Happy Birthday Sarah!!

What is my 2nd most favorite day every year? You guessed it February 27. My first favorite is either my birthday or the beginning of football season. Just kidding, but not really. Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday, and hope you are feeling a little better on your birthday. Thanks for being a great wife and mother.

Love ya, Ryan, Jackson, Sunny, and also Lila

Just For The Record...

This is the story of my life. ARGHHHHHHHHH

1 doctors visit with 2 kids
1 trip to Walgreens for 2 different antibiotics
$70.00 dollars later

and

Hopefully my kids, who have been sick for 3 1/2 weeks, will be able to get better. Now they just better not get sick again before the baby comes.

p.s. Everybody with germs stay the heck away from me and my kids. This includes you Mom, and Ryan. Sorry!

3D pictures of Lila Cate

I finally got to go have my 3D ultrasound, and it was so much fun. The ideal time frame for 3D is between 28 and 32 weeks, and I'm a little over 34, so we weren't sure if we would get good pictures or not. Well, I think they turned out great!

This is the closest we got to a front shot, I think it is pretty clear. If you can't figure it out sorry, but Sunny Mae immediately pointed out the eyes, nose, and mouth.

This one is a profile with her hand up to her face. What a cute little nose!

Another profile. She has cubby cheeks already.

I had my Dr. appointment today and things are looking okay. At this point I am going weekly, and we will decide at each appointment if I need to deliver her then or not. If I can make it 3 more weeks to 37, then he will induce me then. So, I'm offically on the countdown to March 10th.

Lila is looking great. She is measuring a week ahead (even though my belly is measuring 3 weeks behind.) Her weight is estimated to be about 5 pounds and 8 ounces at this point. I'm really hoping for a 6 1/2 pound baby, so I think I just might get my wish. (I just want her to be small since she is my last baby, and I figure if she is small she'll seem like a little baby longer. Crazy I know).

The most exciting news of all (in my opinion) is that she has hair. Yea!!! We were able to see it all over her little head. She didn't have hair at my last ultrasound 6 weeks ago and I've been really hoping she would be born with hair like Sunny, so it looks like I get my wish on this one too!

Yes!!

Good news, I have a Wii. Yes it's true. For a few weeks now I have been wanting a Wii. I hadn't been pursuing it too hard, but oppurtunity knocked at good old Wal-Mart on Tuesday. I mean these things are selling like hotcakes, and aren't easy to find at your local stores, unless you get lucky of course. I took the kids to Wal-Mart that morning and of course strolled through video game section, just in case. Well somehow they had a few left from the shipment they received the night before. I got the 2nd to last one, yes.!! Really it is for the kids, okay maybe not, but it is pretty fun. Jackson and Sunny are hilarious when they play, but we have to make sure the strap is on. Jackson forgot to attach it once and sure enough the controller about put a hole in the ceiling. If anyone is thinking about getting a Wii, do it. If you can find one of course. In other semi important news, some elementary school kids in utah county have to sleep at school tonight, because the buses couldn't get the kids home in the storm. Can you imagine being a teacher and having to stay at the school for 24 hours watching those kids. They should get some kind of bonus for that.

Ryan

Who is that special someone?

Valentine's day is quickly approaching. It is a time to reflect on things we love. Who do we turn to everyday for some very important information? You got it right, the weatherman or woman. It is a person that has a special little place in our hearts. It is obvious that many of the local weathermen have great skills, but who really stands out in your mind or heart. For Sarah it is probably 2 news Roland Steadham. I think she enjoys his excellent insight and that great hair. I enjoy many different weathermen. It can be KSL, Fox 13, or even 4 news. As long of the weather is being reported with dignity and class, I can't complain. So who is your number 1 weatherman? Just keep them in your hearts on this V day.

Look what I'm getting for my b-day...

So, my birthday is in a little over two weeks, and today I got to order my b-day present from my Mom. I'm so excited for it to get here. I know most people would say I should get something for myself, but I'm so in love with baby stuff that I just couldn't help it.

This being my 3rd child, you would think I'd have one of these by now, but I don't. I figured with all the stairs in our house it would be pretty useful. I plan on keeping it downstairs so I have somewhere for Lila to nap, and also a safe place to put her while I'm doing stuff. My kids are so excited and want to help so much with her, but they are really too young to pick her up, so this is an attempt to keep her from being carried around by a 3 year old.

I love the pink and brown. All our other stuff is gender-neutral, and I really wanted one thing that was girly. I think this fits the bill :)

My 2nd Trip to L & D

For those interested, I made my 2nd trip to Labor and Delivery. I dropped the kids off with a friend at 12:00 to run over to the Doctor for what I thought was going to be a quick appointment. Turns out my blood pressure was too high again, so I earned a 2nd trip to the hospital. This time I had to stay a lot longer b/c it took my blood pressure awhile to go down and of course the nurses noticed I was having contractions. I ended up getting home about 3:15 this afternoon.

All my lab work looks good, so it's more wait and see as to what will happen and when this baby will actually arrive. Lila looked great on the montiors and was super active the whole time, so that is very reassuring.

As for now, I just go back in two weeks and hopefully my blood pressure will be good b/c I do not want to waste another day at the hospital. I started going to the doctor every 2 weeks at 24 weeks with this pregnancy and man am I sick of it already.

I will be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad when March gets here!!

Just Because I'm Being Bugged for Something New -- Valentines Day 2005

So, obviously these aren't new, but I don't have anything new, so this will have to do. These are some of the older pictures I have on the computer. It was Sunny's first Valentines Day. This also happened to be a couple of weeks before Jax had surgery on his eyes to fix the huge chalazions (sp?) that had formed under his eyelids.

Remember when Sunny had brown curly hair? I think it turned straight and blonde about 3 months after this. She had pretty good hair for a baby. She is about 5 1/2 months old here.