blessing day

wow....do i ever look like a fat pig in this pic...YIKES....ill try to work on that


im way behind but here are a few shots from jaks' blessing...it went really good! and the food was awesome...thanks mom

mrs. krystie...you make good cookies!

christmas

WOW....was christmas ever crazy this year! i cant belive how having 2 kids makes a person (maybe its just me) so unorganized and scatter brained. it seems no matter how hard i try i can never be on time...i cant keep up with laundry or house chores...thank goodness for my mom and a couple people from my ward...who kept my family from starving! and poor garett! just when we brought the baby home he found out he had bronchitis and a week later he had some kind of insane intestinal problems...they were very painful and he said it felt like he was in labor (nice try honey). but we all survived.


christmas was great...my favorite time of year! im so excited that the baby came before christmas so that i had room in my stomach for all the good food christmas brings....oh how joyous! we had christmas dinner at my sisters new fancy house and it was alot of fun.

kaida was cute christmas morning....she was so excited that santa was going to come on the roof and come down the chimney and bring her toys...and she still talks about it!

and dont we all LOVE pomegranets?

how it all went down

Being due on christmas eve didnt excite me much, neither my doctor....so she booked me to be induced on the 16th. i was very happy about that....i was huge and ready to pop so any day sooner was fine by me. plus she figured i wouldnt make it to the hospital in time since i barely made it in time with kaida....so having a baby in the car was something i didnt have to worry about anymore!
kaida stayed at my moms house and gar took me to lethbridge the night before the 16th. we ate a mcdonalds and went to a show. and stayed at kurbie and skylers....since a had to be at the hospital at 7 am.
I had the worst sleep ever and woke up with a sore throat and stuffy nose....nice. i called the hospital at 6am to see if they had a bed avalable...and no....they said there was no room and i would have to wait. AHHH
a part of me was kinda relived cause i was starting to freak out a bit, but i was really ready to have this baby. so we waited and at 9am we got a call saying they would go ahead with my induction.
we got there and i was hooked on machines to see if the baby was "happy" and then we waited and slept and waited for the doctor to come. finally at 12:30 she came and started the procedure. didnt take long for the pain to start....then the birthing ball was my best friend. gar stopped and got me some tim bits, ketchup chips and chocolate milk (hospital food is the pits)
at 2:30 she came and broke my water....which really sucks. (very painfull contractions) at this point i was begging for an epidural...and they were taking there own sweet time....got the urge to push and no...no time for an epidural..AHH. needles to say baby boy was born at 3:08pm. i love that little boy! he is perfect in every way!

baby boy

ok i had to force this, but im glad i did..even if they didnt turm

an early christmas

our handsome little man.....we cant seem to get enough of him! i will try and get on the ball and post some more pictures soon...but dont get your hopes up.

ward party

she actually sat on santas knee....and told him what she wanted....a pink puppy.