Bringing Home Baby

I am not sure that I can put in words how amazing it is to finally have our sweet baby here with us. Jason, Brogan and I are doing really well. Grandma Quigley is here with us to help out. Hopefully soon I will be able to put my feelings into words, but for now here are some more pictures of bringing Brogan home.

Upon request, a picture of his hair


(O so cold!) Getting dressed to go home!


Getting the whole car seat thing figured out


Ok....I'm ready to go home now!

I'ts Labor Day!!!

We are most proud to announce the successful delivery of the first of many beautiful babies born to Jason and Lorisa Hirschi! His name is Brogan Mathew Hirschi. Brogan was born at 7:05 a.m. at a wopping 6 lbs. 8 oz., 20 inches long and, (thankfully) light brown/whitish hair. He is so very, very beautiful. We thank our Heavenly Father for such a beautiful and healthy boy and successful delivery. We feel very overwhelmingly blessed to have this new joy in our lives. Lorisa is such a tough girl going "all natural" just as she wanted. She is doing well and just trying to catch up on some sleep after not sleeping since she woke up on Sunday. We are proud to have our own son and hope you can enjoy these few pictures. (Click on picture, then when at new page, click on "view slideshow" at top)

Labor Day

FYI. You may contact us at my cell phone number until we get home from the hospital on Tuesday morning. After that please call us at our home number.

When red pen meets clothes.........

While I was in school and juggling my time between being a wife, working, and going to school, there were many times when the house was a disaster. Being a clean freak that I am, I would just dream of the day when I could focus my time and attention on my family and making our home a little heaven on earth. Now that I am graduated and I have a wonderful husband who provides for me, I have really enjoyed staying home and being a little homemaker . There is one mundane task however that I think I will never grow to love. It is that weekly task that if it doesn't get done, you will be in a real pickle after taking a shower and having no clean undies to wear.....Yes I mean laundry. So I really had to humble myself to tell this story, but after many tears I can now laugh at it.

Yesterday was laundry day. Now for any normal person laundry may seem like a very simple task, but I have had quit the track record. About six months ago, I forgot to check my pockets, and I washed my cell phone. After that experience, I have made a conscience effort to check all the clothes before I wash them (my wonderful husband loves to leave all sorts of treasures in his pockets too, so I have to be really careful before I just throw clothes in the washer.) Well yesterday after checking all the pants pockets I preceded to do the laundry. (I guess I was in a hurry though, I just wanted to get all the clothes cleaned, put away and over with.) To my dismay, when I opened the dryer to empty the last load of our clothes, I saw red all over the dryer door. Then I realized that the red was also in big blotches all over our clothes. (There was a red pen left in one of Jason's shirts.) I was so angry.........and honestly who carries around a red pen in their pocket, and of all colors, why red. Ahgg...! Between the fact that I had just ruined Jason's favorite shirt, my favorite skirt and about ten other articles of clothing, plus all my pregnancy hormones...lets just say I had a really good cry.
When Jason got home he immediately knew something was wrong. Being the wonderful husband that he is,he simply just smiled and told me that I deserve new clothes anyways. So now that I can laugh about it, I guess the moral of the story is to stop rushing and just enjoy doing everyday tasks such as laundry!

LA Times

I have finally allowed myself to start counting down till our babies due date. As of today, we have 1 week and 4 days to go! Jason and I are so excited, but I am now starting to lose all hope that he is coming early. To make to time go by faster, Jason and I have been really busy learning the LA area and seeing what it has to offer. Last weekend we went to the LA temple. I love going to new temples! It is a really beautiful temple. This weekend, we decided to go to the aquarium. We saw lots of fish and coral and birds, believe it or not. Haha at the aquarium they had a huge walk-in cage of birds. They gave us little cups of nectar so the birds could land on you and eat the nectar. Here is a video of Jason and the birds!

The aquarium is right on Long Beach, so after seeing all the fish, we walked around the bay and drooled at all the multimillion dollar yachts and boats. It was so much fun to spend the whole day together and soak up the sun too! We are enjoying our last days as just the two of us, but we hope this weekend was the last....we want our baby boy!!!

Anticipating this baby

Finally we have a belly shot of me!

Pregnancy for me has had many different stages. The first trimester, I absolutely hated it. I was so sick and it was hard for me to even visualize there being a little baby inside of me. I would hear other woman talk about how they loved being pregnant, I just couldn't understand how you could love throwing up three times a day, and hating the site of food. After the first ultrasound however, I fell in love with being pregnant. After seeing our little boy through the amazing technology of ultrasound, the fact that Jason and I were having a baby really became a reality. I love feeling this little boy turn and kick! I love seeing my belly move as he moves. I love playing with him already.....I will fold my arms and rest them on my belly, and he always defends his territory by kicking my arms off! I love to think that they already have little personalities. Now I am at the stage where I am so anxious. I can't wait to finally see and hold our baby. Yesterday Jason caught me looking through the baby's dresser drawers and just staring at his cute little clothes. I love looking at his little crib next to our bed. It's a good thing I only have three weeks left, I don't think I could wait any longer.....!

Lions,Tigers and Bears....O my!

I love summer! After last semester, hardly ever seeing my husband, and having my nose in the books as well, it is so wonderful to have a break. Jason gets home from work around 5:00 everyday, and then we have the whole night together without any homework or studying! It is glorious! Saturday we had the whole day completely free (It was such a weird feeling, usually Jason spent every Saturday in the Library..) so we decided to go to the Zoo. It was so much fun to spend the whole day together. We are excited to finally have the time and resources to get out and see new things! This week our goal is to finally find the beach and the LA temple.