It's all good.

Have you ever been so tired you sorta wanna cry? Yeah, me too! (That is one of my excuses of not posting sooner).
Actually I can't complain. She is an excellent little baby! She eats good, she sleeps ALL the time, the only thing I have found she isn't fond of is cold wipes on her little bum.
I really am grateful she is such a sweet little lady cuz it has been a rough ride for Momma Bear (aka ME!)
I nursed both the boys. With the first it took a few weeks but we got it down and it was a good experience and we continued til he was 9 months. #2 was a rather painful experience BUT he refused a bottle so through the blood and tears we kept on clear til 8 months! Now with number 3 I thought I had things figured out.... apparently not. With in the first few hours of her life I realized it was going to be a painful thing and boy was I right! I will spare everyone the details (mainly for Russell's sake). I will just tell you this... I would rather give birth every day for the rest of this year than breast feed 1 more day.... I am not a cryer, and I was crying every time I fed or thought about feeding!
So, I decided to use the pump and see if that helped. Sure did! I thought "Yes, I can be normal again!" Then with little warning... BAM got hit with Mastitis! I was achy, shaky, fevery, migraney, and just not loving it.
Luckily I have a fantastic husband and great friends and family to help me out with the boys to get me through it and today I feel pretty darn good!
OK I will get to the good part now that I have bored you all with my sob story. Pictures of the little lady! At her 3 week apt. (well 2 week that turned into 3 weeks) she weighed 7 lbs and 8ounces and grew a few inches! 21".

Headed home....

Don't worry everyone, I won't be posting pictures of each and every day of Mia's life. But come on, she is my first girl and wanted to remember the exciting day we got to go home and enjoy her there!






The boys are just eating her up! Coley tells her he loves her about every 20 minutes. Daws checks on her to see if she has both eyes open and she usually does not. She is a sleeper (which i guess they all are at this age) She has given us 6 hours straight all 3 nights of her life....it has been lovely! I esp. love her "cha cha cha" pic up above.

Meet Miss Mia

Here she is.... our new little addition to our family! She is already so sweet we (Daws and Cole)can't get enough loves and kisses!
She has quite an interesting hair line, but hey, I am just pumped she has hair!! (both boys had zilch) The top will grow in quite nicely I am sure! Bows and headbands will definitely come in handy! Here are a few snap shots of her first day (few hours).
Oh yeah, her stats were ...
born March 21st
9:30am
6 pounds 11 ounces
19 inches long

I will have to give more details for those of who wanna know how it all went down...but for now I am too tired, things hurt, I am a bit dizzy, and need to change a few things..... so hold tight til tomorrow please!

(pics via ger-bear)

The Name Game...

We are STRUGGLING to figure out a name for this little lady! She is coming soon too so it has me all stressed out! (dilated to a 3 this morning at my apt)
We have been back and forth so many times and thought our mind has been made up several times but then we go back to our list and start all over! Ughhhh
So here we are asking for your advice!!

Please pick your top favorites and feel free to add any suggestions you may think we ought to consider..... (sorry Aunt Grace, Lane says No Way on CoCoa)

Mia..... (like the way it sounds a lot with our last name)
Lucy... (it is my mom's name and oh so cute)
Lilly.... (Lane has really taken a liking to this one lately)
Reese.... (So cute but Lane grew up next to a boy named that and so he isn't so sure)
Ellie.... (has always been my girls name, but Lane isn't as excited about it as I am)
Emmie.... (sweet but may sound like a nick name??)

So that is our list... and a little more info than I am sure ya needed, but hey, that is how I roll...

I think I must be ready to have this baby.

I am not a very emotional person. I may be a little dramatic but not emotional.
Today with in an hour of each other I broke down twice....

The first time was when I was following the school bus that Dawson will be riding next year. I was doing just fine as we stopped behind it for the first 5 stops but then when we got to our sub division and it stopped and the cute little kids came cruising off, I lost it! I said in a real shaky voice, "hey daws, that is the bus you are going to ride next year!" and he smiled huge and said "It is? Yay!" I am glad he is excited, I really am.

The second is when I opened up a package from my mother and father in law. I knew what it was but I was still excited to open it. When I did, and pulled out the precious blessing dress, bracelet, and head band, and booties... sure enough I was visiting water works again! Thanks you guys! It really is such a sweet little set! (I forgot to mention that Kitty said that the lady who crochet this, it took her 50 hours plus!)

One last thing.... It feels so nice outside today. There really isn't any sun but I didn't wear a coat or a scarf! That too almost brought me to tears! Then I treated myself to a fountain soda and called it a GREAT day!

A little rundown....

As I was adding pics from the camera to the computer I realized that during my blog hiatus I hadn't posted hardly 1 pic in the December month.

We hit up Chuckee Cheese on one of our trips down to Utah....decisions, decisions.

We had a great time and think we did what we came to do.... get them good and tired!

Still in Utah, these boys played PBS kids and Playhouse Disney a ton...
Good thing they both had their "own" computer!

Ummmmm boys are weird...
(Gotta love Iggy's)

This little guy went through a streak where he was so stinken kissy! looooong ones too!

Of course we saw Santa.

Cole told me he was a fake.

Lane and the boys did a great job on their gingerbread house....while I was working.

Go Cart anyone?

Aghhhh.... this fake bear is trying to steal me and my soda!

A few rounds of bowling.... ya gotta love small town bowling alleys.

This isn't my kid... it must be Brittany Spears. Ok he is mine but he didn't learn that from me!

We seriously play football daily in our house. When I say we, I mean the 3 boys.

We baked a lot of goodies and holiday treats!

Got attacked by this weird gorilla!

And rode animals on our safari.

Ate some delicious food at Harley Davidson's in Lindon... YUM!

Tried on the helmets for size.

Played in the snow quite a bit.

I forgot to take a picture of their fort/igloo they built.... even had a window!

Don't ya hate it when.....

You CAN'T fall asleep! Ughhhh If you aren't in the mood for a little complaining than I suggest you mosey on over to someone else's blog.
It is just one of those nights when you can not find a cozy spot on your pillow. You are smoken hot and than the next minute you are searching for your covers.

(pretty bold of me to take this shot of myself I know.)

I have about 10 weeks left of pregnancy and am starting to realize that I oughta start slowing down a smidge. I went to my doc appointment last week to find out that I was extremely low in iron. THAT explains the exhaustion, the zero energy, the dizziness, the shortness of breath, and the real hard mornings (getting up that is)! I am now on iron supplements and trying to eat more like an anemic person, but I am still tired....
OK. That is all I really wanted to complain about. I am sure I will have a better attitude in the morning. I have a pretty full day of appointments so that always helps me forget about "poor me" and keeps me going!
Thanks for listening if you are still here.
I am now going to give this sleep thing another try.... wish me luck!
(if you are wondering the time it is 1:26am)

It happened.....

This morning my 5 year old decided he was going to run away! What? My kid? Why would my kid EVER want to run away from his dear, sweet, fabulous mother??
Yeah well it went like this.
He wakes up with a stretch, a hug, and a "good morning!" So I am thinking we are off to a good start. (til i looked further in the kitchen to see cole rummaging through the candy drawer for a dove choco bar)
I then say pick out which cereal you guys want cuz I don't have very much time to do breakfast. I hear the usual, "we want swedish pancakes!" over and over. Then they realize, it ain't going to happen.
So Daws goes into our pantry to look over the selection of "other" food that we have cuz he apparently doesn't want cereal and decides he wants Otter pops. Not the ones in the freezer, the ones in the box waiting to be frozen. I of course tell him no, that is not going to pass as his breakfast. He shuts himself in the pantry moping and I go take a shower.
Cole comes in to tell me that Dawson is in the garage and he is leaving! I told him to tell him to come talk to me first. Cole came back and apparently Daws didn't want to talk to me cuz he wasn't coming in and so Cole told him to go and don't forget his scarf.
(ok geesh, this is getting long....sorry)
I decided not to feed into Daws dramatic situation and went about my morning and eventually he came in and said "MOM! Do you know why I was in the garage?" I said, ummm cuz you were going to run away? And he shook his head yes and told me it was cuz he deserved a GOOD mom that would let him have a melted popsicle for breakfast.
Then he says to me "if you want me to go I still will" I sat there on the end of the bed thinking. After a few seconds he says, "OR, if you want me to stay i will unpack my stuff"
Sorry but I started laughing.... "unpack what?" I asked. He took his pillow case and dumped out the pillow and filled it with a few stuffed animals, a bat, and an etch a sketch.
I then told him I didn't want him to go and he should unpack cuz our family wouldn't be a happy family with out him. So he did, and he has been in a good mood ever since!

(pic of dropping daws off at school. obviously this was taken before the freezing white wonderland approached us. couldn't find a pic of daws riding solo.... these two cubs are usually together)

Green Bay Packer Lady

For those of you that assumed the rather strong girl in a Green Bay Packer Santa hat pushing our van out of the snow was Audrey, shame on you. She is way more classy she would be wearing an Indianapolis Colts hat or something.
One more Christmas memory for you and I will be done posting for a while. We had our Christmas presents under the tree in our formal living room, but because of limited space Santa moved everything to our living room by the fireplace. Dawson woke up way early in the morning and ran to the tree only to return to our room with his head down to go back to sleep. Then when they woke up again at 7:30, Cole ran to the tree and just looked around like, not only did Santa not come, but somebody took all of the presents that we had before? Then Dawson says to Cole, "I already know Cole, Santa didn't bring us any presents", assuming that he must of been naughty. Any ways it was hilarious and it made it the best Christmas ever for us, well at least us parents.

Lane

Are you kidding me?

So last night as Lane was being a fantastic husband and posting since I have been telling him I have just been in the biggest blog bog ever, I head into the kitchen to get some tums for my HORRIBLE heart burn that I experience every single day multiple times but esp. when I lay down for the evening.
I had just used the last of the big bottle in my bedroom and was bummed when I had to walk ALL the way to the kitchen to get my next bottle. NONE! That is right, GONE! What the freak am I to do?? There is a hole being burned into my throat/chest/back area and I don't even have a rescue. I live in a small town that has no grocery store possibilities after 11pm. Fear no more my friends, I picked up a el grande bottle today cuz I never want to experience a night like last night again-ever!