She's Here - Happy Birthday Cambree Ann

Cambree Ann Whitney was born April 28, 2010

3:26am

6 pounds 8 ounces

19 1/2 inches long.

Perfect in every way!

Kelli called me after work, worried about being alone while Jeremy went to school. She described to me what turned out to be labor pains. Keith and I drove out to Kelli's. We started timing contractions, Keith the intervals and me the length. Turns out Jeremy didn't get to school. 

No, instead we went to the hospital!

Kelli was awesome. Being quite dramatic and hysterical about things at times, (like snakes in her garage)   I was a little worried about her, but she surprised me.

She was strong and brave, calm and in control.

And look at what we have!  

This is just after she was born.

Cambree is calm and mellow. She is easily soothed.

Proud Momma

My baby has a baby! Wow.

Sisters- celebrating our new little blessing. 

We are so happy she is here and healthy.

Happy 2nd Addi!

I can hardly believe this little one is 2 years old today!

However, the terrible 2's started early for her at about 9 months old.

She loves her Daddy and he loves her.  They are 2 peas in a pod.

She has no fear and a high tolerance of pain, just like her Daddy.

Hopefully as she grows older she will gain some good judgement, not necessarily like her Daddy.  

She loves to ride the 4 wheeler, the little jeep, the bike and to play outside.

Nat is an awesome Mom.  She has taught her to say please and thank you. Addi cooperates with her, don't know how she managed that, I never figured it out.

Addi is an explorer - into everything. 

She loves to build with blocks, read books, do puzzles, and play with the Fisher Price "guys."

Disney playhouse is her favorite.  Nat had a Mickey Birthday party complete with 

"Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot diggity dogs.

Her smile absolutely melts my heart and her hugs, though rare, are the best.

Addi doesn't love sweet food.  Give her a cookie or candy and she looks at it strangely and hands it back to you, but broccoli, black beans, rice, hamburgers, pasta, now she'll eat that willingly and hungrily.

I gave her a kitchen for her birthday and Katie gave her an apron and hat to go with it.  The girl was in her heaven.  However, she did tell me that she needed "chicken nuggets and fries" to go with it.  Good thing it's Easter - she gets them today.

We are so blessed to have Addison Mae in our lives, sweet blessing of Heaven.

We Love You Addi!

This and That

A little of this and a little of that.

Beautiful Carson at 1 week old.

All my Grandbabies and a Momma

MyKelle and Addi just had to do Poppy's hair --- what there is of it!

Yes, Adam changes most diapers.  

He has been blessed to be home with Carson since he was born. 

Tomorrow he goes back to work. Not looking forward to it.

Kelli and Jeremy anticipating the future. Love this picture.

This little girl has spunk.

Unknown to us, she put her fingers in the melted wax of a Scency Warmer.

Later when we were all in the living room, she points to the warmer and says'

"Dat soup is HOT!"

Looking we saw tiny wax shapes of her fingers.  We don't think she ate it. Really.

Don't worry, I tested it out and it's not that hot.

90 year old Papa and his newest Great Grandchild.

Carson at 2 1/2 weeks old.

I celebrated a birthday on Friday.  

MMMM.... Parson's cake and Leatherby's ice cream and 

carmel - my new, old favortie thing.

We met for Dinner at Jason's Deli - you know- free Ice Cream.

Went to a Marriott in Layton.

MyKelle and Gage got to spend the night with us.

Swam and had the entire pool area by ourselves.

These 2 love to run and jump. 

You've got to watch Addi cuz she will jump when no one is there!

Baby Carson - 3 weeks old.

Travis noticed my kitchen sink faucet was fairly disgusting.

He decided that would be what everyone would give me for my birthday.

So----Saturday Keith took out the old and put in the new.

It only took about 6 hours and 5-6 trips to Lowes and Home Depot.

It's beautiful.

Thanks kids and

thanks Keith for never

 swearing, throwing or otherwise having a tantrum while being a weekend plumber.

Love you all.

WELCOME LEGEND!!!!

Our Miracle Baby was born today, February 25, 2010

1:20pm

6 lbs. 15.8 oz. (okay so that's 7 lbs.)

19 1/2 inches

beautiful and perfect

Jessica was wonderful and brave and strong!

All of us 1/2 hour before he was born.

Kelli's next, and not quite sure she wants to do this.

She's trying to convince Jeremy to do it.

Proud Daddy holding him.

Adam chose his outfit carefully for today,

his "Max Hall Hates Me" was his choice.

Momma and baby boy Gines. Still not quite sure of the name.

Everyone taking pictures of Adam giving him a bath.

Gage, Addison and MyKelle, checking out the waterfall.

We are so blessed to have this blessed spirit in our lives. 

Thank you to Adam and Jess for letting me be a part of your special day.

4 Things

Meggie tagged me and since I have nothing better to blog about, here goes.

4 shows I like to watch:


Glee
The Amazing Race
Grey's Anatomy (but it's getting old)
So You Think You Can Dance


4 things I'm passionate about:

5 Grandchildren
Teaching
Being a good mother and daughter
Food


4 phrases I say a lot:

Seriously
Class, class (it's an attention getter at school and I say it ALL day long)
How are you doing?
Love you


4 things I have learned from the past:

Be loyal and respectful to your family - after all is said and done they are what it's all about.
Nobody cares how you look or how much you weigh but you.
Love hurts, but the joys are worth it.
Do what is best for you and your family and stop worrying about what everyone else thinks.


4 places I would like to go:

Oregon Coast
Hawaii (would be going in June if the airfare wasn't almost $900.)
New York 'City - (and see Wicked again) just once
Washington DC


4 things I did yesterday:

Final practice for my 4th grade Program
Crocheted
Taught 26 4th graders
Actually cooked dinner


4 things I'm looking forward to:

The Legend
Baby Whitney
Disneyland with everyone
The last day of school


4 things I love about winter:

Thanksgiving
Christmas
New Years
The end of it -(hate winter)

4 things on my wish list:

2 healthy new grandchildren
Darin to be seizure free
A pay raise (really - this is a joke)
A cleaned, dejunked house and shed

4 people I tag:

My 4 children/spouses

Happy 3rd

My sweet grandson, Gage, is 3 years old.

(However, he just might tell you he's 5.)

He is a fun loving, mostly happy kid.

You should just see his bottom lip when he's not happy.

Wish I had a picture as evidence.

He has a light in his eyes that brightens your day.

If you tell him he's big boy, he says , "No I'm not, I'm Gage."

He loves his big sister and tries to copy everything she does. Mostly she goes along with it.

He loves swords, dinosaurs, basketball (especially the Utes), riding and trying to drive the "Jeep," riding the 4 wheeler, jam sandwiches and Poptarts, any kind of candy, his new Leapster, and books - lots and lots of books.

Gage hasn't had the easiest of childhoods so far with asthma and allergies galore, he's been a sick kiddo.

As a result, he LOVES his Mama.

He is cuddly and lovey and sweet.

Gage has a special spirit, bigger than his little body can hold,

and we are so blessed to have him in our lives.

Ahhh... the Holidays

The holidays have come and gone and I guess it's time to document them.

Connie and I enjoy an hour each week being blessed by Charlie Cooper.  During these times, Connie had hooked up with our childhood friends through facebook (Yes old ladies facebook) , Jill and Joann.

Now I haven't seen Joann for at least 30 years.  Jill was in town (she lives in Houston) and so arrangements were made to meet for lunch.  Joann came down from Idaho Falls (do you know she's had 2 heart transplants?), Nadine (Paul Craig's wife) came and we met at Paradise.

What a gratifying time we had.  Not enough time to catch up on everything that had happened in the last 30 years.

In this picture, Nadine, Connie, Jolene, Joann, Jill.

Just as we were getting ready to leave, Joann, who has 6 sons, told me she had told her boys about the time she gave me a bloody nose. I have NO memory of this and everyone at the table starting laughing - apparently they all had memories of this fine event.

The story goes, in Jr. High, Joann's parents wouldn't let her shave her legs. So, quite often I would pull her knee socks down and pull her barrett down her hair.  Yes, folks, I was a bully. I knew I was bossy, but I didn't know I was a bully. (This really bothers me, I'm sorry to anyone else I bullied.)

Now remember, I have NO memory of any of this.

So, Joann told her mom who told her to just punch me in the nose the next time this happened, not really thinking she would.  The next time it happened, Joann told me to stop or I would be sorry, and being the brat that I was, I said something to the effect, oh ya, what are you going to do. And with that,she punched me in the nose and I bled all over my new white shirt.  My friends gave her grief. I guess one of them told her at high school graduation that she had held a grudge against her all those years.  I say I deserved it and more.

Anyway, fun time with old friends -

 even if I did find out things about myself I'm not particularly proud of.

Keith would rather eat with the grandkids than us.  Cute huh.

Thanksgiving dinner in the living room. Everyone was able to be there which is a treasure.

Papa and Jeri came to complete the family.

Katie made darling party favors of pilgrim hats and cornicopias.  I ate all the leftovers, yum.

On December 17th Kelli invited me to go with her to her ultrasound. We found out that Kelli and Jeremy are having a baby girl.

We are so thrilled.  This is the first baby girl Whitney in 3 generations.

I'm so  excited for Ann to have a granddaughter. (and me to have my 3rd)

We are busy buying stuff for 2 babies. (Adam is having a boy.)

We had the Nordfors family party at my Stake House.

We were all able to make it to this party, too.

That doesn't happen very often, so it was picture worthy.

Rob telling Papa some bull about something.

Now, I wasn't there to hear the conversation, but come on, it's Rob.

Actually, it was great to have Dad there.  There is even a picture of him with all his great grandchildren.  Too bad I don't have that.

Addi, wondering about that scary man in the awful red outfit.

Can you imagine how horrifying it is to little ones to sit on the lap of a stranger that is as bizarre looking as Santa.

The things we do to our kids.

My in-law children are pretty great and they all posed wonderfully for these pictures.  (Jessica is smart enough I guess to not give me blackmail material.)

Me, doing my favorite thing, reading to all 3 grandkids.  Now how in the world will I fit 2 more on my lap?  That's a problem I'm so blessed to have.

We celebrated Christmas with our kids on the 23rd.  It was great, no rushing hurrying, just enjoying each other's company. First we had a yummy dinner.

The kid table. Notice Gammy's tablecloth.  I always try to have something of hers at all our celebrations.

And the Adult table.  Papa is here hiding behind Keith's head.

The kids waiting patiently to open the rest of their presents while enjoying their new chairs and warm, soft blankets.

The tummy view. No, Keith's not pregnant. He just enjoys comparing bellies.

No comment on who won. (Or lost as the case may be.)

Addi's favorite gift was the purse from MyKelle.

Christmas Eve is traditionally the party at Grandma Gines'.

The charater of "Frank" (code word for Santa) was played by Keith's brother Paul this year.

He brought new games.  This one was to become a reindeer the fastest using panty hose and balloons. Hysterical.

Kelli with Santa doing what I don't know.

Ho, ho, ho maybe.

The legend and prime have matching AC/DC onesies.  Just what a Grandma wants her Grandchild in, now why didn't I think of that?

Christmas morning, Keith and I traveled to see the Grandkids.

Here's Addi

and MyKelle

and Gage

all enjoying Christmas Day.

It was an amazing holiday season, and now I will rest.