Halloween Fun

Here are our pumpkin pictures. Carving with Grandpa, the finished Jack-o-Lanterns, and the Jack-o-Lanterns lit up. Drake made a ghost, and Tristan Scooby-Doo.

Here is our little mouse.


Drake at the school parade.

Drake went as a Roman soldier and Tristan was Handy Manny.

These are my Mom & Dad's. the trick-or-treater pumpkin weighed 48 pounds and the turkey weighed 91.4 pounds.

9/12 Tea Party

On September 12 the boys and I attended the 9/12 Tea Party in Pocatello. We made signs, walked to the federal building, and listened to the speakers. It was a great experience, to be part of a big movement and to get my kids involved.

Lana's Blessing

We blessed Lana in October. She wore the blessing dress that my mom made for me when I was blessed.

She looked so beautiful.
Shane's Aunt, Uncle, Grandma, sister, and niece and nephews came and my Aunt, cousin and brothers and sisters and their kids. It was so nice to have all of the support.
We had a brunch at my parents house before church (since we had 1pm church and that puts people getting home late if we had a dinner afterwords), and it was nice to enjoy each others company.
Shane gave Lana a beautiful blessing. I am so blessed to have a husband who honors his priesthood and is worthy to give our children blessings.

Lana Arrives!

September 23 was a big day for our family. It is the day that we welcomed another member to our family.
It started out with Tristan being sick and throwing up in our bed (which he was sleeping in because he had wet his own bed). When I woke up to take care of him I realized that my water had broken, and we called my parents to have them watch the kids. It was 4 am, so I am glad that my parents were willing to babysit for us at such an early hour. After dropping the kids off at my parents we headed to the hospital, and started a long day. My water was broken, but I was not having any contractions so they started me on Pitocin. Nothing happened for most of the morning so they kept upping the dose of Pit that they were giving me. Shane and I watched a lot of the History Channel that day, they were showing programs about Barbarians. Finally the contractions got painful enough that I asked for the epidural. The epidural only took effect on my right side, even though I was laying on my left side and they tried to adjust the epidural. So my right leg was completely useless. It was really funny because they would ask me to move and I couldn't do anything with my right leg, it would just flop around.
Lana made her entry into the world at 12:49 pm.

She is beatiful with dark brown hair and she had big cheeks. She was 8 lbs. 10 oz. and 20 1/2 inches long. She was 12 days early, but I was glad that she came when she did otherwise she could have been 10 pounds.
It took us a long time to leave the delivery room because my right leg was so numb, but we still had visitors. My brother and his family came.
Their baby is about 6 weeks older than Lana. They will have lots of fun together.
Drake and Tristan were so excited to come a see their new sister. Drake loves to hold her and give her hugs and kisses. He wants to hold her all of the time. Tristan loves to give her kisses, and help take care of her. They are both wonderful big brothers.

She is a wonderful baby. She eats well and sleeps about 3-4 hours at a time at night. It is not a lot of sleep, but I am grateful for what I get. At her 2 week appointment she was 9 lbs 9 oz, and 20 3/4 in. She didn't grow very much but gained almost a pound.

We love our new addition and are so glad that she is here.

Drake's Baptism

Over Labor Day weekend we had a big event, Drake was baptized. It was a wonderful event, and I am so proud of him making the decision to be baptized. Shane baptized, and confirmed him. Our ward gave him a great present of a white towel and a poem about baptism. It was very beautiful. We had a wonderful time visiting with the people who attended (Aunt Verna and Uncle Bill, Aunts Jolene, Charlotte, and Louise, and Uncle DeWayne, Jeremy, Julie, Austin, and Jayden, Melissa, Jake, and Katelyn, Grandpa and Grandma Tucker, Noni and Bompi. I hope I didn't forget anyone). We had a nice salad lunch after the baptism and really enjoyed all the different types of salad that were brought.
Tristan was cute and loved watching Drake be baptized. He even said that he wanted to be baptized too. My kids are so special, and I love them so very much.

Updates

So it has been a really long time since I last updated our blog. There hasn't been much going on, but here is a little synopsis. Shane is still working, all the time. Drake is back in school. Third grade is hard, but we are getting through. Swim team has started up again for the short course season (fall, winter, spring). Drake is still really enjoying it and we are looking forward to swimming in a meet in Idaho Falls. Drake is also enjoying Cub Scouts. He loves to learn and really wants to earn as many merit badges (or whatever they are called in cub scouts) as he can.
Tristan is still just running around playing. He just completed pre-school level swimming lessons for the 4th time and enjoys every minute of it. He is signed up to take it again, and we learned last night that he will still have to take pre-school level when he is 4. By the time he is 5 he will probably be able to teach the class.
I am just busy being mom and fulfilling my Relief Society calling. There is a lot involved in both so I am kept really busy.
In September we did attend the Medieval fair at the library again. The boys had a lot of fun dressing up, playing some musical instruments, eating good food, coloring pictures, and I learned a dance. There was not as much there as last year, but it was still a lot of fun to do.