More Halloween Pictures

Here are some more fun Halloween pictures.

After a long day at Tricker Treating at Daddy and Grandpa's office, Kennidi decided first to help daddy with his work, but then soon after decided that she was way to tired. SO CUTE!!!

Our First Halloween

So for Kennidi's first Halloween, Aunt Kristi found a little Ghost hat and matching socks. So Grandma made a little white cover, so she could be a little Ghost. It is so cute. For Halloween we went downtown Grass Valley and went Tricker-Treating at Dad and Grandpa's office. Kennidi was a big hit. We had a lot of fun for our first Halloween

My Baby

So I know that everybody has been so upset with me because there have been no postings of Kennidi. Just let me tell the story. On Sunday Sept. 30 I started contractions. Blake and I went to the hospital at about 4:00 pm, because the contractions were 4 minutes apart and coming fast. We get there and I am dialated to 1cm. That was very dissappointing. They decide to keep me at the hospital. Around night time( I really have no idea what time it was), the doctor, which was Dr. Goddard, decided to give me morphine because I wasn't relaxing in between contraction to dialate. So about 10:00 am the next morning after a long night of waking up to every contraction Dr. Goddard (Rich) decides to break my water, and by this time I was almost dialated to 3 cm, which is not okay with me because through all that pain all night, I deserved more. Anyways, so he breaks my water and we all decided that I will take pitocine, which helpscontractions stay consistant and helps me dialate. The only problem with that is that it makes contractions about 10x worse then they really are. So to compinsate for the pitocine they gave me an intrathecal, which numbs me from the waist down, but only for like 2 hours or so. So after the first intrathecal, Rich checks me and realizes that me cervix is behind Kennidi's head and all the contractig is really not helping. So he decides to try and pull my cervix forward. It is a good thing Iwas numb because by the sounds of it, I think that I would have killed him from the pain. Finally after the second intrathecal, I am finally dialated to 7 cm. Which is great, but also horrible, because I can no longer have any pain medicine and I have to dialate the reast of the time on my own. OH MY GOSH THE PAIN. 3 hours later I am barely at 9 cm. But I also feel like pushing, which would be hard pushing her out at only 9 cm. Finally I get to a 10, and I can finally start pushing. We thought that the baby would just pop out. Oh now. After an hour of pushing, having to use the vacuum and having an epesiotomy, she finally arrives at 9:51 pm Monday Oct. 1. Yeah that's right I was at the hospital in labor for 30 HOURS, that is not counting the 6 hours of contractions I was having before I went to the hospital. Woo hoo. It is amazing how after the baby is out, your whole personality changes back to being the nice person you were before you were pregnant. Once she is out, the nurses find that she has swallowed mecomium. She is amniotic fluid and baby poop. So the nurses are working hard to get all the gunk out of her lungs, and while Kennidi is trying to breath, she sucks in air so hard that she pops a hole in her lungs, so how there is air between her rib cage and her lungs. This problem will be fixed on its own. But for th fluid they have to immediatly put her on oxygen and start pumping her full of antibiotics. I didn't get to hold my baby until about 3:00 am. The doctors took blood test and they find a bacteria in her blood. So they give us the bad news that she will havet o be in the hospital for 7 more days. And I just started crying. But I finally calmed down because the nurses told me that I could stay at the hospital as a Boarding Mom. I can have a room as long as they didn't need one, I only got one meal a day. But I could stay with my baby. So I was okay with that. Then they do a test to see what kind of bacteria is in the blood, and they find that it is E-Coli. And they tell me that we are going to have to bet here for probably ten days. Which is longer, but I could still stay with her. the Dr. Reeder says that they have to do a Spinal Tap to make sure she didn't get meningitis from the E-Coli. So they do the spinal tap and they see that it is clear. But she still has E-Coli. We were then told that we could go home the next day and come back every morning for 2 weeks and she will get a shot evey morning to treat the bacteria. So we were excited that we didn't have to stay. the next day Dr. Reeder comes backa nd says that he feels the best thing to do for her is for her to stay in the hospital for 2 weeks and have an IV for her antibiotics that are better for her. I was devistated. 2 more weeks, and I break down again trying to fogure out how I am going to nurse, I am going to have to get a pump. A big mess, that's when the nurses tell me that they want me to stay there in the hospital with Kennidi for those 2 weeks. So we were in for a long haul. During the duration of our visit Kennidi had 5 different IV's. 2 in each foot and one in her hand. We were just glad that they never had to put the IV in her head. So as of 9:00 am on Monday Oct. 22. we were free of the hospital. Kennidi is doing great. No bacteria was shown in her blood. And Daddy is really happy that his girls are finally home.

Our ride home

On the way back from the family reunion. We went around the other side of the Lake so that Blake could see Emerald Bay. Here are the pretty pictures.

Our Family Reunion

WELCOME TO OUR FAMILY REUNION!!!!!

So for the family reunion, Blake, Jennilyn, Brandonand I are were in charge of games. This is really fun. All of the Dad's and Grandpa's got Cheeze puffs all over their faces by their children and grandchildren. We all loved it. It also made a huge mess.

This was another one of the games. We split into groups and had a contest to see who could come up with the most creative costume out of paper bags and duct tape. All the gooups did a fabulous job. We've got Broc as Superman his famous line was " I'm small but mighty". Next we had Brooke our resident Queen, then there is Kassie and Nathaniel, as the Indian huntress and the deer. They had a lot of fun with that one. Last but not least we had Julie as the Carribean Princess.


On Friday, a few of us went to the hotel that some of the family stayed at. We had a lot of fun in Lake Tahoe. It was a beautiful day.




David and his family brought there Kyake, and everybody loved that. We actually had a dew people try the Karate Kid pose off of the front of the Kayake. Not very many people succeeded at this trick. As you can all see. Then we have found that we have quit a few beach babes. There's Broc our little indian on the beach. Here is Brooke our Baywatch beauty. Then there is Victoria, our little family model. We have such a beautiful family. We had a tragedy. As Austin was falling off the kayake, he hit a rock at the bottom of the lake and bruised his knee pretty good. But our injured soldier recovered fast and was up and playing quick.

Santa Cruz and Palo Alto

Blake, Krisit and I went to San Fransisco after a long weekend of laying on the beach of Santa Cruz. This was Blake's first time to San Fransisco, he was kind of disapppointed though because he didn't see as many gay people as he wanted. But we had a lot of fun walking around the pier and looking at all the great little shops. We had a lot of fun and hope to do it again soon.

Here Blake is posing for me after he had knee surgery. They gave him a new ACL. They took out two of his hamstring tendens and created a new ACL. According to Uncle Kevin and Jason, who were in there for the surgery, the doctor looked like a construction worker pounding Blake's bones with a hammer and screwing through his bones with a long drill. Gross. He is doind good now.

Here we are in Santa Cruz. It was such a beautiful day to be there. But like everybody knows, who has been to Santa Cruz, the water is still cold. Mainly all we did was walk around the Boardwalk and lay out on the beach.

Blake was very excited to find out that the movie "Lost Boys" was filmed here in Santa Cruz so we had to get a picture of the bridge for him.


Blake is swimming in the cold water. Kalijane is so funny. After Maci's baby blessing we all went over to Jennilyn's and Brad and Mike figured out that they could stick these game sticks through Kali's hair without her noticing. But when she saw her hair she was terrified. Also that day we all found out the Shannon is pregnant and is expecting in March. We are excited there are going to be so many little babies in our family this year.

Here is Blake building me a hole so that I can finally lay on my stomach. This hasn't happened in 6 months. It felt so great.
Here we are in the water. It was so so so so cold.

And this is the little seal that came up to say hi to everybody in the water. It was really fun to see it.