Huge Yawn!!
Sisters
Big Brother and Baby Sister
She Loves her Daddy
Sweet, Cuddly baby
Friday, August 24, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
August.....Aaahhhh
It has been a crazy month for us and we're only half way through! We had the end of the school semester.....finally. Joel has been remodeling the bathroom for a few weeks now. It's kinda been like camping. We have never been without a toilet and were only without a shower for two days. He had to go away on a military exercise in the middle of construction. As we speak, he is putting up drywall so we can get this done. While he was away last week, I took on the huge project of re-painting the kids rooms.....what was I thinking? I have a new baby!!! I survived and the rooms got done.
On a less crazy note, Miss Amelia has been in her first stage production! She had just turned 6wks old before opening night. She is playing the baby of Motel & Tsietel in Fiddler on the Roof. She does a great job. Everyone in the cast loves her and she has yet to cry on stage! She was added to the show 3 days prior to opening because Jerry Ellison, the director, hated the prop they were given for the baby. When I offered to bring her every night, he literally giggled. Yes, I made an 80+ yr old man giggle over being able to use my baby. Gotta love Mr E!
We'll see what the rest of the crazy month brings with school, soccer and dance all starting up!
On a less crazy note, Miss Amelia has been in her first stage production! She had just turned 6wks old before opening night. She is playing the baby of Motel & Tsietel in Fiddler on the Roof. She does a great job. Everyone in the cast loves her and she has yet to cry on stage! She was added to the show 3 days prior to opening because Jerry Ellison, the director, hated the prop they were given for the baby. When I offered to bring her every night, he literally giggled. Yes, I made an 80+ yr old man giggle over being able to use my baby. Gotta love Mr E!
We'll see what the rest of the crazy month brings with school, soccer and dance all starting up!
Saturday, July 28, 2012
July....nothing like it!
Well, life with our sweet Amelia is awesome. She is such as good baby! For those who are interested, she only wakes up once or twice a night and pretty much only cries if she is really hungry.
At the beginning of the month, my grandparents drove down from Washington to bless Eva (my sweet niece) and Amelia. My dear friend Debbie made Amelias dress and it is gorgeous. I'll post pictures when I get them. Grandpa and grandma stayed at our house and we had a great time.
For the 4th of July, we went to the Annual Farnsworth Pasture of Fire and had a great time with Joel's family. Good food, good company and great entertainment. I think everyone will agree, the most entertaining was Joel's cousin running around in an American Flag speedo with a water gun. Amelia slept through the fireworks and everyone got their baby fix.
Joel started remodeling the bathroom last weekend and it has become more of project than we had originally hoped. The sub floor was rotted out, the plumbing and electrical were both a mess and it has become quite a stressor. Hopefully, we can get everything done soon. I'm excited to get all of my bathroom stuff out of the girls room when it is all done. I am grateful I haven't had to go without a toilet at all and I was only without a shower for two days.......He'll get it done.
This weekend, my mother in law came to visit from Cali. She stayed with us last night and said having our bathroom the way it is ," is like camping!" I happen to agree. She took us to dinner last night and watched the opening ceremonies with us. Because Joel had drill today, she hung out and got her share of grand baby time. We went to visit Grammie in the nursing home and had a Swenson family get together that was absolutely delightful.
Over the next few days, Joel hopes to finish the bathroom, get the set done for Fiddler on the Roof and has another Military exercise to attend. He's a little stressed but he's awesome. I know he'll make it.
At the beginning of the month, my grandparents drove down from Washington to bless Eva (my sweet niece) and Amelia. My dear friend Debbie made Amelias dress and it is gorgeous. I'll post pictures when I get them. Grandpa and grandma stayed at our house and we had a great time.
For the 4th of July, we went to the Annual Farnsworth Pasture of Fire and had a great time with Joel's family. Good food, good company and great entertainment. I think everyone will agree, the most entertaining was Joel's cousin running around in an American Flag speedo with a water gun. Amelia slept through the fireworks and everyone got their baby fix.
Joel started remodeling the bathroom last weekend and it has become more of project than we had originally hoped. The sub floor was rotted out, the plumbing and electrical were both a mess and it has become quite a stressor. Hopefully, we can get everything done soon. I'm excited to get all of my bathroom stuff out of the girls room when it is all done. I am grateful I haven't had to go without a toilet at all and I was only without a shower for two days.......He'll get it done.
This weekend, my mother in law came to visit from Cali. She stayed with us last night and said having our bathroom the way it is ," is like camping!" I happen to agree. She took us to dinner last night and watched the opening ceremonies with us. Because Joel had drill today, she hung out and got her share of grand baby time. We went to visit Grammie in the nursing home and had a Swenson family get together that was absolutely delightful.
Over the next few days, Joel hopes to finish the bathroom, get the set done for Fiddler on the Roof and has another Military exercise to attend. He's a little stressed but he's awesome. I know he'll make it.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The story of Miss Amelia May Farnsworth
Ok. So, I'm not so good at the blogging thing. With that being said, I'll write a super long post and feel like I'm pretty good at it.
As my due date (June 14th) approached, I continued to get more and more uncomfortable as everyone said I would. I started having contractions on the 13th. I ended up in Labor and Delivery on the monitors, alas, while I was having contractions, they weren't strong enough to keep me. Talk about disappointment! My due date came and went. I continued to have contractions fairly continuously but nothing that I couldn't deal with. Saturday, they intensified and after many hours of timing contractions and being in pain, Joel and I headed to Labor and Delivery. Again, they sent me home. Man, I was not happy!
I woke up on Wednesday, June 20th at 0400 in the morning with much stronger contractions. Finally! I spent the entire day timing them and waiting until they were 3-4 minutes apart before heading to the hospital. We called my best friend Kelsey to come with with JJ and Ana and off we went! This was about 3:30 in the afternoon. I told Joel as we were pulling out of the drive way to not let them send me home this time. (We had our induction scheduled for the next day anyway) Upon arrival at the hospital, my friend Moana was on as a nurse. She gave me a huge hug and got me all set up and checked out. My bag of water had ruptured but not "broken" so they admitted me at about 4:00 pm. Contractions continued to get more painful, the Doc came in and broke my water and started me on Pitocin. Talk about intense! I was dilated to a 4 at this point.
My contractions continued to intensify and they struggled to maintain a good monitoring of her heart beat. The doctor came in an told me that they could do internal monitoring or give me an epidural to help calm her (and me!) down. I opted for the epidural. The lady came in to insert the epidural and struggled to find the space. It took her over 35 minutes to get it placed. I was sitting crosslegged, leaning forward in to Joels chest, getting a needle shoved in my back and having intense contractions. NOT a good combo! She finally got the epidural placed right before I told her to forget it.
They checked me again at this point to see how I was doing. I had dilated to a 7. With the epidural working and what we figured was a long night ahead, Joel and I put a movie on. Within an hour or so I had completely dilated and was ready to push. The problem was, we were waiting for Joels sister to come as she was going to take pictures of the birth for us. The doc said just let him know when she was here and we would start pushing then.
Katie arrived and got everything ready. We got set up and did about ten sets of pushes with the nurse. She got the doctor and on the second set of pushes with him, Miss Amelia May Farnsworth was born. She arrived June 21st at 0031 in the morning. She weighed 7 lbs 2 oz and was 19" long.
As my due date (June 14th) approached, I continued to get more and more uncomfortable as everyone said I would. I started having contractions on the 13th. I ended up in Labor and Delivery on the monitors, alas, while I was having contractions, they weren't strong enough to keep me. Talk about disappointment! My due date came and went. I continued to have contractions fairly continuously but nothing that I couldn't deal with. Saturday, they intensified and after many hours of timing contractions and being in pain, Joel and I headed to Labor and Delivery. Again, they sent me home. Man, I was not happy!
I woke up on Wednesday, June 20th at 0400 in the morning with much stronger contractions. Finally! I spent the entire day timing them and waiting until they were 3-4 minutes apart before heading to the hospital. We called my best friend Kelsey to come with with JJ and Ana and off we went! This was about 3:30 in the afternoon. I told Joel as we were pulling out of the drive way to not let them send me home this time. (We had our induction scheduled for the next day anyway) Upon arrival at the hospital, my friend Moana was on as a nurse. She gave me a huge hug and got me all set up and checked out. My bag of water had ruptured but not "broken" so they admitted me at about 4:00 pm. Contractions continued to get more painful, the Doc came in and broke my water and started me on Pitocin. Talk about intense! I was dilated to a 4 at this point.
My contractions continued to intensify and they struggled to maintain a good monitoring of her heart beat. The doctor came in an told me that they could do internal monitoring or give me an epidural to help calm her (and me!) down. I opted for the epidural. The lady came in to insert the epidural and struggled to find the space. It took her over 35 minutes to get it placed. I was sitting crosslegged, leaning forward in to Joels chest, getting a needle shoved in my back and having intense contractions. NOT a good combo! She finally got the epidural placed right before I told her to forget it.
They checked me again at this point to see how I was doing. I had dilated to a 7. With the epidural working and what we figured was a long night ahead, Joel and I put a movie on. Within an hour or so I had completely dilated and was ready to push. The problem was, we were waiting for Joels sister to come as she was going to take pictures of the birth for us. The doc said just let him know when she was here and we would start pushing then.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Zoo Days
At the gate
Riding the Train
on the Carousel
Being Eagles in the Eagles nest
Thursday, May 31, 2012
JJ's Pinewood Derby
JJ's favorite part of scouts thus far has been the PineWood Derby. Joel and JJ had a great time designing and building his car. He won first place in his den and third place overall!
He also won the award for the most aerodynamic
Anxiously awaiting the cars!
Slipping into summer time : )
We've now had Ana's Pre-K graduation, we've moved rooms in prep for Amelia coming (any day now...), attended the patriotic program for JJ's school, Joel and I helped with field day and today was the official LAST day of JJ's last day of 2nd grade career. He's a happy 3rd grader now! I only say that because he was a little teary at the breakfast table this morning. Seeing as we're slipping right into summer, I thought I'd add some pics I took of the kids a couple weeks ago when we had the slip n slide out....oh, and some of our chickens
Here are some of our chickens. (From L to R: Becky, Bandersnatch(black), White Queen (white), Tweedle Dum, Luna, Queen of Hearts (Brown with white) and the Mad Hatter.)
This was their, "you go" "no, you go"
JJ was the brave one!
Ana was a little more nervous
the cluck clucks hanging out by the sail boat
Our Original Chickens. Affectionately named Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
(Nicknamed Becky, Luna and Darcy)
Of course, Toothless need to keep an eye on everything
JJ's Birthday Party Photos
Here's everyone getting ready for pizza!
Happy Birthday Boy!!
Everyone having a good time....at least that's the impression that I got
Birthday gifts
Birthday cake. I'll tell you what, birthday cupcake cakes are the greatest invention ever!!
Saturday, May 19, 2012
ooops
I didn't do so well at meeting my goal to blog 2x a month in April. However, I have been quite busy. So, here's a mini update. I finished my last day at the hospital the end of April. It has been so nice for me to be home and be a mom for the kids (and getting ready for the new baby). JJ finished soccer for the year. He is getting to be such a talented little player!! I'm proud of him. Ana has graduated from Pre-K. I'll try and get the photos up soon.....hopefully. I have been sewing for a wedding and hopefully, I can be done with that in the next day or so. I was able to have a baby shower with my mom, sisters and friends. This is going to be one spoiled little girl. Joel and I continue to visit the doctor and little Miss Amelia is doing well. She is due in 27 days (I think she'll come before then, Joel thinks she'll be late and 12lbs!!...yeah right) I'll try and be better about getting stuff posted and updated but it'll have to wait until I'm done sewing for this wedding : )
Saturday, April 21, 2012
A little late...but better late than never
I was just online and realized that I hadn't posted yet this month. As my goal for this year is two posts a month, I figured I should get started!
The month started off with Mr. JJ turning 8! We were able to have a little birthday party with some of the little boys in the neighborhood and a few from school. We took them to NickelCity. Holy Hannah!! Joel and I were running around like crazy trying to keep track of 8 little kids. They were all given a bunch of nickels, we had cake, did gifts, had pizza, played in the arcade and had a go in the laser tag arena. I think that the deal we got was pretty sweet. JJ and all of his little buddies seemed to have a good time. I'll add the pictures next time I post.
JJ has continued playing soccer. He has been making at least 5 goals each of his last few games. I am so proud of him!! He also was able to start cub scouts which he seems to enjoy very much. The leaders called me today and said how much they enjoy him and how much fun he has been!
Ana is 5 and growing. She loves spending time with my sisters little one. She's like a little mom and can't wait for her new little sister to come! She has taken an interest in gardening lately and loves to hunt the chickens eggs. (One less thing I have to do!!)
Joel had his birthday this week. He wanted me to mention that he not only fixed the water pressure in the kitchen but replaced the faucet, the disposal, fixed the garden hose, cleaned the chicken coop and the rats cage. I'm so proud!! ; ) He opened another show this week at work. Due to this, his last couple of weeks have been very, very busy as he had quite a few welding projects to tackle. He made a moon that flys in and out and a huge time machine. They are both quite fantastic. He plans to till the garden space tomorrow so that we can get it planted this week. Ana and I are quite excited!
Regarding myself, we are currently down to about 54 days until this new little girl is due to join our family. I am getting a little anxious, a little bigger and quite excited. I put my two weeks notice in at the State Hospital. While I was sad to do it, it is definitely time. 7 years is a long time. I am excited to spend more time at home with the kids and be able to do more mom things. I have some work lined up to do from home and will continue teaching piano lessons.
We have another appointment with the doctor on Monday to check on how little baby girl is doing. I'm sure she's dandy as she continues to wiggle at a pretty constant schedule.
The month started off with Mr. JJ turning 8! We were able to have a little birthday party with some of the little boys in the neighborhood and a few from school. We took them to NickelCity. Holy Hannah!! Joel and I were running around like crazy trying to keep track of 8 little kids. They were all given a bunch of nickels, we had cake, did gifts, had pizza, played in the arcade and had a go in the laser tag arena. I think that the deal we got was pretty sweet. JJ and all of his little buddies seemed to have a good time. I'll add the pictures next time I post.
JJ has continued playing soccer. He has been making at least 5 goals each of his last few games. I am so proud of him!! He also was able to start cub scouts which he seems to enjoy very much. The leaders called me today and said how much they enjoy him and how much fun he has been!
Ana is 5 and growing. She loves spending time with my sisters little one. She's like a little mom and can't wait for her new little sister to come! She has taken an interest in gardening lately and loves to hunt the chickens eggs. (One less thing I have to do!!)
Joel had his birthday this week. He wanted me to mention that he not only fixed the water pressure in the kitchen but replaced the faucet, the disposal, fixed the garden hose, cleaned the chicken coop and the rats cage. I'm so proud!! ; ) He opened another show this week at work. Due to this, his last couple of weeks have been very, very busy as he had quite a few welding projects to tackle. He made a moon that flys in and out and a huge time machine. They are both quite fantastic. He plans to till the garden space tomorrow so that we can get it planted this week. Ana and I are quite excited!
Regarding myself, we are currently down to about 54 days until this new little girl is due to join our family. I am getting a little anxious, a little bigger and quite excited. I put my two weeks notice in at the State Hospital. While I was sad to do it, it is definitely time. 7 years is a long time. I am excited to spend more time at home with the kids and be able to do more mom things. I have some work lined up to do from home and will continue teaching piano lessons.
We have another appointment with the doctor on Monday to check on how little baby girl is doing. I'm sure she's dandy as she continues to wiggle at a pretty constant schedule.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Seabee Ball
Joel and I getting ready to go in to the ball.
He's wearing the accessories for participating in the Color Guard
Presenting of the Colors and the National Anthem
David Seaver, David Foust, Joel and Mark Kennon were the Color Guard.
The Oldest and Youngest Seabee present getting ready to cut the cake together. It is a great tradition! You can see the POW flag/table in the back. In honor of those who are MIA and POW there is always a round table set up with a single red rose, empty glass, a lemon, salt, a bible and with a white table cloth. There is a moment of silence and a tribute read to them at the beginning of every military event like this. It is really a touching moment and a great honor to be present when it is done.
Joel managed to get us the main piece of the cake!
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