Happy Birthday Tanner!!

I decided that this year the kids wouldn't have birthday parties and we would just do something fun with our own family. It didn't turn out the way I planned. It just always seems like a lot more fun for the kids to have a few kids their age to celebrate their own birthday with. Sooo, Saturday we had some pizza, cake and ice cream with the Weavers. We've been looking at houses up in Davis county so Sharidee was nice enough to watch the boys in the morning then let us have the party at her house. (We assigned someone else to be in charge of the camera)

A really yummy cake from Costco

Baby Ben giving Annabelle a big old smooch

Here's the picture of Jared you've all been waiting for!!


Saturday night we went to Hollywood connections. Our original plan for Tanner's birthday. Jackson and Tanner had a blast. It was really fun to see them have so much fun together. Today Jackson came and said "you know who my best friend is?" I said "who?" and he said "TANNER!!" that made me smile.

They TRIED rollerskating. I think Jared and I may have had too much fun watching them fall down.

They loved the bumper cars. It was really fun watching them giggle the entire time!




Sunday Jared, Jackson and Tanner headed up to Jared's oldest brother Cole's house for a Superbowl party. Tanner was very very very excited to go to Cole's house! I stayed home and slept for a couple of hours so there are no pictures of that.

Monday we had cake and ice cream with the Astle side. Tanner was really happy to have his Spiderman cake and have his (second) cousins over. He thought the Penguin pinata was awesome so it was a Spiderman/Penguin party.
Giving birthday wishes after a bump on the head

Addy is always the only girl. She seems to hang just fine with the boys. I thought she was the best at hitting the pinata!

Tanner stared at his cake for a looong time. It took a while for him to leave his cake and go join his party. He wanted to cut the cake first thing.

Giving some hugs after getting some really nice presents from everyone that came.

Sledding

Jared and My dad were going to take the kids sledding last Saturday to give me a little break but after being cooped up in the house for a while I decided I wanted to go along for the ride. It turned out to be a gorgeous day once we drove out of the inversion!

Surprisingly, unlike a lot of our friends and family outside Utah, snow was hard to come by so we drove up toward Huntsville and found a perfect spot that actually had enough snow to sled down. We got everyone seriously bundled up but a couple times of running up a mountain makes you hot pretty darn fast. The coats, hats, and gloves came off pretty quick.

We didn't take many pics but you can check my dad's blog if you interested to see more.

Jackson suffocating


Tanner after a good run.


Me and little miss nice and cozy in the car. I did end up going down the hill a few times too. You just can't get that close and sit back and watch the whole time.


As far as little Annabelle, we still like having her. She's growing REALLY fast! The boys still fight over who gets to hold her but I usually win :)

Jackson wins a lot too. It's amazing how I can convince Jackson to do anything if the reward is to hold the baby.


Jared called baby Annie "crazy" the other day and Tanner said "She's NOT crazy, she's beautiful!" He loves his little sis.


I haven't gotten around to taking many more pictures or doing much of anything other than feed, clean, feed and clean some more. It's amazing how the time to accomplish anything is multiplied by ten when there's a new baby in the mix. She makes it worth it though!!!


I don't have any pictures of Jared. I guess he's been behind the camera a lot lately. Next time we'll get some great pictures of the old handsome lad.

5 days old and growing fast!

Little Annabelle is doing well at home! She pretty much eats, sleeps, and poops all day. Takes after her daddy.

Annabelle Sara Weaver

We went into the hospital Wed Jan 6th to get induced and everything went really well. It took a while for things to get going but once she was ready to come I pushed through one contraction and she was out!! It was by far the easiest labor and delivery so far for me. Right now we're just enjoying our time holding our tiny little baby before the boys come back home and life has to really start. Annabelle's stats: Born at 5:37 pm Jan 6 2010; 6lbs 9oz and 19.5 inches long.

Straight from the Stork...


First bath


Fresh new look


Proud Pappa


Happy Mamma

Nervous

Lately I have had a hard time sleeping and not for reasons expected like tossing and turning to find a comfortable position to sleep with a basketball stuffed under my ribs (although I'm sure that has added to the problem). I think I'm getting nervous to have another baby. With Jackson I was so busy finishing school and working I didn't have time to prepare too much. I got really nervous because I didn't take any birthing classes or read any books and I had zero idea of what actually happened during labor. Luckily Jared's mom is a pro after having 9 children, (most of them natural and at home) she was able to tell me when I was in labor. Jared also helped a lot during labor and it ended up all being very exciting and wonderful. Even though it seemed to work itself out with Jackson and Tanner I feel like an amateur all over again. I'm afraid I won't know what to do in the hospital, what kind of things to pack, how to nurse, how to change a girl's baby diaper, what if I don't wake up in the night when she cries... It's been almost four years since Tanner was born and it seems like an eternity ago. I am banking on everything working itself out and hopefully I'll just remember how to be a mom of a brand new baby again.

Other than that, we are very excited to welcome little baby Annie into our family! Time flew by so fast and I can't believe I'm scheduled to be induced in three days. I wasn't able to nest very much before Jackson and Tanner were born since we were in the process of moving to VA with Jackson and we were too broke with Tanner. With this one I've had a lot of fun getting the nursery ready and buying all the little bows, dresses and shoes!! Now it's just a matter of a small countdown until I can get to use all of these things and hopefully take good care of a brand new baby!! Wish us luck because I'm sure we'll need it!!!

Christmas 2009 Best of...

Hope you ALL had a Very Merry Christmas!!!!

New update on Jackson's love life...

Yesterday we went into the dental office to get some sealants on the kids' teeth. After the kids were done Jackson chose a girl bracelet out of the toy basket and said he wanted to give it to a girl at school. Today when I picked him up from school, this is what was said:

Jackson: So I gave my bracelet to Stella (If you remember this is the girl who he no longer has a "crush" on).
Mom: Stella huh? Why did you choose Stella?
Jackson: Because she had pockets and the other girls didn't have any pockets to put it in.

Isn't he such a romantic??