Friday, September 26, 2014

Meeting cute Kenton!!


Check out my adorable nephew Kenton James!!!  I was SOOO thrilled to be able to go and visit my sister and this little guy a few weeks ago!  He was supposed to only be 5 days old when I got there...but he was actually 6 weeks old!  It was torture to wait that long to get out there but it was so nice he was home from the hospital now and my sis and I could just snuggle him all day.  He really is so stinkin' cute and I LOVE seeing my little sis as a mom.  She is GREAT!!  We pretty much just sat and talked and snuggled the whole time I was there!  We managed to venture out on a few shopping trips as well..and I also got to see the rest of my fam so that was a bonus too! :) 
Here is Kenny babes snugglin' with his cousin.  It was so crazy cuz when I'd lay him on me like this, my baby girl would move and kick a bunch!  Can't wait for them to actually meet and play together!!!  

I don't think she loves him one bit.  :)  Haha!  

Cute sis even made me a little welcome sign in the guest room. :) 

 LOVE HOLDING HIM!!!  


 Boy clothes kill me!  Little suspenders! :)
Here I am at 33 weeks with my sis.  Crazy that now I'm 35 weeks and that's when Kenton was born!!

Little update on baby girl -  I am feeling great for the most part!  Sometimes I don't feel pregnant except for the fact that she is super crazy lady in my belly!  She is VERY active and will wake me up multiple times in the night already. :)  Sometimes I don't know if she's still at all the WHOLE day.  My doctor says my lining is probably really thin from being stretched out with the girls and so I do feel everything!  I LOVE feeling her move!  There really is nothing like it...and yet I wonder if she's going to be this active when she's born!  We'll see!  Guess she does have three older sisters to keep up with!  I do have quite a bit of Braxton Hicks contractions which I didn't have (or didn't know I was having) with the girls.  Usually a few every day...and then like once a week I have a "rougher" day where I have a lot of contractions in a row that don't make me feel the best and then I get anxiety thinking she's going to come or something but then they always die down.  Thankfully!  Otherwise I feel good and love being prego!  I'm trying to savor every minute!  So I'm due October 28...going to attempt a VBAC unless she's breech or humungous or late (I can't be induced).  So....I'm just so curious and excited for when and how she will arrive!  The girls' bday is the 3rd, Ryan's the 11th....and once we get through their birthdays I will be ready to go anytime! :)  I feel like the 22nd would be a great day to have her...but it will probably be any day OTHER than that day.  Haha.  :)  I just can't get over how much I love this little one already.  In some ways I feel like she is my first just because there has been a 7 year gap and because there is so much that I didn't do with that girls that I can do with her!  And we might be in trouble since I find myself saying "I could never buy THREE of those..but just ONE is fine! :)"  Uh oh! :)
The other day I started prepping the girls that it's getting closer to the end and one day they could come home from school and I won't be here because I'll be in the hospital or they'll wake up and I won't be here..etc.. As I said that, Emily got a huge smile on her face and like tears in her eyes from PURE excitement.  Like I said, this little girl is LOVED SO MUCH! 

Friday, September 5, 2014

30 week pics/1st grade/and Babymoon!

Can't keep up with posting these days so this is just a hodge podge of pics! :)
Here I am at 30 weeks (I'm 32 now)... but I had to take this pic because I remember that the pic below it was when I was 30 weeks with the triplets and the last pic I have of me being prego with them as I had them a few days later!  I definitely feel smaller this time around and I'm so thankful I'm to 32 weeks now which was the end goal for the girlies!  So excited to meet this little one!  





My babies started 1st grade already!  Time is just FLYING!  And they are looking and acting SO big!  They were so excited to go to school again and are loving it!  This year was an easier adjustment for me than last year!



My Addy girl
 Em...
 Hailey - her splint comes off tomorrow!  Woohoo!
 Then....my amazing hubby works hard for a great company that gives any employee who works there for 10 years a 2 month paid sabbatical.  Wha - what you say?!  Yeah!  We can't believe it either!  But believe me we've been thinking and planning this trip since the day he got the job! :)  (Well actually we were planning on going on a Mediterranean Cruise but then God had better plans for me to get prego instead so I'll take that!) So....we decided to go on a baby moon instead!  So..the girlies headed off to first grade and we headed off to the East Coast for a week!  Thanks SOO much to my great in-laws for their willingness to watch the girls!  Here we are on Marconi Beach in Cape Cod.  BEAUTIFUL!  Cape Cod was super relaxing and quaint and just perfect. We checked out Provincetown and drove all around the Cape...it was a great start to the trip!
 Then we headed to Boston but on our way we stopped in Plymouth to see the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock and tour a little Pilgrim museum.  It was interesting!
 And yep! It's a rock! :)
 Then we got to Boston and ate a lot of great Italian food....we also checked out Harvard which was more like a city than a college to us!  Couldn't believe all the people there and we were amazed by it all!  Here's my Harvard catch. :)

We did a Duck tour which was pretty entertaining and educational too.  :)  All over Boston...I'd recommend it if you ever go!  Saw all sorts of historical stuff!
 Top of the Hub for some A/C :) and dessert - beautiful amazing city!
 Then we took the train to New York City!  I've never been there before!  And wow!  Quite the chaos there!  Couldn't believe all the taxi's and how different my life is compared to the people who live there!  It made me appreciate my kind of chaos at home with kiddos more so than the chaos of the big city.  I definitely couldn't live there but it was really fun to visit!! Our view of Time Square from our hotel...
 We checked out Rockefeller Center and the Today Show
 We took a ferry ride out to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island...and here is a pic of the Freedom Tower...
 God Bless America!  Felt so blessed and proud to be a part of our great country!
 Ryan was pumped to see the Bull....
 and I was pumped to pose with my friend George Washington (We have the same birthday) :)
 The Freedom Tower again...this time from the Memorial site...
 One of the two pools symbolizing where the 2 trade center towers fell...
 One of the things anyone who goes to NYC should do would be to go through the new 9/11 Museum.  It is incredible all of the things they have in there and quite the amazing tribute to the people that died...we were in there for 4 hours and could have stayed even longer.  It was so interesting and just unbelievable.  You can hear phone calls of people calling their families from the plane...and you can see SOOO much stuff found in the rubble...and I can't even explain it all.  You just gotta go.  You can't take pics in most areas but they did let you take a few pics of some stuff.  This was the last tower standing from the World Trade Center so all the relatives of the deceased left notes on it and stuff...all so  unbelievable.  Highly recommend checking it out!
 We also visited the Live with Kelly and Michael show!  It was hilarious and so much fun to be at a live show!

Blake Shelton even came as a surprise guest and I'm a big fan so that was fun to hear a couple songs!! :)

Then we headed over to Central Park.  It was 91 degrees and HUMID.  But SUCH a beautiful park and I have done a record amount of walking!! :)

Then our last night we hit up the Phantom of the Opera.  Great show with a great man!  Love you Ry!!