Daddy's Boy!! (with scientific proof)

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family website - Roots

Max's Debut, A Star is Born!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Hey, watch our little video! (Mom, click on the arrows under the pictures to view pages!)

Balloons, Babies and Neil Diamond

So, it has finally come to this. I should just get the Depends out now, because there is no turning back. I am officially the big 3-0. Thirty! This wasn't supposed to happen to me! I've already called Bea Arthur and I made the cut to become an official Golden Girl. Yippee.
There was no way around this horrific event, but surprisingly, there was no depression and renting of clothes like I thought there would be. In fact, thanks to my wonderful husband and sweet girls and the newly arrived darling Max, it was my favorite birthday ever, REALLY.
It started early, Max was to distract me in my bedroom while the others got everything ready. Zoe would come in every few minutes just to say in her adorable 2 year old voice, "Happy Birthday, Mommy!" and give me a hug. Finally I got to come downstairs, to be greeted with an entire house FULL of balloons! 30 exactly. Each color with signifigance. And a huge signs designed and decorated by the biggest up and coming artists, Zoe and Ella. An enormous breakfast of M&M waffles, eggs and bacon and sausage. Ella had been so excited and told Andy that they had to dress in their best clothes for the "party." so they all were! Max is just over a week old, so I wasn't up to doing a whole lot, so we partied at home. Andy knows me so well and always puts a lot of thought into my birthday presents, and he surprised me with a 30th edition of The Princess Bride ( I highly recommend reading it, it's even better than the movie.) AND tickets to Neil Diamond! I am so stinking excited! My parents and grandparents and sisters family came over for cake and ice cream that night, and it was so nice to sit and visit and feel normal for the first time in 10 days. I know it doesn't sound super exciting, but it was so wonderful and Andy knew exactly what I needed.

So, a side note away from the birthday mumbo jumbo, my beautiful baby is 10 days old already. Why can't they stay little for just one second, seriously? He finally is off of the bili lights, after 6 days. It was no fun at all, but I am so greatful he is getting better! I just wanted to show off how he gets cuter everyday!

Billy Something

So I guess Max wants his name to be Billy Ruben. He didn't say that, but he turned yellow. So here's our little treasure in a UV light contraption. Another heel bleeding tomorrow will tell if it's working. We sure hope so. We feel lucky and blessed to have him here and otherwise healthy.
I'm going in there next. I'll be so tan. I can't wait.

Maximus is home!!!

Don't I just have the cutest family? I can't imagine life in our house without Max, and that was only, what, three days ago? He is so beautiful and sweet. He is eating and pooping great, but, unfortunately we all have to go through getting sleeping patterns down, right? I want to show him off to everyone in the world and yet in the same breath I say, "Stay away! Wash your hands! Don't get him sick!" Yes, I am one of those moms. So I will show him off on this blog, where RSV can't reach him. Course, maybe now he'll just get a computer virus, hu! (Bad joke, it was Andy's.) Anyway, here is my gorgeous baby boy, and I could not be more in love with him!

The girls are fascinated with the basinette and could not wait to rock Max in it.







Play Video (This is for Mom who didn't know she could play videos on the blog before! Love you, Mom) This is Max's first night in this crazy world at about 4:00 a.m. I was burping him and he picks up his head and looks around! He's only hours old, he shouldn't be able to do that! What can I say, the boys a genius. (Sorry its so dark. Hope you can see it)

Max

Three doctors, three hospitals, three cities, three kids. Here is the third. Mr Max.
I cropped out his privates - he would want that
He was 9 lbs 4 oz. 21" long. Chubby little guy, eh?

So we went in at 7:30 and got all settled. The Doctor performed an *amnionotomy* and contractions picked up. Epidural went in ok, but became occluded. Then when it "broke loose" it hit Sarah hard. Can you say loopy? She'll kill me for writing this. But she did pass out for a sec a couple of times. A little scary, but it definitely made her less anxious. And pale. And unable to see. And confused. But she was great. Max began his lifelong commitment to breathing at 1:30 pm or so. 1:36? I dunno.

And so Zoe's world is flipped, she seems to be wrapping her head around the whole concept.

Ella gets it and she seems pretty exited and happy.

Grandparents were there to welcome the three chinned chunker.

Things went really really well! Sarah is feeling really good compared to the two previous ventures in childbirth.


I'm happy as the proverbial peach.
Lots of support and love from family and friends. And lots of texting. Boy are my thumbs pooped. rotfl lol ty ibs pta ;) dnr rotc vbac nib moo. Whatever.
So we did it all for the blog. Clear back in February we were like - "Hey, lets have a baby so that if we ever start a blog, we can put a post all about the whole experience and then lots of pictures and videos so that everyone will see our awesome baby making skills." And that dream can finally be realized here at blogspot.com.
Love you. Peace out. Bring on the crying and pooing and no sleep and then bring Max home.

Snow

Here I sit on the eve of a life changing event. Tomorrow, water will break and we will meet our third child and first son (unless it was just a girl teasing us from the ultrasound.) Pretty exciting!

We've really got a rhythm right now. Ella is señorita independiente. Zoe is pretty low maintenance, as far as 2 year olds go. Things function well. Zoe's been free of charge for pretty much all the activities and she and Ella enjoy the same level of entertainment. But all new challenges will arrive within hours. It's gonna be fun. Stay tuned for updates...

Anyways, we awoke this morning to four inches of snow. I'm so glad the purchase of this house included a snow blower, there's a lot of driveway out there and since Sarah was making excuses about her snow removal duties, I got to try it out. So we played in the snow for the sole purpose of having something to post on the blog. I shall henceforth call such activities "blog fodder." It's probably an incorrect application of the term, but that's what I'm going to call it.

Here's a picture of a snowman that Ella and Zoe made.

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet....

This Halloween was so much fun. We went to Park City and did the Trick or Treating on Main Street. They shut it down to cars and go from store to store. It was packed. They also had tons of dogs in costumes in the road doing a dog parade. We went to see the firemen (Andy was supposed to be working) and made it back to Heber to start all over again in our neighborhood. What a haul! I think we are instituting a 80% parent tax on all candy this year!

I think Zoe looks a little excited, what about you?

Andy went as scary "Dexter", the serial killer from TV. If you know who it is, he looks just like him in his costume. If you don't, which no one did, he just looked plain scary. Me, I went as a 40 week along pregnant woman.

Grandma Avery made the darling "Ella the Elephant" costume. Ella decided all by herself that's what she wanted to be. No princesses for her!