What we do while daddy's gone...

Its bathtime almost everyday!

Another one of my little man!
My 3 little munchkins. I love you guys so much!

Zoo pics

3 of the 4 new moms. Me, Roxanne, Megan

We also went to the. It was a warm day, but the kids had a blast seeing the animals and playing in the water features they had there. Adelynn got to see her favorite animal at the moment, the Giraffe. 4 of the giraffe's came over to the fence and just stood there. It was awesome.

The zoo and my boys!

The 3 most important and amazing men in my life.

Nolan and Jaxon on the tractor. Nolan was obssesed with all of the tractors.

We had fun at the Easter pageant, this is me, Dwayne and Dallin.

Our little man, such a cutie!

Before Dwayne left he was able to spend some quality time with the kiddos. He took them to the Aqualplex and camping. He is such and awesome dad! The kids were in heaven!

Ohh where to start?

These are some of the things we've been up to. We had a wonderful Easter with Dwayne's family. Full of fun with cousins, visiting, and 4 new babies (which were born all within 6 months). Dwayne got a call the week before Easter that they had an opening for the Navy. It is what I had been praying for. Well 2 weeks later (April 27th) he left us for a brand new adventure to boot camp. He is doing good. I have received 1 letter from him. This is a brand new experience for all of us, so I will be talking quite a bit about it. He said he got what they call the peanut butter shot, like on the movie Pearl Harbor. He said his butt was still hurting 2 days later. Sounds painful! :( We miss him dearly and can't wait to see our sailor on graduation. June 19th is the date and me and the kids are going to be making the 25 hour drive to see him. Anyone know of any good stops along the way from here to Illinois let me know.

After being sworn into active duty. He left for the airport 10 minutes later.

That Friday night before we spent some time with our dear friends the Goe's. The girls are 1 month apart and so are the boys. They had a great time playing and we had a great time catching up, talking business, life, and politics. We love you Jeff and Kami.

Easter afternoon, had to grab the kids before they took their church clothes off.

The 1st week

Sorry for all the posts in one day, just need to play catch up...

Dwayne... what can I say about my amazing husband. I don't know what I was thinking being able to do it without you (if you had to leave already for boot camp). When you're around I just feel everything will be ok and I know you'll take care of me. You were an amazing support during it all and I am so glad to have you!

Thanks to my mom and dad who were able to be here and take care of the kids and Dwayne and I for the first week. Thanks for all the yummy food and taking such good care of us.

Adelynn and Nolan having a little picnic on the front patio, couldn't pass up the beautiful weather.

The Delivery

So I tried everything (almost everything) to get myself to go into labor on my own. Nothing worked. Good thing we had scheduled an inducement for the 12th, otherwise I would probably still be pregnant. So I went in at 7:30 in the morning they gelled (does that look right?) me 3 times, which got some contractions going, I walked and walked and bounced on the ball, but no luck. They started pitocin (after I had an early dinner) around 5ish. I asked for my epidural at 6:20 ish, it kicked in around 7 ish, my water broke at 7:10 and little Dallin was out with 2 pushes by 7:44. This was my shortest and easiest labor and delivery by far. There was a little post delivery drama which involved a lot of blood, pitocin being turned up to a 10 to get my uterus contracting (it only took it being turned up to a 4 to have the baby), fluid being pumped out of Dallin's tummy, me taking a snooze because of being sooo tired from the loss of so much blood. Anyway around 11 we were in our recovery room getting ready for bed and very grateful for a happy healthy boy! It took us until the morning we left to decide on a name. It turns out the people in the room next to us named their little boy Dallin. (Hopefully it's not the new popular name.) I actually feel very good, this is the best and quickest recovery I've had. Here are some pre and post delivery pictures.

On our way into the hospital (the quality is not the greatest on these sorry). Had to have a picture of the belly.

Me and Dallin, see the dazed eyes, yeah this was right after the drama, I was about to fall asleep. ZZZZZZZ...