A Skirt for Anna

Here is a skirt Anna and I made together with scrap material girls got from the ward swap this year.

Xander is 13 years old!

Xander is becoming quite the young man! He can be helpful, can be distracted, can be slow to wake up and get moving... But functions efficiently and best at night.

He loves YM's, and has worked really hard at his scouting. He is about to become a life scout.

He likes watching Studio C, a BYU sketch comedy show. Likes parkour, paint ball, Ethan, The Hobbit, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Xander was born December 18, 2001. He was born in a hospital in CT around 11:30 in the evening. He weighed 8 lbs. 

My labor was a long one. I was up the night before with contractions, throwing up and diarhea. Contractions lasted the day, exhausted we finally checked into the hospital. I had a midwife to attend the delivery. After laboring in the hospital, I took stadal for some pain relief, but I don't think it helped. It felt worse, it felt like my body was on fire. Xander was finally born!

When he was born he was purple (like all my children at birth) and the nurse wanted to get him some oxygen. Some how his lung collapsed and he spent several days in NICU recovering. He was the biggest baby in the NICU, next to all the premature babies. We came home with Xander a few days later. Glad to be home.

#SharetheGift

As we celebrate Christmas, sometimes Christ can be lost in worldly traditions. Its important for us to remember He is the Gift, and have our traditions reflect that, share that.

Thanksgiving Food!

Apparently the food is more important than the people... I have pictures of food, and not people.

We had a good Thanksgiving, Aaron and Brianna and their kids came, as well as Grandma and Grandpa.

And the food was delicious.