catch up...

Ok so here is the last three weeks in a nut shell. about three weeks ago my mom came into town for Risa to have her baby. the Dr. Made it seem like her might get her going soon but her didnt. We all spent the next week at my house playing the waiting game for the little Ivie to get here. It was fun to spend family time together. Finally on thursday she had another apointment and the Dr said she was ready...but her told her he was going to schedule her for induction and sent her home much to our dissapointment. He set the date for saturday...we were glad because that would make it so Jennie could come( but later it didnt work out..). $ am saturday morning came early and we were off to the hospital to have the baby. Risa was in good spirits s the baby was taking up so much of her abdomin that she was stugggling to breath, eat, sit, stand and lay...but that is all!!!

Her Dr is awesome she got an epidural on a drip and she slept through all of labor and by 4
;15 she was ready to push. we waited about 20 mins fr the Dr and then pushing lasted about an hour and a half...I got to be on her right side holding her leg....it was a new experience for me...

She was such a big baby she wasn't coming out on her own very well. Risa did great. Finally the Dr stepped in and helped and wow she was a big girl.

After Risa's Uterus didn't want to clamp down and she lost a lot of blood it scared me a LOT!!! it took her body about 12 hours to finally clamp down they got the initial bleed stopped but she had a laps in the night...the Dr were worried and kept her at the hospital for several day to keep a watch on her.

She finally came home about 4 days after delivering. She is happy to be home and sleeping and recovering fro the blood loss...and new lack of sleep that wakes her in the night...

I sadly dont have pictures due to the fact that my sister cameras batteries dies so I gave them mine...considering it was their child....

A few days latter I got REALLY sick and was down and out for a week solid and I am finally feeling better. I am still really tired and have the all so fun lingering cough but happy to not feel like a truck hit me anymore!!!

Ella is loving school and seems to be learning well. She is in an all Day kindergarten and being there all day wears her out in the end but I thing it is just what she needed...she learns really well withe her teacher!

Brandon is still getting use to Ella going to School but isn't crying everytime we leave her... However last week when we dropped her off he said "ok lets got to Menas house now mom"! (Mena is what he calls my sister Jennie....I laughted he is a funny guy she lives 2 hours away.)

other than that We are up to our normal everyday activities. Sorry it took me so long to Update it has been crazy getting use to a new schedule.

The first day is the hardest...For mom!( and maybe Brandon too)

Ella in one of her uniforms for school. She is so happy to be going to school. She loves being social and her teacher. she came home telling interesting stories about how they went swimming and did laundry. How ever the early morning thing is not Ella's favorite the fact that she is big enough to go to school gets her up and going!

Brandon is getting use to an early schedule we found him in his room at 10:30 sleep under a plastic drawer rack...Weird BUT funny!!!

Brandon does ask all day where Ella is. He hasn't been with out her his whole life so this is an adjustment for us all!

strange Ella's excited and I am nervous!

so the count down begins...2 and a half weeks to go and Ella starts school. she is so happy and I am nervous for her. I just want her to be ready and able and to make friends and love school. She thinks it is soo cool to start kindergarten. she is only 4 and she so little.

WE got all her school needs and now we have to get all her uniforms and shoes. I am not sure how much she is going to love the uniform thing...cuz she likes her clothes!!!

I guess it is mom jitters!!!

Fun with Jessie...

We had a lot of fun with Jessie here. We started off her stay with a bang! She lost her tooth on her way to my house. good thing the tooth fairy is on the ball!

the new extra holy smile..

She was so excited that the the tooth fairy knew that she lost a tooth and left her a note. she put all the fairy dust that was in the note in her hair for every one to see!

the went swimming in a really big pool on Saturday then they played in the froggies mouth on Sunday....they needed some relief from the heat it was 110 degrees here that day!

AND YES Brandon is in girls swim suit he DEMANDED it because the girls got to wear one...I figured what the heck he is 2...

the summer fun!

we are getting ready for Jessica to come and stay with us for a week give or take. We are hoping if we get the chance to see Allie while she is here...I hope we can work it out! so hopefully I will have lots of pictures and stories to post over the next week!

just a little busy

So here is the run down of the last month or so...In Pictures
we had a lot of family visits and one big group visit with my parents just before fathers day.
Lots of pictures were taken

by every one

We finally got see ally after a yr I think! She was so cute and growing up so fast we all missed her so much and Ella was so excited to have her here again!

Brandon had 2 black eyes...he got over one and then got another one opposite eye to replace it!

we got to have all the grand kids to see my parents

we played games ate junk food and laughed a lot

We got to be silly

we celebrated dad..

he loved having his grand kids around!

the girls were all together again...FINALLY

we took lots more pictures

the girls played and played together

we played in our yard

we worked in our yard...

and Risa gets bigger and bigger every day.

We spent the fourth at Jens from Thursday to Sunday. We did fireworks and a ward activity it was nice and relaxing! ( all except the ever draining air mattress we slept on)!

Finally...I know!

well lets see..Yes, we fell off the earth.
does that sum it up?

Ok, ok....here is the story. I have been so crazy since we got back from Josh's moms funeral I haven't been putting enough time into this site...But there are pictures and stories to come!

On another note Ella is sick today! She let me know when she woke up. When I asked what was wrong she said her funny bone was broken. When I asked if I could hug her she said no that that would hurt!

the take down!

Ella and Brandon were playing with josh in Ella's room. They were taking turns getting on daddies shoulders. Brandon got a little anxious on his turn and helped Ella off of daddies shoulders.

After Brandon got on....Ella reached up and yanked him off of Josh's shoulders right as he stood straight up. Brandon flew off toward the bed but hit his cheek bone on the window frame.

It looks far worse in the green blue faze but it went from his cheek up and gave him a black eye. It was right before we were getting ready to go to church so Brandon got to go to church with this new massive bruise...my poor son looks abused so often!

old friends and New animals..

On Saturday we got a fun Visit from Josh's best friend from Utah and his family.

We only got 1 day with them so we made it count.

we went to the Sacramento Zoo.Above is Jason holding Ella and their son Jordan.

they look like they are siblings with their hair so blond and curly!

these are my cute kangaroos!

We got to see them while we were in Utah and the kids just love to play together. In fact I am not sure I have seen the kids get along with another kid for the long amount of time they had together. Well except Shanda's!


Flamingos

all our Blondie's!

my camera was really good and I got some fun shots of the animals...


By 5 the kids were done and we packed up and headed for the cars. we went to the Elephant Bar for dinner because there were so many types of food to try we thought it would please every one.

That night we had a fun game of phase ten with a little snack talk and a lot of fun. It was good to see them again. I hope it happens more often. it was a good time. they got up really early the next morning and slipped out while we slept. They were off to more adventures in Cali!

our son...

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

learning how to digital scrap!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

we found it!!! we found it!!!

So we lost ( Brandon played with) the SD card that we had while we were in Utah...well I prayed that we would find it. I knew we would and even though it wasn't an instant thing....I just had this calm feeling that we would find it. I mean I know that prayer works and I had faith...No I knew that he answers prayers. As time passed my husband grew ever frustrate and I wished i had it but some how I knew it would turn up. Eventually I kept having promptings that the SD card was in the computer near the card reader. I kept telling my hubby that. He looked on top of it just in case he slid it in there...but no it wasn't there. Josh then was moving the computer around and had his flash light with him. He all the sudden saw a glimmer of something inside the largest card slot. so he looked again and he saw not 1 card but 3 SD cards we had lost and given up on ever seeing again!! Brandon slid them in ...being that they were so much smaller they fell through to the bottom of the tray...WOO hooo.

On a sad not some how the camera lost all the pictures of the kids playing in the snow and we don't have any of them....Much to my disappointment!

kids are so fun!!!

I looked out side in time to see that my kids got creative on how to share a tricycle!!!!

new experiance!!!

so I have been Helping my brothers girlfriend with making aprons for her work. We made this one yesterday and it was fairly easy...we had a pattern that ended up being so simple and east to make. I loved it!
This one I had to make my own pattern and make it by trial and error and it took forever. I made two of this style before we bought a pattern. But I would have to say that it took me out of my comfort zone. I learned so my much more by doing this one and it got so much more confident with my sewing and by the time I got to the patterned apron I didn't think twice about the parts that would normally intimidate me!!!

Thanks Jen for letting me help you it has been super fun and thanks for trusting me!

Easter Morning...

For Easter at our house it is tradition that the Easter bunny hides the Easter baskets. On Easter Morning we all have to go on a search to find our basket. If we see some one Else's we don't tell...shh....we just go back to the hunt!

Here is Ella Finding her basket...they found Brandon's really quick; you will see that in the pictures...

Easter morning Ella came out of my closet with this jelly bean...I guess the Easter bunny dropped it with out noticing...good thing Ella is to young to put 2 and 2 together!!!

I just realized all the fabric that I ironed and laid out so that I can sew it is all over my desk in this picture!!!

yes Brandon is wearing a night gown....but he wanted to because Nemo was on it...

Easter fun

WE had a Easter Egg hunt at our house this yr. It was so fun. we had invited Risa, Chris, Jen, Jim, Matt and Jennifer and their families over. However with Jim being as sick as he was it ended up with just Matt and I families.

there were 3 kids and 76 eggs to find!
Brandon loved it and Uncle Matt help him find Eggs!

My kids were slow at first But Amira was a pro.

here is Amira and her mom Jen.

Ella had Her daddy Helping her Gather eggs. She was so funny she just kinda took her time and walked around slowly.

Amira knew What to do and was Fast!

Ella in the End only got about 16 Eggs...but she was content.

Brandon was faster than Ella but would even pick up his toys while hunting for the Eggs. He had a couple of cars in his basket at the End!

You see Ella just watching every one hunt!!

They missed that egg right there on the pole in the middle of the picture!