"Penny (or a million dollars) for your thoughts"

SO in four weeks I have learned some things and laughed at other times...it's funny what goes through my head now that I have more/less time on my hands:

#1: I can't get over how nervous I was the first time I had a baby...I wouldn't take a shower till Jason got home cause I was afraid to leave the baby. Now I just put Trevor in the swing and put him in the bathroom with me (for protection purposes from older brother who thinks he can pick him up), while Kobe watches a movie. I've also learned that Kobe's hair grows way too fast. This was before I cut it. Funny moments...Now Kobe says "Hubba Hubba" When we jump in the shower or at bath time. He is so cute when he says it, apparently he picked this up from me when he just had to run in the living room prior to Jason giving him a bath,to let me know of the obvious:)

#2: I think we have a lot of dust in our house because Kobe has buggers all the time and not the ones with cheese and pickles and Trevor sounds stuffy every night? Random, I know. Kobe is not my baby anymore...and is growing up too fast, sort of
#3: how did I not get more done when I just had Kobe. I seem to get just as much done and I have to feed every two hours (yes mom, I know you what you think...3hrs will be great AT SOME POINT)

#4: I have drawn more than 100 pumpkins for Kobe. He loves halloween this year thanks to my mom. You should see the two together, it hillarious. He has two Halloween books he reads ALL the time and enjoys "re"decorating the house and singing "witches sailing threw the sky." His new thing is "kunkin". Everyone is finding it funny when they start calling "pumpkins" => "kunkins." Even the color orange has been changed to "kunkin." Here are some pics at a pumpkin patch and hay ride we went to with one of his little buddies. FUNNY: For some reason he started "licking" the pumpkins in the field.

#5:Trevor is looking less like Kobe (sorry Jones watch out Becks :) but I have all too remembered what it's like to have no sleep, a gassy baby, and a great attitude about the lack of help (at least it seems that way :)But I do love it when they snuggle and I can't seem to get enough of kissing his cute soft cheeks. Thanks Mel for the glow-in-the-dark skeleton onesie.

#6: I forgot about the spontaneous fountain Trevor gets me with. I remembered though that if I stick a wet wipe over the "fountain of youth" I avoid getting bulls eyed and Trevor doesn't get Puddles" in his eyes (ahh...i hate it when that happens).

#7: I forgot how people are just drawn to babies. We were in church for 1st time after having trevor and this lady in front of us turned around and said "I just have to hold that baby" Jason smiled and thought she was just making a comment (We didn't even know her). Then after a while she turned around to me and said "Can I hold your baby?" I was like ahh..I guess. Jason's friend was sitting by us (his family was visiting because we got a new bishopbric) and said, "that's my mom by the way". There have been times when in the store people just stop and stare. We were at the doctors office and a little girl just comes up and starts "petting" him. Got to love new babies. They have sooo many people wrapped around their finger.

#8: I learned I can bribe Kobe to stay in bed for naps and at night time if I tell him Grandma is coming or we'll go see the "boys". Of course this only works so long when those things can actually happen, when he doesn't see Trevor sleeping with me or when his "eye" teeth AREN"T coming in!!!! (got to love the timing on those)
#9: Last comment...I learned I REALLY LOVE DQ CAKES (ok, I already knew that). I seem to come up with an excuse to have one when ever I can..."but honey we need to celebrate...a new house, a new baby, it's my birthday" Bless Jason's heart. He did surprise me with one when Trevor was home. Good points for him!!!

#10: ok one more ...I learned I really love the Rupert craft fair. Such cute things to buy, family to hang out with (thanks mom and CeLes), wonderful smells, friends you see, and time out of the house (thank goodness for packs so Trevor could snuggle next to me, so we could be out longer).


I just love my boys!!!

So Much for the "PLANNED" part...and worries...Ready or NOT "I'm HERE!"

So my plan...Go to work Sat, Sun, Mon. Break Tuesday (Rest up...heehee). Wednesday Little man coming to town. Well.....Not exactly how things went down and I was stressed about the mix up. I think either Heavenly Father had a different plan or...Ya, he had a different plan. Saturday night at work actually went smooth and to my surprise the charge nurse asked if I wanted to go home on-call. They were a little over staffed at 7pm. I was thinking I could use the money, but at this point it would be nice. I had been having "what I was pretty sure" were contraction's off and on for couple of days. (last time I didn't do anything, before being induced and I guess i'm not as in tune with myself when caring for other people). So what ended up being a 8+ hour shift came a screeching halt at 4.5 hrs. If any knows anything about nursing 4 hrs can be crazy especially with a post-op only an hour towards the end of shift. But I was actually impressed. I had everyone settled for the most part and my my post-op/all orders noted (all the headache) and my charting was all caught up!!!!Ya big deal...no actually even I was impressed. The nurse coming on was of course happy, but during report my "stomach kept hurting", or is it contraction's the nurse asked? Denial wasn't working in my favor but I kept telling myself that it wasn't a big deal. So home I went just in time to eat some spaghetti with my boys. Well it was at that point when Jason said are you all right? (apparently my pausing in between wolfing down dinner was obvious). I said I think I should start timing and see how much time is in between these babies. 5-7 MINS Huh??? That could be a problem. So after calling my wise friend and "NOW WHAT" advise, you would think I had never had a baby before. She suggested sitting down and timing them for the next half hour(at home). To make a long story short... I followed "Kim's advise" =take a shower and shaved my legs and tried to relax. truly my thoughts were maybe they will go away. NOPE, so we decided we might as well go check things out. Finally a little after 10pm we said prayers with Kobe got some things packed "just in case" and put Kobe to bed as Tiki and Jacob came over, off we went!
We snuck in through the nurses entrance in the back way and walked up the stairs (which jason said if you can take the stairs, i'm not so sure we need to be here, but we just laughed). After getting settled they check to see if I was dilated and sure enough I wasn't really surprised to see I was a "2." my contractions were 5-6 mins apart. Wow 2 more than I was with Kobe. So the IV was started (after 6 pokes-so much for "my good veins"-they were nervous too). DID I MENTION I WAS ON-CALL!!! Kinda funny, I'm sure when the PCC found out that the nurse she sent home on-call was admitted to labor and delivery that was cut short. DARN there goes MY $2. It happened to be that Dr. Allen, after all, would be doing the C-section anyway. Well, he said lets get this ball rolling, no need to be having contractions when this is scheduled!!!!THANK YOU! The anesthesiologist that I had just talked to on the floor about how nervous I was for Wednesday couldn't helped but crack a smile when he saw me 2 hrs later. The spinal wasn't too bad. Still had the shakes and some nausea, which I'm sure couldn't have been the spaghetti I had a couple of hours earlier :) With Jason dressed by my side, Sunday at 12:45 am, Our little boy came into this world!!!!!Making our boys 2 yrs and one week apart!Weighing: 7 lbs Height: 19 in long. quite a little a bit smaller then Kobe.

Things went "ok", but we were ready to go home so after hearing some lectures from the family we were still ready to go home Monday!!! The only complications that stood in the way were...THE NAME???? and the fact that he ended up having a VSD. Ventricular septal defect...aka hole (murmur). So he had an echo done, and some other things, but luckily after a prayer and some waiting we found that things will hopefully heal with time. Luckily he was asymptomatic...but it is something we need to keep an eye on for the next days/yr.

With a deep breath we finally took TREVOR DREW JONES home. He is the most precious boy. After being home for all of 30 mins., we ran to Burley to get Kobe. There is something about having my boys all home with me. Kobe had been great and loves to give Trevor kisses. He says "cool baby". He can even say baby Trevor. So here are some pictures. We really appreciate family helping out on such short notice (Tiki and Jacob your great)and all the visits at the hospital and phone calls. Boy did we have a lot of friends and family show their love!!! You are the best!!



I just love being a mom and I love and adore my husband who has been so great and supportive!!!

Huh?????Great.....

Boy, you would think you would know when the baby is coming when you have a planned C-section. I have been preparing to go to the hospital Wednesday at 730 a.m. until I get a call Tuesday to let me know of a time change. When we scheduled our appointment I was first on the list so far and knew I would be bump to a later time, if other situations arise. So my last couple appointments I have made sure I was meeting with Dr. Smith (who did the surgery last time, and is my doctor of choice). I am excited because we have things all worked out so family is watching Kobe the days we are in the hospital and Jason has gotten the work off. If I can just get threw Saturday, Sunday, Monday of work, I have Tuesday to rest (haha) and get the last little things to wrap up.......
My surprised phone call came today to inform me that my C-section time would be MONDAY AT 1100.....AGHHHHHH MONDAY?!!! Course I called tight back and informed her I was told Wednesday 730 with Dr. SMith and Allen would be assisting. Boy was I missed informed. She said who told you that? I MADE IT UP???? "The person that scheduled the surgeries!" Well Smith is only there Monday and a PA would be assisting and there was no openings on Tuesday, and Wednesday I would have to be add-on with Dr. Allen and Crandall assisting. TOTALLY NOT THE SAME INFORMATION! Did I mention I have never seen Dr. Crandall during this pregnancy and I have only seen Dr. Allen a total of 2 times between BOTH pregnancy and for a total of 5 mins. So I was pretty happy!?*@
Tears were more like it. So I had a short time to decide what to do. If during my last 5 appointments someone would have corrected me when I said my appointment was on October with a totally different group of man I could have planned better. Like scheduled my appointments with them so they could at least have an idea who am or how things had been going or I could have made arrangements to actually have MY doctor since it has been scheduled some time. So do I scramble to make arrangements to change it to Monday and hope I don't get off at 2AM from work the morning I am to be back in to have this little guy, not to mention jason and his work...
Well I have to say I have a supportive husband that said, "If you want to have your doctor then we can make it work...don't worry we have lots of family...and ...." 100% supportive either way! But would I really want to change everything, or suck it up and hope these guys will do a great job and stick to the mixed up plan?
Can't I just have plan A!!!!5 days before the baby comes...is not fun timing to have a change of plans.
So plan "C", wednesday, I guess, GRRRR. Yet, I do have to laugh...watch I go into labor and have it Monday anyway! BABIES....So unpredictable even if there to be planned C-sections!!!!

"2" Fun of a Party

The fun thing about a house is that you can actually start having parties at your home. For the first time we didn't have to travel to Burley, family came here!!
Kobe turned TWO!!! Wow it's weird to think about having a two-year-old and not to mention another little one on the way. If you haven't gotten the Leap Frog alphabet movie, I highly recommend it. (Or I should say My OB doctor actually did.) Between the movie, that Kobe just loves, and the alphabet set on the fridge, he can not only say the sounds of letters but knows recognition. It just blows me away. So it didn't take me long to think of a theme for a party.
Kobe's "ABC" birthday invitations went for his party for Sunday. Thanks family for the great turn out!!! We were suprised by the great turn out and full house. With different letters handing around the house, a "K" birthday cake for Kobe, alphabet letters cut out in cookies for the kids to decorate, a balloon fight in the living room, it made for a crazy gathering of fun.
It wasn't until after cake and icecream and opening presents and some of the kids heading outside to play in the backyard that poor papa could actually hear himself talking :) Kobe thought it was great playing with his cousins and family.
He even actually had fun opening presents this time (at least I think..one thing about hosting is I was in the kitchen dishing out dessert with my mom during the opening of presents). Thanks to Uncle Jeffery filming, I'll be able to see it.
Wow he did get spoiled by all, both in gifts and attention. We really appreciate everyone for coming and making it so much fun for him. It's alway fun to have family time with everyone!!!
(Kobe and Jason having fun with coloring/finger paints after the party. Not sure who had more fun :)

August Rush!!

Oh, how the month has flown and with so many changes and activities! Would really have it any other way?! First the big move in. It seems is like dejevu or reallity check! August...moving housing locations...8 or so months pregnant and still getting lectured about lifting boxes! Who else is going to be moving the gang in? I say the less boxes for the movers, the happier the smiles and the less the complaints. Plus, I kind of like moving things myseld and then I put them away as I go! The big, heavy things...you men with the muscles..GO FOR IT!
So we did it!!! We finally bought a home, we'll see what a great idea that is come December when I'm still on Maternity leave and no more PTO! But we are excited and hoepfuuly have planned ahead that it all works out. We have debated back and forth about this house and before we new it, we were drawn in. So typical of a women,I couldn't get how I wanted to decorate out of my mind,so it had to be the right home...Right?

First...came the painting party...scary at times but I think it turned out good and we only have a paint on the carpet in one area. For four rooms, not too bad. With only one small accident that ended with a dent in our New Dryer ("really it's ok"), moving in went well. We experimented with the "woolie" on one wall, Thanks to Darby and CeLes for the supplies, and We think it turned out great! It may look a little scary..and like we don't know what we are doing...and WE Don't.

Kobe was great to watch the movies in the baby's room. But times did get a little tiring.But here's a look at Kobe's new room. Can I say he has been the best kid when it comes to jumping in his bed for nap times and at night. It helps "mom" sleep better at night knowing he is across the house now and still knows where we are and adjusting well.


Kobe the little painter...Congradulations for the Hawkes being the first one's to stay over night...Sleep overs are always fun!!!


Funny thing left in the garage,a lawnmower. Apparently ours due to the fact one new it belong to or came from...BONUS...Fun toys for Kobe...good trade with the family (we really don't need a riding lawnmower, but we knew someone in the fam who did...)

Now it's the slowly decorating and buying things needed as the money slowly dwindles, but We are SOOO Excited to ahve a place we can call "OUR HOME"! Thanks everyone who helped out. We love you for it. We do have the BEST FAMILY EVER!

To end the August Rush...Good times at the Fair! Kobe totally loved the Rodeo and we enjoyed the pig show, food and friends. I love it when you can run into friends! It had been along time for some!!! Thanks to those I got to visit with, it was really nice to see you!!!!

Reunion Time!!!

After 3 weekends of camping in a row, we finally finished it off with the Jensen Reunion at Twin Lakes. It's always a highlight to go down to Lake Cleveland. Kobe loved the water, suprisingly it wasn't that cold were we jumped in. Kobe kept dipping in lower and lower and was in heaven when he found a stick he could throw and dogs he could watch splashing around.


Mom and Aunt Deanne worked really hard and had a sweet theme for the reunion "Out of This World". We went on a trip to the moon, created our own planets, and picked out our own star! We had a great time playing cards, etc., with cousins and camping trip wouldn't have complete with Hawkes' Monkey Bread...We hate to share :) We even only managed to loose Kobe once :) He loved exploring a little too much at times. He loved playing in the camper, and cried out "outside" the first thing when he woke up and the last thing when he went to bed.

He had a blast playing on Sheppenhalls' trailer. It was kind of nice to be able to visit with the open door and a place for Kobe to play with his "cars." Kobe always suprises us. We went for a four-wheeler ride and Kobe kept saying "more, More"
and on the second time around the campground he came back asleep. How someone ever falls asleep on a four-wheeler??? But too much fun = falling asleep, where ever and when ever he can. There wasn't much naps taking on this trp. Love you family!!! Thanks for all the fun and memories!!!

Proud To Be American

The Fourth of July was a day of fun. We started with going to Rupert Parade with the Jones. When the plane flew by in the begging, to signal the parade to start, Kobe said "more." He apparently has developed this love for airplanes this past week. Thanks to the handfuls of candies and great entertainment, Kobe sat the rest of the parade on Jason's lap...Between the munches of candy we heard "Cool", "What's that", and "WOOOOW" all the way to the end of the parade. Jason even actually enjoyed the parade this year because the weather actually made it tolerable.



After the parade we were off to PaPa and GG's house for a BBQ. After a much needed nap back at the Jones', we went to the Hawkes' partycentral for a water party with the cousins and BBQ dinner. I say...you can't have too many BBQ in one day :) Night time was growing near we loaded up to head to the Burley Boat Docks for Mom's flag cake and fireworks! Although...it was a consensus that Burley shouldn't waist money on the fireworks on the ground and spend that money for the bigger ones. It was sad to say that the fireworks only lasted 2 mins and somehow a "Finally" was some how a forgotten term like last year. But the time with family can't be beat! Maybe next year we can talk people into coming to the Twin Falls Fireworks!!! Since we do live there and have never even seen them. We hope you all had a Happy Fourth!