Dylan goes to Gordon and Rees LLP

Dylan and I went to visit Ryan at work, it was so much fun to see his Daddy in his "serious mode"! Ryan proudly showed Dylan around to all of his friends and co-workers. It was a fun afternoon!

 

March Birthdays!

We have lots of March birthdays in our families so last Friday night we began the celebration with the Dunns and then continued it with my family on Saturday. We had so much to celebrate on Friday night from Papa Leo's 92nd birthday, Auntie Linda's birthday (we are birthday buddies as we share the same day), Jackson's 5th birthday and my big 3-0 birthday. We also celebrated the good news that Tom has completed his chemo treatments and has a clean bill of health! We are so blessed with this news. We toasted to Emily and Jesse's engagement and then found out that we had more to celebrate as Natalie and Brian are expecting!!! Wow, so much good news!


We continued the celebration in Danville on Saturday with a great BBQ for the March birthday people which include Auntie Bethy, my Dad, Mark and ME! We have learned that the best time to have a meal is during nap time (also the new happy hour!) so things began early and we all enjoyed it. We did the "birthday game" where you say a word or two about what you love most about the birthday person which is always a feel good thing to do. It was a big hit again this year. We had our first sleepover party at Grammy and Poppo's with Dylan, he did great and loved every moment. Enjoy a few photos!

Dylan visits Google

Dylan snoozes as we stroll along the main campus during our visit.

Dylan wearing his Google onesie!!!
As many of you know I was a contract event planner at Google and I loved my job. I learned about 3 weeks ago that Google was not renewing my team's contract and therefore we would be laid off. This wasn't the ideal news while I am on maternity leave but I had faith that everything happens for a reason. AND it does this will now allow me to stay home with Dylan full time while I begin to develop and grow my own event planning business, JBD Events . . . more on that later! In the meantime, I took Dylan down to Google to visit my team and collleagues there who have been so wonderful to work with and so supportive of our growing family. It was a fun day and Dylan enjoyed meeting everyone!

Emily and Jesse are engaged!

Emily and Jesse are engaged! He proposed in Half Moon Bay and they are so excited to begin their life together. We are already beginning the wedding plans but in the meantime, they stopped by for some champagne so we could toast to them. We can't wait!

Dylan Patrick is 7 weeks old!

I love this outfit, it's so boy~ but he's already grown out of it!!!
This is the best!!!
Ryan and our sweet boy~
Trying to get a cute family pic

Sweet Dylan

Wow, where does the time go! We are loving our sweet boy as we watch him grow, learn, change and smile each day. He is truly the love of our lives and we just love every moment. He is changing so much already so here are a few pics and his first smiles! I'll try to be better about posting photos.

Enjoy!

Dylan's first week!

Enjoy some pics of Dylan's first week!

Dylan Patrick Dunn!!!

We welcomed Dylan Patrick Dunn to our world and our family on Tuesday January 13, 2009 at 2:17 p.m. It was a beautiful San Francisco day and both of our entire families were in the waiting room to welcome this little boy. Dylan's birth story begins when we were told at our 40 week appointment that it would be "any day" and that I would most likely go into labor on my own. We waited and waited thinking any moment we would meet our little one. In the meantime, we went out to dinner every night, we watched all the latest movies and I made a daily routine of walking the San Francisco hills in hope of getting this little one on it's way. I had so many people tell me all the "old wives tales" of how to go into labor like, eat spicey food, drink a glass of wine, go exercise, and NOTHING worked. What I learned most in the last week of my pregnancy was patience. . . I learned that I clearly couldn't PLAN this labor or this delivery so I had to give that up. I learned that this baby was going to come into the world on their own terms and in their own way. All great lessons to learn right before becoming a Mom! Monday night at 6:00 p.m. we called into the hospital, as instructed, to see if we were on for our "schedule induction" and they said we'll see you at 7:30 p.m. So Ryan and I swung into action, we showered, we put our bags in the car and we got so excited to go to the hospital. We had a central chain of communication which was for my family Lizzie (Farrell house was central control) and Laura for Ryan's family. We couldn't believe this was really happening. We drove to the hospital with no radio on, just held each other's hands and kept saying, wow we'll be driving home with our baby! We were admitted to the hospital and got settled. Our friend Kim is a L & D nurse, she wasn't on that night but she called in to make sure we had excellent nurses ready for us.

They started the induction around 9:00 p.m. and by 3:00 a.m. I was in full labor with serious contractions. I thought I was having some labor pains at home but those were NOTHING compared to what I felt around 3:00 a.m. Ryan and I got up and took a walk around 4:30, he held my hand during the entire 3 hours of contractions. I knew that my doctor would be in early in the morning to get things moving so I figured if I could hold off on the epidural til then I would be in good shape. Well, by 6:00 a.m. I asked the nurse to bring her "friend" the epidural with her when she came in to check me. My water broke and I was on my way by 7:00 a.m. to meeting this little one. My doctor came in around 8:00 and was thrilled with my progress, I guess I just needed a jump start to get the labor to kick in. Our families all began showing up at the hospital and the excitement was mounting. By 11:00 a.m. I told Ryan he should go get something to eat as I know I would need his strength with the pushing. He and his Mom went down to Laurel Village to get a bite. In the meantime, my best friend, Megan walked in the door. She surprised me and flew up from San Diego to be with us on this exciting day. Megan had just given birth to a baby girl (Addison) in July so I knew it was extra special that she was there. By 11:30 a.m. the doctor came back in to check me and said, "you need to start pushing". Everyone jumped on their phones to get Ryan back to the hosptial!!! He made it in plenty of time and then the pushing began!

Ryan and our nurse, Liz, were amazing coaches through the whole labor. I couldn't have done it without them. Ryan kept holding my hand and telling me how great I was doing even when I didn't feel like I was making much progress. After 2 hours of pushing our little one arrived. . . Dylan Patrick Dunn. He weighed in at 8 lbs. 4 oz and 21 inches long. I was so surprised he was so big and just thrilled that he was so healthy. Ryan and I were immediately in awe and in love with this little boy. Ryan went down the hallway to share the good news and then the grandparents came in to meet him and then the aunties and uncles. It was an amazing feeling in the room when all these family members came in to meet Dylan. He is so loved and so blessed already. Enjoy a few pics of his amazing birth day.