And she's HERE!!!!

Kelby Shea Fobert was born 12/20/11 (10 days late) at 1:02 PM.  She was 7 lb 14 oz and 20 in long.

..... and the birth story, for those that want to know..... if you'd rather not, you can stop reading here :)  
My midwife really didn't want me going any longer than 41 weeks, but since that came and went on the weekend she was going to be out of town, she wasn't real pushy at having me induced then, but come Monday, she wanted me to have her.  I had been dilated to a 2 for two weeks, then a 4 for a week, then a 6 at 41 weeks....... but not in labor!!  She said she'd had only one other patient like that before.  So, Monday afternoon she swept my membranes.  She thought for sure she'd come that night, and I was a little nervous to drive the 15 miles back home, but I did, and we decided to get everything ready and head back to town when Robert got home from work, since the roads and weather were a little bad, and traffic was slow.  We went to walmart, walked around, I was having mild contractions, but nothing out of the ordinary from the past two weeks.  We finally decided to go ahead and get a room at the motel, so we could relax, and get any rest we could. Still nothing come morning, so I met my midwife at the hospital and she broke my water somewhere around 9:30.  That finally did the trick, and after about half an hour I was having regular STRONG contractions.  The nurses kept telling me "We'll have a baby by 11:00"...... but that came and went and I didn't feel like she was dropping down. About 11:30 I chickened out AGAIN and got the epidural, I was at a 9 then.   Each epidural I've had has numbed me a little differently, and this time I could still feel my abdomen pretty good, so I'm not sure it was worth it, it did take the edge off a bit, but with all the effects of being numb for 5 hours after, a sore tailbone, a backache, and such..... maybe I can do it next time??? haha anyway, come to find out the umbilical cord was half the length of normal, so that was probably keeping her from dropping down and sending me in labor.  I wish this thing would let me post pics today, because I think she is such a pretty baby.... in fact she's pretty much perfect!! :D .... like my other two :) We stayed one night in the hospital and we talked them into letting us go home the next morning.  Some people wonder why we don't stay and "rest" in the hospital, but really we rest better at home, in our own beds, where nurses don't come in every little bit for this or that, and you don't hear doors, doorbells, and visitors 24/7.  The day after we came home she was a little fussy, and spitting up a bit. I could tell her belly was uncomfortable, so we called our hero, Jan....... the lady that helped Hayden feel so much better.  She found that Kelby had a dropped colon, her shoulder was out, her neck and back were both sore, and she adjusted her head plates, because she has a ridge kinda across the top of her head, we'll probably go back in a couple weeks to get that adjusted again.  This lady is amazing! Since we left her house Kelby has been SOOOO relaxed, and has only fussed when she's hungry.  I'm pretty sure all babies should be that way!  Her sisters love her so much! Brecklyn tells me daily how much she loves Kelby.  Hayden always gets close to her and says "HI! Hi! Hi! Hi!" We thank Heavenly Father for sending this precious little spirit to our home!

For all those who are waiting and wondering........

..... so am I :)  ...... BUT I feel good, and I'm really fine with waiting, whenever she's ready so are we!  I have no plans to be induced, have membranes stripped or anything.  I don't really feel like it's my decision to say when it's time for her to come.  We are so excited to see her and we'll let you all know as soon as we can after she's here!

Cute pics from the backyard!

took these a few weeks ago....... love these beautiful gals!!

Introducing..............

(no... not the new baby yet, getting pretty close tho!!)

  Tigger and Eeyore!! Aren't they the cutest....

We didn't do a ton of trick or treating, but we got enough candy and such, and we were all still getting over colds, so they weren't up to doing much more anyway.

Belly pic..... and Happy Halloween!!

Soo, we tried to take some good belly pics real quick on Saturday, because there's this cool girl I know named Candace that's due within about a week of me, but she lives 13 hours away, so we never get to see each other and compare baby bellies and such.  They didn't turn out the greatest, so I decided to do a little 'picniking' with them.   Maybe we'll try again sometime in the next few weeks and get some better shots! but for now HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! haha and here ya go Candace :) love ya

p.s. everything seems to be going well with this little growing gal.  We are just waiting for Roberts insurance to kick in at work so we can start having regular checkups. Makes me a bit nervous, because we are cutting it so close.  But the midwife I will be seeing, asked me come in to "get my chart started", and actually gave me a free exam!  Pretty nice huh!? This baby is WAY more active than Brecklyn or Hayden was, maybe she's just  reassuring me that she's okay in there. She also seems to be more upfront in my belly.... hard to remember but it doesn't seem like my belly poked out this much in the front before.

We❤ love ❤our babies!!

Last weekend,  we decided to get the girls some babies.  I wanted to get them one before their new sister gets here, so they can maybe take care of their babies while I take care of mine.  I think it has helped Hayden start to understand a teeny bit what babies are all about, and how to be soft with them.  Since then though she has gotten attached to a baby that we already had.  It plays music when you push its belly, and she's learned how to play the music herself, then she'll sit and rock her baby while the music plays.... SOO  precious!!

Cookin up a storm!

We got to play with my nephew Junior a couple days ago while his mom and daddy were at work.  He's sure a fun busy little boy.  9 months old and walking really well!  It's so cute to see his little body walking around like he's been doing it for a while.  Hayden is walking a bit here and there, but she mostly just likes to crawl.  Me and Robert made this little oven out of some of our moving boxes.  It's fun to see their imagination start taking off when we do pretend things with them!

Life in Colorado so far.....................

Sorry for the slacking on keepin y'all updated, but in my free time I've been pretty tired, and just haven't made this a priority.... but here are a few of the things we've been up to since we moved here!

Mowing Grammy's lawn.....

 Celebrating Robert's Birthday!

 Picnicking in the mountains......

 Diggin in the dirt.....

 and this past Saturday was free National Park Weekend!   We always like to take advantage of that so we headed to the Great Sand Dunes National Park for the afternoon.  The weather was PERFECT!! We'll just have to go back in the spring when there is water to play in!

• picking raspberries in Granma Great's  raspberry patch.
• Visiting Granma & Granpa Great... LOVE having them next door!
• Checking the horses with Grammy..... had 2 new foals since we've moved here..... and one of those was from Brecklyn's horse Nickel that we had in Utah.  I'll hafta post pics of that beauty later!
• Looking for caterpillars with Grammy.... hopefully the one we brought home turns into a butterfly!
• Spent an afternoon at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs.... I'll post pics another day when i can get them off my phone.
• Potty training Brecklyn.... she's finally about got it down! 
• Anxiously awaiting this new baby girl!!!!  Not that I'm miserably pregnant....... I just CANNOT wait to see her and hold her!

Birthday girl, birthday girl!

wow! where does a whole year go?  a year ago we were adjusting to life with two little ones, tryin to figure out why Hayden was so fussy, planning a trip to Colorado to show off the new baby and interview for a job.   Now this year we've just moved to CO, gettin settled in, Robert is liking his new job, loving our 2 little gals, SO excited for another one, and just celebrated little Hayden's 1 year birthday. It's been a good year, we are happy and excited for what all these changes are bringing.
A few things about our Hayden gal......

• she can sign banana, all done, more, bath, drink, and milk.
• her first words besides mama and daddy were horse and doggy, and yesterday she was attempting to say flowers. of course she doesn't say these words clearly, but we know what she's saying.  
• She has fallen in love with horses since moving to colorado. She gives them lots of hugs and LOVES to ride!
• She is super sweet!
• she loves her mama
• she loves her daddy
• she loves her good sister Brecklyn.   We've all had colds the past few days and Brecklyn got the worst of it, fevering constantly for 3 days.  One afternoon, Brecklyn was laying on the floor watching tv, Hayden crawled over to her, gave her 2 hugs, and probably would have more but they weren't being very appreciated.  Poor Brecklyn was so miserable.
• She loves her bed, and will hardly sleep anywhere else.
• She has yet to walk, but can stand alone if she doesn't know she's doing it.
• She LOVES mangoes, hence her Hawaiian Mango Dream Birthday Cake.
• She has become alot more vocal, pretty much since her big day.   Last night she even yelled at Brecklyn for "sharing" food off of her tray.
• she has a love for music.

These first few pics are just practice for her big day...... my mom made me my favorite cake for my early birthday when we came to visit a few days before my birthday.  ( My sweet motherinlaw also made me my favorite cake, on my actual birthday)

 This scary looking cake is her actual birthday cake.  I feel a little bad that I got a little more creative for both of Brecklyns birthday cakes...... but I'll have you know what this cake lacked for in looks, it made up for in taste!  We couldn't think of what to do for her cake, my mom suggested a mango cake since she loves her mangoes.... i looked into it and this is what we came up with!  SOOO GOOOD! I'll post the recipe on my recipe site!

 This is the birthday gal on her actual birthday..... we celebrated a bit on the 13th, and some more on the 14th.

 She was one happy girl! Brecklyn on the other hand.... still sick and miserable.

 Pardon our casualness, but it was a Sunday afternoon, 3 of us had been up almost the whole night before, and we were all sick.  BUT..... we still had a lovely day together :)

Duke's Jewelers..... TO THE RESCUE!!!

So.... one day....  Me, Brecklyn, and Hayden went to Springville to pick up our new puppy, Cactus.  We stopped by Jeremiah and MaryAnns to play for a few hours before going over to get him.  The girls were having lots of fun together, (wish I had taken pictures) when..... just as we were about to clean up and get ready to go, Brecklyn comes over to me and shows me this bottle she has been "cooking" with and had stuck her finger in it.  I didn't think much of it, and tried pulling it off gently, then a little harder.... and it wouldn't budge. I unscrewed the lid off so that that was the only thing on her finger.  Next we try running it under water.... no budge still.  MaryAnn then tries a little vaseline with q-tips to loosen it up..... and now I'm beginning to wonder if we're going to need some outside help (possibly ER.)   However, I remembered, that my mom had gotten something stuck on her finger a while back and had told me some trick.... but i couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. So after a few phone calls i was able to get ahold of her.  And she said to head to the nearest jewelers, which in our case was Duke's Jewelers. At this point, Brecklyn was crying, Hayden was crying, and i think Hailey was crying too.  It was getting a bit stressful.  MaryAnn looked up the address, while I loaded up my girls.  She also got a popsicle for Brecklyn..... then we were on our way. When we got in the van, I took a deep breath and just told Brecklyn really calmly that we were going to have some people take it off.  After that she really calmed down.....It wasn't too long of a drive, but long enough for Brecklyns popsicle to melt a bit and fall off the stick.  Which threw her back into screaming and crying mode.  We found the place, and I ran in to see if they thought they could help, and they were pretty sure they could, so i ran back out, got the girls, and came back in.  In less than a minute they had it off... WHEW!!  They were SOOOOO nice!! Even gave Brecklyn a cup to fill up with her choice of candy. THANKS DUKE"S JEWELERS... you saved my day!!.... and big thanks to my MOM of course! :)

Swimmin!!!...............in the kitchen!!

We had a trampoline in the kitchen, why not a swimming pool too?!  Me and Krystal had planned on a little pool party one day a few weeks ago, and had gotten our kids all excited about it, when of course it turned really really windy out....... so rather than disappoint we just set up the pool indoors.  Not sure if we'll do that again anytime soon, but it was fun to do once!  There was water EVERYWHERE!! But these guys loved it, and we had fun watching them. I had planned on letting Hayden get in too, but these three were too wild to even try that.

Yep, I think he's going to be a good dog :)

Coming this fall......

or maybe I should say winter.   Due date went from Nov. 28 to Dec 10 when we had this ultrasound on 6/29.  Surprise, surprise they want me to have another ultrasound in a couple weeks, because the baby is measuring small, just like the other two did.  Maybe we will, maybe we won't...... I'm really not worried about it myself.   

I'm not gonna show the baby's privates..... because I believe  they are still HER privates...... however i will post these naked baby pics of her ;)  ain't she cute.   We are already so in love with her!  YEP HER!  The ultrasound tech. sounded pretty certain that what we were seeing was a girl, but I still have a hard time convincing myself its a girl for some reason.  Not disappointed at all.... it just feels weird calling her... a her.

Day-Date--Tubing down the Virgin River in Springdale

Babysitter: $0
Tube Rental: $0 
Munchies from Farmer's Market $10
Sunblock $11
Dinner at Costa Vida:  $9

....knowing that there are really 3 people in this picture............ PRICELESS!!

Plain ol' Precious!

This sweet sweet girl, has learned to fold her arms for prayers...... is that not the most precious thing you ever saw! I wondered if we would think every little thing was just THE CUTEST with the second baby...... how can I not?!  I can't get over how smart this Hayden girl is.  She's such a snugggler too!  She often crawls over to me, climbs up my shirt and gives me the best hugs!  She's pretty good at giving cute little kisses to us all too. Crazy, she's gonna have a birthday in just 2 short  months!

Splashpad fun!

I asked Robert what he wanted to do Saturday, since it was Father's Day weekend, I wanted him to pick something fun to do. First he said we should go swimming, down at my sister's clubhouse pool in Hurricane.  Which I thought was really thoughtful, since he's not the biggest fan of swimming.  He just wanted to do something fun for the girls.  What a guy huh! Plans changed a bit on the way down, and we decided to go to the splash pad instead.  I really like that place, it's so fun for the kids, and fun for us to watch them have fun playing in the water!.... Oh and it's FREE :D

How much do YOU think they look alike?

Here's a couple pictures of our girls, both at 10 months old.  Crazy how much hair Brecklyn has huh!?

What's Fer Dinner!

We had a cow when we were growing up named What's fer dinner. And other cows, with other crazy names... but that's besides the point.  I started a cooking blog, clear back in April, but I finally got a recipe posted on it today!  So.... look if you want, I don't know that I will post real regularly, just here and there when I get a picture of one of our favorite entrees, pretty much just for my own reference, but I will share with you too!  E N J O Y!!........   http://www.acleanbite.blogspot.com/

Thank Heavens for these Brave Men!!

Robert's brother, Scott, was deployed this past Saturday, June 4.  It was hard to see him tell his little family goodbye.  He has 3 sons, a 3 year old, an almost 2 year old, and a 5 week old baby.  His wife has her work cut out for her while he's gone this coming year, but if anyone can do it, she can!  They will all be in our prayers for a safe return.  I am so thankful that there are brave men and women, who will sacrifice so much for our country!

Just a funny side note..... Brecklyn has always liked airplanes, but hasn't ever really seen them up close.  A couple weeks ago there was a cropduster doing the field  across the road from us, and she thought that was so cool.... and she also thought that was a REALLY big airplane, and talked about it for days!  Well when we pulled in the parking lot to see Scott off and she saw this plane she was amazed!!  The crowd stood around after saying goodbyes to see the plane take off, and as it left the ground everyone clapped.  Brecklyn was up on Roberts shoulders and I wish I had a video of her, it was so cute, she yelled "GOOD JOB SCOTT!!! SCOTT"S IN THE SKY!!!!"  I kinda think she thought he was flying the plane, and she still thinks he's flying around in the skies.