Our Trip to SIiverton, CO back in Sept

We hiked about an hour to get to this waterfall. Well worth it even though we had to carry Kaleb and then Kaden on the way back!

This is a lookout point right as we drive into Colorado. It is beautiful. A place I would love to have a cabin in the mountains one day

Kaden had a great time throwing rocks into the waterfall, and later Justin took him down so he could feel it. It was a good day!

This is what I got to fly today

Last night I got a phone call from a guy I meet at the Houston Hobby airport a few weeks ago, Les Smith. And he asked me if I wanted to go flying with him in the morning. I of course said yes and these are picture of what I got to fly. It a Sikorsky S-76, it about 4 times heavier that the helicopter that I normally fly. This picture the of me standing in front of the aircraft is on a helideck of an oil rig. This was a really neat experience for me, this what the big boys get to fly.

Paint

We put the first coat of paint on the other 2 walls today in our bedroom, The door is white 2 walls brown and 2 walls green

Introducing the newest member of The Justesen Clan

Well here she is=) Everyone is healthy. She weighed in at 7lbs 10.6oz and 21 1/4inches long. It was a little scary for me but thanks to Ryan I got through just fine. I couldn't have done it without him. He's just good like that=D We miss you guys!!!!!!!

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)