Simply Smitten {Keetley Ann}

She's here!  Keetley Ann made her graceful arrival into this world on 4.10.13, at 2:41 pm.  After snuggling with mommy for a good hour, she weighed in at 6 pounds 10 ounces, measuring 20 inches long.  She's our smallest baby by far, and we are simply smitten with her!

She's perfect in every way!  Beautiful button nose, dimpled chin, long fingers and the most beautiful pink lips a girl could ask for.  I think she resembles Taylor's look the most, but she's definitely from the same mold as her brothers.  Speaking of which....

Out of all the pictures at the hospital, this one ^^^  has got to be my favorite!  I am sure I caught Taylor off guard, because he and Tanner are very excited to have a baby sister!  Kortlen shared in the same excitement for about 2.5 seconds....I think having a sister is going to take some getting used to for the little guy!

My mom is so wonderful!  She came up the night before I was induced, and has pretty much taken care of everything while I was in the hospital.  I worked hard to get my house picked up and cleaned up before she came so she wouldn't have to worry or stress, and could just play with her grandsons, but I came home to an even MORE spotless house!!!  She took my boys home with her (thanks for babysitting, Clay and Deseret!!!) and they'll return on Sunday.  The break and quietness has been nice (I've been home for 4 hours) but I'm starting to go a little stir crazy.  LOL!  Time to catch up on sleep and maybe read a good book.  I miss them, but I don't miss having to bend over and pick up after them!  :)

: : : Labor and Delivery : : :

Keetley's labor and delivery were by far my easiest! I don't even need to give a simplified version of it, because it was so amazingly perfect!

Showed up at the hospital at 7 am for induction.  Painted my nails while Ryan grabbed my bag from the car and parked, and the nurse set up the bedding. Was started on an IV and pitocin right away, and by 10 am had the anesthesiologist prepping me for an epidural.

After Kortlen's "I am woman, hear me roar" natural birth, I was all game for making Keetley's arrival as painless as possible.  The epidural was so great, I was numb from my nose down.  Not even kidding!  By 2:15-ish pm baby was ready to come, I was ready to get her here, but the doctor was in another delivery.  My nurse (the same one who held my head in her hands during Kortlen's delivery and told me to stop screaming and BREATHE!!) turned off the pitocin and we all just sort of waited.  and waited.  and waited.

At 2:30 ish my doctor showed up, said I could push...so I did....twice...and she stopped me on the third push because baby girl had arrived!

Keetley was alarmingly purple to me!  The doctor laid her on my abdomen, and we got her warmed up.  She let out a few little squeaky cries, and we got to cuddle.  We tried nursing for a while, and at one hour old, the nursery nurses weighed, measured, and cleaned her cute little self right up!

Stuck two little bows in her dark head of hair, swaddled her and we are so in love with her!  Pictures of her shortly after birth are coming....(Thank you, Stevie!!)

: : : Where her name comes from : : : 

My grandfather had a sheep and cattle ranch up Echo Canyon, near Heber, Utah.  We called it Keetley, after the man who had settled the area (google Keetley, Utah).  In 1989, the ranch land was found to be the perfect location for a reservoir to service the area, and long story short, was sold.  Our family spent MANY summers there.  The majority of summer photographs of our childhood were taken at Keetley.  We played in the "Witch House" and fished for moss in the ditches, bathed in the freezing bathroom, and babies got baths in the kitchen sink. We rode the rolling hills to move the livestock, or go with grandpa to change the water.  Keetley was the place of Crandall Family Reunions each 24th of July.  We'd sit in the shade of the humongus tress, play with cousins.  We would beg for a cousins old enough to take us to look for fool's gold in 'the mine' up the road....always gathering more rocks in our pockets than I'm sure my mom wanted in the washing machine.  It was a place of many cherished memories.  I'm so excited to have given our beautiful daughter such a meaningful name.

Her middle name is in honor of Ryan's mother (Edytha Ann) and grandmother (Anna Maye) and just so happens to have a little bit of my own name.