Marlee's Birth

Here are some more pictures from the day Marlee was born.

This "belly shot" was actually taken on Mar. 11th, but I like it better than the other "belly shots" we took.

Laboring through the night

Chad getting ready to sleep on the couch bed. During the night while I was having contractions I would look over at him sleeping and think, this is not fair!

A few minutes after birth

The scale says 7 lbs 6.8 oz

Proud parents

After Marlee arrived Chad had to answer a few work calls.

Bryant's Surgery

Bryant had surgery to repair a hernia on March 19th.

Bryant liked the cows that were in front of the entrance

Dressed in his hospital attire

Playing with toys while we waited

Bryant got to decorate his mask with stickers and practice breathing deeply into it.

The surgery is over and was successful!!

Marlee Sanders

Here are some pictures of Marlee. She was born yesterday, March 27th, at 8:34 am. She weighed 7lbs 6.8 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long. She has light colored hair that may have a bit of red, we're not sure yet. We just came home from the hospital this afternoon and are doing well. Spencer and Bryant are so happy to have her home, and Karalee is warming up to her. She doesn't like the fact that Marlee takes so much of my attention, but she loves to give her kisses.

Karalee jumping

Yesterday was the first time Karalee was not scared to death of jumping on the trampoline. Here are a few pictures and a short video. (Sorry the video isn't that great. I was using my phone)

Family Home Evening visiting Joseph

Last night for Family Home Evening we went to visit Joseph's graveside. We visit every year on his birthday. This year we went a little early just in case I happen to have my baby before or on his birthday, which is this Thursday. (I keep hoping the baby will come by then.) I gave a short lesson on what happens to our spirits and our bodies when we are born, when we die, and when we are resurrected. Then we ate cookies and my Mom, who joined us for the evening, helped us find her parents grave. It was a nice evening.

Bryant, Spencer, and Karalee sitting around Joseph's headstone.

My Grandpa and Grandma Skouson's headstone

My Mom looking at her parents headstone.

What my kids think of me

I saw this on my cousin's facebook page so I thought I would try it. It was really fun to see what my kids think of me.

Directions: Copy this note, ask your kid the questions and write down the answers exactly as they say them.

1. What is something mom always says to you?
Spencer: I love you
Bryant: I love you

2. What makes mom happy?
Spencer: When I tell you that I love you
Bryant: When I say you’re beautiful

3. What makes mom sad?
Spencer: When I spit in Bryant’s face and I don’t get the play the wii
Bryant: When I hit you

4. How do you make your mom laugh?
Spencer: When I tell you funny jokes from my joke book.
Bryant: By silly jokes

5. What was your mom like as a child?
Spencer: A cowgirl
Bryant: A cowgirl

6. How old is your mom?
Spencer: 29
Bryant: I don’t know

7. How tall is your mom?
Spencer: I don’t know
Bryant: I don’t know

8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Spencer: Play with me
Bryant: Play the wii with Dad and me and Spencer

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
Spencer: Play with Karalee and Bryant
Bryant: I don’t know

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Spencer: I don’t know
Bryant: Not good

11. What is your mom really good at?
Spencer: Loving me
Bryant: I don’t know

12. What is your mom not very good at?
Spencer: Not loving me
Bryant: Winning on Mario Party 8 games

13. What does your mom do for her job?
Spencer: Pick me up from school.
Bryant: Clean our bathrooms

14. What is your mom's favorite food?
Spencer: Chinese food
Bryant: Pina Colada

15. What makes you proud of your mom?
Spencer: Being a good mom
Bryant: I don’t know

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Spencer: “Cat in the Hat, he’s kind of funny”
Bryant: A ninja turtle

17. What do you and your mom do together
Spencer: Play games
Bryant: Play Mario party 8

18. How are you and your mom the same?
Spencer: We have the same skin
Bryant: I don’t know

19. How are you and your mom different?
Spencer: We don’t have the same color of hair
Bryant: I am a boy and you are a girl

20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Spencer: Cause when I was sad you sat down and told me to come rock with you for a little while.
Bryant: Cause you love me

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
Spencer: Panda Express
Bryant: On a walk

New Phone, Walks, Gardening, Train ride

Chad and I got new cell phones about a week ago when we renewed our contract. We are excited that the new phones have a camera and an MP3 player in them. Now we can take pictures of our kids almost anywhere since we carry our phones with us most of the time.

My old phone is on the left, the shiny blue one is my new phone.

These are the pictures I took to use as screen savers on my phone.

We have also been taking walks quite a bit for my exercise since the weather is so nice. Our route is around 2 miles and takes about 30 minutes. The kids are such troopers to stay back with their slow Mommy. I keep my phone with me in case I unexpectedly go into labor and so I can keep them entertained by taking their picture. I am determined to keep exercising through this whole pregnancy in hopes that it will make my delivery go more smoothly.

Karalee is learning so many nice things from her brothers!

We got our garden planted yesterday. (Chad tried to get it ready for us last Saturday, but he hit our waterline on accident and then spent lots of time repairing it. After it was fixed we had to let everything dry out for a week.) We planted 7 tomato plants, some green onion seed, jalapeno seed, Anaheim chili seed, yellow squash seeds, and zucchini seeds in the garden, then we also planted cilantro seed in a little planter, one strawberry plant in a planter (we aren't sure if it is the right time for strawberries) and some cucumber seed in our flower bed in the front yard. (I haven't felt like getting on my knees while pregnant to plant flowers.) We planted lots of cucumbers. I hope to learn to bottle pickles when they are ready, especially my mom's bread and butter pickles.

This afternoon Chad pulled the kids around on a blanket train ride for awhile. They loved it!