Bryce, Cherish, Brody, Kale and Settelly

Four Months Old

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Trick or Treat

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Pretty little Fairy Princess!!

Ride 'em Cowboy Kale!!

Solider Brody and his little Posse!!!

2009-11-06T22:49:00.001-08:00

Halloween

2009-11-06T22:37:00.002-08:00

What a great Halloween Season it was. We had so much fun going to the Heiser Pumpkin Patch in the first part of the month to get our pumpkins. The weather was absolutely beautiful and the kids had so much fun there, we spent the whole afternoon clear into the evening there. We did the hay maze, the corn maze, the bounce house and slide. We watched the plow horses plow the fields and we watched the pumpkin cannon and we took a hay ride out to choose our pumpkins, it was such a fun day!!!
Of course we also picked a big enough pumpkin to put Settelly in, it's been a fun tradition of mine to take pictures of my children in pumpkins on their first Halloween!! Settelly was so cute sitting in the pumpkin, at one point she even started to suck on the side of the pumpkin!! It must have tasted good!!
After the pumkin pictures and her in her little angel wings and tutu I took pictures of the boys all dressed up and then Settelly, by that time she had fallen asleep in her pretty dress. Who would have known that those pictures would be so preciouse of her asleep on her brothers laps!!

2009-11-06T22:37:00.001-08:00

The Pumpkin Cannon

2009-11-06T22:19:00.000-08:00

This was great fun to sit and watch these guys with the two cannon's firing off pumpkins at the blue barrels. The boys especially enjoyed this, it was such a great day!!

2009-11-06T22:14:00.001-08:00

Settelly's First Photo Shoot

2009-09-13T21:31:00.002-07:00

So I am having way to much fun with this little girl!! Kale and I did a photo shoot of Settelly on Friday after we had gone over to the fruit stand and bought this beautiful bouquet of sunflowers. When we got home I was about to take pictures of the flowers and then remembered that Settelly has a little sunflower outfit and how cute she would be next to the bouquet. So I set up my black background went out to the shop and found some of Bryce's construction lights and Kale and I went to town on photographing Settelly, Kale made a great assistant!! We took so many pictures trying to hopefully get a few that would turn out and were surprised at how many did turn out beautifully and then to try and narrow them down, oh my!!! I think there are 49 in this slide show!!

2009-09-13T21:31:00.001-07:00

Freestone Family Reunion

2009-09-13T21:21:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun at my family reunion this summer, all our family came!! We stayed over in Manzanita and we all had beach houses right next to each other and we partied for a week straight!! The reunion was Friday-Sunday and we had a huge Pirate treasure hunt on Saturday for the kids at the Nehalem Bay, it was great everyone had parts and there was an actual trunk filled with treasure that was hidden in the forest, the kids loved it!! Each family was presented with a beautiful family book that my Aunt Julie had painstakingly put together, complete with bio sketch's and a cd of my Grandfather James B. Freestone playing his accordion. What a treasure that will be to us all. We had some great fun and adventures from train rides to 5 mile hike over Neakhanie Mountain, Kale and Settelly did that with me and my Mom, Dad and brother Brendan. We had so much fun at the beach there and made some lasting memories with all our family there!! Below is the slide show of our adventures!!!

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Fun Pics

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This is Bryce and Settelly's little trick! Bryce holds her out on his hand and she is so strong that she can hold her self sitting up, she loves to do this, she's always smiling at Bryce when they do this!!

Kalester loves to take bath's, if there was one thing I wish that I could turn off in our house it would be the bathroom water! Kale is always in the tub, I turn around for two minutes and he's in there with the door locked, little rascal. He was so excited that I put Settelly in the tub with him, he was so cute, he washed her with her little wash cloth!! Settelly loves to take baths too so I imagine they will be little partners in crime!! Rub a dub dub there's two babe's in the tub!!

This was a cute pic that I took of her a few sunday's ago, Brody suggested putting her in her Bumbo seat so we put a blanket over the top to add a little contrast!! We love our Bumbo seat, Thanks Jenny and Aunt Jan!!

Baby Talk

2009-09-13T20:33:00.000-07:00

Settelly was so talkative this day, we sat on the couch and just chattered at each other. Kale was so cute he came over with a big smile and says "Baby sister talk" ? It's so cute to watch my boys with their little sister, now if only they could be sweet like that with each other, oh well, life is Good!

2009-08-19T16:24:00.001-07:00

Settelly's Blessing

2009-08-19T16:16:00.002-07:00

Settelly was blessed on August 2nd, she was five weeks old. She looked so beautiful in her first little white dress. The dress is the one that I was blessed in, my mother made it for me, she even entered it in the fair and won a blue ribbon for it, which is in my baby book!! Settelly was so good, she didn't cry while she was blessed and Bryce looked so proud holding her in his arms. He sure loves his little girl, always cooing at her and kissing her, holding her every chance he gets. It was definitely a very special day, I am so thankful that I had a little girl that I could pass my beautiful blessing dress too, maybe someday her little girl will wear it too.

2009-08-19T16:16:00.001-07:00

Brody's Baptism

2009-08-19T16:10:00.002-07:00

Brody was baptized on August 1st which was Kale's birthday, it was a great day!! Brody was a little nervous but he looked so handsome and did so well. Joanie, Adam, Kora , Mike and Darlene all traveled from Utah to be here for this special event and for Settelly's Blessing, we got so lucky being able to do them the same weekend. All our family and friends were able to share in this special day with us. We are so proud of Brody, he is growing into such a handsome young man, we love him dearly.

2009-08-19T16:10:00.001-07:00

The Boys Birthday

2009-08-19T16:00:00.000-07:00

The boys just celebrated their birthday's!! Brody's was on July 30th, he turned eight and Kale's was on August 1st, he turned four. I cant believe that my boy's are getting so old, time seems to move quicker the older I get, sometimes it just doesn't seem fair I wish I could enjoy things longer. Anyway we had one big party for them, Bryce and I got the boy's the big water slide for their gift and they love it, they have had so much fun on it, it will be sad when we have to put it away come winter cause it has provided hours of entertainment!!

2009-07-29T22:43:00.001-07:00

Settelly is One Month Old

2009-07-29T22:30:00.001-07:00

So today our little Settelly is one month old and I can hardly believe it. It seems forever ago that I was pregnant but it dosn't seem like it could possibly be a month already that I gave birth to my little girl. Settelly is such a joy to our family, she adds such a sweet touch to us!! She seems to make the boys a little more tender when they are near her. She is such a good sound sleeper, she sleeps through everything, including her brothers rough housing!
She is very strong, just like the boys!, she was holding her head up for short periods when she was first born and has gotten much stronger!! She loves to look around and she will even reach out a grab your finger with a very firm grip!! She loves to smile, I love it when she first wakes up and she looks up at me and starts to smile, it is just the sweetest thing ever!!
I love having this sweet angel baby in our home, it all seems so amazing to me, she is definitely a little gift from heaven!! Happy First Month Settelly!

2009-07-29T22:29:00.001-07:00

The River

2009-07-29T22:22:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was one heck of a hot day, it got up to 109!! Bryce and the kids and I went with a bunch of friends down to the Yamhill River in Carlton where there is a great swimming hole with a rope swing. We all went running into the water to keep from melting!! Bryce, Brody and I all jumped from the swing a few times, it was great fun! Kale floated around in a boat with the other little kids and even little Settelly got in the water, her first swimming experience, I think she really liked it, but she eventually got a little tired and had to take a nap!! It was so nice to get in and cool off, I think the water had to be in the 80 degree range, it felt so good!!

2009-07-14T21:48:00.001-07:00

Two Weeks Old

2009-07-14T21:39:00.000-07:00

I cant believe that little Settelly has been in the world for two weeks. It seems like just yesterday that I was wondering if I was ever going to have her!! It's fun to watch her with her big borthers and how much they love her. I love to watch Bryce goggle over her, he's just like a little kid at christmas with a new toy!!
Settelly is such a sweet and pleasant baby, she is so quiet and content with life it seems. She loves to be held, which is fine with me I've always felt that I will hold my children as long as they will let me, cause it's really only for such a short time. Settelly is such a blessing to our family, sweet little girl!

Bryce's 30th Birthday

2009-07-14T21:31:00.000-07:00

It's hard to believe that we could be thirty this year, Bryce's birthday was on Friday and with everything going on lately I almost let it slip bye. But being the good wife, well I try at least!, I at the last minute called all our family and friends and threw together a BBQ/potluck. I even made his favorite cake, extra large to boot!! We had a great turn out and lots of good food!! It was fun and I am very glad I went to the trouble of putting it together because you only turn thirty once! Bryce tried to get out of getting sung to and having to blow out all the candles by slicing the cake while I was outside but i caught on and quickly ran in to save the cake and gather everyone to sing. He was a little embarrassed but he wasn't getting out of it that easy!! I love you Bryce, and I am most thankful that you were born!!

2009-07-14T21:30:00.001-07:00

Bryce's Hay Shed

2009-07-14T14:16:00.002-07:00

This is Bryce's big hay shed he is building in Gaston. It is 100' x 290' and the posts are telephone poles that are I think 60' tall, he had them shipped up from Southern California. The boy's, Settelly and I went out last week to watch them put up these monstrous trusses that are 100 footers. It was very impressive to watch how efficiently the guys got them swung into place and the perlins run across them. They put up nine the first day and have twenty more to get up. The boy's had so much fun out there on the job site, rock piles, wheel barrows, moving equipment with Dad. By the time we went home the boy's were filthy from head to toe and totally worn out. When I pulled in the drive way I just rolled down the windows so the boys had a nice breeze and left them sleeping soundly!! They played hard and had fun, even Settelly and I got a little nap in!!

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By the Way!!!

2009-07-08T09:02:00.000-07:00

Oh yeah, by the way!!! Settelly weighed 8 lbs 2 oz's and was 21 and a half inches long!! The other remarkable thing is that I feel absolutely incredible for having just had a baby. Just hours after she was born I was up walking as if nothing had ever happened. With the boys I felt crippled for the first two weeks!! Amazing what our body's can do when they are given the chance to perform naturally without medical intervention's to numb the pain and take away our natural abilities to give birth. I know cause I've given birth twice in the hospital, both times with epidurals and once with pitocin, baby's wont stay in there forever and I think babies would be born with less complication's if doctors weren't in such a rush to get it all over with. I'm so glad that I gave myself and Settelly this opportunity at such a quality birth, by far my best ever. Now our little family is complete, two beautiful boys and our precious baby girl!!

Settelly's Birth

2009-07-08T06:36:00.000-07:00

Sorry that it has taken me forever to put up pictures and a post, I have been adjusting to having three children now! Well here is the story of our precious little girl.
On the evening of June 28th we went out to Grandma and Grandpa Roberts, just like any Sunday evening. I hadn't had any contraction's for the last three or four days and was beginning to think that I was imagining this whole baby thing!!!!! I had tried every natural thing to encourage this little baby who was now almost a week over due, but she was being stubborn. So that evening we were getting ready to leave and Bryce suggested a jump on the trampoline, so I thought "WHY NOT"!! So I got up there and jumped for about a good minute and was totally out of breath. Feeling just fine with no sense of what was about to come we went home, put the boys to bed and went to bed at about ten o'clock Sunday night. At 11:45 that night I shot straight out of bed with a massive contraction. When it passed my first thought was, Is it possible to skip the first two fazes of labor and go straight into active labor?, because if this isn't active labor I will never make it. Then less than a minute later I had another massive contraction. At this point Bryce was timing them and was concerned that they were so strong and less than a minute apart. He kept telling me "ITS TIME TO CALL THE MIDWIFE" but i guess that I really wanted to be sure so we waited until 12:30 am to call her. She could hear me in the back ground when Bryce called and said "its time to get to the birthing center". So Bryce called my parents next and my Dad headed for our house so we wouldn't have to wake up the boys. By the time my dad got there I was scared to death of getting in the car because the contraction's were so hard and close but I got in, told Bryce to drive like heck and grabbed onto the handle of Settelly's car seat (which was already locked into position in the middle of the back seat) and held on for dear life. I had six contraction's on the seven minute drive to the birthing center and when we got there I told Bryce get me out of this car before I have another one. I got out made it ten steps had another contraction and blew through the front door. Standing there were my three Midwifes smiling, I went right passed them into the room kicked my sandals off on the way and hit the edge of the dresser had a contraction and then less than 20 seconds later had another contraction, this one was totally different, all I could do was bear down, she was coming!!
My Midwife Patricia told me it was time to get in the tub. I got in and a less than thirty minutes later my beautiful baby girl was laid on my chest, she never cried, she just looked straight up into my eyes and stared at me. I could not believe it, I've never seen a baby born like that before, so unstressed and unaffected by birth. This was one of the most incredible experiences I'd ever had. Truly the most gentle birth ever, she was never taken away from me, all the weighing and measuring was left for later, no being frantically wiped off by nurses or poked at she was put directly into my arms, what a most beautiful birth, my only regret is that I wish that I could have given my boys such a gentle and beautiful birth. Start to finish my labor and delivery was only two hours long, I guess that three weeks of contraction's really paid off!!!

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Pacific City

2009-06-15T11:13:00.003-07:00

We had such a great day on Saturday, we loaded up and headed to the beach to play! It was a beautiful day, hardly any wind and it was warm. Brody went up the sand hill repeatedly and ran or rolled down and Kale enjoyed playing in the sand. The boys of course had to chase the waves and then took turn burring each other!! The best part was that Little Settelly really enjoyed the ocean too, something about that pull of the ocean!!! She got really active and moved around in my belly a lot while we were there and then was asleep the whole way home and all night. When we got home we barbecued fish and had fried potatoes and squash and ate outside around our fire and of course had smoores to boot!! What a great day!!

2009-06-15T11:13:00.001-07:00

The new shop and office!

2009-06-15T10:01:00.000-07:00

Wow, we have had so much going on lately, how we manage to keep up I don't know!! Here is the new shop and office going up, Bryce is incredible he keeps everything rolling smoothly. The trusses are going in here. When it's done there will be seven bays and an office on the north end. Bryce has been pushing hard to get this going for the main reason of the office. Our office has been in our house for well, the last six years or so. And now that we have a secretary/book keeper we all want our own space back! Shirlene and Bryce are looking forward to having a functioning office with separate rooms so that Shirlene doesn't have to compete with Bryce when he's on the phone!! And I am looking forward to having my house back, especially with our little girl on the way!!

Baby Girl!!

2009-06-11T21:11:00.000-07:00

Went to see my Midwife on Wednesday and baby is still down as far as she can get and doing fine as can be for a little baby sitting on her head!!! My Midwife Patricia painted the position that Settelly's in, it was really fun!! When I walked back over to my Mom's ( where the boy's were) I asked them if they wanted to see their little sister and Brody got this confused look on his face and Kale just stood there. So I pulled up my shirt to show them and they thought it was really neat, Kale was the best though cause he got this big smile on his face and pulled his shirt up to look at his belly and was a little disappointed to find that he didn't have a painting on his belly. It was really cute. Only eleven day's to go, hope it's not long!!

Brody's Last Day of School!!

2009-06-11T21:02:00.000-07:00

So Brody's last day of school was on Tuesday the 9th, he is now a free man!!! I spent the last two day's of school with Brody, on Monday was Field day and then on Tuesday I brought in ice cream and toppings for his class to have a little farewell party. Then they had their awards assembly, which Brody and his cousin Daylynn both got an award for "Most Improved". Great Job Brody!!! He had a good school year and has made fairly good progress, we have started him on vision therapy with a Dr. in Salem so we hope that with that through the summer he will be dynamite come the next school year!! We also found out that we will have only a four day school week next year, which could actually be pretty nice, that means that we can runaway for the weekend and play longer!!

2009-05-26T15:25:00.000-07:00

So I have three and a half weeks left till my due date, but last Friday when I went into see my Midwife she said that the baby is fully engaged and rather deeply engaged. She said I could have her any day or go all the way to my due date, I am hoping to make it at least another week then she will be closer to six and a half pounds but wouldn't mind going until Brody is out of school on the 9th. We will just have to wait and see!! SO anyway that last Friday that I went to see my Midwife Bryce and I had put the boys to bed and were laying in bed talking when I started to feel crampy and gradually got stronger until I knew it was full blown contractions. They were pretty strong and were coming at about two minutes apart, so I tried to relax and think past the pain and I managed to dose off. When I woke up around two a.m. I decided to start getting things ready to go cause this just might be it. I ran around the house finding the video camera and camera and various chargers and packing my bag to go. Then I decided to finish some sewing I had started and by five a.m. I was so excited that I had completely blocked the pain until I sat down long enough to realize that there was no more pain!!!! So off to bed I went, at least it was a good practice run and I'm sure it did a bit of dilating so maybe when the real thing happens it wont be so long!! Anyway I have some good contractions here and there but am still waiting and trying to finish a few more little projects!!!

2009-05-26T15:11:00.001-07:00

So here is another nesting project that had to be done before baby comes, my wood floors!!!! They are so beautiful, I love them and it's so nice to finally be rid of the nasty carpet in our dinning room, I mean really, who puts carpet in a dinning room? The boys love the floors too cause they can have sock races all the way down the hallway!! My house looks complete inside now, no more holes in the flooring or walls needing to be finished, it's all done. Some other crazy projects I have done are rearranging our bedroom and painting the wall that the bed is on, it looks so nice and then I got a wild hair since Allan (one of our workers, he did the floors for us) had all the saws set up on the back patio and the nail gun in the house I thought that I would take the opportunity to rip apart our closet and redesign the layout. So I did and Allan did an awesome job helping me redo it and make it much more functional!! I have been crazy busy and cant wait to have this little baby, maybe then I will come off of this nesting high!!!

2009-05-26T15:08:00.000-07:00

2009-05-26T14:23:00.002-07:00

So I have really gone off the deep end with this whole nesting instinct!! I was feeling bad that I did such cute and fun things to Settelly's room and the boys had just the run of the mill bland room. So I took the boys to town and had them choose a blue for their room, earlier that day Kale and I ran up to Tigard to buy a set of bunk beds we had found new on Craigslist. That evening I set to work taking apart their old beds and moving all their stuff out of the room. The boys camped out in Settelly's room for the night and actually didn't mind one bit!! By the next morning I was slinging paint and by late morning Kale and I were assembling the bunk beds. The room was all back together that afternoon and it is so cute, the boys just love it. Of course then they had to decide who got the top bunk, so I told them to take turns sleeping up there. The first two nights they both slept on top and then by the third Brody decided that he liked being on the bottom. A lot simpler than I had expected!!!

2009-05-26T14:23:00.001-07:00

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2009-04-22T10:53:00.000-07:00

Here's our Easter Pics. We had a fun day up at my Mom and Dads with all the cousins from Portland. The kids had a great egg hunt between the rain showers and we had lots of yummy food!! Kale was doing pretty good considering that he had just had a new set of tubes put in and his tonsils and adenoids removed just three days prior. It was a fun Day!!

2009-04-22T10:52:00.001-07:00

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Kale and I went to town a week before Easter to go and get some baby chicks. So our first stop was at Wilco to see if they were in. We talked to the lady in charge of them and she told us that they wouldn't be in until Wednesday but that she had an unscheduled small shipment of them coming in that morning and if we wanted to come back in a couple of hours that they would be ready to go. So Kale and I headed off to run the rest of our errands. When we got back a couple hours later all we could find were the most adorable baby ducks. That's all it took for Kale and I, our little hearts melted they were so stinkin cute!! So we came home with two baby ducks. One for Brody and one for Kale!! They are named Huck Duck, that's Brody's and Kale's is Puddle Duck. We call them Huck and Puddles, they are so much fun!!

2009-04-22T10:41:00.001-07:00

2009-04-22T09:52:00.000-07:00

So Bryce had his Mission Reunion this month back in Layton, Utah so we decided to go since he really wanted to see his Mission President and we haven't seen his Mom and Dad in a while. So we loaded up and left early on the 2nd (Thursday morning). Oh course I had the car all packed and ready to go and the most important thing in place which was the portable dvd players. I like to refer to them as my sanity!! Well of course something has to go wrong, right? Well Wednesday evening I had everything packed and was putting the dvd players in for the boys and I went to turn them on and check to make sure everything was working properly. NO, couldn't believe it, they didn't work, mind you this is only the fourth time we have used these and they aren't even a year old. Couldn't believe it, yes actually I could, our last car trip to Utah almost cost us a new Yukon with a built in dvd player, that was half way across Idaho!!! Anyway so I had the box and receipt so I packed them in the car and then went in to find out where the next Best buy was that would actually be open when we went by. It wasn't until Nampa, ID. So we had a long way to go with very little entertainment. The boys actually did really well for the first part of the trip and then they started to fight and carry on. And to make matters worse Kale has only been potty trained two weeks so between Prego Momma and Kale we had to stop a lot!! Anyway we made it with out any kid or sibling beatings although the two came close a few times in the back seat!! We had fun hanging out with Auntie Brea and Uncle Brett and Grandma and Grandpa. Bryce's mission reunion was really fun, even though he didn't have any mission companions there, there were a few sister missionaries and others from his mission that he had served around. We had a great time and were very thankful to come home to a sunny Oregon after leaving snowy Richmond!! After the car trip I have sworn off any long distance drives until after the baby comes!!!

2009-04-22T09:51:00.001-07:00

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Happy Birthday Grandma Darlene, We LOVE and MISS YOU!! Hope you have a special day!!

2009-02-27T19:18:00.000-08:00

Last night Brody had his introduction to Cub Scout's dinner and space derby!! Since he is almost eight they invited Brody and the family for a dinner to introduce us to the leaders and other boys. They also gave brody a space ship to build with Bryce, which he worked on prior to this. He was so excited about this, he went all out and painted his of course camo!!! After the boys flyed their ships they got certificates!! It was so much fun, Brody is really looking forward to Cub Scouts, especially day camp this July!!

2009-02-27T19:17:00.000-08:00

2009-02-27T18:53:00.002-08:00

Well the nesting fever has begun and I look at it this way, I might as well get the big stuff over with while I can still bend over and can still see my toes!! So over the weekend I moved Bryce's office into the spare room (what a project) and prepared the baby room to be painted. This week I went to Lowes with my colors and chose my paint, got a curtain rod and some cute brown curtains. Well I got home all excited about the colors I choose, a very light pink and a brown to accent it, and popped the lid of the pink paint poured it into the tray and started at the top of the ceiling to get a even line and just about died. That pretty, light pink was not pretty or light once it touched my walls. It was a cross between fuchsia and pepto bismol. I was about to cry when Bryce came in and started laughing. He made me forget about how devastating it was and made me mad that the paint was so miss judging. So I was back to Lowes and told them what happened and by then a really nice lady had taken over the paint department and helped me fix my big boo boo. She took me over to the whites and we found a very nice white with a light blush of pink in it, it turned out to be absolutely perfect. Then today Kale and I went on a hunt for a dresser slash changing table. I had already looked at some used changing dressers that were on consignment but they wanted $199 for them and they were so chinsy, made out of press board (I hate that stuff). So I decided to check out the antique stores. Kale and I finally ended up at the Laffayette School Antique store and found the most perfect dresser that was just the right height and length, it even has a beautiful mirror. I paid $195 for it, it's at least 50 some years old and it's in perfect shape and very sturdy! The best part about it is how perfect it fits in our little girls room!! So her room is done, just a few other things to do like make a chair cover for a stuffed rocking chair I have for her room and put some wall hangings up and maybe find a small bookcase for her and that's it. It was so much fun!!! I love to just go stand in there and look at her room, I cant wait for her to be here in our arms.

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Last week Kale and I went with Grandma Suzanne, Aunt Julie and her friend Ilene to Manzanita to check out houses and things to do for our big Freestone Family Reunion in August. Kale was such a good sport, we must have looked at at least 30 different houses and never once did Kale complain about getting in and out of the car. It was so beautiful while we were there, warm, sunny and very little wind! That evening we drove up to Seaside where my Aunt Julie has a timeshare at the Seaside Resort and stayed the night. The next morning we got up and took a wonderful walk on the beach. Kale loved looking at all the shells and sand dollars on the beach and of course trying to catch the seagulls, Hah fat chance! We had a great time and look forward to our family reunion, Manzanita is a very beautiful little town!

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This morning bright and early was my ultrasound!! We had decided that since this is the last baby that we would make it a big deal and we wanted the boys to go and be a part of this. So we were up at 5:45 this morning getting ready and around 6:30 I asked Bryce to go get Kale up so he could eat before we got him dressed. I heard Kale kicking and screaming as Bryce dragged him into the living room. So I thought that I should go take a look and see what was wrong with him. When I got to the hallway Kale was already headed back to his room, he stomped passed me into his room tossed the door shut behind him and Bryce and I watched him, through the crack in the door, climb back into bed and pull the covers over his head. It was so cute, he really didn't want to be up that early. So I went in and said "Kale were going to go see the baby this morning, don't you want to go and see your baby?" He pulled back the covers, looked up at me and smiled then he reached out and touched my belly and said "baby" and he was up and out of bed!! Brody took a little less coaxing, just a little back scratch!! We were out the door by 7 am this morning!! We picked up my Mom so she could go with us and help out with the boys and were there right at 7:45 am. We were in with the technician at 8 and before we knew it there was our little baby on the screen above us. We all sat in wonder and looked at this incredible little being. The boys really loved it!! Then of course they have to look the baby over to make sure all is well and that's when the boys started to loose interest. But it was cute because when she was looking at the spine Brody named it right away. So we finally got to the exciting stuff and she asked if we wanted to know what we were having. Of course I said yes and then in the same breath said it's a boy isn't it? She laughed and said "It's a GIRL"!!!! I was so excited that I started to cry. At that very moment I had this overwhelming feeling that I was complete, my little family was complete and I feel so whole!!!! Wow, a little girl, we are so blessed!!! We are still working over the details of her name, but I am pretty sure her first name will be Settely. I'm still playing with the spelling but I figure we have four months left. I told Bryce he knows what this means, I want the baby's room!! It currently is the office, so I told him his days are numbered and we better get busy on the shop addition!! Brody and Kale are excited about their baby sister too!! What an exciting day, I cant help smiling all the time!!! Our little Girl!

Our Little Baby Girl

2009-02-16T18:13:00.001-08:00

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2009-02-16T18:05:00.000-08:00

We had a potluck at Grandma and Grandpa Roberts last night and it was also Alysha's nineth birthday, so we had good eats and yummy cake! Jan and Lawrence were here to so it was a good gathering, all the kids had fun. Especially little Liv, Kale was her puppy, it was so cute and I dont think Liv could have been happier!!

Be Mine, Valentine!

2009-02-16T18:04:00.001-08:00

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Hope you all had a wounderful Valentines Day!! We enjoyed a lovely candle light dinner with just Brody cause Kale was out for the count! The whole dinner Brody kept asking to turn on the lights, haha we told him it was romantic to eat by candle light!!

2009-02-15T21:26:00.000-08:00

Well Tommarow is the big day that we have been waiting for!!! We find out if we are going to be having a little Settely or a little Zander! Brody and Kale are going to go with us since this is our last one we thought we would make it a big deal. Brody is excited to find out what we are having, he's hoping for a girl. Kale is just excited that there is a baby in my belly. He comes up and pats my belly and talks to the baby and then gives my belly a kiss, it's really cute!! Well off to bed we go, we have to be there at 7:45 am. Stay tuned, tommarow we will post our baby's first pictures!!

Brody all Camoed Out

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That is the most perfect handle bar milk mustache that I have ever seen

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Brodster and Kalester hanging out together. Look their even smiling.

2009-02-05T20:01:00.000-08:00

These are Kale's new mud boots, they are cows and they even have little tails on the backs. He found them at Target and had his shoes ripped off and those on almost as soon as he laid eye's on them. I thought it was so cute I couldn't resist getting them for him.

The Baby Bump, or Lump!!!

2009-02-05T19:54:00.001-08:00

Monkeys at bed time

2009-02-02T21:07:00.000-08:00

The boys have had a big day today. Brody went to school to work hard and Kale got lot's of play time up at Grandma and Grandpa Workman's!! Then when the boys reunite after school it's a race to see who can wear each other out first. They play, wrestle, fight, make up and start all over again. You would think that by their bed time at 8pm that they would be exhausted, but they always seem to have a little more energy as soon as they get into their beds!! and this is what happens!!

Winter Fun

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Brody was really into it!! He sang so well!!

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Brody decorating his ginger bread house at his school party on Friday!!

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The Incredible, Flexible cat, Mira!!

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Happy New Year!!

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New Years Eve Party at Jim and Laura's!! Us girls!!

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Wow, it's a train!! Grandma and Grandpa gave this to the boys it's an old Lois Marx

2009-01-13T09:38:00.000-08:00

Bryce's Bow case!!! He's all set for bow season!

2009-01-13T09:30:00.000-08:00

WOW, Brody got a Daisy Red Rider BB Gun!!, YOU'll shoot your eye out!!

2009-01-13T09:26:00.000-08:00

Great shirt!!

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Christmas, yeah!!!!

2009-01-13T09:18:00.000-08:00

The Boys on Christmas morning.

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Brody sledding down Jerusalem Hill, what a fast ride!!!

2009-01-13T09:01:00.000-08:00

Brody got some good snowball fights in with Bryce!

2009-01-13T08:59:00.000-08:00

Yes this is really Amity, OR and yes that is real snow, it was so much fun even though the roads were like driving down rail road tracks.

2009-01-13T08:56:00.000-08:00

Here we are decorating the Christmas tree, Brody and Kale were great helpers!

2009-01-13T08:54:00.000-08:00

Kale was having so much fun in the snow, he loved it!! Here he is trying to keep the lights dug out of the snow and Sawyer is along for the show!!

2009-01-13T08:38:00.000-08:00

This was Brody's second trip to the Dentist's office and the first time he acctually got his teeth worked on. He left with a pretty silver crown!!

2009-01-13T08:30:00.000-08:00

Last night was Brody's school Christmas Program that was resheduled because of the snow last month. It was so cute and Brody did such a good job!!!