Amaya Elizabeth, she's here!!!

Well after 12 hours in labor, and a C-section she is finallyhere. Labor was pretty uneventful, we came into St. Joe's Sunday night to begin the process. Monday morning about 0730 the nurse came in and started the pitosin drip. And oh boy it was a roller coaster from there. It didn't take long for the contractions to hit, fast and furious. Luckily my anesthesiologist was available right away. They placed my epidural, (not the most fun ever, but so worth it) and we were off and running. Hour after hour went by with progress being little to none. And finally at 7:45 pm my doctor (whom I work for) came in with the news. "Her head is fully engaged but she can't come down any more. She just isn't going to fit. Also the more you lay here, the more swollen you get, and I'm concerned about your blood pressure." He gave me the choice to continue to labor and see what happened, or the C-section. After a very short discussion, Ryan and I decided to go ahead with the section. And I kid you not, not 2 minutes after we agreed about 15 people came into my room, all with a different job to do. By 8:00 pm I was prepped and in the O.R. and at 8:29 pm Amaya was born, with Ryan's long feet and hands and my chin. I have to thank Ryan for being my rock, I was absolutely terrified. Scared not of surgery itself, but rather being awake and being cut open. But he was right there with me, keeping my focus on him. They pulled her out, showed her to us and she was hollerin for all she was worth. It was truely the most amazing experience of my life. I am so grateful to have been able to do this.

We just love her, she is to precious. Already with her very own personality and way of doing things. I can't wait for everyone to meet her.

We love and miss all of you. Hope to see you soon!!!!!

We hope you all had a Happy Halloween. Our kids came home with so much candy I am thinking about freezing some of it (the chocolate at least) for a while. They are sure wound up this morning after having.... you guessed it candy for breakfast. I didn't put the pumpkins away last night and when they got up that's what they went straight for...

Framing!

Well we've been here in the K C Area for just short of 2 years... 22 months to be exact. We are just finally starting to finish our basement. At least we have really started other than just kick around ideas on how we want to do it. We have had a basic design for over a year, but every time we went down there to talk about it it changed. They started building a house next to us an the builder was willing to sell us the wood we needed to frame it. And lucky us Zach's buddy from school was a framer! (Before going to school and now doing the same thing Zach does) So I got the wood and about 3 long weeks later we got it framed. (Having the wood to do it was killing me that it wasn't done yet, but weekends sure get filled up fast! and we had to keep putting it off) So Carter's room is finally framed with our final a layout. I really like how it turned out. His room will be nice and big and we figured out the closet thing which we had been having a hard time with. Now I love the whole thing. It will still be a couple of months till we get the electricity done down there (We don't have a free weekend for a while) and then the sheet rock mud tape sand paint carpet.... Hopefully we get it done before we end up moving someplace else : ) . It seems like it might take forever, However we are hoping to have it done by Carter's birthday.

Here are a few pictures from that day. Dylan and Kendall and even Carter had a good time playing with the extra wood and nailing extra nails into the scraps, (Kendall just moved the wood around we didn't trust her with a hammer)

More pics. These have been tweaked a little=)

Kendall's braids

Kendall's braids

I am finally starting to get the hang of braiding. This is after a week and a half of practice. I had to start braiding it because the ponytails were falling out and hair was falling in her eyes. Her hair is still pretty fine even though she has tons of it. I think it turns out way cuter now. I haven't got it down enough tough to do it all the way down. I tried but the front all fell out and we ended up using a head band the rest of the day. Headbands work great too if I could only get her to keep it in and the hair out of her face.

I Stole this joke off my friends blog today! Enjoy!

My Computer Finally up and Running!

Well we finally made it to the lovely Farmington, New Mexico! It really is pretty up here but it is started to get cold, and we do not have warm COATS and I only have one pair of jeans! Unfortunately I think I will have to purchase some warmer clothes for the family, so we stay inside for the rest of the winter. I think I would be perfectly happy staying inside but I think that the boys would object to that. As soon as I find which box I packed my camera cord in, then I will post some pictures of the place. It really is pretty but COLD!

Kaden loves the grass, and there are a lot of cool parks around town. We do need to find where there are more things to do for the kids here. But with only having one car right now, I have to wake up along with the kids at 5:45 in the morning to take Justin to work. I can handle it, I just don't like waking the kids up that early, they end up being so grumpy all day long.

I have begun writing a novel. Crazy huh? I am writing about the craziness that has happened to our family in the past 10 years, in a fictional form, but you will recognize alot of what is going on, maybe some stuff you have never heard before. Sorry Ryan you are the majority of the craziness! However, I am glad that the craziness in your life has disappeared for the most part. Thank you Summer!! I have only wrote two pages, and when I am finished with the first chapter I will email so you all can be my first editors and let me know if it is interesting enough to get published. This is something that I have really wanted to do for a long time, but think it has taken me to get to this point in my life where I can really focus on it. I have no friends, and no family, so it is just me and my thoughts:) I know it is scary.

I love and miss you all so very much. I look forward to seeing everyone in March!! I don't know if Justin will be able to make it out if he gets on the shut down but I will be coming out!! I am excited, and then we will be making a trip out to Kansas City for Carter's Baptism. I am looking forward to getting away. Hopefully Justin will be able to take care of himself!

Love you all.

Des