Weston John Strong

 

Weston John Strong was born January 7, 2015

The afternoon before he was born (Jan. 6^th) I had a doctor’s appointment and I asked my Doctor to strip my membrane. She told me she couldn’t because I was not yet 39 weeks. I explained to her that I had been having contractions for a few hours a time that was 10 to 15 minutes between each contraction…nothing ever got closer than that.  At this appointment I was dilated to a 4cm and was 80% effaced. Since I was going to be 39 weeks in just a few days and already so far dilated, she gave in and striped my membranes. After that appointment I went home and my mom said she was going to keep the kids that night, just in case! It was a good thing she did! That evening I went into this deep cleaning frenzying. I pulled out couched and vacuumed behind them and also the window sills. I then got on the treadmill and walked a mile and half. After I got off the treadmill my contractions started. There were 5 minutes apart.  I made dinner for John and I, we had Waffles and bacon (yummy). After dinner I told John my contractions were 5 minutes apart. He was convinced the baby was coming out right that minute! HA! I told him it wasn’t going to happen that fast. I wait about an hour than we headed to the hospital. We decided not to tell me family or anyone that we were headed to the hospital. It was 9pm at this point. We got to the hospital, they hooked me to their machines to count my contractions. They made me wait for 2 hours with contractions ever 4-5 minutes apart. They were stronger at this point. The reason they told me they couldn’t admit me was due to the fact that I wasn’t 39 weeks yet and that this was their procedure. LAME! (Idaho falls hospital never did this) Finally, after what seemed like forever, they admitted me and I had them give me an epidural right away. I didn’t want the same thing to happen like it did with Kynleigh. If you’re paying for an epidural, might as well get to enjoy the benefits of it.  The nurse came in at one point and I was only at 7cm. She had me roll to my other side and before she left the room and I told her I felt like I needed to push…The baby was coming… So she came back and checked me and I was at a 10cm. She told me not to push as she went to call for the doctor. Luckily he was in the Hospital still. The Doctor came in and after 3 short painful pushes, Weston was born! He came out healthy and strong and with some good lungs. He was born at 2:39am weighing 7lbs. 9oz and was 20 1/2 inches long. My heart was so happy. It was an instant love for this baby! There is no greater feeling than bringing a child into this life and we feel so truly blessed that we have been able to experience this 3 times.  I sure love my little children! They make my heart so full!

 

 Raegan and Kynleigh's first time seeing their brother. They both were SO happy

 

Papa and Grandma's first visit. 

 For the first couple months after having Weston, Raegan insisted on bringing her baby and carrier EVERYWHERE we went. It was really sweet. She is a great big sister.

 

Probably won't be his last time playing babies with his sisters. haha

 This picture makes me SO happy!

 

About ready to leave the hospital and go home for the first time as a family of 5!

 

This picture is my favorite. Caught right in the middle of a yawn. He is oh so sweet! 

Christmas 2014

Remember when its April and I'm just barely catching up on the blog, once again! :/

Christmas was very quite this year. No big trips, no 

huge family planned activities, just a peaceful morning with our  little family celebrating the birth of our Savior.

The Girls were good help this year when it came to decorating the tree. A majority of the ornaments were on the bottom half!

 Raegan thought it was pretty neat that she was able to put the star on this year!

 We had our traditional "Edler girls" candy making party! I look forward to this every year! Thanks for starting this tradition Aunt Janet. I've learn lots of new things and the candies are always SO yummy

 

I wish Bree lived closer to us. Her and Kynleigh would be best-est of friends. Maybe one day they will! :)

 Gingerbread making was a success. But note to self; when Kynleigh leaves and is unusually quite, that means she has found my make up, my poor "Naked" pallet (eye shadow) will never be the same! She sure is cute though!

 

The girls loved painting homemade ornaments too. 

 Raegan wouldn't even get close to Santa at our ward Christmas party, so to think Kynleigh would, was a shot in the dark! haha Santa Fail! (These are the best pictures though!)

 This somehow is the only picture I have of the girls on Christmas (I have video). I don't know if I forgot to take pictures of them opening presents or I accidentally deleted them off my camera before saving them...I think I deleted them. Which makes me SO sad to think about!  But at least we have one from my phone! Love these two little stinkers!

Playing games at the farm house on Christmas night!

 

Here is our Strong Family scrapbook page that we mail to everyone each year for Christmas!

December

 December is always a good month! Here are a few highlights from our month of December.

 Going on drives, looking at Christmas lights has become a new tradition. The girls really enjoy it, especially when they get to stick their heads out of the sun roof.

 

Raegan and Kynleigh got invited to a fun Christmas party! look at all these kids, they are all too cute! It was a good time

 On December 20th we had our Annual Edler family Christmas Bowling party!  It was a good turn out and great company as usual. It feel on my birthday this year, the big 27. I feel really old. 27....how did that happen! I remember being 17 still like it was yesterday.

 Oh ya...I was super prego during the whole month of December. 36 weeks here! I'm just glad the snow was awful this year so I didn't miss out on too much snowmobiling.

 We did ride bikes and 4 wheelers a lot to make up for the lack of snow/snowmobiling. The girls love riding around the Farm.

 Raegan was feeling a little left out that she didn't get curly hair like her sister and mom. So we invested in some Curl formers and she LOVES the outcome. She is growing up way too fast!

 Here are my cute girls and handsome hubby in their spiffy Christmas attire.

 

Here are all the cousins before the little guy arrived.  We sure love little Eleanor! 

Girls Weekend

For my Mom's birthday, my mom, sisters and I made a road trip down to Utah to stay with my Aunt Linda (my mom's sister) for a few days! She was being pinned for graduating nursing school! My mom was the one who pinned her at the ceremony! We had such a great weekend spending time with all our family down there. We did way more shopping than we knew possible! Shopping in Utah is the best! SO many fun stores! We meet two new cousins, Audrey and Crew. We went down to Temple square one night and saw the lights. I had not down that since I was little! We had such a great time that I hope we turn this girls weekend into an annual event! Everyone needs some retail therapy in their life! haha

Silver Mountain

 Morgan had a Cheer competition in Spokane at the beginning of December. Randy and Jody, Alison and Luke and us, went up the night before and stayed in a condo at the Silver Mountain resort! They have a fun indoor water park there and the girls loved it!

 On our way back to Spokane from the Condo, we stopped at Cabelas. The girls found some stick horses and rode them around the whole time we were there; they got some energy out, that's for sure.

 Than, we stopped at the Valley Mall, did some shopping, rode the train, ate at Buffalo Wild Wings than headed to the competition. The Connell Cheer squad did a great job!

Thanksgiving 2014

We spent Thanksgiving this year in Washington. We have spent most our married Thanksgivings down in Idaho, so it was a big change for us. (We sure missed all our Idaho family). Alison and Luke hosted it. It was a quiet, but good time. Thanksgiving fell on Alison's birthday this year, the 27th, so instead of celebrating Thanksgiving we just celebrated her birthday. We had crab and lobster for dinner and pumpkin cheesecake for dessert. It was nice, no one felt like the spent all day slaving away in the kitchen.
We normally go hunting Thanksgiving morning, but this year the boys decided to go riding on Basin City hill. It was way too cold of a morning for us girls to want to go. So instead we hoped in the pick up with a nice warm heater and watched them climb the hills. 

 Here are some pictures of our Thanksgiving. We all look a little tired. Thanksgiving is definitely a lazy day. To be honest I don't really care much for the holiday, but we get to be with family on that day so that is the bonus of it. After dinner we played some games than people kind of went their separate ways. We went over to my parents afterwards and watched the football game.

Disney on Ice

The 1st of November my whole family went to the Disney on Ice at the Toyota Center. We took Raegan last year to it and she loved it! Kynleigh was old enough this year that we figured she would love it too and she did! She sat and watched the whole thing. It's our tradition now for the girls to get new princess dresses to wear and attend the Disney on Ice. I think its a fun tradition!