Baby Shoot at 9 days old.

While Janessa was pregnant, I found a photographer who has a business doing photo shoots for different vendors.  She will shoot and edit all her pictures she takes for you and it costs you nothing!  Sign me up!  I'm all for free!  This all came together on facebook and the funny thing was that she was a "friend" on Kasey's friend's list.  Miriah White came over to Janessa's house today for about 4 hours to shoot pictures of Kinsley.

At first Kinsley was having nothing to do with all the chaos going on in her lil' world but after an hour of fussing, she was able to calm down and close her eyes to sleep.  It was funny that this is the first day that I have seen her stay awake for longer than 10 minutes.  At first the session was crazy with Kinsley not wanting to sleep very deeply but she finally gave up and I hope the photographer and her husband were able to get some good shots.

I was happy when Kasey got his phone out to take a picture of Kinsley in this bucket.  I figured that gave me an ok to get my camera out also to take a few shots.  These are my 4 photos I took.
 

Ok.  Can I tell you how in love I am with this headband?!
 

She looks chubby here but she is anything but.....still in the 7 pound 11 oz range probably.
 

I hope the photographer didn't mind me bringing my mom's doll carriage over.  My mom was born in 1916 so the carriage is almost 100 years old!  Kinsley is also wrapped in the blanket that my grandpa gave me when I was born.  I was wrapped in it at my blessing so Kinsley is wrapped in a gift from her gg-grandfather.  I love that.
 

Sleepover Part 2

Tyson loved the Carousel!  In fact, we were in Malowi's eating pizza and he spotted it way across the street!  It cost $1.00 to ride.  One of the few times I actually had money so it was easy to say "yes" to Tyson.
 

Before he got inside he told me that he likes horses and they are his favorite animal.
 

The toy store was fun.  I don't know how much this contraption was but Tyson sure had fun on it!  It seemed easy enough to manuver for him too.
 

He wanted to jump and hop around the plantings along the stores.  Of course Tyson also asked me to take his picture in between the trees.
 

If you look really close (click the picture to make it bigger) you will see Joel's Thursday night date.  She is 6'2" and very pretty.  They were in the same ward this past semester and she came over to say goodbye to Joel.
 

Have to remember Tyson's prayer......last night before bed, we read our scriptures and had prayer.  We asked Tyson if he wanted to say it and he said no.  This morning though we asked if he wanted to say it before we left in the car and he did say it.  So cute!  He was thankful for being able to come have a sleepover at grammie's and grampie's house.  He blessed us.  He asked us to drive safe.  He said how much fun he had.

I love this little boy so so much!

Sleepover

Emily, Tyson and Annaly have been in DC visiting Emily's sister and her family so we haven't seen everyone for awhile.  We went over to visit last night so we could see the kids (and Jason and Emily).  It was fun to see Annaly now crawling!  Corbin fell asleep after a few runs around the room so we invited Tyson to come have a sleepover at our house.  We told him that he would have to go on a long trip to pick up Uncle Joel the next day from BYU and he was excited.

We got home and blew up his little air mattress and put his sleeping bag on it.  He promptly pulled it into our room and put it right against the end of our bed.  He has done this before.  When he was younger, he use to sleep in the front room.  He slept very good.  We got up around 7 a.m., had a breakfast of doughnuts and chocolate milk and then headed to Provo.  I told Tyson that I was glad he came along for the ride since Grampie fell right asleep when he got in the truck.  At least I had Tyson to talk to on the way down to Provo.  We looked at all the colors of trucks and wondered if we could find a purple truck.  Sure enough!  We saw one awhile later.  Tyson was so good!

After loading up Joel and all his belongings we headed to our favorite pizza place in Provo.  Malawi's.  It is fresh items and the dessert pizzas are excellent!
While we were eating, Tyson spied the carousel across the way.  We headed over there after we ate.  

Next stop was the toy store in the same area.  Tyson loved riding this toy!

He must have had a good time because the car ride home was very quiet.  He fell asleep after we passed Bridal Veil falls in the canyon and didn't wake up until he woke him at his house!  Thanks for playing Tyson with grammie and grampie!  We had a fun time with you!

A week with Kinsley

Today is Kinsley's ONE WEEK birthday!  Here are a few pictures I took of her during her first week.  Such a good baby!

2 days old here and loving the sun.
 

It's Sunday so time to dress up! (3 days old)
 

 

Made a few hair clips so had to try them on her at 5 days.
 

6 days old and loving her front pack!  She slept so good this day being so close to her mommy.
 

Peek-a-Boo!
 

6 days old.
 

It's awake time!
 

 

Babies

Lil' Kinsley came home this evening.  Here she is about 26 hours old.  Did we mention her hair?
 

I can't believe how much hair she has!
 

Here's 2 babies!  We love them both!
 

Welcoming home Kinsley

Welcome to your new home baby Kinsley!
 

 

The end of March and early April

At the end of March, Redi was invited to attend a Jazz game against the Kings.  Jimmer Freddette is a rookie on the Kings.  He played last year at BYU.  I was sad to hear all the boo's for him every time he was put in to play.  Utah can sometimes be so dumb.  Let's encourage the boy to excell instead of  trying to make him mess up.
 

The Jazz lost in the final second by one point.
 

These guys were pretty awesome to watch during one of the time-outs.


Easter Sunday we had Janessa and Kasey over for our 1st BBQ of the season.  Here is a picture of Janessa 4 days before she delivered Kinsley.
 

We don't get too many pictures of Kasey since he seems to work all holidays so I had to take this picture to show that he is around sometimes.
 

Later that Easter Sunday we took a drive with Janessa and Kasey up into the mountains around Henry's Fork and came out by Lone Tree.  Still alot of snow up there.
 

Wyoming beauty
 

Dad was honored at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Wednesday.  The town of Lyman choose him to be their Citizen of the Year for 2012!  Jason and Corbin had flown back from DC (visiting Emily's sister and family) the night before.  Corbin was still a bit tired from the trip.
 

Andy Hewitt, the Mayor, presenting dad with his award.
 

Yea for dad!
 

Kinsley Bright

Well.....since Kasey only brought his phone camera, I get to tell the story MY way!  What an exciting day for Janessa and Kasey!  Lil' Kinsley was born about 3:50 p.m. today on Joel's birthday!  She weighed in at 7 pounds and 11 oz!  20" long.  Head full of dark, long hair.  As Janessa was pushing, Dr. Karen Evans even gave Kinsley a mowhawk....like I said ALOT of hair!  I was so excited to be invited by Janessa to come witness the birth of our 5th grandchild.  What a beautiful day it has been!

Janessa's original due date was April 9th (Monday).  It came and went.  We had been walking each morning but no contractions.  On Wednesday, Janessa saw the doctor and was still dialated to a 3, just like last week so Dr. Evans said that she was tired of waiting so baby would come tomorrow (12th).  Of course that made Joel excited!  He has been saying all along that he hoped baby would be born on his birthday.

Janessa and Kasey arrived at the hospital at 7 a.m. Thursday morning in Evanston, Wy.  Doctor broke her water and got her going on pictocin around 8 a.m.  Labor started soon after that.
 

I couldn't wait around the house any longer so I decided to head to Evanston about 10:30 a.m. and arrived at the hospital a bit after noon.  Janessa is dialated only to a 4 at this time.
 

She finally made it to a 6 and decided that having an epidural would be ok......the nurses that put on the baby classes advocate to not be induced and to hold off on a epidural.......dumb nurses.  After the epidural kicked in, Janessa felt much better.
 

Around 3:20 p.m. the nurse came and check Janessa.  She said that Janessa was ready to go.  I called Kasey on the phone since he had left for a few minutes and ran into his dad and brother.  Here Janessa is before everyone came into the room to help her deliver Kinsley.
 

Of course I have my silly laugh.  It was either that or cry with joy.  It was so exciting to me to watch!




A few minutes old.  Probably not even 5 minutes.  Her eyes just got the drops in them.
 

Daddy can now hold her!
 

Cute lil' family!
 

 

 

 

 

 

Calling dad.
 

 

Her tiny feet.  They look blue but it is actually the ink from having her footprints taken earlier.
 

                              Congratulations Janessa and Kasey!  Welcome to the family, Kinsley!  AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOEL!  I think Janessa gave you a pretty great gift this year!