Baby's Room

Here is a small peek into the baby's room that I got done just in the nick of time!!

He's Here!!!

Our little boy is finally here. Caleb Berry Ewell was born on April 6th at 7:50am, he was 18.5 inches and 7lbs. Everything went really well, even though my doctor about passed out during the c-section. Don't worry Brent caught him and helped him sit down before he hit the floor. He was able to recover and close. Through all the wiggling around during the last 9 months Caleb managed to wrap the cord around his neck a few times, so we where very glad that we were having a planned c-section. Everything was going well until the day before we were going to go home and his heart rate dropped for a minute and everyone panicked and almost rushed him to the NICU, but they all calmed down and they just put him on some antibiotics for a few days. I forgot to mention that He did spend and few hours in the NICU right after he was born for some breathing treatments that he didn't even need. (we're still not happy about that!) He was able to come home happy and healthy as can be on Saturday afternoon. A few days later we got a call from our pediatrician and Caleb's PKU test came back abnormal on his thyroid levels. So we had to get more blood work done, but all the results came back good. Everything is good now.

The Big Brothers!!

(Kyler didn't want to share his new little brother with anyone)

I am so glad that my parents and Brent's parents were there to take care of my kids while we were at the hospital. My mom even came and helped me out the next week when I came home. I am so glad she was there to help me out with the kids.

Ice Fishing

With the snow falling here in April I thought I would get around to posting pictures of my boys going ice fishing. My oldest had a blast when him and his dad and a friend entered a hunting and fishing contest. They made a long trek to the ice covered pond to fish and shot bunnies of the ice. They had a great time, gone all day, and catching some pretty big fish. When the day was over they packed up to head in for check-in. But instead of making it in on time to weigh in their fish, they got stuck for about 3 hours with no cell service. But through Prayer and Faith, their old toothless angle came and pulled them out. They missed check-in and was a little disappointed because Carter would have won the biggest fish of the day!

Well that didn't damper their spirits because the next week they went out again, different spot this time, and they even took my youngest. They all had a ball. And yes my biggest fear came true, my youngest fell into an ice fishing hole. Only one foot made it in the water, but it scared him pretty good. (Yes, my husband did leave the two boys alone at the time, the 7 year old in charge while he went to take care of something in the trees.) But in his defence his cousin (an adult) was right there to keep an eye on the two. Everyone seem to have a great time.

Birthdays!!!!!

I know that it has been a while and my boys' birthdays are well past but I thought that I would post some pictures about the big events. All Carter wanted was a Bakugan cake. (If you don't know what that is don't worry I didn't until a few months ago.) So here was my attempt at creating a Bakugan.

Carter also wanted cupcakes with blue frosting for his class treat. I'm sure his teacher loved me! I didn't take a picture of the cupcakes, but I did get a picture of Kyler finishing one off. Lets just say that I found blue everywhere after the fact (for about a week!).Carter really wanted a big friend party this year and I was just not up to it with the baby coming and all, so we decided to surprise him with tickets to the Jazz game the night of birthday. Boy was he surprised and couldn't wait for that night. Being frugal and a little tight on cash was were only able to get upper bowl tickets. But by some blessing from a stranger at the game we were able to sit on the 25 row. As we were walking into the game a man asked us if we had tickets to the game and we said "yes" then he asked if it was just the three of us and again we said "yes" and then he offered us three extra ticket that he had begging us to take them and telling us that were lower bowl and over a $100 a ticket. So we took them. (what else could we do!!)
The night just kept getting better and better. And to top it off it just happen to be the Jazz Bear Birthday also. Carter was so amazed that the Jazz Bear's Birthday was the same day as his.
And to make it the perfect night the Jazz won!!!

Kyler's Birthday came next and got to celebrate on several different days. The first celebration was at Grandpa and Grandma's on Super Bowl Sunday. That's why we went with a football cake for that day.

On his actual birthday we celebrated with a Moose cake, because Kyler loves moose. And when I mean he loves moose I mean he really loves them. He calls them "moo". And he can find every moose that we have in the house (I didn't realize how many we had), all day long he wants to watch moose movies and play the hunting game on the computer and hunt moose and because he can't quite use the computer on his own and makes his brother hunt while he watches.
He got a lot of fun gifts from everyone, so thank you. We spent hours putting together Lego's and golfing. Who knew I would have two boys that loved Lego's. And he also got a lawn mower to push around.

And a few weeks after his birthday My parents gave him probably one of his favorite gifts. They gave him a toy moose, fox, and wolf; a hat with a moose, a flash light and a moose blanket. I don't think that he put them down for a week.

Reflections

I'm still playing catch up. I don't know if you remember Carter won reflections at his school a few months ago, well he got a letter from the district saying that he won an award of merit for the district. So we got invited to a little ceremony and it happened to to land on the same night that I was in charge of a Activity day girls recognition night. So I arranged for someone to cover the last part of the night so I could sneak off to go to Carter's thing, well to make a long story short, she didn't show up and by the time I decided to leave or not, I got to Carter's thing two minutes too late!! I guess things like that happen. His Dad and grandparents were there to support him.

Swimming with Grandma and Grandpa

My Parents come and see every so often and when they get a motel close to us we get the chance to go swimming with them. It's fun for the kids to be able to get in the water during these long cold months. Adam, Heather and Hailee came with us swimming also, it was so much fun, even if it didn't last very long and we mostly stayed in the hot tub. Thanks Mom and Dad!!!

Snowball Fight!!

I'm so bad at getting my youngest out in the snow. By the time you get all bundled up and out in the snow it gets so cold that it's time to go back in. But it was worth the few minutes of fun we had. I pulled him around on the sled and then we had a snowball fight. He was having so much fun that he didn't want to go back in!!