March is for Birthdays

Half the family was born in March, yes 3 birthdays this month.

First is Camden! He is now FIVE!

Since his birthday was a Thursday he got spend a few hours with his preschool friends. He was so excited to bring them little goodie bags we put together with some treats and toys. They were celebrating Dr. Suess birthday in preschool, so it was even more special with watching The Lorax. He said he had the best time ever!

He received fun gifts but his favorite would be the presents from his best friend Paisley. It's the cutest friendship ever, and we hope some day my best friend and I can be in laws. 😂 Every parents dream right?

We had ate chocolate cupcakes with his special request of maple frosting. Which turns out even though he loved it, didn't want that on his cupcake. Knowing my kids I already had chocolate frosting on hand. 

He is the sweetest, most helpful caring little boy I've ever known. He has so much love to give and he is going to do great things in his life.  He's excited to start kindergarten in July and is ready to be a super big kid at school. 

💗💗💗

Cool Kids

They were willing to take a picture together to send to their Great Grandma Crandell to wish her a happy birthday, so of course I'm going to plaster this all over internet land!


Gosh these kids are cool.  I really should be filming my life, cause some of the things that come out of their mouths, the ideas they have, quirks they have can not be fully captured by words and pictures alone. Maybe I should start doing video clip videos, probably not vlog that could be a little ambitious too for me right now, but we'll see. What I do know is these kids are special and I love that they are mine.

💗💗💗

4 Years of Camden

Camden is just one of those boys where when you meet him he just melts your heart.  He is stubborn and learning but he has a heart of gold.  From my squishy 8lb 10oz baby to a full blown 4 year old now. He is a social butterfly and is a friend to everyone he meets and just wants to share all the love he can. Always cracking jokes and laughing about something, his personality just keeps getting better. 

I learn so much from this fast growing little boy every day.  I am so grateful he is mine and bring so much joy to our family. 

I can't wait to see him grow more in this next year. 

Now enjoy random pictures of my sweet Camden through the years. 

Second birthday

My mothering heart is in denial that my sweet little baby is now 2.

If you'd like to reminisce on this day with me you can read about his birth story HERE

How do they grow so fast!? It's just crazy! I blinked too many times and the time just flew by! 

Oh my Camden man.

He is super sweet & helpful, loves to cuddle, and loves his sisters so much.  

He's loves to jump off things, climb everything, throw sticks, make messes, get dirty. 

He doesn't like being naked, so thankful for this, BUT hates getting his clothes changed.  Once he's wearing a shirt he wants to wear it all day everyday. Silly, stinky boy.  

He plays pretend, plays videos games with dad.  His personality is just so funny. He's a natural comedian and he barley talks. That's talent. 

We love our Camden Lyle. 

Happy Birthday buddy

We are so lucky to have you in our family.  

we be doing

why hello there.

these are a few things we've been up to.

......

hahaha yeah not much. just being around the house. try to keep sane and have some fun while doing that.

the most exciting thing that happened was on Sunday this little guy was blessed at church. it was a very sweet, wonderful blessing given to him by his daddy.

 

the vest he is wearing was his daddy's when he was a little guy. so glad it fit so he could wear it.

did i mention this little guy is now 2months old!

yikes time sure does fly by.

 



it was great to have family there.



my siblings and i.

not in order but our heights worked out for a nice line up.

i just noticed we coordinated pretty nice for not planning. :)  

 

oh and Camden's best buds were there too!!



sweet little Henry

 



 sweet little sleepy guy Rhett

 the best family photo we could get.

mia just wanted to go to primary, she was done with pictures.

 



 my mom and dad

chris with his parents

okay and this picture just because it shows seriously how much little guy loves his sisters. he smiles and talks to them all the time and it make me so happy everytime.





bring it around town

so we've been actually normalizing around these parts.

 

it feels normal. haha.

 

camden is growing like crazy!

love this little brother.

little brother 1 day old

 

 

 little brother 3 weeks old

his little belly has grown and he is out of most of the NB clothes.

my little cutie.

 

the girls have been having a good time being big sisters, playing in the back yard and going to grandma and papas house.

 

 

amelia's mugshot. with pudding mustache

 

this past tuesday the 19th my brother and sister in law welcomed their little boy!!!

Rhett Nathan!

he is the cutest guy and a little chunk.

i love him already!

i got to go see him on wednesday, he is so sweet!

 i mean seriously look at this guy.

he was 8lb 14oz!

bigger than Camden!

go baby RHETT!

 

after i went to see him i went and got the kids and we went to my parents to keep rhetts brother and sister company.

my girls love their cousins.

 

i was swinging these two in the back yard and they both feel asleep.

my cutie pie niece rylee and little camden.

 

little people are so much fun.

even when they are pains in the rear end. :)

 

hope everyone has a great weekend!

 

a little of this and that

 

 

This one will be two weeks tomorrow.

Time sure does fly when you aren't getting enough sleep.

 

I had a little too much fun today dressing him up and taking pictures.  Not great pictures, but the subject in them is adorable so it makes them okay and i ordered some birth announcement cards too.

 

 

On a different note.

Amelia is officially potty trained.

yay for big sister and only having one kid in diapers.

 

Things are going good.

the girls are acting out more now though and i'm hoping they will stop soon cause they are driving me crazy.

but other than that, things are good.

 

 

Another note.

my birthday is sunday.

i'll be 26

yeah im an oldie

kidding, not old yet

i'm hoping to be able to get out of the house and do something,

but might be hard to do this year.

maybe i'll celebrate in a month or so.

giving up life for a newborn.

ah motherhood. :)

 



hadababyitsaboy

well well well.

whats new with you?


yeah you guessed it, i had my baby!

only a day late of my expected due date, but really i consider this little guy of mine ON TIME!!!

GLORY HALLELUJAH!!!

So lets get into what when down, before i forget too much.  if you get weirded out of birth then you might not like this story. i'm not going to get into details because honestly i think birth is gross, so yeah. hahaha. i'll spare you.

lets it begin. this is a long one.

friday morning i was at the end of my rope, i just could not be pregnant for one more day, my body had enough. but i knew i could have very well have weeks to go. so i told myself i am not going to bed with out my baby in my arms tonight. then i tried to figure out how that was going to happen. evelyn had a field trip that morning, when her and chris got home around 11am i decided you know what i'm just going to go for it. so yes, i did. i drank some sick nasty stuff, clearly i was desperate. castor oil. i attempted 4 tablespoons, which i heard is the "magic" number. i couldn't choke it down, i had mixed it with OJ too. i probably only got down maybe 2 tablespoons but i figured if i was ready it would work. 

I'm just really going with positive thinking at this point. so fast forward to 3pm.  i had one contraction. AWESOME!! i'm so flippin excited. 4 minutes later another! SCORE!  2 minutes another, again 2 mintues.  after timing them for an hour they were consistently 2 minutes apart and 1 minute in length. my mind i'm thinking, uhhhh isn't this when people are told to go to the hospital?

i called my mom, warned her we were going. we were going to drop the girls off at their house, plans changed mid drive. i was nervous cause i know i could go quickly and i'm not about to have things go down in a van down by the river.

we get to hospital. wait for my mom. we get checked in. as we are getting checked in the triage nurse comes in and looks at me, see's that i'm smiling, cracking jokes and says "oh you are going to fine." as in this girl is probably not that far. so we are walking in the triage room, right outside the door, my water breaks! what!? uhhhh AWESOME!!!

SUCK ON THAT TRIAGE NURSE!!!! BOOOOYAHH!! 

 

baby had done his business though, so it was pretty gross. eeewwwww. so thankfully they had one labor and delivery room available. yay. so wheeled away we went. get in, changed, cleaned up, and was checked. this was about 7pm. i was at 6cm almost a 7. yay!! they do their routine questions yadda, yadda, my nurse started talking about an epidural and i stopped her and told her to never mention it again. in a nice way of course, and that was that. :)

i have to say that the contractions weren't really all that bad. i could get through them. breathing, focusing on things, and just staying positive and laughing. after about almost 2 hours of being around 7.5cm things started to get interesting. things got more intense, not unmanageable, just stronger. the hardest part was of course transition. it wasn't a very long space of time, it was just the whole, yeah i feel like a need to poop out a baby and i can't yet feeling, which was hard to resist and just breath through. good grief. i guess at one point i swore under my breath. i don't remember that but really i can't be blamed for anything coming out of my mouth that that point. i tried my best to stay focused and calm. i thought i did a pretty good job, but when i had to get him out i knew and i had to wait for the doc to get there. LONGEST like 5 minutes of my life. hahaha.

pushing the baby out was i'd say the BEST part ever. such a relief and it didn't hurt.  i pushed a few times and my little man was born! yay!! i asked the doctor if it was still a boy, yep he's all boy, then they layed him on me and the first thing i said was on my goodness he is heavy!! they weighed him and he was 8lbs 10oz. he could have very well been a tiny bit more cause he kept pooping while the nurses were trying to clean him up. haha. 20.5inches long. born at 10:23pm. i was so hyped up on baby love i had the hardest time falling asleep that night, i just had so much energy it was amazing!!

my nurse mentioned how great i did. i think she was just happy i wasn't a psycho while in labor and didn't want to kill her. she was super amazing, i feel like i was really lucky getting her as my nurse.

so here we are 6 days later, feeling great, just trying to get a schedule down and figure our new lives out. i must say that my husband is the bomb! he's been my rock through it all and has been doing so much to make things easier on me.

so now picture time!!!

 

 

 camden with his cousin henry.

henry is 7weeks old

camden is 2 days old

cam is bigger.

that's my boy!

lol

:)