The Mom Song!!!

This song says it all!

Walkie's Birthday Party

Better late than never I guess! Walker had his 4th birthday party a couple days before we left for Seattle and I just realized that they never got posted. Here are just a couple of pictures of some of the gifts he got and his cake. Rikk is very disappointed in the cake because he only had an one or so to work on it.

A Spiderman sticker book.

His own camera so he will stop stealing the new one, hiding and using it.

I love his smile!

Ben 10 Omnitrix watch cake.

Baby Bedding

This go around Rikk and I have decided that we really like blue and brown for the twins' bedding and room. I found this one set that I am really starting to like and just wanted an opinion. I don't want to do animals or vehicles on the bedding this time. Just something more "clean" looking. And I love how it has polka dots and stripes. Let me know what you think.

Happy Valentine's Day Rikk!

Rikk,

I just wanted to say thank you for the last 7+ years! You are a wonderful husband, an even better father and you truly are my best friend. I couldn't imagine my life without you. I love you BIG much!!!

Love,

Dawn

We were strangers starting out on our journey
Never dreaming what we'd have to go through
Now here we are and I'm suddenly standing
At the beginning with you

No one told me I was going to find you
Unexpected what you did to my heart
When I lost hope you were there to remind me
This is the start

And Life is a road and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
Life is a road now and forever
A Wonderful journey

I'll be there when the world stops turning
I'll be there when the storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing
At the beginning with you

We were strangers on a crazy adventure
Never dreaming how our dreams would come true
Now here we stand unafraid of the future
At the beginning with you

And Life is a road and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
Life is a road now and forever
A Wonderful journey

I knew there was somebody somewhere
Like me alone in the dark
I know that my dream will live on
I've been waiting so long
Nothings gonna tear us apart

And Life is a road and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
Life is a road now and forever
A Wonderful journey

***This would have been better if I could have used some wedding pictures but they are all packed away from when we sold our house***

Jesus wants me for a SUNBEAM!!!

Rikk had the "opportunity" to teach Walker's Sunbeam class yesterday. This class is for kids who are 3 turning 4 in 2009. I think he said there were about 7 kids in his class, 4 boys and 3 girls. First, let me mention that Rikk is not a very touchy feely kinda guy, especially by people/kids he doesn't know or who aren't his. This little problem made for a very interesting class. Let's just say he felt quite a bit like the sunbeam in the picture above, but minus the smile!

He said that the boys in his class kept putting their hands on his legs or shoulders and he would very nicely grab their wrists and put their hands back in their laps...only to have to repeat this over and over! There was a little girl who wanted her mommy and was crying. Rikk finally picked her up, but put her on the END of his knee. She kept trying to lay back on him and he would lean back and very gently push her forward!

Then it was time for a potty break, which completely threw Rikk for a loop because he didn't know about this before hand. He asked if they could all go potty by themselves and the little girls started to argue over who was the biggest girl. And then a little boy said he needed help...to which Rikk replied, "You're a big boy, figure it out yourself dude!" Thank you Kasey Roberts for getting the girls to come out of the bathroom for Rikk.

But the thing that got him the most was the fact that little girls don't "sit" like little girls should. He said he has never been flashed sooooo many times in his life and felt like he should just go ahead and put himself on the sexual offenders list!!! He came home with what my family calls a "primary headache" and didn't want anyone to talk to him or touch him. Oh how I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for this class!

Walker and Nana

While we were gone my mom told me this story of her and Walker. We were both laughing pretty hard!

My mom said that she had the boys in the tub and that Walker had to get out to go #2. He got on the toilet and she left for a second and came back. When she did Walker was getting off the toilet. Here's their conversation...

Nana: Walker, did you wipe your bum?
Walker: Yes!
Nana: With what?
Walker: These (as he points to a container of flushable wipes)
Nana: I don't see any in the toilet and I used the last wipe on Kyler earlier.
Walker: No, I didn't.
Nana: Let me go and get you some toilet paper.

She went into the bathroom in our room to get the toilet paper and saw Walker streaking up the hall. She handed him the toilet paper, expecting him to wipe right then or wait until he got back to his bathroom. He took of streaking down the hall again, looking at Nana and trying to wipe his bum all at the same time. They get into the bathroom and the conversation continues.

Nana: How'd you do (at wiping your bum)?
Walker: Not very good! (Walker then hands Nana the toilet paper and assumes the position by bending over right there!!!)
Nana: You had just better be glad I am here and not your Papa!!!

I LOVE my boys, they are too cute and funny!!! And I LOVE my mom for putting up with them!!!

Nothing but GOOD news and more GOOD news!!!

We went and had out ultrasound on Friday and I must admit I was really nervous about what we were going to see. The first thing the ultra sound lady wanted to do was measure the amount of fluid around the smaller baby. He had zero around him before the surgery and on Friday he had 4.96cm...we were amazed! Rikk had to pull his chair closer to the ultra sound to get a better look and to believe what he was seeing. The smaller baby's bladder was there and the right size, before it wasn't there. She did a few measurements on him and then went to the bigger baby. The bigger baby went from 9cm of fluid to 5.26cm which is great. His bladder is now the right size and his kidneys are almost there too. We were so HAPPY with everything. The doctor came in and took a look and was really impressed with what he saw. He said he wanted to go and crunch some numbers. He was sure that the smaller baby was going to be really anemic and wanted to go look at the numbers.

We waited for the doctor in the conference room which is never fun because it's a HUGE room and just Rikk and I and it just feels like the "bad news" room. The doctor came in and said he was just amazed. All the numbers he crunched for different things came out perfect. The smaller baby is right on target, right where he should be for his gestational age!!! AND he wasn't even close to being anemic which just blew the doctor's mind! Rikk and I knew why the two guys were doing so well though!

The doctor called the doctors down in San Francisco to tell them how everything went. Those doctors were just as amazed as well. They told our doctor in Seattle to send us home...yes, they said to send us home!!! They want us to have an ultra sound every week down in Anchorage with the doctor we have already seen. They said that unless the Anchorage doctor finds reason to keep me in Anchorage or to send us back to Seattle, they all hope to NEVER see us again.

We got home to our three beautiful boys last night and were just as excited to see them as they were us. We played for a few hours and then it was bedtime. Hunter couldn't get to sleep...we think that he was afraid we wouldn't be there when he woke up. But my parents, sister and brother-in-law did such a great job with the kids and we REALLY appreciate it. I am supposed to take things easy, do things lightly. Rikk is still acting like I am on 100% bed rest which has been nice. We are thinking better safe than sorry.

But we are home and happy our little family is back together again. Hopefully the next "exciting" news we will have to share about the twins will be their birth...which will hopefully be another few months! Thank you all again for your thoughts, prayers, fasting, putting our names in the temple, everything...we REALLY appreciate it.