Tea Party!

Yesterday I wanted to spend some quality time with Arlie while Deacon was down for a nap. So we had a tea party in her room. She had a lot of fun eating lucky charms and drinking water up in her room with her little tea set. Now today she is sick. I think she has got some sort of stomach bug. I got no sleep last night. I went to bed just before midnight and got up at 2 with Deacon and then got up with Arlie at 4 with her puking all over the place. And didn't get to go back to bed because she kept puking and then Deacon woke up to eat again and then he had a nasty blow out. And Arlie has been puking all day today too. No fun! Needless to say I am still in my pjs and haven't got much done but laundry and taking care of the kids. But somehow I found time to blog. Hmm... maybe it just sounded better than everything else I've been doing today. I had a really fun weekend last weekend. I went with a big group of girlfriends to a cabin for 3 days and 3 nights of scrapbooking and gabbing. It was so fun to get away and feel young again. It was a nice retreat and helped rejuvinate me. Thanks for all the fun ladies and for inviting me along this year. I can't wait till next year. There was about 17 of us. I also enjoyed my pringles when I got home. I was in 7th heaven!! LOL!!!

2 months old

Here are a few pictures of Deacon now that he is 2 months old. We go to the doctor later today and we will see how he is growing. I wanted to take some pictures of him now since he is starting to smile all the time now. It is so much fun to see his little personality come out. It is nice to be back to normal life. Hopefully we will be able to get on a schedule now and I can get more organized. We had a really nice Christmas and New Years celebrated with good friends. Hope you all had a great Holiday. Thanks to everyone who helped make our Christmas so nice. And thanks for the nice gifts. We missed our family but it was kindof nice to celebrate our own Christmas as a family. It was a lot more relaxing. Hope all of you are doing well and enjoying the new year.

Christmas Morning

opening presents

The harmonica

SNOW???

Well, we finally went snowboarding on the east coast. At a resort called Whitetail. It was nice to get out together with out the kids. (Alyssa got hooked up for the day!) The resort was quite different than Misawa's ski resorts as you can see. The top two pics are from Misawa the bottom two are from here. If that is all the snow they had out west the resort would never open. It was our first time sking on only man made snow. We had a blast just having the day to ourselves.

Deacon's First Photo shoot

So I was going to wait till I got all of my birth announcements out before I posted these pictures but I just couldn't wait anymore. He is just too cute and I love how they turned out. Josh and I took these pictures about a week ago. By the way, I am feeling much better. I just got out of the hospital yesterday after having a D&C done on saturday. I lost a lot of blood during the procedure and so I had to stay overnight to have a blood transfusion. But hopefully things will get better for me from here on out. I have been really sick the past couple weeks since I had him due to left over placenta that did not come out during delivery. So hopefully it is all taken care of and I will feel well enough to fly home to Idaho on wednesday. My brother Scott is getting married this saturday and my step brother Dylan is getting married two weeks later. I am so excited to be there for both weddings and Thanksgiving in between. It will be nice for everyone to be able to see Deacon while he is still so small too. THANK YOU to everyone who has done so much for our family over the past couple weeks. The meals have been so good and so nice and thank you Slavka and Lindsey for watching Arlie for me so much. I truly feel so blessed to have people in my life that care so much and are so willing to help. It means so much to me. Well hope you all like the pics. I do but I am a little byist. Love to all.

And More

Here are a couple more. This was as soon as we got home from the hospital. Arlie was so excited to see Deacon and couldn't wait to hold him. And anytime someone stops by the house she can't wait to show him off. She gets so excited and says hurry come see look and points to the baby. It is so cute. Hopefully it stays that way. We are already having problems with the potty though. It is like pulling teeth to get her to go now. And I guess while we were gone she had lots of accidents. I hope it gets better instead of worse.

Another picture

I took this before we left the hospital. All is going ok. I am recovering. Thanks everyone for your nice comments. And for everyone who has offered to help us out. It really means a lot to us. I am sure there will be more pictures to come.

One More Picture

Here is another picture

Deacon Joshua 0603 2 November 2008

Tiff gave birth to Deacon Joshua at 0603 on Sunday November 2nd...Both her and baby are now doing great. He is a beautiful baby boy; although, these pictures are rather scary. Sorry I don't have Tiff's photo editing skills. Here is the story...
So on Saturday...Tiff decided she was going to have the baby and went out for a walk/jog/jump. Well it didn't work but in the process she slipped and fell. Later on in the day we decided it was best to get checked out just to make sure all was ok. So we went to the hospital around 5pm. They checked her out and said she was good to go. Well then the on-call doc came in and checked her and said she was dilated to a 4 and she wanted to induce her that night. She was induce at about 10 P.M....YEAH for staying up all night.

baby update

No baby yet! I went to the Dr. today and I am only dilated to between a 1 and a 2. And I am not effaced at all and he said that the baby has not dropped yet. How depressing. He stripped my membranes so we will see if that does anything for me or not. So far nothing. I have a feeling I am going to have to be induced again. I should just plan on not having the baby till late next week when they decide to induce me. And then if he comes earlier that will be a bonus. So that is what is going on. I will update as soon as he comes. Wish me luck.

Fall Farmland Fun

Having fun on the Farm

Today as a family we went to enjoy some fall festivities with our friends the Weaver's. It was so much fun. We went to Summer's Farm in Fredrick. There was a really fun slide, inflatable jumping pad, horse rides, corn maze, pumpkin patch, tractor rides, fun mazes for kids, and all sorts of fun things for the kids to do. It was so much fun to see how much fun Arlie was having. She had a perma smile the entire time we were there. We ate lunch there and I bought some yummy pumpkin bread and an apple dumpling to bring home. It was delicious. I love fall time activities. Last year was so much fun we had to do it again but this farm was so much better.
Still no baby. I am 38 weeks today. I wonder when he will come. I was a little nervous going so far away just in case I went into labor but all was fine. I am really hoping he comes this week sometime but knowing my luck he will probably be late. I just hope I don't have to be induced again. We will see what they say at my next appointment which is on wednesday. My last apointment he said I was right on track. But he didn't check me. So we will see I guess.

36 Weeks

I decided to post an updated prego picture. I feel like a bus but that is reality right now for me. I sure don't look as good pregnant this time as I did when I was pregnant with Arlie. Four weeks left. I am counting down the days.

Some new pics

Here are a couple pictures I took of Arlie today while I was getting ready for a photo shoot this morning. She was so excited to get her picture taken today. It was so cute. But she only lasts for about 5 to 10 minutes before she is done. So I take what I can get. Anyway I just thought I would share.

Chief's Celebration

Here are some pictures after the pinning ceremony yesterday. I will post the actual pinning pictures when I get them back from the guys that took pictures. I am so proud of Josh and his accomplishments. He looks pretty tired in these pictures after being up for about 48 hours straight. We are so glad it is over. And yes it will take a while to get used to how he looks in his new hat. It is hard not to laugh and also hard to take him seriously.

Summer recap

Josh and I went to Ocean city this summer for a weekend getaway. It was nice to just go to the beach for the weekend and spend some quality time together as a family. We had a really good time. I of course brought my camera along and took some pictures. Other than that I think I blogged all of our other fun summer events. I got back from Idaho about three weeks ago and it has been crazy busy trying to get settled back in. Josh is just now finishing up his Chief's training crap that he has been going through for the past six weeks and I will finally have him back around here spending time with us. Tonight they have an all night long training session which is pretty much big time initiation crap. I know they are going swimming in the lake and in the middle of the night and who knows what else they will have them do. But after that is all said and done he will pin on his anchors tomorrow night and become a Chief Petty Officer. We are so excited for this process to be over. I will take pics of the pinning ceremony tomorrow night and post them for you all to see how goofy he looks in his new hat. But we are very proud of him. Not too much else going on around here. Just 7 weeks to go with this pregnancy. I am already ready to be done. That is not good. We are looking forward to baby Deacon joining our family. Hope all is going well for everyone else.