The Kids

Just some cute pictures of the kids from this year

Xander 9 months

He is doing pretty good. Crawling on hands and knees, pulls to a kneel, he prefers that. It is really cute when he waves because it looks like he is doing a hand loose surfer sign. Awesome, that's my boy. He is a little over 18 pounds and is about 30" tall.

Step Out Walk To Fight Diabetes

Uncle Bob and Xander before the walk

Just as the walk started

The new baby giraffe

Had to go see the penguins, they were all swimming

On Saturday we took a walk from This is The Place Monument around to the back entrance of the Hoggle Zoo. Kiyah even walk a little bit. Then we got to spend the day at the zoo. Kiyah had such a good time with her cousins and they all stood and watched the penguins for a long time.

Old Picture

Going through some pictures and saw this and thought it was really cute. For anyone who has seen the movie Tom Sawyer, this outfit on her makes her look just like Becky Thatcher from that.

So Dang Cute

This was actually at Bass Lake. He had rolled off his blanket and all the way under the coffee table and fell asleep. Sucking his thumb of course. He doesn't do that anymore luckily.

Vacation

I do not have any pictures yet, but I can at least talk about the vacation that we just took. We went to Bass Lake, southern Yosemite, with my side of the family. We started off on Saturday the 18 and drove for 13 hours, it should have been 10. Kiyah got car sick about an hour before we got to the lake. Then we spent the week water skiing, tubing, and hanging out with cousins. Kiyah rode the Bonsai, which is the same thing that she rode last year at the River. She would ride with anyone that would let her and anyone that would go slow. Ryan and I rode also and have the bruises and scars to prove it. That toy is a very mean thing. I ended up with several bruises, a fat lip and a couple rug burns. But I am finally healing from it. Then on Saturday the 25 we came home, trying to avoid Yosemite, but Kiyah still got sick, this time at the beginning of the trip. And while avoiding Yosemite we spent an extra 5 hours in the car. Our poor kids were so tired of the trip and did not want to get back in the car after our lunch break. But we made it home and are so happy to have been able to spend some time with the Harrison side of the family. Hopefully we will forget the trip by next year and venture out again.

No Picture, Thank Goodness

I was working today and had just started... both my children were sitting right at my side. Xander was in his bouncy seat and Kiyah was helping him move the toys on it to make some noise. She being two, wants to do it herself and gets mad that Xander is playing with it. So after about 10 seconds of working I turn around and see her trying to climb into the bouncy seat with Xander so that she can play too. Needless to say you cannot even turn your back on a 2 year old, even if they are in the same room with you. This is the chair that apparently needs to be a two seater.

Old picture of Kiyah in the chair.

What a Dork

I was going through some pictures just to see what I had and I found this. Here we are trying to take a nice shot of Nana and there is my dork of a husband needing some attention. He is such a goof. But someone has to love him right?!?! If anyone wants that job of loving him let me know. J/K. He is a great person and a wonderful father.

4 & 26

Update on Kiyah and Xander: Xander is now 4 months old, seems so much longer. He is rolling over from his back to his belly, and of course hates it when he gets to his stomach because he can't see anything. His check up went just perfect, nothing to cause worry, he is 14.8 pounds and 24.5". His doctor loves doing his check up because he always holds still and lets him do whatever he needs. He is bigger than Kiyah was at this age, but I think is has to do with him breast feeding longer than she did. Kiyah is 26 months old, or just over 2 years, and had the lovely affair of getting stitches. She was good through the whole thing and the nurses loved working with her. She loves singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star all the time and of course with that same tune she loves singing ABC's. Both love being around each other and Kiyah is so accepting of all the things that Xander does to her.

Many Things....

We went to SD for Spring Break, I know a little late,

Kiyah feed the animals at the Wild Animal Park

This is our barbecue in the back yard. We discovered a robin was living in it, with her four eggs!!!Unfortunately they did not live, the mother abondoned them when we found her living there.

The start to my garden. This was Ryan's Mother's Day present to me. He cleaned out the front area and planted a bunch of flowers. They are starting to look really good. I love them.

My poor baby girl. We were at a funeral and she was putting the hymn book back in the holder and slipped off the bench and into the book holder. What a brave little girl though, after the shock wore off she was singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star about 45 mintues later as we were driving up to Primary Children's Hospital to get stitches in her nose. She got 8 stitches and luckily no black eyes. Hopefully there will not be too much of a scar.

Xander's Blessing

We did Xander's Baby Blessing on Sunday and it turned out so nice. The sun was in and out all day but all together it was a nice day. Here are some pictures of the wonderful event.

Xander in his blessing outfit with Mom and Dad

The Blessing Circle, right to left:
Don (grandpa), Uncle Steve, Daddy, Ryan, Ben, Chad, Brandon
not pictured are Trent and Shane, who had to leave early and Bishop Foster, who of course had to stay at church :-)

My Dad with Xander, what a happy and proud Grandpa
(he is just happy that Xander is not crying)

NANA (Great Grandma Thomas)

I'm a Happy Boy! happy boy, I'm a Happy Boy! happy boy

Ain't it great when things are going my way, Hey Hey!

Nana Thomas with Xander

Happy Birthday Kiyah

Kiyah had such a great time opening all of her gifts. To everyone there, I am sorry about the screams, who knows where those came from.

Such great faces

What a happy girl

Make a wish


Thanks to everyone who made her 2nd Birthday special and happy

Having Fun

At the school by our house

At the Discovery Zone. You can't really tell, but the ball tube that she is playing with was blowing her hair back when she opened it up to put the balls in. She had a blast there, thanks Jackie

She loves helicopters!!! Oh sorry, to her it is a hellcoller. But if you say it that way she says, "NO! It's a hellcoller!" She is so funny.

My Boyz

Like Father Like Son

What a cute smile

This is for Jackie, she loves babies feet. This was from when he was 1 month

LOOK EYES

Believe it or not my son has eyes. This is the only picture so far that I have with his eyes open. Just like everyone else, the second kid gets less pictures taken of them at the beginning. All in all he is a very happy baby.

Grandma's Visit

My mom thought that was such a funny face, she had to take a picture

Xander does not take pictures with his sister

Dinner out with the Harrison's

Brandon tied Kiyah's sleeves together, she had a blast trying to get out

Our New Addition

Welcome Xander Ryan Adams

6 lbs even, 19 3/4"

8:05 am January 26, 2009

Our Even Family, Count 2 girls 2 boys

Lots of Pictures

Kiyah dusting and giving it the white glove test

Ryan loves blowing in Kiyah's face, this is just perfect timing on the hair part

Kiyah all of a sudden just got up and climbed up on Ryan's chest, she did not have any help and she didn't fall. What a brave child.

Kiyah on Christmas. I have a lot more pictures, but I am lazy and what is the point of 500 pictures of a 2 year old opening 100 things. Oh well.

Pregnancy Tag

1- Where were you when you first found out you were pregnant? In the Insta Care, I had to go in to get a doctors note for work saying that I was sick for a weekend.
2- Who was with you? Just me and the doctor.
3- How did you find out that you were pregnant? By peeing in a cup.
4-What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? Bitter Sweet, I wanted someone besides an Insta Care doctor there to share the moment with
5- What main symptoms sold it for you? Non really. Except the fact that I missed my period by four days. Very odd for me.
6- Who was the first person you told? Ryan, I think. My mom guessed it before I took the test.
7-Did you plan to get pregnant? YES
8-Was everybody happy for you? Definitely.
9- Did you want to find out the sex? Yup!!!
10-What was the sex? Girl.
11-Did anyone throw you a baby shower? Yes
12-If yes, who? My mom threw one in San Diego with the ladies from my ward that I grew up in and my aunts and cousins. My mother in law threw one for Ryan's family and the women in the ward that he grew up in. Then the ladies in our ward threw one for me. Chalk one up for having family in different parts of the country, you get a lot of stuff.
13- Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew you weren't going to put on your baby? A LOT... I am anti pink and no one read the invitations that said "Prefers colors other than PINK".
14- How much weight did you gain? Too much according to my mom, but that enough for the doctor to be concerned.
15- Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? Nope, I started to and got about 10 pounds away, but then I got pregnant again.
16- Did you get a lot of stretch marks? TONS....And I don't care what people say, those things DO NOT go away.
17- What did you crave the most? Fresh Fruit. Ryan was mean enough that the one time that I asked him to go get me a pregnancy craving he refused.
18- Did you crave anything crazy? French Fries with Fry Sauce from Leatherby's.
19-Who or what got on your nerves the most? Nothing really.
20-Did you ever resent your husband for "putting you in this situation"? NEVER
21- Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? Nope.
22-Where were you when you went into labor? In my bed... I'd been asleep for about an hour when my contractions started. I wasn't sure they were real, so I got up and walked around for about an hour than went back to bed because my back hurt. Then I waited about another hour, called the hospital, waited another hour, than went in.
23-Did your water break? No... they had to break it.
24- What were you feeling when you knew your baby was almost here? Nervous, I had a C-Section and was not too sure about the surgery.
25- Did you go early or late? Right on time. I didn't even start labor until 2:00 am on my due date
26- Who was in the room with you when you gave birth? Who knows! A lot of nurses a couple doctors and Ryan.
27-Was it video taped? No but I watched the surgery. That was weird.
28- Did you have any drugs for the pain? Epidural, I had to have one.
29-Did you go natural or have a c-section? C-Section, Kiyah had a lot of distress.
30- What was your first reaction after giving birth? I was happy and then a lot of pain set in from being opened up. I do not even remember holding Kiyah for the first time, I was way out of it.
31- How big was the baby? 6 pounds 11 ounces
32- Did your Husband cry? I don't think so... if he did it wasn't much.
33- What did you name the baby? Kiyah Rose
34-Was it difficult coming up with his/her name? Yes and no. Before we found out we were having a girl we were set on the name Adrianna Nicole, but when Ryan knew we were having a girl he nixed the name and we had to come up with another one. Than, we came up with Kiyah, but he wasn't sure if I would like it because it was an old bosses daughters name and I did not like that boss very much. (She fired me when I found out I was pregnant, though she would not give that exact reason.)
35- How long were you in labor? 10 hours all together. 6 in the hospital
36- How much time did you get with your baby before they whisked him/her away? A few seconds... They showed her over the partition and that was all I saw. I got morphine after that and did not remember anything for the next 30 minutes.
37- Did the baby(s) have any complications? Yes. She had a lot of stress and macomium, however you spell that, and she had the cord wrapped around her ankle. Ryan says she wanted to try bungee jumping right away.
38- How old is your baby today? 21 months almost 22.
39- When is the next one(s) coming? As long as I don't go early, January 26. A scheduled C-Section
40-If you could, would you do it all over again? Yes, obviously. My pregnancies are not that bad. I never get sick. And with this one, I really did not gain any weight.