Tegan's #2!

My baby girl turned 2 on the 24th! I can't believe how old she is....She still seems so little to me. She has always been very independent but is finally starting to say a lot more words. It can be tough sometimes to get a smile out of her especially since she's not really ticklish. Which has been a big frustration for Brandon since he loves to tickle the kids! But she is very expressive and makes the silliest faces! :)

I had to get this picture in here cause I thought it was so funny....Brandon is trying to show her how to blow out her candles haha! And of course she just stands there and stares at it....so Tegan

Here's her pile of presents. We weren't able to get the traditional balloons because her birthday was on Sunday and Brandon worked till 5;30 AM! Which was unexpected of course, he is on call on Saturdays. So luckily my parents brought over a few, cause a birthday just wouldn't be the same without balloons, right?
She got some bath toys and bubble bath
a book and some cute clothes from 'white' Nana and Papa
Here's one of them.... My father-in-law finds the cutest shirts haha!
She got the Dr. Seuss Foot Book with the matching character from 'brown' Nana and Papa, so cute! I love Dr. Seuss!

She also got a comforter for her bed (finally :) )
And a dress up that's only a tad too big :)
She was definitely happy to see her new baby! :)
Such a good mommy! (and so serious :[ )
Happy Birthday Teeger Weegers! We love you!

Bunch of Sillys!!

With Brandon's new job he gets to be home during the day sometimes which is super fun for the kids. They come up with the silliest ways to entertain themselves though haha!

Here are a couple pictures of my 4 burritos! (They all wanted to be wrapped up like Parley) Then of course they had to have a contest to see who could get out of their "burrito" the fastest (and Brandon can wrap them up pretty darn tight!)

Since having Parley, Brandon and I watch movies together quite often since I'm up nursing a lot anyway. Well, this is what we found the other night as we finished our movie and were about to head upstairs to bed....
And here is Cinderella, Batman/Spiderman, and the Clown :)

They LOVE to dress up!

First Week With 4

The past week has sure had it's crazy time. I think the hardest thing to get done is baths. Parley doesn't want to be set down for longer than 5 minutes which makes it very difficult to bathe 3 kids and get them dressed. I'm so lucky to have such good kids though. For the most part they keep each other entertained quite well. Tegan bugs Jordan and Brigham sometimes but they do pretty good with including her.

I'm feeling great, can't wait to go back to the gym. I know that will make me feel even better. We'll have to see when that will happen though because I can't take Parley to the kids club until he is 6 months old so I have to find someone to watch him. Any takers??

I also have to say how appreciative I am of all the people who have brought me dinners! I didn't have to make dinner for like a whole week! It was awesome and they were all soo good!

So yes, we have definitely enjoyed having him home and I REALLY enjoy not being pregnant anymore. I am feeling quite a bit of cabin fever though. I have gotten out for a couple quick trips to Wal-Mart which is awesome, but I can't wait till Parley's a little older and I can take him out more.

My sister Stephanie came over with her baby Isabelle who is 2 1/2 months older than Parley! We had to take some pictures to compare their size. Pretty funny =]

And Parley had his first bath which he absolutely loved! Until I started washing him that is....then he decided he was done.
I guess I'm not doing a very good job of entertaining my kids....this is what happens when they get bored..
One thing is for sure though, Brigham sure loves his baby brother. For family night we talked about using kind words and making people happy and I used the analogy of Brigham knocking Parley down on accident. I asked him what he would say and he got a huge grin on his face and said he would tell him to watch out, haha! Then he would help him up of course :)
I don't know why baths make babies so tired but he was passed out like that whole day! I didn't even have him wrapped in a blanket most of the time!

Parley Alma

Parley Alma Randall FINALLY decided to make his appearance on Sunday 01/10/10 (which is also his Uncle Bryan's birthday :-D )

I had my last doctor appointment Friday the 8th and was really hoping I was dilated more so he would start me that day. But no, I wasn't any different than the week before. Still only 3 cm and about 70% effaced. Well by that point I was already 4 days over (going by the original due date he gave me of January 4th). He said I absolutely had to have this baby by the next week so he told me to pick a day to be induced. I was so frustrated! I really wanted to experience going into labor on my own and I had already endured so much I wanted to see it through. So I picked Thursday the 14th because it gave me the most time to do it on my own. I also asked him to strip my membranes hoping it would get things moving along..

So I came home very disappointed but somewhat hopeful because I was feeling quite a bit of cramping due to him stripping my membranes. I was sure it would happen that night! But of course, about 2 PM, all the cramping and contractions stop! I was so upset I started to cry. An hour later, still nothing, so I got on the treadmill again. When I tried this last week I started having some pretty good contractions so I was hoping to start things back up. After 20 minutes the only thing hurting was my feet!

That night Brandon didn't get home from work till around 10 and he was on call that night so we decided to hang out and watch some tv together before we went to bed. About 1 Am Brandon got another call out in Cedar Hills. I figured it would be awhile since that's like 45 minutes away so I went to bed. An hour later I was woken up by contractions. This wasn't the first time this had happened so I simply ignored them and tried to go back to sleep. After about an hour of trying to sleep and failing, I decided to start timing them. They were coming every 2-3 minutes! So I finally decided to send Brandon a text around 3:30 to see how much longer he would be. He said he was just cleaning up and that he would be heading home. I figured maybe an hour but he didn't get home until 5 and then he wanted to shower! I guess that was ok because my mother-in-law wasn't there yet so I just sat down and breathed.....

We got to the hospital at about 6 and the contractions were so intense I couldn't even walk (now I know why they get the women wheelchairs in movies!). The lady at the counter had a million questions for me and just stared at me when I didn't answer right away. (Not that I was in active labor or anything.) So they finally get me into a room and I find out I'm already at a 7 so I'm pretty much begging for them to get me my epidural.

Well a couple hours later my parents show up and we start joking about how Parley is going to be born on 1-10-10 at 10:10 AM weighing 10 lbs 10 oz. Haha, that one made me laugh. No way was a 10 pound baby going to come out of me! Well, we just missed the 10:10 time (only due to the fact that we were waiting on the doctor and nurse to come back into the room.) He was born at 10:25 and weighing in at a whopping 10 lbs 12 oz! I was completely blown away! So THAT'S why my body has been hurting so bad!

This is me a week before I had him....I was in too much pain to stand for another picture before I went into the hospital :D
And here's my big boy! Boy does he have a healthy set of lungs on him!
(Keep in mind I was in labor since 2 AM) I guess they started to do this new thing where they get the baby all cleaned up and weighed and stuff and then hand them back to you for some skin to skin time. He loved it!
And here's his first bath. Holding Daddy's hand for comfort....
Parley with his Grandpa Randall..
And Grandma Randall..
Such a stud!
I came home from the hospital the next day. My kids were SO excited! Brigham had to be the first to hold his new baby brother!
Tegan thought it was pretty fun too.
And here's my new little mommy. She's such a good helper!

We are so excited to have little Parley join our family!

Playing Catch-up..

So it's been awhile. What can I say, I'm pregnant. I know, not much of an excuse but to say the least, I've been pretty overwhelmed with a lot of stuff. So anyway, I debated on just skipping over things but decided to just do a quick overview of the last couple months....

For Halloween Brigham was a black ninja. It took some convincing to get him to be that instead of the usual spiderman that he always wants to be but he eventually gave in :)

Jordan was a beautiful witch. Thank you to her Aunt Keri who lent her her wonderful witch hat.

Tegan was a dragon. Yes, the same one Brigham wore 2 years ago....Girls can be dragons too, right?
And Brandon was a pirate :) So we started off the night at the neighborhood trunk-or-treat over at the park. Then Brandon took Brigham and Jordan around to a few houses while Tegan and I stayed home with Uncle Spencer. After they got back, they were soon off to bed and Brandon, Spencer and I stayed up playing Risk. (Which is around the time our addiction came about..)
I don't even remember when this was but when I finally decided to do something about all the leaves covering our front lawn, Steph's kids came home from school and couldn't resist joining in the fun! They loved it..

And here I am at about 37 weeks. Yes, ready to pop! I haven't taken many pictures of me pregnant. Mostly because I feel kind of stupid asking someone to take a picture. ("Hey, you want to take a picture of me?") Yeah, pretty dumb. Well, I do wish I had more. It's always fun to look back on those pictures and say to yourself, "was I really that big?!" I do think the pregnant belly is pretty cute, too. It's just all the other added weight that I could do without :)
Jordan had her Christmas program for preschool today so I put her and Tegan's hair in curlers last night. They looked so darn cute! Tegan wasn't real happy about me trying to take her picture all the time. That and we were getting ready to head out the door to the gym....Awe my grumpy kids in the morning.... :)
And here are a couple pictures of Jordan at her Christmas program. She was so excited. Her teacher is awesome!

And I completely forgot to take pictures the other day on Jordan's birthday! I know, I'm so lame! Well, we didn't do anything too special. That morning she woke up to the traditional balloon presents scattered all over the basement. Brandon bought her doughnuts and chocolate milk for her birthday breakfast, and we were off to the gym. She was so excited to tell everyone at the gym that it was her birthday haha! We came home and had her cousins over for a couple hours and then sat around for awhile playing with her new toys. When Brandon got home, we decided to take her out for dinner by herself. In the past, we always took the whole family but we thought it would be fun to have some one on one time with her. So we took her to Chuck A Rama. I hadn't been there since I was a kid so I was pretty excited :) Well, to say the least Jordan turned into an absolute nut job! I don't know if it was because we were alone with her and giving all our attention to her or what but she was so crazy! Brandon and I couldn't stop laughing haha! Well, she was pretty excited to finally be 5! Happy birthday Jordan!!

Conference Weekend

So for General Conference my family usually goes to our cabin. We haven't been for awhile due to weather so I was for sure not going to miss it this year. Me and the kids headed up on Thursday afternoon. I took Samm and Parker with me too to give my sister a break for a few days since she's soooo close to having her baby (yay!) When we got there, my sister Michelle and her family were there along with my little sister Jessica. We had so much fun playing games and eating junk! I wanted to stay up all night playing but my poor sisters couldn't hack it. I think we went to bed around 9:30 that first night. The next day we played even more and my brother Micah and his kids, his girlfriend Toni, and her sister Adrian along with her little girl joined in the fun. Then a little later on, my Hubby showed up with my little brother Joel and his friend Troy. That night we didn't go to bed until like 2 AM! Partly because we were waiting up for Jessica's husband to join us. He didn't roll in until around 1:30. We were so tired the next day but were still able to enjoy conference :) . The boys headed off to Priesthood that night and returned with the traditional treat, ice-cream! We stayed up until almost 3 that night. We enjoyed another day of uplifting talks on Sunday and after the final session, we stayed for dinner and played a couple more games of Scum. By the time we were done, we headed out to start packing everything in the trucks and found that there was like 6 inches of snow on the ground and it was still coming down! We quickly threw everything in and took off. We got home around 10:30PM. Awesome weekend! I love going to the cabin!

SO fun taking a bath at the cabin!
Brandon, Micah, Joel, and Troy played airsoft before the Priesthood session
Pretty sneaky....
Spoons was one of the favorite games among the kids....ok, we played it for awhile too :)
Parker played so hard the WHOLE time! And I thought he was too old for naps. This is in the middle of the afternoon!
Tegers going in for the kiss!
Sammy not wanting her picture taken haha! She broke her finger a couple weeks ago
Here's a bunch of the kids looking out the window trying to see the badger. There was rumor of one living on our property so this is as close as they were allowed to get to searching for him :)
Why does conference always put them to sleep?

And here's Tegan not wanting her picture taken....
Jordan's always up for a cheeser though!
We have a big family room downstairs where all the kids slept....this is also where they spent most of their time wrestling, watching movies, and playing games
Jordan loves to baby anyone smaller than her. This is her cousin Amylyn