Greysons moving

My nephew Greyson is moving to California at the end of July. That means the boys will have NO cousins from Pete side of the family here. They are all in California. So in the next few weeks were trying to havethe boys spend lots of time together. Friday I had Grey come play for the day. We got McDonalds and then headed to the park. The boys had lots of fun and two police officers came two different times looking for a man, one even gave them stickers for their help, even though we hadnt seen him. I decided we better pack it up jsut in case. Then we headed to my moms and the kids all swam in the jacuzzi. After that of course my kids were going to go down for naps so we had quiet time watching a movie. Then It was time to bring him home. hopefully over the next few weeks well get some good pictures to send with grey to look at when he misses the boys!!

Popcorn anyone?

Jaiden LOVES popcorn. Well last week when I was busy around the house he decided he needed to make himslef some. I smell burning so I hurry to go see whats going on =/ ahhh!! Jaiden starts to head towards me with a look that says "Im scarred and im in trouble" I run toward the kithcen. The microve is open and smoke is coming out the top. Thankfully no fire but pretty dang close. See these pictures. I had to sit down and have a talk with Jaiden that even though hes big enough to get snacks from the kitchen he cant use any of the appliances. I think the scare was enough punishment but he did get a little more.

Swimming @ Green Valley Ranch

One of My friends is the manager @ the Spa @ Green Valley Ranch so she could get us into the pool. They have an area were sand slopped into the water and they even had buckets and shovels you could use. The kids kept themselves entertained so us girls had fun talking and getting some sun!! Now every time I tell them were going swimming they ask if its the beach one =). Hopefully well get to go a few more times this summer. It was a lot of fun!!

Tie Dye!!

My sister Wendy knows a lady with a day care and they were doing tie dye. They Invited Wendy and she asked if she cared if she brought a few sisters. We had fun tie dying and even more fun seeing the result. Ive always thought tie dye was old fashioned but on little kids its totally cute. We even got a picture later with all the kids wearing the shirts they made. It was LOTS of fun!!


((This little girl looks JUST like her daddy, I just saw a picture last night that looks identical < besides the clothes haha>)

Smiles!!

Kadence has been smiling LOTS lately and lots of coos and cahs =) Its been tons of fun. This is her first smile I could catch on camera!! Shes soo sweet and precious!!

Our 4th of July!!

We had a great 4th of July this year. I love this holiday. Swimming, Bbqs, family, fireworks, and of course the reason were celebrating.. our freedom. My kids are still little and this just go over their heads but I think its important to TRY and expaling why were having all this fun. I dont think they really understood but I think as I was explaining it made me stop and think how grateful I am to live in this country and how grateful I am to those who leave there loved ones to protect our freedom. I truly am grateful for a day we can remember just how special that is. We went to My sisters husbands mom and her new husbands house ( they were gone) and enjoyed their beautiful house and pool and ate yummy food. Then of course off to do fireworks. It was lots of fun and nice and relaxing. Heres some pictures of our night.....

Kadence w/Boys professional pics!!

We got Kadence pictures taken with the boys to!! They turned out DARLING!! I love them!! Go to imagesbykrys.blogspot.com to view them. Ill load them on my page soon too!

Welcome to this world!!

My baby sister Celestial had her first little boy Saturday night!! They named him Matix Bret Tippetts. He was born June 20th 2009 (a little before midnight =/) He weighed 7 lbs. 11 oz. and was 21 inches long. He looks a lot like his daddy. He was born with lots of light brown hair, his daddy has a fohawk so when the nurses brought him in they had already styled his hear up to match his daddy. He sweet as can be and there both doing great.


(Celestials Checking out his birth mark that matches hers in the same spot and looks alike =))

Lots of family fun time!!

Life has been busy and fun. Ive been pretty impressed with how well my kids have been while were out and about so Ive kept it going that way. We run all kinds of errands while daddys at work and weve been going to the park and pool lots. We never stay in side for even a day at a time. The weathers been great, not to hot yet! The boys have been seeing my side of the family cousins a few times a week lately. We go to the pool with them 1-2 x's a week and then friday nights when were starting to rotate for date nights. They've been loving it. And this past weekend pete side of the family cousins were down so they got to enjoy them all weekend. Also Pete and I had our 4 year wedding anniversary! Jaiden got his first blck eye (looks worse in real life) Rylan and him bumped heads and it first looked like a rock was under his skin buts its getting better. Kadence is now 7 weeks old and is still the perfect baby, Im hoping she stays this great. She hardly cries. Her daddy even held her over some water at the park and she just sinched up her little legs. Too precious. Life has been going pretty well around here.





(Soccer is now over for the summer and im glad to have our saturdays back for now. =)

Hearing... What a Blessing!!

I have ALOT to be thankful for this WONDERFUL day. When Kadence was in the hospital she failed the hearing test. I wasnt worried because Rylan failed his like 10 times in a row in front of me and he can hear (Just fluid still in the ear canals) but then they tested her again at the Pediatrician. She failed again, in both ears. They told me I needed to she an audiologist. At this point I was really worried for my little girl. Hearing Impairment runs in my family and I thought for sure she was just another member to have this problem. I left the office and called my husband crying. I cried numerous times in the next week. I was very upset and NOT excepting of this. Pete was great about it. He pretty much felt like even if she was completely deaf " Oh well" we'll all learn sign language is how he felt about it (Of course he didnt want that for her but he accepted it right off) Im glad one of us did. I set an appointment with the Audiologist but they couldnt see me for 5 weeks. WHAT! so for 5 weeks I have been wondering If my child can hear, or to what extent she cant hear, or that maybe nothings wrong at all. Well Over the past few weeks she has responded to VERY LOUD noises but that was just about it. So I knew she could hear something. Anyways over the past five weeks I have prayed daily for my daughter> Everytime I felt like I wanted to pray that she would be fine and that she would hear fine I felt like I should stop and pray that her and I will be able to ACCEPT a hearing disabilty. So that being said I thought for sure she had some hearing loss. and over the past 5 weeks I have felt ALOT more accepting of the idea. No I didnt want that for her but I could accept it. I would way rather a child have a disability like that than some major health problems. So today was her appointment. I felt ok this morning as I have been, but driving there I was so unbelievably nervous. So I get there and Im grabbing all the pamplets there to read, thinking Ill be needing them and then they call me back. Kadence pretty much slept through it all. The whole time the doctor kept saying looks good. She responded to that (The ear drum sends a vibration back to the machine if it heard it). I almost cried right then and there but was able to hold back. Walking out to the car tears started rolling down!! MY BABY CAN HEAR!! I cant even begin to tell you how relieved I feel. My heart felt like it would explode out of my chest I was so excited.

I just kept thinking in my head how soo many things in life we take for granted. I sat in my family room on day listening to my washer and dish washer and thought>> Wow, to not be able to hear that, let alone the beautiful sounds in life. I just feel so thankful for my heathly family. I know heavenly father gave me that scare so I would appreciate more the things I DO have in my life that are wonderful. Ya, our life isnt together the way we want it to be but we healthy and were happy together and we have 3 beautiful babies!! And now I know my baby can hear me when Im talking to her. Today was a wonderful day!!

Long time no Blog!!

Ive been really slacking on my blog since Kadence Arrived.. More importnant things in life I guess. But i do Love that i can read back through it and remember things way better. So It really is important to me. So I put a few blogs up. Check them out below.

One mOnth Tommorrow!!

I cant believe a whole month has passed by since our sweet girl has joined our lives. I feel soo blessed to have this amazing daughter. She is soo precious and sweet. Shes SOO easy going and hardly cries or fusses. Shes still sleeping lots through out the day and in a wholes months time the longest shes ever been a wake was 3 1/2 hrs straight. Usually its about 1 hr max. She wakes up 2 x's in the night ( 3 hrs span) At two weeks she had already gone camping and got her toe nails painted pink ( that right were mixing up the real girly with the outdoor girly.. Keep her well balanced =) ) Her poor eye has a blocked tear duct ( Jaiden and I had this when we were born) She just looks sometimes like shes starting to get pink eye.. Just the gunkies not the pink. I LOVE getting her all dolled up.

Petes 1st place Soccer!!

Pete started a playing indoor soccer with some friends the past few months. Its been alot of fun to go and watch every Thursday nights >>> even the 10pm games! Its alot faster pace than my little boys and lots of fun to watch. Even the crazy awesome girls bounce these balls off their heads (hence why I dont play,, Im not that tough =) haha). Tonight was the final game and they took FIRST PLACE!! YAY!! He signed up to play next season too.

Camping!!

2 weeks ago was memorial weekend so Me and the kids went camping from Sunday to MOanday ( Pete had to work monday so he couldnt come) with some of my family and my little Sister Celestials in Laws. We went to the same spot they had fathers nad sons. It was alot cooler than I thought it would be. I wouldnt have dared take my 2 week old camping except that my parents brought along their trailer so we had a/c and beds to sleep on. It was lots of fun!! I have always been a camping girl>> more so than my husband likes to camp but its growing on him. THe boys had lots of fun roasting hot dogs and marshmallows. Shooting the potato guns and bow and arrows and riding the 4 wheelers. I cant wait to take them camping again.

Past 2 weeks with 3 kids.

Ok.. so Ive now realized that once your on your 3rd baby life hardly slows down even in the first week. We have been go go go and having tons of fun with our darling baby girl. I took all 3 kids to Kadences first check up. It went remarkably well. The boys were actually very well behaved. We havent missed even one of the boys soccer games. Thats right, Newborn and all we were out there cheering them on. Jaiden has been doing awesome. Hes still amazing as always as offense but hes been playing goalie this season and really likes it ( or so he says, I think he still needs a longer attention span, he let a few goals in this past saturday as he distracted by the time the ball comes., Oh well). Rylan on the other hand is not much into it this season. His games are all about noon (naptime and 90 degree weather, dont mix). As far as finally staying at home with my kids.. IM LOVING IT. We been very progressive and weve had lots of fun. Weve been going to the park lots, playing outside on their slip n slide and weve even gone swimming at a friends house. Our little one is the best little baby and has gone along for all of it. Shes just such a good, content baby. I feel so blessed. Shes a great sleeper to and only wakes up once during the night. A few nights ago she even slept all the way through. Pete gave me a night off friday night and woke up with Kadence in the night. Him and I have even manage to fit in a date night ( Yes, I already left my baby.. only for a movie down the street and Pete pretty much forced me =) haha. I wasnt too thrilled but I managed.) All in all Im handeling the 3 kids thing pretty good and more improtantly loving it (except when im nursing her and the boys are being buggers and I cant do much about it). Jaiden is the best big brother I can imagine. He loves Kadence soo much and constatly wants to hold her and love her. The other morning we woke up to him laying on a pillow on the ground next to her swing in our room were she was sleeping, just waiting for her to wake up =) Rylan loves her too but is mostly ok with being able to give her a kiss every now and again. Shes still sleeping pretty much all day long but when this girl is awake she is one squirmy little squirt. Even the doctor said something about it. She hardly ever cries, Ive only heard her cry a handful of times, mostly shell start to swirm when its time to eat. But when she doesnt cry I think its the cutest little sound. We love her so much and are soo ahppy shes here and ours!!

Kadence Aubri

Kadence Aubri was born 5/5/09 @ 10:32pm 6lbs. 8 oz. 18 1/2 inches long!








I put a post below with how it all happened but It was not like we planned.. The hospital was full so I wasnt induced by them but did it on our own and I did it without the ephidural.. NO not by choose. Its pretty long but its has MOST the details.

Induce/Labor/Delivery

Ok.. Soo, im going to go into some short details so feel free to skip this post or if you wanna know a little more details about my delivery, its here..

So the night before being induced I barely slept of course. Too anxious to rest. I woke up at 2:30am and showered and got everything completely together. Pete & I took the boys over to my parents house at about 4:15 and headed for the hospital. When we got there they told me all the beds were full and that I could either wait there or go home but I might as well go home cause it would likely be atleast 4 hrs. So we did. When we got home I was able to take a 1 1/2 nap. So then we get a call from my doctor and there are 4 woman waiting for rooms and it looks like it wont be happening today. He said we will reschedule for thursday evening and IF it freed up he would of course call me (I thought possibly a week before Id be holding my baby but her lungs werent ready and now I had to wait longer =( ) I got off the phone and just bawled. I was sooo upset. I thought I was for sure going to be holding my baby that day.. and even though it would only be 2 more days.. whos to say they wouldnt be busy then. So I had to text everyone ( i was in no shape to talk) that was planning on being at the hospital that it wasnt going to happen. My friend Amber wrote back.. have to thought about castor oil? I thought, no way.. what if I go into labor and they dont have a room for me (But a this point I really could of cared less if I had t oshare a room with someone. I didnt want to try castor oil but was totally down for the idea of trying to send myself into labor. So Pete, Amber, Tara , and Ashley and Me all went to Buffalo Wild Wings to get some HOT wings. Then the plan was to go walking, but I changed my mind and decided to go straight for the castor oil since that was more likely to actually work (we had called up a few people we knew It worked for and got all the details) After we got the castor oil we went to Ashleys house so I could be by the bathroom ( Castor Oil is kinda like vegetable oil and its really a laxative, its works to empty the bowels and also trys emptying the uterous. I drank 4oz. in a large glass of orange juice. It wasnt as bad as I thought it would be (id do it again) about 3 hrs. passed. During that time I got anxious so we went for a walk, tryed a little excersicing video =) haha. My sisters baby shower was that night so we left to releive her from my kids. I started having contractions as we were leaving. When we got home I started getting a some diarhea and more contractions. I took a bath because I was getting uncomfortable and then decided it was time to go to hte hopsital ( Yay!! Its actually working!!) So we walked my boys over to my moms. When I was at the door my sister and her pregnant friend were there and I started to cry in pain and figured I better leave quick before worrying them too much. So Pete and I are driving to the hospital, its about 6:30 and traffice (WONDERFUL) I was not feeling good. Finally we get there and we had to wait in the waiting room for about 20 min (I went to the bathroom 2xz while waiting (PLEASE dont let me have diahrea while im pushing htis baby out) So we get back in the make sure im in real labor and I am and dialated to a 3. My dr. has now been at the hospital on call for 12 hrs and is ready to go home, he admitts me but doesnt really wanna come back that night so tells them to let it all happen natural ( Dont break my water or give me pitocin to speed up, thanks doc is what im thinking) So we get into the room and my contractions start slowing down. Im feeling something but its not even showing on the chart (WHAT.. I could beleive it, she said maybe they were like braxton hicks but they werent contractions.. I was pissed cause I was hurting) She said it would likely be the next morning when I deliverd (The boys were almost 4 hrs flat, but induced by pitocin) so im thinking maybe I dont deliver quite as fast on my own (This is all about 8:45pm. So nurse comes to check me and I feel Kadence kick REAL HARD and then I feel fluid leaking out. I told her I think it just broke, she was under the impression it had already broke.. I told her not that I knew. So she checked and it broke. I was dialated to a 5. Within about 10 min I started having HARD CORE contractions one on top to the next. She checked me again and I was at a 7!! At that moment I thought.. im not going to be able to get the ephidural! THIS IS MY WORST NIGHTMARE!! I ask her " Can I get the ephidural" she calls for it. Within minutes im dying and she knows somehtings happening she checks again and says im at at 8 pushing 9 and I dont have time for the ephidural!! She literally just barley covers me back up and Im screaming that the baby head feels like its about to come out of me.. she flips the blanket back off and im at a 10. At this point I definatley have a whole new 10 in mind on a scale of 1-10. I am screaming and crying and grunting. Finally the pain eases up a little and its just horrible pressure. there telling me not to push that were waiting for my doctor but my body was pushing on its own. Ok.. so the next 10 min it just horrible and Im making all kinds or noises but the nurse was so awesome and kept praising me aand telling me I wasnt getting a break at all inbetween, they were non stop pain. I remember I kept asking if we could just do it with out my doctor and that I really didnt care if he was there =) At this point I just wanted her out. Finally he got the and they tried to get me to scoot down and bend my knees. I barely was able to scoot down and I could barely force myslef to bend my knees. Pete had never watched my boys come out and preffers being by my head but I guess I was kicking to nurse so she asked him to help hold my legs. I was prayer alot in my head and I know thats why I pushed ONLY 1 X and my beautiful baby girl was out!!It was the most intense pain ever and I cant not understand why anyone would CHOOSE to do this. I looked down and the first thing I thought was wow.. shes tiny, SHE FELT enormous!! She was gorgeous even right after she popped out!! I oculd stop looking at her but of course i tore so I had the undergo some more pain while he stiched me back up. That was painful but nothing compared to before. The nurse asked her name and I said Kadence and then though (wait this all happend so fast i didnt ask Pete the middle name he chose) So I looked over and asked him " Aubri " I LOVE it!!! So Kadence Aubri Almanza was born 5/5/09 10:32pm (10 hrs after castor oil) and 7 hrs after some contractions but 41/2 after they were close enough to count). Weighing 6lbs. 8 oz. and 18 1/2 inches long. My smallest baby thankfully was the one I did without the ephidural!! So all in all she has been my hardest pregnancy and delivery but I would od it all again in a heart beat. Plus she is SUCH a good baby. The boys have taken uunbelievably well to her. Jaiden would hold her 24/7 if we let her and Rylan is soo sweet to her. She is totally putting up great with them to and there constant kisses and touching her. We love her more than words could say and cant believe she ours!!