Jenna the Cheerleader

Jenna has been doing a cheerleading activity with Orem city for the last 6 weeks. She has LOVED it!! She is the quintessential cheerleader - always posing, making up random cheers for anything and everything! It's been fun to watch her have so much fun.

Everyone else is done kicking and cheering - but not Jenna. She kicks and yells and does cartwheels until the bitter end, usually when all of the other girls have left to go get a drink!

This is me sneaking in behind the professional photographer to get my own shot because I'm too cheap to pay for my own!!

Pictures of Megan

Here are a few pictures of Megan when she was about 3 weeks old. It's obvious that I'm an amateur photographer, so they aren't that great - but it's what we have!!




I was trying to get a picture for her birth announcement. I don't think she was in the mood for that, and she wasn't quite sure what she thought about laying on satin!

She liked this minkie blanket a lot better!!




And this is when she was pretty much done with the whole thing!! Not that I can really blame her! I have to say - she is a great baby. She rarely cries, she is very patient even when Rachel is mauling her. I've been very blessed to have easy, great babies! We are loving having Megan in our family. She is so much fun and is adding so much to our happy home.

Stinking Cute Little Girl!

OK, I just have to brag a little bit on Rachel...I think she is seriously so cute and has such a cute personality that has just been busting through lately. She's let me play with her hair lately, so we've done pig tails and even curled it with a curling iron. It's fun to have a little girl that will actually let me do something with her hair!!

The other day I was putting her to bed and I gave her a kiss good night. She said "more" and so I gave her another kiss. She kept saying "more" and started giggling everytime I would give her another kiss. I was laughing too! It was so cute. Since I laughed so much she's been doing it the last few days. She is a lot of fun!

Something not so fun...she learned how to say no the other day. Now the answer to everything is "no". Do you want lunch - no. Do you want to take a bath - no. Do you want chocolate - no. Poor girl, she doesn't know what she's saying!!!

The pig tails. They look so cute but never last past nap time!!

The curling iron hairdo. It's always a little scary for me to use the curling iron because she doesn't sit still very long, but it always looks so cute! And I love that smile!

Megan is born!!!

OK, I know I am WAY behind in this, but who knew 2 kids would take up so much time??!! I guess those of you who have two kids or more could have told me that, but whatever! So, here it is, 7 weeks later and I'm finally getting her info on here!

First of all, she came 10 days early, which was a great surprise!! Don't get me wrong, I loved it - but it did catch me off guard. Luckily for me, I had just got home from the store stocking up on the "necessities" so Kasey wouldn't have to go shopping after I had the baby. I just didn't know I was having the baby so soon! I made Rachel's lunch and then realized that my water had broken. I wasn't having any contractions so I called a friend who is a nurse to ask her what she thought I should do. Get to the hospital she said! So I did!!

I called Kasey at work, but told him not to worry about coming then (it was around 1:30 pm) since I wasn't having any contractions. That way he could pick the kids up from school!! Then I got my epidural because I WAS NOT waiting until I was in too much pain to get it. Kasey brought the kids by to say hi after school, then took them home and bought some dinner for them. I told him to take his time since nothing really seemed to be happening - and he did. About 10 minutes after he got back the doctor came in and said "Why don't we have this baby in the next 5 minutes?" WHAT!!!! I haven't even had any pain yet!! Kasey almost missed the delivery, the doctor almost missed the delivery...this was way different than when I had Rachel!! Two minutes later there she was. I got to hold her right after she was born, Kasey got to cut the cord. It was a great experience!

She is a wonderful baby - so good!! I am so blessed with good babies. We love her and think she is beautiful! Even Rachel is good with her, and has only sat on her twice now!!


This is right after she was born. She was born on September 1, 2010 at 7:31 pm (only 7 hours of labor total - it was awesome!) She was 7 lbs 13 oz and 18 1/2 inches long.

Daddy with his new little girl. We do not have a shortage of estrogen in our house!

Mom and her two little girls. Rachel is so cute with Megan, she is always telling her "hi".

The whole family at Megan's blessing on September 26.


This is what happens when we try to get a picture of just the kids. Rachel doesn't want to be more than two feet away from Mom, and we get weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth! Gotta love family pictures!!