Saturday, January 30, 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAY
Jay turned 5 this last Monday and I am a little late in this post. Jay is such an amazing boy. He has a sweet tender heart and loves his sisters! He is my big helper and always loves to be by dad! WE LOVE YOU BUD!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Our Holidays
Okay, so I am really behind so be ready for the longest post yet! The Holidays seem to get so crazy, and there is so much I need to update. This is more for journaling than anything else so sorry for the length.
This is at the semi-final state football game (St. Johns vs. Valley Christian). The cousins sat like this most of the time.
We were able to come home through Flagstaff and stop and see my Grandparents. This is great Grandma Palmer's first time to see Sara.
Alan's brother Darrin came home from his mission Dec. 5th. He was able to fly into ShowLow...it was so nice not to have to travel too far :)
JoAnn loves her class and most the boys love her :) I haven't heard of one girl from her class that she plays with yet. This is just after her Christmas music program and these are the friends she always plays with. (Brady Overson, JoAnn, Gage Tricky, and Byron Bradshaw)
The cousins got to make Christmas Trees out of sugar cones, frosting, and candy. It was a simplified version of a gingerbread house and they loved it.
It snowed the Tuesday night before Christmas. I thought it was a little ironic that we drove away from the a white Christmas, but it was so great to get to play in it for a day.
We were able to be in Thatcher this year for Christmas with 9 out of the 10 kids. My family has made it a tradition for dad to read the Christmas story from Luke and let the grandkids act it out. Dad always used to just read the story to us every Christmas Eve. It was so good to hear dad read that story again.
It is our tradition to let the kids hang their stockings on Christmas Eve so Santa can find them. We had my parents, my grandparents, my little brothers, Steven and his family, and our family all there for Christmas morning.
Another tradition is that Christmas morning everyone starts downstairs and eats an orange. Then we run up the stairs youngest to oldest. The kids could hardly stand having to wait.
On my side of the family there were 5 kids born in 3 1/2 months. This is the first time that all five were together. It starts with oldest on the left and goes down to Sara. It was no fun while I was pregnant to be the last one but now I love that Sara is the smallest.
And finally...New Year's Day. We went to up to Lakeside to have diner with family. The kids were so excited there was so much snow and loved playing in all their new snow clothes.
This is at the semi-final state football game (St. Johns vs. Valley Christian). The cousins sat like this most of the time.
We were able to come home through Flagstaff and stop and see my Grandparents. This is great Grandma Palmer's first time to see Sara.
Alan's brother Darrin came home from his mission Dec. 5th. He was able to fly into ShowLow...it was so nice not to have to travel too far :)
JoAnn loves her class and most the boys love her :) I haven't heard of one girl from her class that she plays with yet. This is just after her Christmas music program and these are the friends she always plays with. (Brady Overson, JoAnn, Gage Tricky, and Byron Bradshaw)
The cousins got to make Christmas Trees out of sugar cones, frosting, and candy. It was a simplified version of a gingerbread house and they loved it.
It snowed the Tuesday night before Christmas. I thought it was a little ironic that we drove away from the a white Christmas, but it was so great to get to play in it for a day.
We were able to be in Thatcher this year for Christmas with 9 out of the 10 kids. My family has made it a tradition for dad to read the Christmas story from Luke and let the grandkids act it out. Dad always used to just read the story to us every Christmas Eve. It was so good to hear dad read that story again.
It is our tradition to let the kids hang their stockings on Christmas Eve so Santa can find them. We had my parents, my grandparents, my little brothers, Steven and his family, and our family all there for Christmas morning.
Another tradition is that Christmas morning everyone starts downstairs and eats an orange. Then we run up the stairs youngest to oldest. The kids could hardly stand having to wait.
On my side of the family there were 5 kids born in 3 1/2 months. This is the first time that all five were together. It starts with oldest on the left and goes down to Sara. It was no fun while I was pregnant to be the last one but now I love that Sara is the smallest.
And finally...New Year's Day. We went to up to Lakeside to have diner with family. The kids were so excited there was so much snow and loved playing in all their new snow clothes.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Fun Times
Sara is smiling so much now and has finally figured out how to make some noise. This isn't the greatest video, but I just had to share.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Catch Up
Okay. This may be a really long post. To start with, we moved! We are now in St. Johns. Alan got a call up three Sunday's ago and said he had gotten the job we had applied for here in St. Johns at SRP. And then they said we have a week to move. AHHH! Well, for anyone that knows us, this is our 10th move in the almost 8 years since we have been married. We were able to get everything moved and we are loving it here. We are staying with Alan's parents for now. They have been great and my kids think this is the best thing to live with Grandma and Grandpa and Jay is loving having uncles to play with.
Alan's birthday was the 19th...the day he started work. He said it was the best present he could have had. It was crazy hectic but we were able to get him some small things. I hope he knows how much I love him. He is amazing and I am so lucky that he is in my life.
We are now living alot closer to Alan's grandparents and we were able to get a 5 generation picture.
It snowed only a few days after we moved here. This is what we woke up to and it was so much fun. This is the weather that I love!
We also blessed Sara last Sunday. It was so great to have family here and it was such a special blessing. My mother in law helped me to make her dress. She is an amazing semstress and I am having alot of fun learning how to sew the right way!
Our family at Sara's blessing. What an amazing day!
Alan's birthday was the 19th...the day he started work. He said it was the best present he could have had. It was crazy hectic but we were able to get him some small things. I hope he knows how much I love him. He is amazing and I am so lucky that he is in my life.
We are now living alot closer to Alan's grandparents and we were able to get a 5 generation picture.
It snowed only a few days after we moved here. This is what we woke up to and it was so much fun. This is the weather that I love!
We also blessed Sara last Sunday. It was so great to have family here and it was such a special blessing. My mother in law helped me to make her dress. She is an amazing semstress and I am having alot of fun learning how to sew the right way!
Our family at Sara's blessing. What an amazing day!
Monday, October 5, 2009
One week old...
I can't believe it has only been a week since Sara came. She is such a good baby! She only cries if she is hungry or tired and even then it is still a cute cry. I am loving that now because I know it isn't going to last forever.
Well, just a quick recap on the labor...I was enduced last Monday which was 6 days early. I have an amazing Dr. and he said I could pick my due date, and of course 9 months pregnant I wanted to go asap :) We went into the hospital about 9 am, but they didn't even get me hooked up to IV or the Pit until around 10:30. Believe it or not, I was able to get about an hour worth of rest before the contractions were too hard. My Dr. came in about 1:30 and broke my water since I had just decided to get the epideral. Right after they gave me my epideral my mom and sister were in visiting me and I started to feel really weak. I called the nurse in and my blood pressure had dropped to something like 60/32. They said that is common after an epideral, but it was really weird. They said I looked like a ghost for a little while. That actually happened twice, but then we were good to go. I started to feel pressure about 6:30 and they said I was at an 8. My two sisters were able to be in there with Alan and I for the delivery. It was so amazing to have them there, but I did miss my mom. She was so great and had all the kids at home (not just mine but my two sisters too.) Mom you are incredible! It really has been an amazing recovery too. I am so blessed to be able to have it so easy!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sara Wahl
We are so excited to finally have Sara here. She was born at 7:54 pm on Monday the 28th. She was 8 lbs even 19 1/2 inches long. Her family is so glad to have her home and is loving her to death!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Prego Girls
I love these girls! It was so much fun to get to see two of my really good friends from Coolidge. We were all in Young Women's together in Coolidge and one by one we have moved into Mesa. We are all within a month of each other on our due dates. This may be the only prego pic you see of me. I only have 2 1/2 weeks to go! YEAH!!!!!!
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