Sam's Birthday

For Sam's birthday we went down to Salt Lake. We had a picnic in the park with Jordon's dad and his wife and Jordon's brother and his girlfriend. Then we went to the zoo for a few hours. Luckily we were able to get some coupons for buy an adult entry and get a child's entry free. So we only had to pay for Jordon and I to get in. The zoo is doing some renovations so they had some mechanical dinosaurs around the zoo. Here are some of the pictures from our fun day.

Camping Pictures

Here are some pictures from Jordon's phone from our camping trip.

Camping

We went on our first camping trip of the year this past weekend. It was certainly a memorable one. Of course I don't have any pictures on our camera because as soon as I got it out to take pictures the batteries died and I didn't have any replacements. Jordon did take some with his phone, but I haven't got them from him yet. I'll post them when I do. We decided we'd stay somewhat close to home just because gas is so expensive. Because we have such small vehicles we couldn't fit all our needed supplies and all of the family into one car so we had to take both cars. We found a new campground (new to us) to try out that was only about 45 min. from home. I headed up earlier in the day with the kids so we could make sure we got a campsite. Jordon came up after he got off work at 5. The kids and I got to the campground at about 2 pm which was check in time. We found a nice spot and started setting up. The kids got the chairs set up and Ethan and I got the tent set up with the beds all made inside. About 3 o'clock a guy pulls up and says that the spot we were in was actually reserved by him and another one that was filled by someone else as well. He apologized and left to go talk to the forest ranger about it. I collapsed the tent and shoved (literally shoved) everything back into the car. We moved to the site right next to the one we were in because it was pretty much the only other one open. I waited a little while before reassembling the tent to see if someone would come kick us out of that spot too. After about an hour no one did so I set up the tent again. If was about then that I realized I hadn't packed toilet paper or matches. The bathrooms there didn't have toilet paper. So I sent Jordon a text (because we had limited service) and told him to bring those 2 things and to hurry since we couldn't start a fire until he got there with the matches. While waiting for him Ethan decided he was going to run up to the entrance to wait for him. After getting bored waiting he decided to head back down to our spot and tripped on the way. He ended up with skinned knees and road rash on one side of his face and a goose egg on his forehead. Poor kid. Because of that he was ready to go home that night. Jordon finally showed up and we got dinner done and eaten. The rest of the evening was pretty uneventful. We headed to bed and slept. I was the only one that got a little cold. The next day we spent hanging around camp for the most part. The kids loved climbing up the trails on the hill. Ethan made friends with some of the other boys in the campground and spent a lot of the day fishing in the river with them. He didn't catch any, but seemed to have fun. That evening he came back long enough to eat dinner and then was back hanging out with these boys. They took him on a 4-wheeler ride that night and invited him over for banana boats at their camp (which was the one we got kicked out of). We headed to bed somewhat early that night because it started to rain. We had covered our tent with a tarp and had one under our tent so we hoped we would stay somewhat dry. The rain stopped and started all through the night and when we woke up the next morning it was still raining. By then it had started to leak into the tent so we cleaned everything up and headed home. We were planning on going camping this weekend, but the weather was supposed to be raining again and we didn't want to deal with that so it looks like we will be staying home. Yesterday was a beautiful day though so we might consider it if it stays good weather the rest of the week. There are lots of campgrounds that are new to us that are close by for us to discover.

Sam

4 years ago yesterday I gave birth to my youngest and last child. I thought it would be fun to tell his birth story. Ever since Jordon and I got pregnant with our first child we felt that we would have a boy, girl, boy in that order. We had Ethan, then Ashley and completely expected to be told that our youngest was a boy when we had our ultrasound determining the sex of the baby. We were quit surprised when the doctor told us that we were expecting a girl. We already had a boy name picked out and no girl names at all. Jordon asked the doctor how sure he was that we were having a girl and the doctor said 98% because he had to leave a little margin for error. After we left we spent the rest of the pregnancy trying to decide on a girl name. Towards the end we had it narrowed down to 2. Jordon liked Kylie Ann and Ethan and I liked Addison. We had some friends who were expecting their first boy. I had saved all of Ethan's clothes because I expected to have another boy, but gave away all of Ashley's. We told them if we were having a girl we would swap our boy clothes for their girl clothes to help each other out. So we did.
Towards the end of the pregnancy we were living at my parents' house while we were trying to find a house to buy. Because of this move we changed doctors. My new doctor was going on vacation during the time that the baby was due so she gave us 2 options: be started early or wait and risk being delivered by a different doctor if it came before she got back. Of course I took the option of being started early. My parents had gone on vacation with my younger sister so it was just us at home. My other younger sister came with her daughter to stay during the birth and help out until my parents got back. The doctor set the date for us to go in to the hospital to be started. We were suppose to be at the hospital on June 3, a Sunday, at 5 pm. On the way to the hospital Jordon and I decided that the name would be Kylie Ann Hunter. I had the thought cross my mind "What if it's a boy?" but I quickly shoved it out of my head thinking "No it won't be. The doctor said it was a girl."
We got to the hospital and the nurse got me hooked up to all the machines. As she was hooking me up she was talking to me about who I was/belonged to (small town) and what we were expecting (girl). Come to find out, I went to school with her son. After she hooked me up she asked if I was feeling any contractions. I said no and she said that I was contracting so she was going to call the doctor to see if she wanted to just start me on pitocin or just wait and see what was going to happen. I don't remember a lot of what really took up the time. I filled out all our paperwork filling in Kylie Ann for the baby's name. I remember getting an epidural. My sister came up with her baby to keep us company. About 10 or 11 pm Jordon's mom and step dad showed up with Ethan and Ashley and talked to us for a little bit. They were going to stay the night at my parent's house. About midnight they were tired and I was still only about a 5 so I told Jordon to take them to my parents house and get them settled for the night because it would probably still be a while. About 10 minutes after he left to take them the nurse came in and checked me again. After checking she said okay, I'll go tell the doctor we're ready. I was pretty shocked. I tried calling Jordon's phone and he didn't answer so my sister called my parent's house and Jordon's mom said he had just left. We figured if he just left it would only take him 15 minutes before he was back. By then the doctor and nurses were back in there telling me to keep my legs closed and not to push if I felt an urge to push. I honestly didn't feel anything so that wasn't hard. Amy was waiting by the door of the hospital to watch for Jordon and hurry him in. He had gone to the gas station for a drink so he took extra time. As soon as he got there the doctor told me I could start pushing. The baby started sliding right out and the next I heard the doctor say was "Uh oh". Not the best thing to hear the doctor say. The cord was wrapped around the babies neck and she was struggling to get it off. She finally got it and I continued to push. Then I hear Jordon say "It's a boy." My first thought was "he's kidding because we had thought it would be a boy". Then the nurse said "It IS a boy." My thoughts: "Oh crap. We're screwed. We have no boy things!" After Sam was all weighed and cleaned up. He was handed to me. As Jordon called parents and grandparents to tell them Sam was born no one believed him at first. The doctor told me that this was the first baby she delivered that wasn't what the parents were told it was.
They moved us to a room and got us all situated. We finally got to go to sleep for the night. For the rest of our stay all the new nurses came in saying "Oh you're the ones that were told you were having a girl and got a boy!" We were famous. Sam was my easiest delivery and has so far been my easiest child. Thank goodness for that. He is such a sweety and can always make me smile with his cute smiling face. I love you so much Sam!