1 MONTH

Savannah turned 1month on Aug 18. At her two week appointment she had gained 2 lbs and grown 2" since she left the hospital! The boys are in so much love with this little girl! In the picture above she is laying next to the Raggedy Ann doll that my mom made me when I was a little girl. I am so excited that I have a sweet princess to pass all my treasures to!

OUR BABY GIRL

The Story

My due date was Aug 3 but my c-section date was scheduled for Wednesday July 21 at 6:00 am. My mom and dad were going to arrive the Monday before to watch our boys for a week while we adjusted, my bags were backed, a name picked out, told everyone that needed to be told what the schedule was, and alls we needed to do was sit back relax and wait for the day to come. Saturday I ventured out to pick up my friend and her kids from the airport and hung out with her until Jody came home to chill with me. That night I was very restless and anxious. I couldn't sleep so I hung out on the couch and watched SNL and infomercials until 2:00 am. At 3:00 am I rolled over in the bed and knew something wasn't right. I ran to the tub...My water had broke! After freaking out I calmly opened the door and told Jody what had happened. Thankfully my friend that I picked up from the airport 12 hrs earlier was home and lives down the street and answered the phone cause my parents hadn't even left Cedar yet!

When we arrived at the hospital we were informed my doctor was on vacation and a man that I had just been introduced to was going to deliver our baby. I was freaking out! Some stranger was going to cut into me! Being the awesome man that he is my husband held my hand and whispered very softly that this man was a professional and does these surgeries all the time. They wheeled me into the OR and called out 7:20 am as the start time. After a weird conversation about automatic fish feeders they called out "delivery time 7:26" and that is when I heard her!

SAVANNAH LAURYN

7LBS 13OZ

20"

Popcorn

My air-pop popcorn machine blew up tonight. HUGE bummer for me. I have always been a big fan of air popped popcorn. My husband doesn't understand, he prefers microwaved with extra butter...YUCK! And after a year of popping corn from a commercial machine for 300+ elementary kids, movie popcorn just grosses me out!
I can remember my dad saying that this was his special treat (air popped corn) and would only pop it after all of us kids would go to bed. I shared a room with my older sister Shalisse and she would always find a way to manipulate me into sneaking out to the living room to ask if we could stay up and have some with him. Without fail he would agree and we would climb up on his lap and eat his popcorn. The moment I moved out of my parents house I had to run to Walmart and purchase my own machine so I could have my comfort food! My air popper cost me $46 and has lasted close to 12 years:( If I wasn't set to deliver my 3rd child next week and the local Super Walmart wasn't so busy that I would have to park a mile away and hitch hike to the store and then get there and find out that they quit stocking them just last month, I would go right now buy one just so I could sleep easy tonight knowing that I had an air pop popcorn machine nestled on the bottom shelf in the island of my kitchen!

When did I stop??

I was just about to say "Stop, real me in, I've changed my mind" when my older brother put the boat into gear and pushed down on the accelerator. My older brother is like any other, slightly reckless and loves to torment. As the inter tube launched over the first wake and I was trying desperately to hold on imagining the pain I would feel when I hit the water. When I landed I didn't feel pain I felt... pure JOY!! Memories of jumping off ten foot cliffs into a mound of sand, haystack jumping, riding my horse through the hayfield at break neck speed to be the first to reach the pivot and get drenched, crick (creek for you proper folks) jumping on my horse in the mountains. And then I was smacked in the face with the big question...When did I stop having fun? More importantly why?

Fun for me over the last year has been a day out where the boys don't fight. Having pleasant conversation with someone I just met. Watching a movie that had a good ending...BLAH! I need to find a way to turn myself around real fast! I am 28 not 68! I need to stop acting like an old lady before I become one. I need HELP! LOL

Catch up!

Wow, how sad is it that I haven't updated this blog in 3 months? We have really started to feel at home here...it only took 7 months! I have made some really good friends only to have them move away:( How sad for me!! Do not cry for me, my amazing out going personality has enabled me to make more friends! LOL!

There are SO MANY little boys in our neighborhood. Every night, planned or not, they meet in front of our house and ride scooters until the sun goes down. Good thing I have a well stocked freezer full of Otter Pops!

We have also located an awesome spot to go sledding. Yes I said sledding. White Sands National Park is made up of, well white sand! We bought some sleds and the boys LOVE to go sledding. It is awesome because the sand is not hot. Crazy I know!

Corbin played baseball for the first time this spring. I wanted to sign him up for for T-ball since it was his first time, but he was too old so Machine Pitch it was. I shouldn't have been surprised that he took to it like a natural, but I was. He won the game ball 3 times! He is amazing!

The boys just finished up swim lessons and are now ready to go on vacation to Island Park, ID and then off to Mommy's hometown of American Falls, ID to go fishing and boating. I can't wait!

BIG BED

I have often been asked why we opted to get a bigger bed for Camren (3). I think this pic answers these questions.

TOILET PAPER FLOWER

Camren in using the bathroom for quite sometime (I know TMI!!). When he was finished he came into the room where I was and said, "Look Mom I made you a flower"

Can I just tell you how happy it makes me to know that I am thought of!!!