Big 6

Tripp is 6 years old now. Where has the time gone? He wanted a Batman birthday this year, so here he is with his Batman shirt and Joker pinata. I made his shirt this year the same way I made his Hulk shirt last year. Both Tripp and Deklan helped make the pinata and they helped me paint it.

 He also asked for lemon cupcakes. I'm pretty sure he hadn't tried a lemon cupcake until his birthday. Darcy helped me make the Batman chocolates on top. I just melted chocolate chips, put them in a piping bag, and followed a batman symbol under a piece of wax paper. Super easy -just time consuming.

 And Grandma Kathy bought him this enormous chocolate cake.

 We played pass the bomb (hot potato). 

 It came down to Tripp and Asher. I think Asher won. We also tried to play "pin the mustache on the villain" by taping mustaches on Randy's face while blindfolded. But Randy's face was too hairy and the tape didn't stick. Asher technically won that game too.

 Here is Deko with the pinata

 And Tripp

 Asher

 And the candy rush. Alexis broke the pinata wide open.

 Lots of sweet treats

 And awesome presents

We all had a lot of fun! Thank you to everyone who helped us with the party and a big thank you to Steve and Zayna for letting us use their house. Now Tripp says he wants an Iron Man birthday for next year...

Visit

Grandma Keri came to visit and spoiled us for a few days. Tripp has wanted her to paint a Hulk on his wall since we first started talking about looking for a house. So he was thrilled when she created this masterpiece for him. And then he asked her to paint a King Kong fighting him. Little stinker! Thank you Grandma Keri! You need to visit us again soon!

Now let's hope we can keep our house so we can enjoy this painting, because we all know that if it was up to Bryan Biddulph we would be living in a cardboard box on the street.

Mom was able to snap a few family pics for us. It is close to impossible to get these boys to cooperate for a picture. This is the best we could do. Tripp is hiding a cookie in his shorts, who knows what Raidon is looking at, Deko's grin gives me the willies, and Baine is passed out.

Raidon loves baby Baine. We are still working on being gentle. He loves to touch his head, poke him in the eye, and point out his nose.

He also loves to hold him 

 and give him loves.

And we always love those sweet sleep smiles.

He's finally here!

Despite all the stress and torment my family has been subjected to these past few months we managed to have a healthy baby boy on Monday, June 2nd. This guy apparently wanted to write his own "entering the world" story because this pregnancy and delivery was completely different than my other babies. First he was overdue by 4 days. I have never gone over my due date before. That morning I had just scheduled an appointment to be induced on Wednesday -I guess I should have scheduled it a long time ago if that's all it took to get him out.  

 I started having really strong contractions while I was showing an apartment. It was tough to put on my best face during that showing. Once I got home, I tried to do a little more work for the apartments on the computer, but the contractions were super strong and 3 minutes apart so I told Randy that it was time to go to the hospital. He couldn't reach people to watch our kids and he finally had to go pick up cousin Jordan and bring him to our home so we could go. While Randy was gone, Raidon decided to run into me and head-butt me in the belly, Deko needed help in the bathroom, Tripp was laughing at my agonizing faces, and Raidon needed a diaper change. No rest for me!

 We arrived at the hospital at 6:15pm and Baby was born at 7pm. Yeah, way too fast. Don't you just love it when the nurses don't believe anything you say. Once we got there we told them that my babies come fast and that I needed an epidural 20 minutes ago. They continued to take their time and not listen to me. Needless to say, this was my first NATURAL birth. I don't recommend them. I'm still a bit traumatized by the whole experience. Once they put me in the delivery room and finally got the anesthetist in the room, they decided I would only have time for a spinal. They rolled me on my side and the guy cleaned my back and that's when the contractions got out of control and my water broke. I felt him shift completely down and of course I was screaming my head off. The nurses yelled at me to stop pushing, but I wasn't. I could feel my body pushing the baby out and I had no control over it.-I couldn't stop it. At one point the nurse grabbed my shoulders, told me to stop screaming, that I was going to have a natural birth, and that I would feel amazing in 20 minutes. What in the world is she smoking? I somehow missed the amazing feeling part, because all I felt was drained and exhausted. Baby came out in 2 pushes. All wrinkly from being cooked for too long. 8 lbs 2 oz and 21 inches long. A sweet healthy baby boy. 

 We were still undecided on a name. So we wrote several names on the white board in our room and every time a nurse came in, we had them vote for their favorite. One nurse kept popping in just to see the score. The winner was Baine Dermond. In Hawaiian, it means long-awaited child. It was so fitting for our sweet baby B! All this baby wants to do is eat. Tripp has been a great helper in that department. He is an awesome big brother. Deklan loves the baby too and Raidon loves to poke him. 

We feel so happy and blessed to have this sweet spirit in our home! Thank you to everyone who has brought meals or helped with my children this past week. It means a lot to my family and I found that last night in my prayers I felt so overwhelmed with the love that everyone has shown us and so blessed to live here. Even though the never-ending lawsuit nightmare isn't over, I know my Heavenly Father loves us and knows our needs and I have no doubt that we will get through this trial as well. Again Thank you for your prayers and support!

Relax

Sarah invited us to go to a beach house with her and her family in April. It was only for a few days but it was some much needed relaxation. Definitely short-lived though....

 Randy said this is the only place where you can wear your swim trunks and a winter coat at the same time. It was overcast when we got there, rained all day the second day, and the last day was sunny but windy.

 Deklan fell in the water and got his coat drenched, so he sat by the fire the rest of the time.

 Raidon loved walking into the water. Crazy kid, it was freezing!

 We went to the Tillamook factory on the rainy day.

 This is how Raidon spent the entire tour.

Here are some pics from the sunny day on the beach.

 Deklan's zipper on his coat broke and he wouldn't wear it. So he is wearing Raidon's coat.

 And Raidon is wearing Deko's coat.

 Braden snapped this family pic for us.

 These two loved playing with the ladybugs in the bush by the house.

Thanks Sar for inviting us! Hopefully I won't be prego next time :) I have 10 days left and am so ready to evict this baby!

Deklan and Raidon

This is my dancing boy. Anytime there is a noise he is trying to dance to it. I could watch this video all day. He has the best dance moves of any 1 year old out there!

This is a name from a book we read called "Tikki Tikki Tembo." I just thought it was funny that he memorized the name perfectly. As you might notice we were just sitting down eating lunch when he started chanting the name. 

Deklan is my gardening buddy. He checks on our plants everyday to see if they have grown. He is always discouraged to find that we don't have any blueberries yet.