Mount Moriah

The week of June 12, 2013 I went to Mount Moriah. I went with Brother Rehme, Noah, and Spencer. It was a cool experience to go on a high adventure camp with the young men in the stake. At camp I  did the obstacle course, the waterfront, the leap of faith, catwalk, a zip line, and a high ropes course. The leap of faith was pretty scary because you had to climb a 30 foot tree with some branches and rope. When you got to the top you had to put both feet  at the top and stand their. At the water front we did canoeing and swamped it the water front was about purity. The High ropes course was even scarier because you were about ten feet up in a tree with ropes connected to every tree in the course. One of the nightly activities was the iron rod. We were blind folded and we had to find the rope that led us to the tree of life. This is the experience I had at Mount Moriah.

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Last summer the family went to V. Smith Park. We were all walking around then people started to say that there was a female black bear. We took a lot of pictures of it playing with a butterfly and playing on the mountain side. It was so cool seeing a black bear in the park. After seeing the bear we ate our lunch played in the freezing cold fast moving river and drove home.

Winter snow

This is about one of the big storms we got this past winter. we got about 8inches of snow. After this snow storm the boys made a big long sledding course. It took two days to make. We also made small snow forts and made a really tall snowman that looked like a bear

Christmas picture 2012

We went to V. smith park in southwest Loveland. It was so cold and snowing but we managed to get a great family picture!

Kendyl Elizabeth Fleming
December 1, 2010
7 lbs. 2 oz 19 inches

Well, this was my longest pregnancy ever!  I was getting very discouraged.  I was not progressing as I had with the last 2 kids.  We were totally expecting to have her Thanksgiving weekend but she wasn't cooperating with mommy's plans!  I went to my doctor appointment on Tuesday, Nov. 30th and was dialated to a 3.  I asked her to strip my membranes to see if we could get something going.  It really didn't do anything. I had a few cramps that night but that's it.  The doctor set us up with an induction date of Friday, December 3rd.  We were supposed to get to the hospital at 8am that morning.  So I made all the arrangements for the kids.  I had told Steve that it would take a miracle to get her here before Friday!  I was so bummed because I had never made it to 39 weeks and that was only 2 days away, and I really wanted to go into labor on my own this time.  However, I was lucky!  I woke up at 3:30 am Wednesday morning with cramps.  But that had happened before.  No big deal.  I was having braxton hicks, again, no big deal.  But at 5 am I started getting a few contractions 20 minutes apart.  I kept praying "please let this be real, if not let me go back to sleep."  At 6 am the contractions were 9 minutes then 6 minutes, then 4 minutes.  At 7 am I finally called Steve at work.  I still wasn't sure if this would keep up.  I didn't want to drive 40 minutes to the hospital and tell me to go home.  So we decided I would wait a little longer and see what happened in the next little bit.  But once I got up from my chair a big contraction hit and I knew it was real!  So I called Steve right back and told him he needed to come home.  I called our sitter and she was surprised I needed her now, not Friday.  So we got ready to leave.  By this time the contractions were 2 minutes apart and getting stronger.  We got to the hospital at 8:30 am and I was 6 cm.  My doctor was doing a C- section and would check on me and get my epidural once they were done.  They told me she should get there about 9:30.  But they didn't get to me until 10am.  My contractions were getting pretty bad by then.  I was afraid by the time the anesthesiologist got to me it would be to late!  The doctor checked me and I was an 8.  So I was able to get the epidural.  Yeah!  The doctor made it back at about 12:30 or so to break my water, and I was still breathing through contractions.  So she had to hurry after breaking my water to get changed since I was a 10.  I was really ready to have this baby!  I only pushed for 3 sets but the cord was wrapped around her neck.  The doctor told me to stop pushing, I tried!  Luckily, it was only around once and I couldn't stop for long, but the doctor had it off and it was loose, thank goodness!  She was born at 12:38 pm.  The doctor and nurses were a little worried because she wasn't really crying.  She only cried like 3 times.  The nurse was rubbing her with the blanket on my tummy trying to get her to cry.  She was just so mellow.  But she seemed to be ok.  She was getting pink.  She weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz and was 19 inches.  We were expecting her to be about 6 lbs 9 oz or so.  We all were making guesses as to how much she would be.  Doctor Tomita guessed 6 lbs. 12 oz, I guessed 6 lbs. 9oz., but the nurse said 7 lbs 3 oz.  She was close!  Mom and baby were doing well.  I only had a 2 degree tear this time, yippee!  She wasn't nursing very well and she lost 6 oz. overnight.  But she started eating late that night so that was good.  The kids were all excited to meet their sister and mommy was so happy to have her here safely!

Our proud family!

One proud daddy!

Getting ready to go home.

First time in bouncer, the night we came home.

2 days old

My friend Erin made her this cute hat.  It's a little too small but so cute!

First time in swing.

Grandma and Kendyl.

This is the same outfit Macady wore home.  Kendyl has longer arms so it doesn't fit as well!  It's so great how kids are so different.

What a beautiful family we have!  I am so glad our family is now complete.

We couldn't get a picture of her in the car seat when we got home from the hospital since she was screaming so this is when she is 5 days old, home from the doctor appointmemt.  She had gained 3 oz. and was up to 6 lbs. 15 oz.

She sleeps so soundly and looks so adorable!

Kedrick is 5 years old!  Happy Birthday!

Aaahh, the Christmas season has begun early for our family.  We were expecting to have little Kendyl over Thanksgiving weekend so we decided to put up our tree a week early.  My parents give each kid a hallmark ornament every year so that when they leave home they will have a good start for their own trees.  So, every year we sort the boxes and each kid has a pile to put on the tree.

Miss Macady was so excited for the ornaments but was discouraged when every time I would get one out it went to a brother.  She only had one to put on the tree, but was excited for it!

Putting her ornament on the tree.

This is the only picture I have of my belly before Kendyl was born.  She had grown a bit the last few weeks.



Tanner building a great big snowman!