Mosiah's Baby Blessing

 On November 4th we blessed Mosiah.  We did it then so that my parents, who were leaving on their mission to Kenya the next day, could be there.  Jake did a great job giving Mosiah a wonderful blessing.  I'm so grateful that my husband holds the priesthood and that he is worthy to use it to bless me and my children.   I'm so grateful for the gospel in my life and that I have a forever family.  Thanks to all of my family and Jake's family that came and made the long drive to celebrate this wonderful time with us.

Happy Halloween

This is super late, but better late than never.  This year, Tean was Captian Moroni for Halloween.  I never got a picture of Ziah because after being in his costume (he was Frankenstein) for about an hour, he had a blowout and got it all dirty, and I wasn't thinking so we didn't get a picture.  Oh well.  Tean loved trick-or-treating this year.  We went lots of places trick-or-treating and Tean loved getting the candy at all of the places.

Pictures of Mosiah November 29, 2012

Jake's sister-in-law, Tami, took some awesome pictures of Mosiah and our family.  You can see more of her work here.  Enjoy!

Mosiah

My goal is to do a lot better with updating my blog.  Since my parents left on their mission, this is a good way for them to see what is going on in my family, and to let others in my family what is going on, so I really need to be better.  And I have some pretty cute kids, so why not show them off!

Our cute little Mosiah came to our family on October 12.  On the 11th, I had a doctor's appointment.  Jake had been gone out of town for the week, but had come home that day.  So, I asked if the midwife could strip my membranes to try to see if it would start labor, because I was ready for the baby to come.  She checked me and she said that she could do it, so she did.  A few hours later, around 4:45pm, my water broke while finishing up the freezer meals that I was making.  I wasn't having any contractions.  So we packed a hospital bag, packed Tean a bag, vacuumed the house, and cleaned up the kitchen a bit.  I started having some contractions, but very irregular and not painful at all.  So I called my midwife and she said we could wait a bit, so we decided to wait 2 hours and see what was going on then.  We took Tean up to Jake's parent's house and ate dinner.  Jake and his dad gave me a blessing then we decided to go to the hospital where I would be put on low dose pitocin to help start the labor.

We got to the hospital and they started me on pitocin.  And I had decided to go drug free.  After a while it started to get painful.  I finally got to where I could start pushing.  I was glad because I was in a ton of pain.  I pushed and pushed and pushed, but nothing.  The midwife decided the baby was turned wrong, so she called in a doctor to come and try to turn him.  The doctor tried to turn him and it was the most painful thing I have ever experienced in my life.  The baby's heart rate started to drop, so they gave me some oxygen and it went up again.  I couldn't cooperate because of the pain to do what I was supposed to do while the doctor was trying to turn the baby, so they called in the anesthesiologist to give me a spinal tap.  They told me it would be about 20 minutes until he was there.  He got there and they told me he was there but he had to fill out some paperwork and get the medicine.  Not something to tell someone in labor and in extreme pain.  I was telling them to have him do the paperwork after he gave me the meds.  He finally came in and gave me the meds and the doctor tried to turn the baby again.  She couldn't do it and the baby's heart rate dropped again to about 60-70 beats a minute so they decided they needed to do an emergency c-section.  They rushed me in, with Jake running by my side.  I was scared for the baby, but then I remembered that the blessing Jake gave to me told me that all would be fine with the baby and me.  I kept asking for Jake in the OR, and they kept saying he was coming.  They stopped him at the door so he could get on scrubs to go in.  He finally came in, then about 10 seconds later I was asleep.  Jake said that when they took Mosiah out he wasn't breathing on his own for about 2 1/2 minutes, but then he started breathing on his own.  After that Mosiah did great.

Here is Mosiah getting his first bath.

We had to stay in the hospital for a couple of days.  During that time we had a few visitors. 

Jake's parents and two of his brothers and his little sister came, his cousin Cyd came,

my parents surprised us by driving up from Utah, and we had a few friends come and surprise us as well.

And of course, the proud big brother came to see his new baby brother.

On Sunday we were finally able to go home.  We are so grateful that we were finally blessed to have Mosiah come to our family.  We have loved having him around.

Philadelphia

 

When we went to Philadelphia, we went and saw a lot of the historical sites after church, and the best part was that it was free since it was Sunday!  We went to Independence Hall, and we got to go up to the top floor.  They only let people go up there during certain months.  We also saw the Liberty Bell.  Even now when Tean see's pictures of the Liberty Bell, he talks about how he saw the bell with the crack in it.

We also went to Benjamin Franklin's printing shop and a lot of other cool places.  It is so neat to see all of the history behind those places, and the great sacrifice that the founding fathers went through to create this great country.

Gettysburg

So the day that we went to Gettysburg, it was COLD!!  We enjoyed driving around and seeing the battle sites and learning about the battle and all the sacrifices that our forefathers made for us.

Air Force Airplane Museum

This is from our long trip that we took across the country in Febrary.  I finally got the pictures of of my husband's phone, so since I already had most of this post done, I thought I would show the pictures.  On our way to Lancaster, PA, we stopped at the Air Force Airplane Museum. Tean LOVED it. There were so many airplanes to see. They had the first airplane that the military bought. All kinds of old airplanes used in WWI and WWII. There was the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. There was the space ship that went into space with Apollo 15. That was the only mission that had all air force people on it. Tean got to sit in a jet. We saw a stealth bomber. It was really cool.