A Glimpse into my Life.

I just found a few more pictures from our Summer Adventures. I couldn't resist.

I can't remember if I put it up, but here is what the back porch of our cabin looked like. Very nice, very quaint.

There was a hammock there! I think it was one of the highlights for the kidlet crew! I know I had fun rocking in it. Bumpa is taking Dutch for a swing.

Now it's time for a solo act.

Baby B had to join in on the fun!

You know she is a girl who knows what she wants. Water shoes so she won't get her 'neekers' wet, her twirly skirt so she can have fun, and her lifevest so she can go canoeing.

Baby B isn't shy about letting you know if something pleases her!

Although it's called 'Old Faithful' sometimes it's hard to wait for it to erupt.

Us? Mischief? Never! (I think they were stealing Floolie's phone and dialing China with it.)

Not sure what they are pleased about right here, but they sure were! They must have got through to someone!

Just a few of the happenings around here:

A Cowboy came to take up residence in our house...

And learned a little about using his six shooter...

We built some castles...

Built some Fortresses....

And promptly destroyed them.....

Someone learned how to sneak food off the table..... And yes, he is wearing his Winter coat, we can't get him to take it off very often right now....

Luckily the food belonged to his sister so he didn't get sick....

The cat had a standoff with the neighbor's cat. The score is 1:1:4 They've each won one and had 4 draws....

Trying to find where the snow that *should* be in the backyard went to....

Not over here either.....

It's been a wee bit busy at our house!

No matter what Rynie does, Dutch likes to be involved. Here they are painting a craft. Note the similar state of dress.


Meals must be taken sitting next to Big Brother. And he must feed himself.



An Army campaign always need a 2nd in command.


They love to wrestle and roll around in a puppy pile!





I think they're lots of fun!

We'd purchased a box of tangerines for everyone to munch on, they were definitely a hit! Baby B kept getting into the box, and I'd find tangerines with bite marks in the skins. We'd peel those ones first. One morning when I was making breakfast, I turned around and saw this:

I figured since it is a little girl's Birthday today, I should put up some of the pictures from Rynie's Birthday. He had a few buddies over to play in the water during the day, then he had a dinner with his cousins and grandparents!

To start the day off, he and Little Miss had to inspect his presents. They were enthralled with them. In fact, it was almost killed Rynie to have to wait for his dad to get off work to open his presents. Then, to get ready for playing in the water, we filled up the kiddie pool and since there was water in, off came the clothes and they were in the ice cold water!

They stayed out in the water until their lips were blue and they felt like popsicles when you touched them. In fact, we had to fight Little Miss to get her out of the water because she was in seventh heaven!

Then, some buddies and cousins came over and the water fun began! After spending over an hour with Kelli filling water balloons, I think they were all done in about 45 seconds! They also played in a fun, wiggly armed sprinkler and played with the bubble machine!

Little Miss sure loves her cousin B!

This is what Little Dutch did the whole time!

While we were cooking dinner, we had some entertainment courtesy of Little Miss!

Sneaking into the cake! And getting caught.

On Thursday, August 5, I was having lunch with my friend, Sarah, and from about noon onward I'd felt a few random contractions. They weren't consistent or of much duration so I didn't really pay attention to them since between noon and 5pm there were maybe four and I wasn't due for another twelve days. Around 5pm though, I had three contractions and they were fairly close together. I decided I should probably pack the bag for the kidlets and start timing them to see if they were a random anomaly. By shortly after 5:00, I realized they were three minutes apart so I called Hubby and told him not to dawdle on his way home from work and we called his parents since they were going to take the kids. His parents were in Salt Lake with Tyler, and wouldn't be here for a while so we called my friend Melanie and she came over to sit with the kids until Hubby's parents could get here. By 6:00, Hubby was home and Melanie was at our house, so we got everything squared away and left for the hospital.

We got to the hospital, and they set everything up to monitor me and Little Dutch. About fifteen to twenty minutes after we arrived, the L&D nurse came in to check how things were progressing. I was already at a seven and since she'd just had me explain how things had gone so far, she had the other nurses page Dr. N with a *1. Evidently that means drop everything and come now. They'd asked if I wanted an epidural and I said sure because Little Dutch had been pinching a nerve in my hip for the past almost month and I was tired of dealing with it so they paged the anesthesiologist.

Since it was right around shift change, I had twice the nurses setting everything up. The L&D nurse told me that if I felt anything change I needed to let her know immediately, then she went and scrubbed up. About 2 minutes later *something* was different so I told her and she came back to check me visually (this was about 15 minutes after the first time she'd checked) and everything was ready to go. We were just waiting on my water to break. She told them to call Dr. N and he wasn't answering so they figured he was scrubbing up. The L&D nurse told me to just do whatever my body felt like doing and just go with it. She said that she was ready and if we needed to we'd just get going without the doctor. That was a bit of an interesting thought.

Dr. N walked in the door, broke my water, and immediately there was another contraction. He told me to push and Little Dutch's head was out. He told me to stop pushing and I informed him that it wasn't happening so he told me to keep pushing then. Then he told me to open my eyes and Little Dutch was here. Needless to say, the anesthesiologist never made it. I think we all realized that idea flew out the window about 2 minutes after they paged him. The upside though, as soon as Little Dutch got here, the pinched nerve stopped being pinched. Hallelujah!



Trying to catch a sneak peak of Little Dutch at bathtime. Hubby is inside the nursery with Little Dutch.

Little Dutch's first bath. Not a lot phases this little man. He sleeps through the noise of his older siblings very well.

Honey helping Rynie hold Little Dutch for the first time. He is already plotting the good times and imaginary things they will do together.

Little Miss wanted to show Little Dutch her hair flowers. She was really interested in finally meeting her baby. Rynie just about wiggled out of his skin because he was so excited to see and hold Little Dutch.

Little Miss wanted to share her dolly with her baby! The sharing didn't last for long, but she was excited to share for a few moments.

Jake and Shannon came to visit the next morning. I think Jake has another little buddy. Look out Shannon, you're next!

We are very thankful Little Dutch arrived safely and it has been wonderful to watch the kidlets interact with him. And no, Dutch isn't really his name, but it's a nickname he has already aquired from his Bumpa Black Cow. Hubby doesn't want real names used in public places on the internet. If you want to know his name, feel free to contact me through my email on my profile!