She's here!

Well, it's taken 2 weeks to get over my mom guilt and sit down to put some pictures up on the computer! I keep feeling like if I turn my back on the girls for a second they'll grow up and I'll miss it! Thanks a lot crazy post baby hormones! So here are some pictures of our little Hadley Grace. She was born May 4th at 11:30 pm. She weighed 7lbs. 8 oz. (which was the perfect size considering Bridget was 8 lbs. 12 oz) and 19 1/2 in long. I was supposed to get induced that morning at 9 but due to the fact that there were so many other women actually in labor, I didn't get started until 6 that night. It was a long day driving back and forth to the hospital wondering if it was my turn but Jake and I had fun shopping and then we got to get my mom from the airport. Jake's parents had Bridget all day which was a relief. So around 6 they got me all hooked up and eventually started me on the dreaded pitocin! I was going back and forth about getting an epidural, I made it a couple hours and then threw in the towel! After I got the epidural the nurse came in and said I was to a 9...maybe I should have waited just a little longer and I could have joined the ranks with my mom, sister-in-law, and cousin who have passed up the epidurals. ; ) Oh well! So by around 11 I was ready to start pushing and then there she was! It was so easy compared to Bridget's delivery and I was so grateful! She is just beautiful and such a good baby. She hardly cries (knock on wood) and does everything a baby should do. : ) Bridget is such a good big sister and the first thing she says when she wakes up is, "Where's baby?" Having 2 kids is certainly an adjustment (especially now that my mom is gone and I actually have to act like a parent) but we're doing good and so grateful for these little blessings!

Birthday, Easter, and whatever else is on the camera!

I figured I should probably get one more post done before my life gets even busier! We've had lots of fun the past few weeks with both our families in town, birthdays, and Easter. We're sure excited for the next few weeks and just so grateful for all our blessings!

In these pictures we're trying to get Bridget to cooperate by

hiding candy in random places around the yard. This girl is motivated

by sugar, much like her mom!

Jake's grandparents own a lot of land out in Goshen with horses

and cows. It's so fun! Every year they have a big Easter egg hunt

and treasure hunt with all the cousins. Bridget had a blast and so did we

even though it was cold and rainy!



My cousin Joslin got Bridget a cute little Tea Set for her

birthday so we tried it out. I poured her a nice little

cup of tea and she picked it up and poured it all over

the plate.
Bridget loves riding the 4 wheeler around with

Great Grandpa Sorensen!
Bridget turned 2! I seriously can't believe she's already

2! I still treat her like a little baby but I'm so proud

of all she's learning and grateful she's such a sweet little

girl.


Jake turned 27 so we went out for some Mexican food, this was

the lovely hat he got to wear while they sang to him
Bridget likes to help cook...and this is usually what happens

when she does....


I was sorting through all Bridget's old clothes to get ready

for the new baby and she wanted to wear some of them.

The jacket is size 0-3 months and the boots are size 11. Cute huh!?

Random Phone Pictures

I realized it's been a while since I posted so I thought I'd just put up some pictures from my phone. We're trying to stay busy, but this weather makes it difficult to want to go anywhere. I have spring fever for sure! All this snow has taught Bridget to be quite the shoveler though, I really wasn't taking her outside with the intent of child labor, we were going to drive around her princess car, but she's just such a big helper she wanted to shovel snow! : )

Jake was helping Bridget shave to get ready for church, we're so glad she's in to grooming!
Poor Bridge has been breaking out in chronic hives every few weeks for the last few months so her doctor sent us to an allergy specialist. They did a scratch test on her back to rule out some common allergies. First they marked all over her back and then put little drops on each dot, then they poked and scratched every single mark. It was really sad but she was a trooper! We're still not sure what's causing the hives but we consider this a good problem and we're grateful that we've never had to deal with anything really serious like so many other people we know.

Bridget and I got to go to Colorado a couple of weeks ago and take it easy with my family. We were sad to leave Jake but we still had fun. ; ) We went to Costco with my mom and Bridget does not like to sit in a shopping cart for longer than, oh, a minute! So we buried her in 15 lbs. of produce, gave her some samples, and that was that!

It's a...

Girl!

We're so excited to have two little girls running around and even more excited that we won't have to buy any clothes! ; ) We're poor, what can we say!? She's due on my birthday, May 3 so 5 months down, 4 1/2 to go!

Happy Halloween!

So once again my pictures are backwards, maybe someday I'll figure out how to upload them the right way! So here's just a few more pictures of our fun Halloween in addition to the creepy old man pictures of Jake. : ) We had fun carving pumpkins and making caramel apples which turned out to be so hard they pretty much break your teeth. We also got to spend Saturday with my cousins Joslin and Dusty and little Eder pants, and their brother and sister-in-law and their daughter. It was a really good day despite the nasty rain and cold! First we went to Gardener Village and saw all the decorations and witches. Then we went trick-or-treating at Jordan Landing to some of the little stores. Then we went back to Joslin's house and made some yummy dinner. We contributed the breadstick bones and monster toes, which were so nasty looking I really had trouble eating them! Later that night Joslin, Kerrisa, and I took all our girls trick-or-treating in the freezing cold while our husbands enjoyed watching football in the nice warm house. ; ) They would have come if we made them but we were feeling nice. We had a really good time and appreciate Joslin and Dusty letting us come over!