My Baby is 2!

A huge happy birthday to my baby girl---(aka mae mae, sassy, maec, bubs, spunka girl, miss maecee mac, moo-moo, messy maecee!)We love you soooooo much!

Her funny face
At fiefia baby blessing
Her blessing day. With Big Sis and Bro. She looks so little!

Oh man I can't believe my little sassy is already 2! We are so LUCKY and BLESSED to have her in our family! I remember right after I had all that scary trauma with Ethan, them HIGHLY recommending (or more like telling me) that I not have another bambino. Brett said he knew right off that we would have another one but didn't want to scare me with that realization right off the bat. So when we did decide to have another one we got some mixed emotions from a lot people! Even my McKenna went through some tough times. She was scared she was going to lose her momma....she'd have to call me during the middle of the day from school, she totally pushed me away and only wanted Brett, etc. We knew that everything would be fine, but that didn't mean we weren't scared!



Remembering back to two years ago.....I had my drs appt and I literally TOLD my doctor that "guess what....I'm having a baby today!" The nurses warned him before he came into my room that I had told them that (today) July 12th was the day and I heard him say "did she bring her husband? If she brought her husband she's serious..." Yep I brought my husband and told him that we wanted to have her on Brett's grandmas birthday, and that I had everything all arranged to be at the hospital (kids, etc), that everyone was waiting for the phone call. He reluctantly let me have my way...although I think it was to get rid of me....he knows my persistence very well! I had been begging him my whole pregnancy to do a little tummy tuck (hey while he was in there doing the c-section, why not cut off a little more skin. I wouldn't miss it!). I didn't get my way for the tummy tuck but that's ok---I got a sweet baby and the drs got to have a reminder in human anatomy because they literally had to put my organs back in the proper place (the surgery after Eth was such an emergency that they didn't think I was going to make it. They must have just thrown everything back in there because I guess it was quite the project to get everything back to where it should have been.) My dr. was actually glad that we ended up dong it early.

We love our sweet little bubba that adores her brother and sister. She also loves her blankies, singing songs, babies, Elmo, Barney, being outside, swimming, and dancing. We're not sure what we ever did without her! We love you Maecee Mac! Happy Birthday!

More fireworks pics

This is how they felt about me taking so many pictures!

Some of our family. Cole, Hillary, Rhett, Mom holding Tawnee, Cory, Jason Salli and Vaea with Lani, Ella, Malia and Maka

Happy 4th of July

This is one of my favorite times of the year! I love fireworks, parades, cruise-in, and being w/family

At the fireworks. She's too cute!
Ethan was roping anyone that got in his way---yes complete strangers---NICE!
Maecee has this new thing she does to tease me. Whenever I try to take her picture she looks away from the camera and does this "i'm not going to smile" face. Little stinker!
Our picture we always try to do at the fireworks! Gosh I can't believe we've been married 12 1/2 years. It's gone by so fast! I love this guy that's put up with me all these crazy years!

Big E is 6 years old!

Ethan wanted to go to the fun park for his birthday. He is such a good kid! He didn't even ask me once during the day about any presents. He was just excited for the signs I hung up that said Happy Birthday E! #6 What an amazing little boy. He got to have sleepover with Kaidin the night before because of Heidi having her baby, so that was something else exciting for him. We are so happy we have our amazing ETHAN!

Hallee Jo Wettstein

Cute little Halle was born on June 30, 2008. She weighed 8 pounds 2 oz and was 20 inches long! She's so precious! She came out just a wailing! Kaidin said she sounded like a duck. If you did something to her (lick unwrap her, or touch her too much, or cover up her arms) she let you know that she was not happy and that was not ok! She definately has quite the personality already. Even the nurse commented on it and how they all come out with different personalities.
I got to see things from a whole different perspective this time because I had Kaidin. We waited until she was dialated to a 10 before we headed up to the hospital so he wouldn't have to wait long. He got to say a quick hi to his mom and his Joey then we went and waited in this area that was right next to their room. So in other words we kept trying to listen to see if we could figure out what was going on. Kaidin got to hear her cry and it just brought tears to my eyes. It was so awesome to see him and hear that she was ok. They got everything cleaned up and then let us in. Heidi is the master baby haver (nice phrase huh). Joey was the proud and protective daddy. So sweet!

Ya I'm a total nerd....I went right downstairs and bought her a headband..I'm a little obsessed with those....it looked so cute....she may have felt otherwise! She had it on for a minute then had to go and get a bath by her daddy and the nurse! I told Kaidin he could pick out something for his little sis and picked a white tiny bracelet.

This is after her bath and she wasn't getting touched too much here so she was content...for a minute. I got lucky (because I had the camera) and got to take pics of Joey bathing her and watching her get her official hospital picture taken. He also picked out her cute bow in her hair. It was funny because he smelled her before the bath and said she smelled like a fish! After the bath she smelled much better!

Here's the cute family right before I left to bring Kaidin to sleep over at Headers house as he calls it. He had climbed up in the bed for some mommy time while Hallee was getting her bath. We had a good time!

Dad Married

The Happy Couple

You can't see it too good but the riders are a girl and a guy. Also the cake was 3 "tree stumps" It was pretty creative.

I'm really not kidding when I say we've been busy! My dad and Lisa got married Friday June 27. They went up the canyon on their horses with the bishop, and a couple of witnesses and got hitched. Talk about Napoleon Dynamite! Then came back to my dads for lunch, cake, pictures, etc.

We were worried because we almost had a funeral, wedding and a baby all in a week. My grandpa had a stroke and was in the hospital on the Sunday (June 22) before dads wedding. All the family got called to the hospital to say our last goodbyes because the dr told us it would be hours to days before he passed away. It was way sad. Even though you know it's coming it's still really hard. I can now rack that up to the fourth time in my life I've seen my dad cry. Heartbreaking! But he pulled through and made it to the wedding. He actually looked really good and it made my dad happy to have him there.

Waterfall up the Canyon

Ethan would not get in the picture with his sisters....stinker!

He would get in if I was with him

Or by himself. I actually think he was a little scared of the waterfall...and a little annoyed with his sisters and his mom for wanting to take so dang many pictures!

Very pregnant Heidi also came with us. We even went on a small hike/walk until her feet were going to burst.

Ice Cream

Do I even need to explain these pictures. Maecee likes ice cream--maybe too much! :)

Time to cool off

Jamma testing out the slip and slide! Nice rainbow huh?

Brett cooling off after a long hot day! I have no idea how he works in that heat everyday.

Cute kiddies enjoying the slip and slide after mini golfing. Great way to cool off and get some of their energy out!

Busy Times

Wow Summer is flying by! I've tried to make good on my promise to be a "funner" mom. Quite frankly it's killing me! But ya know what----it's worth it (even if I am ready for bed everyday by 4:00 instead of 8:00)----we are having a blast! The best part is it's just about being together. It doesn't matter if we are sitting out back just talking or mini golfing....we are creating fun memories and that's my goal! I love being with my family and want to enjoy every precious minute I have with them!



T-ball time for Eth! My little athlete, who gets all his skills from me-----obviously!! :)



A VERY hot day mini golfing with Jayden, Kaidin and a very pregnant Heidi that just kept on going---swollen feet and all. I kept annoying her by trying to get her stuff and tell her to put her feet up---let's just say I know how big old cankles feel! She was a trooper! p.s. she has her baby...more on that in a bit! I'm trying to get caught up to then!


McKenna and Kaidin getting sprayed by the misters (that word doesn't look like it's spelled right?)

More to come.....