Halloween

Lilly got to go Trick or treating 4 times this year, Lucky girl.  So she had lots of fun.  She was a Butterfly/fairy thing and Caroline was a pumpkin.  We also recently celebrated my Birthday and our 6 year anniversary by going to the cheesecake factory.  So much fun!!

 Nate and I were Katniss and Peeta from the Hunger games.  We had fun dressing up with the girls.

Heading to the Cheesecake factory.

Lilly has so much hair for her age.  But I had fun curling it and making it Beautiful!

Lately

So we haven't updated in awhile.  I just thought I would post a few pics.  Nothing to new is going on with us lately.  This is a cut picture of Caroline doing what she loves to do best scoot around the house.  She is almost crawling at 5 months.

Lilly turned three on September 26!  We went to the park and to Mcdonalds and had a bday party at grandmas!  Now she just needs to get potty trained. Its been a challenge!

My two beautiful girls!

Here they are again.  Lilly loves to hold her babysister and play with her.  I have to remind her to be gentle!  The other night Caroline was laughing at Lilly, it was too cute!

Preschool

Lilly was excited for her first day of Preschool.  I don't know how I feel about it but I didn't cry!  She liked wearing her new dress!

I got this cute idea from my sis-in-law. 

She hasn't learned how to take pictures yet!

Olympics!!

I Love the Olympics!!  When its olympics time I always throw a party and have a great time.  It is my goal to make it to see an olympics sometime in my life. I know I'm weird but I just love cheering on the USA!!

My sign (lilly helped)

Lilly's pretty hair

My medals for the games we played.

Some of our food and getup

My cupcakes that I learned to make from Pinterest

Nate making our Fish, it was soooo Good!!  I've had real fish and chips from England and these

tasted just like them!!

Here are our Fish and chips

My mom and sisters and I dressed in our tshirts, we tried making them but they didn't turn out

so we got these from JCpenney

My cool socks!!

GO TEAM USA!!!

Pinterest

So I love Pinterest.  I have found so many fun recipes and craft ideas.  Most of which have turned out great.  But I decided to try these cookies for Nate for Father's day.  It didn't work at all.  The top cookie fell off so then it was just big marshmellow blobs.  They still taste good but sometime things aren't what they seem.

Caroline's Blessing an tornado

So its been awhile since I last posted.  I guess i've been busy. I must say taking care of 2 kids is hard.  I can't complain to much b/c so many people have been in my situation but it certainly takes patience.  Lilly was doing good with Caroline but all of a sudden she won't stop crying and she wants nate and I to hold her all the time.  Its getting kind of annoying!  But I'm hoping it won't last long.

This is Caroline, we think shes pretty cute!

Its hard to believe that Lilly used to be that small

So last weekend you might have heard that we had some tornados by us.  That night there were actually 6 tornados that touched down all through colorado. So here are my Roses before the storm.  I've never seen hail like that in all my life, pretty scary!  Lilly was crying and hid under the couch cushions and wouldn't come out.  I didn't know there was a Tornado that close to us (2miles north) until after, I'm really glad we didn't know until after b/c I would have been freaking out!

After the storm I looked and there was this Bright blue sky just south of us.  So weird!

My roses after the storm!

This weekend Nate's mom cam out for Caroline's blessing.  It was fun having her here all to ourselves. 

The girls beforehand

Our little family

Nate's mom and us

My family

My dad and Nate

It was a great weekend!  Thanks Grandma Smith for coming to see us!

Caroline Elaine

Caroline Elaine Born April 30 2012 @12:12pm

Lilly and baby sister

She looks so much like lilly did

I think Lilly is still wondering when baby is going to leave, she doesn't quite get it

My mom and Baby

Going home

We arrived at the Hospital at 6:30 am to start getting induced.  After I got all checked in the doctor broke my water at 7:40 am.  I was already dialated to 3-4 cm.  I didn't want to have pitocin at first b/c I wanted to see if my body would do it on its own.  After 2 hours I was only dialated to 4-5cm.  So I said ok we can start on a low dose of Pitocin. I didn't want an epidural to soon b/c then it would slow down my labor and I didn't want that.  I really didn't want to be in labor all day.  I was in labor with Lilly for 13 hours and I just wanted this to go faster (famous last words).  So they checked me about an 1.5 later and my contractions had started picking up and I was having some pain!!  I was dialated at a 6cm so I said alright I want my epidural now.  I was not planning on doing this natural at all.  I had no desire to be in that kind of pain and I wanted this to not tramatize me.  So they said it could take up to an hour for the anethiesiologist to get there b/c they were busy this morning with surgery and other deliveries.  So by this point I was crying and I actually have a very high pain tolerance so for me to break down and start crying means I was really hurting.  So 20 mins went by I went into the bathroom to go and I came back and told the nurse I felt a lot of pressure down there.  So she checked me again and said well you are ready to push.  Just then the anthesiologist walked in.  The nurse said you do not have time to get an epidural now.  I think just the fact that I had no intention of doing this w/out an epidural really scared me.  It was probably one of the scariest moments of my life when the nurse said ok you are going to have to do this on your own.  So the doctor wasn't there yet and the nurse was holding the baby in b/c I was ready.  I remember thinking ok just get her out then the pain will go away.  So I pushed once and she was out!!  I told nate I was not going to have to push again.  My mom was able to be there with me so I was really thankful that she was there b/c I needed all the support I could get to know that I could do this.  So my labor was 4.5 hours but the worst part was probably the last hour.  I must say everybody kept telling me the recovery is better for you and the baby and they were right.  I do feel so much better than when I had Lilly.  Now I can say I did it w/out drugs (not intentional of course).  We'll see what I decide to do for my next baby.  But I am a little traumatized not going to lie.  I'm just glad it was fast and we are doing great!

We chose Elaine as Caroline's middle name b/c it was Nate's grandma's name.  I like to name my kids after family.  Lilly was named after my grandma.  Caroline weighed 7lbs 8 oz and 20.5 inches long.  She weighed almost a whole pound more and 2 inches longer than Lilly.  They look very much alike.  Which really surpises me b/c Nate and I are like total opposite in our looks but shes cute we'll keep her!!  I am so grateful for a safe, fast delivery and a healthy baby!!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!! I love easter, being able to remember our Savior on such a special day! I am so grateful for the atonement and the resurrection! I also love all the fun things to do! We took Lilly to an easter egg hunt in town and it was so crowded!! There was probably 2,000 kids there. Lilly thought it was fun to pick up eggs with treats inside. Luckily she got about 10, some kids didn't get any.

Lilly's loot, I like to get her a new Easter Dress every year!


Surprise, she was excited to get her prizes!


Before the Hunt


During the Hunt


After the hunt


Easter Morning, Lilly loves to wear hats! She wore this hat the entire time at church I was very impressed!


Me on easter morning


So I really wanted a picture of all us on Easter b/c we all got new clothes and I was so excited to show us off. Except when we took this picture I looked at it and thought hmm.... I look like a whale! I know every pregnant women feels like that.


THis is another sideview of me. I had some people asking me for some pictures, so there you go!



So I am 35 weeks pregnant. I went into the doctor on thursday (I see the doctor 2-3 times a week) for an ultrasound(I get 1 ultrasound a week). About this same time with Lilly my amniotic fluid started going down. But so far this pegnancy has been great but then I went in on Thursday and guess what, my fluid is going down like with Lilly. So now I get 2 ultrasounds a week instead of one to watch my fluid levels. I am grateful that my doctors are keeping a close eye on it but its still kind of stressful. So I'm drinking water like crazy to hopefully keep it up until 37 weeks when the doctor will hopefully induce me. She said if it doesn't stay up I will have to be hospitalized to try IV hydration to try and get me to 37 weeks. So I should only have 2 more weeks left. I'm grateful for that but I worry a lot! I was just thinking about all the stuff I need to get done before I have this little one.

Happy Easter