Joel's Birthday

So my wonderful hubby Joel turned 33 on Thursday. He had a good day, went golfing and then had dinner with family. Here are a few pics from his day. Jeiven got him some boxing gloves so they have been having a lot of fun hurting each other!
I attempted to make him a cake, but it was so hard to find enough concentrated time to do it. I think that is going to be a big problem with 3 rascals :)
I didn't have the right colors for my icing, so he had a dirt track with a street bike. Oh well, what can you do?

We ended up having dinner on Friday night with our friends James and Jaimee at the Adrift in Anacortes.. such a good place, then we came back and watched the newest LOST episode. All in all a good night.

Malea's birithday

I can't believe that my girl is 3! I took the day off from spending time with Finley so hang with Malea. It was a difficult day. Malea has been having a very hard time with me being gone so much. I was hoping that having a day with me would help, but she was very trying. I took her down to see Finley and then we had lunch and went shopping for some summer clothes. She came home and went to the park with Joel and then we had Joel's parents, my parents, her cousin Harleigh and her auntie Kendra over for pizza and cake. Here are a few pics.

Finley's blog

I have started a blog to keep you all informed about Finley. You can read all about what happened and get all the details.

http://finleyfacts.blogspot.com

update...

I had my doctor's appointment yesterday and thankfully there hasn't been much change since last week's appointment. I am still 3cm dilated and now 60% effaced. So I am still on strict bedrest for another 9 days, then we will switch to modified bedrest for 7 days.. then back to some freedom. After 36 weeks they will just let me go so we may still have this rascal early.

Thanks for everyone's thoughts and prayers! They obviously worked.
I will continue to keep you posted if anything changes.

love to all!

bumps in the road....

Well I guess it's time for an update. Things have been going great around here. The kids are doing great. Life has thrown us a little bump in the road...I have been placed on bedest for at least the next two weeks. I had been having contractions pretty regularly and when I went to the doctor this last Friday, I was dilated to 3cm already. I am only 33 weeks now so we have to try and hold her in until at least 35 weeks.

I would have to say that being on bedrest has always been a lingering nightmare and it sucks!

I know that this is what is best for our little munchkin but man it is hard. I have never been a big TV watcher so daytime televsion doesn't really appeal to me and you can only do so many crosswords and word searches in a day. I have already polished off one book and just started another.

Joel has been incredible. He is still trying to work as much as he can, plus do all the cleaning and cooking. He really is amazing. We have had some help from friends too, which has been nice.

I am pretty much trying to go day by day. I promise I will keep you posted. I have another appointment on Friday. If I have dilated any more, there is a chance I will be sent to Seattle as our small hospital doesn't have the neo-natal care that she would need. Pray, if you are a praying type!

The kids are getting excited for the new baby sister. They have been so much fun lately and seem to be adjusting ok to this all.

I will post a few pics of them from the last little while. Jeiven has lost his two front teeth, he is growing WAY too fast!

updates

Ok, so much for doing this on a regular basis!

I just don't seem to have enough energy! Lame excuse, I know.

Life is moving at what feels like the speed of light. I can't believe that it is almost February already. We are doing great. Christmas flew by, we hosted our first Christmas here at the house and it was great. I realized how unprepared I am for hosting that many people and will have to get some things figured out before my family comes out in August. There will be 19 of us here at the house so it will be busy but I am very much looking forward to it.

I thought I had blogged about this.. but it must have just been good intentions. :)
We are having another girl. We had an ultrasound on January 2nd and everything is looking fine. I have another ultrasound on Wednesday to get a better look at the heart, as she was laying funny. The kids are excited but scared. Jeiven cried when he found out it was a girl.. he really wanted a brother. He says he is over it now but admits he is nervous that I won't have any time for him once the new baby is born.. I told him if he "helps" me with stuff it will make it easier. Who knows how that will all play out. Thankfully we have 3 more months to figure it out.

I am still adjusting to life at home. I have great days where I love being here with the kids and other days when I long to go back to work. I am sure all stay at home moms have good and bad days so I am taking it as it is.

Starting tomorrow I will get the feeling of what it is like to have a baby around again. My dear friend Jaimee is returning to her nursing job two days a week and I am going to take care of little Noah for her. Malea is thrilled, as she can't get enough of him. It should be good, he is a great baby.

We have a snow day today as it snowed about a inch and a half and that is enough to shut down the world in Washington :) The kids and I had fun out in the snow this morning.

Well, I would say that I will try to keep this updated better, but we all know it probably is unlikely. :)
Hope you are all well. Here are some pictures from the last while.