Spoiled Angels Boutique

For those of you with little girls (newborn-6x in size) you really need to check out this boutique. A girl I went to high school with does it out of her house. She has adorable clothes, and amazing prices! She has a Facebook page where you can check out her stuff. My sweet Bella is one of her models, and after seeing all the clothes on her I can't help but but t hem lol I have gotten Bella's birthday and Easter outfits from her, and have also bought all her clothes we're giving her as gifts from us. It definitely beats going to Salt Lake, and you'll never find such cute stuff @ such great prices out there either!

So much to tell!

I can't believe I have gone so long without posting! I'll just start where I left off. We didn't take any trips this summer since Bella was so little, but it was definitely an interesting summer. My parents have had a lot of problems for some time, so my mom filed for divorce in July. It has been a long, dramatic and emotional process. My dad has decided he doesn't believe I'm his daughter, 29 years later. I haven't spoken to him since August. My kids are heartbroken, but sadly I can't change his mind. Out holidays were busy, but fun. Syd and Dom got cellphones for Christmas, and they are attached to them 24/7 I am pretty sure Syd is on Facebook more than me lol Tasia got a long haired guinea pig that she named Rapunzel. We didn't know when we bought her that she was pregnant, so we were surprised to wake up to 3 babies 2 months later. Sadly, two of the were stillborn, but we now have another female guinea pig named Sophie. Syd is becoming so much more grown up. She helps me out tons! I don't know what I'd do without her. When we moved to Tooele the kids started going to Northlake, and it was horrible for Syd :( She was picked on from day one, and no matter what I did it never changed. After 2 months I changed her to West, and it was the best decision ever! Dom hasn't changed much. He turned 9 in January. He's still into video games, and games he downloads on his phone. He loves skateboarding. He has adjusted really well to the move. Tasia is still bossy as ever. She started kindergarten, and loves every minute of it! In August she had her tonsils and adenoids out. Everything seemed great until a week later when she started having major high fevers. She was admitted to the hospital for 3 days for major dehydration. They never figured out where the fevers were coming from, but after 2 nights of spiking at 104.5 and packing her in ice they got it under control. It felt so good to be home, and have her feeling better! Then we have out little Bella who will be 11 months in 6 days. She is a happy, and very advanced baby! She sat up at 3 1/2 months, started crawling and talking at 5 months, standing at 7 months and has been walking for a month now. She gets lazy, and likes to crawl though lol She has recently started modeling for a local company called Spoiled Angels Boutique.It is so much fun, and the clothes are adorable! As far as Anth and I, we are doing great! He has been such a great support during the stuff with my parents. He is an amazing father to our kids, and I don't know what I would do without him! He's still working for the depot, but we are wanting to move to the Ogden area before Syd starts junior high in the fall, so that will be changing. I'm still tending and doing all the mommy stuff, and I wouldn't trade it for anything! I will try to post pictures later :)

Memorial Day weekend....

Oh my gosh this weekend felt like it was crazy! We had a great time though. Saturday my sister-in-law graduated (with honors) from Juan Diego Catholic High School. Syd and Dom had slept at my parents house the night before, so just Anth, me, Tasia and Bella went to the graduation. It was packed! We ended up in standing room only spots, but luckily got an aisle so we were able to sit on the ground and still see everything perfect. Afterwards we hung out at the school for a few and took lots of pics with her, and she took lots of pics with her friends and teachers. She is off to school back East in the fall, and I think Anth is going to worry about her as much as he would our own kids lol After pictures we all went out to eat at La Hacienda. It was yummy!!!! Anth wants to go back there this weekend again.

Sunday my in-laws threw a great graduation party at an amazing fine dining restraunt called Vuz that just opened up in Draper. Everyone just sat around and visited and ate some of their yummy food. If you get a chance to try it out I definitely recommend it. Everyone was in love with our little Bella. Everytime I turned around a different person was holding her. Anth went to offer to take her from his Aunt Edith at one point, but my father-in-law stepped in front of him and said "Don't even think about it" and took off with her lol Even my sister-in-laws friends parents were holding her. One lady said her daughter told her they should go to the adoption agency to find a baby like her lol After the party we went back to my in-laws and watched old family videos from when Anth and his siblings were all younger. I love watching old stuff like that! Anth had a hard time watching one video that had their Grandma Anderson on it. She passed away 6 years ago, and he was extremely close to her. He still misses her so much everyday. We didn't end up getting home that night until about 10:30, so needless to say by the time Monday came around we laid in bed all day and did absolutely nothing!

This week is a busy one for us, and it seems like it's going by so fast already. Dom has 4 baseball games this week, because they are trying to make up for all of the ones that have been rained out these last few weeks. Anth has 2 games. We live at the baseball fields in the summer. Dom's season was actually suppose to be over tomorrow, but because of the rain it won't be over until the end of June I think. Who knows lol Friday we are taking Bella to get her ears pierced. I am so excited!!! I love when little girls have their ears pierced, and I think it's easier to do them at a younger age. Then they don't mess with them. Plus when Syd got hers done she was 3, and she screamed!!! I felt so bad. She loved them, but she screamed. When Tasia got hers done at 2 months she slept through the whole thing. She was asleep on my shoulder when they did the first ear, and she picked up her head and made a little grunt then laid back on my shoulder and slept through the second ear. I will post pictures after we get them done :)

Preschool graduation and math awards :)

Last week Tasia had her preschool graduation. I am so proud of her, and yet sad that she is getting so big already!!! Her teacher rented the clubhouse and had it all decorated cute. The kids sang some of their favorite songs for us. When they were sitting in front of everyone Tasia leaned over to the kid next to her and said, "Why is everyone taking pictures of me?" His response was..."I think it's because you have a flower in your hair" LOL!!! I love the way kids think. Each kid got a diploma, a congrats grad balloon and some flash cards from the teacher. I think I am going to miss her teacher more than Tasia will. She really is amazing, so for any of you looking for a preschool teacher for next year let me know. I would be happy to give you her information!

Yesterday we got to go to an awards ceremony for the 2nd graders, because Dom received an award for passing both his addition and subtraction time tests. They have to do 100 addition in 5 minutes, and the same for subtraction. Dom came up short on both almost the whole year, but has worked really hard and pulled through this last term. We are so proud of him! Friday is the last day of school, so I expect to say goodbye to my sanity by Monday morning lol We'll start counting down the days for next school year soon I'm sure. I can't believe I will have a kindergartener, a 3rd grader and a 6th grader next year!

Bella Baby Photography photoshoot

This is what they do instead of the cheesy hospital pics now! I love every single one of them, so even though it was a lot I had to post them all. My sweet mom bought the cd and gave it to me for Mother's Day. I can't wait to get some of them printed out, and hang them up in our house :)

Labor story

I know I am a little slow, but like I said I don't actually get on here much anymore. I just play on facebook from my phone. Our sweet baby girl is now a month old, and is already growing (she's 8 lbs 8 oz now) and changing. She is starting to smile at people, and no it isn't just the gas smiles. She gets a full blown toothless grin. I love it!!!!


Ok where to begin...Well I guess the whole process started Sunday night. It was quite a weekend! We took the kids Sunday April 10th to have a sleepover at my in-laws house, so that if we had to head into the hospital right at 5:30 in the morning when I called they wouldn't have to get up so early. As soon as we walked in the door their dog decided he didn't like Dominic, and latched on to his leg right on his calf and his upper thigh :( Anth and I ran him to the after hours clinic in Sandy to have it checked out. Luckily he didn't need stitches, but he did have to be put on antibiotics to avoid infection and he had 2 major bruises that lasted a couple weeks. After all that we finally headed home to try to rest, but of course we were extremely anxious so it was next to impossible. I woke up at 4:30 to shower and get ready, because labor can make you look like hell anyways so I had to at least try to look decent for pics during and after. We had to be to the hospital at 7:30, and they started me on pitocin right away and tried to break my water but Bella was in the way. I was already contracting on my own, so the pitocin just made them extra strong and almost back to back. They checked me thinking I would have progressed since I was already a 2 1/2 when I got there, but I was barely a 3. Now with my other 3 kids once I hit a 3 I was at a 10 20 minutes later, so I kept waiting to get that urge to push but this little woman was stubborn and decided to take me each and every step of dialation. After a while my contractions were basically nonstop, and Bella didn't like that and her heartrate dropped scary low so they had to take me off the pitocin for a while to let her calm down. I was still having contractions, but they were getting farther apart and Bella wasn't moving down into the birth canal much at all. After a total of 3 attempts they were able to break my water and they started the pitocin again, and found out that Bella was turned sideways so that's why she wasn't moving down. They had me lay on my left side to try to get her to turn, but my blood pressure dropped to 90/52 so they had me lay on my right side to see if it'd come back up. After a while we tried the left side again, but my blood pressure really didn't like my being that way. Bella wasn't turning, so they decided to give up and either my dr would turn her while I pushed or I would push her out sideways. At one point my epidural stopped working as good as it should have been, so I had to have a booster shot put into it because I was feeling every contraction! My kids were at the hospital most of the day, and were so unbelievably good. My sister took Syd and Dom and my nephews to play at McDonald's and to go shopping, but Tasia wouldn't leave my side. She even booked it out of the elevator on the wrong floor when Anth's mom tried to take her down to get a snack in the cafeteria downstairs. She finally crashed at 5:00 that night, and was able to nap. At 7:00 I was dialated to a 10, but surprisingly wasn't having that sensation to push. I had it with my other 3, but Bella's whole labor proved to be completely different from my others. I had a really sweet nurse all day long that I loved and was hoping she'd be there for delivery, but she got off at 6:00. My new nurse wasn't quite as pleasant and even stood in Anth's way when I was trying to push. He was pissed! I pushed for a half hour and our little angel came out. I expected her to be no bigger than 7 lbs (all my other kids were under that), but she was a healthy 7 lbs 8 oz. She came out sideways and with her hand up by her face. It was a little rough lol We had so much family there with us that came into the room to see her right after she was born. It was a little overwhelming, but nobody stayed too long. Tasia sat outside the door while I was pushing, and said she could hear me trying to get her out. Within 10 minutes of her being born we had the dr and nurses, Anth, our kids, my parents, Anth's parents, my 2 sisters and 2 nephews, Anth's sister, Anth's aunt, his cousin and her 2 girls all in there. That's the most I've ever had at the hospital with me. It was a little crazy!

Easter 2011

I know I still have to post my labor story, but I swear everytime I try to sit down at the computer or do anything for that matter a little sensor goes off in Bella's head that says "Oh mom is about to be productive I think it's time to fuss" LOL It's amazing how they learn that so early, and how quickly we forget that! I hope everyone had a good Easter. Ours could have been better, but my kids thought it was great so that's all that matters right :) Here is a pic of my cute kiddos from yesterday. Arabella wasn't too thrilled, because she wanted to eat right that second.


I'm not sure if you can see, but I painted Arabella's toenails and fingernails. I love when babies have that done! It looks so cute. Plus I am one of those crazy moms who thinks that for special occasions my girl's nails need to match their outfits and we might as well get her used to that early right. I know it just creates more work for myself, but I love sitting with my girls and having conversations while we paint their nails :)