Jess out of the country/Swagger Waggon

(Okay...for real, how can you not love this man?)

First things first..there's a link at the bottom of this blog about our new van--THE SWAGGER WAGGON--watch it! IT's HILARIOUS!!!

Next...so much has happened and the just of everything is...I don't really have time to blog right now. Jess is in Jordan on a short 6 week TDY (Love you baby!). Life is crazy here but we've been taken care of so so well. I'm so insanely blessed. Our Father's plan for us here on earth is just so perfect. LOVE IT! Anyway--having good days and less good days but getting by just fine and can't wait for Jess to get back.

In the mean time Luke turned 4 (hopefully Jess will blog this one for me..on account of he will write it with the right...shall we say--'umpf'?) my mom came to help me with the kids after Jess left, and Jess' mom came after that! Getting used to 3 little ones is INSANE, but an adventure I love.

Here are a few pics of the recent events.

Who's seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? AWESOME! Here's Jess in Petra last weekend.

For Lukes birthday we had 11-3 year olds....and then later we added swords..it was nuts! (more on this later!) But he LOVED it and that's what it's all about right? (right?)

My mom and Luke watching a show...I think this pic is just precious!

Here's Jess' mom right before she left. These amazing moms SAVED me. THANKS SO MUCH!!!

Rhett is 6 weeks old today! Woo woo! He is getting sooooooo big sooooooooo fast.
(and not to mention sooooo cute!)






So...we bought a van awhile back...a Toyota Sienna. We love it, it's spacious, runs awesomely well, looks nice, and it's silver--woo woo! ANYWAY, my friend posted this music video about Sienna's "The Swagger Waggon and I died laughing! LOVE IT! So..watch it and laugh...cause it's so great!

Rhett

Garrett Reed Joseph Winn is HERE!!!

Thursday the 25th at 11:11 p.m. Garrett was born at 7 lbs 15 oz (our biggest) and 21 inches.
Thursday morning was looking like any other morning...but I was 2 days overdue, so, to get things started I decided to head to the gym. After 2 1/2 miles on the eliptical and going swimming with Lucas (so fun) we started home. Contractions started on the way--hooray!
They were still 8 minutes apart so I got ready, and waited for Jess to get home. By then they were 7 minutes apart, and not bad at all. We stopped at McDonalds got some food, took the kids to our awesome friends the Lindquists and headed to the hospital. (my doc said to go once they were 5-7 minutes apart)
The entire way there, things were going so easy, I was eating my chicken sandwich, chatting and...well...not screaming or anything, so we were almost certain we would be sent home. We got there at 6:00, they hooked me up to the machines, and I was a 5 and "in labor" so the admitted us! YAY!!!
This was the most chill, easy, calm labor EVER. I got to a 7, they gave me an epidural, and a few hours later (of the best labor ever)--GARRETT!!!
They gave him right to me and he didn't have to leave the room for at least an hour! They bathed him right there in my room. It was so nice to not have him swept out before I could see him and not see him for hours (both Kade and Luke's delivery was like that).
ANYWAY--Rhett's awesome. He did great in the hospital, and he's been GREAT at home. The boys are sweet with him and love to give him hugs. Luke sings to him when he cries and likes to read to him. Kade loves being an older brother again and is so kind and loving with him.
Jess has been AWESOME!!! Being in the military is amazing because they give Paternity leave so he's was able to take 10 days leave. (He goes back Thursday...I'm a little worried cause he's been doing SOO much) I love him. He got up with the boys every morning, got Kade off to school, letting me sleep, planted a garden...and just rocked! We love to just watch Garrett and all his funny faces.
ANYWAY--we love him and he's awesome!

Here are some pictures and a video of his first week!

Jess and Rhett in the hospital

Me and my BOYS the morning after Rhett was born

His first bath-(he really did kind of like it...that was just before the camera came out)

Here he is a bit calmer

Here are the boys decorating Monster Easter Eggs

Jess and Luke (and Kade once he was home from school) planted 2 Square Foot Gardens! YAY!! We're so so so excited. There are already so many sprouts! Vege's here we come!

The boys are in charge of watering, so far so good!

Lucas reading to Garrett

Sewing, Kade's Poetry Competition, and Fatty

So, today's my due date...and no baby--BUT I got to go to Kade's poetry competition at Kade's school! It was adorable. Kade was one of the kids voted from his class to compete in the K-3rd grade competition. I recorded him practicing the night before, and when I recorded him today, it didn't work so well (our recorded is pretty old). ANYWAY, it's super cute though, he memorized it so fast and surprised me by not being nervous when he performed it.

Here's his practice (coupled with a bonus of Kade 'rapping' it and Luke 'break dancing'. They make us smile!

Also...I have some great friends (love you ladies) and my friend Jessica threw me a surprise baby shower where everyone gave me diapers (AWESOME). It made me cry a bit...so nice! ANYWAY, there are a lot of us that are due soon (16 from my ward are pregnant right now!) but here are 4 of us from the shower. Cute girls!

Here's a picture of me today...40 weeks pregnant!

I had so much fun sewing new bedding for this baby! So...here's the baby room. We had a super old ghetto couch from DI that we wanted to keep...but for it to look different. So I re-covered it and it looks a little better. (we call it the squinting couch...cause it looks good if you squint--ha ha) I used the cheapest material on account of...I didn't know how to make a cover, and it needs TONS of fabric....but I like it tons better so, there you go.

Snow in Georgia!!!

YAY!! So for real, the forcast was for possible snow...but I was sceptical it would ever stick. But it did....and it's so so pretty! Friday night was super cold...Jess was off doing his homework and so I lovingly sent the boys out on their own (for real...so cold) for some awesome Georgia snow fun. Someone has to make the hot cocoa right? Right! So the snow flakes were HUGE and great packing snow and it was awesome to watch the boys play and play and play until they were little popcicles.

Then this morning the snow was still here...and the weather was so much warmer. So we all geared up and tried it out. (Jess took some pretty pictures)

It was super powder-ry...so after Jess' good hard efforts at making some sort of snow creature/fort/something, we abandoned that. Next...we don't have sleds so.......we first tried laundry baskets.....then we tried cookie sheets....and then we remembered that Jess and I had our snowboards in the garage! RIGHT! So that worked and it was awesome. YAY for snow in Georgia!!!

Here's Lucas with a lap full of snow after his first run on the cookie sheet...they were really sub-par.

First time together on the snowboard...it was pretty fast!
little snowboarder...it was pretty heavy for him to lug...but he did it!

oh...and a some crazies mentioned I looked small in my other post...it wasn't true--just the wrong angle...here is me in all of my 34 week splender! (I know my face is a little freaky...I can't explain that...it just happened that way. )

Goodbye Scotty!

Don't you just love early morning goodbyes! This was a particularly heart warming one. My youngest bro. Scott is leaving on his mission to New York March 17th so we all went out to Utah to see him before he was off! He looks happy to be awake and hugged huh? Ooooh, I love this kid.We also got to meet our almost newest sister Kara! Oooh, she's just so nice and we love her to bits...here's a pic of her and my bro. B.J. (getting married in May)and me with our prettiest faces!She's going to fit in perfectly!

We got to see most of Jess' family too. We went to the yummiest frozen yogurt place--like cold stone but cheaper and better...My favorite thing about this group picture is how awful it is. Lots of closed eye's and people not looking..ha ha--I love reality pictures

Kaden has so taken after his dad--his face in this picture was on purpose. Oooh, don't you just love that?

Luke and Grandpa George!

We got a big ole Adams family picture, and Luke even stood in front of my giant belly! Good kid that one!

Back at the Adams house there was much snow playing going on! Lucas was so entranced by the mountains and the snow and kept reminding us how cool it was. I LOVED it!

"Fire-power" (you know...from Night at the Museum?? You can't see it but our snowman is doing it too.)

Me and B.J. while he took a break from terrorizing the young'ins. he he

Seriously, rock climbing with scotty was so so fun! Totty's sort of amazing at it. Both boys climbed the wall to the very top! I was so so impressed with their dexterity. Love them!

One of my favorite things about getting together with my family is playing games--ALL THE TIME! And this trip was no exception! It was such a short one that in the beginning I had to force myself to play and not sleep...but it was soooooo worth it. Usually it's card games, but my sister introduced a new game named Quelf which was AWESOME! Here's Scott with a plant on his lap during the game, laughing cause he had to laugh whenever anyone else laughed as part of the rules....it really was the coolest game ever!

Two of the coolest guys ever! Dad and Jess! I like them!

Some of my awesome adorable friends made some quick changes in their plans and we all got together for lunch. So so so fun! Love you ladies

Okay--for real--it was a great trip. I wish it could have been longer..but turns out when you've got a giant belly with a child in it and another child in school, trips need to be short. But thanks mom and dad (and mom and dad Winn--they totally shared their chocolates!!! yay!)

Next big adventure......CHILDBIRTH! YAY!!! 6 more weeks!!! And I'm almost over this cold THING that has had me down for almost 2 weeks! LAMEST 2 WEEKS EVER. Cough, congestion, back aches, headaches, braxton hicks....I've never been sick like this and I'll tell you what, I've always taken for granted breathing out of my nose---NEVER AGAIN! Everyone who's reading this right now...take a deep breath through your nose--and relish it....living and sleeping sucks without it!

Okay--I'm definitely getting better...today was much better then last week. So that's awesome..it's almost done...(I think I can, I think I can, I think I can)