Funny Moment

I saw a really funny quote today:
It was a magnet at this lady's office who was overweight and had a trashcan behind her desk FULL of Pepsi cans

"I wish I was as skinny as I was when I thought I was fat"

Best quote ever

Precious Moment

So I have to post this before I forget
Today while we were reading books we saw a picture of a Giant Panda and:

Me: Devy what is that?
Devy: A Care Bear (said very matter-of-factly)

Blessing day

So this day was kinds of interesting.
We had been putting off his blessing day for some reason... Oh yeah... Lance was supposed to set it up and he kept forgetting. So finally two Sundays before I left with the kids for a month we received a call and were able to ask the bishop if we could bless Lucas the Sunday before I left.

They said yes and got everything organized for it. Well Sunday came and we were planning on getting to church early so that we could make sure the bishopric remembered. But we got there right as church was starting...

This was the first mistake

THEN the opening song started and I told Lance that he needed to go up and tell them that they forgot to announce that we were blessing Lucas and he didn't want to. But with my persuasion skills he finally got up to go to the front... WELL he got the the pews to walk up and chickened OUT!! I was VERY frustrated. Then there were more announcements (blessing Lucas was NOT included) and then the bishop announced that we were going to do the sacrament... So Lance and I were arguing about him going up and telling them that we needed to bless our son and he just really didn't want to.

The thing is is that his blessing outfit was already VERY FITTED and I knew that it wouldn't fit if we waited to bless him after I got home in a MONTH! So finally I got VERY frustrated and Lance told me that I was overreacting and then told me to go up and tell the Bishop...

So, I did. (this was all during the sacrament song by the way)

Then after the sacrament the bishop gets up and says that "Sister Nethercott has just informed us that she they are blessing their son today so all the priesthood holders they have asked you can come up now"

WHAT THE CRAP! Seriously you were the ones that forgot! Oh well

Then my dear friend Amy wrote the blessing down for me. ( I was very grateful for because I was so flustered that I only heard about half of it)

In the end, all that mattered was that he was blessed. Lance DID give a good blessing and I am grateful for him.

Summer fun

Devy and our neighbors outside playing

Thanks for the cute swimsuit Grandma and grandpa Reynolds

Lucas at 7 weeks

The bro and sis just chillen'

Children + Fire pull at thier arms length = Fire Department Visits

New apartments = New fire codes and regulations...
In our apartments we have a very convenient red fire-pull that is at the same height
and right beside the light switches in our front room.
Our apartment tried to get the fire marshal to put a plastic covering over it
but he denied their request and said that in all his years as fire Marshal
he had never had a false alarm...
Well today is a first I guess; and a second for him

Devy and I were getting ready for the day when our smoke alarms started to go off.
Usually I just fan the alarm until it turns off. However 5 minutes later it was still going off
and my head was really starting to hurt!

So I go outside to get away from the noise and realize that my neighbors are outside as well.
I ask to see if they can hear our smoke alarm and then I am told that one of their kids
has pulled the fire alarm.

So... then we got to wait for the fire department to come and we got to see the cool firemen
in all of their get-up come with lights and alarm blazing to our apartment building.
They came turned the smoke alarms off and left.

Not even 7 hours later I was coming home from grocery shopping when I saw the same
fire truck at our next door building... Oops... Guess he should have let
our apartment put covers on the fire pulls. Oh well...

Yeah for tax-payer money well spent!...

My New Motto

"Cleaning and scrubbing can wait til tomorrow, For babies grow up we've learned to our sorrow. So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep. I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep."

A Baby Story

These dang pictures always load backwards!!
Look at them from the bottom up

Getting hugs from his loving sister
She was obsessed from day one

Here he is!! He has had a loud cry from day one!

In the first couple hours of labor (not too bad yet)

On our way to the hospital

If you haven't read this on my Facebook, here is the story on my blog:

July 9th
7:30 am: check in at Mercy hospital
7:40 am: No room in the inn... Seriously no beds were available since July is thier busiest month of babies
8:30 am: Check in to a room
9:00 am: Get IV placed (My nurse was amazing she got me the first poke and didn't have to dig around I love you Sandy!!!!)

9:30 am: Got the wonderful penicillin drip infused and my arm... Felt like it is going to burn off for the next 5 minutes (but only 5 minutes... unlike the 7 1/2 hours with my first delivery)

around 12:30 pm: Doctor Sandmeier (who is pregnant) breaks my water... It takes her about 5 minutes while she tells me that she has never had this hard of a time breaking someones water. Her words not mine: I think your placenta is reinforced... Me: when you do it you do it right (this is when we realized that all that walking did NOTHING to help break my water... my placenta was there to stay

2:30 pm: Still dilated to a 6 since 12:30 and am informed that I get pitocin or a c-section... I grudgingly accept the stupid drug

3:30 pm: my nurse offers an epidural and I say I think I can handle it for now so she turns up my pitocin drip and says that she has everything set up so if I decide that I want an epidural in two contractions it will be available

Two contractions later and a few colored words later: "Where the H*^^ is my nurse I want an epidural!!!!"

5 minutes later: Nurse is there with the anesthesiologist
2 minutes later: needle is in my back and I am being told that I can yell but I cant push or move
Two contractions later: Me to my anesthesiologist: "I love you"
My legs are numb and life is much much better

5:00pm: Blood pressure goes too low and I get some meds
15 minutes later: I am puking my guts out while Lance (literally 18 inches away from my face) munches on a Big Mac while playing a game on her computer
5 minutes later: Anti-nausea drugs kick in (I love modern medicine)

7:00 pm: I call in my nurse because I am feeling the urge to push
5 minutes later: Yep I'm at a ten and ready to push
5 minutes later: I start pushing ( I am then informed that I am a very good pusher especially for someone with a complete epidural... meaning I cant feel a thing and I have NO control over my legs... Im paralyzed from the waste down pretty much)
15 minutes later Dr. Booth comes in to see how I am doing and informs me that she has to go pee and she will be back in a couple of minutes
1 push later: my nurses are yelling at me to stop pushing
Doc runs in, the nurses set everything up for the grand entrance
7:30 pm and two pushes: Lucas Alfred Nethercott enters this grand world screaming and has a perfect Apgar rating 7 lbs 15 oz and 6 grams

Of course I cry and get to hold my beautiful baby boy. Yes he is a little swollen but who cares I know he is gorgeous underneath all that swelling and torpedoed headedness

So, there you have it. the whole story