Fun in the Sun!!!

The past few weeks have been filled with fun in the sun!! Luckily the weather and the water-filled activities have been in great abundance!!

The kids had a great time at swimming lessons this year. They all improved immensely from last year! All three were even brave enough to go off of the diving board the last day!!













We also went to two splash parks, one in Rexburg, ID and the other in Ogden, UT - both lots of fun!!













We even enjoyed playing in a river up at the ward camp out. (Gotta love the free entertainment!!) We're also looking forward to trips to Bear Lake and Lagoon. (Some of us are also looking forward to school starting up soon too! :-))

Summer Happenings

So I lost my camera there for a while, but luckily I just got it back. We have had a very busy summer so far! It seems like it is going by really fast!

Alivia turned 7 on July 2nd!!


We celebrated her big day at Blast Off and Red Robin's with our good friends the McCammon's. It was Tammies B-day too!


Went to the Fourth of July Festivities!


Kaleb was blessed on July 5th! (This was when I lost my camera so my family has more pics to come...)



Swimming lessons! All three are doing soooo much better than they did last year! Tomorrow is diving board day - we'll see...



Kaleb has started to talk - it is sooo cute!!


Lots of fun!!

Some Stuff

It seems like nothing too interesting has happened lately. I waited so long for Kaleb to come that all else lacks luster. The kids have survived the summer so far --- don't know how long that will last. :-) Scott has been really busy at work - he's actually teaching a three day Lean seminar this week at the Shilo Inn. I could use more sleep and less poundage, but other than that... We're All Good!! Hope the same can be said for all of you!! :-)


Josh at soccer "practice."Lacey and Alivia put on a puppet show for the neighborhood kids.
Kaleb being adorable.
Josh wanted to look like his Daddy.

More Pictures

First picture after birth.
The big sisters and brother admiring their new little one.

1 week old - just chillin'!My favorite picture of Kaleb so far. :-)

Finally Arrived!!

He's Here and He is Sooo Cute!!

Here's how it went.... Tuesday, may 19th, went in at 4:00am, didn't get started until 5am, Doc came in right before 7am to break my water. (Side note - Get the epidural BEFORE water gets broken!) Had a bad reaction to the epidural so they they had to lower the pitocin. Started pushing about 9:45am and Kaleb was born at 9:56 am. He weighed 8 lb. 10 oz. and was 20 in. long. My biggest baby!! (That would definitely explain my massive uncomfortableness these past few weeks!) He had some fluid in his lungs so they took him away, but said he would be fine. Then his heart rate kept dropping so they put a heart monitor on him for the next several hours. They said he just a a little trouble transitioning to the outside world. He's fine now.

We came home the next day and were welcomed home by some "interesting" news... Alivia had stuck a BEAD up her nose and they couldn't get it out! So the baby and I continued home and Scott took Alivia to the Dr. to have the bead removed. :-)

So far Lacey, Alivia and Josh are all really excited about the new baby. Josh is especially proud that he is a BIG brother! They love holding him and giving him kisses and just watching him sleep. (Only becasue we have the rule that if you wake him up while he is sleeping, you will be severely punished!)

Kaleb was starting to look a little yellow yesterday and was a little more today so we took him in to be checked. Turns out, he's right on the line so we have to take him back in tomorrow to check again.

So far, he is a really easy going baby. He only cries when he is hungry - which is often. :-) But he also sleeps pretty well and doesn't even make a fuss when he gets poked and prodded by those who love him! We are so grateful that he is here! Now I remember why we go through 9 months of total crap - - because there is a beautiful miracle waiting for us at the end!

P.S. I tried to uphold more photos but it's not working at the moment. I'll post more as soon as I can. Also, thanks to everyone for all their help and kindness over this whole ordeal!!

Baby!!!

Well, I was hoping to go today, but it looks like it will be tomorrow. 4:00 am tomorrow morning to be exact. They'll start the pit right away and then my doc will show up at 6:30 am to break my water. I hope to have Kaleb Lewis Erickson here by lunchtime!!!!

Knuckles

So the other day, Josh comes walking into the room all hunched over and holding his tummy. He tells me that "His tummy hurts cause his 'baby' is kicking him."

Later, I'm tickling him and he tells me that I can't tickle his tummy because it will make his baby, "Knuckles", mad. If he only knew.................. :-)