Tag: Elijah

  • Stepping Out

    Stepping Out

    This morning I decided to take a step out of my comfort zone. I get a little nervous trying out new things especially when I don’t know anyone else. Today Elijah and I took a drive over to White Salmon. We stopped by the library for baby/toddler story time. I didn’t know what to expect…

  • Nine Months (3/4 Year Old)

    Nine Months (3/4 Year Old)

    Our little guy turned 9 month over the weekend! We were away camping up in Hyalite Canyon, south of Bozeman for the holiday weekend, so we finally got our monthly shot accomplished today. Speaking of camping, Elijah experienced his first camping trip and did great! He even slept through some thunder and lightning storms that…

  • New Stage of Life

    New Stage of Life

    My little man is almost 8 months old. I can’t believe how fast the time has gone by. Over the last 5 months plus of working, I have struggled with being away from Elijah like most mom’s do. I have gone back and forth with wanting to work and staying home. I my mind I…

  • A Weekend of Firsts

    A Weekend of Firsts

    Last Thursday, Elijah and I took off on his first commercial plane ride with my good friend and her little lady. We headed to the East Coast to visit our friend and her family. We had a great time going into Washington, D.C. for two days and spending the rest of our time relaxing and…

  • Balance

    Balance

    Searching for balance can be hard. Especially when you add in a baby. Brent and I have been searching for this balance of life, work, church and of course running. We spend our weeks trying to figure out how to balance everything. Then, I went and started to work more hours a couple nights a…

  • 2016 – A New Year!

    2016 – A New Year!

    Well, we had intentions of sending out a Christmas email to everyone, then that turned into a New Year email and now it’s a belated Happy New Year from the Powell’s blog post. Usually I go into depth about the adventures of the past year, and there were definitely some of those. We ran, of…

  • 3 Months!

    3 Months!

    Elijah celebrated his three month anniversary of being born yesterday, but we were travelling back home from a holiday vacation in Oregon. So here (only a day late) is his three month photo! It’s crazy how much he’s growing!

  • Home

    Home

    Oh how I love traveling and experiencing new places. I can’t ever get enough of that. There how ever comes a time during all my travels where I look forward to coming home. Even during the most exciting trip that seems like it is going way to fast. There is just something about coming home…

  • Rooming In

    Rooming In

    Since my last post, Elijah has kept on improving with each day’s nursing. He kept growing stronger and stronger. We think that he finally decided that it would be nice to go home. I continued to be a little emotional. I would have my ups and downs. It was usually either I want to go…

  • Progress

    Progress

    I will combine a few days here to move the story along. Tuesday morning brought us the pleasant surprise of Elijah being extubated just as we came into the NICU. He also had an EKG performed to check on a heart murmur. He was much more alert and responding well to his first feedings of…

  • Patience

    Patience

    This week has been one that is teaching Brent and I to be patient. We are ready to go home, tired of eating out, tired of spending the money on eating out, tired of not having our bed and the just continues. We are ready to be done. Have I mentioned that we want to…

  • Reunion

    Reunion

    I knew the routine now, so I knew that there wasn’t much need for me to get up at the crack of dawn to check on my little man, so I slept a bit longer. I took advantage of the room service and took my time getting ready for the day. Jess was supposed to…