Nothing like going home!

We have arrived, we are settled in and we love being here. We sure have missed these Tri-City Summers and being able to see our families more often. Darren is already being put to work, he is teaching Gospel Doctrine next week and he is going to work with Kory (my brother) for a few weeks until he finds an internship....what can we say...WE LOVE LIFE!

Mothers Day!

My first mother's day as a mom...I could get used to this. Darren took me to eat in Lewiston on Friday and while we were there also took me to get these new running shoes! These are going to get a lot of mileage this summer, I love them. Thanks Darren...YOUR THE BEST!

Our Crazy Girl

So Tessa and I were upstairs last night getting Kloee ready for bed so we could go to sleep ourselves. I look over to see how the burping is going and Kloee is looking at me like this. I laughed for at least a minute straight. I laughed so hard that tears started rolling down my face and my nose started running. It still cracks me up everytime I look at it. She is so crazy. She has this fascination with opening her eyes as wide as she can and even to the point of raising her eye brows on top of that. She has about three different facial combinations that she uses with her eyes wide open which are equally funny. Occasionally she crosses her eyes with them wide open which is just as funny. I know I am funny looking but I didn't realize how much I guess.

This is her sitting straight up as Tessa is trying to burp her. It sure makes it difficult when she does it. She sure doesn't like to cooperate.

Cinco de Mayo

A couple of years ago we started a new tradition in our family of celebrating Cinco de Mayo I think we get crazier every year, it is so much fun... we dress up, eat A LOT of yummy food, and break open a pinata. Here are some pics of the festivities.My mom just taught me how to use a surge on my friends sewing machine and here are our outfits. (Matching skirts for Kloee and me and a matching cummerbund for Darren!)
The Candy grab after the pinata was broken!
Here is the spread...this year it covered the entire hot tub.
Here we all are dressed up for the fun..we didn't get a very good shot of all three of us but....

here is a great one of Kloee.

Pictures and Diapers

Well, we got the okay from our doctor to come home tonight. Tessa is doing great and handled the stairs up to the bedroom like a champ. She is going to be stuck up stairs for the next couple of days since both the bedroom and bathroom are up here. Kloee is happy and we are so happy to have her here with us. There is something about her that just melts my heart. I could sit there for hours just looking at her big blue eyes and round chubby face. She is so pure and innocent and I am glad that Heavenly Father has given us the opportunity to teach her all we know.

Her first ride in the car seat.

I have never been a fan of changing diapers and Kloee has not made it any better. I had my first diaper changing disaster yesterday. She had a really messy diaper which required many wipes. It took a little while to get it all cleaned up and the problem is that the longer any baby is not in a diaper, the more you are risking a bigger mess. For this particular cleanup, I had a hold of both legs and lifted them up so I could get the last of the mess up off the back. As I did the last wipe, she starts to pee which goes all over the place. It runs around both sides of her leg, stomach, and back. It gets all over her shirt, the brand new diaper sitting underneath her, and soaks through the blankets. Awesome Kloee. Way to make memories with dad. I was not to pleased at the time but I must admit, it is pretty funny.

This is where the incident occured.

For every baby, Gritman takes about 10 to 15 pictures of each baby in an outfit for the parents to have burned on a cd and if the parents want, they can post one of them on the website. I thought I would post some of them for you to see.

Kloee Belle Allen

Kloee was born at 1:41 AM on the 22nd of April, one day before her due date. She weighed in at 8# 4oz, 20 3/4 in. long, her head was 13 1/2 in., and her chest was 14 1/4 in. She is very healthy and passed all of her tests with no problems.

It was quite the ordeal to get Kloee out. We started Tessa on the epidural about 9:00ish, which we BOTH were greatful for since Kloee didn't arrive for another 18 hours or so. They started her on the patosum right away since her contractions were not coming as fast as needed. At around 4:30 she was fully dialated and after 2 hours, they let her rest before continuing another 2 hours of pushing. The baby stopped making progress and unfortunately the next option was a C Section but the surgery wasn't going to be for a while. The anesthesiologist, who was already off for the day, had been needed for a surgery that was going to take about 2 to 3 hours. Because of the situation, that surgery couldn't wait. SO, at about 1:30 this morning, we went up for the surgery. When they were pulling the baby out, one doctor meantioned the size of the baby while another meantioned the size of the head. No wonder she didn't want to come out before. The surgery went well and Tessa is starting her process of recovery.

Here she is getting her first bath

Here she is expressing her opinion of her first bath.

She is all clean and putting on her first shirt.

I missed the glare she had on her face by the click of the camera button. Her eyes were slightly open to let us know she was grumpy at us. Poor baby.

And her she is later on this morning with her eyes open.