Random

I love my kids. They are so cute. Of course as a mom we all think we have the cutest kids on the planet but I know my kids are. I love this little guy. I love the random little things he says that I have no idea where he heard it from. I love that when I ask him to do something and he says he can't, he goes and stands in the corner until he decides he's ready to do it. I love what a handsome boy he is turning into the older he gets. But most of all I love when he comes and crawls on my lap, give me a hug and a kiss and says "I love you mommy". That moment really makes all the other moments that weren't so sweet go away. He's my little man and I love him. 

Now this little girl is a firecracker. The older she gets, the more of an opinion she develops. It's definatly true about boys and girls being total opposites. Mady can hold her own. I think she beats up Jared more than he beats on her. If she wants something, she'll go for it. She's not a mean kid though which is nice. She's still sweet. I love how she gives Lorelle kisses and I have to wipe her face since Mady really just slobbered all over her. I love how she thinks she is so funny and just laughs at herself. I love the little things she is starting to say and I love when she starts to bust a move. She loves to dance and it really is hilarious but so cute. She definatly isn't a baby anymore. But most of all I love when she comes and gives me kisses as well. She's my sweet little girl and I love her.
My little Lorelley Belly. What a sweet baby. She is great. She eats every 3-4 hours and sleeps most of the time. I had one bad night with her and it was her staying up until midnight. Which is awesome considering Jared used to stay up until like 3am since you could never wake him up during the day no matter what you tried. The kids love her and Jared holds her all the time. She definatly does not look like my other kids who mostly favor the Henline side of the family. This little girl is definatly an Anderson. Maybe I'll have a little mini me. That would be fun. She is small and scrawny which isnt like my other babies either. Her cheek is still full of fluid but there is no concern. She is a beautiful little girl and I love her.
Now this is a little random. I'm still on meds for my infection I had and I decided it would be fun to react to it and break out in hives. I've never broken out before and its definaltly not fun at all!!! This is my shoulder. You can see the big red patch. The next picture is the best. Its my neck and half my chest. These aren't the only places I broke out. I broke out all over my body but I thought it best not to take pics of anywhere else for many reasons. I know its disgusting and your all so happy I shared but this is kindof a mile stone in my life since it's my first time with hives and I wanted to share. My conclusion though is that hives are not fun and I have to deal with them since benadryl (which is all I can take since I am nursing) doesn't like to work or creams. They help control the itch but dont get rid of the bumps. So I get to wait until the drug is out of my system for them to go away. Good times had by all!!
This is a good pic of them. This is also what my legs, arms, feet, hands, chest, hips, and back all look like. Gross, I know.

Its a Girl!!!!!

It's a girl! I was so sure it was a boy but I was wrong. 

Some people have been asking me how it all went so here's the scoop. Last blog I talked about going into false labor. Well for the whole week I'd been having contractions but they never stayed. Around sunday they started getting really really painful where I could barely even walk. So by Tuesday they were so bad that I decided to go up to the hospital here and get checked out before I drove into Lethbridge. Well when I went I was checked and got the same answer...1cm with no defacement. I was really bummed and called my mom crying cuz I was in so much pain and I just didnt get why since nothing was happening. Well she came over to help me cuz shes an awsome mom and we got some things together.

Anyway, I woke up at 5am in really bad pain. I couldnt sleep or move or anything so James woke up my mom and we went to the hospital. I got the same answer...1cm no defacement. But they monitored my contractions and they were off the chart and 2 1/2 min apart so they sent me to leth. When I had gotten there I was so sick. I was puking and shaking uncontrollably with shivers but I was sweating like crazy and I had a fever. Anyway, they hooked me up and took blood and everything and they found I had an infection in my blood and that was what was causing all the pain. When they did my swab, I tested positive for the infection but the doctors figured I had gotten it early and it had moved into my bloodstream. At first they thought it was my appendix so with that they brought in a specialist and he broke my water at 12:25 am and said we should get the baby out so they can make sure the infection isnt anything super serious. So they broke my water but nothing was progressing so they started the drip. After the drip I started to progress a little but as the contractions came stronger, Lorelle's heartbeat keep dropping. So if they couldnt make it stop I was looking at a C-section. We called our parents and I prayed that eveything would be ok. At 8:00pm the nurse checked me and I was 6cm. 10 min later the specialist came in and checked me out and I was 10cm ready to push. So they called my doctor, he got there, got ready. I pushed 4 times and out she came. So after 8 hours of stressful, intence labor...it only took 39 minutes to go from 6cm to having a baby. I can't tell you how greatful I am for prayers.

All is well and everyone is healthy. Lorelle has a fluid cyst in her cheek that makes it bigger but it should drain on its own and is nothing serious. She is a great baby so far and sleeps so good which I am so greatful for. Jared and Madilyn have been so good with her as well and Jared is a good helper. Life is definatly busier and I am starting to figure out a routine which will probably take me a little while to perfect but I wouldn't change any of it.

The last week

So a few things have happened this week. I thought I was gonna have a baby. I went into the hospital on wednesday with contractions every 5 min that were really uncomfortable and I was leaking a clear liquid. Thinking my water broke I was so excited cuz I thought I would have a baby and not be pregnant anymore. After getting to the hospital and them doing all the fun tests and whatnot they told me I was only 1cm dilated. I was like what??? I thought I would be more but because of that they sent me to go shopping or something to see if I could get the contractions to come stronger. I ended up staying at my parents that night since I was still having contractions waiting for something to happen. I labored most that night and when I finally got some sleep and woke up, they had stopped. I was not impressed. So after I had spent a day and half a night laboring I still have no baby.  But 10 days left.....baby any day now!!!  oh and just on a side note, I woke up this morning to a weird noise so I went upstairs to investigate and found a mouse in my house!!!! I hate mice and James was at the temple so I was all alone to defend me and my kids from this unwanted guest. Needless to say I did a pretty good job of keeping it in the closet where I knew where it was and called my neighbor and asked him if he'd come over and save me. I have some good neighbors. He brought over his air pistol to shoot it and a trap just in case. We ended up chasing it all over the house just for it to go into the closet again and then disappear into the wall. I got the trap there so hopefully it gets it. 

The other day I couldn't find Mady. I was searching everywhere and even asked Jared if he knew where she was. I started to call her name and I heard a little "ma!!!" and found my sweet little girl sitting in the closet with a crayon. Here is Mady's first offence with a crayon and my walls. So now after spending about an hour one day going through the house and using my magic eraser to clean all the stuff Jared thought he needed to decorate, I now once again have multi-colored  cupboards in my kitchen, unwanted pictures on my wall and today I discovered the new color of my front door. Kids...gotta love them.

Mady was in her "poo" position again doing her business but at the same time was playing peek-a-boo. It was so cute I had to take a pic

Jared loves my laundry baskets and he wanted me to take a picture of him. I told him to make a funny face and this is what he did.

I love super saturday. I have been making things to decorate my house with and I always love the ideas they have for super saturday. Alot of women did this JOY green and red with christmas paper but I wanted to do it the colors of my house (or the colors my house is gonna be once we start redoing it) and I'm pretty proud of myself for my craftiness cuz I am anything but. This one was way more work and harder than the next one but I still love them all the same. I know I'm not a whiz at crafts like Brenda or Tanya but I was really proud of these and wanted to post them. 

I plan on buying a big decorative book case to put all these things on that I am making for it. I'm excited to start redoing my house so that I can put all these things up and have it actually match everything else. 

So that is pretty much my life in the last week. Sorry for the long blog and lets hope next time I blog, it'll be about my new baby and I dont know why the first part is underlined. I can't make it go away. Oh well. 

I've been tagged and I'm bored

I dont usually do these but I am really bored today waiting for my husband to come home and thought it would be fun to see what my answers would be. 

8 Things I am passionate about:

1. My Family

2. The church

3. Chocolate

4. High self esteem

5. Always working hard towards making my life and my kids and hubby's lives the best they can be.

6. Being clean

7. Feeling sexy (doesn't always happen)

8. More chocolate

8 words or phrases I say too often:

1."leave her alone!!!"

2. "get off her!!!"

3. "be nice"

4. "stop it"

5. "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

6. "it's true"

7. "oh really??"

8. "shoot"

8 things I want to do before I die:

1. Watch my kids grow and get married and raise their children

2. Travel the world with my hubby

3. Be completely happy and content with life

4. See a broadway play in NY

5. Work in the temple with my hubby

6. go on a mission with my hubby

7. go scubba diving

8. after my kids are in school, find a career that I love

8 things I've learned from my past:

1. What goes around, comes around

2. dont date a non member

3. never settle for less than what you want or expect

4. Stand up for yourself

5. Family is most important

6. Be yourself

7. I need to keep my hair shorter, it looks better

8. Dont wear short shorts (not that I can anymore) cuz my legs are way to skinny and shapeless and white and pasty

8 Places I would love to see:

1. Hawaii

2. London

3. Italy

4. Rome

5. Paris

6. The Sacred Grove

7. All the temples in the world

8. Graceland would be pretty cool

8 things I currently want or need:

1. To go into labor

2. a piano

3. To start and finish redecorating my house

4. a hired cook

5. a babysitter there whenever I need or want one

6. a new bed

7. my sisters to live closer so we can hang out

8. a happy and healthy family

8 people I tag:

1. Jana

2. Marin

3-8. anyone else who wants to do it or is bored

Some Other Stuff

So I tried to make my halloween blog with these pics as well but for some reason it wouldn't let me add the photos so I am blogging twice in one day. This is Mady's "I gotta go poopy" position. Every time she has to go she lays on the floor, stiffens her legs and feet and starts pushing. Its pretty funny actually but today I think it was just too much work cuz she fell asleep. It was just too cute and I'm so glad that I have a charged camera so that I could capture this "I'm too tired to poo" pose.

So this is me at 37 weeks. Only 3 more to go!!! I'm so excited cuz the baby has dropped and I am very sore. At the same time though I am still nervous. Labor is not fun but after I won't be pregnant anymore and I will have a beautiful baby. So it's bittersweet. 3 weeks and we will know if its a boy or girl. Then maybe once we know, we will find a name for him/her.

Halloween

So I've been having a heck of a time finding our battery charger for our camera. I have looked everywhere including the fridge and still no luck. So James and I decided to go buy one. It chargers more than just our camera battery and is pretty nice but cost too much. But you can't put a price on memories, right? So since I had missed out on Halloween pics, I made my kids dress up and we had a little photo shoot. Here are some pics from our little session. 

Mady didn't last very long

My little Tiger

Buzz Lightyear without his helmet

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Have you ever had one of those days where you woke up and you were instantly in a bad mood?? Everything on the planet is annoying you and nothing can go right? That is my day today. I rarely have these days but today is sure one of them. I'm full of annoyance and anger and I dont know why. There have been many times today that I've wanted to snap at my kids because they were wanting to sit on my lap or wanted me to play a game with them and I just want them to go away. But of course I don't snap and I do what I can and try to be a good mom. The best part of the day though was my nap. Mady went down to sleep, Jared had treats, juice and a movie and left me alone for 2 hours!!! It was blissful. But when I woke up I was greeted by Jared's naked bum. Why he had no pants and underwear on was beyond me. He probably "peed" on them. He's been taking his pants and underwear off like 5 times a day saying that he peed in them but he never did. Last night he did it 3 times. But really, thats a whole other story about kids and the funny things they do. Now that Mady is awake, she keeps pinching Jared's bum and it has become a hilarious game. I should go find him some underwear before the pinching moves to other places. 

Now that I have had a nap, I do feel better. I'm still a little annoyed cuz I woke up with a sharp pain down my right leg and cannot put pressure on it, so I am hobbling like a gimp. I cannot wait to have this baby!!!!!!!!!!! 3 weeks, 5 days and counting!!!!

My Little Guy

My sister in law had taken our laptop for school so I had asked her to put all the pictures on a disk and send them to me. I was looking through them and found all these pictures of Jared when he was little. I miss those little days with my stud muffin little boy. So here are a few pictures in "tribute" to my once small little boy.

1 year old

This is Jared and Macey having a good time
I know he has a booger in his nose but I love this pic. It is so cute!!
After eating his cake on his 1st birthday.

Pet Peeves

1. peoples eyebrows that have gone crazy. Fix them and make them look nice cuz just looking at them makes me remember what it feels when the hairs are out of place and it makes me cringe cuz I hate that feeling too.

2. When kids have really really really bad bed head in public. At least brush it!!!

3. When James thinks it fun to lick me. I know it sounds gross and dirty but really he's just licking my arm or my face or something. I really hate it. It sends instant anger through my body and he knows it so he likes to be annoying.

4. Yo Gabba Gabba. Thats all I have to say about that.

5. The fact that I can't find the charger for my camera battery and I am not able to blog with my pics that I want to or take new ones when cute things happen. GOSH where is it????

Let the good times roll...

So this is the latest picture of me and my belly. It was taken 2 or 3 weeks ago. I'm big but not as big as I was with Mady....we just won't talk about that. I do however still look like I have a watermelon shoved up my shirt and it is directing everyone where to go. So if you are ever lost, just let me know and I'll help you find your way. I have 10 weeks left, which is excited and scary all at the same time. I'm really nervous for labor. It hurts and I remember it all to well considering I was there last week giving birth to Mady. As long as there are drugs and they work this time, I will be alright. I will fully admit that I am a wimp and drugs are my friend. I'm excited though for the baby to come so I can find out what it is, see what he/she looks like and to hold him/her. Let's just hope it doesn't have a Henline nose. I've had many prayers on that and it hasn't failed me in the past so I continue my prayers. Also it would be nice to have an 8lb baby, I would like to know what that is like. Would it hurt less?? Probably not. Oh well I've had 9 pounders the last 2 times...why not a 3rd?? 
James and I bought a new trailer last month. We have been wanting to buy one but not for a few years but we found this one in Great Falls and it was such a good deal that we decided to go for it.  
We've been camping only a couple times since we got it but it has been really fun. Jared loves the trailer and is always calling it "my trailer" and when he plays with his cars, they are always backing up their trailers. We went camping for Labour Day weekend and it rained for 2 days. It was still really fun. We sat and drank hot chocolate and played games with the kids. Then we were hungry and drove to James' brothers house who lived 5 minutes from where we were, and ate supper and hung out. Good times. 

Not much else new. Summer is over and Jared gets to start pre-school next week for his speech. He talks lots and not bad, he's understandable but he can't pronounce some letters properly and they and putting him in for speech theropy. So that'll be good for him and he'll love it. So we've had some good times this summer and I'm excited for the Fall/Winter, for all the holidays and for our probably not so little baby. Yay for drugs!!!

Ode to Old School

So I'm sitting here in the livingroom as my son is watching Yo Gabba Gabba, one of THE worst shows ever invented. I'm sorry but its just plain annoying. I just dont even know which part is the worst. If its the guy in the spandex and the big fluffy hat, sometimes hot pink, orange or yellow. Or if its the Big rapper dude with the lisp that teaches kids the "beat of the day" or the "famous people" who have the guts to come on the show and teach their "fun dance" that they like to do. No, I know, its the puppets. Even though they teach good messages, they really need to learn how to do it less....retarded. But Jared loves it none the less so I suck it up as he is dancing to the songs and saying "yeah man" and "good job". He likes to encourage others, isnt he sweet? At least he knows better when 4 square comes on and promptly turns off the TV. 

But watching these shows makes me wonder what happened to the good old school cartoons like Raccoons or the Flinstones with their fake laugh track or Bugs Bunny and the constant violence. Those were simpler times. When George Jetson told Jane that she couldn't learn to drive cuz she was a woman and women are bad drivers and she just needs to let him, the man, do the driving. Can you imagine if that was  a cartoon today?? I dont think it would go over very well. But now kids shows are all about learning, which isnt a bad thing, but whatever happened to good ol' fashioned having fun watching Tweety shoot Sylvester the cat with a shot gun and watch him all burnt and black fall and smash into the concrete??? Or watching the anvil fall and hit the cat as he tries to climb up the wall. Instead now we have the Yo Gabba Gabba puppets singing and dancing around reminding us, "don't bite your friends". It is really good though that they are teaching kids good messages and I would never think about discouraging it. I guess I just miss a part of my childhood and the memories of the fun we used to have watching those old cartoons, mind-numbing, pointless, violent cartoons. I guess today they have tried to not mush the brains of our children, instead they are trying to help in their development right??? So as I close this blog and send a tribute to all those old school cartoons, I just want to remind you all "don't do anything dangerous" and to "be nice to others" Until next time.

So thank you to my wonderful friend Crystal, I have now figured out how to set up my blog. After days of wanting to throw the computer out the window I now have a level of excitement on what I can do next. You will probably see my blog change a few times in the next little while until I am fully satisfied. So when the kids go to bed tonight and I have no interuptions I am excited to sit down and tinker and browse around. So to all, have fun and happy blogging!!!

So I've been told by lots of people that I should start a blog. So here I go. I'm still trying to figure things out like Jana Banana but maybe we can help each other out. I mean, what are sisters for?