Welcome Kash



We are so excited to have Kash here.  I ended up working Sunday and by the end of the shift the contractions had started.  For so long I had wondered if what I was having before was contractions, but these were regular and seemed pretty obvious.  So I headed down to labor and delivery to see what their thoughts were on it.  I ended up being in labor and at 3:35 Kash was born.  The first epidural didn't and I may be a wimp, but thank heavens the second one did.  I guess if I had some other form of pain medicine I might have been ok, but holy cow those contractions hurt when I was waiting to see if it was working.  The second epidural was bliss and everything was much better then. 



He was 8 lb. 9 oz. and 21 inches long.  So as far as weight literally almost twice as big as Kalli was.  Maybe it was from him being my second or I'm not sure, but it was a little more tender of a recovery than it was with Kalli.  He's four weeks old today and I think we are finally figuring things out together.  Kalli loves her little brother and is always wanting to feel his hair and touch his face and tries to give him his pacifier all the time, whether he's sleeping or not.  She finally isn't stealing his anymore, well not that much, but she has seemed to find comfort in her thumb and has started sucking it.  Grrr.  Never before really ever did, guess it's her little thing since she has to have the attention shared now. We've given in a little and let her keep on of the pacifiers around thinking it will be easier to take that away than to chop off her thumb. 

He's a cutie with lots of dark brown hair, opposite of all Kalli's blonde hair that she was born with.  When he finally goes to sleep at night he sleeps pretty good, but half the time he won't lay down so we have to figure something else out and he's ended up sleeping on our chests a bunch as we fall asleep trying to get him to sleep.  We are so excited he's here and safe and healthy and that we got to come right home with him.  Yeah! 

Kalli loves him bunches and is so funny.  She likes to make the sound he does when he eats and always goes up in his face saying Hi!

Summer stuff

We had a great visit from Aunt Trinette and her girls and Grandma and Grandpa Smith. I know I should do better with the camera and don't even know where all the pix of everyone all together are. grrr. But we did have the camera when we went to Leo's.

So yeah who's a little focused on his speed car racing game?

I wondered if she would, but Kalli loved the slide and even went down by her big girl self

Good Food!

Riding the airplanes little rides was great.

With Nicole :)

Couple pictures from Easter that were just too cute not to put in.

Kalli found her new best friend.....just not sure if it's Rhett or Howdy :) She loves riding Howdy with Rhett

Well we did get one good camping trip in this summer. Lots of fun and had a good time, just wish it could have lasted longer.

We did a lot of this....sitting around and some fishing and cooking some food....mostly eveyone played with Brock's Potato gun which I just realized we didnt' get any pix of!

Kalli had a great time and was pretty good, but loved being way too close to the fire.

It was way hot and we all had a fun time at Hiese, Kalli loved the water, and especially playing with Kara.

With daddy

It's been forever....

I'm definately not very good at keeping up on this. I kept thinking I would do it and just peeked at it today and realized holy cow it's been forever! So much I could write about, but it I do it'll be forever. Leland finished his POST training this spring and passed! Yeah! So excited for it to be done and to have our family back together most all weeks instead of just the weekends. He's been working and mostly enjoys his job, just not so much stupid people :) He's also kept busy riding Torque and trying to keep him going and then doing a bunch of the irrigating on the farm. Pretty sure we didn't know how much extra work that was going to be. We're so glad he passed his training and that he loves his job.

Kalli is so cute and so naughty :) Well not really she just loves to get into everything. And I being very large with child do not always do well with chasing after her. Speaking of, due October 4th or I can only hope closer to the ultrasound date of September 25th we are expecting a little boy! Yeah!!! My mom can only tell you how excited I was when we were at the ultrasound and he had a little outie :) Leland was in Boise and thought I was lying for sure when I called. Kalli and I celebrated with McDonalds that day! I know big spenders.

Kalli loves mowing the lawn with us, and then has to get on it every chance she has. But I guess I guess I don't mind that too much, because at least that means she's not trying to play in the dog kennel or dog house.

Kalli has been so fun and cute. Her latest is wearing everyone's shoes and or her dad's hats all over and getting into her pony tail holders. Oh and yes LOVES dog food! Well at least getting into it and brings us a handful with one in her mouth. Yuck!

She found her belly button and has to show it off :)

Uncle Nick has a new kitty. She was so funny chasing it around half bent over trying to catch it. Now she motion with her hands for the horses to come over and kisses at them. So funny!

Realizing how long it's been I forgot that I never even mentioned the broken arm story. Oh well it's long over. She's a tough cookie. She had a cast for I think it was 2 weeks and was such a trooper. Pretty tough since it took us a couple days to realize that we needed to get it looked at. This was after a long day of seeing doctors and then going to visit grandma at work to show off her new pink cast!

Uncle Brock gave her her first tatoo :) I couldn't find a picture after everyone had signed it. Better have one, but couldn't seem to find it.

Bath time was a little different, but we did good and only got it a little wet once :)


Yeah it was much easier coming off then going on!

Her first piggie tails. So cute!!

Kalli's Pix

Here's a couple pictures we got of Kalli and us.

We finally got some of Kalli for Christmas and for her one year old. She was quite a trooper getting lots of pictures taken that day! She's fun, has quite the personality and keeps us all on our toes. We're soo glad she is doing so good....you'd never know over a year ago she was in the hospital for 2 months.

Kalli's ONE!~

Monday the 4th we celebrated Kalli's First Birthday! Pretty hard to believe that it's already been a year. We had a little celebration and had cousins and aunts and uncles and grandma and grandpa. Pretty fun!

She got to try out her own cake and absolutely LOVED it! I have no idea where she got her love for sweets :)

She got a bunch of toys and some more clothes so we can finally put away all the ones that are pretty snug on her. And her daddy's favorite.....we got her a little aquarium to set up in her room and have some fishies to look at......when she should be sleeping :)

Kalli's Grandma and Grandpa Smith got to come out and spend Thanksgiving with us. Kalli loved playing with her Grandpa!

Christmas was fun. Oddly enough our Christmas tree stayed up the whole time without any little girlies pulling it over. In fact oddly enough Kalli was really good about the tree and only pulled off a few of the unbreakable ornaments we had put down at the bottom.

We spent a lot of the day over at Grandma and Grandpa Barney's with my family. First time we've all been here for Christmas in a little while. It was a fun day. Leland had to work, but only got called in at 630 in the morning and then not until about 430 at night. So we got to spend most of the day with him.

I think this was my mom's favorite gift. Abbie and Brock had one of their friends blow up one of my mom and dad's wedding pix and framed it. Very cool!

This one probably came in a close second though. Yes my mother is armed and dangerous now. Dangerous being the key word! :) My mom wanted a gun for Christmas so my dad got her a gun. So now all the boys are jealous :)

And a little surprised. Apparently I missed Wade's reaction on camera, but Amy said it was priceless!