The boys meet Lilia

Andy is still working on being soft with his little sister.  I love how happy he looks here.

This was really cute.  Before the boys and I left for the hospital, Benny grabbed this diaper and wanted to take it to Lilia.

I like how Andy says "Baby."

New Baby

This is my first attempt at blogging, so bear with me.

We are happy to announce that Benny II now has a name and a birthday. This morning (Feb 7) at 1:43 am, Anderson Clark Cotterell (Andy) was born. Faith had been having contractions all day yesterday that got stronger and more frequent as the day went on. I still went to my classes, expecting at any time to get a call from Faith letting me know it was time to go to the hospital. After my last class was over at 5, I still had a test I needed to take, so I reviewed my notes for about 10 minutes and took the test in less than 30. (It was not my best performance, but I passed and that is all I need to do this semester-pass my classes so I can graduate.)

I got home and Faith's contractions were getting stronger as the night went on. The doctor's office said to wait till the contractions were 3-5 minutes apart. We decided to leave about 10:30, called Eden to watch Benny for the night (thanks again, Eden!) and headed to the hospital. I kinda wanted to get pulled over so I could tell the officer "My wife's in labor!" and possibly get a police escort the rest of the way, but alas, we had an uneventful race to the hospital.

When we got to the hospital, Faith was dilated to a 6 and after another hour she was to an 8-9 and ready for an epidural. After slipping into lower-half blissful oblivion, it was another hour or so till she was ready to push and after less than 20 minutes of pushing Andy was born.

Important stats

Weight: 8 pounds 3 ounces
Length: 19 inches
Hair color: Light brown with a hint of red
Temperment: Much like Benny-very calm and sleepy
Eyes: 2
Cuteness: Off the charts

Enough blogging, here are some pictures:

The Andy burrito

Post-bath Andy and parents

Andy's initials are ACC-like the college sports conference. This reminds me of a video I saw a little while ago of an ACC ref at a football game.

the new addition

well, we're finally doing it. we're getting some things out there to share with all of our friends and family. we've got some back-tracking to do, but we'll make it.

and so it begins... as spencer calls it, the crucible of dirty diapers...

spencer benjamin (benny) cotterell
born 17 july 2006 at 5:43p
6lbs 18in

our first family photo.
i'm not really sure why i was so exhausted. i really didn't feel any pain.

we've shared the story with everyone, so we won't put it here. instead, we'll share some photos.


benny with his bubbe and papa


and with grandpa and grandma.



dominic, jen, and iris made the trip down from north salt lake that evening.



uncle garrett with his newest nephew.



cousins rylee and kamryn came down to meet their new cousin!