ANABELLE JOY!!! Thanks everyone for voting! It was really fun to see what everyone thought! Anabelle was the name they were thinking about when Shel was pregnant, and Joy is after Jacob's mom, Carol Joy.
Shelley is hopefully coming home today, but Anabelle just might have to stay a little longer due to a high bili count. Shel will know a little more this afternoon. So stay posted! Shelley says hi to everyone and thank you for all the congratulations, love, and well wishes! We love you!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
More Baby Pictures!
This cute little one still doesn't have a name, so I will keep you updated! Shelley says there are 5 names in the running. They are Anneliese, Anabelle, Ellie, Lila, and Kate. Shelley would love to know what everyone thinks...and she has to have a name by 8am TOMORROW!!! So please VOTE!Tuesday, January 5, 2010
We have a BABY!
Well, not Chris and I, but my sister Shelley and her husband Jacob! Today at 9:47am Shelley gave birth to this sweet little thing...
She weighed 8lbs 5 oz and was 20 inches long. She has black hair and a darker complextion than her blond, fair skinned big sister Ava Leigh. She got pretty bruised on the way out...so her face is still puffy and swollen. Am I the only one who doesn't think she looks like a baby who is only hours old?!?! What a big baby!
Ahma and Baby Ingram. This is Ahma and Ahba's 14th Great Grandchild!
Shelley and Jacob haven't picked out her name yet, so we will all just have to wait till they decided....hopefully it won't take Shel as long as it took me to name Kallie. She has lots of black hair and a great set of lungs :) Alysa let me listen to her cooing over the phone and she has such a sweet little voice. Shelley is feeling great and is ready to be up and going! Little Ava isn't allowed in the hospital so Shel has to wait 2 days to see little Ava Leigh, which is hard on her. She can't wait to see Ava Leigh as a big sister! Congratulations Shelley, Jacob, and Ava Leigh!!!
Ahma, Shelley, and baby
And a big, huge, thank you to my aunt Joy who took these pictures with her phone and emailed them to me. You are the greatest!
She weighed 8lbs 5 oz and was 20 inches long. She has black hair and a darker complextion than her blond, fair skinned big sister Ava Leigh. She got pretty bruised on the way out...so her face is still puffy and swollen. Am I the only one who doesn't think she looks like a baby who is only hours old?!?! What a big baby! Ahma and Baby Ingram. This is Ahma and Ahba's 14th Great Grandchild!Shelley and Jacob haven't picked out her name yet, so we will all just have to wait till they decided....hopefully it won't take Shel as long as it took me to name Kallie. She has lots of black hair and a great set of lungs :) Alysa let me listen to her cooing over the phone and she has such a sweet little voice. Shelley is feeling great and is ready to be up and going! Little Ava isn't allowed in the hospital so Shel has to wait 2 days to see little Ava Leigh, which is hard on her. She can't wait to see Ava Leigh as a big sister! Congratulations Shelley, Jacob, and Ava Leigh!!!
Ahma, Shelley, and babyAnd a big, huge, thank you to my aunt Joy who took these pictures with her phone and emailed them to me. You are the greatest!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
My amazing son
So Ben came home the other and had a rather interesting conversation with us at dinner.
Me or Katie: "So how was your day at school Ben?"
Ben: "It was good, you know we did stations, I was in the talent show..."
Me or Katie: "What?! What talent show?"
Ben: "Yeah, when the teacher asked if we wanted to be in the talent show I signed up to play the piano."
Katie: "You haven't had any piano lessons."
Ben: "Oh, I just thought I'd make up one of my little tunes like I do on our piano here at home. So the talent show was today."
Boy, sure wish we hadn't missed that one! What a crazy kid. On an unrelated note when I got up this morning Andrew was crunched into the side of his crib fast asleep saying, "Ouch....... ouch...... ouuuuuuuuuch." Is it bad that I left him there?
Me or Katie: "So how was your day at school Ben?"
Ben: "It was good, you know we did stations, I was in the talent show..."
Me or Katie: "What?! What talent show?"
Ben: "Yeah, when the teacher asked if we wanted to be in the talent show I signed up to play the piano."
Katie: "You haven't had any piano lessons."
Ben: "Oh, I just thought I'd make up one of my little tunes like I do on our piano here at home. So the talent show was today."
Boy, sure wish we hadn't missed that one! What a crazy kid. On an unrelated note when I got up this morning Andrew was crunched into the side of his crib fast asleep saying, "Ouch....... ouch...... ouuuuuuuuuch." Is it bad that I left him there?
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Superpost
As I begin this post I must admit that I have no idea how long it will be, but we'll still call it a super post since it covers one of the longest time periods of any post in our history. Also, to get this up I'm going to post the text first and publish it, but if you like the pictures you might want to check back later. Anyways, this the second post I'm writing tonight and it caused me to realize something: a blog could be a very usefull alibi. I just finished a post I had started over a month ago. But when I posted it, blogger time stamped it for when I started the post and not for when I posted it and it placed the blog in that place chronologically, which is before posts that actually posted before it. This is significant because recently a man in New York was aquitted of a crime solely on account of an online post which placed him a significant distance away from the crime when it occurred. So there you have it, start a blog post every day, but don't finish it until you know you might have needed to be somewhere else that day...
Well, talk about starting off on a tangent. Let's just go through the big events that occurred during the last month or so of our lives. Given that I've spent more time at work than at home during this period I may or may not be lying about what actually occured.
Ben's Birthday:
Ben's Birthday was awesome dispite the fact that his FAVORITE birthday tradition EVER got passed over this time. Over time we got into the habbit of hanging donuts from our dining room chandelier as a birthday tradition. The rule is that you can only use your mouth to get the donut you want down (it's kind of like bobbing for apples). This is actually a form of russian roulette since our chandelier isn't anchored into the ceiling joist like it should be. It just suspends from a 2x4 that sits loose on top of the sheetrock above, but that is a much longer story for another day.
Anyway, we bought the donuts the day before so we'd be all ready for the next morning when Grandpa called up and took Ben out for a surprise birthday breakfast before school. Ben's birthday continued on through the weekend with a celebration that night, Chuck E Cheese with friends the next day, and a family celebration at Grandma and Grandpa's the day after that but 3 days and two stale boxes of donuts later we still hadn't done donuts. It was crazy whirlwind of illness, chores, and errands that always delayed it, but despite loving his birthday I'm not sure Ben has forgiven us for not having really done donuts this year.
Thanksgiving:
We drove down to California for Thanksgiving again this year. The best part: I got my wish of driving at night which means we made it down there in 8 hours flat and back in 7 hours and 45 minutes. We tried to knock out Bebe on our first day down there and he got the hint and took off two days of work to spend with us which was awesome.
The highlight of the trip (besides Thanksgiving itself) was going to the La Brea tarpits with BeBe. The density of geologic history contained per unit volume in the ground there is simply amazing. Of course, Katie cried because the fake mammoth family was standing helpless on the banks of the tar lake while the fake mammoth mommy gets sucked into the tar. This is not a story line that was suggested by anything found there by the way. Another fun thing at the tar pits is the atrium in the center of the museum that has fake animals placed throughout it with signs saying "Please don't feed the animals" (no kidding). The kids favorite attraction was the penny funnel at the end of the museum. Andrew thought he had it figured out when he realized he could just throw the penny through the hole in the middle instead of letting it roll, and roll, and roll. Anyways, we had a total head count at the end to make sure we hadn't added to the fossil record during our stay.
Thanksgiving was the wonderful experience we've come to expect at Ahma's with the jumping castle, great turkey, and amazing pie all included.
Remember the costume contest I mentioned in my last post that actually shows up two posts back? Well the prize was a two night stay in West Wendover with tickets to see Joe Nichols. Katie and I didn't know anything about Wendover, but we did know we were excited to get a little trip with some time for each other without kids. So right after Thanksgiving dinner we hit Nini's house one last time for Christmas and to say goodbye to everybody. Then we drove through the night, dropped the kids off at with Grandma and Grandpa, and headed out to Wendover.
We almost missed it.
West Wendover spend LOTS of advertising dollars in Utah, and they absolutely had us fooled into thinking it must be something 2 or 3 times the size of Mesquite possibly. Let's just say, if you've seen the tv commercial for Wendover you've have seen ALL of Wendover including what must be the only indoor pool (commercial or residential). It's quite safe to say we're going to have to win another costume contest in order to get us back to West Wendover.
Highlights of the trip: The city landscapes in astroturf, Smiths, McDonalds. Yep, that's it. On one of our many trips to Smiths in 2 days I talked to one of the locals. It went like this:
Me: "So, are you from Wendover?"
Him: "Yep, can I help you with something?"
Me: "Is this it?"
Him: "Um, what are you looking for?"
Me: "I just thought there would be a couple of restaurants, maybe some stores, you know..."
Him: "Oh, well there's lots of places to eat. You know there's a chinese place in the strip mall, McDonalds,..."
Me: "There's a strip mall?!"
Him: "Yeah, right in back here by the titty bar."
Me: "That's a strip mall?"
Him: "Yeah, but don't park by Mike's garage. He doesn't like that."
Me: " Hmmmm"
I'm pretty sure that the so called "strip mall" was really just another name for his "titty bar". Anyway, we had an awesome time with each other, BYU won the Holy War while we were there, and the Joe Nichols concert was awesome despite the fact that I'm not much of a country music fan.
And that concludes November.
Well, talk about starting off on a tangent. Let's just go through the big events that occurred during the last month or so of our lives. Given that I've spent more time at work than at home during this period I may or may not be lying about what actually occured.
Ben's Birthday:
Ben's Birthday was awesome dispite the fact that his FAVORITE birthday tradition EVER got passed over this time. Over time we got into the habbit of hanging donuts from our dining room chandelier as a birthday tradition. The rule is that you can only use your mouth to get the donut you want down (it's kind of like bobbing for apples). This is actually a form of russian roulette since our chandelier isn't anchored into the ceiling joist like it should be. It just suspends from a 2x4 that sits loose on top of the sheetrock above, but that is a much longer story for another day.
Anyway, we bought the donuts the day before so we'd be all ready for the next morning when Grandpa called up and took Ben out for a surprise birthday breakfast before school. Ben's birthday continued on through the weekend with a celebration that night, Chuck E Cheese with friends the next day, and a family celebration at Grandma and Grandpa's the day after that but 3 days and two stale boxes of donuts later we still hadn't done donuts. It was crazy whirlwind of illness, chores, and errands that always delayed it, but despite loving his birthday I'm not sure Ben has forgiven us for not having really done donuts this year.
Thanksgiving:
We drove down to California for Thanksgiving again this year. The best part: I got my wish of driving at night which means we made it down there in 8 hours flat and back in 7 hours and 45 minutes. We tried to knock out Bebe on our first day down there and he got the hint and took off two days of work to spend with us which was awesome.
The highlight of the trip (besides Thanksgiving itself) was going to the La Brea tarpits with BeBe. The density of geologic history contained per unit volume in the ground there is simply amazing. Of course, Katie cried because the fake mammoth family was standing helpless on the banks of the tar lake while the fake mammoth mommy gets sucked into the tar. This is not a story line that was suggested by anything found there by the way. Another fun thing at the tar pits is the atrium in the center of the museum that has fake animals placed throughout it with signs saying "Please don't feed the animals" (no kidding). The kids favorite attraction was the penny funnel at the end of the museum. Andrew thought he had it figured out when he realized he could just throw the penny through the hole in the middle instead of letting it roll, and roll, and roll. Anyways, we had a total head count at the end to make sure we hadn't added to the fossil record during our stay.
Thanksgiving was the wonderful experience we've come to expect at Ahma's with the jumping castle, great turkey, and amazing pie all included.
Christmas with Nini and Bebe:
As per holiday tradition we did Christmas with Nini and Bebe while we were in California for Thanksgiving. While Nini always does a masterful job orchestrating an incredible Christmas experience for the kids, this year left us completely speechless. Oh yes, we are still in awe.
Remember the costume contest I mentioned in my last post that actually shows up two posts back? Well the prize was a two night stay in West Wendover with tickets to see Joe Nichols. Katie and I didn't know anything about Wendover, but we did know we were excited to get a little trip with some time for each other without kids. So right after Thanksgiving dinner we hit Nini's house one last time for Christmas and to say goodbye to everybody. Then we drove through the night, dropped the kids off at with Grandma and Grandpa, and headed out to Wendover.
We almost missed it.
West Wendover spend LOTS of advertising dollars in Utah, and they absolutely had us fooled into thinking it must be something 2 or 3 times the size of Mesquite possibly. Let's just say, if you've seen the tv commercial for Wendover you've have seen ALL of Wendover including what must be the only indoor pool (commercial or residential). It's quite safe to say we're going to have to win another costume contest in order to get us back to West Wendover.
Highlights of the trip: The city landscapes in astroturf, Smiths, McDonalds. Yep, that's it. On one of our many trips to Smiths in 2 days I talked to one of the locals. It went like this:
Me: "So, are you from Wendover?"
Him: "Yep, can I help you with something?"
Me: "Is this it?"
Him: "Um, what are you looking for?"
Me: "I just thought there would be a couple of restaurants, maybe some stores, you know..."
Him: "Oh, well there's lots of places to eat. You know there's a chinese place in the strip mall, McDonalds,..."
Me: "There's a strip mall?!"
Him: "Yeah, right in back here by the titty bar."
Me: "That's a strip mall?"
Him: "Yeah, but don't park by Mike's garage. He doesn't like that."
Me: " Hmmmm"
I'm pretty sure that the so called "strip mall" was really just another name for his "titty bar". Anyway, we had an awesome time with each other, BYU won the Holy War while we were there, and the Joe Nichols concert was awesome despite the fact that I'm not much of a country music fan.
And that concludes November.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Aren't you sick of Carving Pumpkins?!?!?
Well I am!!! I log into this blog everyday and I am so sick of seeing the pumpkins title with my Santa background! Funny how I log in thinking by some magical power my blog will be updated just how I picture in my mind with all the pictures I want to use and the stories to fill in from the last 2 months.Who knows if I'll actually get to update this blog tonight, but if tonight is anything like last night I will have plenty of time to get all caught up! So, really this post serves no purpose beside removing the pumpkin title from my Santa background. Mission completed.
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