Rylee's Photo Shoot

So, I have this friend who takes pictures...have you heard of her? Hahaha, it's Megan (of course) and she takes ALL of my pictures, she does the BEST job :). Recently, she took some pics of Rylee, mostly just for fun. I LOVE, LOVE them!

My sweet baby girl is 14 months in these and I could just eat her up. Such a serious little one, it is hard to get Rylee to crack a smile unless you are tickling her belly :). Love them and LOVE my serious sweetheart!

Trent's a Big Kid Now!

I've had another one cross over! Whoo hoo, just one left in diapers! Trent has been my easiest to potty train. He just seemed to get it. In my opinion, he is at the perfect age to do it--a few months before he turns 3.

He got some "Buzz" and "Mickey Mouse" underwear and a little "Reese's" peanut butter cup every time he went and that was that. It only took a couple of days to do it and he is even trained through the night!! I'm so proud of my Trent! It is such a relief to have him in undies, changing one set of diapers a day is SO much easier!

Seth Rides a Bike

Seth is my stubborn one. He doesn't do anything unless HE wants to do it. I can take away any and all of his privileges, threaten him with his life and ground him to his room and he won't bat an eye. He will do whatever thing I want him to do (be good at church, help his brother, take a shower, etc) if it is in HIS best interest and never really any other time.

Seth is 5 and has friends who have been riding their bikes without training wheels for years now. Seth got a bike with training wheels for his third birthday and has shown little, if any interest in riding it for the past 2 1/2 years. He has been happy riding his razor scooter alongside his best buddy, Weston, as he rides his two-wheeler.

Out of nowhere, Seth decided he wanted to ride a bike sans training wheels. It, literally, took Matt 5 minutes to teach Seth to ride. With age on his side, Seth picked it up no problem! He LOVES riding his bike! It is too bad he has waited this long to want to learn, but he is making up for lost time--spending good portions of his day riding up and down the street . Good job, Sethie, we are glad you decided to do it!

Baby Beau

My sweetest, newest nephew is here! Welcome to Beau Charles Bryner! The CUTEST little peanut (weighing in at 6lbs 15oz) I have ever seen. Jess did such a great job with the delivery! I, actually, watched the whole thing! I can't believe I dared to watch since the surgery scenes in "Grey's Anatomy" are usually too much for me :). I'm proud of my sister and so thankful I made it in time! Here is her blog entry of the big day:

Baby Beau Charles was born 3/9/11 (just 1 day overdue) at 10:06pm at Banner Desert Hospital. He was 6 lbs 15 oz (soooo tiny!) and 20 inches long. We had another successful VBAC that went very smoothly with no complications with me or Beau! He is such a sweet and healthy little baby and so far looks like a mix of both of his brothers.

The delivery was amazing! It was nothing like my last two because I actually went into labor on my own this time! At my OB appointment that morning (10:40am), I was at a discouraging 1 cm and 50% effaced so they stripped my membranes and scheduled me to be seen in two days. As you can imagine, I was bummed and was planning on having a repeat Dane delivery scenario (being 9 days overdue and having to be induced).

So, Ben and I went to lunch at Sweet Cakes (yum!) to try and lift my spirits. During lunch, my contractions kept coming and were continuing to get stronger and more consistent. They were clocking in at about 10 minutes apart, but since I had never really gone into labor before, I was very skeptical that they were real labor contractions so I just tried to ignore them as much as I could.

As the day progressed, so did the contractions and they were starting to get REALLY uncomfortable! I kept asking my sister Jen if I was just being a baby or if they really do hurt this bad because they felt exactly like the contractions I had when I was induced with Pitocin in the past. She said that they do hurt, but you get used to it and they may or may not be dilating you even if it feels like they should. That must have been what was happening to me because the night before I went to the gym and walked/ran on the treadmill (yes, I was getting all sorts of crazy looks at the gym!) for an hour and had what I thought was pretty painful and consistent contractions all night long so I thought for sure at my appt I would be more than a 1, but as you know, I wasn't. So, I just kept keeping track and tried to be strong.

My sister-in-laws, Katie and Tamsin came to stay with us so that they could watch our boys when it was time to go to the hospital. My dad was also in town to work and to hopefully be here for baby Beau's arrival. So with all of these visitors, I was feeling a little pressure to have this baby ASAP! So me, Katie, Tamsin, and the kids went on a walk to try and stimulate more contractions. The walk was miserable...it was hot and the contractions were getting worse and worse...I don't know how I made it back home! But, right when we got back it was time for our routine Ampa visit outing to Peter Piper Pizza with the Ropers. There I tried to put on a good face, but I was not doing well at all at this point. The contractions were consistently 5 minutes apart and after suffering through an hour or so there so the kids could play, I was at my breaking point and decided that it was time to go to the hospital because the pain was like torture!

So, we hurried home and packed our hospital bags and sped off! I was convinced that they were going to send us home even though my contractions were consistently 4 minutes apart and hurting like crazy! Fortunately, they didn't send us home...they did the exact opposite! I was at a 5 and 90% effaced and actively progressing! They rapidly admitted me and frantically paged the anesthesiologist to get me my epidural because they new I was going to have a baby soon! By the time I finally got my epidural I was a 7 and 100% effaced and about 45 minutes later it was time to push! After a few short pushes our sweet baby Beau was born! It was such an amazing experience and we are sooooo happy that our little angel is here!

Soccer

We just completed two more undefeated soccer seasons! My kiddos are still LOVING soccer! As a matter of fact, Wade came home the other day with a paper from school where he had to write what he wanted to be when he grew up. Wade wrote, "When I grow up I want to be a fames (famous) soccer player because I am good at." Good at it, he is :). They both are!

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Just Sittin' Around

I have a drawer in my kitchen that I fill with toys. I have the drawer with hopes to distract my kids while I am cooking dinner. It works sometimes. On this particular morning, Rylee decided the toy drawer would be a nice place to sit. She really climbed in there all on her own...couldn't help grabbing the camera. She is a cute little weirdo :).