Friday, December 21, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Who looks like Who?
When you compare Ammon to Samantha and Luke now, he doesn't look like either of them, but I pulled out baby pictures for all of them around the same age and this is what I see. Luke and Ammon have the same nose and eye color. Sammy and Ammon have the same head shape. They all have the same ears. Ammon's hair is alot dark then the other ones. What do you see?
Monday, October 1, 2012
An eventful week
It's been forever since I posted and the things in this post happened a while ago, but I'm going to try and ketchup, yes I know it's spelt wrong.
The last week of August was a very eventful week for us. We started off the week with Luke's first day of school. He is now in first grade. Where have all the years gone? He has the same teacher he had for kindergarten. We are all so thrilled, including his teacher.
Ammon turned 4 months on Aug. 29th, which means first taste of food. We started him on rice cereal. He still doesn't really know what to think of it. After 3 and a half months of colic he is doing so much better. I would say a night and day difference. He still gets fussy sometimes, but we are able to calm him down right away. He actually has a bed time. He has finally started to sleep better at night, watch I say that now and he is going to stop sleeping well. He is usually down by 8:30.
Alan turned 32 on Aug. 30th. I made him a nice meal and we had his favorite desert, cheesecake. I can't believe that he is so old. Just joking, I love him so much, he is such a blessing to have in our lives. Saturday night I was giving the kids a bath and found gum in Sammy's hair and had no choice but to chop it. It looks pretty good, but she wasn't to happy about it. I'm it's short because she never would let me fix it so at least it is out of the way.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Swimming on the Cape
The first 3 pics are at Long Pond. It's actually a huge fresh water lake that Alan and his family have been swimming in since they were all little. It's not that far from Grandma Chase's house and the water isn't very deep so it's a great place to take the kids.
The other pics are at the ocean on Bank Street Beach.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
The Cape
We are back from our trip to Cape Cod. It was difficult with Ammon, but we still had a great time. Still haven't gone through all our pics, but here are a couple. I will post more in the near future
Grandma Chase with her newest great grandchild.
All 5 grandkids
Friday, June 29, 2012
Ammon's blessing
We blessed Ammon on May 27. It was a wonderful blessing. One part I remeber is that Ammon is going to be a good friend and get along with people. Brother Wilson, Bishop Stevenson, Joe Hansen and Anthony Martin stood in the circle. With each child we have the circle gets smaller and smaller, but we are greatful to those that were able to be here and stand in the circle.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Ammon Steven Chase, the birthing story
I know it's been forever since I've posted, but I've been a little busy. This post is long, so if you want you can Skip down to all the cute pics.
My due date was Thursday April 26. With my third baby I never imagined I would make it to that date or be late. I was not very happy about going to my doctors appointment the day before I was due. I was almost 3cm dilated, but was having no contractions what so ever. Late Wednesday night we got a call that Alan's Grandpa Chase had passed away. (I will tell this part of the story later). We now knew we were on the clock to have this baby before Alan's mom had to leave for the funeral. By Thursday afternoon the mood in the house was not that great, we were grieving and there were no signs of this baby coming.
My friend and relief society president Becci called and asked if I would like her to come over and have her strip my membranes, she is a midwife. Due to our time constraints and the fact that we were just ready to have this baby we said yes. She came over around 4. While she was checking me she felt for where his head was and found out that he was down low, but his hand was stuck down by his head and that was probably why I hadn't gone into labor. She stripped my membranes and gave me something to help him move his hand. I had 2 contractions later that night and then nothing. Friday came and no baby. Alan's mom left Saturday morning and there was still no baby.
I went into labor at 2:10am Sunday morning. After being in labor for 5 hours we woke up Alan's brother Mark, (who thank goodness decided to stay instead of going to the funeral) to watch the kids and we left for the hospital at about 7:30am. We got to the hospital and found out I was only 4cm dilated. I was not very happy, since my plan was to have this baby all natural. I asked to be sent home. We went home, played games and just hung out till we were ready to go back. Which ended up not being the best idea. Contractions were a little uncomfortable, but not to bad. 2pm came and I had made it through 12 hours of labor at home and no pain medication. We played one more game and then decided to go to the hospital. My contractions were about 5 to 6 min. apart and the hospital was only 15 min away, so we thought we would be okay.
It was about 4pm and we were on our way to the hospital when I reached the point in labor where I should be pushing. I was not prepared for how painful these contraction could be and ended up screaming with each one. We go to the hospital at about 4:10. I had Alan go get a wheelchair for me because there was no way I was going to be able to walk. Everything happened so quickly after this. The baby was coming right then and there was no way to stop it. They had Alan in the waiting room, but I guess they realized that there wasn't going to be any waiting and went to go get him. Alan said he started walking to the room when they told him you need to run. When Alan came in I told him he probably wouldn't want to stay, but he did anyways and I'm sure he wishes he hadn't. I'm not going into full detail about what happened next, but I did have an other fourth degree and was told by my doctor that if we were to have any more children it would done so by a c-section.
Needless to say it was a very traumatic birth, but I feel somewhat okay about it because I did it all natural.
Ammon was born on Sunday April 29, 2012 at 4:19pm. He weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and was almost 21 inches long. His body temp was a little low so they kept him under the heating lamp for a while, but other then that he was perfect.
My due date was Thursday April 26. With my third baby I never imagined I would make it to that date or be late. I was not very happy about going to my doctors appointment the day before I was due. I was almost 3cm dilated, but was having no contractions what so ever. Late Wednesday night we got a call that Alan's Grandpa Chase had passed away. (I will tell this part of the story later). We now knew we were on the clock to have this baby before Alan's mom had to leave for the funeral. By Thursday afternoon the mood in the house was not that great, we were grieving and there were no signs of this baby coming.
My friend and relief society president Becci called and asked if I would like her to come over and have her strip my membranes, she is a midwife. Due to our time constraints and the fact that we were just ready to have this baby we said yes. She came over around 4. While she was checking me she felt for where his head was and found out that he was down low, but his hand was stuck down by his head and that was probably why I hadn't gone into labor. She stripped my membranes and gave me something to help him move his hand. I had 2 contractions later that night and then nothing. Friday came and no baby. Alan's mom left Saturday morning and there was still no baby.
I went into labor at 2:10am Sunday morning. After being in labor for 5 hours we woke up Alan's brother Mark, (who thank goodness decided to stay instead of going to the funeral) to watch the kids and we left for the hospital at about 7:30am. We got to the hospital and found out I was only 4cm dilated. I was not very happy, since my plan was to have this baby all natural. I asked to be sent home. We went home, played games and just hung out till we were ready to go back. Which ended up not being the best idea. Contractions were a little uncomfortable, but not to bad. 2pm came and I had made it through 12 hours of labor at home and no pain medication. We played one more game and then decided to go to the hospital. My contractions were about 5 to 6 min. apart and the hospital was only 15 min away, so we thought we would be okay.
It was about 4pm and we were on our way to the hospital when I reached the point in labor where I should be pushing. I was not prepared for how painful these contraction could be and ended up screaming with each one. We go to the hospital at about 4:10. I had Alan go get a wheelchair for me because there was no way I was going to be able to walk. Everything happened so quickly after this. The baby was coming right then and there was no way to stop it. They had Alan in the waiting room, but I guess they realized that there wasn't going to be any waiting and went to go get him. Alan said he started walking to the room when they told him you need to run. When Alan came in I told him he probably wouldn't want to stay, but he did anyways and I'm sure he wishes he hadn't. I'm not going into full detail about what happened next, but I did have an other fourth degree and was told by my doctor that if we were to have any more children it would done so by a c-section.
Needless to say it was a very traumatic birth, but I feel somewhat okay about it because I did it all natural.
Ammon was born on Sunday April 29, 2012 at 4:19pm. He weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and was almost 21 inches long. His body temp was a little low so they kept him under the heating lamp for a while, but other then that he was perfect.
There's that troublesome hand. He still likes having it up by his head.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Easter Celebrations!
We had a great Easter this year especially since I was able to be here with the kids unlike last year. We had an eventful few days before Easter. Luke had an Easter egg hunt at school on Thursday that all the kindergartners did together. I was able to go help with this. Then a few of the women from church got together and did a hunt on Friday. Saturday we took the kids to the bass pro shop where they got a picture with the Easter bunny and did an egg hunt in the store. I was really impressed with this event. It wasn't to crowed, we didn't have to stand in line to long to see the Easter bunny and the kids had a blast. Easter morning the kids woke and had to find their baskets before the could go hunting, the Easter bunny hid their baskets. Sorry no pictures of us in our Sunday Easter outfits, I need to get to church early and we were running late and then we forgot when we got home. Church was wonderful, I was able to sing in the choir. I am grateful for the Resurrection of our savior and the atonement.
Luke waiting to go hunt for eggs.
Coming back
After hunting, he wasn't to happy because the kids were all suppose to get 15 eggs and he only got 10.
After hunt for eggs with their church friends.
At the Bass Pro Shop. This store is really cool. There are tanks of live fish every where.
Last year when Alan hid the eggs he put some in their shoes and they loved it, so he had to do it again.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
School Days
Luke is doing great in school. At his elementary they have 4, 9wk grading periods where they hand out awards at the end of each 9wks. The first 9 wks Luke got an award for math achievement and an award for citizenship pillar. Then next grading period he got one for perfect attendants and math and this last one he got one for math again. Do you see the trend here? He obviously gets that from Alan because as much as I actually like math I pretty mushed bombed in it at school. He is amazing at math and really likes it. We are so very proud of him.
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