He's Here

Mason D. Reynolds was born August 9th, 2009 at 11:35pm. He was born on his daddy's birthday. He weighed 8lbs, 5ounces and was 22 inches long. This is him after we brought him home.

Having a snooze in the hospital.

Jet really likes Mason. She gave him kisses when she met him, but we weren't fast enough with the camera to catch it. We are all home now and are doing well and adjusting to each other.

Woodland Reunion 2009

Here is Juliet. She can't wait to get into the little wading pool that my sister brought to help us keep the littlest kids cooled down in the heat. It seemed that it was scheduled over the hottest weekend of the summer, but we had a blast. I pulled the camper and thus had A/C and that helped with me being large and pregnant.
Jet in the camper. She thought it was so fun to be camping.

Jet cooling down after we arrived and boy did she have fun.

Jet with Grandma. She likes to rock-a-bye with grandma. this was before we were to leave to the camp site

Juliet and I hanging out a little while before I had to pack to go on the camping trip.

Kelly reunion

So Kellen and I were invited for the 4th of July weekend to go to the Kelly's (close friends of ours) reunion. This is a pic of where we set up our tent.

This is a pic of the ride home. It loaded out of order and I am not smart enough to get it where I want it. Jet had a lot of fun, but was ready to come home.

This was the only time that Jet's bear was allowed outside the tent. She was so excited that Mom let her have it. It was being used as a comforting and calming tool, because this is after her and I had our little spill with the 4-wheeler. They are working hard to build a little cabin and Jet was more than willing to help. She mostly held a hammer.

All and all we had a blast.

Not here Yet

I went to the doc and am at a three, but my baby boy has yet to make his debute. I am suddenly realizing that I am really running out of time to do things before Mason arrives. I have cleaned my whole house today, mostly because I have been slacking and today it really was bothering me that the house was a mess, so I cleaned it. I keep wanting to re-arrange my closets, but know that is too big of a job to do in the amount of time that Jet takes for her nap. anyway so Kellen and i went a saw the Newest Harry Potter and really enjoyed it. Kellen has not read the books and it was a long time ago that I did so we had a blast. Kellen got on a harry potter kick and has been telling me for a while that he would like it if we owned the series. Well on Monday he went and bought them. I thought it was funny because I wanted them too and now we have them. Our movie collection has increased quite a bit here in the last little while. We get into movie watching moods and bam we own movies. Usually the $5 ones at wally world. Write again another day.

HOT HOT HOT

So our apartment has no air conditioning, but is also on the third level and so each day I cook a little more from the sun beating down on the building. I am due August 9th and so am in that final two week run, where time really slows down. I try to keep busy doing projects to help keep my mind off the fact that time is moving so slowly. Jet has decided that it is cool to help mommy with some stuff mostly because she ends up getting a reward of some sort for helping me out. Positive reenforcement. School will be starting again soon. I am signed up to take nine credits and then in December I will be done. I cannot wait until that happens. Jet also has really begun to understand that when Kellen and I ask her to fold her arms that it is time for prayer and that she is supposed to be quiet. She does really well and will sometimes talk as though she is saying the prayer. It is really cute. Kellen and I now own the whole Star Wars Series and the last three even have the old version with the yup, yup song on Return of the Jedi. We are watching them. One per night after Juliet has gone to bed. Ashley tell your sister congrats for me. It is exciting to have kids. Kara when do you find out what you are having?
Have to go to take care of my munchkin.

Moving Slow

It has been some time since my last update. I am sorry about that. I am hugely pregnant and so it takes me a lot more time to accomplish all the things I set out for myself to do and this usually is on the list, but at the bottom. Mostly because I try to do a billion things when Jet goes down for her nap that I really do run out of time. Last weekend was my family's reunion and we went to Massacre Rocks and fried ourselves. It was so hot and shade was limited. I had my camper which is what I credit my survival to. I did get swollen ankles from the ordeal, but it was all in the name of fun. Jet absolutely loved the little wading pool that was brought and has since we got home tried to get herself into one of my big bowls like it was a wading pool. I was proud of myself with the camping trip in that when I went I had to go by myself because Kellen had to work, so if I wanted the camper I had to pull it. I had never really pulled a trailer before and was quite nervous, but I did awesome I might say. Kellen gave me a few pointers on driving and that really helped. He was proud of me for pulling the camper all by myself. I did have help in hooking up to it and I knew it would be better if I had someone with more experience back it up. I am grateful to have such a helpful family. Juliet really enjoyed the trip even though her daddy wasn't there. On Sunday she was so excited to have Kellen back that she didn't complain at all when he would sit her in his lap at church. It made our lives easier. The week continues on and Kellen has to work overtime again. In a way he is really excited about it because that means we will have the extra money to fix a few things on our "giant" truck that we have been putting off for a time. Well that's all I have time for because it is time to put Jet down for a nap.

Re-reading

Okay so I just finished re-reading the twilight series again last night and so that is my excuse for not blogging because I read while Juliet takes her nap rather than dink around on the computer. This last week was state for high school rodeo and Kellen's youngest brother got to compete in three events. He did really well for a freshman and his first year at state. My belly continues to grow into the basketball size it is. Sitting for long periods of time has become quite a pain to deal with. Last Saturday I went to my friend, Kacy's wedding in Idaho Falls. The building was amazing and Kacy was telling me later that it used to be an old Mormon church built in the 1900s. They had remodelled the inside. Yesterday was Father's Day and Kellen got peanuts, and a bag of reese's peanut butter cups. I also got a bag of hugs and kisses to try to do a cute little saying, but I just told him about it because I didn't end up getting it all together in time. He was excited though to have the peanut type candy. I told him that Juliet was NOT allowed to have any peanuts. I did catch him twice letting her have a taste of a reese's peanut butter cup, but he was good about the peanuts even though Jet was demanding them from him he didn't give in. My little Juliet is so smart. I know she can say quite a few words, but she likes not having to use them. It is almost a game to her to see how long she can go before having to say anything. Her most common word is "no" and she even will shake her finger, which is really quite cute especially because when she says no it is usually the correct response to what is being done. Kellen has a pair of pants that have a hole in the knee and the other day he was wearing them and when Jet saw the hole she was saying "no, no" and was very concerned that dad had a hole in his pants. It was very funny to see her face when she looked at the hole not sure what to do about it, because she knew that was not right. We are currently working on folding our arms and saying amen. She is starting to fold her arms for about half the prayer. The other day though I had already given her her waffle and she was eating away at it when I said it was time to pray and asked her to fold her arms. She did, but still held onto the waffle and was trying to sneak bites during the prayer like she knew that she wasn't supposed to. I couldn't help but laugh at little after the prayer. Anyway I think that will be all for today. See you again later.