YAY! He's finally here!

Introducing.... Deklan, my little beast! He decided to come on his due date, August 4. He was 9lbs 6oz and 20 3/4 inches long.

We were trying to get a pic of Tripp holding Deklan, but he wasn't having it. Can you tell by the naughty face he's making.
And I thought this was kind of funny. This is Tripp at 1 day old: And this is Deklan at 3 days old:
Deklan is so chubby! I love it! I finally have a fat baby and I'm excited.

Gamma and Seattle

My mom came to visit us for the week to be here when I delivered my baby...but no such luck. This kid doesn't want to come out. So we enjoyed playing with mom while she was here. We went to Seattle and decided to ride the Duck -which is a land and water tour on an old WWII military assault vehicle. Our driver/tour guide was pretty animated and tried to make our tour fun and exciting. Tripp enjoyed yelling and clapping along with the driver. We saw some pretty neat sites like Gasworks Park (below) which is featured in the movie "10 Things I Hate About You." We also saw the floating house from "Sleepless in Seattle" and learned it was for sale, for 2.3 million dollars.
One of mom's friends told her about the gum wall by Pike Place Market, so we had to go contribute to it.

Tripp spit his gum into my hand along with a big pool of saliva. You can tell by the looks on our faces we both thought it was nasty!

Randy and his deposit

I love watching them make cheese! We even tried some fresh cheese curds that were delicious.

Tripp and I on the dock in front of the city

Tripp loved chasing these pigeons with this cute curly-haired girl

Tripp cried when my mom left today and has been asking for her as well. He enjoyed his roommate. While mom was here, I tried every inducing labor technique we could find. Nothing works. I tried castor oil -which is completely nasty and made me vomit, raspberry leaf tea, oregano and basil, accupressure points, long walks and lots of stairs, I even tried using my breast pump, we also tried what got him in there in the first place. Tripp was two weeks early, so I'm not used to being prego this long -my due date is wednesday. I'm not sure what else to try. And yeah, I know I'm HUGE so keep your fat comments to yourself.

Mini Nacho

Copycats

At least they can use their bellies for sumo wrestling.

And They're Off!!!

Memorial Day Weekend went racing by as we went to Emerald Downs to watch a little horse racing with ma & pa and the Brian/Jenny family.It was a pretty mucky day at the track and the track status was "sloppy" to begin with, however, the weather actually cooperated halfway through the races so we even got to see some racing on the wet/fast track.Anyway, we had fun rootin' and hollerin' and the kids got to enjoy some other activities as well.

The Race Fans from left:Titon, Jenny, Hitler(I mean Brian), Carol, Wilbur, Washy, & Trippman

What's horse racing without a bet?Yes, there's a first for everything.Oh, and if you couldn't tell by Tripp's face, he's in this to win it!

Watching my "Exacta" bet win me some moolah and the horses who helped me out!

Tripp got to enjoy some activities as well, like having a basketball painted on his hand, and riding the ponies while Daddy got all muddy sloshing with the ponies.

Emerald Downs...Good Times!

Favorite

This is my calling. It's my favorite so far. I get to make cookies for the Relief Society ladies for their birthdays. These are fun to make, but starting to be exhausting -especially when my big belly gets in the way. See the ones without names, those are my back ups cuz I have a tendency to snap their heads off when I package them. but I'm happy to say that I didn't decapitate any ladies this time. The only downside to this calling is that I can't eat sugar cookies anymore. I've made so many this year that they aren't even appealing to me. I have 3 ladies leftover, any takers?

Hot Rod

What a stud!