Thursday, September 22, 2011

hooray for 4

This cute girl celebrated her 4th birthday yesterday. And she couldn't have been more excited! 
She helped me make her cake and of course got to eat the best part.
She LOVES Rapunzel, and wants her hair to be as long as Rapunzels hair.
In the morning after we dropped Jaedon off at school, she said, "This is a great day."
Yes, yes it is Liv.
We love you!

Saturday, September 3, 2011

little jack

Introducing
Jack Jonathan Bassett
Born August 31st at 8:27am
weighing 8 lbs 2 oz and 21.5 inches long

Their first meetingThis little girl LOVES the babyWow! Our family of 6.All boys

Now for the birth story. So if you don't care for that stuff, scroll on down and enjoy some more pictures. First of all, Jon works with my Dr. and we had agreed that Jon would be able to deliver the baby as long as everything was going smoothly.We'll start with the day before at my OB appointment. My Dr. was going to be out of town from the 4th -11th of Sept. (due date was the 10th). I wanted her to be there and she wanted to be there for the birth as well. So at my appt. she checked me and said I was 4cm dilated and 50% effaced. She then gave me an "aggressive check" which means she stripped my membranes. Of course she told me that I would have some crampiness due to it. Well, no crampiness pretty much all day. So that night I went for a long walk, among other "personal" things that were done to try and get this kiddo out. Because lets be honest, I was done with being pregnant at 31 weeks. Still nothing when I went to bed that night, but at 2am I woke up with some contractions and sat up on the side of the bed, and just like it happened with Jaedon, I felt like I had just wet my pants. I then hurried into the bathroom and more fluid came out. Jon kind of woke up by then because I had turned the light on and thought I might as well start getting ready for the hospital. Jon didn't really believe me that my water had broke, and fell back asleep for a little bit. We got to the hospital at about 3:15am and when they checked me I was 6cm dilated and about 90% effaced. So I was excited because things were moving. Got the epidural and around 6:30am they checked me again and I was only at a 7. A SEVEN! That put a downer on things for me. So now we will be playing the waiting game even longer. Jon actually had an OB patient next door that delivered on Monday, so he thought he would hurry and go round on her and get her discharge paper work done since things seemed to slow down. By 7:30 I was starting to feel contractions just on my left side really strongly, and my right side was completely dead. So the nurse turned me to my left side and then that is when it all started. The contractions were coming fast and strong. I was getting nauseated and then my Dr. arrived. She decided she would go get changed while the nurse gave me something for nausea, and Jon was still no where around. I then asked the nurse if she had found Jon yet. Shortly after Jon came in and instead of waiting for the doctor to come back and check me, I just had Jon do it. So Jon checked me and I was complete and ready to go. They got me all set up, and with 2 sets of pushes out our little man came. Both Jon and I thought at first that his looks reminded us of Sofia. But the more I looked at him I thought he definitely looked more like Livy. He and Livy definitely have the same eyes. But I think his nose is more like Jaedon and Sofia's nose. I was surprised that he had hair and that it was dark. I thought it would be lighter and not have hardly any. He is our smallest baby by an ounce. Jaedon was 8 lbs 3 oz. But he is definitely our longest baby. He is such a good baby and hardly cries. We are so blessed to have this little guy apart of our family. We couldn't be more happier.

Of course I had to have a little photo shoot with him.

This shirt should actually read "Daddy rocks", because Jon has been such an awesome husband and help since I have been home. He has been doing everything and just letting me relax and sleep. :) Love you Sweets!

Monday, August 29, 2011

8 years

Today I have been married to the best, greatest, most wonderful man for 8 years.
He would be even greater though if he would sneak me home some pitocin. ;)
Each year together brings more happiness and joy. And I love him more than words can describe. So grateful that I can be with him through this life, and through out eternity.

Monday, August 22, 2011

preschool part 1

I say 'part 1' because Livy will go to 2 years of preschool since she has a September birthday.
But today Livy had her first day. (She missed the actual first day due to she was in Utah for Phil's wedding). She was, and has been SO excited to start.
Here she is with her teacher. She then has 2 other ladies that are aids that help out. I didn't get one bit teary eyed or even really have any sad feelings of her going. But Sofia on the other hand had a little bit of a hard time.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

first grade

Today marks the start of another school year. I can't believe that Jaedon is all ready in first grade. He has been so excited to start though. His one hope, and request is that he got a teacher that had desks and not tables. And he got a teacher with desks. So he is a happy kid.
Waiting outside with his teacher to start the day
I think the best part of the day though was when they went out later today in the backyard and found this big toad.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

camping 2 rivers

We went camping Friday night. The kids have been asking and asking to go, and so we finally just did it.
We realized that this was the first time that Sof had been camping. She was a trooper, but kept taking her shoes off and walking around barefoot every where.3 little happy campers There were little lakes all around this state park, and the one we were next to was the swimming one, but you could fish there as well.
This was Jaedon's first go at fishing. We of course didn't get anything, but he was SOOO excited to go fishing. That was the very first thing he wanted to do.
When we got back from fishing we went and played around on a little playground area they had there. On the way back from the playground we spotted this little guy.
Jaedon named it "Keeper", because he wanted to keep it. The next day we hit up swimming in the lake. Sof is crying because she wanted to be in the water and not posing for the silly camera.
It was a little cold, but not too bad, and you got used to it quickly.
Jaedon was seeing how far out he could get. And then Livy wanted me to take a picture of her.
Jon insisted on getting pictures of me. So here is your profile pic of the big Buddha belly. After seeing this, the baby sure is sitting high. And then we tried getting one of all us in the lake. Sofia was sad because she wanted me to hold her, because moments before she decided to see how far out she could get in the water, and give mom quite a scare. She is definitely our no fear child. Livy has lost interest and is looking else where, and Jaedon, well who knows what the kid is doing.
Being 36 weeks pregnant and going camping was not all that bad. It was hot and sweaty, and I had an air mattress to sleep on, but having to wake up 3 times during the night and go to the bathroom in the woods, wasn't the greatest. Oh well, I did it for the happiness of my family, and the kids definitely had a good time and did not want to leave. I think that means we need to go camping more.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

county fair

Last night we ventured out to the Sarpy County fair. To me it was a little fair, compared to my county fairs, but it was about the size of Jon's county fair that he grew up with. The kids had a good time as well, and next year we think that they will have to enter something in it.

Sofia was great with all the animals. She would walk down the aisles and wave and say hi to all of them. UNTIL we went into the bird exhibit. Some of the chickens were being pretty noisy clucking away, and it freaked Sofia out. So we distracted her with the bunnies.

In case you were wondering, that is one fluffy bunny.

We of course had to go on some of the rides. Not quite like Hershey Park, but good enough. Of course we had to go on the roller coaster and let Jaedon get his fix. We then went to the Rodeo, and was having a great time until a storm decided to roll in. We did have covered seating, but with the wind, the rain was coming in sideways and the roof didn't help at all. The kids were huddled down behind us, and we were drenched in a matter of seconds. It is hard to see the rain in this picture, but it was coming down pretty heavy for a good portion of the rodeo. The power went out as well within the first couple of minutes of starting, but they still continued on, until intermission when it was too dark to see, and they still didn't have the power back on, so they finally cancelled it.

With all that happened though, it was still fun and we had a great time.