Our little Lamb



Cute Maggie

Merry Christmas!

Daddy is o fun...I think I'm having fun.

Folsom Zoo',

thanksgiving

Maggie Loved the deer, and they loved her too.

I love animals!

100% natural childbirth

december 22, 3:32 So beautiful!



Daddy's girl.



Thanks uncle Corbin, this cover keeps me nice and warm!





brand new, just a few hours after birth


Olivia Lynn arrived on the scene Monday, December 22, 2008. Things did not go the way I planned. So here is the story. 6 am. We arrived at the hospital. 7:15. Dr. Lake administers induction drug, (not patossin) We sat and waited for some contractions to come for a few hours, they came but weren't painful and were very far apart. 12:30 Dr. Lake uses a huge wooden crochet hook to break my water. By 1:30 contractions were very painful and the nurse gave some pain medication and I requested the epidural. The nurse said I was next in line that the anesthesiologist was in a c-section right now, but she would come to me after. She said it would be about half an hour to forty minutes. Well, the contractions got worse and worse and there was still no sign of the epidural. Holy cow they hurt. I was hyperventilating and my feet and hands were going numb so I had to slow down my breathing by taking deep breaths and letting them out slowly. My nurse, who was awesome by the way, had a labor coach come in. she tried to help with my breathing. She kept blowing her breaths right into my face. At one point I was so annoyed I told her to stop blowing in my face! Kind a rude I know. But my nurse, and kenny were good, because they would tell me when the contraction was peaking and then I knew I was almost done. Kenny was so awesome throughout the whole thing. He was so supportive, he helped count down and he would scoot me around when I had to move.

He helped me get in postion with my head down on top of a pillow on top of the table with my back rounded out . Let me just say how much this hurt when you are having a contraction. And it is 3:20 ish, so It has been two hours of excriciating contractions. By this time I am yelling and swearing. Actually I only swore once. I just have to put in here, that earier in the day, while we were waiting for the induction medicine to kick in, the girl in the next room was yelling and screaming while me and kenny laughed at it.
So here I am now, doing my own version of yelling and screaming. At one point I was cryi ng because it hurt so bad and I thought I couldn't do this and the anesthesiologist wasn't coming, and she was supposed to- that was the whole reason we came to this hospital, because last time with Maggie, the epidural didn't come till 10 minutes before maggie came out.
Sso in comes this middle eastern lady and she wants to give me a spinal. I was like spinal, whats that? I had only heard of a spinal once, my friend holly, who whad one and it gave her migraines for weeks because they did it wrong. So I insisted on the epidural. So she started the needle in my spine. I had to round out my back and I am basically bent over and have to keep my head down, and she is taking forever. I had my head ont the pillow bent over in pain and she was still unwrapping stuff and getting ready. I will say the anesthesiologist at Hanford is way better.
Well, she gets the needle in and I start having a contraction, a kind of contraction that I had to push on. So she had to take out the epidural. The they decided to try a spinal. So I am still bent over on the pillow, and this time a bunch of fluids come gushing out and I feel the baby's head coming out. It felt like a bowling ball was trying to come out of me.
At this point they took the needle out and laid me on my side, but the nurse was holding my legs together while I was having the contraction. Momma mia that hurt so bad. The next minute Dr. Lake was there, I pushed realy hard with the next two contractions, and she was on my chest, all purple and gooey. It was crazy! Dr. lake said, just push really hard and you won't be pregnant any more. And I did, and I'm not.
In the end I am sort of glad I did 't get the drugs, becasue my recover is way faster then with the drugs. I was alert right after and got to hold olivia and nurse for an hour before she was weighed and stuff. We just got to sit there and enjoy the moment together. All of a sudden, the pain was gone and I was okay. I had a lot of adrenaline in me after that, I couldn't sleep that night. Giving birth is amazing. However, I will never do that again, I will get the drugs as soon as I get to the hospital.
My road to recovery is getting better, it's nice having kenny home because he can help me. He and Mggie have been bonding. The worst thing is my hip, it hurts so bad. It started hurting in the last week of pregnancy, on top of carpel tunnel, and heart burn. My poor body, pregnancy trashed it! I look forward to swimming and cycling, and eventually running again. I hope I can get to the gym soon.
Olivia is breast feeding! yea, because we struggled so hard to get Maggie to nurse, I pumped for two months. But olivia is getting the hang of it, so am I. We feel so blessed to have this child in our family. Heavenly Father has entrusted us with a little angel. It amazes me how this little baby is so unique and quite her own little self. We are so excitied to see her and Maggie grow together. Family Rocks!!

Maggie Turns 1

This month is going to be a crazy month for this family, i can already tell. Christmas time is already so full of things to do, parties, gift giving in remembrance of the Savior. We have the added bonus of Maggie's birthday on December 18th, and now our little Olivia's birthday, on December 22. Yep, it's true, after going to the Dr. he offered an induction and I will go in early on Monday morning. And I will be doing the selfish thing, and I will get an epidural. Whoo Whoo!

As for Maggie, her birthday party last night was so much fun. Besides the fact that she just got her one year shots that morning AND a flu shot, she was in rather good spirits. She danced, ate cake , opened presents. It was so much fun. All the kids that came dressed up in their Christmas formals, and we played Christmas music. so much fun. Maggie loved eating the cake, but I had to stop her before she ruined her cute dress. Silly mom, i didn't even bring her a bib. It is so hard to remember the simplest of things right now.
Two nights ago Maggie threw up, it was so sad. The worst part is there was nothing really that I could do for her. She was so lethargic. But the next day she seemed fine, and we think her little tummy is having a hard time adjusting to dairy, because wee switched her to milk this week.
Maggie has an even bigger change coming, and I think she knows. she has been so clingy these last few days, holding on to me really tight, which she never really used to do. I think she knows that I am about to have a baby and she is getting worried. None of our lives will ever be the same.

Maggie walks!!

Yep it's true. She took her first steps at grandmas house on thanksgiving, and now she is burning rubber all over the place. It is nice, because it was getting hard carrying her with the pregnancy. We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of #2. Two weeks!!

What do we do now?

For those of you who feel down in the dumps because of the election of Obama, here is a little pick me up. I listened to this speech on the Mark Levin show, and though it was given in 1964, it is talking about the same things going on today. What we need it another Ronald Reagan, who can withstand all the attacks from the left.

"The Speech" A Time for Choosing

Mark Levin, don't miss this!!!!

http://www.q-and-a.org/Program/?ProgramID=1201

I listen to his podcast as much as I can. This guy is so awesome. Check it out.

Haunted Gingerbread Houses

Jeff and Bre's haunted house.




This one is ours!


Okay, so I love Halloween. it is so much fun. I love the colors, the smells, and the dressing up in crazy costumes. So this year we are starting early. We invited Jeff and Bre over to make these houses, they turned out so good. Everything is made from scratch, yea that's right, real gingerbread, no graham cracker cheap stuff. Kenny and I designed our haunted mansion ourselves. I told my class when I subbed, that they will always need to know math, because I used a lot of it designing this house. It was fun.

Girls Just having fun!

What up Cuz?


Play time at the park with Claire





Playing with Avery, I love my cousins!

Constitution Day: Sept. 17th

Did you now that September 17th is Constitution Day? Well, I am in the midst of studying the constitution myself. It isn't easy. It is not casual reading. I like this explanation the best,

the Declaration set forth the ends or purposes of government, and the Constitution was designed to provide the best means for securing these ends.

And here are some good quotes from the prophets:

Elder Oaks reminds us that U.S. citizens should follow the First Presidency's counsel to study the Constitution. (First Presidency letter of 15 Jan. 1987.)

They should be familiar with its great fundamentals: the separation of powers, the individual guarantees in the Bill of Rights, the structure of federalism, the sovereignty of the people, and the principles of the rule of the law. They should oppose any infringement of these inspired fundamentals. They should be law-abiding citizens, supportive of national, state, and local governments. The Church's official declaration of belief states: ‘We believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them. … ‘We believe that all men are bound to sustain and uphold the respective governments in which they reside.' ( D&C 134:1, 5.) Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called “civic virtue.” Dallin H. Oaks, “The Divinely Inspired Constitution,” Ensign, Feb 1992, 68

In his address on the U.S. Constitution, President Ezra Taft Benson quoted this important observation by John Adams, the second president of the United States, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Benson, The Constitution, a Heavenly Banner, p. 23.

So my question, like my brother Adam has said, is the American people a moral and religious people? Is the majority choosing good over evil?

Book of Mormon Prophet Mosiah taught the principles of good government:

25 Therefore, choose you by the ^avoice of this people, judges, that ye may be ^bjudged according to the ^claws which have been given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which were given them by the hand of the Lord.

26 Now it is not common that the ^avoice of the people desireth anything ^bcontrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the ^cpeople to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law—to do your business by the voice of the people.

27 And ^aif the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.

Picture Time!

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Maggie is growing so quickly, before we know it she will be 1 year old and she will have a babby sister, Olivia to keep her occupied



We went to the park in old town Hanford and took pictures this morning.

9/11 The Day the World Stood Still

Take time to enjoy the little things in life!

The zoo makes us tired. It was really hot too. But my favorites were the flamingos!

Maggie loves animals. She thinks it is a giant kitty cat.

This is maggie's reaction to a camel at the Zoo! It was so much fun taking her she really liked it.

Maggie loves standing, and she is barely crawling.

I just finished watching John McCain speak at the republican convention. I got to watch with fellow republicans at the republican headquarters here in Hanford. I have been trying to volunteer and get more involved with politics this year, as much as I can with Maggie. And it is so great to meet people that share my passion and political views.
I have to say that i really liked McCain's speech. He hit all the important issues: energy, less government, education, and national security. He doesn't think that he is god's gift to this country and he shared his pow story from Nam, and mentioned that his grandfather died the day he got home from WWII and he didn't see his own father much at all during the War as well. He said that he wants to be president so that citizens won't have to sacrifice what he and his family did. Is McCain qualified? YES.
I am excited right now, especially because of his pick for VP, sarah palin. What an awesome woman!! I can identify a lot with her and her athleticism, I have always thought how absurd it was that a lot of female athletes, that I knew personally and also saw in the media, believed that they had to 'act' like men to be a good athlete. They thought that being crude, brassy, and loudmouthed was the way to become a success. I see this type of woman in Michell Obama, just in the way she walks. She seems to me to have a lot of anger, and carries herself with that aura of manliness. And I have seen over the last month how her campaign people have tried to improve her image by having her wear dresses and makeup. But I know that she is that type of woman, that doesn't understand what womanhood is all about. Has she even shown affection for her girls? Certainly not for obama, she talks over him and won't even let him speak during interviews.
In contrast, Palin is a dream girl of this generation. She can hunt, shoot guns, play bball, she runs, and she is a mother of 5 and she is feminine, and doesn't scream into the mic when she speaks. She knows who she is, and what she wants. She has fought corruption and big oil and special interests, she has executive experience. She is awesome. I can't wait to see her debate "plugs" Biden.
I can't wait to see this newly energized republican ticket beat Obama and put him back in Chicago to get some real experience and not rabble rousing.

You Are Cinderella!

Dignified and hard working. With a gentle and soft-spoken manner you have something many people don't. Patience. Even through the moments of heartbreak you're still able to hold onto all of your hopes and dreams. Bide your time; your dream will come true.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

Yard Work With Daddy

Kitty Cat supervises all activities.



Yum, grass.



I love being outside



So happy!

Maggie Speaks (to angels?)

I was trying to catch Maggie doing fish lips while I was feeding her, and then she started this rant. she is so cute.

Maggie Crawls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She did it! She finally crawled, well more like she scooted, and pushed and pulled her stomach across the carpet, but still, she crawled. It was Saturday morning at around 7 AM. Me and Kenny and Maggie were sitting and playing waiting for shannon to call to go wakeboarding. And she did it. Pretty soon she will be wakeboarding and taking names. I am excitied about it, we have been watching and waiting for a couple of weeks now. For the last little while she would cry when she was on her stomach. Then she started to scoot herself backwards. And now she wants to get around everywhere! Maggie is the bomb.

Sleeping while shopping

Maggie and Avery

Give me my toys back Avery!

Hanging out

Happy girl

Happy Feet (cousin claire and maggie)

Kitty Cat thinks it's meal time!!

We are having a baby girl!

Just chillin in the back yard!

The Power is with the People!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Write your senator, congressmen, demand action.

Time to eat!!!

HAVE YOU SIGNED? Join the Drill Here, Drill Now Pay Less Campaign, and get involved with the entire movement for the Platform of the American People!

copy and paste this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnVVkCsw41c

Happy Independence Day!

I am so glad that we fought off those horrible British, now if we could only fight off the nasty liberals.....

Maggie is sitting up now!!! She is growing so quickly. We just love her so much.

Stinsons Beach. Maggie LOVED the sand