Ok so I am just going to make a random post so that it looks like I may still be alive. First off its been a little busy. Hunter has had futsol (indoor soccer small ball lots of fun). We had a tournement a week ago. The twins have been sick (gotta love kids that dont know to move after they puke on themselfs and will lay in it for hours eeewwww I know TMI). Zander has had a cold but is getting over it. He also had his 2 month check up. He is in the 50% for everything but head which he is 40%. He also got 5 shots aaaaahhhh he ended up with a fever for 2 days but other then that was a trooper. Haylie is almost 9 (tomorrow) and I cant believe that she is getting so big. I swear she was Zanders age just yesterday. Marc is gearing up for softball (oh yea). He will be in two leagues this year. I swear I never have time to have just mommy time. I am supposed to go out with my moms group once a month. Well I cant even do that alone because mr Zander wont let me leave for more then 1 hour at a time at night so he comes with me. I am going to try to leave him this month we will see how it goes. We also had our pictures taken as a family here are the horrid results. (I am not happy the girl was a unimaginative person who had no idea what the hell she was doing).

After this was done Zander had a photo shoot with a lady from my moms group. Look at the diffrence.

Ok and last but not least as some of you may know my mom and sister run a business doing custom embroydery. I think you should all check out there site. Its called sticheroos and there is a link on the right. It will send you to there blog which in turn can get you to there website. They run specials all the time and contests so keep checking with them and you may just win something cool. Ok I am done now. I am going to go clean my house before my DSPD case worker gets here.

OK I cant help it. i was going through all Zanders cloths the other day taking out what didnt fit and finding what did (cant believe he is into 0-3 month cloths). Well I found this cute pair of overalls. I love babies in overalls and had to put them on him today. He looks so big in them. I also weighted him yesterday he is now 9lbs 7 oz.

Well its been a month. I cant believe how fast the time has gone. Zander is doing great. He is now 8lbs 6oz at his appointment a week ago. He has also gained 1 1/2 inches. He is very healthy and eats like a pig. He wants to eat every 2 hours during the day and then every 4 at night. here are some pics of him taken yesterday and today. He has some cheecks on him now lol

Haylie Hunter Isaac and Jackson are all doing well. We have been pretty busy between school and life itself. Hunter starts futsol on saturday. For those that dont know futsol is indoor soccer. We had to hire another respite care worker because we keep losing them lol. The last one just couldnt handle it and quit. Hopefully this one will work. well its feeding time. I hope everyone is doing well. i will post more later.

Baby Zander

Well he is finally here. On saturday december 13th I went into the hospital at 7am. I had an elective induction. They had me checked in and hooked up with pitocin by 830. By 930 I was having some pretty good hard strong contractions. The nurse asked if I was ok with my water being broke and I said I was ready as long as I had my epidural first. I had to waite until about 1000 for the anastealagist (yea cant spell it). He came in gave me my epidural and then the nurse broke my water at about 1030. Everything went fast from there. I dialated to a 10 within about 30 minutes but then when they checked me they relised Zander was face up not face down like he was supposed to be. They had me roll on my left side hoping he would roll which he did. As soon as he rolled I had to push there was just no if ands or buts about it. I started to push at about 1200. His head got stuck coming out and they couldnt get to his heartbeat so that worried the doctor a little and she had me just push with or without a contraction. He finally made it into this world at 1240 pm on the 13th. He weighted 7lbs 1oz and was 20 inches long. He scored a 8.9 on the APGAR scale. He came out screaming and healthy. I was just happy to have it done and over with lol. So that is the birth of Zander. He is doing well. He sleeps for 3-4 hours at a time then nurses like a champ and goes right back to sleep. I basically only get up once a night to feed which has been nice. The older kids all love him and have been having fun holding him. Here are some pics of him.

zander will be here tomorrow yea !!!!

So I went into my doctor today for my 38-39 week appointment. Well we were talking and I told her how miserable I am. I hurt all over and have been contracting alot mostly at night for 2-3 hours then they stop. Then the next day I feel like my tummy is bruised. Well she said she was working this weekend and "changed" my due date to the 20th so that I can be induced tomorrow. I am so excited. I really didnt want to waite another week and with the way this kid is going he is happy to live in there for the rest of his life. I am dialated 3+ (basically just above a 3 almost a 4) and 60% efaced. I have a very ripe cervix and his head is really really low. I am hoping I can get in in the morning early but who knows with the full moon tonight (fully believe it brings on labor and the doc said in the past few days theyhave picked way up). I will try and update again after Zander is here and post pictures but as you all know it may take a bit to get to it. I am excited to have him here finally and even more excited to have a week with no kids lol. Is that a bad thing? All my kids will be in school and I am closing my daycare for a week so I will have 1 whole week just me the baby and Marc. I am beyond ready for that alone. I am also ready to find my feet once more. It will be nice to be able to put my socks on and not feel like I am going to pop. Well that is it for now. Wish me luck for tomorrow and I will post again as soon as I can.

Ok so I went to the doctor today and was finally checked. I am dialated to a 3 and 50% efaced. When she was trying to check me she said Zanders head was in front of my cervix so she had to reach behind his head and pull the cervix forward (can we just say ouch). She says with how many contractions I am having she doesnt think I will make it through next week. I am hoping to maybe make it to sunday. I think I could handle having him on my birthday lol.
As for the rest of us we are all doing good. Hunter and Haylie have been out of school for 4 weeks and go back Monday (its not coming soon enough). Isaac and Jackson are doing good. They have been pushing there limits with everyone latley but that is not unusual they get some wild hair up there buts and decided to be really annoying and cry about everything.
Marc has been getting up at the butt crack of dawn (ok before dawn 430) every morning to go in to work at 5 for inventory. They decided to cut corners this year and instead of closing for one day and having everyone help they have 4 guys come in early in the morning and do a small amount each day. It will take about 3 weeks to get it done this way and they have to work around the workers that are pulling things its a pain in the butt according to marc.
Christmas is coming fast and I am almost ready. I have a couple more things to get and wrap. I am not so patiently waiting for my Wii to get here (it was shipped today woohoo). I plan on trying it out before wrapping it. We bought it online before the masses. We also got the wii fit and the new shawn white game. I am sure hunter will be in heaven as will marc.
Well that is about all on the family. I will try to update this again but it might not happen until after Zander gets here.

Another update

So this will probably be all jumbled but that is just how my brain works anymore so deal with it lol.
I went to the doctor yesterday and everything looks good. Zander is growing great and his heart is 130 which is right were it should be. I am 34 weeks now so 3 more weeks and I am in the safty zone to deliver at anytime (woohoo). I am having alot of braxton hicks so both the doctor and I feel I wont go much past the first week in December. We are more or less ready for him to come. We were able to get the computer room painted downstairs and between my mom and a friend we have enough carpet pieces to carpet the computer room and the playroom (though it will be patchwork but I could care less as long as its warm). We are working on that today after the BYU game of course (cant interupt football are you crazy lol). Once we get the carpet down we can move all the computer stuff down and start actually putting the nursery together. I will also be moving all my daycare stuff downstairs so I no longer have to chase kids out of the kitchen and other areas they are not allowed in. The older kids are doing good. Haylie and Hunter are off track for the next three weeks (oh yea uuggg). Isaac and Jackson are doing well. Jackson is FINALLY pooping on the potty (he gets a phone book when he does). Isaac still isnt interested. But atleast its one more out of diapers. so basically that is my life as of now in a nut shell.