Audelia's Blessing November 22, 2009

Audelia was blessed by Cory on November 22, 2009 at the Garner Road building in the Rowlett 1st Ward. The baby was so sweet and slept through the whole thing.

Cory's parents were able to come be with us for the weekend and the blessing. In the interest of not making everyone and the baby crazy I waited to take the pictures of the baby in her dress until a few days later. She looked like such and Angel and she was so good for me while I played photographer for the day.

I had this idea to take some pictures of her in her dress laying on my wedding dress and Alyssa's blessing dress and I think this will be great to have.

A New Phase of Life

This is a picture of me when I was just starting to show when I was pregnant with Audelia.

Cory and I were just talking and I realized that I have spent the better part of the last 10 years of my life carrying, birthing, and nursing my children. Thanks to my recent hysterectomy I am officially done having more kids and I am so ready to say goodbeye to pregnancy for good! I loved having my babies but the carrying them part had me feeling physically terrible and emotionally crazy for about 45 months of my life. That doesn't include the aftermath that never seemed to completely calm until a year or so after giving birth which is about the time I was always done nursing.

There is a part of me that gets a little sad when I think about not actually having any more babies but the fact is I have Fibromyalgia now and the way that I felt during the last pregnancy I would never consider doing it again, not only for my sake but for my family and especially Cory. While I was barely able to walk because of the pain not to mention the morning sickness Cory was the only reason that anything was getting clean and that any of us were eating, other than my frequent trips to Taco Bell. Besides all that 4 kids is plenty, and a lot of work, but they are great kids and we are grateful to have them.

I am looking forward to focusing on the kids that I have without making any more. Audelia is 3 months next week and I can't believe how quickly time passes. Cory and I constantly say that it will be alright because as fast as it seems like they grow they will be having their own babies for us to enjoy. Now if only we could convince them not to move away like we did.

Hunter Kids, 2009

We went to our neighborhood lake in Waterview to try to get some cute pictures of the kids with a pretty background. We got a few really cute posed pictures among the other 100 or so random silly pics.

Alyssa is always willing to pose and now loves having a little sister to hold in her pictures.

Wyatt is very well behaved and willing to pose which is a huge change from just a couple of years ago. We use to have to have the camera on the sports setting just to keep the pictures from being blurry and I would stay to help him sit still for school pictures.

Darion as you can see remains a 2 year old for the camera and a very comical one, but we always get a few good poses out of him.

Audelia was good enough for Alyssa to hold and since we have plenty pictures of just her we didn't feel the need to lay her on a rock or the soggy grass to take more.

The Witch, Batman, Mickey Mouse, and the Pumpkin

I have a confession to make, these were not even taken on Halloween, they were taken a few days ago, and the picture of Alyssa is even from last year. Our new camera has a rechargable battery and it ran out before we even started trick or treating. My kids were not very happy about dressing up again and because of that I didn't ask Alyssa to do full makeup which is why I posted the picture from last year of her.

I love seeing the younger kids dress in costumes that the older kids have worn. Wyatt wore the Mickey twice before and all of the kids wore the Pumpkin for there first Halloweens.

Audelia, 4 weeks

Audelia is so cute and patient and was so good for me while I was experimenting with the camera.

love the flowers.

She finally has chubby thighs with rolls.

Her profile proves that she looks just like her Daddy.

This was one of the first pictures that I took, she hadn't fallen asleep yet and was trying to console herself.

Saturday Wyatt begged to go to the Castle park pretty much all day. We have always been inclined to give him what he wants when he speaks to try to motivate him to speak more but especially so when he is so persistent.
Cory always plays so well with the kids at the park. Once he was having so much fun playing tag that Wyatt ended up in the lake up to his waist before a lady asked Cory if that was his kid. I still remember our first time out in the greenbelt by my parents house when we were dating. I was able to sit and relax while Cory played and wrestled with the kids, it was so great and one of the reasons that I fell for him.

Wyatt found a friend that went to his school last year and he played well with him which doesn't always happen. Getting Wyatt to play let alone play well with friends is a task but with a little encouraging he seemed to enjoy hanging with his buddy this time.

Darion is such a little boy. We are lucky that he didn't try his new peeing in the bushes trick at the park. He has decided now that he knows the major advantage to being a boy that instead of using the toilette he may as well go outside and use a bush. We are now working on encouraging him to use the potty unless he has to figure something else out in an emergency. We have yet to convince Wyatt in emergency situations that a bush or on the side of the freeway is an acceptable place to go. He says "that is not a toilette" and we can't argue with that to much.

Alyssa had fun playing tag with some kids. She learned the hard way that boys are just faster than girls. We had to help her understand that if she was going to win she would have learn to outsmart the boy and learn to try to loose him in the play equipment wrather than stay out in the open where he could catch her. She and this boy went back and forth for so long that she had to hide in the equipment for a while to catch her breath.

This was Audelias first day at the park and she slept the whole time. The weather was so nice and there is not much threat outside of catching the icky stuff that is going around so the park is a great way for us to get out with a little baby.

3 weeks old and the kids still love her.

Audelia has been such a blessing.....

My children continue to amaze me everyday. Alyssa and Wyatt have the Swine Flu and the thing that is bothering them the most is the fact that they are not allowed around the baby. We have had no jealousy issues even with Darion. The kids all just want to hold her as much as we will let them and when they do they are so gentle and sweet.
Audelia is so pretty and is such a sweet girl. We are so blessed to have her in our lives. She is 3 weeks old now and our main focus is keeping her healthy and free from the flu. We are all on Tamilflu to treat and try to prevent the Flu and hopefully that will help keep Audelia healthy. I am wearing a mask now as a precaution so I am hoping that between that and breastfeeding her little body will be Flu free.

I had fun playing with the camera and my photo editing program yesterday. I haven't been taking as many pictures as I normally would have because I keep having to hide the camera instead of having it out at my reach so that we don't have a repeat of what happened when the boys found the old camera, may it rest in peace.
Audelia fell asleep after her bath on her changing table yesterday so I took advantage of this photo opportunity. I had just put her first pair of beaded socks on her that Aunt Joanna had made. They are still big but that just means she will get to wear them longer.

On Friday Alyssa got an award for Excellent Conduct and for Being on the Honor Roll. She is enjoying her new school and all the extra stuff that the Classical Center has to offer. On top of the extra classes she goes to daily she gets to participate in an enriched art class that she goes to once a week before school. She was also invited to participate in a district wide storytelling competition that she has practice for once a week untill later in November when the competition takes place. She is still taking Piano and I am amazed when I hear how far she has come since she started a year ago. Her teacher is a very talented musician, and a good friend of our.


This is the boys playing in the tub and driving each other crazy. They usually beg to get in the bath and then yell at eachother most of the time.

This is Darion doing to Wyatt what Wyatt always did to
him, I guess it's payback. Maybe Wyatt will realize someday that whatever he does to Darion is really a lesson for Darion on how he can later annoy Wyatt.