2 years ago.....

I took this picture!

Here they are now!

Here is the addition of Reuben!

Dual purpose clothesline

Do you have a clothesline? If so and your looking for something fun to do with it (other than putting you clothes out) try this:






Get a few books. Spread a blanket on the ground.



Hang a sheet at one end of your line to make a tent.

Fix it for some shade if needed!





Grab an Icey out of the freezer and enjoy it! You don't have to make a mess with it like Titus unless you want to! (yes I snapped the picture right as it was coming out of his mouth!)


This is our "ceiling"!




Take turns reading books.




If your 2 then just run in and out of the clothes, while listening to the stories of course!

Brothers

I just wanted to share this video, I think its cute. Titus is saying hi baby Reuben, which is what he says quite often! He likes to hold the baby too!

We are home!

Well I won't lie: This was a little more difficult than I thought it would be. This was my 2nd c-section, the 1st one was quite easy. The first few days of course your sore b/c you've been cut open, but really not to bad. I really don't feel a lot different than I did the first time around, a little more tired. Mark and I were feeling a little worried before we went to the hospital. Not that something bad would happen just more of a "we are getting ready to have another kid". Not that we weren't excited, just more shocked. We knew the day he would come, which was part of it too. We got up early Thursday morning and headed to the hospital. When I woke up I felt a great sense of peace. I had spent a lot of the night praying and God had answered my prayers.

We got to the hospital and had all the prep done and sat and waited a little bit for the Dr's. Then they wheeled me down to the o.r. I think it went pretty normally starting out! We found out later that she almost couldn't get him out. He was laying funny in me and she had a hard time grabbing him. The Dr. assisting is the one who had to grab him. So he's out and crying! Yay!

She went to work on closing me up, but things didn't go like planned! She had a few spots that she couldn't get to stop bleeding. One was quite bad I guess. This resulted in me receiving 2 units of blood. I believe they knocked me out during this time. (I remember none of it) When I woke up in the recovery room I just kept asking the poor nurse for my baby! I think she finally got tired of me and took me up to see my baby! My platelet count is still low, but I have iron to take and I'm feeling better and better!

Thank you for your prayers, we really appreciated it!

M.I.A.

Well I guess I've had good reason to be missing! We've been working more on rooms. We got them painted and Bries is partially organized. It feels good to be done painting,but we still have Lot's of work left to do. This is the color Brie chose. It's similar to periwinkle. She's getting a new quilt for her bed and she has some shelves to keep all her stuff organized. The quilt is being quilted by her Grandma. I will be "helping" (using this word very loosely!) too.

This is the boy's room. It will have one wall w/ stripes (hopefully added soon!). We are waiting for shelves in here and Bunk beds! Zeke is very excited about his bed. I think he will be sleeping on the top bunk, hopefully he does OK. Both kids picked their own colors!

Our fun for the day!

This was Titus's first time in the snow! I think he really liked it! It's still coming down and the tracks we made are mostly covered up! Brie's been begging to go back out!