It seems like forever....life goes on

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ~Author Unknown

The Boys are growing bigger, and bigger!

Daven

REESE

Bruce

The Boys are getting bigger each and every day.  Daven is learning to be a BIG Brother and learning how to share. He is a good big brother and is adapting to not being the baby of the family.  Daven is learning to speak both English, and Spanish.  Most of the time he speaks Spanglish!

Reese is walking around the funiture sometimes letting go without realizing it.  He has learned to wave Hi, and Bye! He also shakes his head when you say Yes and No! He claps his hands and still loves to jump!

Bruce is four months old. He is smiling, laughing, and cooing! He loves to be held and cuddled. When he smiles with his great big gummy smile one can't help but to smile right back at him.  I think his facial features look like his grandma Alba and Aunt Gretel. But he seems to be built like his daddy. I think he might grow up to be taller than his brother Daven!

Recent Family Photos

Drew and Daven

The Drew Weech Family

Some of my Ditgital Art

Baby Bruce Michael Weech is born!

In these pictures of Bruce when he was first born you might notice that he was born with some facial brusing and a fat lip. I think it was because he was so excited to be born as his mommy's entire labor was only 6 1/2 hours long. No worries though; the brusing and fat lip only lasted a couple of days.

Bruce Michael Weech was born on April 27th after only seven hours of labor. He weighed in at 6 lbs 10 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches tall. Walesca's due date was the first week of May so Bruces early arrival was a blessing. It was his mommy's turn to name the baby as daddy named his brother Daven. Bruce's name has no significance other than mommy liked it. I like to think of it as a scottish family name Bryce which came from the Old Scottish Royal Clan of Bruce of which the Weech family is from. His middle name Michael is after his grandfather Michael Weech and is also his Daddy's middle name. They thought about naming him Bruce Wayne, but thought it might be better not to name him after the super hero "Bateman".

Bruce has a very sweet temperment and so far seems to be very laid back and mellow. He does love to be held though which I loved to do in the middle of the night when the house was quiet and it was just him and me. We had some sweet talks in those early morning hours when he was first born.

Wayne Bryce Weech passed away at home on February 17, 2010 after a lengthy illness. Wayne was born on April 8, 1922 in Pima to Jeanette Bryce and A. Ellis Weech. He grew up in Pima and loved to spend time on the mountain whenever he could. He enjoyed telling great stories of the fun trips made up to Columbine on the spur of the moment, especially the one about “borrowing” a burro for the trip.

Wayne attended Pima schools, graduating with the class of 1940. That year he was Student Body President, which was the same year Pima High School’s mascot was changed to the Roughrider. He also attended Gila Academy (Eastern Arizona College).

He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II in the Pacific Theater and reached the rank of staff sergeant. After the war, he finished his associate degree at Gila and then attended BYU, graduating in 1948. In 1954, he married Marie Jacobs. They had six children: Barbara (Ron) Hogeland, Betty (Carter) McEuen, Mike (Brook) Weech, Matt (Connie) Weech, Nori (Bruce) Hendry, and Lois Vu.

Wayne worked as a systems manager for over 30 years in the aerospace industry, including on the Apollo moon mission team and the Space Shuttle team. He was proud of being part of the efforts that safely sent men to the moon and helped make it routine to explore space in Earth orbit.

After retirement, he married Alene Lines, who with her family has done an amazing job of loving and caring for him in his twilight years.

Wayne has 30 grandchildren, and 29 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and by two of his sisters, Venna and Annabelle. He is survived by his brothers Dall (Brenda) Weech, Kenny (Kathy) Weech and by his sister Kathy (Gene) Webster.

A viewing was held on Sunday evening, February 21, 2010 at 6:30 until 8:00 p.m. in the Relief Society Room of the Pima Arizona Stake Center and one hour prior to funeral services. Funeral services were Monday, February 22, 2010 at 11 a.m. at the Pima Arizona Stake Center, with Bishop Gerald Schmidt of the Pima Second Ward conducting. Burial followed in the Pima Cemetery.

Cutest grandbabies ever....and Best Family in the world!

So here it is January 2010 and I have yet to update my BLOG. Alot has happened since my last blog. Reese is three months old and already sleeping through the night. Drew and Walesca are expecting another son in May of this year. Shelton has writen a book and is in the process of finding an agent. Mike is still in Colton but with a different company...and I turned the big 50!! Life is good and our family continues to be blessed!

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Reese

DAVEN

The whole family
The guys: Daven, Drew, Reese, Shaun, Shelton, Mike

The girls...Chelle, me, Angela, Walesca...

Reese is here!

Reese Wayne Pulsipher

November 3, 2009

4:35 p.m.

7 lbs. 7 oz.

20 1/2 inches tall

Reeses parents and nana Weech went into the hospital on Monday November 2, 2009 to have him induced. Chelle was given a drug called Cervidel to soften or "ripen" the birth area. It was left in for a total of 12 hours and produced pretty hard contractions which Chelle dealt with without any pain medications. Twelve hours later to all of our disappointment there were no results. They told her to rest and the doctor would decide the next morning what would be the next plan. After having contractions all night long Chelle was dialated to 1 cm and 70% effaced at 7 in the morning. She continued to have some strong contractions so asked for an epidural. The doctor checked her at around 8:20 in the morning and she was then dialated to 2 cm and was 80% effaced. He then ordered that she be given a small dose of Pitoscin to speed her labor up a bit. He also broke her water. They told her that Reese would probablly be born about 12 hours later that night. The contractions started to prgress and get stronger. Shaun went home to take a shower and study a little for a test he had the next day. Chelle's mom and dad stayed with her as she continued to labor. At about 10:20 in the morning she was really starting to feel strong contractions. An hour she was really feeling pressure and we asked the nurse to check her. We were all expecting her to be dialated to only around 4 cm but to all of our excitement when the nurse checed her at 11:20 she was dialated to 7 cm. Chelle's mom quickly called Shaun and told him the news and he hurried back to the hospital. At about 12:20 the nurse checked her again and Chelle was 8 cm and 100% effaced. At 1 p.m. the contractions were really getting uncomfortable and Chelle was feeling a lot of pressure. She was then at 9 cm and the baby was at a plus 1 station so progress was quickly being made. After a few extremely hard contractions around 1:20 p.m. Chelle was in a lot of pain so the nurse checked her again and she was dialated to 10 cm and the baby was at a plus 2 station. At 1:30 the labor nurse told her she could see little Reese's hair and that he was about two strong pushes away. So Chelle began to push! And Push! And Push! After pushing for 2 hours and with no movement from the baby the labor nurse called the doctor to let him know what was going on. He asked to talk to Shaun. The doctor told Shaun that he thought Chelle was just to narrow to have the baby naturally. So they both agreed that it was time for a C-Section.

The Pitoscin was removed from the IV pump. The anesthiesiologist was called back to give Chelle some extra medications to prepare her for the wait until the doctor got there. Chelle's mom went out to the waiting room where Mike (Chelle's dad) was and gave him the news. Then they wheeled her to the surgery room. Shaun suited up in his surgery stuff. Everyone waited for the doctor to arrive. Finally, at around 3:30 The doctor came. Shaun went back to be with Chelle. Mike and I waited in the surgery waiting room. At about 4:55 the nurses and Shaun and baby Reese came out of the surgery room. Chelle was being sewed up and then had to wait in recovery for around and hour to hour and a half. So we followed Shaun and baby Reese. They bathed and took all the baby's vitals and we watched outside the nursery window.

Chelle got back up to her room around 6ish. She couldn't wait to hold the baby. They brought the baby to her around 15 minutes after they got her settled in her room. At around 9:30 Shaun and Mike went home. I stayed with her until around 12:30 in the morning as they were going to give her a roomate. Chelle was exhausted so we asked that the baby go to the nursery for a few hours so she could sleep. Her roomate liked the lights and TV on and never turned them off from the time she got to the room at 3 a.m.

She also had lots of visitors sometimes 5 at a time which was breaking the rules...so with the help of the nursing staff Chelle was moved to a private room at 5 p.m. on November 4th. On Friday November 6th at around noon her hemoglobin continued to be critically low so a blood tranfusion was ordered.

On Saturday morning November 7th The Pulsipher's took thier baby home.

DAVEN

I was looking at my Blog page and realized something very special was missing. DAVEN! Daven is our 19 month old grandson. He is a joy. We went to visit him and his parents in August. The highlight of our time there was Daven calling us my our new names- "Nana" and "Bampa" or "Pa" for short. WOW! What a sweet thing to hear. It is definately right up there with our own kids saying "Mama and Dada" for the first time! Daven loves to climb...He mastered the stairs with no problem...then he to all our amazement started climbing the stairs from the other side of the rail. He was right there with his mommy as she was standing on chairs...He was delightful to watch. Here are a few pictures from our trip.

~Every Child is a Story to be Told~

So I took Chelle today to get an ultrasound of Reese. She is 33 weeks along. At first it was hard to see his face as he was hiding it with his feet and hands...He literally was rolled up like a basketball. But, with coaxing from the tech and his mommy he let us take a look at him. I was surprized to see how chubby his little cheeks were...and he had a cute button nose. I am more excited than ever to see him make his debut into this world.