New Little Guy

This is Austin Alan born 30 April 2010. He weighed 7 lbs. 12 oz. and was 20 inches long. He has been home a little less than a week, but Owen and Dakota love him and give him plenty of attention. We are still figuring out the sleep at night thing. I end up spending the last half of the night sleeping in the chair with him. P.s. any tips on that? He is pretty patient and content for a new baby. We love him very much!

LONG LONG TIME

Well it has been a while. I have not been motivated lately to update our blog. Owen and Dakota are great! Nate is well, too. Today, I was laying in the bed and Owen came to lay by me. He put his arm around me and started rubbing me not realizing that he was rubbing my boob. So I asked him to stop and he said, "that is for the baby to eat." I said, "yes," he then asked very seriously and curiously, "Is it white milk or pink milk?" I cracked up laughing and told him it was white milk He then proceeded to tell me that the baby needs pink milk(Strawberry milk).

I only have 2 weeks left! Last monday, we thought my water had broke, but the baby just happened to drop that day and squeeze my bladder and I basically, crossed my legs while running to the bathroom, but it didn't stop it from coming! YES! I peed my pants! So because everyone was concerned, I went to the OB to get the test done to see if it was my water. It was not! I have been ancy and ready for the baby to come ever since! I think I was a little disappointed!

Dakota, let me tell you about this little daredeviled spitfire! She is wild, but very fun and happy a moajority of the time. She loves to dive in the water head first and when you rush to bring her up she smiles with a twinkle in her eye. Then she does it again! She loves to dive down big slides head first! And laugh when you gasp with fear! She loves to give her grandma Searle a heart attack while climbing the rocks out at 3 peaks here in Cedar. She climbs up them and falls, she doesn't care about the dirt on her face or in her hair or on her pants, but if it gets on her hands she shakes them and whines. She puts her wrists to the ground when she falls instead of her hands. She is pure girl with a little adventure in her. She is tough too. She likes to wrestle her daddy along with Owen. And when she gets knocked down or hit in the head, she rubs it and then shakes it off. She is a big tease and very mischievious! Remind you of anyone??

Owen, loves to listen to his music and dance. He also loves to repeat the songs he learns in Nursery. He knows the words and actions of songs I don't even know. he never sings them in Nursery, but he comes home and has them memorized! He is still a cowboy! He loves to ride and get bucked off of about anything! He also loves to round up the bulls! He is very smart and can count to 10 in order on his own. he knows half of the Alphabet and their sounds. He knows his colors and shapes, and he knows way to much for his age! We have to be careful around him, because he understands what we say. Today, he couldn't get one of his toys drawers to push in, so just like a grown up would, he said, "stupid drawer," under his breath. It is scary. You have to talk nice to other drivers too, because he catches that. Today, I cleaned, which was a big accomplishment! When I was done I said, "Man, I am dead!" He replied, "you are not dead." He is a tease, but he has his moments of seriousness. Nate also started singing to Owen, " OOOH! Who lives in a pineapple under the sea..." Owen replied, "I don't live ina pineapple under the sea, with a very serious and confused look. He is funand excited for the baby to come. We talk to him about it all the time and what the baby will be like and how it won't do much at first. He seems to get it, and he always rubs mt belly and asks when the baby will come out. It is cute.

Nate, is gettign in shape for his physical and written test in New Mexico for the Police Academy thier. That is on May 24 and 25. Speaking of that, I need/want to know if anyone can help me while he is gone. I am scared that I will still be adjusting to the New baby and 3 kids. Nate ran his first 10 k in 4 years. He took 5 thin his division and 24th overall. We were proud of him. He is planning on runnign as many races as he can. He also claims that I can not have my baby on the 1st of May! That is the Kentucky Derby. He says if I do then that is what he will be doing at the hospital, is watching it. Karen says that he has now jinxed himself! I HOPE SO!!!

Well that is is for now. I will post updated pictures the next time I feel a little motivation. We love you all and hope all is as well for everyone else as it has been for us. We are very blessed even in times of hardship! We have no complaints, other than I am ready for the back pains and so on to be gone and the baby to be here. But that is just me being whiny and a baby! So all in all, all is well!

Lots of Pics

This is our Date in SLC to The Hale Theatre and The Roof

Shopping Adventures! No room for kids in cart

Owens Greenshow Dance. It was way Cute!!

This one! Oh Boy!! Today She went into Owens Room and was playing Quietly. which is normal for her. She usually tears toys and books off the shelves, but today, I saw her head poke around the corner and noticed brown on her face. Curious, I followed her back in Owens room and... Owen left his Halloween bucket with chocolate in it on the floor! She devoured those hershey kisses and the Tin Foil on them!! But boy was she happy!!!!

Dakota Having fun in her diaper box

Ward Halloween Party!we managed to keep Owens on for the pic but wnet bye bye after that. So now he is going to be Hulk. It is a bodysuit that he can't take off!

This is Nate writing, be cautious :)

Girls are moody:) , she was playing on our bed and I was lying on the bed and she some how bounced off and decided she would have nothing to do with me for the rest of the night. I would try to hold her and she wouldn't let me get close. It was sad, she is ok of course no perminate damage, and today she is my little girl again. :) She is making some more fun noises which is good. She is getting faster in the crawling and likes to try to get away from us. It is really funny.
Owen and I went on a horse ride on Wednesday and it wasn't fun. :( We rode chipper and he usually is a great horse. When we got to the house Owen wanted to ride the white horse and I said no because he tends to be a little wilder, (i should have listend) so we rode Chipper. Everything started out ok. We got about a block away from the house and he started to act funny. I knew that wasn't a good sighn, but you cannot turn back when you start a ride with Owen. We keep going and got about four blocks away from the house and Owen wanted to go back. We started back, got about two blocks from the house. I wanted to cross the street and Chipper didn't want to. Of course when I am on a horse I want it to listen to me. Well, needless to say, we made it accross the street but not the way I wanted. Chipper started on a dead buck, not a crow hop and not a side jump. A stinken hard buck, head between his legs and butt high in the air and it was not fun. I had Owen on the front and yea needless to say we are ok, I have some sore leggs, and I walk funny, but we didn't get bucked off. Owen will tell you that chip bucked his boot off:) Owen wouldn't get back on, we got back to the house and I took Chipper to the round corral and man he didn't like that. He bucked again not as hard but the round corral is my turf and well lets just say he didn't like it.
Danielle is good, she is tired but came on a long walk with the kids and me today. We went to the park and had a great time. The pregnancey is going really good so far, pray it keeps going great.
As for me. I'm onry as ever :) I'm glade the back ground is in Washington. I was getting tired of phone calls and everything.

Update!

So here goes... Well Dakota is crawling on all fours now and getting into everything. She is quite the explorer and she climbs. We are in trouble. She is much happier now that she can move around and she is getting feistier. She is really fun and loves to get you and tease you! Owen is potty trained!! Yippeeee! He now will say, "I pee in my panties!" When he has to go pee or poop! He thinks it is funny to tease me about it. He is a toad. They both are, but they are dang cute ones!! The Border Patrol is doing an extensive background check on Nate. It is getting tedious! They have to talk to 2 of our neighbors in every place we have ever lived in the past ten years or 7 I can't remember. Same with all of his employers. They have to find people to verify that we lived their. And they have to verify that he worked the jobs he did! It is insane, I understand why, but man it is annoying and a long process. They guy keeps calling me and asking me if I know of anyone that knew we lived in the certain places. WE HAVE MOVED ALOT!! SO IT IS ALOT OF PEOPLE TO INTERVIEW! Poor Guy!

NEWEST NEWS

So we have some news to tell all and thought it would be easiest to do it through the blog for a few reasons:
1. We know everyone has their opinion and that is fine, but the expression of it is not always welcome in some situatutions. Such as this one. We would love to hear good positive things and congratulations, but negative and discouraging ones are not welcome! We say this as nicely as possible we just don't want to hear negative things.

2. Being that it is easier to let everyone know by saying it once and letting them read it when they want.

We are doing good and we are expecting our 3rd baby. We have an ultrasound tomorrow to find out how far I am. Yes, we are scared as you are with any new change or addtion, but we are happy about it. We are doing what God wants us to do even though others may think they know better than us. We have always found a way to follow Gods plan and have things work out the way He has planned. After the 3rd baby, we may be done, but we don't know. It is up to God.

We love you all and welcome any good, encouraging and positive comments. We realize Dakota and this new baby will be under 2 years apart and it is scary, but we felt strongly that it was what God wanted even though we tried to ignore it. The way I see it is that our children will be good friends and out of the house quicker to give us grand babies, which I here are much better. LOL :) We are happy and will accept and love this new baby!

It has been a while sice I have blogged. Sorry! Nate has been working out on that New Harmony fire alot! I missed him, but now he is home for 3 days. We went up to my families cabin on Cedar Mountain last night. Owen loved it up their, He just would wander off and he didn't care if he got lost. He would just explore the mountain and play with dirt and sticks not worrying where he was heading. Sounds familiar...Hmm... Dakota loved it too. She is crawling all over the place. Her favorite place to be is in Owens room. She loves to pull all the books off the bookshelf and then move on to his toys.

They have been really goods kids this week with Nate being gone as much as he was. The second they both they see their dad they get really excited and start bouncing around and they both want all of his attention. Friday night Owen didn't go to bed UNTIL 11:00. He heard Nate come in at 9:30 and he came and sat on Nate's lap and just talked away to him about everything. It was pretty cute. Dakota is a tease. She will grab my hair or my face and turn me towards her and just laugh. She is sure a cutie. well I have to get ready for church, I am giving the lesson in R.S. today!!