We moved!!!

After a long and crazy 16 months I finally can report that we have "moved" to Arizona. Despite the fact that I have been here more than a year and Derek for 10 months, for the first time we have a place to call our own. We are renting a cute little house with plenty of space inside, including 4 bedrooms and a playroom. We are missing the yard we would like for the kids, but when you rent you can give a little. While we are overwhelmingly grateful to my mother for allowing not only her child, but an entire family of 6 to live with her so long, it is a relief to be on our own again. We are still unpacking odds an ends but we have already filled up so much of this space. I am not sure how we survived before. I know it is only through my Heavenly Father and I can not forget how much comfort we have recieved as we have waited for this trial to somehow be at an end. While life isn't perfect yet, it is amazing and I have so many things to be grateful for!

Warning: no pictures yet

We lost all our pictures due to a lovely computer malfunction so we currently have no computer to download pictures from our cameras. I promos though... I will update the posts with pictures.

Daylen McKay Farnsworth

He finally made his debut! I was scheduled for an induction on Friday. Well - Saturday at 3:30 a.m. I got the call that they had a bed for me. So, at about 4:30 we arrived at the hospital and started our check in. At a little before 5:30 they started my pitocin drip. It was pretty boring so I ended up falling asleep from about 7:30 to 8:30. At 8:30 the contractions were getting a little bit uncomfortable and I was at a 5 so they broke my water just before 9:00. Derek came back from picking up breakfast just as they were starting my epidural, minutes later. They had some trouble, once again, with my epidural. After Derek spent about 20 minutes holding me up he told the nurse he needed to sit down. He didn't get to eat and was feeling light-headed. About a minute later he crashed to the ground and took a little nap for a few minutes! Apparently he can NOT go without eating. This is number two out of four... so he doesn't have the best odds. Anyway, I digress... After assuring them I was not going to jump off the table to get Derek they continued to try to get my epidural. Soon after, I felt the needle go in and a shooting pain down my leg. This is where it gets interesting! I start feeling really weird and the guy doing my epidural is concerned that I am already feeling numb when he says he hasn't given me anything but lidocaine and I should still be good. Well, next thing I know my body collapses on the bed, my bp drops super fast and I can't breathe. They shoved some medicine in and got my heart rate back up and gave me oxygen. Then they informed me that he missed the epidural space and I just got a spinal! So, they sat around freaking for a little bit while I couldn't move - which is the wierdest feeling. Then my doctor came in to check me and I was ready to go - all 10 centimeters. So, without being able to feel too much I pushed and a few minutes later we got an amazing baby boy! His chord was wrapped around his neck 4 times but we didn't know because he showed no distress. We are so blessed and grateful he came out perfect! He was 6 pounds 14 ounces, which is my smallest baby! He was 20 inches and born at 9:56. Not too shabby for a morning's work. I am so grateful it all went well and despite the doctor's constant checking to see if I had a spinal headache, we both were great!

Bryce is 2!

I can't believe my baby is 2! He is such a joy and is always so happy. We are so lucky to have him in our family. This year we kep it pretty low key and just played in the pool - where Bryce loved it!! Some tidbits about Bryce:
1. He is an awesome talker. I was worried because he wouldn't talk at all, but then one day he went to 5 plus word sentences! His vocabulary is awesome and he speaks very well.
2. This kid has an awesome knack for sports. He continues to pla basketball and soccer daily and has even added football into the mix. He shoots from like 5 feet away and can still sink a basket. He throws a football with more spiral than me and dribbles his little soccer ball while running around.
3. He is a tease! If you get up from a seat and he is around he will run to your spot and giggle when you come back to find your spot taken.
4. He is always happy. No one in this house can resist his charms!
We love our little Brycey!

Preschool graduation

Hailey and Ashlyn finished another year of preschool. They really loved Ms. Christie and both learned so much! For their last day today they gave us these really cute books of everything they did and gave us a little presentation. For Ashlyn's they showed us all the letters and their sounds, recited the pledge, went over the calendar and the other cute little stuff they do each day. Hailey's class had a mini graduation, went over small words, calendar, pledge - and my favorite - recited the preable complete with sign language from memory. Both girls have progressed so much and I can't believe Hailey will be starting kindergarten in just a few months!

Disneyland!!!

Now that we are so much closer to family in California we used the excuse to visit my wonderful grandpa to go to Disneyland too! It was a quick trip, but we got to do everything we wanted. We spent Friday at Disneyland where we met princesses, fairies and rode everything on our list. We found out Hailey is an adrenaline junky. Once she rode her first coaster, it was all she wanted to do. Ashlyn was scarred by the yeti so she voted for the more animated rides. Bryce was hilarious! He did really good for the morning but by the afternoon every time we went onto a ride that went inside he would just keep saying, "get out, outside." it was so cute. On the Alice in wonderland ride it goes in and outside, which was the funniest because everytime he thought he got out we were right back inside again. The kids were total troopers and made it all the way through the fireworks.

Saturday we made a quick drive to Huntington beach and then spent the day with the Joneses. It was so good to see all the family we missed while across the country. Even though the trip was quick I am so glad we got to see family and the kids enjoyed their first trip to Disney. Hopefully we'll have more to come.

Easter 2011

This year I am grateful to take the time to reflect on what the atonement really means with my children. They are old enough to understand a little more and I am so glad I get to teach them about how the atonement fits into the plan of salvation and the love and sacrifice of our Savior. It is exciting to read about his resurrection. I am grateful for the atonement and the opportunity it gives us to be whole again. I am so grateful for repentance, the opportunity to improve ourselves and rely on our Father in Heaven, what a blessing.