Thankful for...

I know I'm a little late for a Thanksgiving post but it's never too late to give thanks. Grammy Goodall and Grandma Johnson were here for the birth of Alivia. It was so nice to have their help and to have Tessa here for anything we needed. Look at this gorgeous red hair!
Tessa stayed on Thanksgiving day and helped make dinner. We wouldn't have enjoyed such a wonderful dinner without her! We were so glad that she decided to stay with us and we enjoyed having her at our house. As you can see, we had a delicious dinner and definately didn't do without!

Ammon is so grateful for his new sister. He just kisses her all the time whenever he walks by. It is so cute!

Ammon loves walking around in anyone's shoes that aren't his. He walked the entire kitchen really fast in Grammy's shoes and giggled the entire way.

Grandpa Johnson drove down on Sunday just to see Alivia and to drive back through the canyon with Grandma. We were so grateful to see him for a few minutes. It was so fun to have Sandra here for a few days before the birth. We went on walks and had a good time together. Thanks for all the fun times!

Tessa has been so busy with school that we don't see her much but it has been so fun to see her more often now that we live in Logan with her. Alivia loves her Auntie Tessa and Ammon has learned to say Tessa. It's so cute!

What a proud daddy! He's so good with the kids and I'm so grateful to have him home to play with them and to help me out around the house. You couldn't ask for a better daddy! I was so grateful he was there for me during the birth. Couldn't have done it without him!

This was at our ward Christmas party. Darren had to work but mom came with me and the kids were so cute in their new little outfits. They got to sit on Santa's lap (Ammon didn't like it much) and we enjoyed a ventrilaquist for the program. Ammon really liked the puppets.

Here's Grammy with the babies. I was so grateful for all that she did for me these past few weeks. I couldn't have survived without her doing the laundry, meals, dishes, cleaning toilets etc. Thanks so much for everything you did for us! My dad was also able to come for a few days for Thanksgiving. I was so glad that he took the time to drive down even though it was a short trip for him it was so nice to see him!

Baby Alivia is here!

Alivia came flying out Saturday the 21st at 9:21 pm. She is 8 lbs 12 oz and 21.25" long with fire red hair. We had her at home, which made Tyeanna really happy. Tyeanna didn't go into hard labor until about 7pm. and we had practically no warning that Alivia was coming. Chris our midwife barely made it to Tyeanna in order to catch it and I barely made it there to see. As Grandpa Stone always said "we don't do ugly!" There will be more pics posted shortly, of course.

Thank you for your prayers, we needed them, and they were answered!

Baby Contest

We're having everyone guess what the new baby will be. It has been so fun to see what everyone thinks. If you haven't participated in our fun 'new' baby contest (Natalie) and would like to, please leave a comment with the following information and maybe a prize will be waiting for you if you get anything right (prize has not yet been determined):

Your Name
Baby Gender
Date of birth
Time of birth
Weight
Length
Baby Name

Hurry, don't miss out on the fun! It's coming up fast!

Here is what I have so far:

*Grandpa Johnson---Girl 2:10 am 7 lb 12 oz 17" Bert
*Darren--- ?????? 11/21/09 10.20 am 8 lb 5 oz 19" no comment
*Grandma Johnson--- Girl 11:30 am 8 lb 3 oz 19"
*Coray--- Girl 4:32 am 7 lb 14 oz 18" Alice
*Kathrine--- Girl 3:24 am 5 lb 2 oz 20" Elmo
*Tyeanna--- Boy 11/19/09 7:00 am 8 lb 7 oz 20" Braydon
*Anna--- Boy 3:00 am 8 lb 6 oz 20" Nu
*Elizabeth--- Girl 2:00 pm 8 lb 2 oz 20" Bethy
*Tessa--- Boy 11/23/09 9:53 am 8.67 lbs 20.5" Braden
*Great Ma Goodall--- Boy 11/24/09 4:00 pm 8 lb 12 oz 21" Asa LaRain
*Madison--- Girl 3:42 pm 8 lb 4 oz 21" Alyssa
*Krista--- Girl 11/21/09 11:29 am 8 lb 4 oz 20" Alivia Tyeanna
*Josh--- Boy 11/23/09 7:00 am 13 lb 3.5 oz 19 7/8" Buck Owen
*Mima Goodall--- Boy 11/20/09 11:20 pm 8 lb 1oz 20 1/2" Walter Ross
*Papa Goodall--- Girl 11/22/09 8:14 am 7 1/4 lb 19 3/4" Jasmin/Mino
*Grady--- Girl 11/21/09 9:00 am 7 lb 17 " Lilly Mae
*Tanya--- Girl 11/20/09 2:30 am 7 lb 11 oz 21" Maybeline/Elmi
*Tucker--- Girl 11/26/09 3:30 pm 8 lb 2 oz 20 1/2" Allie
*Great Pa Goodall--- Girl 11/24/09 10:30 am 6 3/4 lb 20 1/4 " Judy
*Ryan--- Girl 11/19/09 4:22 am 6.5 oz 21" LaFawnda
*Calvin--- Boy Ayuckna
*Lance--- Girl 11/25/09 2:00 pm 9 lb 7 oz 21" Afridiete
*Great Ma Stinger--- Girl 11/18/09 2:00 am 7 lb 9 oz 20" Melissa
*Great Pa Stinger--- Boy 11/12/09 4:00 am 12 lb 17" David
*Megan---Girl 11/23/09 7:30 am 7 lb 8 oz 18" Sariah
*Chris Flavel --- Male 11/18/09 7:29 am 8 lb 15" Aaron Johnson
*Christy---Girl 11/22/09 6:15 am 7 lb 8.5 oz 19" Olivia T

Balancing Act, and More Halloween Fun

Ammon loves climbing on things. It doesn't matter if he is only 1/2 inch off the ground, if he can stand on it he will. He has now realized the potential of standing on things, he will move his little chairs and that bucket around to climb onto anything. This particular incident ended in a fat lip, that was soon followed by a black eye a few minutes later.

We went to Utah valley for Halloween weekend, we went to Tye's work to go cubicle trick or treating. Then we went to Grandma Stinger's ward for chili and trunk or treating. Later that night we met up with my sisters and their kids to go door to door down my parents road. It was a fun filled weekend! I carried Ammon on my shoulders going door to door, when I would put him down to run up to the door with the other kids he would start running while still in the air because he was sooo excited. Then once on the ground, he would giggle all the way up to the door and then try to go into the houses when people would open the doors. He did that at every house.

Halloween Fun

We had a great time carving pumpkins this year. Tessa brought us some from Mom and Dad's pumpkin patch when she went there for a weekend. We never got any pictures of them lite but we enjoyed the family fun. Ammon has enjoyed sitting on his and rolling it around the house.

For Darren's Creative Arts class he had to dress up for Halloween in a costume that represented him in some way. You can't see it very well in this picture but his hat says 'Milk Man' and he looked awesome! I was of course the pregnant house wife and Ammon was our milk bottle. I couldn't find my apron that I was going to wear and I searched for it for an entire day. Guess what I found the next day... my apron in the exact drawer I had search a dozen times.

Ammon was so cute in this costume when he waddled around. The bottom part was a lamp shade that we covered with material and cut 3 holes in (two for the arms, one for the face) and then glued a plastic lid to the top of the material. He didn't particularly like us putting it on but once it was on he had fun running around for a minute.

We went to class that morning with Darren and all three of us had to walk across stage in front of 700 students. Ammon did a great job and loved the attention. They had a competition at the end and Darren made it in the top 8.

Later that day we went to CMC to go trick or treating at my work. We didn't make Ammon wear this all day. Instead he was the cutest little dinosaur. As soon as I get those pictures uploaded I'll post some of them.

First Boo Boo

Ammon loves to climb on anything and everything that is or might be dangerous. If he falls, he gets back up and tries again. If he gets hurt it doesn't slow him down as you can see below.

Ammon loves my old teddy. He'll snuggle up with him when he's tired. He loves his teddy from Mima to snuggle and carry around better though because he's not so big.

Ammon got his first big Booboo the other day. Darren was out side in the back sanding the new crib and Ammon and I went to go see him. Ammon was standing right next to me on the stair ledge and decided to just walk right off. He's never done that before but I guess because I was right there he thought he'd be safe. He hit his head on the concrete as I reached for him but I was too late. It scabbed over pretty good and he's still recovering. Funny thing is, he didn't even cry very much. The other day he had about 5 falls in one day. The poor thing looked like he'd been beaten. He had this scab, a black eye on the left side (from running into a metal garbage can), a fat lip (from falling off a bucket and hitting his toy bin) and another scrape on the left eye from something that I've already forgotten about. Hopefully he will make it to his 2nd birthday!

Update

I know I need to update with pictures of Ammon and Halloween pictures but I've been crazy busy. I promise I will get to it some day. We went to the Johnson home and visited all the Great Grandma and Grandpa's for Halloween. It was really fun. Today Darren and I were cleaning like mad to get ready for our midwife to do a home visit tomorrow. Darren dusted everything from floor to celing. It is so nice to know that my house is clean and I won't have to worry about it here in a few weeks. I'm glad that my midwife Chris has a dead line to have everything prepared. I had a whole list of things I had to have ready by the 37th week which was October 30th. I still don't have everything organized but atleast it's all in my house somewhere. I'll post some pictures soon or maybe I'll have Darren do it.

35 days!!!

I can't believe I only have 35 days left until we have another 'tiny' running around. Of course it could be sooner or later than that. I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off because I have to get the house spotless and in order in less than 15 days. We've decided to have this baby at home and I am suppose to have everything prepared by the 37th week. That is on October 30th! It is going by way too fast. I'm excited and so relieved with our decision to have this baby at home. My midwife Chris is awesome and her assistant Robin has also been wonderful! They treat us so well, know us by name and have really helped in educating us in our decisions.

Ammon is doing wonderful. He has 4 teeth now (two top and two bottom) and is just as happy as can be. He's been sleeping in later in the morning and so he doesn't want to go to bed at night but atleast he's sleeping 9 hours at night time. We just love him so much and I'm excited for him to have a new little playmate. He's climbing on anything imaginable. He loves to stand on top of Dads toolbox, the stool, his walker (he stands on top of the tray and then puts one leg in the walker with the other hanging out the top and pushes himself around with one leg. I think he likes to do it this way because then he can still climb out).

Ammon is feeding himself most of the time. He likes to use the spoon and will even fork things occassionally. He still needs mom and dads help but he is doing so great. I hope that he will do the transition with the new baby well. I think he'll probably adjust better than I do!

Happy Anniversary

Happy 4th Anniversary Darren! It's been a great 4 years. Like I said earlier, it seems like a lot more than 4 years when you consider how many times we've moved but it's been fun and we've learned a lot. I'm excited for our plans for the future! Love you lots!

Correction

I had my parents look at the 'house' pictures I posted. They said that the trailer was not where we lived (good thing...it's pretty much a junk yard now). There were a few new houses in the other lots that must have been where we lived and so I guess it's just gone. No wonder I couldn't find it.