. Only 4 more weeks to go!

All my hopes and dreams FULLFILLED

Posted By Mark:

Holy cow! As I was typing the title of this post I became curious as to when the last time I blogged anything....MAY 27th!!! That is just plain crazy talk! I really find it hard to believe it's been that long but I guess this summer just went bye that quickly. Anyway I'll try to be better and write about a few nuggets of info that have taken place over the past few months. I can honestly say that I've been amazingly busy. The second I walk in the door from work I change out of my suit, get into my grubby clothes, and go straight to working on the house. To be honest at times it doesn't feel like we're making progress since I live among the chaos on a daily basis but a great number of friends and family have told us that they are impressed with the changes that we've made thus far. I guess I'll take their word for it.

So..... What has dragged me from my hermit-like state in order to wipe away the cobwebs on my keyboard and blog? Well it all started way back last November when that incompetent sorry excuse for a quarterback Max Hall opened his big trap and invited the wrath of thousands of Utah fans by saying that he HATED us. This of course sparked many a individual to make T-shirts, hats, and wrist bands in order to profit off his poor choice of words. I was no exception. but I went for the more timeless banner of expressionism...The bumper sticker. A buddy and I split the cost of making these little gems and we began selling them outside the U of U basketball games.


We did about as well as I was hoping. Mostly I was just wanting to get the money back that I invested into their creation..... And actually I think I made a small profit...Enough at least to pay my way into a few of those Utah Bball games as well as cover my customary bowl of delicious banana split Dippin Dots at half time. I've also enjoyed having one on the Jeeps back window. At first it took a bit of getting used to having people honking their horn at me and I would get all flustered and exclaim WHY ARE THEY HONKING!!! But by now it doesn't even phase me and I just wave as they drive past.

At the end of the day however the thing I wanted most was to be driving down the road and see someone else with my sticker on the back of their car.

It's now been 8 months and sadly I've never seen one of the 100 stickers I produced and sold. But yesterday as I was working around the house I got a really excited phone call from Kimmi as she was driving on her way to her baby shower. "YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT IS ON THE BACK OF THE CAR NEXT TO ME!" She was right I couldn't believe it and so I was sad that I wasn't there to witness that which has eluded me for 8 months. Thankfully I have a fantastic wife who risked life and limb to take a photo..... So without further adu. I give you MY dream in the flesh.



I couldn't be more proud. And with only a few days until opening kick off against Pitt.... GO UTES!

By Popular Demand....

Posted by Kimmi

.... of two people (here you go Megan and Mom).... My 29 week pregnancy photo! I know its two weeks late. I am now 31 weeks along, but its all we have uploaded on our computer at the moment. And unfortunately we still dont have the internet at home, so this is being done in "secret" while at work. I hope its good enough for now! Enjoy!!

Dinner...

Tonight Mark and I were invited over to his parents house for dinner with them and his sister Sarah's family. After a nice hefty meal, my four year old nephew James came up to me and sweetly stated, "your belly is really full!" I guess that's one way to look at it!

Kicks

I have a feeling this kid could grow up to be a great soccer player. That, or have a mean doggy paddle someday.

Let the bruising begin.....

I had a growth spurt!

Posted by Kimmi:

I can not believe how quickly my little baby bump came! One day it wasn't there, but the next day.... Hello Baby! So here I am at 21 weeks and finally have proof of my little Mister growing inside me.

I have also started to feel my little man squirming inside me. What a strangely amazing feeling to have!

As for the questions about my pregnancy, so far things have been great. I haven't felt too sick....mostly the trax train crappy driver's and some food I just wasn't in the mood for. I have felt a ton of the stretching, and really early on. That isn't fun at all, but thankfully it has subsided some. Other than that things are going well. We are thrilled, and can't believe we are half way there! So please any advice you would like to give us would be appreciated! Anything about babies, products, favorites.....I would love to know it all!

Here are some belly shots....if you don't want to see them, just continue scrolling....

16 Weeks

18 Weeks

20 Weeks

21 Weeks

Mark and I took a well needed vacation to Las Vegas over Memorial Day to visit some friends. There is an H&M Store that i like to visit, and here is the fruit of my shopping. The cutest little plaid jacket for Spencer. Its the first thing we have ever bought for him, so I had to show it off!