2 weeks

Macie's 2 week appointment went really well. She weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long! She's growing like a weed! I love love love having her, she is the sweetest thing ever!

Banana Bites

For family night this week we made banana bites for our treat. Madison surprised me at how good she was at making them. Each kid had a cutting board and a butter knife. They cut bananas into little pieces and put them on a stick, then they dipped them in chocolate and covered them in sprinkles. After that we put them in the freezer and after a couples hours we ate them.

Of course there was some sampling during the process.

After we had family night we loaded all the kids in the van and went hunting deer, Mike and I were laughing at that it kind of seems hillbilly go hunting with a bunch of kids in a minivan!

Macie's Arrival!!!

Our sweet little Macie was born on September 14th at 5:37 p.m. She weighed 6 lbs. 15 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches long. Mike and my dad gave me a blessing the night before I had her, I'm so grateful for a husband who holds the priesthood and who is willing to give me a blessing when I need it. I went to the hospital to be started at 7:30 in the morning. It took almost all day for the pitocin to make me start having contractions, which was really surprising because I was 50% effaced and dilated to a 3 when I went in and with my other babies I always went really fast. Once I started having contractions though everything went really fast, and I only had to push for 2 contractions.

I know this is a horrible picture of me, I have 5 chins and I look dead, but that is honestly how I felt! I was so exhausted by the end of this pregnancy and the more I recover and get feeling back to normal the more I realize how exhausted I really was. Also for some reason I was the most nervous about this labor I don't know why but I was.

This is a good picture of those chubby cheeks we saw in the ultrasound!!

Grandma Jackson and Grandma Blad were there for Macies birthday, although they weren't aloud to watch the main event they got to come in and see Macie as soon as she was born.

Madison had a lot of fun looking at my belly and talking to the baby while I was pregnant, she called the baby "baby tiny". She is such a little mommy and was excited to come see Macie.

Brielle is the best at helping with the baby and other kids, I'm so glad she's my oldest.

Dakota is probably the most interested in her since we brought her home I am constantly telling him to leave her alone, but it is cute to see how much he likes her.

This is Macie all ready to go home from the hospital

Stacia made this cute headband to match her outfit that I bought to take her home from the hospital in.

And with that little Macie's journey on earth has begun...........

Dakota's Ram Hunt

Mike's friend owns some land by Fillmore and he had some sheep on it that he wanted to get rid of so he let Dakota and his friends Jacob and Nathan Despain go on their own little ram hunt. The boys had a blast! That is all Dakota talked about for days. It was funny, earlier on the day of their hunt I went into the living room and found Dakota and Madison sneaking around with a wad of toilet paper tucked into the back of their pants, when I asked what they were doing Dakota said they were hunting rams. He has watched them hunt sheep on the hunting channel and they wear white on the back of themselves to make the sheep think they are another sheep, this was Dakotas version.