Well summer for our family is Birthday Party Time! We started out with Kennedy in May. It was a beautiful day and I made her birthday cake and then my mom and I decided to take the girls to lunch at Paradise Cafe then look for a gift for Kennedy. It's hard to figure out what to give your kids when the first child has gotten everything for them. I got her a cute finger puppet book though. Then we got home and decorated for the big hot dog roast we planned for both Ryan and my family to come to. It was really fun. Of course Rylin, Drew, Owen, Caroline, and Rex were more excited to open Kennedy's presents than she was. She got crayons, a camp chair, clothes, and more. She was very dainty when it came to digging into her cake. She just pinched little parts of it to eat. It made clean up easy that's for sure. I made flower cup cakes for all the other kids to have and blow out a candle. They seemed to like that. It was a success in my eyes. Happy birthday little one!
Next came
Rylin's birthday party in June. It was also a
beautiful day which was surprising seeing that the weather this summer has been all rain. I woke up early and started on the cake. Once it was done my mom and I wanted to take
Rylin and her cousins to go bowling and eat lunch. This is when everything crashed. An hour before we were supposed to leave, I got a call from both Heidi and Carrie saying that their kids weren't feeling good so they would have to pass. I broke down and cried since I had hyped
Rylin up telling her how much fun she was going to have with her cousins bowling. I also never heard back from Angie so they were out too. Eventually I pulled myself together and Ryan being a sweet husband told me that if he needed to he would take a long lunch if he needed to and we could go bowling as a family. Eventually I pulled myself together and told
Rylin all her cousins were sick but that Miranda, Grammy and I were going to go to take her to
Boondocks and make it a very special day. We went and ate lunch there and started bowling when Carrie called and said Caroline was feeling better and they were on their way. She had a fun day bowling and playing the games up front. They each got some dinky toys with their tickets. We came home and
Rylin went to target with my mom and picked out all her presents and helped her wrap them. We had the grandparents and great grandparents with a few aunts and uncles over for cake. She loved her barbies, yard tools, and princess phone that she got. Then Ryan and I had her open our gift which was a big barbie house. She was
ecstatic! It was worth every penny we spent through
KSL to get it. She also loved her princess cake. She helped make it and picked all the colors. It was fun. Well until next year!
Just in case people don't know...I had my third beautiful baby girl on July 26th. She shares her birthday with her uncle Brad so I know she will be his favorite niece. She was 7lb 8oz and 21 inches long. The funny thing is she has a lot of dark hair! Don't know how that happened. The week before I had her I went to my doctor appointment and my doctor thought that I would go into labor any minute, but as the fates would have it I never did and it was the longest week of my life! My doctor was leaving on a trip so she asked if she could induce me. For some reason I was really hesitant on being induced. Don't ask me why but I liked the idea of having my water break like with my other two. Eventually Ryan and I decided that having my doctor deliver me was more important than going naturally so in we went two hours later. They started me and about a half hour later she broke my water and they gave me my epidural which didn't work...I know lame. You pay all this money and don't even get the relief you want. Eventually he got it to work and 5 minutes later I pushed 1 1/2 times and out she came! My doctor said it was a good thing I was induced or else Ryan would have been delivering me with no epidural. I guess I will be getting induced in the future. She is precious and the girls love her! Rylin's first comments were "oh my she is beautiful! I love her so much! What are those sparkles all over her face? "(the little white speckles all babies have) . I told her that's what Heavenly Father does to little princess babies. She liked that. Kennedy patted her, smiled, and went on her way. Now we will see if three is as hard as everyone says it is!
