3 KIDS CHANGES EVERYTHING...

So this is a long over due update of what our family of 5 have been up to lately
We had a wonderful holiday season. The boys where lots of fun this year at Christmas and they got all they wanted from Santa which was a wiggly car and tools for Kaleb and Jacob wanted a wiggly car and a vacuum. We had a fun New Years kept it simple and had my mom and sister over to play games! Sent the boys to bed at there normal time but made sure to ring in the New Year early with them which included banging pots and pans! (the next day the nieghbors asked if we set our clocks forward since it was so early when we celebrated with the boys. They laughed when we explained!)

Tim:
He has been working hard at Hertz he is a assistant branch manager now and works 50+hrs a week. He has lost 20+ lbs since the first of the year and is enjoying running! He has turned in his application to the University of Utah for the Information Systems Masters program. he us currently studying to take his GMAT and attend in the Fall it is 3 semesters but he will spread it out to 4 and do a summer internship. I am so grateful for such an amazing and loving husband and father.

Me:
I am taking one day at time. Having 3 boys is a challenge and a great adventure! I wouldn't trade them for anything. I am still doing my school online I would much rather be in a classroom but it is just not feasible with were we are living and with 3 kids. I am enjoying running as well I am not fast but I will get there. My knees are doing really well which is a plus since I would be so mad if I went through those surgeries just to still not be able to do what I need and want physically. I am enjoying finding new recipes and trying them out thanks to Pinterest.

Kaleb:
Kaleb is loving school and is a very good student. He is going to start playing soccer this month which he is very excited about. He loves Sammy and is a big help with him as well. He is no longer a toddler that is for sure he is definitely becoming a little boy with a big personality sometimes I wonder where he gets it. He is very social (so not like I was or am). Kaleb is also finally in Sunbeams and loves it. He also loves to pray and we love hearing the things he prays about.

Jacob:
He is definitely 2 and doesn't let us forget it either. He is still our lovey boy and has a smile that brightens any day. He loves his big brother and little brother although sometimes he is a little feisty. He is our wild child! Things that work for Kaleb don't phase Jacob in the least. Jacob is talking like crazy and has a big personality as well. He loves to play with Kaleb, draw ans build with legos! He also loves to pray and Tim and I hardly get to say prayers anymore infact some nights at dinner we have 2 prayers since if it is not Jacob's turn he wont eat until he prays. He is very stubborn.

Samuel:
He is the best baby! I have truly been blessed with such an easy going little man and so happy. He is sleeping through the night. At 10ish days old he started sleeping 5-6hrs straight at night neither Kaleb or Jacob did that. He is a very happy boy and adores his big brothers. He loves watching them play and I fear when he realizes he can move it won't take long for him to chase after them. He weighs 13lbs 1 oz at his 4 month appointment. So he is our smallest boy so far. He is also my schedule boy, he put himeself on the same schedule as his brothers and likes to stick to it or he lets us know we are late getting him to nap or bed! He is such a joy to have in our family. He also has Blue eyes! (so maybe now I can be done having boys jk). I love having all these boys! They are truely heaven sent!

We are enjoying all these fun moment with 3 little boys! There are a huge amount of pictures that follow so enjoy seeing what we have been up to! Sorry they are not in order either! I will really try and be better about updating!

He is such a strong boy!

Pinterest meals!

Love when they get along!

Teaching little bro how to throw a a baseball

He loves his hands!

Baseball star in training!

Got hands!

We celebrated Tim's 27th Birthday in February!

We also enjoyed going to Milo's Indoor soccer games!

We went to Disney on Ice again it was so fun! Thanks again Aunt Kim!

Happy Valentines Day!

We discovered our Jakey boy has curly hair! Love it!

Enjoying the spurts of nice weather!

Sure love matching these boys!

Showing little bro how to drive a car!

Kaleb has finally come to enjoy getting his picture taken it is nice not having to trick him into looking at the camera!

I sure love these smiles!

Love his dimple in his chin!

I love this precious moment!

Too cute for words!

Our Jacob sure has the best poutie(sp?) lip!

Had to put in a grumpy face so you know he does have his moments! Plus it is still pretty cute!

Getting Jacob loves!

Banging in the New Year!

Love daddy snuggles

Merry Christmas!

Sure love all 4 of my boys!

When Sammy was first home every night the boys each would want a turn to hold him and kiss him before bed!

Kaleb and Sammy snuggles!

Jakey is TWO!!!

Can't believe our Jacob is TWO! We sure can't imagine our life without our chunky, snugly, loveable and hot tempered boy. Jacob is growing up so fast, he talks really well and loves asking why about everything. He has quite the arm on him, luckily nothing has gotten broken, he loves to wrestle with his brother ( I am trying to get use to this), he also loves to randomly tackle Kaleb as well. He absolutely loves his little brother and is very good at holding him and giving him lots of slobbery kisses. Jacob loves to play cars, coloring, riding his scooter, playing with his big brother and daddy, loves to ask you to tickle him. He adores his cousin Milo and Uncle Paul. Jacob is always making our hearts melt as well as many strangers there is just something about those chubby cheeks and brown eyes. At bedtime Jakey will ask for kisses and pucker up his lips it certainly makes the hard day worth it every time. Jacob is also very good at driving Kaleb crazy he knows how to push his buttons sometimes it is funny and other times it makes for a really long day! We sure love our Jacob and love the good and bad days that come with his temper and terrible 2's!
Here our Jakey's 2 year stats:

Weight: 35lbs (over 97%) Height: 37 inches (97%)

The doctor said he is doing great and is very healthy

We also took Sam for his 2 week appointment which he was more like 3 weeks, but here our his stats:

Weight: 7lbs 2 oz (10%) Height: 21 inches (95%)

He is doing great and sleeping 4-7hrs at night. He is a really good baby and loves his brothers.

A Little Fall...

The boys have really enjoyed having leaves to play with since our place down south didn't really have big trees with good leaves to make piles with. One Saturday Tim and I wrapped up in a blanket and watched the boys enjoy the leaves before our first big snow fall. It was so fun watching them be in pure heaven just playing with leaves. Kaleb loved jumping into the piles and Jakey enjoyed taking leaves from one pile to the next. They also discovered how fun it is to throw them at each other. It sure was a fun adventure for all of us even if it was a little chilly for Tim and I. We sure love our boys and the joy they bring into our lives.

Carrying the leaves!

Jakey also enjoyed falling into the leaves

Kaleb jumping into the leaves!

Got totally lucky and caught Kaleb mid air!

Love these boys

Disney on Ice

The Thursday before we had Sam, my sister got tickets to Disney on Ice from work and was not going to use them so she gave them to us. We were very excited to get to do something fun with the boys before our new little man arrived.
The boys were absolutely mesmerized by the whole thing and had the best time, even Tim and I really enjoyed ourselves. We had awesome seats with no tall people in front of us to block the boys. It was an awesome night and we are so grateful that my sister was so willing to let us have the tickets

Before the show

Our last days as a family of 4

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Samuel Alan...

So we are now a family of 5, little Samuel Alan arrived November 15 at 4:41am weighing 6lbs and 20.5 inches long. Here is his birth story so we don't forget. WARNING A VERY LONG POST!!

So Friday the 11th I went for my weekly Dr appointment, I took the boys since I figured we would be in and out because my last appointment my uterus was still really high like it was with all my other pregnancies so I knew it would be the same at this appointment. Anyways so they took my blood pressure and it was high and I had protein in my urine. His heart rate was a little low and his movements were lethargic. So they wanted to have his movements and heart rate monitored for an hour. So the boys and I went into a small room and got me hooked up the first 20 mins his heart rate was still low, but he finally woke up or decided to move and his movements and heart rate improved greatly. It must have been the stress from me trying to keep Kaleb and Jacob from killing each other in the small room with limited things to do. After another 30+ mins they said everything look great with the baby and we could go on our way. Well we pull into our driveway and I get a call from the Dr's office telling me that the protein in my urine was too high and I needed to do a 24 hr urine collection. So I had someone coming from the Relief Society coming to welcome me into the ward and get to know me a little better so I tried laying the boys down for naps which didn't happen so after she left I took the boys over to my mom and headed back up to the Dr's office which is a 20 min drive to get the jug to pee in.

Saturday I finished my collection of pee (on a side note I really hate doing 24 hr urine, I wish they would just admit me to have the baby instead) and took it up to the hospital which I thought would be a quick here you go type of thing, but of course it wasn't they needed to draw blood and I had to wait for the guy to finish with ER patients first, so it turned in to an hour drop off.
Monday morning came with a call from the Dr's office asking me to come in so we could discuss my results from the urine collection. I learned my lesson and quickly called my Aunt Michelle to come and watch the boys while I went to the Dr. While I waited for her to come I decided I better pack my hospital bag just in case they sent me to the hospital. Well the Dr told me my results were 225 and severe preclampsia is 300 so she didn't want it to get worse and have me have to be medicated. So off to the hospital they sent me to have the softener put in which puts me into labor and gets my cervix more favorable. I called my mom whose car I had and she told me she would find a ride after school. I then tried calling Tim who had told me that Monday I was not allowed to have the baby because it was going to be crazy busy at work. After calling a few times with no answer I texted him what was going on. I got admitted and hooked up to the monitors and was told I was having contractions. They put the softener in I was dilated about 2 and about an hour later I actually started feeling the contractions in my back so I was very hopeful to not have to have the pitocin at all and be able to have this baby with no epidural. So I finally got to talk to Tim and told him to stay at work and I would call him if I needed him to come sooner. So I hung out until my mom got there and then we started walking to keep the contractions coming and hopefully help them get stronger. Tim got to the hospital around 7. They wouldn't let me just walk all that I wanted since every time I did my blood pressure would get high so I could walk for a little bit and then would have to be monitored for an hour. So at a 11 they took the softener out and I was dilated to 3. The nurse said I had to progress a cm an hour in order to not do the pitocin. So mom and I walked while we walked about 30 mins into it my plug fell out and the contractions were feeling stronger. at midnight she checked me and I was a 4 but my blood pressure was up and had to stay in bed. At one I had not progressed any and my contractions were not regular so they started me on pitocin at a 2. I always said if they start the pitocin I was going to just get the epidural, well the contractions were stronger but manageable so I decided to keep trying without around 1:30ish my water broke, at two they turned the pitocin up to a 4 and I was at a 5 and fully effaced. I was hurting a lot but was still trying to hold out. Samuel heart rate was dipping so she was having me turn side to side to try and improve it. I finally decided it was hurting too much and that I wanted the epidural around 3am. It took the drug Dr about 15ish minutes to get there. It took about 45ish minutes to place the epidural, all the while I am in horrible pain. They got me to finally lay down and checked me and I was at a 9. So they called my Dr to have here head over. I was still waiting for the epidural to kick in but it took forever since I had progressed so fast it takes the medication a little bit to catch up since I progressed so quickly. My mom and Tim were awesome and just kept telling me to calm down and just breath and it would help the medicine work better. Finally I started feeling less and less intense contractions, but since my mom told him I didn't want to be numb bum I was still able to move my legs and feel that I was having the contractions which was actually nice to be able to move. My Dr finally arrived and I was able to start pushing. It took me a few pushes to not push in my face, but I got the right pushing and they could all see his head coming, Tim told me he had hair and then I gave a nice big push and Samuel basically popped out my Dr had to catch him it sort of shocked everyone and felt weird and wonderful to have him out. He started crying and it was the most wonderful thing ever. They all said wow he is small and sure enough he was just a mere 6 lbs the smallest baby I have had and smallest grand baby.

Tim and I had not decided on a name for our little guy we couldn't decided between Samuel and Grant. When I saw our little one while they were cleaning him up I thought I think he is a Sammy so after I was all cleaned up and it was just Tim, mom and I, Tim whispered what he thought we should name him to mom and then asked what I thought I was nervous we weren't going to have agreed to I made him just tell me and sure enough he said Samuel. Since Tim had really wanted to have one of the boys named after him we decided to give Samuel Tim's middle name. After I got my new room my mom left to go home and change and get to school were she teaches 1st grade and also had parent/teacher conferences all week. She was a trooper and taught all day and then had conferences until 8pm all on no sleep. Tim came to my new room and got dressed and left shortly after 6:30am to head to work since he had training for work the rest of the week. So our sweet Sammy was conceived unexpectedly and had to make sure his arrival was very unexpected and not planned.
Our Samuel is a great baby and a wonderful eater I don't think either of the boys ate so well in the hospital. I was worried since my mom had said sometimes smaller babies aren't the best eaters. The boys adore him and are always asking to hold him. We are so grateful to have him here safe and sound even if it was the worst week to have him.

A Happy Halloween

Halloween was really fun this year with the boys, especially since I hadn't just had knee surgery 2 days before. Kaleb knew exactly what he wanted to be this year, Buzz lightyear, although his little brother is wanting to be more and more like him and wanted to be the same thing we tried talking Kaleb into being Woody because we thought Jacob is so stocky and shorter than Kaleb and Kaleb is tall and skinny like woody it would be fun. We failed so I talked Jakey into being Superman which turned out to be perfect for him. Tim decided to be Clark Kent and I got a shirt with the pregnant Skeleton (I am lame and blame pregnancy but we don't have a picture of all 4 of us so we might have to put our costumes on and take one.) We decided to start our Halloween off by getting pumpkins Saturday. The boys had so much fun picking their pumpkins and riding in the wheel barrels. At the end Jakey had a nice tumble and basically ate dirt, skinning his nose. Later that day Kaleb crashed on the scooter and scrapped his nose as well. Sunday our wonderful friends the Hunting's invited us over for homemade chicken noodle soup and pumpkin carving. Kaleb was interested at first, but then decided it was much more fun to play with the toys. Jacob helped a little but decided dad and mom knew what to do. I ended up ruining Kaleb's by cutting too much off but he still thought it was awesome. Tim went super easy on Jacob's after what happened to Kaleb's. It was still fun and so enjoyable to see how exciting it was for our boys!
Monday the weather could not have been more perfect the boys didn't even need jackets which is so good because I could barely fit a shirt under Jacob's costume it was so fitted. The boys loved trick or treating! Towards the end they were wanting to eat what they got so we wrapped things up and went to my cousin's house to trick or treat and let them see the boys and of course hold her new little boy! All in all it was a wonderful Halloween and love how fun holiday's are getting now that the boys get what is even going on!

I asked for a smile and this is what I got

Kaleb during pumpkin carving!

Happy pumpkin and wolverine!

Slacking Big Time

I have been very neglectful of our blog and of even taking pictures of the boys. I am hoping to do better. I realized I completely forgot to blog about our family reunion with my mom. My mom has decided to start having a tradition of having a family reunion so that we all get together and have some fun and she figured better to start now so that it is just something we all know is going to happen and plan accordingly. We did it in July, it was lots of fun the weather was great and the cousins had lots of fun playing all day together. We also took advantage of us all being together and did our yearly family pictures. Here are some of the photos I took. It looks like Kaleb was forgotten, but he went through a phase where I could hardly get him to let me take a picture of him.

Jacob is definitely a fish. We couldn't keep him out of the water!

Jacob loved cousin Milo's skateboard and helmet! He also gave us a nice poop surprise in his reusable swim diaper, we decided it was much easier to hose him off which of course he loved!

Grandma with all her Grandkids!

The whole crew!

With my mom and siblings

Our family