Life Lately

These past three weeks our lives have been totally turned around as we adjust to life as a family of 5.

Its all about Rudger lately.

Who gets to hold him, kiss him, rock him, feed him (me) and when/if its gonna happen.

There has been a lot of lounging in jammies, a lot of playing with all the fun toys the girls got for Christmas and a lot of cuddling.

 (he loves to stare at the tree with its lights on. i don't think i am ever going to be able to take it down)

We are loving every minute of it.

28 NOT 29

Dear Dale,

I know I keep aging you a year (or 2) and I am sorry. I just have fun teasing you that you will be 30 WAY earlier than me. and by "WAY" i mean ONLY 3 and a half years so i will get what's coming to me. don't worry i can take it. And because I keep aging you we BOTH keep forgetting how old you are actually turning.....

But today is your birthday and I know we cant do much due to the fact that we are in the hospital (or barely home) holding our precious CHUNKY little boy and I know that this is just what you wanted for your birthday so i know you are nowhere disappointed but I just wanted to make sure I wrote you a little public love letter of sorts. Since you know how good i am at showing my affection publicly... HA!

You are the most amazing husband and father. The girls are so lucky to have you in their lives and I am just as lucky that I get to watch you with them. They adore you and you,  very willingly return the adoration. I see how in love with them you are and nothing makes me happier.

I am so glad that we now have Rudger and I get to watch you raise a son. He has the most amazing example of a father that anyone could have. He is the luckiest little boy on earth. I hope he grows up to be JUST like you. (Seriously the girls have enough of me in them that a little clone of you running around the house would be SO very welcome. And I am sure you would like someone who could help shoulder the responsibilities of the dirty dishes ;))

I hope that I am able to make your birthday special and let you know how much i love you and how glad i am that you were born 28 (not 29) years ago.

Love,
Your wife!
(you know the one!)

Where Do Kids Get This Stuff

We are in the car yesterday and Riley Bug was telling Dale and I all about how she was a baby "yesterday"

(what term she uses to describe any time in her life that she cant remember)

Dale had asked her a couple questions and the rest went like this...

Bug- Ya, yesterday when I was a baby I wore a diaper like Mak.

Dale- You did, huh?

Bug- Yep!

Dale- Well, did you poop in your diaper?

Bug- You bet I did!!

Yep. 

I have no idea where she gets this stuff...

Lately

Lately I have not been great at this blogging thing.

Lets be honest I haven't been great at much lately.

Besides growing a human. 

I am doing AWESOME at that. 

But being awesome at that makes me way less awesome with other things.

WAY less awesome....

So I just decided that Since I haven't posted about anything, really, that we have been up to the past couple months (which hasn't been much) I would just post a ton of pictures. I am not great at capturing moments but I do have some that I have been wanting to share. 

So here we go.

My awesome sister Jamie took some pictures of us on the land behind our uncles farm in Utah.

I LOVE THEM.

It was short and sweet. Which was perfect because we were all exhausted from the road trips we had taken to get there. Jamie was way more exhausted so we made it quick!

MY FAVORITE!!

We had fun, while we were staying at my uncles house, going back and forth from one of his chicken coops to the other having so much fun experiencing something totally different than they were used to.

We were able to take the girls to my Grandpa Dents house and visit. Riley had a lot of fun teasing him. He loved it just as much!

We attempted a 4 generation picture...

And more loving on Great Grandpa Dent.

I caught a candid of my brother, who LOVES to hide from the camera unless he has to and if he cant then you will most likely not get him to smile. Especially this naturally, and especially not in a white shirt and tie! Haha If he finds this out he will kill me! I am risking my life.

We were able to visit the Logan Temple.

The temple my parents were married in.

This temple is gorgeous!

We were only able to walk the grounds but now I am dying to go in.

 Then we came home and Riley started kindergarten. 

Then Mak had her second Birthday.

Lots of presents and fun with grandparents.

Oh and Cake.

And playing mommy with her new baby doll.

And cake...

Then in September my sister- in- law Lana Came home from her mission In Chile! We have had fun Catching up and Shopping!

No pictures.. Cause I stink at it But we have had fun!

Now its October! I cant believe it. I am so glad the end of the year is getting closer and going by so fast! I Just want to have my little boy and hold him and watch him grow up with his sisters! Also I so just want to not be pregnant anymore. haha

Technically

So I know these type of posts usually come with a great profile view of the pregnant woman posting them at the correct amount of weeks along... I don't have one. I have a GREAT profile shot of my belly from a month ago though, just not on this computer.

I am awesome.

So this will just have to do.

This is also from a month ago when we were in Utah at the Logan Temple. Not profile so you cant really tell how monstrous I was (or am) but after I saw this picture I decided that this dress needed to be retired until post-partum.  Seriously, I am sure I flashed a few family members my "inappropriates" while doing Mommy duties while I was at a cemetery. 

What was I thinking? 

I need to stick to maxi dresses.

On topic? Not great at that...

So technically I am supposed to be 25 weeks but Baby Boy has consistently been measuring and developing a week ahead the whole pregnancy. Here's to the hope that Doc will move up the due date a week. I have done this twice now and I can feel my body progressing much faster than it has with either girls pregnancies. I have been feeling braxton hicks contractions since I was 3months and they are getting harder and longer. He is sitting so low already it feels like he has already dropped. I am hoping at this point that he decides to at least stick it out until 37 weeks...

So I decided that I needed to write down how I am feeling and whats happening at this stage in pregnancy before I get any farther and haven't put anything down anywhere.

-I am in pain. Every joint and muscle is working overtime with this one and I am in constant pain. I never had these problems with the other 2 until 9 months.

-I have been craving Chocolate Milk and Corn dogs. Never at the same time but definitely daily.

-This is the point in my pregnancy where NONE of my clothes fit me. Not even the ones I have bought to fit me for a while since found out I was pregnant. I woke up Friday and NOTHING fit. I have a skirt some basketball shorts and a t-shirt. Its great...

-I am still sick. Almost all the time. I haven't thrown up in a few weeks but I got really close yesterday. The sickest I have been in weeks.

-This kid is vicious. Mean and strong. His kicks are already wreaking havoc on my ribs. He is so strong. Dale likes to shake my belly on the rare occasion that he is not active and I honestly get a little scared of waking the beast. I may or may not whine a little every time Dale starts to shake my belly.

-The girls are so excited for their little baby brother. Riley asks me every day "Mom, can we PLEASE go to the hosibal to get my baby brother out of your tummy tomorrow??" I wish it was that easy.

-He already has 2 names. Hiccup and Rudger. Rudger just happens to be his nickname according to Riley. Every time I say the name Rudger she corrects me and says "Its HICCUP mom!" Haha

-We are nowhere near ready for this boy but luckily we still have some time.

Multi-Tasking And Procrastination

So while everyone is already past their fathers day posts and have moved on well past even their 4th of July it this is the first chance I have had to blog about anything in a while.

So While most people just celebrated Fathers day we celebrated a Birthday for a Bug as well!

We had a little party for her on Saturday with some of her friends and she she had a BLAST! I was kind of a mess being pregnant and with morning sickness that wont give it a rest but it was all worth it to see that little girl so dang happy!

She LOVED being the center of attention.

Its kind of her thing ;)

Mak of course needs a little love too!

But most of the attention was focused on Bug.

I didn't get many pictures since I was too busy running around like a crazy person but we had fun!

They played pin the tail on the donkey, fished for their party favors and treats, opened presents and ate some cake!

Then on Sunday morning we had early church so we had to wake up early to give daddy his present form the girls and give Riley her big gift from us!

We didn't capture the excitement as it happened (of course we didn't we stink at those kind of things...) but she was jumping up and down and couldn't have been more happy!

Of course she needed to take it out for a quick ride before we had to start getting ready for church!

She LOVED it!

Dale sporting his gift from the girls! Riley took me in the sports store and picked this shirt out all by herself and was so happy when he put it on and loved it!

She said to me on Saturday night...

Mom am I 5?

Me: you will be tomorrow bug! 

R: But Mom I already had a birthday party and blew out the candles and so now I am 5!

M: Yes I know but that was just a party with your friends. Tomorrow you will see your grandmas and grandpas and they will sing to you again and you will be 5.

R: But mom that means I will be SIX!  If we sing to me again I will be six.

M: No bug you will still be 5!

R: No mom I will be SIX!!

M: K bug whatever...

Hahahaha

She is an amazing little girl. She is so smart and witty and clever. She isn't fooled by any attempt to distract her from anything. She knows what she wants and she wont rest until she figures out how to get what she wants. She has a memory unlike anything I have ever seen before. You know how most parents can say "Maybe later" and by then most kids will have forgotten what they wanted in the first place.

NOT THIS CHILD! 

She remembers EVERYTHING! 

She makes sure every day has its own challenges and excitement. She is something else.

I love this little girl so much.

Cant wait to watch her as she grows. She is a force to be reckoned with.

Unfortunately we didn't get to do much for this man because we were so occupied by trying to make Bugs birthday a memorable one but we did get to go out to dinner and he got a couple gifts.
A week or so early he got an Apple T.V. from me and had plenty of fun experimenting and having fun with that and then on that Sunday morning Riley was able to surprise him with the gift (the PHX Suns shirt) from her and Mak that she picked out all by herself!

This man is an amazing father. I cant believe how good he is sometimes. It cant be possible for a man to be as a good a father as he is to our girlies. He loves them so much and never lets a day go by without smothering the girls with kisses and love. He has so much fun with them. I cant wait to see him interact with our little man that's on his way.