Brenna is here!

Brenna is here after a little shoulder distoshia(I am sure I slaughtered the term) which is the baby's shoulder getting stuck under the pelvic bone. The shoulders were not too big, but she just chose the worst time to turn. She was born on April 24, 2009 at 4:21 pm. She was 8 lbs 5 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. Sebrina had been my biggest baby thus far sitting at 7 lbs and 4 oz. Brenna blew that weight out of the water. We are home from the hospital and hoping to get a little more sleep for both of us. So far Brenna has slept almost the whole time since I got her in real clothes. I am wondering if she wasn't warm enough last night.

That is so not fair!

The Dr. stripped my membranes yesterday hoping to put me into labor quickly so he would deliver before he went to Portland for a medical thing this morning. It is 24 hours later and still nothing. Now my Dr. is going to be gone until late Sat. night if I want him to deliver he said to cross my legs until then. I took the kids to school today and Conner's teacher whom is pregnant and due on May 1st was at the hospital having her baby and out for the rest of the school year. That should have been me. Such is life.
On to other things- Ken is jazzed about doing a square foot garden so he bought all of the wood and the dirt, etc. and today we went to the nursery and picked out plants. We are going to attempt onions, green pepper, zucchini, and tomatoes. We are also going to do some strawberries along the side of the house. Even though we are in a rental it is hard to not do something that we have always wanted to do. Now that we have put the money and time into it I hope that we don't move until we are able to reap the benefits of a garden. The weather has been cooperating very nicely and it should be 80 degrees by Sunday.

Easter

The kids enjoyed Easter. Abree got mad when anybody tried to show her where to find an egg. She wanted the candy inside and didn't want anyone to tell her what to do. Conner thought it would be cool if the baby came out on Easter, but alas still no baby. I was on medicine to stop contractions from turning into labor and then I was going into labor at 35 weeks and 3 days and the hospital stopped it one more time because I was four days away from 36 weeks. Now I am 38 weeks and nothing has happened which seems to be the trend for my pregnancies. The kids keep asking when the baby is going to come out and I tell them anyday now.

The weather has been getting warmer and I have gotten a jump on Spring Cleaning inside and out. We piggy backed onto our neighbors yard sale and Ken is getting excited about putting together a square foot garden. He has the wood and the dirt to set up and then it is off to the nursery for plants. The kids have weeded the dandelions in our yard and that is what they want to do everyday after school. Of course there are so many more everyday for them to do. They all have their own pair of gloves and Abree got her own pair today because she kept walking around looking for her gloves when they weeded it last time. Today is another Dr's appt. so we will see if there is somewhat of an indication of when the baby will come.

Finally, I know

I was not trying to avoid updating, but trying to survive morning sickness. It was over a month ago that it ended , but I had a lot of catch up on that I was not able to do. I am having a girl or "pretty sure" it is a girl according to the tech's words. I do have to have another ultrasound in a month to check on the stomach and kidneys that were not seen in the first one very well. Cadin also lost another tooth last night. That now makes seven teeth lost and at least two are growing. Cadin also has glasses now and Conner is begging to get some also. The weather is snowy, but Ken still went to work today without delay. We are hoping to make it to ID on Fri. if the weather permits for a vacation.
Abree is our little ham and here is a funny story about her. We were in the car going to Costco on Sat. and Ken was quizzing Conner on his spelling words from past tests and he said spell "but" and Abree pipes in "BUT" . We all started laughing and so she thought that she should keep saying it over and over again. It was hard not to laugh and yet be the parent and not egg her on to keep doing it. The river distracted her and she said "wa-wa". She has been talking up a storm and is keeping us laughing. I will get pictures on here soon. Merry Christmas to all and Happy New Year!

School has started!

Here are some pictures from swimming lessons.

The first day of school. The twins are in first grade and Sebrina is in kindergarten.

I know it has been a while and well we have been on the phone almost everyday with the rental company wondering about our A/C. It was finally fixed a week ago which was three weeks from when we called them to say that it was hit by lightning. Of course nothing else is fixed including the dishwasher and it seems like the dishes take three hours to do. The kids started school and Sebrina started dance. They are all liking it, but keeping three kids schedules straight is going to take a while. They each go to the library a different day and then they all have homework due at different times. I have started to help at the school a little bit and will help more as they need it.

Slowly, but surely

We are slowly getting everything fixed again. The lightning traveled through our phone line and fried the internet modem and our ethernet card in the computer. The sound does not work so it may have done damage there also. Our dish receiver was fried and had to everythig replaced except for the dish itself. The converter box in the house is not working so a new one will be put in tomorrow which means that we will have TV again. The weather is not cooperating though since it is creeping up into the 90's and it is supposed to be 106 by this weekend. I am hoping it will be fixed very soon. My week has been spent calling people about the damage or waiting for the people to come fix something. Last Saturday there was a city water line that broke and flooded a corner of our yard and the city had to dig down to it and fix it. They said that it was not from the lightning, but just bad timing with everything else out. That also meant no water for four hours. Our neighbor was nice and let us use her bathroom and drinking water while ours was turned off. The kids have been entertained by all the repairmen coming by and they watched intently as they dug down to the water line. We all had a family moment watching them repair the line and chilled outside eating chips especially since our house was hot inside. It is kind of intriguing seeing what the lightning affected and what it didn't. I have pictures of the roof and there is also a crack in the boy's wall from the lightning as well that I will post later. I have not tried that part of the computer to see if works yet. The kids finish swimming lessons this week. I don't think their teachers believed them when they told them that their house got struck by lightning.

Lightning strikes!!

There was a huge thunder and lightning storm last night and we were right in the middle of it literally. Our house was struck by lightning. It was the weirdest thing that has ever happened. I was standing in the kitchen when it happened and it was like a light bulb flashed and shattered above my head with a big bang. All of the smoke detectors went off for a couple of seconds and a toy started playing music across the room. Sebrina raced down the stairs and she was shaking so hard and her heart was racing that I could feel it. The power in half the house was off and there was a burning smell in the laundry room. I went out in the rain and looked at the house to make sure it wasn't on fire. All of the boxes with the wires from the phone and sprinklers were blown open on the side of the house. The lightning hit the overhang outside the master bedroom. There are raised shingles on the roof and there is wood that is splintered underneath the roof. The garage door opener is fried and so is the mother board to our furnace. We just got our lights back on and the A/C is done until a part is ordered. The modem for the internet is fried and we keep finding more things. We are so lucky that there wasn't a fire. We did jump in the car when we saw smoke down the street. The kids were so scared and were wide awake so we drove to the smoke and saw a huge stack of hay bales fully engulfed with flames. I am feeling very blessed that nothing worse happened and I am thankful for our safety.