Do we have time to do anything else?

Just a few more pictures. It seems like I never hit it right on to get pictures while Layni is sleeping, the light is just right or everybody is dressed for a group picture! :)

And now, the rest of the story . . .

I guess I should have posted this part of the story, but it just seems like I have told it so many times, that I must subconciously be blocking it out :)
The night before we were scheduled to be induced, I get a phone call about 6:30. This is how the conversation went:
J: Can you meet me in Tremonton in about a half hour?
K: Sure, where?
J: At the emergency room of the hospital.
K: WHAT? Why - Are you in labor? HAHAHAHAHA (Since he had been teasing me all week about that)
J: No, I broke my leg
K: HAHAHAHAHA- You are kidding! Where are you, how far away from home are you?
J: No, I am not kidding - (Handing the phone to someone else-)Here, you tell her, she won't believe me.
Driver of truck: No he is serious, his horse went down on him and he broke his leg.
K: Are you serious?! What!
J: yes, I am serious. I will see you there.
So, I quickly call a neighbor and ask if the kids can come over while I run to the emergency room of the very SAME hospital that I am scheduled to be induced in the VERY NEXT MORNING! Needless to say, I laughed the whole way to the hospital-thinking, how could this chain of events been any more ridiculous! Now the only thing that could make it better is to get picked up on my way to the hospital, nine months pregnant and convince the highway patrol that I was headed to the hospital for my husband, not myself :) And yes, when I got to the hospital and rang the emergency room bell, they were quite concerned about ME! I quickly convinced them that I was just there for my husband. As we sat in the ER, I kept thinking, we could just get this started right now and get it over with before morning. Then the ER doctor comes in to let us know that the break was bad enough we will have to meet with an orthepaedic surgeon the next day, at, YES, this same hospital. We told him, well, just let him know we are in labor and delivery because we will be here for the delivery of our new baby tomorrow!
The next day, in labor and delivery, the orthepaedic surgeon comes to find us. He did say it was not a common thing for him to come down and see patients in this wing :) He scheduled surgery for one week later, at the same hospital:)
So, needless to say, I never imagined that I would be driving myself to the hospital to have a baby AND home after delivery. Fortunately for us, we have good neighbors that called and said they would be coming to pick us up when we got released. Now, I think we should never forget the birth of this baby, for reasons we never imagined! As I was coming back from town from dropping other kids off at friends to stay while we had the baby the morning we were to head into the hospital, I passed a truck on the interstate that said "Too blessed to be stressed" I told Justin about it when I got home and the discussion on the way to the hospital centered on just how blessed we were. The accident could have been MUCH worse and at least he wasn't incoherent or immovable in another room in the hospital while I was birthing the child and he couldn't be there!
Now as for Layni, she has been a record setter! She is the only child of ours that has not had to be on bili lights, her bilirubin peaked on Monday at 14 and then headed down on Tuesday-Doctor was satisfied and said we didn't even need to test her anymore. She lost her umbilical cord one week exactly after she was born. She is a fantastic eater! She pooped and peed more than any of our other kids, even before she left the hospital! She has been a great sleeper in the night, most nights logging at up to five hours at a time! So with all of the great things she is doing, I will add some pictures!

Amazing find!

What does it take?

Seriously! What does it take for me to post to our blog? A new baby? Somebody should fire our blog poster! :) Maybe I can get the other posts published sometime in the near future! But for now, here is our newest addition!
Layni Rose Ellis born November 5, 2010 7 lbs 14 oz - 20 inches. Some of her first pictures, more to come with the rest of the kids!

All things past

Since I am now officially in the land of slacker blog poster, I am just going to post all things past . . . in no particular order. . . . so here goes!!!

HAPPY Birthday Joni!

Ok- so you would think this post would have been up the day after it happened, but unfortunately it is just now being done. We still love her just the same and enjoy every second with her, despite the slow posting!
As you can see from the pictures, she LOVED every minute of her birthday celebration. From the presents. . .
And yes, the camera can tell no lies, we unwrapped gifts the day after her birthday, but you can get away with that when they are this young still! :0)
. . . to the cake

Not so much the little accessories . . .
and then she was done, enough, no more!

So we got her one year birthday pictures the day after. And she was a little more cooperative, but still not so much with the head accessories! But she did LOVE the balloons.

This and That

This post will be dedicated to the last MONTH! How it flew by without telling us, no one knows! :-)

Our month started by going to Boise for the Idaho Farm Bureau Committee Meetings. Monte and Joni got to have fun going outside to the hot tub, because the only pool was outside as well and it was closed.

This is what SICK looks like at our house. Strep throat! AGAIN! Take note of the scene: Monte SITTING and COLORING. . .
and Logan laying FLAT sleeping in the middle of the day!!!

A little bit of fun happening with Justin participating in Donkey Basketball.

Logan and two of his friends were the official "Pooper Scoopers" for the event, so they got to participate as well. His friend Eric has a pretty fun mom, so we got together and came up with costumes for the boys to wear.
Fun with the cousins - Paityn and Zachary!

New Teeth!!

For the past couple of weeks, Joni has been trying to get her two bottom middle teeth in.

Here is the progress, if you can see!

If you look VERY carefully, you can see a teeny white thing in the middle of her gums-That's IT! Just for cute! Here she is doing a SPLENDID job feeding herself.

Here's for Aunt Cari!

O.k. Cari, no more complaining that we don't post. This post is for you. Just a lot of pictures with no order.

Here is our latest attempt at a family picture. The only one Joni is looking directly at the camera and everyone else is somewhat focused.

Carson, Monte and Joni, better known as "The Posers"! They are coming along at being good for posing. :0)

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! this chair! My latest acquirement for pictures. I can change the cover very easily so it is a versatile chair! And OH SO CUTE! Can't you see Kinlee on it, Cari?


Here is the REAL reason why I don't post that often! Mischevious little darling at work!

"All for little 'ol ME!" Heaven sent!

Breakfast! How is that for entertainment. Monte loves, did I say loves? I meant he LOVES bouncing on his bouncy ball. This day, he had only his boxers, bull riding vest and some sunglasses he found and he strapped himself to it with some rope he found. Typical Monte!

After my workout, I put Joni in her jumper while I hop in the shower, so she doesn't find any mischief. This day, she was so tired she couldn't keep herself awake. I came out to find her sound asleep! With Monte hiding under the jumper, watching the movie she had been watching.

Monte has two built in companions. I have been watching two little neighbor boys in the afternoons. They play playdough for about two out of three of the hours they are here.

This is blurry, but it is Joni's effort to excercise! :-)