We just thought that we would share a few more photos with all of you:P




Elijah's little foot compared to Nama's hand
Going home:)


He can't get enough of him

Here are the long awaited pictures of our new one. I'm sure you were all anxiously awaiting her posts updated every 3 hrs. haha. 8 lbs 12 oz born June 18 at 8:01. Only a few pics, I'm sure when Trisha is feeling better she'll post an entire album on here. We're enjoying him so much. He's perfect and as you can see has a full head of hair. Noah is being the perfect big brother giving kisses and hugs and petting him when he starts to cry. We were worried about his reaction but couldn't be happier. Mom and baby can come home Friday.

We just thought that we would thank you for all that you due. You wake up early and work hard to give us what we need. You take your time to say thank you. And you always make time to play (ray). You are the best we could have in so many ways. Your helping to raise are son the way that God would hope we would due. We are teaching him to be true in the church. Together we will teach are children the ways that were set on this earth. Your a wonderful dad and your work shows you off. We love you very much!
Happy Fathers Day:)

*To a Wonderful Father*

You taught me wrong from right.
Even when I didn't listen.

You showed me how to love.
And I took it to heart.

You told me I was special.
I thought that you were silly.

You gave me good night kisses.
Even if I was pretending to sleep.

You taught me to be all that I could.
I tried hard to make you happy.

You helped me to learn that Marriage was FOREVER.
Now I can learn from you.

I love you with all my heart. You helped me to be better then I could ever have thought. We might of had are differences but thats how it was. Now I depend on you and fighting isn't ever a lot. We have both grown together and more each day I see that your a wonderful father to me.

I love you!







Ode to Male-Gendered Parents
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Fathers always help out, they're the best on the map,
they cleaned up your vomit, they cleaned up your crap.

They gave up their freedom for diapers and no naps,
they gave up their shoulders they gave up their laps.

They gave all they were, all they do and know,
From wiping your own butt to shooting a bow.

But between all the diapers they find their greatest joy,
spending time with that little one, their girl or their boy.

Well Here I am! lol Only a few days to go. I feel big and I think that I look big too! But I love that I am going to meet my new little son soon. I can't wait to share photos with all of you:P And I heard that they give you Steak and Shrimp as your Congrats meal. That might be kinda good. Oh and I think that Alise and Juan are going to bring Rock Band to the hospital and were going to play while I'm there so that I have something to due. lol J/K But wouldn't that be funny?

For the last few weeks or I guess Month I have been walking like a duck. But it has gottin so much worse! UGH!! I hate it! I walk like a duck BIG time. I kinda walked like this with Noah but it wasn't painful. Oh how the days are full of painful walking:( Im so glade that I only have a few days to go of this.
I was thinking about how I have to go threw all this things just to have a c-section. The feeling is so different. I sometimes think that I wish that Noah wasn't so big then I would be able to have kids regular. But I guess good things come in different ways. I remember when I was going in for my c-section with Noah after 3 hours of pushing and 24 hours in labor. And I don't know if I was to nervous because it was all going so fast. But when I think about going in this time. It makes my tummy a little sick. lol I know that everything is going to be fine though.

Well I have 1 Week to get things together. Last night I had heartburn. ALL NIGHT!!! It hurt so bad I didn't know what to do. So I called the OB at the Hospital and she said to drink a lot of water. Well it worked but after the 3rd time of getting up I was tired. I was awake most of the night. But this got me into thinking about how I'm going to be up every night for a while starting next Wed. This morning it really hit me that I am going to have to kids and that my life will be even more full and I will have less time for ME TIME. I think I hit the bottom this morning as I cried in are room on and off for about 45min. All I could think about was that I hope this feeling will go away. I want to be a good mom to both of my kids. I'm just hoping I can be?. I am also still on the sick side:( This sick stuff has got to go! Not only sick but the runny nose has got to stop. I'm tired of cleaning my nose every two seconds!!! And since my nose hurts to breath because it's so dry of because it's stuffed I have to breath out of my mouth causing my tummy to hurt from all the dry air. I have 6 days to get better and hope that it dosen't get the rest of the family so that are baby can come home to sick free home. I know that Keenan is sick to so I'm hoping that we can all get better. Because that's all that I don't need is a sick new born baby:( I'm hoping that he next few days will go fast because I would like to get back to my thin pants and sleeping better even if it's only for a few hours at a time. Well I just had to get out what was on my mind:)

Well it's nice and early. Or late. Depending on how your looking at it. As you have read in my other blog I have strep and allergies. They are not working well together. My nose gets super dry so that it hurts to breath. Then when i breath threw my mouth it hurts my throat. I also feel like im not getting enough air. I wish that medication would work right away and that you would feel 100% after you take it. But I guess thats not how things work. I hope that i feel better by morning. And that i get some sleep. I have have to run around town in the morning and being sick will not make it very easy! I hope that everyone had a good week/weekend.

So this morning I woke up with a feeling that today wasn't going to be very great. And I was right. Since yesterday I've had a sore throat. And so I thought that medication would help me feel better. But I was in for more then allergies. Yup that's right strep throat. So I had to pick up some medication from the pharmacy this morning at 10:30. Ugh! I hate being sick!!! Not only do I get strep but i have to worry about getting the boys sick and I have really really bad allergies. It was nice to have Colby play with Noah today though:) It's so nice to have them together. Noah loves his daddy and when every you say "Daddy" he lights up. So it was a good father son day. As for me I hope that I'm feeling better so Colby can go to work tomarrow. I'm working on it! lol We are also counting down the days till my C- Section. Only 10 days including today. CRAZY! We thought that we would get a chance to go out one more night before Elijah comes. So Alise and Juan watched Noah for a few hours so we could see a movie and have dinner. It was so nice of them to take on 3 kids last night:) And Alise was kinda enough to bring us dinner since i was sick and couldn't go over to there house for a night of fun. Thanks Alise!

This is the side job I've been working on for the last 1 1/2 weeks after work and on Saturdays. My boss Tony Jenks gave this job to me, we were VERY appreciative 'cause with the baby coming we've still got a few things we need to buy. I've just got a few very small things to do and then I'll be finished. It has 12' walls and 10/12 slope roof. It was fun to build, my bro-in-law Juan helped me on it. It was fun to work together. I'll try and take a pic when it's all sided and done.

I don't know what it is that drives my passion for weak things. Maybe it's the fact that I was the younger brother and had was picked on so much that now my subconscious is secretly seeking those weaker than I to torment. Some will remember the 4 point whitetail deer I took a couple years ago, it had it's back leg shot earlier that day, making it have only 3. Well, the saga continued when we looked out our back yard last week and saw a 3-legged raccoon in our garbage barrel. We'd suspected it with the mess that was made out there by our unattended garbage, but blamed it on the local cats. When we saw it for the first time I instinctively grabbed my paintball gun, the only gun in the house, when Trisha, as if inspired from on high yelled, "Get your bow!". As if it had been practiced I had an arrow knocked and headed out the front door to sneak around. By the time I got around the raccoon was under a horse trailer and when it saw me ran quickly underneath the shed behind our house. "Alright" I said, "we've got nothing but time." It had outsmarted us this time. Last Tuesday I worked late and when I got out of the shower at 8:30 Trisha said that our little friend had returned. With no time to fully dress in camouflauge or use scent remover I threw on the closest clothes I had and was out the door. When I came around the corned it had its back to me digging through our trash, I took aim and let her go. The arrow struck true, straight up it. It ran at me then along our fence line. I shot another arrow at it while it was running and I still haven't found that arrow:s. It ran underneath the shed again, my arrow sticking out behind it. I had to get my arrow so I got the 9mm and a flashlight to finish the job. And as you can tell by the pics, I've got the tail hanging on our wood shed now.


The evidence of paws


Getting my arrow back



Note the paw missing.



Here's a picture to put up on the wall at Sportsmans!!!

So it's been a few weeks since the Garden was planted and it isn't doing to bad! Everything is growing:) The onions are a little on the sad side. I'm not sure how many will grow but Tomatoes, Green Beans, Corn and Carrots are taking root. I've been weeding about twice a week and watering when it's not raining. Next will be the bug spray I think. It's nice to get out of the house for 30min's or so to tend to it. I'll put pictures up when we due the lawn. :) We also have discovered Strawberry plants next to the shed. How exiting that is! They aren't very big....but i think that it will at lest grow 10 strawberry's or so:) lol I also have some flowers that I planted and they are looking bright. They are next to the house in a flower .....pot? MMm kinda like a wooden bucket. And i also have a BEAUTIFUL plant that I got from church for mothers day:) It has grown twice to three times the size as when I got it. and has lots and lots of buds. I didn't think that I could ever love growing plants. Or that they would ever grow. xoxo

So last night Colby and I were looking on the computer and out comes Noah with an empty Tums bottle. I almost died. (Almost) He looked all milky from eating the tums and I thought that he was going to be sick because he at them all. But when we took him to bathroom he had only eatin about 3ish. UGHHHH I thought I was going to have to call the hospital to see if I needed to take him in. But Im sure it wouldn't have been to big of a deal just a little tummy ache. We are always keepong are door shut for the reason that are bathroom has things he shouldn't be playing with. But it only takes a second. So scary what can happen in a second. The other day I walked into the kitchen where Colby was doing some dishes and Noah was standing there with colby's box knife OPEN in his mouth! My whole body went numb because i can't even think of what his face could have looked like if i had not walked in there.

Colby and I together


kinda Colby and Noah

Noah and I


A different Colby and Noah


And a different Noah and I


And Colby and I again


I saw this on someones Blog and thought that it would be fun to try out:) lol how silly! Some of the pictures don't even line up. But it was fun to see what we all look like together.