The countdown

Well here it is folks!! 8 hours until I hit 36 weeks. Almost there! It's amazing that I got to this point! It's been a haul. I'm tired and exhausted. But i can do this as long as I need to! We have had a rough couple days. Wednesday night I had contractions. Thursday they were worse and along came nausea and diarrhea (which is a big sign of labor) my parents came rushing down. My mom spent the night just in Case we needed to leave in a hurry. 

Friday I went into the hospital for my scheduled stress test. I passed with flying colors but dr Hoggard knowing my history wasn't sold on it. He asked me to come in. I was checked and there was progression and he told me it would probably be that night or Saturday. With that in mind we had my mom stay Friday night also. Dr Hoggard wanted to make sure I wasn't progress still so I went in on Saturday and we were all good. No change inbetween Friday and Saturday. Now it's Sunday and I'll still going strong!  Good job baby number 3!!! 

I have dropped and now we will see what happens!

The blue shirt was Sunday and the white shirt is Friday. Definate change. Well here we go!

1st day of school!

It has arrived!! The first day of school! School started august 19th! It seems so early! Monday before school started we had a family dinner, family home evening, and fathers blessings for the kids. Growing up I got a blessing from my father before school. It was such a comfort to me as I would go into school. I love the tradition and have continued with it in my family. Shaylie was so sweet,  she feels deeply so spiritual experiences bring her to tears. Love her sweet spirit. Briggs was happy to be big enough to receive a blessing for preschool. He won't start until September 2nd. He misses the cut off by a month for regular preschool. The 3 year old preschool is only 2 hours twice a week but I think it will make him a little more social. 

She was so happy to go

Back to school. Unfortunately she didn't have any of her friends in her class. It doesn't seem to bother her, she is a social butterfly. Briggs was sad until we went to hangout with grandma. Then he thought it was awesome. At this point I'm going to the doctors twice a week. Having contractions is normal. I just have to make it to 36 right?!

Shaylie had a new outfit for every day but Friday, she was disappointed then. 

Even though the school year started with rain everyone was happy. I was super happy to see her off to her first day. She has a 1st year teacher this year. I was nervous but I think she will be great. Miss Forsyth is excited to do some new things! Well till next time! 

Pioneer Day and beyond.

Well here is where it gets rough. Poineer day started off with me in the hospital. Wade got home Wednesday night from his very last buisness trip. Thursday morning I started having contractions. Regular contractions. Not good. 31 weeks and 4 days. They put me in the hospital to find out was what's going on. 2 cent dilated and 60% effaced. Once again not good. The good news is they have me steroid shots for his lungs and brain and I had a negative fedal fibernectin. Don't know how to spell it. It means that I wouldn't go into labor for two weeks. Giving him more time. This means bed rest. 

After getting out of the hospital we went to bishops house to watch fireworks. Tears and fears led me to a blessing that night. It's been hard to stay down with little kids. A lot of electric carts. 

We went to the specailist at 33 1/2 weeks and she told us there wasn't really anything we could do at this point. She thought I was an amazing person and was perplexed at how my body works. I have faith in our heavenly fathers plan and I have faith he will be healthy and strong. It was amazing to get another look at him! He is getting big and filling out. 

We can do this! I have to see doctors three times a week! It will all work out. 

New addition in the peacock clan

ONatalie had little reed! He's adorable! Her water broke at 36 weeks and 5 days!

The kids were so happy to go meet their new cousin! He is strong and healthy. They come when they want to!

This made my kids really excited to have their own baby at their own house! 

My mom has made so many things for this baby. A car seat cover, nursing cover,  burp cloths, dust ruffle, and an amazing baby quilt! 

I'm so excited! Now we wait

Bumps and bruises.

The kids had so much fun this summer but it came with a lot of ouchies

We will go from the top down. 1. Briggs smacked his head on the molding on the bottom of the wall. We thought it was going to need stitches. 2. Briggs got bit a lot and was swollen bad. And got a bite on his forehead and had an allergic reaction(awesome) 3. Shaylie got a bee sting that stayed for 5 days! It hurt her a lot 4. The grand finale! A black eye! Briggs hit shaylie in the eye with a plastic bat and gave her a bad black eye.

Other than injuries they got to play on big water slides!

Youth conference

I had the awesome opportunity to help out with youth conference. They did something awesome. A while back they decided to do an efy  for the local youth. As a teen I went to efy every year. It was a great time meeting people, learning the gospel, serving, and gaining a testimony. The one problem is efy is expensive, there are so many kids that can't afford to go. So the stake decided to make one for themselves. They had committees for all the different activities and they combined with 2 other stakes. So many kids and so much fun. On Thursday they had games outside. It was hot. But thankfully someone had the hook up with the fire department and they came and hosed down the kids

July in utah is hot but all that water cooled everyone down! I was there most of the day on Thursday and Saturday. Saturday I helped out the group show, service project, dinner, and fireside. Baking 800 bread sticks was a challenge but everything was a success! The short skits by the groups were awesome. There was a group that did a skit that they were synchronize swimmers, another that danced with glow sticks, songs, and dances. It was great to watch! 

So many people worked hard to put this on and it turned out amazing.

The kids had a great day with dad. Movies, Provo beach, sushi, shopping at the mall. They didn't miss me at all! Lol

Sunday fun day?

We have dinner at my parents house on Sunday, it's nice to not have to cook. It gets pretty crazy with 5 kids under 7 in a house but we have some good times. Wade had been gone for almost two weeks and came back for 24 hours just to leave for another 5 days. Wade left to go to winnemuca and we went to grandmas to eat dinner. Shaylie all the sudden realized how much she missed her dad. And out poured the tears. I couldn't help because I totally felt the same way. My sister felt so bad for her that she wanted to do anything to feel better. So this happened....Yep that's right face paint! And of course she couldn't just have shaylie have face paint. Briggs, Connor, Millie, Blake, chad and Michelle all got their faces painted. They all were so happy. 

It turned the night around! Thanks aunt Brooke!

Brucey pants

Bruce was in town. The day after 4th of July my parents called us up and asked if we would go to af canyon up to the reservoir up there. It's absolutely beautiful up there. The down side is everyone in utah has the same idea. We go up to American fork canyon once or twice a year. Usually in the fall when all the trees have beautiful red orange and yellow leaves. Funny fact, a week before wade and I got married wade took me horse back riding all though that area. It was beautiful and romantic. We had a wonderful time and it's still one of my favorite memories of just the two of us. 

Any ways I'll get back on track. We brought sandwiches and were planning on roasting marshmallows. Instead we stayed by the lake and had the kids swim. Bruce never gets the opportunity to do those kinds of things so it's always fun for me to have him experience things with us. Up at the reservoir there are lots of really tall trees. Some built a plank on the top of one of these tall trees and steps to get up there. There was a group of people that went up to jump off. Some came down screaming for their lives but most of them thought it was the best ever. I would have done if I wasn't prego for sure! Briggs loved playing in the mud of course and shaylie wanted to sun bathe. My girly girl and my dirty little boy.

4th of July 2014

This year Cori hosted the 4th of July party. Wade made it home late on the 3rd. We bought lots and I mean lots of fireworks. I've realized that being pregnant is hard for me and I can't keep up with my pace of life when I'm prego.(that's hard for me) my mom bought my kids cute outfits for the occasion. 

I can't help but think I have beautiful kids. These were great photos of them! It's amazing how much they don't look like eachother. Make me wonder what this next one will look like. I have a blue eyed blond boy and a hazel eyed brown hair little girl. It's a toss up what the third will be like. 

Well this is how the fourth turned out. We had all of wades family and all of my family including Bruce and Jacque. We had a lot of fun and ate lots of food. We started out with the small fountain fireworks. My dad was handing them to wade and he lit them up. After a couple smaller fountains wade lit another one but what was suppose to be a 5 foot firework ended up being more like 10-15 feet. Everyone went running and poor Millie got burned. Learning our lesson we put the fireworks out further. We started with the big ones. But after a couple we had one tip over and shoot at the spectators! The big ones that explode! Everyone went running and screaming and laughter(after no one died). No one got hurt and nothing set fire! Totally worked out! At the end everyone had a good time. Next year I'll go back to hosting. 

Old friends

I was so happy to hear that Danny Beall was coming through town. Even being almost 7 months prego I still wanted to see him. It's funny because you get married and have kids and your identity is that. Mom and wife. With that being said i love to see old friends because it reminds me that I'm still a person. I know sounds wierd. I've been talking to old friends a lot lately. My beautiful Meghan friend had a a baby girl! She is beautiful. It's awesome to see her experience that for the first time. I've talk to Vanessa lot about life. It's great.

When I told my mom that Danny was coming to town my mom jumped in the car. So me and my mom took my two kids and big baby bump to downtown to take Danny to lunch. Ps he's traveling with the van's warp tour. He's doing great. We've been friends since the 6th grade so it was awesome to see him.

Day camping

So wade hates camping. But the rest of us kinda like it. So Kirby and Whitney put together a camping trip at yuba lake. I had never been to yuba lake which is 2 1/2 hours away from our house. The trip was a success. 

We left to go in the morning and made it there by 11. The kids got to play and make bracelets. Kj, shaylie, Briggs, and Oakley all got along all day. After a nap in the camping chair we went down to the lake. 

My handsome little man by the lake. This kid is 100% boy. Dirt, sand, water, anything that he can dirty in he loves! It was a warm day it was a good thing there was a breeze or I would have died. We bought the kids fishing poles. They don't actually want to fish they just want to cast the line. 

Grandpa loves to have the kids out camping. Bart loves to have the family together camping. Wades idea of a good family activity is going to a nice dinner. Everyone in wades family camped for 3 days, we stayed til 6 and took off. Ate dinner at night and watched a movie lol. That's how we camp.

The kids make sand castles, made survival bracelets, "fished", went on a hike, and got a little sunburned! Awesomeness. 

Manti temple pageant!

This was the first time we have attended the manti temple pageant. I was excited for the opportunity to go. I know I've said a hundred times that wade has been gone a lot, so this will just be another time. With all the trips I thought this would be a great time to have some family time. The youth in our ward were planning on going to the pageant and we volunteered to drive and help out. So we took our kids and made a day out of it. We left early because it takes two hours to get there. Grabbed snacks and headed out. The reason I love road trips is because it's the only time wade and I talk about stuff. Lol. We always learn something new about eachother. The kids were great and didn't throw fits. They had toys and snacks so the are champion travelers. When we got there we hung out with the youth and ate a sandwich. We then decided to take some time for the family. 

We don't have much more time being a family of 4! We went and got ice cream at the local ice cream shop it was delicious. Shaylie and i took a minute to go to the craft fair and Briggs went with his dad. Shaylie and I had some bonding time. We girls have to stick together. We watched the show which was great.

The kids loved it. Briggs fell asleep during the last 5 minutes because it was 11:30 ish. We got home a little after 1 am. It was worth the once in a lifetime experience. 

The funny part came later. We are in the car with my mom the next day. Briggs told grandma that Joseph smith was shot at the temple (he saw the scene at the manti temple pageant and thought it was real I guess) is not knowing that he thought it was real kept listening. Then he said "grandma where were you?" 

Grandma " that was a long time ago"

Briggs " no it was at the temple!"

Grandma "um ok"

Briggs " were you watching soccer?"

The whole car "hahahaha"

It was a good time 

 

Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming!

Swimming lessons have been my saving grace! The kids have absolutely loved it! 40 dollars for 1/2 an hour every day! Best deal ever. I decided to have them take lessons the last of June. It wasn't too hot for me to sit under the umbrella and watch. It gave them something to look forward to every day. I wish I would have signed them up for more sessions

Two weeks of swimming didn't make them pros but there were so many things that they improved on. Briggs hates to wash his hair. He screams and screams because of the water in his face and ears. Ever since swim lessons he doesn't mind as much! He still doesn't like washing his hair but he doesn't scream! It sounds lame but it's huge for me!

Shaylie has learned out to jump in and try it. She has been scared of pretty much everything. She struggles to try new things. I never had this fear of failer but my poor baby girl does. 

Well I've learned that new experiences are always good for my children!

Wade's roots

Every summer we love to go to the parades. Coming from San Jose I never saw a town parade before. So when I moved here I thought it was the best thing ever! All summer long each town has a week where they celebrate. It usually comes with a parade, carnival, craft boutique, rodeo, and fireworks. I love fireworks. I got that from my mom. Shaylie loves to watch fireworks too as long and we aren't too close. Briggs has really gotten into them this year. This year briggs and wade went and helped grandpa with the horses and wagon in the pleasant grove parade. Briggs was so cute all decked out in his cowboy gear.

Shaylie and I got to sleep in! we need our beauty sleep. We went to the parade to watch all of them and see at the floats. Because it was just shaylie and I sitting together, everyone wanted to throw candy just to her. Shaylie didn't mind at all. She was happy to make it to the parade. They always want to go. I realized when I was sitting there that I was way to big to be sitting in the heat. This baby felt huge and I was sweating like a pig. It was nasty. The second the parade was over we were in the car turning the ac on full blast.

Sometimes I forget that wade and I come from such different backgrounds. Briggs is taught by his dad to pee outside like a cowboy. something us city folk never did. Also rodeos, horses, small town justice. But our kids will know both these worlds. They love to go shopping and to the movies but also can stay at grandpas farm all day with no complaint. Our friends the Roden's wanted to go with us to a rodeo, And it my book that means the pleasant grove rodeo. It's the best. Strawberries and cream, good entertainment, good cowboys, and fireworks. It is a great show. We took the kids and they loved it. The firework show was amazing. They asked wade tons of questions about rodeo and wade loved it! he felt like a pro. It was a great night. Gotta love wade's roots.