Ethan holding Eve. Samuel, once we got home, holding her. Eve holding her pacifier in. :)

A few days before Eve was born Samuel asked if he could hold her when she got here. But when Ian brought them up to the hospital Samuel wouldn’t hold her because he didn’t want her to cry. But to my surprise Ethan wanted to hold her. When Ian held Samuel up to see Eve for the first time the look on his face said that he had just seen the most amazing thing. For months I had told him that his sister was in my belly and that when she got big she would come out and when he saw her, his face showed that he knew that was his sister. Over the last few days he has continued to surprise me with how protective he is. He has to make sure she is ok, and he doesn’t like it when visitors hold her; actually slapped a friend’s hand a way when she touch Eve.

I was scheduled to be induced at 5 Friday morning but started natural labor contractions at 2:30 am. I got the epidural at 5 and it was smooth sailing from there. Anesthesiologist was quite funny and good at keeping your mind off things. He explained a lot about how the epidural worked.
You know in movies when they say “don’t push...I want to push…No no don’t push it’s not time yet” well, I now know how that feels. Toward the end I stopped waiting for them to tell me when I could push and I would just do it when I could feel the pressure. The Doctor tried to rotate her because she was facing up and it was making it more difficult and painful but Eve was having nothing of it and put herself right back the way she was.
In all it took 45 mins to push and 7hrs and 45 mins of labor. With Samuel and Ethan I didn’t get to hold them till have they had cleaned them up and got their weight but after Ian cut the umbilical cord they put Eve, after birth, purple and all on my belly, it was really cool!

The hole in the grown is made by a nose.

PIG

Ian and i are now the proud ouwners of pigs. We hope to sell two ( cross your fingers) On the first day we had them Molly tried to kill one. Man did she get beat.

Samuel is Potty training and we made it through a whole Sunday w/o leaking. He even stopped playing to tell his nursery leader that he needed to go. Ya for the good moments!

Rebirth of Maren's dresser.

Ian and I were sealed in the Colorado Temple; so we thought it would be nice to return with the boys and take family pictures.

At the Denver zoo, Samuel is playing with my hair....This zoo experience was A LOT better than the last. The last time we went to the zoo it was half price day during spring break; it was later recorded that 23 thousand people were at the zoo that day. :( This experience was better.

Riding the Royal Gorge. Samuel like to lay down on the train floor and look through the hole in the floor. There really wasnt much to c, the scenery was the same all the way though.

Family pictures in front of the Pike Peaks sign and a hint of the view.

Playing in the snow.

Pike Peak Cog RR. First time Samuel had seen snow. His favorit thing in the world ( besides cars) is kicking dirt and snow proved to be just as fun. By the time we reloaded the train his feet, socks and pants were all wet. The view is breath taking if you get a seat on the left side of the train, on the right you will get to see rocks! :) Ian said that he would like to ride his motorcycle to the top...

As kids Christian and I would walk on the train tracks at my grandmas house; so while the train was stopped at the midway point I took Samuel to the train yard so he could give it a try.

Geogetown, Co. A Beautiful old mining town that has been restored. The old mining train track have also be relaid and now you can ride the train up the mountain. The changing Aspens r beautiful!

Camping South of Salida, Co

First time camping with both the boys.Ian made the fire while i sliced up the food and Samuel played by the stream. Man it was cold; got down to + /- 10 degrees that nite. We slept with lots of clothes on & with a mound of blankets. Samuel slept good but Ethan did not want his hands under the covers; would wake up if we covered them. The next morning our hand were frozen after taking down the wet tent so we opted for breakfast in town.