Annie Banannie

Our little Annie chose to come on her own terms. Because of my insurance switching, I was not told about a different due date. Five weeks before she was due, my new doctor moved my due date back a week. Boo. For two weeks I was thinning and slowly dilating. I reached my due date and was ready for little Annie to come. I tried everything; walking, spicy foods, jumping jacks, speed bumps and even castor oil ... nothing worked. The last week I had a lot of Braxton hicks. I went to my doctors appointment on Wednesday and was 70 percent thinned and dilated to 1.5. I was having irregular contractions. Thursday I took Porter to a friend's house so I could go to a non-stress test. During that time I had some good contractions, but nothing regular. Annie looked great and because she was pretty much as low as she could be without falling out, they guessed that I was about dilated to a 2 and 75 percent thinned. Because I was a week late I felt if she did not come in the next couple days I would want to be induced, so I scheduled an induction for Saturday morning. I picked Porter up and by 1:30 I had Porter down for a nap and was laying in bed, hoping for a nap. I started to get stronger contractions, but regular enough. Porter was awake by 3 and so I pulled him in bed with me and some crackers and we watched cartoons until daddy got home at 5:30. During this time my contractions were every 10-12 minutes apart. I stayed in bed until just before 8, which I made my way to Olive Garden for a girl's dinner (I know, crazy, huh. I desperately wanted their Pear and Gorgonzola Ravioli). During the just over an hour I was gone I had 6-7 contractions, but it was worth every single bite. After arriving home about 9:15 I laid in bed until 10. I took a good long hot shower and blow dried my hair. Eleven I was lying in bed, still having strong contractions. I woke Job up at about 1:15 in the morning and told him to call his brother to come over. My contractions to every 5-6 minutes, for a half hour. I knew I could last until they got to our house, about another half hour. Job got up and started to get dressed. He put on a white shirt and I remember staring at him like he was crazy, which he then told me he had to look good for the little girl. He just wanted to see how alert I was. He changed. By 2 Joseph and Kelly were there and we arrived at Labor and Delivery around 2:20. It took the doctor an hour to check me, I think it was because they thought I was too calm to really be in labor. At 3:20 I was dilated to an 8 and 95 percent thinned. Ten minutes later, before the IV was in, I felt like I had to push. My water broke. They checked me and I was ready, but they were not. Annie had pooped and so they had to bring in extra staff in for her. She was born, not crying, at 3:54 in the morning on February 18. The umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck, twice, which I did not know until the next day. Crazy Job did not want me to worry. She was beautiful an healthy and has been since.











What a beautiful girl. We love you Annie. Happy birthday.
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Baby Hyrum

Job's little brother Joseph and his wife Kelly had their firstborn, Hyrum Joseph, a month ago. He is such a cutie and the kids LOVE him. I took some pictures of him and here are a few.





Porter loves, loves, loves him. He is always near him and talks to him about baseball.





Annie just loves babies and always seems ready to bounce when Hyrum is near.











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Just a Little Bit of Fun

We have been finding new things to do lately. I bought a 6 play pass to Seascape with a friend and we took our kids the other week. Lots of fun and totally worth it. We loaded this air thing with balls, except it would not work and so we had to add a little at a time and ....


They all went bonkers ...


And Porter loved it.


I did not believe that Porter was climbing this up,


Only to go down the other side again and again.


He also loved this huge slide as well.


They had these guns that you shoot the balls from.


Annie loved playing with the balls and going down the slide.


One of Porter and Annie's favorite thing to do now is play in boxes. They fight over who can or cannot play in it.


We went to the Irvine Zoo this last week with some friends. Here is Andrew with one of the peacocks. The kids loved them and tried chasing one around in the park.


Just my cute son.


Measuring up to the barn owl.


Combing the goats hair.


Megan, Porter, Annie and Ryan.


Mommy and Annie


We also rode on a train


And Porter rode on Dolly the pony.





I loved listening to Porter tell his daddy all about his day at the zoo and all the fun things he did there. I love taking him out and having him remember everything. Here the kids are reading books before bedtime one night.


Just together


We built a fort under our table one day and the kids ate fishies and read books and played all day under it.



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