Bear Lake Reunion

We had our annual Bear Lake reunion last week. We were so happy to see everyone again and enjoy visiting and playing with my extended family. We were having so much fun that I kept forgetting to take any pictures. This is about the extent of my picture taking so you will just have to imagine the rest. We went swimming a lot, wave running, golfing, mini golfing, hiking, played on the beach, and more. It is so hard to come back to normal life after such a fun week.

The first night we went to La Beau's for dinner, like we do every year.

Jon taking Shawn out on the wave runners. You can barely see his little head peaking out from under Jon's arm.
Going for a hike one morning. It was so beautiful and I would have actually enjoyed it if mosquitoes didn't exist.

I love Daddy because....

• He's so cute
• I can't remember
• He lets me play games in my sleep
• He goes to church
• He's lots of fun
• He reads books to me only when it's dark
• I like to give 3 smoochies Mamma and Daddy

Happy Father's Day!

Love,

Shawn

Am I cut out for this?

Yesterday I seriously considered finding a job and hiring a nanny. It was one of those days that made me start wondering if I would be a better mother if I was away from my kids more often.

I was up several times with the baby in the night. Then the day started at 5:00am when Evan woke up. An hour later, Shawn was awake. Evan is usually a very happy and sleepy baby. Yesterday was one of his days where he was just as tired as usual, but didn't want to sleep. I spent the whole day trying to get him to sleep......him sleeping for 10 minutes.......waking up.....starting again. By 1:00 in the afternoon I was frazzled and needed a nap.

I put Shawn in his room for a nap (which only works 1/2 the time). I could get the baby to sleep if I was nursing him in our bed. However, Shawn kept coming in my room needing different things and not sleeping. In his attempt to whisper he would wake up the baby again. One of his requests was water so I told him to just take the water that was on my nightstand so I wouldn't have to get up. Ten minutes later he came back to my room, naked, holding his clothes that were soaking wet from the water. I helped him get dressed and put his sheets and pillow in the dryer. Then I lock his door so he can't get out. I figured I could let him just play in his room for 20 minutes while I at least got a nap. Within a few minutes he is pounding on his door. I ignore this for about 5 minutes, then give up and decide that a nap isn't going to work. I go to get Shawn out of his room and when I open the door I am greeted with the overwhelming stench of poo. Shawn was wearing loose shorts and had a huge poo diaper that just couldn't hold it all in. There was poo on his bed (which didn't have sheets) all over the carpet, on a book on the floor, and on his hand. As I was changing his diaper Shawn kept telling me, "it's okay Mommy, I will just take a bath and then be all clean." I cleaned up the room, gave Shawn a bath, picked up my screaming baby, and wondered if I was cut out for being a mom.

After a couple hours when the kids had calmed down and were happy and I felt not as stressed, I looked at their cute little faces and it reminded me that there is no job in the world that I would rather have then being home with my sweet little boys.....poo and all.

Shawn proudly showing me his "name"

Shawn wanted a picture of his toes with Evan's toes

Evan's first time roasting marshmallows up the canyon

Thanks Honey for always being willing to help with the kids and with cleaning up the house right when you get home from work. I also want to thank you for letting me run away to the store when I need a break. Love you!

2 Weeks

Evan is two weeks old and doing very well. He is a sweet little baby. He sleeps most of the day and hardly cries. There have been several nights where I have only had to wake up twice to feed him, which seems like heaven compared to how it was with Shawn. I hope I am not jinxing myself by saying that.

Evan

Evan decided to join our family on May 9th, Mothers Day, at 10:47 am. I started having painful contractions about 4:30 in the morning that were 10 minutes apart. I told Jon we had to hurry and go to the hospital. We grabbed Shawn and our bags and left. By the time we got to the hospital the contractions were about 3 minutes apart.

They took me to the observation room and the nurse checked my progress. She took me straight to a labor and delivery room instead of monitoring me there because I was already to a 6 by that point. They brought my epidural right away and the nurse was still taking my info and doing the adim. stuff while I was getting my epidural.

I think that slowed things down a bit, which they were very happy about because they wanted me to get two doses of the strep B antibiotic. They couldn't give me the second dose until a little after 10:00 am. They broke my water right after I got that dose and then I quickly went to a 10. I had to push 5 times to get Evan out, which was twice as many times as with Shawn. :) Jon says that I make having a baby look too easy. I try to remind him that even though I didn't feel all the pain, my body still went through the experience. The recovery is always the hard part for me.

Evan weighed 7 lbs 14 oz and was 20 inches long. He is a pretty adorable little boy if I do say so myself. He didn't have a cone head or any weird things from the delivery. He is a little sweetheart and hardly cries at all. I am probably just jinxing myself by saying that.

Shawn didn't know what to think the first day when he came to see us. He didn't like seeing me strapped to machines and sitting in the hospital bed. However, now that we are home he is so happy to have this little baby around. He always wants to hold him and he gives his little brother lots of kisses. While I was pregnant Shawn kept saying that he wanted the baby's name to be Marshmallow Face. Now he refers to the baby as Evan Marshmallow Face or Marshmallow Face Evan. At least he was willing to compromise. :)

Evan's first photo

He was not happy for the first 5 minutes of life

My three boys
Happy Mother's Day to me

Close up

Last day in the hospital

Settled in for the car ride home

First night home

Temple Square

A couple days ago we went to Temple Square to eat lunch with Jon. His office is only a block away from the temple. It was a beautiful day and I was so happy to see the tulips before they start to die. I took a bunch of pictures so I can try to copy the color schemes and such. However, I am sure it would cost a fortune to get even our tiny yard to look like this.

What a cute little boy :)

Tiffany came with us a took some pictures. Shawn would smile so sweet and then right before Tiff would take the picture Shawn would open his mouth. He did this multiple times until we just gave up.

Shawn's Ready

Shawn is really excited about the baby coming and he seems to really understand what is happening. I have taken a couple videos of him talking about the baby coming but I can't get them to post on here for some reason.

Yesterday I found this setup in the loft. Shawn explained to me that it is a bed for the baby. He also found a bottle and filled it with water for when the baby gets thirsty. When I asked him what the step-stool was for, he told me it was so the baby could get out of it's bed. I thought this was so thoughtful and cute of him.

Shawn tells me all the time that he is ready for the baby to come "right now" and he is so excited for him to come live at our house. I hope he has those same feelings when the baby is actually here. :)