some updated pictures of the kids.

New House

We are officially moved into the new house. I will post pictures soon. We don't have interent over at the house yet so I am not on here very often. We will see when I get to it.

Family fall pictures

We tried to take some family pictures this week. Owen was Owen and did not want anything to do with us. Especially when he saw a cat and a tractor at the shoot site. Here are a few we got.

I love Owen in this shot. But Desi looks like a doll flopped over my arm.

Desi wanted to say HI!

More pictures of Desi

So many of you may know that Terrell does photography and was quite offended that Desi's first pictures weren't taken by daddy. So here are daddy's pictures, at least some of my favorites.

Desiree Lynn

Our new baby girl was born on Monday August 2, 2010. She was 7 lbs 15 oz and 21 inches long.

I went into the doctor on Monday and they said I was dialated to 4cm and they couldn't let me go into the hospital until I had consistant labor patterns. So I left home and waited until I was having normal contractions. I had them for about 2 hours at 4 pm and we drove ourselves down to the hospital. We checked into the hospital at 5 and they said they would monitor me for an hour.

My doctor came in about 6:15 and he said that I was about 4 1/2 cm and he didn't want to break my water when it was so late and night. He didn't really want to be up all night. He did anyway because Terrell wouldn't be available for the next week to be with me. They said they would be upstairs right away to give me my epidural. 2 hours later, they came up with my epidural. I was already dialated to a 7. That was fun having to do that by myslef considering that I do not have any tolerance for pain. Blah!!!

So I finally got my epidural and then at about 9 pm I was feeling so much pressure like I had to go to the bathroom and my nurse checked my and I was completely dialted. My doctor said that I did very good in my labor and he was proud of me for not taking all night. I started pushing at 9:20 in she was born at 9:29. Terrell said I was losing my touch, Owen was only 7 min!!

The only bad thing about about the labor was that they stuck the epidural needle in too far the first time and puntured my spinal cord so it made some spinal fluid leak out. It caused me to have massive headaches and throw up so they did what is called a blood patch and they draw blood from my arm and they inject it onto me spinal cord to stop the fluid. My back to way sore but the headaches are gone. So I might think about not having an epidural next time but we will see.

She is very cute and we love her to death. Owen is doing great with her too. Her are some of my favorite newborn pictures that they took at the hospital.

House pictures

As promised, here are some before pictures of the house. We still have TONS of work to do.
This is the new baby's room. We are going to cut the bead board half way down and paint it pink.

Here is the master bathroom vanity. I am in love with the double sinks!!!

This is the Master bedroom. complete with its own fireplace and balcony. The room itself is 600 sq feet, its HUGE!

Downstairs family room.

THeater room.

Here are all the boys working in the kitchen. We have had so much help and it is greatly appreciated. We will still be working on it for a while and hopefully be able to move in by the end of August.

New house

We finally did it!! We bought a house.
As most of you probably know, we were not planning on it but it has worked out to be a good project. We closed on it today and are starting the work to be able to move in soon.
I will take before and after pictures and post them soon!!

Owen's first fishing expreience

Terrell's family went camping over Memorial Day weekend and when you go camping you have to go fishing. Owen had never gone before so we brought along the camera to documnet the occasion. Here are some fun pictures of father & son fishing.

This is Owen showing me his teeth. That is the only way I can get him to really smile!

Terrell and Owen casting out the line. Owen really just helped Dad hold the pole.



Kyler didn't want to be left out of the picture taking!

family camp

We went on a camp with Terrells family before his brother is sent to Afganistan and his mom wanted to get some family pictures. It was a bit of a challenge to get everyone cleaned up but here are a few of the pictures we got.

This one is of all his sisters

Shanae & Aaron

Naomi's Kids

Immediate Family

Extended Family

Naomi & Lupeka

Mom & Dad

Sadie & Owen

My friends Nate & Celeste needed a babysitter for their little girl this week so I volunteered. I figured that I needed the practice of having 2!

We decided that we would go swimming today and here are a few pics.


This is them getting ready for the walk over to the pool.


Owen didn't want to be in the pool. He just wanted to empty all the water.


Here is cute Sadie grinning!!

We had lots of fun and then we came home and they both CRASHED!! Too much fun I guess.