It's a Boy!!!!

Baby number 4 is on the way!! I am 18 weeks and 2 days pregnant with a baby boy!!!!

Wow this has been a post that I have wanted to make for so long. I have the best news and I am so excited to finally share it with everyone!! It is a story I don't ever want to forget so I am going to write it all down so I will remember it.

It all started back in March. I had an ultrasound on my liver to make sure all the blood clots were gone. Well they were gone all right every last one of them. The Dr. was amazed that they disappeared so quickly. I had been on blood thinners to get rid of them so they decided to stop the blood thinners. My liver counts went back to normal so fast it was a miracle. It was then that I found out that I was going to have another baby!!! I had always heard that the high hormone levels while being pregnant could heal the liver, well they sure did that to mine. I was thrilled, absolutely so happy I couldn't believe it!! I was so afraid of ever getting pregnant again, I never wanted to go through what I went through with Kenna, the thought scared me to death. But I now was facing it all over again. Instead of being scared like I had been I had the calmest feeling come over me that this was going to be for the best and that everything would work out. I have faith that this is going to be great!!! And I won't choose to think anything different. They say sometimes you have to go through what was once one of your biggest fears again, so you can have a better experience and then it wont be your biggest fear anymore. I was on my death bed with Kenna and thought I would never live, and now I feel like this is going to be amazing!!! Call me crazy I am just not sure what I am anymore. I have always wanted a big family and I am going to go for it :)

It has been quite the ride so far...I have been watched very closely in fear that I was loosing the baby for some time. Lots of blood drawn to watch my liver closely. I have also been so very sick that some days it has been hard to get up and go or take care of my kids. I have also started the headaches..which aren't fun but at the same time great because you know that the hormone levels are high and healthy. All of these things are so good and I wouldn't trade them for anything. We go through so much for nine months to get precious babies here and they are worth every minute. I am so excited I can hardly wait!!!

My baby is due December 8th, but I will have to have another c-section so it will be scheduled and I am thinking probably the end of November or first of December. The Dr. will make sure I am not having any contractions and if I start having them he will schedule the c-section then. I went into labor three weeks early with Kenna so who knows for sure when this one will come. I am hoping for December!! Until then I will wait and get myself more excited. I am so excited to have a winter baby, to be able to wrap them up and snuggle by the fire and the Christmas tree just sounds wonderful to me. Which is a huge change because I use to be afraid of having a winter baby because of the kids getting the baby sick :)

The best part about all this excitement is that the girls have known all along and they are more excited than me I think. They want another baby so bad and I think they will be the biggest helpers ever. I am excited to add baby number 4 and give my girls a baby brother. This little boy will be well taken care of with three older sisters!!!

Happy 4th of July!!!

What a weekend!!!! I am tired...I should say exhausted after this busy weekend. I was so disappointed, we were suppose to go to the Oregon coast with my sister for the 4th and Josh ended up not being able to get one of the days off that we needed, so instead we stayed home. Which ended up being fun so it was okay.

We went to the parade!!! I love the parade and so do my girls so we never miss it :) We went with my Mom, Dad, brother Nick, sister in law Janell and all the little ones....Jani, Jaden, Alyssa, and Taya. The kids had a blast!! It wasn't too hot, it was a perfect morning for a parade!!

Then after the parade we went over to my brother's house and had a BBQ and let the kids swim. Let's just say the kids had so much fun I didn't think they would ever want to leave.

Grandma, Aunt Donna, and Uncle Darren and Dad in the background!!

We got such a wonderful spot at the fireworks I am pretty sure we will go there every year now. It was great nothing was in our way and we were so close the kids loved it. Kenna was absolutely amazed at those big loud fireworks. We went with my brother Nick and his family and the kids played and had fun together. Their little one Taya covered her eyes through the whole thing she hated the fireworks. We had a wonderful 4th of July. It's too bad it had to end with kids tired and not feeling good and a Mom that has no energy :) That's the way it goes when you play too hard I guess.

Kenna sat her juice on her Daddy's behind in hopes that when she came back for it, it would still be there. Well her Dad didn't know it was there and he didn't move one bit and it was still there when she got back. Kenna does some of the funniest things sometimes.

The Amazing Flags

I went with my Mom to take the girls to see the amazing flags this year, if you haven't been, you better go. It was the neatest thing ever!! I have always driven by and seen them but never gotten out of the car and stood on that peaceful ground so close to the flags. We had a talk about what the flags mean and why we celebrate the 4th of July. There were many many flags with yellow ribbons tied on them with pictures of soldiers from Idaho who had died. As Mom and I walked and read about the soldiers...their name, age, the families they left behind and how they died....it was so heart breaking. This touching me so close to my heart because I have a sweet friend who's husband is away from her and her two children right now while he fights for us. We are so blessed to live in this land. We are so blessed to have soldiers that are so willing to fight for our freedom and give their lives so we can live. The spirit is felt on that land where those flags stand, what a wonderful place to visit. I hope we can all remember those soldiers who have died or who are fighting for us right now on the great day called the 4th of July!!! Say a prayer for our soldiers that they may always be watched over and protected.

Cheerleader Camp

A girl in my ward called me to see if I wanted to put the girls in cheer camp this summer for two days. I have never wanted to encourage my girls to be cheerleaders but I thought it would be fun to get them out of the house and let them play with their friends at cheer camp. It turned out to be a lot of fun for them. Sometimes they need that break from their Mom!! They were a little out of control at the parent performance and I don't think they learned much of the dance that was taught...that's Maddy for you, can you tell by the pom pom on her head...silly girl!!!

Grandma's flower garden

My Mom "Grandma" has the prettiest flower garden every year! Kenna loves flowers so we went over there and had fun picking flowers and putting them in a vase. Kenna would smell every flower and say "o pretty flower" what a fun day we had with grandma.

Swimming at Ross Park

We went to Ross Park for the day with Katie and Rodger and had a blast!! This is the funnest water park for kids because they have a shallow area of water where the kids can play and have fun without me helping them. It has been such a fun summer with so much to do, the girls are having fun fun everyday!!!