Halloween

The boys had such a blast this year. John and Brad, my BIL's set up a small trailor behind a 4 wheeler and pulled them behind it, they got a fireplace and camp chairs too, they areso spoiled!!!

Blake Bradly Christensen

So I have been a huge slacker, but here is our sweet Blake's story. I got induced on Oct. 23rd at 7p.m. at night. I get the gown on and jump into the bed and the nurse comes in and asks me why I am there. I look at Dan quite confused and say sarcastically, cause I have a cold. She didn't think it was funny and said again no, why are you here. I am very confused at this point because isn't it obvious? I am in Labor and Delivery and very pregnant.....so I say to have a baby. Than she says why are you in here so early? Oh, now I understand that she wants to know why I am being induced at 38 weeks. So I explain and she seems satisfied, than she starts interrogating me about my cold, at this point I want to shoot the lady. So we start the pitocin and my doctor comes in around 9ish and breaks my water. I hadn't gotten the epidural yet and my Dr. suggested I ask for it soon. So I did right after he left which I am so glad I did because the contractions came like a freight train very soon after. By the time the guy came to give me the epidural I was in a lot of pain. After the epidural I was very relaxed and fell asleep. I woke up at about 12:15 to a lot of pressure, I was about to call the nurse (thank goodness they changed shifts and I got a different nurse) when she came in to check me. I was at a 9 so she started to get a few things ready when the pressure got a lot worse so I asked her to check me again (it had only been like 2 minutes since she checked me last) and sure enough I was a 10 and stage 2. She ran around getting everything ready than called the doctor. She had everything all ready so she suggested we do a practice push, I told her my last baby came out on the third push, so really fast, and she just said oh, well let's just see how you do. So I pushed and she was surprised at the progress and told me to wait a minute. She did a few more things than suggested I do another practice push, so I did and I almost pushed the baby out, he was crowning and she made me wait for the doctor to get there. WOW, that hurt is all I can say. It seemed like an eternity before the doctor got there and I could finally finish pushing him out. The nurse afterward said that next time if a nurse suggests that I push without the doctor being there tell her no. I thought that was funny. He was born at 1:04 on the 24th weighing 7lbs. 8 oz. and 19 inches long. He blew us both away with his blonde hair and blue eyes. I am very much in love and very sleep deprived. The boys have been pretty darn great with him.

Shane's B-day and Pumpkins!

Shane turned 6 this year. It blew me away, when did he get so big? He had a lot of fun and Brock was just as excited as Shane was over his presents! It was quite the laugh! We carved pumpkins the next night and that was fun. Shane tried to do most of it himself but he isn't quite strong enough! He put in a good effort though! We got Brocks all cut out and he spent the rest of the night putting the peices back in. It was cute.

Funeral

I am updating so late that I am going to be posting a million different posts today (hopefully I can get them all done!) I want to start out with Herb's funeral. It was great having family all together. The mortuary let us take his caket up to the burial site with a bobcat that Dan drove. It was pretty awesome! The service was so inspirational, he was such an amazing man, onery yes, but also very amazing.

Herbert Eugene

Dan's dad passed away while in Armenia on Friday the 11th. We got notified by the Armenian consulate on the 16th. He was in Armenia trying to find Liz's genealogy, what a brave hero at the age of 77 going to another country to strive and fulfill on of Liz's dreams that she could never accomplish. He died of a heart attack alone in his room. He was such a good generous man. He was the kind of man that was silent about his good deeds. He has touched many lives. We all have our time to go and I know he so desperately wanted to be reunited with Liz again, he missed her so much and felt very lost without her. What a great man who had so many accomplishments. We love you and will miss you so much! I will try no to be too sad for me and my kids because I know you are home now.

No new news

Shane started Kindergarten and really truly LOVES it! He is learning how to read and quite to my suprise, he is so excited every morning to sit down with me and read. He is being so patient with it which is very uncharacteristic of him. Brock tails along and pretends to read too, it is pretty cute! He is really picking up on his letters and sound though! Transformers is all we really hear around our house right now. Brock is especially into them! His favorite quote is "transform and roll out". He is always pretending to be Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime (Optimus Brock sometimes too) and a few other I am blanking out right now. I love watching there little imaginations at work it so so cute! We went to Walmart the other day and candy corn is just about my favorite thing in the world and I let Brock hold the bag while we went to the check out line, as he is holding it he looks up at me and says, this is my mission mom, to eat all the treats. I cracked up, it truly is his mission in life, I swear it!

I am still pregnant and very miserable, the picture is of me at 30 weeks. I have made the decision to try everything (nonharmful of course) I can once I hit 36 weeks to get this kid out!!! My belly is so huge and it REALLY hurts this time around. I have always gotten really big with my pregnancies but this one is off the charts! I am very excited to meet this little guy and have him in our family. We are pretty much ready for him, just waiting now!

Dan still has not found any work, besides construction, but we are at least getting interviews lately. We just got notified that his last one went to someone else which seems to be the normal song and tune of our life lately, but he has another one on Friday.

The first picture is od my little sis Hillary and Dan after I did tyheir glitter toes, yes Dan let me do his toes! The third one is of Shane who fell asleep with Dan head phones for shooting on his head. That kid cracks me up!!!

We never got to move, which I was very very very...........sad about. The old lady that lives upstairs bruised her leg.....it is healed now but they couldn't move because of it. Go figure. I have been kind of looking for other places but I keep thinking we need to just hang tight and see if we can actually get some sort of a miracle and find a job. Maybe I am being foolish, every opportunity that has knocked on our door the last year has not worked out. I am getting tired of hoping.

Finally Updating

I have been kind of onery lately so I haven't updated. My last couple posts seemed pretty grouchy so I took a small time out. We are slowly getting ready for our new baby, that we had originally decided to name Luke but now it is very undecided, I think we have at least narrowed it down to Guage, Blake and Russell; we will call him Rusty for short.

The boys are both super excited for him to come. I think Shane will deal with the change really fantastic and be a great helper but Brock.......he LOVES being the baby right now so we shall see how it goes. He acts so very excited right now but that could change in a heart beat!

Shane starts kindergarten in 2 weeks and we are all very excited! He is getting a bit naughty and bored at home. School does wonderful things for that boy!

Brock is hopefully going to be starting preschool in about a month also, we are just waiting to see if he got accepted into the headstart program. The 4 year olds get priority so if there is space he will get in! I think that if he doesn"t we might just put him into an at-home preschool for two days a week or something.

I am doing great at cosmetology school and I am really loving it. I struggle a lot with coloring peoples hair, it is pretty easy to do it is just understanding what color to put where ect......not as easy as it looks! I am in heaven doing it all also. I never saw myself being that person but I am really loving it!

Dan is still looking for work. Things are looking bleak out there but we are surviving and he does work construction during the day so I guess something is better than nothing!

We are moving in two weeks to the upstairs apartment and I am SO super excited! Is has more space and TWO FULL BATHROOMS!!!!! You would never think, but an extra bathroom is more exciting to me than anything else in the whole place! The move should be pretty easy too since it is just upstairs.

Well that is about it! I am so ready and excited for this baby to come out I can't stand it. I have been getting the clothes out to see what we have and what we need and it is so fun! I can't believe how small they come out!