Baby Jane!!

We welcomed are little girl, Jane Ida Saunders, in July.  We are so excited to have two little girls now.

She was 7lbs 2oz and 20 inches long. 

She was much chubbier than Katelynn and let us know she didn’t like her first bath.

Things went a lot smoother this time than with Katelynn.  I was only in labor for 4 1/2 hours.  It was different to go into labor by myself.  I was induced last time and Katelynn was born five weeks early.  It was a different experience to have to decide if I really was in labor this time.  I am glad I didn’t have the same problems this time. 

Katelynn stayed with Aunt Shanna and Uncle Benjamin so Kevin could stay with me.  Thanks! 

It was soooooooo nice the be able to take Jane home with us when I was discharged. 

Katelynn wanted to hold Jane and give her loves and kisses.  She has been soo good.  She is going to be a great big sister! 

Well we know where Jane gets her nose!  Jane looks a lot like her daddy.  Welcome to our family Jane!  We love you so much already. 

Happy Independence Day!!

The fourth of July is one of my favorite holidays.  I have always loved it.  There is just something about it, which makes it great.  I love spending time with family, eating yummy food, watching great fireworks, and celebrating our Independence and Freedom.

We weren’t able to do too much this Fourth of July because of me being pregnant, but we still had a lot of fun.

We stayed at our place and barbecued.  We had yummy stakes and bratwursts!

Katelynn was tired by the end of the day.  We had a lot of fun!  I am so thankful for the freedoms we enjoy.  I love our country and all the great things about it. 

Memorial Day

We had a lot of fun over Memorial Day weekend.  We barbecued, went swimming, played outside and just had fun. 

We went up Poudre Canyon on Monday and had a barbecue up there.  We cooked up some yummy bratwursts and had some yummy veggies.  Katelynn loved being in the Forest.

Kevin went fishing for a little while.  He didn’t catch anything, but all the good spots were on the other side of the river.  We are planning on going up there again soon, next time with his waders so we can reach the good spots. 

Katelynn and I played with rocks and water while daddy was fishing.  I was lucky to get this picture of her, she didn’t want to look at mommy at all, just play with everything around her.

After we went up the canyon, it was nice and hot, so we decided to go swimming.  Katelynn loves to splash everybody.  She just will laugh and laugh. 

Our little girl is getting so big!  She does fairly well eating at the table and not in her chair anymore.  There aren’t too many messes we have to clean up.

She has said for "hi" awhile and "uh ohh," but in the last few weeks she has started to say more.  In the video you can hear her say “Where’d it go.”  It’s a little slurred together, but we sure can understand it.  She also says, “what is that"?”  It is really cute!  She asks what a lot of things are.

She makes some great faces too.  It is hard to catch them on camera sometimes, but we were able to get these the other day.  We are getting excited for our new baby to come.  It is getting closer.  We are more ready this time than we were with Katelynn.  Only about five more weeks to go. 

Fun in the Sun!

We are so glad that it has been warm enough to play outside a lot.  Katelynn loves being outside!  It is so much fun to see her point at things and go ohhh! or her other jabberings she makes.  There is a trail, just behind where we live, that goes around two small lakes; we go on walks there fairly often and see all sorts of different birds.

We don’t always know what she is pointing at, but most of the time it is a bird.  She seems to love animals, especially dogs.  There are a lot of dogs and whenever she hears one barking she gets excited and says da da.  Which is her word for dog right now.

We have fun when daddy goes on the walks with us.  He is a lot of fun to play with.

 

Whenever I am making dinner or in the Kitchen she loves to be right by me.  It is fun to have her there and she is pretty good most of the time.  She loves to help us set the table.  We will give her the glasses or silverware and she will put them on the table.  Most of the time its pretty close to where it needs to be.  She also loves to play with the rubber bands I put in her hair.  This day she wanted more in so she has three pigtails.  I am glad she is finally letting me do stuff with her hair.  For awhile she would always pull out whatever I put in. 

Our pool finally opened up and we took Katelynn swimming for the first time this year.  It took her awhile to warm up to being in so much water, but not too long.

Soon she was splashing and having lots of fun with Daddy.  She couldn’t wait to get back in the water whenever she went out.  We were out there for a while and she cried when we left, but we will have many more days at the pool!  At least until the baby comes.  

Our little girl is getting Big!

Katelynn is now 18 months old!  It is hard to think she is already that old sometimes.  She is getting so big and is lots of fun! 

She loves to put on mommy’s shoes.  These red ones are some of her favorite ones to pull out of my closet.  Although some days there are several pairs of my shoes around the house.  She also likes her shoes.  Some days she brings a pair of hers out, wants them on, and then goes and gets another pair for me to put on her. 

I made the dress for her last Easter, but it was too big.  I made it from an infant pattern, but I guess infant means older baby.  Oh, well!  It worked great for this Easter.  It was hard to get her to hold still for pictures, since we were outside.  She loves to run around outside. 

We love our little girl!  She is going to be a great big sister.  She is good with her dolls, although she pokes their eyes sometimes, so we will have to watch out for that.  She wants to hold her baby cousin whenever she is crying and love to give her hugs.  We love you Katelynn!!

Fun in the Park!

For Ben’s Birthday we went up to Rocky Mountain National Park.  It was a gorgeous day!  Everything was starting to turn green, the sun was shining and we had great company.  What could be better?

We went on a small hike on an alluvial fan.  It was so pretty!

Katelynn wasn’t sure of her ride at first, but she loved it after not too long. 

We stopped for awhile and played at the creek.

Rohan and Bruce had a ton of fun throwing rocks into the creek.  Rohan was going for the biggest rocks he could.  Some of them were pretty big.

Katelynn learned fast from her cousins that it was fun to throw rocks also.  She was getting pretty good towards the end. 

We had a picnic to end the day.  It was a lot of fun and so beautiful!  I love the mountains!