Josh- has school, work, more school, and more work. I honestly have to say that I MISS this man. I know he comes home and four thirty (if we're lucky) and is home for the rest of the night, but when he is home he's really at school. Blasted online classes, I swear these professors think that their class is the only one he is taking, so they pile on the busy work, not even helpful-for-tests kind of busy work, nope, just the meaningless kind. When he's not home, he's at work running around like a crazy man. He drives all over Utah taking clients to Court hearings, interviews, Dr. Appointments, etc... At first I was worried about him driving so much, he hadn't completely conquered his Iraq induced road rage which could be dangerous for all, but as it turned out, it has actually helped him find his long lost driving happy place! Yay!
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KayBree- has been having a hard time doing her homework. She hates to do it. When she gets home she wants to play which is understandable. I have been trying to explain to her that if she would hurry and get it done right after school then she could play until bedtime with nothing to worry about. She thinks I'm mean, so I backed off. Then we started a sticker chart, the faster she gets it done, the more stickers she gets, the faster her chart fills up, the closer she is to getting a prize. It has worked wonderfully! She is smart; she gets it done so fast. She's happier now and I'm happier now, which makes for a happy family. She is also such a great help with Kaia. When I'm doing something, she just takes Kaia and I don't hear another peep from the baby. She also wrote a book about how to take care of babies. It is so cute! I think it should be published, with the exception of the page that has a detailed picture of how to feed her. Haha!
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Daimen- started preschool. He loves it. He now gets to do dance class and tennis. He did tennis for the first time and came home discouraged because he wasn't good at it. I told him no worries; I wouldn't be good at it either. He also came home from preschool stylin’ a different shirt yesterday, apparently his friend decided to pee on him; I laughed and couldn't wait to get a phone call from his mom. I love her she's hilarious. Daimen also decided that his faux hawk was overrated so he promptly got some scissors and cut the front clean off. I had to shave his head and now he looks like a cancer patient with big ears. It also doesn't help that he got sick a month ago and lost 10 pounds, so his face is all sunk in and you can see his ribs so I guess he looks like a starving Ethiopia cancer patient with big ears. Awesome. I am trying to fatten him up, it's a slow process.
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Kaia- is five weeks old and getting chunky! I am so excited for a chunky baby. She is so happy and smiles so much in the morning. She is a great sleeper and eater, and only a little spoiled. She absolutely loves her Daddy and won’t be happy with me when she knows he’s home from work. She loves to play with KayBree even though she ends up with doll clothes on and in the doll stroller, luckily she fits. She loves Daimen too and smiles so big whenever she sees him even when he’s a centimeter from her face. I swear that would drive me nuts but if she doesn't like it she'll punch him with her flailing arms. It's pretty funny. She is so dang CUTE!
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And lastly Me- I am obviously not doing anything too exciting. Ya know, that normal mom stuff, feeding, changing diapers, cooking, cleaning, laundry, dishes, helping with homework, entertaining a four year old, etc... I doubt I will ever be completely caught up in all of these areas, but for right now I don't mind. I am enjoying my babies, and life as it is right now, stress and all. So many experiences in my life truly testify to me that I am blessed beyond anything I really deserve. My whole life I have had a plan of how I thought my life should go, a plan that I thought would make me happy. Everything on that plan has failed, and yet I am happier at this moment that I have ever been in my life. I have come to realize and accept that I am not in control of my life, which I am grateful for because I'm positive I wouldn't do a very good job. I am so grateful for my parents and my siblings. I love our family and our close knit connection to each other. I know that they would do anything for me and I would do anything for them. I love that my parents are always there for me, even if I call them every day they don't get too annoyed, well mom doesn't. :)

I am so blessed.

I have had many people ask how the labor with Kaia went, so I thought I would just write a post.

We went in to the Women's Center at seven in the morning to be induced. The nurse hooked me up to all the monitoring crap and commented on the fact that I was already contracting without the pitocin. "Cool," I thought, "this labor is going to be a breeze! She'll probably be here and in my arms by 7:30 am!" So they started me on pit and the contractions were significantly harder from then on.

Before this labor I had been reading a book about hypnobirthing... just so everyone is aware, pain free labor is a bunch of crap! I agree that relaxing during labor reduces the amount of unnecessary pain you cause yourself, but completely pain free is a myth. Basically the point I am getting at is that my labor was anything BUT pain free.

Soon 7:30 came and went as did 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30... Never before had I been in labor this long. My contractions were horribly strong, with less than a minute between, the nurse had a really hard time trying to slow them down. Then they were back to back, one hard contraction that never stopped. So someone came in and gave me a shot in the arm of a magical substance that helped my contractions space out. This labor was weird, it felt like regular contractions with the addition of pain in my lower back like someone was digging a knife into me and twisting it like a mad man. Later we found out that Kaia was posterior and putting pressure on the nerves in my back.

All of the hard contractions I had been going through were doing nothing but cause me pain, my body wouldn't dilate past a 6, so at about 2:30ish, after almost 8 hours of horrible contractions, Josh asked me to get an epidural. It was really hard to get one, my previous experience was horrible, so I vowed I would never get one again. I didn’t have one with Daimen so I knew I could handle the pain, but back labor was a whole different ball game. I agreed to the epidural and bawled the whole time for my pitiful failure, but now looking back I am so grateful that I got it. I asked the anesthesiologist for a low dose so I was still able to feel everything just not the pain in my back and it helped me dilate the rest of the way in only an hour. The labor was even fun (who can really say that)… I really love my doctor and my nurse was my best friend in Aggie Village. We were able to joke and laugh the entire time.

The week before I was due I had a doctors appointment and I told him about this horribly uncomfortable sensation that I had bugs running around under the skin in my legs and I asked him what could cause that… he got kind of quiet and then said “The only time I have ever heard of that is from crack addicts.” I was so embarrassed, obviously I’m not a crack addict but I felt instantly guilty and worried that he really thought I was on crack cause I do act like it some times, but we were able to laughed about it with him. So when Kaia was born he held her up and said, “Wow, she looks really good for a crack baby!” We all started laughing, with the exception of my mom and Wendy, who had no idea what he was talking about. It was awesome!

Here are some pictures of our beautiful Kaia, they make her look too old a chubby but they are the best I have! Enjoy

At the hospital.

With Daddy getting ready to go home!

Horrible pic of Mommy in the hospital with Kaia.

Big Sis KayBree and Grandma with Kaia.

The cute blankets and outfit sent by the Grandmas of Blanding!

Big brother Daimen admiring her cute little piggies!

I caught her smiling, you cant tell by the picture but she has the cutest dimples ever!

Beautiful Baby Kaia! We are so glad you're here!