She's Here!

Sadie Melinda

Thursday Oct. 23rd

3:59 pm

6 lbs 14 oz 

19 inchs

She is finally here. And we are so excited to have her.

Thursday morning I went to the Dr. and I was dilated to a 6. She told me she didn't want me out walking around afraid the baby would come really quick. She asked me if I would like to just meet her at the hospital. Yeah! After getting all our stuff together we headed to the hospital. They came and broke my water at 12:30 and she was born at 3:59. 

Everything went really great!

This blog is for the Kurt and Marianne family. I love you guys a ton and thanks for being so considerate when you are sick by not visiting. She won't grow too much by the time you are all feeling better. I love you!

Fun at Wal-Mart

What would we do without dad? Jason and Will had a little too much fun at Wal-Mart the other day. This is a box that Jason made a space ship out of the cart for Will. This picture is a little blurry because is was taken with Jason's phone. Way too much fun for Wal-Mart.

Fall Fun

Saturday was an awesome fall day. We decided we could have a lot of fun going to the corn maze. Whitney and Corinne stayed the night with Aunt Carrie and Amy for a little girl fun while Eli and Brandon were hunting. Saturday afternoon we decided to go to the corn maze. Carrie's sister-in-law Lori decided to come with us. 

Carrie and I are not very good at finding our way around things so we just let Jason and the other Lori lead us around. I love this picture below of everyone trying to figure out which way to go. Every except Ben. Ben decided to go a head of us. 
That Ben has a sense of direction that is amazing. This is where we found him after all the rest of us walked around getting lost. He said he sat there and laughed because he could here us walking around but we couldn't find where we needed to be. 
After the corn maze we came back to our house a carved pumpkins. We have carved pumpkins with my sister every year now for quite a while. Her hubby is always hunting so we get together and carve with out him. What is really fun is where we get the pumpkins. My mom and dad, Nana and Papa, plant pumpkins every year for their grandkids. (And big kids) This year I think my mom said they had 36 pumpkins. We love it.
But my favorite part would  have to be the pumpkin seeds. I love roasting the seeds. They are so delicious and quite good for you. This year the other Lori went through all the guts and pulled out the seeds. This is the most seeds I have ever had. I told her we were inviting her every year. 
I thought I would take a picture of the seeds. This is just before they go in the oven to roast. I can't wait to eat them and neither can Corinne.

False Alarm?

So I went to the Dr. yesterday. I am dilated to a 4+ and 75% effaced. I love my Dr. She told me that if I have contractions that are 10 minutes or closer apart to go right to the hospital and I will come break your water. I got the cleaning nesting yesterday and went to town on my house. But no contractions. At 9:30 pm my sister Carrie called to see how things were going. Well, nothing of course, so I said I would talk to her in the morning. By 10:00 I was having contractions every 10 minutes. By 11:00 I was having them every 5 minutes. So at 11:30 I decided to head to the hospital. We drop off Will at Carries and head up there. They hook me up to the machines and sure enough, contractions every 3-5 minutes. Then the bad news, my Dr. was out for the evening and another Dr. was filling in for her. The on call Dr. made me walk the halls with Jason for an hour and see if I was any farther along. After 25 laps around the same boring halls, which calculates to 1 1/2 miles I was still the same and the Dr. thought I should just go home. AHHHHH! We got home at 3:30 this morning still just as fat as when I left. I had contractions up until 7:00. If my Dr. would have been there I would be posting about a baby. Now I am having no contractions and I am grumpy as all get out. 

So now I am going to call my Dr. and see when she is going to be at the hospital and what she would like me to do. As for the rest of the day I think we will play some cards, go to the library and eat. 

If anyone has any good ideas I starting contractions back up I would love to hear them.

Merry Christmas?

This is what I woke up to this morning. This is a picture taken out my back door. Not the best picture but I didn't want to go out in the snow. It's kind of fun but really cold. William just stared out the window for about a minute and then said "Snow on my car." He was very concerned. 

I felt the effects of the low pressure all night having contractions that woke me up every hour. Since getting up this morning they have stopped which, honestly, I was hoping they would. I still have a few projects to finish before she gets here.

Everyone have a great Sunday and we hope this all melts by tomorrow.

Baby Lottery!

I thought is would be fun to do a baby lottery and see what you all think about when this baby will get here. I was just at the Dr. today and I am dilated to a 3 and 75% effaced. Could be any day or could be any week. Leave your comment stating date, time, weight and who knows maybe even the sex. (you never know what might happen) and while your at it you might as well give us a name idea. 

I am truly sick of peeing every hour and not sleeping but other than that life is the same and I am ready for her(or him) to get here. This is probably one of those too much info posts but oh well I am full of too much info.

We've Been Robbed!

We came home from camping this weekend and walked in the house. I looked around for minute and thought, "Did I leave the living room this clean?" It took me a minute and then I saw the note. While we were camping my wonderful sister Carrie and my parents robbed us of all the dirt in my house. At first I couldn't decided if I was happy or mad. I kept thinking, "Was my house that dirty that my sister felt she needed to clean it." After a few minutes of surveying everything I decided that I was thrilled. This is something I would do for my sister if she was about to pop being pregnant. 

What brought the whole thing on was I had been complaining to Carrie that I couldn't get my kitchen floor clean. I hate old linoleum. She thought she would come and clean it for me. After talking with my parents they came as well and did the whole house. 

My favorite parts would have to be the kitchen floor and Will's carpet. The carpet in Will's room got way too much attention this summer from Will and Alex. (read back blogs to see) I kept saying I needed to clean it before baby but just hadn't gotten there. Well it is done now and looks great.

Thanks again Carrie, Mom and Dad. I love you!  I am a little mad but mostly glad. Now I can get Halloween costumes done for my kids before that baby!

I love canning!

I love canning season, at least this year I do. I have decided that my years of loving it come in spurts and this is my year. 

So far I have canned:

22 quarts of pears, 

11 pints and 12 quarts salsa, 

15 pints blackberry jelly,  

25 quart baggies of frozen peaches, 

and 4 quarts bottles peaches. 

The best part it the only thing I had to buy were the peaches. I have more peaches coming today that I hope will bottle better than the last ones. Everything else has been given to me by people in my ward. I love where I live. 

So, now there is nothing better than opening my pantry and seeing all that wonderful food ready for what might be a bleak winter (thanks to the economy). Not that we can live on pears and salsa but it is one last thing I have to buy.

Maybe I should take a picture of all my works a blog it. Nahhh, I don't really fit in the pantry that well to take a picture. But believe me it is pretty.