Halloween

Well, I know I'm a little behind, but I finally am putting up some Halloween pictures! Cohen was an astronaut, for 6 months he wanted to be an astronaut, he specifically asked to be a green astronaut, but we figured silver would be okay... and it was, he loved his costume. I was surprised that he stuck with his costume decision for six months, I kept waiting for him to change his mind like most 3 year-olds would do, but no....
Kennedy was a lady-bug thanks to Ty and Trista and their cute gift!! I figured it was easy and a nice way for her to keep warm!
We went to our ward/stake Halloween carnival and trunk r' treat.. Cohen loved it and had lots of fun!

Twilight

Waiting for this to come out!!! woo hoo

We took some pictures of Kennedy and Cohen together and some of just Kennedy.... I thought I'd share them.
Also there will be Halloween pictures up soon!
P.S. We got a new car! Yay bigger! woo hoo!

Anniversary/Birthday

John and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary, Yay, that is about 5 x longer than anyone in Hollywood :P, and it still only feels like we have only been together for a short time! We went to 33 Steaks, Booz, and Jazz.. it was delicious, I got a yummy steak with crab meat and this yummy sauce. John got a pepper steak, it was so good! So here is to another 55 or more years!

I had my birthday today, 26... just a note, it was fun pizza and cake with the family!

Blessing

We will be blessing Kennedy Braelyn on November 2nd, for all those that want to know, or want to come, it will be in my Mom's ward, at the Stake Center at 9:00 am

update

Well, Kennedy is now almost 2 months old, she is cooing and smiling and has the cutest little dimple. Cohen loves her, and is protective but definitely has his jealousy/annoyed moments. When she cries in the car he pulls the sun shade all the way down so that he doesn't have to look at her crying... The other day she was crying and he said " I think she wants to go back in your belly....", He also tells people to put her down when he wants them to pay attention to him.

I would post some new pictures, but John and I need to get a new camera, cohen decided it would be fun to pretend the camera was a boat, needless to say camera's don't float, and don't do well in a sink full of water! So it may be a little while before there are updated pictures. Hopefully we will be able to steal some from my mom's camera.

It is so interesting how each little one is so different, Cohen gets in the car and is instantly relaxed, Kennedy, not so much... she won't be as good of a traveler as Cohen. But both of our kids are night time kids, they are not much for the sleeping.

Cohen is starting to assert his independence, I told him the other day that if he didn't do something he was going to go in time out. He looked and me and said "That's crazy talk." Nice, it is so hard not to laugh when he is trying to be serious and is not listening, he storms about the house in a very comical way to try and be defiant, very overly dramatic stomping with his arms cross, saying "I'm going to go away..." The things he says keeps everyone around here in stitches. His vocabulary is large for a little one of his age, and is constantly saying things that you have to question where he learned it.. most of the time he will say he learned it all by himself...

Well John's bank, Wachovia, was bought by Well's Fargo, so we will see how it goes we are crossing our fingers that everying either stays the same or gets better, as we know you will know.

Well that is all for now, I will try and update more frequently....

Kennedy Braelyn Michael

Well, we had baby Kennedy on August 20th at 9:06 am. She weighed 6.7 lbs and was 19 inches long.

Late on the 19th I started feeling contractions that kept waking me up, although I didn't realize that was what kept waking me up until about 11:00. I switched from side to side seeing if they would stop. When they didn't I got up and just sat seeing if they would stop then, when they didn't I started timing them at 12:55, they were from 4 to 6 minutes apart (watching my clock, not all that closely), finally at 2:00 I woke John up and told him that I was having contractions, pretty consistently.
Luckily the night before my mom had Cohen and he had asked to have a "slumber party" over at Grammy's house... We had said okay and it worked out great and took out the step of waking up Cohen and taking him over to Grammy's house because he was already there.

When I woke John up he asked how far apart they were, I told him every 4 to 6 minutes. He said oh we have a couple of hours before something starts happening. I told him that I just wanted to make sure this was the real thing and make sure everything was progressing okay, and that with the second baby things can move very quickly. So he dragged himself out of bed and kept joking that they were just going to send us home.

When we got to the hospital I was checked, still not much was going on but the contractions were there and consistent, they said they would observe me for an hour and then decide if I should go back home for a while or not. When the hour was up, I was still having contraction, but wasn't any farther along than I was the first time, but the nurse said she felt some "knobby things", not normal for the head, she had the charge nurse come in and see if she felt the same thing, and she did. Luckily Dr. Mazen was already there as one of his other patient's had just had a baby, he checked and felt the same thing and decided they needed to do an ultrasound. With a quick look, the head was in my ribs and the feet were down where the head needed to be.
I had a couple more good contractions and Dr. Mazen decided I should stay there to see if the contractions would stop on their own to see if they could maybe turn her around, although when he felt her, he didn't think she would do that very easily. So they checked me into a room to decide what I needed to do.

At about 7:30, when my contractions hadn't stopped they decided that I would need a C-section as the baby was in the worst breech position and if I did start to really get moving it could be dangerous to the baby, and her feet could get stuck. So bummed as I was about having a C-section, that was what happened.

They gave me some medicine to stop the contractions and started to get me ready for the surgery.

The surgery went very quickly, I believe it was about 11 minutes from start to finish. Very quick. She came out by the feet and upside-down. They were still getting Kennedy ready to come over to me when they were closing the incision.

So that is the story of Baby Kennedy..
Cohen loves her, and LOVES to hold her, there are a few signs that he notices the time difference that Momma gets with him, between Kennedy and the surgery healing, so hopefully as soon as I'm better, I'll get to work on that a little bit more.