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ed with how they turned out i love my children and husband for being so patient and allowing me to take their pictures so frequently we also took a few of elizabeth since she just turned 13 big teenager posted by michelle c at 5 23 pm 0 comments wee mama wee mama came out and was a huge help with everything she took care of the kids made them lunches made dinner did laundry ran errands took kids where they needed to go and much more we were so grateful to have her here and love when she comes to visit she s a wonderful mother and grandmother and we are blessed to have her and all the service she gives to us posted by michelle c at 5 16 pm 0 comments sleeping beauty posted by michelle c at 5 08 pm 0 comments she s home of course no one could wait for brooklynn to be home everyone wants their turn but i m finding it hard to share she brings so much joy and love to our home how blessed we are to have her posted by michelle c at 5 01 pm 0 comments saturday march 26 2016 january 28th 29th so it was the big day the day we were going to have our baby girl we knew it was going to be a few hours before things got going so brian went into work for a half day and as soon as the kids were out the door to school weemama and charlotte took me to the hospital the nurse had me get into a gown and hop into the bed so she could get the iv going honestly that is one of the worst things to me i hate having that iv in my hand the whole time but that is how they administer the antibiotic for the group b strep i was expected to have 2 doses and then things could get rollin brian came after work around 12 00 and i had just finished my second dose they did have me on some pitocin but it wasn t doing anything really they kept upping the dosage every hour or so but by very little not much was happening brian and i spent the time playing games and watching tv by about 5 00 dr yeash came in and checked and said i wasn t progressing much at all so they upped the pitocin again and he said he d be back nothing really happened until 10 00 pm yep i d been in that bed for 12 hours and nothing was happening he kept asking me if i felt the contractions and i couldn t honestly he d be looking at the monitor and saying here s a good one do you feel that and internally i couldn t feel it but if i put my hand on my stomach i could feel that it was hard nothing painful or uncomfortable which i was ok with but i didn t have the epidural yet and they said to wait until i could feel them strong enough to warrant one well finally at 10 00 pm they decided to break my water to see if it would speed things ups because i was almost maxed out of the pitocin immediately i started feeling the contractions so i summoned the anesthesiologist i wasn t about to be in a lot of pain after being there all day feeling nothing she got in there pretty quick and got the epidural all in and working i only felt a few contractions and they weren t too bad uncomfortable but not too terribly painful about 45 min after i got it i told my dr i was having a hard time breathing like i felt like i wasn t getting enough air he looked at the monitor and said everything looked fine blood pressure contractions oxygen saturation so i thought maybe i was making it up a little he walked out of the room and 30 seconds later i told brian to get the nurse because i really couldn t breathe i was taking shallow quick breaths and it was scary they gave me an oxygen mask and that helped some but it really took about 30 40 min before i felt like i was breathing normal again they had to give me some epinephrine to help my blood pressure had dropped significantly which apparently is a known side effect from the epidural never had it happen before though because of the epinephrine i got major shakes those lasted for about 15 minutes and by the time that was done i was exhausted brian sat by my side the whole time and held my hand what a huge comfort that was i was glad he was there for me i slept for a few hours after that around 2 00 am on january 29th the nurse came in and checked everything and said we were about ready to push about 30 minutes later the doctor came in and after the 2nd contraction 3rd push our beautiful baby girl was born although i was not thrilled about this pregnancy the second i saw her i thought i could do this again i loved her the second i saw her and snuggling with her right after was so wonderful she s a beautiful baby and we all love her so much she was a healthy 9 lb 2 oz although i think they technically recorded her at 9 lb 1 oz she s got the best chubby cheeks and is so peaceful and sweet she did fail a hearing test but after retesting a few weeks later we found out their machine was faulty that day all the kids were super excited to meet her of course they all love her and were anxious for us to leave the hospital and bring her home i was enjoying the peaceful time at the hospital ha we are so thrilled to have brooklynn kate join our family posted by michelle c at 3 22 pm 0 comments wednesday january 20 2016 january 20th so we re more than half way through january and things are going just fine kids have adjusted well except for elizabeth she still hates it just giving it time weather has been cold and dreary nothing fun to speak of things with the baby are coming along just fine the weight is coming along more than fine too much really oh well i gave up caring since it doesn t seem to make a difference had some pretty good swelling in my feet not painful just uncomfortable brian started back up with his choir and we re just getting into the swing of our new normal before our new new normal with the baby anxious for her to come posted by michelle c at 6 02 pm 1 comments monday january 11 2016 2016 begins so we ve started 2016 and i m hoping to keep up with all the things going on with our family with the start of the year came the start of the new schools for the most part the kids are doing well elizabeth was excited but seems to be hating it now we re working on trying to find 3 positive things a day it just takes time but i hope she finds some happiness in there sooner than later she does know a few kids there so at least she isn t totally on her own caroline cooper and isabelle seem to be doing just fine we did take caroline back to kohl the first friday there because her clarinet concert got cancelled before christmas because of a snow storm and she was totally bummed because she had a solo so we got special permission to take her back she was excited to visit her class and happy to still be able to do her solo the older 3 kiddos have decided to do no treats sweets candies or desserts for a year if they do they ll get 100 they get 5 free days and their birthdays so far cooper has taken one day and caroline kind of did as well she forgot but we had to count it because it was her 2nd time and it was a whole cookie liz emailed me from school to see if she could eat 3 m m s for a science experiment but by the time i got back to her it was too late so she told her teacher she couldn t makes me smile i hope they make it i d love from them to see they can have the self control and make healthier choices i know it s only been 11 days but i m proud of them for doing it so far they re doing great we ve had a bit of snow and it s been pretty cold lately not my favorite i ve wanted to get out and just take some walks and be in the sun but it s been too cold and snow and ice on the sidewalks so i ve felt a little cooped up lately we re down to less than 3 weeks before this baby comes it s starting to be a little more real but still a little on the hard to picture side we re all set with the needs though and the kids are so excited time is passing quickly i ve started swelling a bit and put on more weight than i had hoped but hopefully it will come off in good speed had a lot more contractions earlier than i remember with the others so maybe it will happen sooner if not we ve got our date set for january 28th so it s close brian has auditioned for a part in his next choir performance he s so funny because he acts like he won t get anything but of course he will i hope he does he wants a certain part so hopefully he ll get it it s good for the kids to see him still doing things he loves and auditioning for parts i m proud of him things are going pretty good with the new ward we re starting to get to know more people and feeling more comfortable there i think the kids seem to be doing well with it they do struggle a little with how many kids there are there are a ton they had to move the primary into the chapel to fit better the junior primary fills up all the middle section of the chapel except for about the last 3 rows as does the junior primary it s crazy definitely a change from our previous ward all in all i think the transition has been good we re settled in the house and getting our normal back i just need some nice warm weather so we can get outside a little more maybe after the baby comes posted by michelle c at 8 12 pm 1 comments tuesday november 3 2015 august 2014 august was a super fun month along with the normal fun summer things we were able to take a trip out to visit the family in pa felt like it had been way too long we had a long day of travel starting with the drive to the airport the flight then we had to take a train to a bus and then julia met up with us and picked us up our family doesn t fit in anyone s car so we had to use 2 cars renting a van would have been nearly 1000 even though we were just driving it to the farm and basically parking it crazy we all had a fun time being together eating playing games and getting out a time or two we took a hike around rickett s glen with the older 3 kids that was one of the only things i wanted to do so that i could some good pictures but of course i left my battery plugged in charging on the wall so my camera was no good to me i had my little point and shoot for pics of everyone else though so that was good we also took some time for a family picture can t pass that up brian has been doing a lot of training for his tough mudder race coming up i don t run but one day i followed him while riding my bike it was fun and the scenery was beautiful i was impressed with how he ran the whole way he s been doing awesome the kids started school as well they were all anxious to get going again and elizabeth started middle school crazy so nice to have all the schools so close that they can just walk i walked with her snapped a picture then let her walk in all on her own i asked me would you rather me not walk with you to school today or are you okay with that liz no i want you to i m not one of those kids who gets embarrassed when their mom is around love that sweet girl and hope that stays true for a long long time charlotte was of course bummed that she wasn t starting school so we tried to have some fun outside in the beautiful weather we had a last minute invite to go to moab and hang out with a bunch of our friends from dental school it was so much fun we had a huge house about 20 minutes outside of moab that we all stayed in it was fun to see how much all the kids had grown and just be around such wonderful people there was a lot of laughing and reminiscing we took a trip down the river and the kids absolutely loved it we also hiked to the famous utah arch never done it and don t care to do it again the kids did fabulous i can t believe they made it it was not an easy hike and it was super hot so proud of them another day we stopped by a beautiful natural water slide and then jumping hole liz and caroline did it and i was so surprised brian took a fun mountain biking trip one morning with some of the guys all in all a great trip posted by michelle c at 12 40 pm 1 comments sunday november 1 2015 july 2014 july starts off pretty awesome of course with my favorite holiday and birthday its a tough first week to beat since i m trying to recall all of this over a year later i can t remember all the details really i do remember going down to denver for the 4th of july celebration which is done on the 3rd it was a great firework show we got down there a little early and went to eat at cheesecake factory super yummy i don t remember much else ha of course i remember the food sad for the 4th of july we went to carter lake and spent some time in the great outdoors it was a beautiful spot surrounded by mountains a fun place to be to make it feel like a fun summer holiday we came back later that day and put on our fun shirts we tie dyed i think they turned out pretty cute bella wanted to wear her fun dance costume which was fine by me since you pay all that money and they wear it once it was a perfect 4th of july outfit we had a traditional hamburger we met up with the skinners at the broomfield commons area for their fun firework show such a fun holiday a week later the porter crew came out for our family reunion it was nice to have everyone come to us for a visit we had some great times we went to carter lake one day and a massive rain storm came through didn t stop us from having fun however those in the liddiard car didn t make it up because their car broke down sadly bella was one of those and it was her bday but sounds like they had a good time playing at mcdonalds and getting ice cream so there weren t any upset kids just bummed they missed it we also went to union reservoir in longmont for a day trip paul and jill rented a water board which was a lot of fun any time in the water is fun in my opinion we also had a baseball game and papa john helped teach a few of the kids how to bat which was cute i feel like we had a date night but honestly at this point i can t remember haha before everyone left on their last day we threw together a quick family picture got to capture all these beautiful people together it was great to have them all out for a visit and good fun family time we took the kids up into the rocky mountain national park for a few days of camping it d been a while since we had gone but we had a great time the kids loved it and were really good sports my favorite was finding them in the tent playing games together love that they are having fun together and hope they remember these wonderful times together these are the relationships that matter and last we did some hiking playing games roasting marshmallows and took a drive through the park where we came across a few herds of elk it was pretty amazing some beautiful areas so close by such a beautiful place we live the older 3 kids were able to participate in a summer acting camp where they practiced all week and then put on alice in wonderland they loved it and did fabulous liz played the rabbit caroline played a mouse and tweedle dum or dee i can t remember and cooper played the other tweedle it was fun to see them enjoy performing and doing a great job at it posted by michelle c at 12 41 pm 0 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom michelle s photo 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