{happy dance!}

Looks like you are stuck with me for a few more weeks!

Im absolutly giddy!

I have a happy little orange bottle of magic pills

that will (fingers crossed!) deter little girlies plans to escape early.

Unfortunitly baby & I still need to lay low, but thats part of it.

Ill be sleeping again, & my body might just start to

show me some r-e-s-p-e-c-t!

Everyone do the happy dance with me!

I am feeling overwhelmed by the love of our ward family & local friends!

We have been fed, & cared for, th eboys hugged & cuddled!

Grateful doesnt even begin to express how my heart feels.

I want to bake them all cookies right this very second!

The big boys are at soccer with the Crumbly Family.

Mads is in bed babeling happy bables.

I am counting down the days until Rod returns!

( 2 days for those who are keeping track!)

{The good. The bad. & The gospel.}

The Good:
Im home.
Baby girl is still safe inside.
My baby boys are near by. sleeping soundly.



The Bad:
3 days of 2 IVs, mnay blood draws, fetal moitors,& shots.
An overnight at the hospital & away from the boys.
Contractions & early dialation.
Feeling defeated & scared.
Rod being accross the country...THE WORST!

The Gospel:
The past few days have been busy.
Im ready to take a deep breath, but not much has changed.
Contractions are still coming & I just cant seem to understand my body.
We are not getting along right now.
I like to try to take on the world alone.
I think I can do it all!
But this time I cant.
Rod is gone. I have 3 little guys & need to watch out for sweet baby too.
People joke that I dont let anyone help me.
It actually pains me to recieve help.
I feel like a burden or a bother. (I know Im not alone in this feeling.)
I am learning to deal with that.
Good friends are teaching me that part of what our father in heaven would have us learn here is to help others AND recieve help.
Its hard to let people watch our kids, make meals, care.
But they do it anyways.
I am grateful!
The Sowbys all slept here last night with the boys, & brought groceries & meals.
Taralyn stayed by myside at the hospital on 2 occasions & let me break her hand on IV 2.
Laura has been willing to do anything at all.
& Tamsyn has let me cry about silly hormone driven ideas even though her plate is full.
The Morgans insist on making dinner & helping me learn to surender to service.
Holly has offered to clean my bathrooms because I am OBSESED.
Med wives have wanted to take the boys off my hands.
Sister Locke, my relief society President has stopped by with pen & paper to ask what I need. & has even tried to bribe T into helping a bit more. (I do love a good bribe!)
The bishop & his sweet wife have been on top of it all.
I was given a blessing.
& all the while I have hated that I need help. I need to knock that off.
I am learning that this is a part of the Lord's gospel... to assist those in need yes, but also to accept it when its neccisary.
some lessons are not easily digested. But Im learning.
My heart is full. I never feel unloved.

{Lunch}

I'm THAT mom.
the one who gets way too excited when her baby does something new.
with that said...

Holly & Amber through a Fondue lunch today.
(they were too sweet to think to invite us crazies!)
Holly set up a table for the littlest of guests.
I plopped Mads in a seat & he stayed put & ate.
I cooed over my little guy sitting like a big boy with his girlie friends
at a tiny table with tiny chairs.



He is getting big.
I love him.

The lunch was fun.
the kids ran through the sprinklers,
& I ate a whole loaf of bread saturated in cheese.
I wont even get started on the chocolate!

{they make me happy}

{Super Heros}

Jaxon was a baby when we met him.
We love him so much! He is just the sweetest boy.
He turned 4 today. CRAZINESS!
Jax partied with a superhero theme to boot!

The boys had fun wearing superheros on their bellies

& capes on their backs.

{Independence.}

A few nights ago I was getting Britt changed into his jammies.
He stopped me & said "I want to do it all by myself."
& He did! All by himself.
T & I were very proud of him! We clapped & jumped!
It was a big deal for little Britty!

But now, the boy wants to pick out his own clothes too.
Today while I showered & dressed,

Silly dude chose this...

fancy huh?!

{Out of the house.}

For the last 2 days we have been in Morristown, TN
playing with our little girlie friends & their new baby brother.
Their poor Daddy has been so roten sick!
& so he was admitted to the hospital.
& today had a procedure done to relieve the awful pain.
Tamsyn cant be in 2 places at once
so the dudes & I stepped in.
We loved playing with the girls & snuggeling that sweet new baby boy.




(couldnt you just kiss those lips?!)

Our Prayers are with jeremy for a quick & easy recovery!

{Sunday.}

When Rod is away

the boys & I find ourselves being watched after.

I feel very blessed.

After church we were invited to the sowbys

for lasagne & cupcakes.

After dinner we decided to stroll

around pinacle peak.

(where you can see VA,KY & TN)

I am shocked-SHOCKED

that we left that mountain with all

three of my boys!

I was pretty certain we would loose one off the side of the mountain.

(why is it taht my face looks pregnant too?!haha)

I am happy to report

that all boys are safe & sound in bed

most likely dreaming of

chocolate, soccer & thomas the tank engine.

(although Britt may have a nightmare or two about EQ the dog kissing him to death.

Britt is just not a dog kid. its almost too funny. poor boy!