A Little Over Due!

So I keep thinking that I am going to update our blog about all the fun stuff we did this summer, but our old computer died and I dont know how to get pictures to this new computer. So when Ben and I both have a few minutes and he can show me how, Ill post about our crazy summer.

So In the mean time, I guess I will blog about our most exciting adventure this summer... Little Ellcey Mykol

I was due Aug 20th, but becasue I get to have a c-section I get to pick my due date.
So we decided to spend a few days at bear Lake ( pictures to come) and then come home and have her.
It was a alittle sureal to be going into the hospital to have another baby. But we were so excited. Ben and I went in and got checked in about 7am on the 13th, filled out paperword got my IV and about 9 am got wheeled into the OR. Ben was a little bummed that they didnt give him scrubs to wear this time, but he looked handsome in his paper attire. Once I got in the OR I got a little nervous. The epideral freaked me out because I could feel for longer than I thought I should but once I was numb Ellcey was here in no time. Ben recorded the whole thing, so for those who want to see it, come on over. As long as a little blood doesnt bother you ;)
Ellcey was 19 1/2 inches 6 lbs 10 oz. Completly perfect.
After a fewe days in the hospital we begged to come home and they let us out.
She is such a perfect baby, sleeps well, eats well, and is beautiful. Ill keep our blog updated as she grows, which I hope isnt to fast...

Kindergarten, check!

Boston graduated from Kindergarten this week. We are so excited for him to go to 1st grade.

I love this picture, it looks like he is contemplating his next move.

Ms. Lingmann has helped Boston so much this year. At the beginning of the year, Boston would come home with a "naughty note" a lot. She really put some extra effort into helping Boston learn to raise his hand, wait his turn, and not just yell out the answer. Thanks Ms. Lingmann

Boston actually was a little sad when we talked about it being his last day of Kindergarten. He got a little teary eyed and sad, and told me he didn't want to leave Kindergarten, that he loves it. But after a little talk, he is stoked to go to 1st grade. Jaegan I think is going to hate having Boston gone all day, but he will get use to it.

Good Luck Boston!!!

Jae's Graduation

Jaegan "graduated" from preschool last week. He has loved going to school and has learned so much. Thanks Ms. Amber!

Jae, Ms. Amber and Boston
Teacher and studentBoston went to Ms. Amber's preschool too, doesn't he look proud of Jaegan?Its official!

Jaegan on his first day of schoolJae on his last day of school. I cant believe how much he has grown!
He is so excited to have to summer off to sleep in, swim, ride his bike, do all the fun things that little boys do, but he is looking forward to going back to Ms. Amber's preschool next year.

Way to go Jae! We love you

I love these faces

I wish you could see this picture better. I ran into the store and left the boys in the car with some super yummy cinnamon raisin buscits. When I got back into the car, all three had frosting all over their faces. It was so cute.
PS. You have got to try them, you get them at Carl's Jr. Delish!

Ssshhh, dont tell Ben

We went to the Carl Bloch art exhibit in Provo and on the way home, I got the best video of one of Ben's hidden talents. He told me he better not find this on facebook, but this isnt facebook, right?!

Ellcie is going to have the best daddy!

My Master

Hurray! Ben did it. He is finally done! ( not officially, but who is keeping track).

Friday Ben graduated from the U with his MBA!

We could not be more proud of him.

Thanks goodness Ben's parents were there to help keep the boys busy during the ceremony. It was so long!

We are so excited to actually see Ben again.

Don't they look so proud of their daddy!



So he graduated but actually has another 10 weeks of school left. It should go by fast and we'll take 10 weeks over 2 years. Ben has worked so hard and we have really missed him. I am working on a video of all the things that have gone on in the past 2 years. To come shortly.

I can not say enough of how proud we are of him. We love you daddy!

April Showers Bring May Flowers?

So much went on in April, I decided to just blog about the whole month rather than each thing. Sorry, I'm lazy!

First and most exciting, Boston turned 6!!!! I cant believe it, he is not a little kid anymore. I don't know what he is but not little. It makes me so sad. When they are 5, they are still babies to me. Now that he is 6 there is no stopping him. We let him take 2 friends and go play laser tag ( see a baby would not play Lazar tag) They had a blast.

We also had a little scare with Jae-pants, he hurt his hip a few months back and had been complaining about his groin hurting, we thought he had pulled a muscle, but the Dr decided it was his hips that hurt and ordered x-rays and blood work, just to make sure it was nothing serious. Even though we knew it was nothing, the thought still scares you to think, maybe. There are 2 families in our neighborhood that have young family members with cancer and Ben's sweet little 2 yr old cousin is going through chemo right now, so the thought was there. We were so glad when everything came back fine. Just aggravated his sore hip. That's what happens when you jump off everything, I guess.

Boston went on his first field trip for school. We went to the landfill and saw what happens and talked about recycling. That is what his kindergarten class has been focusing on this year. Then we headed for Thanksgiving point to see the animals and pick up the eggs that would be hatching in their class. It was pouring all day and we all got soaked, it was still fun to go and spend the whole day with him. I think their favorite part was the bus ride though.

Easter also was a big event, not so much at our house, but at the Grandparents. Each had a huge hunt and spoiled all the kids. They had a blast. The Easter bunny did come to our house, but like I said, "she" has been very lazy lately and didn't do to much. Also the picture of Ben and I, my neck really was like that. I must have slept wrong and could not move for about 3 days. Ben was my hero, and took great care of me. I literally could not move and he had to bathe me, get me dressed, do my hair and move me. I figure it gives him good practice for after my c-section. Luckily after about a week, I can finally move again, and don't have to rely on Boston to tell me if it is safe to back up.

April even had a few sunny days and the boys had to get outside. Im so ready for some warm weather.

Piano Recital

Last night Boston played in his first piano recital. We were so proud of him.

He has been taking lessons for about a month and he loves it. Every time we ask him to practice, he jumps right up and plays. Jaegan, of course, does what ever Boston is doing and has learned to play part of this song to. Its not really a song, just a little ditty has has to practice. Today however at his lesson, he learned to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. If you listen close, that is what this practice is teaching him.

We are so proud of him, he did great!

Oh yeah, he starts to play and then decided to play a different song, that is why he stops.

Spring Break Cont..

My sister in law told me about the Lagoon Trail, so we decided to take the kiddos on a little walk. They had so much fun. We saw some fish, fed a horse and bugged some buffalo.It was a beautiful day and we didn't want to leave, as we were getting back I realized that Boston was just getting out of school. Thank goodness for awesome neighbors that ran to pick him up. Cant wait to go back here, plus we got some good exercise pushing the strollers.

The boys are little fishies. They love to swim. We ended up at the SDRC and burned some energy. We were so excited that Ben didn't have school that night or Bishopric meeting and met us there and could take the boys down the slide.

I was careful to stay away from the camera, I don't have a maternity swimsuit so I SQUEEZED into an old swimsuit. I'm sure it wasn't pretty, but it was about the boys right?

Thank goodness we had a little sunshine one day, and the boys decided to practice their golf swings. It makes me excited for them to go golfing with Ben.

Lookin Good Bost!

Swing!

"What? Are you being Serious?"

Sorry the pictures are so little. 1st one- her leg 2nd - her with her are over her head 3rd- face 4th- front view of face,with her hand over her right eye..

So, yesterday I woke very excited to go to our 3D ultrasound. Ben and the boys were coming and I was excited to see our little fella.

While I was getting ready, I remember thinking, how crazy would it be if we found out we were having a girl and not a boy. I quickly dismissed this crazy idea, For heavens sake, I saw the little pee-pee at our 15 week appointment. Dr. Alajo had told me it was a boy. I had a few boy names that I was trying to talk Ben into and I think we may have had it narrowed down to either Cache, Dane, or my favorite Cormac. ( It would have taken a lot of talking into with Ben)

So off we go. We arrive at the Dr office, checked in and are called back about 20 minutes later ( not bad for a OB office). The boys take the seats and I plop myself down on the table. Jae asks " mom, are you sick", no buddy, I have to sit here so she can look at the baby.

We get started and I quickly tell her, we already know it is a boy, but maybe you should just make sure. She goes about her business, checking to make sure all organs are functioning and that the legs and head are the right size. She never says , yes you are having a boy, but she didn't say no either. I just assume that yes we are having a boy and that she just didn't tell us. She is taking her time with us, talking to the boys, giving them suckers, joking around with us. Then she starts to look at the face, she keeps saying " what a beautiful face, big lips, so cute" I'm like, what the heck, how can you tell. It looks more like a blob to me, but I can see a baby in there. I can see that it has ears, and that its hand is over one eye. It does not like to be bugged and keeps moving. So active, it does a total 180 from the beginning of the appt to the end. During on point, it yawns and we all "ooohh". Boston says something and its little mouth opens and closes, it looks like it was talking back to Boston, so cute. We are loving watching our little boy. Then she tells Boston and Jae to come here, she has something for them. She takes them over to her side of the bed and hands them some pictures and is whispering to them. All of a sudden it hits me, She has not told us what we are having, what if she is telling them we are having a girl. I again dismiss this. Boston takes the pictures over to Ben and shows him. Boston can see a leg in the first picture and then Ben asks what is in the 2nd picture. Boston doesn't remember and so she says, " Tell them its not a brother". "WHAT!" I say, are you being serious?" In my most shocked and horrified voice. I'm not ashamed, pure panic raced through me as she said this. A GIRL! I just started to cry. I have a HUGE fear of having a girl. The night before we found out what Jae was, I cried, so scared that it might be a girl. I look at Ben and he is grinning ear to ear. He has always known it was a girl. He told me, that he always told people, " the Dr, said boy" but he never actually said it was a boy.

So here we are having a girl, and after about 18 hours of being in shock, I can say I'm actually really excited to have a girl. I even took the boys shopping today and bought a couple of dresses for her. We could be in a lot of trouble, there are so many cute clothes. Boston was just as bad as I was. He kept bringing me shorts and shirts and shoes for her. I was good though and only bought 2 dresses. But there were some cute shoes that would have went with those dresses, who know, you needed more than one pair of brown and one pair of black to go with kids outfits.

Well, I will try and post a few pictures when I get them scanned, so everyone can try and see her giant lips and ears. I hope that she has Ben's lips and Jaegan's ears, and Boston's Brain.

I still cant believe that it is a girl. However, I know that she was ment to be. When we decided to have another baby, we were hoping for a girl. ( At lease Ben was) and I know that some one's prayers were answered. Seems the Grandmas were all praying pretty hard for a girl.

Well, little Ellsie, we are excited you are coming. Heaven help me.

My 1st 20 weeks

It has been so long since I have blogged about all the things going on in our lives, so I am going to try and start again. It is so fun to go back and read about all the stuff that we have forgotten about.

So Since I have not blogged at all about being pregnant, I thought I would start there.

It is weird being pregnant again. We thought that we were done after Jaegan was born, and so to be expecting again is like starting all over. Don't get me wrong, we are super excited to have another baby.

When we found out the we were pregnant we were really surprised actually, we got pregnant the first month that we were trying, I think that it was a blessing because if it would have taken a while, I'm afraid I may have changed my mind about having another baby. Therefore, I know that we are supposed to have this little one .

I felt like I started showing really early with this little guy. So I vowed to keep running and trying to stay in shape. I did really well for the first 14 or 15 weeks or so. Ran about 3 times a week and lifted a little, but one day I came home, sat down and watched a movie and when I stood up, couldn't walk. Literally could not take one step. I was stuck right there, it took a few minutes for my hips to work and since then, I have given up on running and just tried to walk some. I can walk to Boston's school and back and it is 2 miles, so I feel like that is a good work out. Hopefully it will get nicer outside so I can do it more. Tis the season for races, especially the Ragnar and I have been pretty bummed that I am not running it this year. I know that I should not complain about my weight, but I worked really hard to lose my baby weight over the last year or so and so to put it back on has been depressing. I have to just keep telling myself that I can run after the baby is here. I plan on signing up for a half marathon for the Spring on 2012 so hopefully that will get me motivated to get back in shape.

This pregnancy has been 100 % different from either one of the boys. I was super nauseous from about 8 weeks to 14 weeks, luckily I didn't throw up to much. But with the boys I was many sick for a week or two. I'm so glad that part is over. I also have noticed that all my aches and pains are coming way earlier. My hips hurt so bad, if I sit for any lenght of time, I walk like an 80 year old for the first few steps and then they start to work. My back hurts, maybe because my belly and boobs are so big ( i know TMI)but that is a lot of extra weight to be carring around. Oh and boy, the headaches. Every single day. I have tried Tylenol, caffeine and finally buckets of water. I have been drinking so much water lately that i spend a good portion of my day going pee. But it seems to be helping so I guess I will keep drinking. My only other complaint would be that this time around, I seem to be allergic to all lotions. I broke out in a rash all over, and decided it was my lotion, so I bought a ton of Palmer's lotion, and it made me brake out too. So I went to the Dr and she suggested stopping all my lotions and gave me a prescription for the itching. It took a good week to go away and finally I found some good lotion that seems to be working.

I don't mean to complain about being pregnant, I know that it really is a blessing to be pregnant. We found out pretty early that we are having another boy, but was told not to buy anything. We go back on Thursday for our 3D ultrasound to find out for sure. We have a few names that we like, but can never agree on one. So if anyone has any ideas, please feel free to share.

Well, I will try and keep everyone updated better. Maybe post a few pictures.

Spring Break 2011

Since this week is Spring Break, I decided that I wanted to try and make each day so fun. I have it all planned out. We will have a boy cousin sleep over, go to the park, have a picnic, take the boys somewhere that they really want to go. Let them stay up late and eat popcorn. Watch movies and play lots of playsation.

So far, we have done the cousin sleep over, where Boston had a major melt down( see older post), bought the boys matching shirts that they wore to the park, ( which was awesome, becuase there was a million kids at the castle park, and we could spot our boys so easily) . Stayed up late( you are problebly like, "Jenny, Boston is going to have another melt down", yeah, I dont learn my lesson) eating popcorn and playing playstation and watching Disney Channel. So far so good.

Ill try and keep updated on the rest of our week. Hopefully we will be havin to much fun to blog to much.

If anyone has any good ideas of fun activities, let me know, or if you want to come.

PS. Poor Ben had his Spring Break last week and had to work, so we didnt do anything fun. And he is missing out on this weeks fun too. Dumb school, thank goodness its almost over.