What we've been up to...

We blessed Taloopidoo the week before general conference, and it was such a nice day. I have issues with baby blessings in that although I love throwing parties...I don't usually feel like it when it's time to bless the baby, so I didn't invite anyone, we just did it unannounced, and it was perfect!

Buster and Gickos are totally in love with their little brother. They kind of treat him like an interactive toy, wondering how he'll respond with different stimuli.

Did I mention that 4 & 5 year olds are big goofs? Gickos got these teeth for a prize at our local Easter egg hunt, and they both think they're pretty dang funny.

Gickos: "Like my Rock Star hair"

CHEESE

Our friends got some pack goats, and Matt (who is in the picture) made a little kids saddle, so they're 3 year old daughter could ride the goat during long pack trips. They invited Buster and Gickos out for a ride, and they obviously loved it.

The goats have like a 55lbs weight limit they can carry, and the poor goat layed down like 3 times during Gickos ride...he can't help if he's a "sturdy" boy.

Me and Taloopidoo, and my friend Yvonne with her daughter Violet, our babies are 2 months apart.

For Mother's Day we took a day trip up to Mesa Falls for a picnic with Eric and Nikki's family. We had a great time, and Olin got some really good shots.

Taloopidoo riding in the snugly.

Our family Spring 2009

Oh the beautiful Mesa Falls!

After Mesa Falls we went back to Grandma's for a big birthday party for me, Mason (my nephew), Gickos, Emily (my niece) and mothers day. it was such a great day!

Here is Gickos beating up on me while I'm trying to relax...pretty normal. He's funny, this is how I know he loves me.

Grandma got him a little iron man shirt.....THAT IS AWESOME! especially if you ask the guy who's wearing it.

Pose for a pic.

It's crazy to think this little buy is 4! He is has such a great big personality, he's full of fun and adventure. Everyday we have such a good time, he's got us laughing constantly, and keeps us on our toes.

Well our house sold, but little did we know our buyers got federal financing, so our house had to meet some qualifications before they're loan could go through. One of those happens to be egress windows in each bedroom that is located in a basement. We got the news last Wednesday about 10am, and by 11am I was digging 5ft x 4ft wholes next to our foundation. Luckily we had some of Olin's friends show up and relieve us after a couple hours. Mike was our contractor, and he showed up right away and went to work.

This is Emily and David - Mikes family and our friends.

Here is Mike cutting the first window the a cement saw, yeah- see all that dust....most of it went into my house! We didn't follow Mike's advice to put up a plastic wall because we were just too impatient...well little did we know how huge the mess would be!

This is the inside of our bedroom after he was done cutting with the cement saw.

And here we are starting on the second window it the boys room, Mike had cut the cement at this point, but Olin and i were just getting ready to start using the sledge hammer to knock out the the window area.

Just trying to lighten the mood with a little goofing off.

This was after Olin and I had sledge hammered for like 2 hours, that thing was SO solid...for some reason I don't think cement is suppose to be removed....it seems like a pretty permanent material.

We once again friends save the day, Mike got a jack hammer, and we called our good friend Kurt who came and helped get it done on time. We finished the windows by Thursday night....and I don't think I was recovered until about Thursday night of the next week. Cement is not made to be be broken and removed just like women aren't made to use an 8lbs sledge ham mar.

Well that pretty much puts you all up to date. Our house that we're selling will close Wednesday of this week, and the one we're buy will close around the 5Th of June, so we're moving our stuff in to a large snowmobile trailer (provided by Neil and Cortney) for a week or two while we live with Olin's parents until our new house closes. This will probably be my last post until we're at least in with his parents if not in our new house. Can't we just fast forward to the middle of June? After I'm settled in the cute new house?

Oops

Now that i have this really great background....which I love. I lost everyones blog address off my widget, so please leave a comment with your blog address so I can add you to my blog log. THanks a bunch.

I'm back

For the last few weeks Taloopidoo has had thrush....so that means I have it too. I got this stuff to put in his mouth and it seems to be working well, except for the fact that he looks like he is chewing violet gum from willy wonka's factory.

Sunday we blessed him in our ward, we did it on the spur of the moment, so we didn't really invite anyone, but it was still nice and the blessing was awesome.

Here is our little chunk all dressed up. He's getting pretty chubby for sure. I held him up to my friend's little girl who is almost 4 months and they're are pretty much the same size....looks like we've got another "solid" boy on our hands.

Moving on

Well, we're pretty much all healed up. The boys are doing well, but Taloopidoo is still coughing, but he's doing okay.
We decided to sell our house, so that's what I'm doing today, getting it ready to show. We have a few couples interested, so we'll be showing it to them this week. Hope it all works out, this is always so stressful. The house we want is awesome though, so it's worth it. Good thing I feel good today and I have some motivation right!
Ahh, what would life be like without chaos?

you're invited to a pitty party

Well, just like the rest of eastern idaho we're sick with the yuck that's going around....and some that isn't "going around".
Buster has got a cold, runny nose, and a little cough.
Gickos has had a cold his entire life, but today he threw up and is coughing like a mad man.
Taloopydoo is coughing and has a yucky nose, he also acts like his throat hurts.
I've got UTI, sore throat, and ear infection and a bad case of no sleep.
I think I might run away to my Mom's house so she can spoil me some more.
It's a pitty party....so share your story with me.

Ahh He is SO CUTE!

Isn't he so cute?

All about Baby

All the boys I love!

I love this one!

As most of you know I had a rough week last week, and with all the stress and fear of delivering C-section and the risks involved in that, and also the fear of loosing the baby all together had me in a huge stressful mess. Well I pretty much let go of the thought of delivering without medication when I found out he was breech, and I was counting on a c-section. My Doctor advised me to go to the hospital when my contractions were 10 minutes apart or if my water broke, so Sunday Carl drove me to the hospital around 6pm just to get things checked out. I had been laboring (at least that's what I thought it was) since about 4pm Saturday afternoon, and it wasn't letting up, so we went in. I told the nurse why I was there and the whole story and she started poking around on my tummy. She got an ultrasound machine and checked the baby...and he'd flipped back down head first! This was such good news, it almost freaked me out a little because I was just getting comfortable with the idea of a c-section and now that was questionable. So Dr. Allred came in and we decided that because the baby turned on his own that there was a small chance we would actually have trouble with the cord around his neck (which we saw the Thursday before in the ultrasound that diagnosed him breech) so I decided to try to go vaginally, and if a c-section was required then we'd deal with that when it came.

They admitted me around 8pm and got me in a room, started my IV, and started the pit. Because i was only dilated to around 1.5 I had to go on pit without an epidural until I was 3-4cm. Well after a long night and being checked every 3-4 hours I was finally given the epidural around 10am Monday morning...yeah do the math that's 13 hours of pit (on 20ml/hr-which is the highest they like to do with women with an epidural) to put it lightly- it was intense. So after the epidural I wasn't feeling so bad, I got in a few little naps throughout the day and finally around 6pm they checked me again...I was only a 6.5-7ish and things were going slowly. At this point the babies heart rate was slowing and becoming more and more abnormal, and I was getting tired, hungry and very nervous....surely I wasn't going through this only to have it end in c-section! Well after the Doctor left I looked at Olin, who was feeling like crap, he had strep throat and preparing for a business trip the next day. He asked me if I'd like a blessing...of course I did. His blessing gave me hope and comfort and many sweet blessing, but in the middle of the blessing he paused for few seconds, and then he commanded my body to release the baby...just as soon as he said amen I felt the baby literally "hit" my pelvic floor. I dilated to a 10 in literally like 10 minutes and he was born at 6:50pm. We had to wait for the Doctor because he'd just left the hospital, and I just about tore the place apart, that was by far the most difficult part. He came out in only 3 pushes, and I only had one stitch YAY! He came out and immediately peed on the doctor then when he was being cleaned up pooped for the nurse, so we knew the plumbing was working well from the beginning. He weighed 6lbs 13oz and was 19" long and his head was kind of big, but he's perfect. I feel so close to him, and I'm enjoying him so much. The breastfeeding is going well....for the first time, and he's seems to be really healthy. I guess the emotion I feel the strongest and most often is gratitude, I'm thankful for the priesthood and having a husband with such a strong testimony and who is worthy to hold it. It was a very special experience for me and Olin, and our family is bless to have this little guy.