The Holidays

I hope all your holiday celebrations were wonderful. We spent the days with family and had a wonderful time. Christmas morning, of course, was crazy....going from our house to Ryan's dad's house and then to my parents house! Lot's of craziness !!

Our house Christmas morning:

My parents house Christmas Night:

My Aunt's house Christmas Eve:

Ryan's Dad's house Christmas morning:

New Moon

Ok, saw New Moon Thursday @ 6:15! A friend of mine that attends the mormon church, well they were putting something together and she got me, my cousin and some other girlfriends a ticket. So we were blessed! Thank goodness too, cause when we got there at 5:15p, the line for the midnight showings were already wrapped around the building! Yikes!!! Anyway, I so enjoyed the movie and thought it was better then Twilight. Can't wait for the Eclipse release and since my brother Ricky lives in Hollywood and knows some people......if you know what I mean......he's going to work on getting me tickets to the LA premiere!!!! Oh, I so hope so!! :-)

The Boys

Well decided to take some updated photos of the boys. Still trying to figure out all the in's and out's of my fancy camera. Hopefully, I'm doing something right. My friend Kari inspires me when I look at her photos, there so amazing! :-)

Kaden 1st day of 1st grade

Kaden had good 1st week of school. They really haven't started doing anything yet at school. Just getting to know each other. He has a lot of friends from his Kindergarden class in his new class. He loves the fact that he gets to ride the bus this year! I of course had to meet him at his school the first cause I'm a paranoid mom! He did indeed make it to school ok and to his class! :-)

Kellen 5 days old

Just wanted to post some pictures that I took of Kellen at 5 days old!

Welcoming Kellen Ryan

Well Kellen Ryan entered into the world on Monday August 17, 2009 @ 1:51a! Weighing in at 8lbs 10.5 oz, and 19 1/2 inches in length! I was admitted to the hospital on the 16th, dilated to a 4! They broke my water and started the patosum (probably spelled that wrong)! About 9:30p I was dilated to a 5 and decided to get my epidural at that time. I was starving since I have not had any food since 10a on Sunday. Since I was being rolled down to the operating room at 8:30a Monday morning I still couldn't eat. Got my tubal,

which was a very interesting experience. And final once I was able to hold down a cracker and some water I was able to eat, FINALLY!!! :-) Anyway, we stayed in the hospital till Wednesday afternoon, and am now home with my other two boys! It's been great, a little low on the sleep but that's to be expected. But when I do sleep, I'm enjoying the fact that I'm comfortable and don't get up every second to go to the bathroom. Kellen has been doing really well, though he doesn't like to sleep on his back. In the last couple days he's gotten up just a couple times in the middle of the night. He takes really good naps and eats very well! Kaden and Kohen are enjoying there baby brother and just love being around him. Kaden mostly! He's a great helper and an awesome big brother!

Baby Shower

Had a wonderful baby shower that my step mother in law thru for me!  Lots of friends and family showed up and got lots of really cute stuff for baby Kellen!  I'm officially 37 weeks now, have a Dr. appointment today, hopefully there has been some action going on down there!  I pray!!! :-) I am so ready for this baby to come.  It's hot, I'm uncomfortable, can't sleep, and my back and feet hurt.  Other than that I've been doing really well.  Just took a trip to Albany, Oregon to watch Ryan in a shooting match.  That was actually a miserable drive, but the stay was nice. It was great to get away for the weekend.  Got some shopping done at the Woodburn Mall, which was great until it started to down pour.  The kids were great, but on the way home they just wanted to be home, so they got a little impatient towards the end of the ride.  That's all for now folks! :-)