Pics of Katie

One day old

 First day home from the hospital

 One week old

Daddy and his girls!

 Two weeks old

It is sad how fast they change!

Introducing....

Miss KATIE ANN!  Our sweet baby girl made her arrival on Feb 6th.  She weighed in at 7 lbs. and was 18.5 inches long. 
      I started having contractions just before the superbowl so I knew the baby would be here soon.  We went to Gary's parents to watch the game and see his family.  The entire time my contractions stopped so I had a feeling she was going to come during the night. Well I woke up around 12:30 with contractions.  By 4am I hopped in the shower to get some relief and by 5am I told Gary it was time to head to the hospital.  We arrived at 6 and they admitted me to Labor and Delivery.  By 7am I was asking for the epidural since my contractions were coming every 3-4 minutes and were pretty strong.  My doctor ended up breaking my water around 9:30 and the biggest surprise came at 10:55am.  At our 19 week ultrasound they told us we were having a boy.  But when my doctor pulled the baby out she announced, It's a GIRL!  Gary and I just looked at eachother in dead silence.  The doctor then said, Isn't that what you were expecting?  We replied No they told us it was a boy.  She then gave the baby another look and said, That's a girl.  I just laid there crying and laughing for about 10 minutes.  It was such a shock and I am so happy to have another little girl.  I think this is why I couldn't find a boy's name for 18 weeks and we had her name within a day!  She has been such a wonderful blessing and she is such a good baby. 

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Isaac's expression.  He has been so sweet with her.

My three cute kids.  Sarah is really good to her, but we are still working on being SOFT.

Her poor face was pretty bruised but I am amazed at how quickly it went away.

She is one week old in these pictures.

After the first night home I had her in a pack and play, but she didn't sleep well. So the next day my dad put our cradle together and she slept much better.  It is kind of fun having her sleep in the same cradle that I did!

More pictures to come.

Recent Pictures

For Christmas Santa brought Sarah a Repunzel doll and Sarah loves to put the crown on her head.  While I was folding the laundry, Sarah decided that the basket was her tower.  It was great entertainment for her so I could get somethings done. 

This is what I found when I walked into Isaac's room yesterday.  I think every piece of lego he has was spread out over the floor.  He played in his room for about and hour and a half, which I love, but when I asked him what happened, his response was, "Sorry, mom"  I then responded by letting him know if he wanted to go to Clara's birthday party, every lego must be picked up.  It took him about an hour and he did a great job.

Pictures 2011

 Here are the pictures I had taken of the kids in December.  I know most of you saw them on our Christmas Card, but wanted to post all of the poses.  Isaac LOVES having his picture taken.  He chose most of his poses and suggested poses for Sarah.  Too funny.  It took Sarah a little bit before she cooperated and the big winner was bubbles.

Gary's Website

So  Gary has been designing his own website for quite a while and he has finally finished and published it.  If anyone wants to check it out go to www.foot-ankledoctor.com I am so proud of him and all he has done to make his own business up and running.  I am looking forward to things settling down so we can see him too!

2011 Goal

So I made an exercising goal last year to do at least 26.2 miles on the treadmill each month. It seemed very doable and was going very easily till I reached August.  When we went on vacation to Utah in September I slacked off and then when everything happened with Gary's job, moving and a growing belly I stopped keeping track of my workouts.  So I am happy to say I logged 245.27 miles on the treadmill this past year.  Who knows how many I actually did since I didn't write anything down for the months of Sept, Oct. and Nov.  I will have to come up with a new goal for 2012 but till the baby comes in February my treadmill time is slowing down.

Christmas Week

 Growing up my mom always made lots of different Christmas cookies and sometime in high school it became my job to make the sugar cookies.  Then as everyone got older I kept with the tradition and made them every year.  The last 2 years I slacked off and didn't make them when we came home from Washington to visit, SO needless to say I had several people request the cookies this year.  I only made a double batch, but that still turns out to be more than enough cookies.  I let Isaac help me roll and cut them out.  He loved it - hard for me to watch how slow he was, but it was fun having a new helper this year.  Of course he was able to 'sample' the broken ones.

 The next day I decorated all of them.  Sarah and Isaac are enjoying a cookie in the background.  They turned out delicious as usual and surprisingly lasted to Christmas.

 On Christmas Eve, my family always got dressed up and went to church, came home to dinner and opened a present before going to bed.  Since Gary and I got married we have combined some traditions and spend Christmas Eve at his parents with all his family.  I made sure to get Sarah all dressed up though.  I tried a fun new hairstyle on her and glad I took pictures of her BEFORE the end of the night.  Isaac was at Uncle Steve and Aunt Annie's house playing with all his cousins so that is why I don't have any pics of him.

 They always dress the kids up and read the Birth of Christ.  I think some of the older kids are learning how to enjoy getting dressed up in the costumes.  Sarah absolutely refused to put on an angel costume but Isaac didn't mind being a shepherd.  He doesn't have a cane because it was being turned into a weapon!

 Here is a picture back at my parents house AFTER Santa had come.

The next morning we get all dressed up in our Christmas clothes and head down to see if Santa had arrived.  The youngest gets to go first.

Running to see what is under the tree.

 Isaac left Santa some cookies and he is reading Santa's thank you note to him.  He was so EXCITED.

 My cute kids in front of the tree.                                                    Choosing their first present to open.

 Isaac discovered that Santa had brought new stockings and filled them full.

 Here is Isaac's big present from Santa -a Mega T-Rex.



     Here is Sarah's big present - a Rapunzel doll and dress up.

They both enjoyed opening presents and had a really hard time when it was someone else's turn to open a gift.  I love seeing how excited kids get at Christmastime.

 Sarah in her new dress with her doll that she had to carry everywhere Christmas day. And of course she had to wear the crown since she is daddy's princess!

That evening my family all got together at my parents to have Christmas dinner and open even more presents.  Here is a picture of all the grandkids (for now)!

Here is Uncle Ryan with Sarah and of course Kingston.