My Baby Girls

I have really missed Landon this last week. It just isn't the same without him here. Sometimes I'll hear or see something that reminds me of him and it will make me a little sad. Having said that it has been nice only having to deal with the two girls. I miss Landon and I will be so happy to see him in a few weeks but I am enjoying my life with 2 kids at the moment.
Here are some pictures of the girls that I took over the past week. Tori likes sitting in the swing when Ella is in the bouncy seat. When Landon was here it was a fight between him and Tori as to who got to sit in the swing.

The other day I had a fun time playing with different hair styles on Tori. I know she doesn't have a lot of hair but she has enough that I can start doing some fun things.

The hair clipped to the side look. Very cute but it didn't last long

The multiple ponytail look. I really don't know what I was going for here, but it was fun playing around.

A view from the top.

We finally settled on classic pig tails.

Here are some cute new pictures of Ella

The 4th of July and Ellalyn's Blessing

We actually didn't do anything for the 4th of July but our ward did have a 4th of July party yesterday and it was a lot of fun. Our ward is awesome and it was great to visit with other families and eat delicious food.

Jared with the girlsMe with the girls

Ellalyn turned one month old yesterday. She still isn't doing much but eating, sleeping, and crying but she is getting bigger and cuter each day. Also today I think she smiled at me, though it very well could have just been gas. Either way it was super cute. We had her blessed today and Jared gave her a very sweet blessing. We wish that we could have had family here for the blessing but it was really nice regardless.

Isn't she beautiful?

We are really missing Landon around here. The house is so much quieter without him around. But it looks as if he is having a GREAT time with Grammy and Grandpa so we are happy.

Ellalyn Star Peterson joins the world

So Ellalyn was born today at 11:54 AM Eastern time zone (That's 8:54 for those of you in Vegas and Reno). She weighed in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces and is 19.5'' long. She (according to the nurse, I couldn't see it.) has reddish hair and appears to have less of it than our other kids initially did. She is also substantially more vocal than our other kids, and has spent the majority of her time with us yelling about the injustice of it all. That should change soon enough though we hope.

Kerstin did really well throughout the process and, despite her minor discomforts, I think this was quite possibly the best birth we've had, although the final call on that is up to KT and not me. Landon and Torilynn have yet to see Ella or their mom, but we will probably go to visit them tomorrow. KT probably will get lonely in the hospital though so if you want to call her I have a phone number that you can reach her at the hospital so ask and ye shall receive. (The phone in her room will only ring if you call before 10PM though. After that and you'll have to wait.)

Well, enough chat, on to the pics:

This is Ella shortly after she was born, when they had put her under the heat lamp. That stuff on her eyes is antibiotic.

The is Ella after she was cleaned up and bathed and what-not. While the nurse may or may not be right about the red hair, Ella is certainly red skinned though. You may think that this is the lighting or something making her look this red, but you would be wrong. She really was this red.

And no set of pictures would be complete without a picture of the mom and the baby. Awwww, how cute.

And, of course, we have to save the best for last. (And by best I mean, of course, a picture accenting that sweet sweet watch that I'm wearing and not the guy with the goofy grin.)

Well, I think I've covered all the bases here so that's it for me.

We have a date....

Sorry I haven't updated this thing in a while. I really have not been feeling great and I have been so tired and lazy. I know those are lame excuses but oh well.
This last week has been pretty fun. On Saturday Landon and I went on a mother/son date. We went to Applebe's for lunch and then we went to the mall and made a puppy at Build-a- Bear. We had a lot of fun and it was nice to spend some one on one time with my little boy.
In other news I had a doctors appointment today and we set up my c-section date and time. If everything goes as planned we will be welcoming a new little Peterson on June 5th at around 11:00 am. That is 2 weeks from tomorrow, yikes! I am ready not to be pregnant any more but I don't know how ready I am to have 3 kiddos. It is a little too late to change my mind though so ready or not here we go :).

33 Weeks...

I hate having my picture taken, but I especially hate having my picture taken while I am pregnant. However my friend Summer and my brother Ben wanted to see a pregnant picture of me, so I figured what the heck. This picture was taken on Sunday and I am 33 weeks 1 day pregnant in it. This is the biggest I have ever been at this point in any of my pregnancies and I am I starting to get a lot of new stretch marks which aren't very pretty and itch really bad. I have also started to have trouble sleeping, bad heart burn, and a lot of hip pain. Needless to say this isn't my favorite part of pregnancy. All that being said I am thankful for a pretty easy going pregnancy and I know that all these normal pregnancy "pains" will be more then worth it when my baby is born here in about a month and a half. So here you go my first (and probably last) pregnant picture for this pregnancy. I hope you all enjoy :).

Big News!

For those of you who have not heard the news I am pregnant again. We are expecting our third child on or around June 14th. We know that Torilynn and this baby will be close in age, and while we are pretty nervous about having two so close in age we are also really excited. Today we found out that we will be having another little girl who we will name Ellalyn. I am excited to have two little girls so close in age but I am sure that it will make for some very emotionally charged teenage years :).