Baby #5 is on the way!!!

I had my first appointment November 11th! I was 9 weeks exactly! 

Here's the cute pics we got of baby #5! 

At the ultrasound appt I met the newest midwife in training...I forget her name....but my regular midwife Rachel was there too and they were letting the new one practice doing ultrasounds so she was doing it but couldn't find the baby and all they were seeing was uterus. Meanwhile I was silently freaking out in my mind...that was fun....then finally Rachel took over and found baby right away! PHEW! then Rachel told me that baby has a blood pocket around them! Resume FREAK OUT! but she quickly calmed my nerves and told me that it's just a random abberation that sometimes happens at implantation and that my body will either get rid of the blood just by bleeding or it will just reabsorb it! So far no blood so I'm assuming it's being reabsorbed! Baby 5 looked great though and the heartbeat was nice and strong! 

I've been nauseous on and off this pregnancy which has now gone away unless I'm hungry. And I have been sooooo exhausted this pregnancy it's been ridiculous! I just can't get enough sleep! Hopefully when the 2nd trimester is in full swing I'll be feeling more energetic! 

12/14/15 13 weeks and 5 days! 

I had my second appointment on Dec 9th and got to hear that beautiful heartbeat! :) 

This time around we have decided not to find out the gender!!! I'm so excited but that ultrasound day is going to be really hard at the same time! But Lee and I both want to atleast try it out once, not finding out the gender, and I'm super excited and determined! 

I'm going to save up money throughout this pregnancy and just go on a baby shopping spree once baby arrives! In the meantime I'll buy one boy and one girl coming home outfit complete with a blanket and binkys but that's it! Baby will be in our room in the bassinet we have anyways for the first couple months so we'll have time after baby arrives to figure out where baby will sleep when he or she is bigger...and who knows maybe we'll even be lucky enough to have found a bigger house by then too! 

This was our Facebook Announcement that I posted the day after our 2nd appointment....

besides our Christmas card picture this is the only other picture that really turned out! No one wanted to cooperate but I'm glad we at least got one Christmas picture and this announcement picture :) 

here's some individual shots we got of the kids minus drake who was just running around like always haha lol not the greatest but whatever....

 Lee and I got a couple good pictures together which was nice cuz that never seems to happen! We always forget cuz the focus is usually the kids! so it's nice to have some of the two of us. 

Tuesday the 8th was our ward Christmas party and the kids got to meet Santa!

 That was as close as Maylee was getting.....She grabbed the candy cane and ran back to me lol 

Drake was just fine on Santa's lap but was mostly just there to get the candy and then he wanted down! He didn't want to talk to Santa lol 

Zeke was the first to get up and go sit on Santa's lap and he asked Santa for a blue airplane and paint! :) 

Landon was a little shy and nervous to go up and talk to Santa but he was excited at the same time and he asked for a Skateboard.

Cracks me up that my kids were asking for things they hadn't told me about. Hopefully they're not disappointed cuz my shopping is already done! lol 

Well gotta go try to clean house before I need to start dinner! Yay for an update from me! You're Welcome! hahahaha

Can you believe my baby is one?!

 It happened! My baby girl turned one September 15th! 

 Cake smash pics!!! yum yum!

The morning of her birthday! She loved wearing this little crown! haha

All dressed up and ready to party!

Just being cute! 

 Opening presents!

 Her doll that she got from her GG it giggles when you press its chest and she really liked that haha

 playing with her ponies.

mmmm cake!

that ice cream is cold!!! 

Time to wash up! 

These pictures we took the same time we took her cake smash pics I love how cute she is in purple! 

she was getting up and then decided to rest on the balloon like a pillow haha she stayed there for a minute or so it was so funny!

  Maylee and her moose! She got this moose when we went to Bear World with my parents the weekend before and she Loooooves it! She love carrying it around and sleeps with it! haha so cute! She picked it out all by herself at Bear World and just couldn't put it back.

 The smash cake! Pink ombre! we ran out of the pale pink frosting to finish the top haha whoops but we just put that part on the back and you couldn't tell haha

 This cake stuff is fun! 

Happy Birthday to my Maylee Belle! Can't believe it's been a year already!!! 

Her first year in pictures! Apparently I wasn't as consistant as I thought I was for her monthly pics! whoops oh well you can still see her cuteness each month! :) 

I forgot to add that she is already talking she's been saying momma and dada for ever but shortly after that it was pup pup (puppy) then whenever she wants something she reaches her hand out and open and closes her hand saying "ME ME ME ME!" soooo cute hahaha and everything is a "baby" to her. She points at everything and says "baby baby" and just now she learned to say the word Eat! haha

11 Months already?!

This sweet thing is 11months old this month!!! How did that happen already?! She's starting to try to walk! she's been standing for sometime now and will stand up on her own without help from furniture or anything but she would not attempt walking at all until just this week! Yesterday the front door was open and she was standing next to me and then she just walked out the front door! haha no joke! She took 5 good steps before she fell down! She'll be running around soon before we know it! Today she took 7 steps! It's always random too I can only get her to take 3 steps towards me when I have the camera out and ready but in the middle of a room randomly she'll just stand and take 5 steps or so! haha My baby's getting too big! 

I have more updates too post but I keep forgetting to get the pictures off of Lee's camera from the weekend we went to the Lewis and Clark Caverns with my parents! So stay tuned for those!!! 

Family Pics Aug 2015

 

These 4 horizontal ones of the Kid's I'll definitely be framing! 

Just being cute with Daisy! :) She tried tasting it and didn't like that hahaha

funny serious faces lol 

Looking for ladybugs in the grass! 

A fun different edit for this pic :) 

I absolutely LOVE how our familiy pics turned out!!! I'm so thrilled!! we seriously took them in less than 10 mins! Probably a world record! haha we were being quick because we were trying to squeeze in huckleberry picking too. Kandice (Lee's SIL married to his bro Robert) took our family pictures for us and then I took her and Robert's Pics! :) After pictures we went home changed and headed up to huckleberry picking! Even Maylee was picking huckleberries but she was picking and eating them herself lol it was so darn cute I wish I had my camera with me so I could've taken pictures darn it. Drake was also picking and eating haha The older two were doing about half and half haha we were a little late in the season going to pick so it was kinda slim pickings but we still managed to get  a pretty good amount about a 1/4 of a gallon size ziploc! That will make us plenty of  huckleberry milkshakes since a few berries go a long way! 

It was a great Sunday afternoon and evening with family! 

UPDATE! I retook some pics of Landon and Zeke so these will be the four pics I'll put on my wall

Here are some of the pics I got while retaking more pics of Zeke hahaha he's such a little stinker I  love it! These show his personality perfectly lol

LOVE this last one! You can see his cute little freckles! haha