What do you believe in?

This past weekend was General Conference which is always a great time to listen to the brotheren of the church, it is also a time to reflect on ones self and see how we are doing. I do admit it is sometimes hard to sit and listen and not fall asleep or be preoccupied by another project, but a wonderful learning experience it is for us. As some of you might have noticed President Packers talk has caused quite a stir and my friend Kaci sent out a challenge to all her friends to bare your testimony, so I am accepting her challenge, and ask you to do the same.

My brothers and sisters whether you are of my same faith or not is not important to me, what is important to me is that you know that the Lord loves us, all of us! I have a great testimony of the plan of salvation and of the gift of free agency. We were all in Heaven together and made the choice to come to this earth knowing (I believe) that it was going to be hard and at times unbearable, but we still chose to come and to take the challenges that we are dealt head on. We are free to chose everything in life, we are not forced to do anything, sometimes we make great choices that lead to amazing blessings in our lives, and sometimes we make terrible choices that lead to horrible consequences, but one thing remains the same GOD'S LOVE! Along with his love is the most amazing gift of all, the atonement! There has never been a time when I felt the love of Heavenly Father more then when I was on my knees sobbing for forgiveness and working my way back to the light of Christ. We must look to the Lord for all of our answers and we must study and pray if there are issues we do not understand. I love the gospel and have seen many miracles in my own life. Please remember that the prophet and apostles are telling us what the Lord wants us to hear, there are his mouth piece. One of my favorite quotes is "I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it!" Just think of how marvelous that day will be when Heavenly Father and Jesus welcome us home with open arms.

My love to all!

Dumb Hackers

I don't really check my email much lately, so it took me a while to see that my account had been hacked into and sent out a weird email about a MAC computer, sorry if any of you got it. Then When I went to my contact list to send out an apology email my contact list was completely empty. I hope this doesn't cause a problem for all of the people in my list. Needless to say I will not be using hotmail anymore and will be switching to gmail. I guess it was only a matter of time I have been using that for 10 years. Now I need to send a message to hotmail and hopefully they can recover my contact list. Stupid hackers need to find something better to do.

Super Heros Unite

For Logan's Birthday we did a superhero theme, it was so fun. We had the kids walk through the bat cave, they really liked it.

My friends Elizabeth made all these capes with the kids initial on them and then they decorated them.

Here's everyone listening to how to play superman tag

Run, don't get tagged

Here are the three supermen trying to get the villains

The super hero's need a recharge

yummy

Super Hero's at play

Getting ready to go fight crime!

Superman!

Dave made these awesome Spider-man cupcakes, good job babe!

Lastly time for presents

Logan had such a great time at his super hero party, and thanks to all his friends for coming and making it SUPER!

Logan's 5

I can't believe my little boy is 5 years old, he's not so little anymore. Logan has really grown up this last summer and is really figuring out who he is. Logan is so sweet with his new brother; when we are driving he puts the binki (b) in Hunter's mouth, he always asks to hold him and when he is holding him he rubs is nose with Hunter's. It's so sweet. He is also the best helper when I'm feeding the baby and I need him to get me something. We are so happy to have him in our family and are so excited to continue to see him learn and grow. We love you Logan!

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We went to a dinosaur park on his actual birthday (8/27) with some friends, but his party had to be delayed due to having a baby. Five fabulous years with our boy, he is so sweet, cute and funny. Lots of Love

Hunter's birth

After his first bath at home
what a face

Only a few minutes old

Proud parents

It all started Tuesday night, the Dr.'s office called and said that Thursday was really busy for inductions and wanted to know if we wanted to wait until Saturday. Not really, once we knew it was Thursday the thought of waiting two more days was not that appealing. So went about the rest of our day thinking I still had two more days. Wednesday morning at 8:30 am (of course I was still sleeping) my phone rang, and I didn't want to answer but I saw it was the Dr. so I thought I better. The lady on the other end said tomorrow is really busy is there any chance you guys want to come in today? The next step was to call Dave who was already at work and see what he thought. My mom was flying in from the airport at 1 pm, so I needed to figure somethings out.

Dave called back and said let's do it, my work is fine with me taking the rest of the day off. So he was going to leave at 12pm. Luckily my friends Elizabeth was already staying with us and she was able to help us out. So I needed to be to the hospital by 11 am, so we got ourselves and four kids ready to leave by 10:40ish. The plan was that Elizabeth will drop me off at the hospital, then go drop her kids off at her sister-in-laws, then go pick up my mom from the airport, then bring her and my boys back to my house, then come to the hospital for pictures. Wow, what a lifesaver!

Dave got to the hospital at 12:30 and I was all checked in and hooked up to the patocin (don't know how to spell it) for about 45 min. At 12:45 pm the doc broke my water, which made the contractions more intense, so by 1:30 pm I got my epidural. At 2:00 pm the nurse checked and I was at a 4, so we figrued it would still be a few hours. Around 3 I started to feel pressure and I was trying to explain to Dave what it felt like, and I said no way I'm at a 10 already, I think I'm just getting close. So when the nurse came in I told her I felt the pressure, so she took a peak and she said well it looks like your ready to have this baby, let me go get the Dr. I think it was around 3:15-20ish when she got there and shortly after that I started to push. It only took 2 10 second count pushes and a couple of half pushes and he was out.

Now the moment of truth, how much does he weigh? We were all anxiously waiting. 5 lb 4 oz, and 20 in long. Sweet, what a relief! And I can't believe how long he is, the boys were both 18.5 in. He came out wonderfully healthy, and looked great. Once I delivered the placenta we looked at it and it was only about the size of Dave's hand and it had a crusted edge around it. the Dr. said that's what it does when it has shut down, and decides it doesn't want to grow anymore. So her it looks like we did the right thing. At this point things are going well, hunter and I are enjoying some skin to skin, and he has already nursed a little.

Time to head up to recovery, here's where the excitement starts. Once we get up to the 3 rd floor I feel a gush of blood, but I thought no big deal, you never know how much is coming out. Then I move to the bed in the recovery room and I tell Dave I don't feel good, and start to get really light headed and pale. Dave looks down and see pools of blood on the bed. He tells the transporter girl, um there's a lot of blood we need a nurse. At this point I'm pretty out of it and am not sure what's happening. the nurse gets there and pushes on my stomach and I feel a wave of blood pour out, and hear her say oh man. I'm in and out the whole time, not really with it. The Dr. comes in and tells me I have a blood clot in my uterus and she needs to manually extract it. During all this my blood pressure dropped to 50/30. After she removed the blood clot, they gave me some medicine to make my uterus start contracting because it just kept pumping out blood.

Once the clot was removed I started feeling better for a time, and was really hungry so I thought I would eat something, well I guess my stomach wasn't ready for that and I started to feel really nauseous and just wanted to go to sleep. They put some anti-nausea medicine in my IV and I was off to sleepy land, for a little while anyway. I guess I put everybody on high alert and couldn't get more then a 20 min nap before people were coming to draw blood, check vitals, check bleeding everything. I finally started feeling better around 9 pm.

Thankfully Hunter was an angel the whole time in the hospital and has been ever since we have been home. The boy loves to sleep and is a great eater, caught on to nursing right away. He wakes up every 3-4 hours to eat and then goes right back to sleep where ever he's laying, crib, bouncer, on your chest. He is just perfect and shows no signs of being premature. We are so blessed that he has come to us with no problems. We love him so much!