Some Bella photos that are long overdue!

Cal turned 4 (awhile ago)

While Nana and Poppy Collin were here from Australia, we decided to have Cal's B-day!

He wanted a Star Wars party, Nana and Poppy spoiled him with all his gifts, like his Star Wars shirt that he is wearing and cake, and lots of other fun little toys.

We gave him some "very special " Star Wars books.  These were Adrian's books when he was younger.  I love that we were able to get a lot of Adrian's childhood books.

We had some yummy "Yoda Soda"

 

 

Cal loves his Baby Bella and Caders.  He loves to sing songs to Bella when she cries and tries to hold her all by himself.  He misses Cade when it is his nap time, and often times will sneak upstairs to wake him early so they can play.  His favorite food is carrots, his favorite color is green.  He likes riding his scooter over his bike.  He has a great memory, he memorized his talk and scripture when it was his turn in primary.  He loves to play with his friends and cousins, especially those that are older.  He loves swimming and playing outside with bugs and lizards.

We love you Cal!

Cherry Picking

I love having little traditions, it gives you something fun to look forward to.
Cherry picking is definitely one that we love and I look forward to.
(this was only are 2nd year doing it)

There's not a better way to start the summer. Climbing in trees, picking cherries, EATING the BEST cherries, and being with those that we love!

These are the memories and traditions that I want my children to remember, they are the kind that I remember as a kid.


GOOD OLD FASHION FUN!


Bella even enjoyed herself laying under a cherry tree!
(We missed you Grandpa and Dell's)

Delivery Story

If you are interested, I finished posting about my delivery story today. Scroll down and it is right after my labor story.

Random

I have been really crappy about blogging lately (well actually for about a year now) but I am going to try to be more on top of things, especially since Adrian's family is on the other side of the world and my family is getting further away. It's fun to keep in touch this way! Plus whenever I get into a blogging routine it makes me take more pictures.

Cute little Bella

The boys and I are enjoying doing crafts, these are melted crayons that we made

Cal turned 4, I still can't believe it. He had some friends and their siblings over to play in the sprinklers, blow bubbles and have popsicles. We will have his real Birthday party when his Nana gets here next week from Australia!
My little Cade is still getting bloody noses like crazy!

Swimming Lessons

Cal absolutely loves going to swimming lessons!
Especially with his buddies Davis and Zac


Zac and Cal

Pink Coral Sand Dunes

(I believe that is the name of the Dunes.) We had a great Memorial Weekend with lots of fun. We headed to the lake with some friends, BBQ'd with some friends and headed to the dunes as a family to play and have a picnic!

We tried out a sand board (that didn't work to well) still the kids had fun!






We made sand angels


We got sand everywhere!


We rolled down the dunes


Played in the sand


It was fun to get out and play with the kids and Adrian with no distractions.

Bella's first day of church

Goodbye Dells

My little sister and her cute family moved a few weeks ago to New York. We will miss you guys, they lived in Vegas and was our closest family, we were lucky to see them a ton while they lived there. I cried like a baby after the drove away, hopefully we will make it out there to visit! Love you guys!

Scriptures!!

Cal was playing in the garage and came running in with his big contagious smile and said
"mom you bought me my own scriptures!" he was SO happy! I happily smiled back at him and said "you bet I did!" I didn't want to explain to him that his new Book of Mormon was actually an old Book of Mormon that had been collecting dust in the garage for years.
He then decided that he needed to go show his little best friend Kate who lives across the street from us. He ran and got his scooter to ride over there and figured out he couldn't ride and hold his scriptures at the same time, so he put his scriptures in his backpack, and had to go in style with his shades!
He rode over to her house, took off his back pack, unzipped it, showed Kate his new scriptures, put it back in his backpack and rode back home!
He also proudly took his scriptures to church today and loves to read it!

Delivery

I got in my room around 10:30 Sat night, Adrian went home for a little bit to pack our stuff and get the babysitters situated. I was having contractions every 3-4 minutes and my Dr. prescribed me a little pain killer to make me a little sleepy plus it took the edge off of my contractions enough for me to hold off on the epidural. We had a long sleepless night and about 6:00am I got my epidural. The entire time I was in the hospital the baby's heart beat was on the low side of what it was suppose to be and the last few hours it dropped below where it was suppose to be, so they had to hook the heart monitor on the top of her head inside of me (which left a pretty good bruise on her head). My Blood pressure dropped pretty low, so I had to have oxygen (which drove me nuts!)

While I was pushing, I think Adrian sensed something and backed away and told the Dr, that he would just watch (normally Adrian is in on the action and helps deliver the baby). Sure enough the nurses were telling me to push and my Dr told me to stop pushing and to slow down.

The cord ended up being wrapped around her neck 2 times, but my awesome doctor that we absolutely love, quickly fixed the problem, and all was well!
I did get sick with this one and was throwing up and very week the rest of the day. I could barely hold Bella because of it until that evening.

The boys came that evening to see their new baby sister and me!




They sure love giving her kisses and squeezes! It was a great Mother's day, one I will never forget!

Labor

My due date was May 11 and on Friday, May 7, I was barely dilated to a 2. We didn't know what to think because with Cal I was dilated at a 3 a month before he was due, and I went into labor on his due date. With Cade I wasn't dilating at all and I went into labor 2 weeks early.

All we knew is we were ready to have this baby. I started going on walks a few days before, "A" a foreign exchange student at our church came over and cooked us Spicy Thai food Thurs. night, and Sat night we decided to go out, we had one of the girls from our church come and babysit and we headed out for dinner. We went out and got wings for dinner, spicy of course, and while we were there I had a couple of contractions, which was exciting, after dinner we decided we had to going walking, not just anywhere, we had to go to a STORE. (Cal my water broke at Target, Cade my water broke at Costco). We went to Target and started walking around, both of us were thinking this is a waste of time, like if my water is going to break tonight at Target. But we were enjoying ourselves and decided to continue, when all of a sudden I had a contraction, a little while later, I had another, so we thought this is fun lets time them. We started to time them and they were 7 min apart. My Dr told me if I was having contractions 7-10 min apart to go to the hospital, but we were still hesitant, so we kept walking. By now my back started to hurt so we decided instead of driving all the way home and coming all the way back maybe I should just go to the hospital and get things checked out. By the time we got to the hospital my contractions were 4 min. apart and getting pretty painful. The nurse checked me and I was STILL at a 2, I was so disappointed, but she said she needed me to stay for an hour so they could monitor my contractions and they would check me again. After an hour, I was dilated to a 3 and they took me to my room!
I don't know if was all the walking, the spicy foods or what that put me into labor, but Adrian and I seem to think it was TARGET!!
So all 3 of my kids I have started labor at a store, pretty funny!

Mother's Day Suprise!

Bella Sandi Reeder is here! She was born on Mother's Day 10:30 in the morning. 20 inches 8.4 pounds! We are so excited to have her with us!

Disneyland!

We went to Disneyland, a few weeks back with 2 of my sisters and their families! Here we are meeting some of our favorite characters!

Cal was not shy at all and would run and give each one a big squeeze! My little Cade on the other hand was so excited until it was our turn and he would totally freak out, so I had to go with him!

Pregnant Sisters and Baby Girls

Yup, we are having a baby girl! And so are two of my sisters! SO fun that we are due so close to each other! This picture was taken a few weeks ago, while I was up north visiting some family. Hopefully, we will all be together again before the 1st baby comes so we can do another belly shot! (Easter at my house girls!)

Happy Birthday Cade

On Dec. 23 was my little Cade's birthday! We started it off by going to Jumping Jacks! The boys always have so much fun there!



Cal jumping
Cade loves to go down slides!
And he loved having daddy throw him!
We then came home for some Mickey Mouse cupcakes and ice cream!
His Mickey Mouse cupcakes-he thought they were pretty cool! We also all wore Mickey mouse ears except for the birthday boy, he wanted nothing to do with them!
Opening presents
Cal wanted to give Cade a present this year and picked out Mickey Mouse sippy cups! This is Cal telling him all about the cups and giving squeezes!
Cade is such a fun little 2 year old! We love him so much! Here are some fun things about him
He LOVES anything Mickey Mouse
He loves to play with Cal (for the most part) and copies whatever Cal says or does
He loves to jump especially off things (like curbs and stairs)
He is the best sleeper ever!
And a great eater!
He is becoming quite the talker and is VERY loud
His favorite things to say are "Look mommy" or "watch this daddy" as he does something silly!
He likes to talk on the phone
Happy Birthday boy!