I'm finally getting around to post some pictures of our new little girl!! Sydnee was born February 23, at 1:40 in the morning. She was 3 weeks early and was a tiny little girl weighing 5 lbs. 12 oz and 17 inches long. We were so not ready for her yet, but she has been such a sweet baby that we've been just fine, that and we have been blessed with so much help from everyone, so blessed! I never understood why people loved new babies, but now I know haha. I love my boys but between my lack of ability and their fussier personalities it was much harder. I feel like I'm just figuring this baby thing out! Anyway we feel so blessed to have her in our home, Parker just adores her and even Bridger is constantly giving her kisses. I'm just so grateful to be their mom!

Baby #3

I'm such a slacker blogger but I thought I'd better document this a little since it's been such an eventful  past few months. I have been so blessed these past few months, and feel extremely grateful for the power of the priesthood. I started out this pregnancy as I have a couple others and thought for sure I was having another miscarriage. After several roller coaster weeks I was finally diagnosed with having a subchronic hemmorage which is pretty much a small tear between the baby and the placenta. Apparently they're fairly common and many women have them with no symptoms, I unfortunately was not one of those women. I spent the next few weeks in an emotional roller coaster, filled with lots of prayers and learning many lessons all over again. In the midst of this we were called to be in nursery. My dr. told me to take it easy and no heavy lifting which is pretty much impossible in nursery.  After about a month I started having complications again and decided it was time to be released from nursery. The following week I asked Frank and my dad to give me a blessing.  The day of my blessing I was probably at my worst physically. We had stake conference and just from the short walk to the stake center (literally like a block away from where we parked) I felt like I was overdone and didn't dare move much the rest of the day. The next days following I had a major turn around. I definitely took it easy thanks to my amazing mom who came and helped with the house and kids, but I couldn't believe how much better I started feeling, and now at 20 weeks pregnant besides feeling easily exhausted which I think is just normal pregnancy with 2 kids, I am hopefully all better.
Now for the fun part..we're having a girl! I kind of knew earlier because I've had so many ultrasounds, but she never got a good shot and she only made an educated guess based on a theory so I wasn't holding my breath. I know most women are almost obsessed with having a little girl, but after everything I was truly just grateful for healthy. I've had to learn this same lesson over and over that it's all in God's hands and that his plan for me is way better than any that I could plan for myself, even though sometimes that means we have to go through hard things, I know I have been blessed and have grown and matured in ways I never would have if I hadn't experienced these trials.
It has been so fun to see Parker's reaction to all of this. He didn't really get it all until we went to the ultrasound. His first reaction was that we needed to sell Bridger because we can't have two of them, lol, but he is really excited to have a baby sister. He is convinced that the ultrasound video is real time and that if we don't watch her she's going to die, so this is the only ultrasound video we've ever watched again..and again..and again. He really is a good big brother. He has a hard time sharing sometimes, but that's partly because he is anal like his father and wants his stuff just right, I'm sure we'll be grateful for that later:) Anyway this is where the fun part begins, choosing a name. It should be at least except that me and Frank always seem to have such different opinions. I've decided that I want it to end in ee like my name so I really like Sydnee or Audree and I'm totally holding strong this time since he pretty much picked both the boys names so it's gotta be a name that I really like and not that I just give up in the end..don't get me wrong I've always loved Parker but I wasn't sure about the name Bridger although I of course love it now and it's very fitting for him. Anyway I love both my boys and I'm super excited for the new world of a little girl:)
fyi we have since been called as ward missionaries which I'm super excited for!

The Good, Bad, and the Ugly

Good: Parker's playing soccer

Bad: for the most part he really hasn't liked it, but he did much better tonight!!

Another good: our home is so close to being done!!

The ugly: I got in a wreck last week:( Some girl pulled out right in front of me and I ran right into her..thank goodness everyone was ok, and most importantly it wasn't my fault!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brothers

This is one of those post where I get to be all gushy and say how much I love being a mom, but I do! These two are such a blessing in my life. I love this time with them, and I'm so blessed to be their mom and even better stay at home with them! Parker has really grown up these last few months and he has turned into such a good big brother! I love to watch them play together. Parker loves to get Bridger to laugh and chase him around the house. I love the relationship they've already started to form and can't wait for the years to come (minus the part where they get older.) Anyway, again heres a few pictures of the two of them.

Steel Days Parade

So this Steel Days Frank's grandma was honored as the Grand Marshall for their contribution to the community through Parker's Drive In. So we all got to ride in the parade with her..some of us were just lucky enough to ride in the truck with the A/C on and windows rolled up, lol what a scrooge! Anyway these are just a couple pictures from the parade.

Bridger's first driving lesson..he did great:)

Summer Reading

So I'm not going to lie, I'm a little obsessed with Pinterest, but it's so full of amazing ideas and it's really helped me be a more productive stay at home mom..minus the countless hours spent on the computer (but my house has never been so clean, thank you pinterest:) It's my thing to do while the kids are asleep, although I've started indexing for the church but I'm not very good, but that's a whole other story. Anyway my point is I've seen a lot of really neat ideas and one that I've kind of implemented in our home is reading with Parker. That's one thing I've kind of slacked with him, but this summer we've really started reading and then we do little activities to go along with the story. It's been a lot of fun. So far we've read Chica Chica Boom Boom, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, One Fish Two Fish Blue Fish Green Fish, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and several others that I can't think of at the moment. Anyway these are just a few of the pictures from our reading adventures!

Summer 2012

 This is how Parker fishes...throwing rocks

 Our first fish!

 For Steel Days the firemen come with a latter truck and spray all the kids..Parker wanted nothing to do with that, but after being convinced he enjoyed running in the mud!

 These pictures speak for themselves:)

Parker dancing at the SheDaisy concert

We've had kind of an uneventful summer as far as vacations. We had planned a camping trip, but we all took turns having the flu that week instead so we never made it, but we've had several trips fishing, feeding the ducks, picnics at the park, and swimming. Despite no vacation we've still had plenty of fun!