Heidi's Adventures

We're behind on our blog. I admit it. I had way too much fun with all my pictures. So I'll fill in details.

April passed in a blur of bookstore, sports and more bookstore.  We did have life in between though.  On the 22nd Steve and I were going to be celebrating our 10 anniversary.  Luckily we had already planned for us to go out of town the next Friday because life didn't happen like we'd planned!!  Monday Heidi started coughing a little. Monday night in the middle of the night I woke up to feed Heidi and felt like I'd been hit by a truck. My neck was stiff, my throat hurt and I felt AWFUL.  I fought that for 2 days among tylenol and motrin.   Wednesday night (21st) we took Heidi to the doctor because her cough was getting worse. Then we went to the instacare for me and found out I had strep. WONDERFUL.

So Thursday I woke up and told Steve Happy Anniversary and we got on with life - amid cold sores, strep, and a very sad Heidi.   We had a book signing that evening with David Farland. It was great! He's a great, very nice guy and gave Steve some great tips for writing and publishing. I just kinda floated through the whole thing. My sister was keeping an eye on Heidi and was a little worried about her.  When we got everything cleaned up from the signing we went home and I found out she had a fever! So I rushed her to the hospital with a hug for Steve as I ran out the door.

We had to rush to the doctor in Provo to get there in time. They decided to send her to the hospital to get her suctioned out. While we were there we decided to keep her there on oxygen.  So the next morning Steve came and gave her  a blessing and picked up the car(Char brought him as we have only one car...). The blessing made all the difference in the world.  She was a whole different little girl. Her coloring came back and she no longer needed oxygen. She smiled at all the nurses (except during the suctioning but who wants a tube shoved up their nose and down their throat?).  We ended up staying till Sunday just to make sure. By Wednesday she was doing awesome and by her 2 month appointment on May 3rd she was completely better!  Even her TWO ear infections were gone.  Here are a few pictures from the hospital:

And what was Steve doing through all this?  Lets see, running a store(with help from Charlotte), getting kids to and from school and practice - and that was Friday.  Saturday he had to get Jakob to a soccer game,  and himself to the store.  I have AMAZING neighbors that were very sweet and took my kids while he was at the store.   Jakob went with a friend to soccer and was well taken care of.  I had other neighbors that took over the store and the street fair which Steve ran between. Then there was another signing that night.    Then the next day he took the kids to Stake Conference and let me know what the changes were for the stake (we split).  By that time he was able to come and get us and take us home.  While I laid back and rested and made sure Heidi was taken care of, he took care of everything else!!

I'm so thankful for an amazing sister, husband and neighbors that were able to help out. And everyone else that was praying for her. She was only 7 weeks old and it was so scary but she was well watched over and recovered in an amazing amount of time. I even had a sister that called before she got on her cruise so she could see how things were!!  I felt that we were well loved and well taken care of.

And how did we end up celebrating our 10th anniversary? We went to Burley ID and stayed at a Marriott that my mom and dad got us for our  anni-birthday(we have birthdays and our anniversary all close together).  Then we got our beef and zoomed home to get it in the freezer.  It was wonderful - and my kids had a great time with their cousin while we were gone!

Heidi's Blessing Photos

Heidi was blessed on April 11th, 2010.   Due to many different things only Steve and Grandpa Hardy made it into the circle but it was still a wonderful blessing.  We had a yummy lunch of baked potatoes, salad, cake and all the toppings.   It was great!! Thanks to everyone that came and supported us, and to those that couldn't but wanted to. :)

We were finally able to get her blessing pictures done today - almost a month later but I'm THRILLED with how they turned out!! It amazes me how sweet my little Adelheid Pearl is and how blessed we are to have her in our lives.

More Photos!

Here are pictures of Ashley, Gavin and Ethan from the same day we did Heidi's.  They turned out super cute! Next time I post will be photos of our family that we're getting done. I cant wait to see them - when we've actually done them!! Although maybe I should post something about Ashley's and my birthday...

Isn't she cute?! These are just a few of the photos that were done. 

Photo Shoot

My friend Cherylann does amazing photography. Today she came to our house and did a photo shoot for Heidi's newborns. She also did photos of the other three younger ones as they didn't get school photos.  She sent me a sample today and said the rest are coming next week. So here they are! In particular order since blogger wouldn't let me put them in order...

Girls Vs. Boys

As Ashley has gotten older I've noticed small differences between girls and boys. Well, besides the rather obvious ones.  But here are some I've had to laugh at.

If Steve and I kiss when the boys are around,  the automatic reaction is 'EW GROSS!!!' and they cover their eyes.  On Sunday Ashley was going to show me a picture she colored at nursery.  Steve told her "you need to wait, I'm going to kiss Mommy"(he was joking).  What does she do? She backed up so she could watch...

Boys watch the movies and quote all the funny or gross parts of a show.  Ashley watched Little Mermaid the other day. She would let me know what was happening throughout the movie. After it got done, she came running in "Mommy! She got her voice back and then they got MARRIED!!!" She was giddy. And when she's happy those little eyes sparkle!

The boys are very much in love with their new little sister. They fight over who gets to hold her but are just as happy walking away and going about their business.  Every night Ashley prays that Heidi will get big and grow teeth and eat big food and learn to walk. She wants her little sister to play with her!

I have loved my boys and girls and have enjoyed watching them grow up into their own little people. It just makes me more excited to see who these little people will grow to be!!

A Rather Telling Story...

Jakob was supposed to read a story on different points of view - or something to that effect.  The day he was writing went along like any others.  And this is the story he came up with (it was typewritten and this is the exact spelling and font sizes he used...):

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Mommy sense we got home from school can I have some
 banana balls?  No.  Monkey I already told you that.
 But why not? I’m really hungry! No.

Can I play the wii?  No! Please can I?
Stop asking for things!!! But I’m bored.

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can I play on the computer ? No! How about now?

No! Please? Stop asking!

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Now I must say, I don't say no NEARLY that often but to an 8 year old apparently this is how his day goes.  And to justify myself I DID let him have the "banana balls" which were actually cheese balls. I might have said no to the other things. ;)

Some Updates and Our Little Heidi

We haven't posted since we got the entertainment center (except for the vote for us thing that didn't work right...) so here is the last 3 months in review(quickly) before we move on to what everyone wants to see - our cute little girl!

December passed in a blur. We  were home or the store where we had some great business. It was fun having everyone come in for the first time to see our store.

Christmas was FUN!!! We enjoyed our time in Idaho with siblings and cousins.  Steve and I got to go to the temple the next morning and enjoyed some yummy Thai food while we were in Twin Falls. YUMMY.

For New Years we went to a party at our neighbor's house and had a blast.  We played games and ate lots of good food.  They let all the kids bang on pans at midnight and it was lots of fun!

In January we were busy getting things ready for an author signing.   We got to have Brandon Sanderson come to our store.  We had our store packed to capacity!! It was amazing.  He is my favorite author so just having him there was great. The publicity for our store was great. :) We were even in the newspaper a few days before!!  We sold out of some of his books and its fun to tell people the ones we still have were signed. He's planning to come back and we can't wait!!

In February we started getting ready for the next event. We had 7 authors come in and sign their books. It was fun. While we didn't have as many people show up, it was still an awesome turn out and it was fun to meet all the authors!

Valentine's Day was nice. We went to Cafe El Lago and had a yummy dinner.   We'd also gone to a church dinner/ dance a couple weeks before. They did an AMAZING job with it!!

Oh I missed another thing. I was called for the Women's coach for basketball. 23 women signed up. 12 - 14 show up every time.  How do I make that many women feel they had fair play and make sure we have fun? Good question.  But I tried my hardest.  We lost some, won a couple, had a battle or two but its been fun.

So on we move to the main event.  Anyone that's been around me for the last oh, 9 months, you know how much I was looking forward to this little girl!!

March 1st I got the call at 5:15 to go into the hospital. I called my sister and she came over to stay with the kids.  Jakob was at his friend's house for the night (which he loved but said he didn't fall asleep until 2 AM).  We got to the hospital at 6:20 but got set up with pitocin at 7:35.

They slowly moved the pitocin up every half hour and it didn't get hard until probably around 10 or 11.  By that time I wasn't having fun anymore.  Steve was entertaining me with shows on YouTube and asking me questions about orders for the store.  I finally gave in and got the epidural.

It took FOREVER to have it kick in. At about 12:00, I was at 4 and then jumped to a 4 1/2 in 15 minutes.  The epidural finally kicked in just as they said I was ready to have the baby. It took more time to track down the doctor than it did for me to go from a 4 to a 10!!  1 1/2 pushes later, Heidi was born.

I thought she looked like Ethan at first but then noticed Ashley's chin.  Now I think she just looks like herself...  Everything went SO well and I felt better after this delivery than any of my other 5!!  It was great from beginning to end (except for the whole epidural not working at first).

So Adelheid (Heidi) Pearl Weist was born at 1:14(Steve guessed 1:38) PM.  She was 7 lb 4 oz and 18 1/2 inches long. She's my smallest and has been a joy.  My kids love her. Ethan even says her name and loves to touch - which means Mom has to be right by her!!

So here are pictures of my little girl!

Love Your Local Business

I planned on having something much more exciting for my next blog(I don't even have Christmas on here!!) but I decided this is pretty cool itself.

Intuit that does Turbo Tax, etc has a contest for local businesses where people can comment and vote on the businesses they love. Then they give out grants to the winners.

I just wanted to give anyone the opportunity to vote for us if you love us. If not, I guess that's fine too. :)  Just click on the ad, type in the name of our store and the city(Eagle Mountain, UT) and vote.

Thanks!  Next post will be exciting. I promise!

Ok, so I learned that that link doesn't work... so try this one instead:

http://lovealocalbusiness.intuit.com/?business_id=f0c47c6b91350463081b4da6dce570bc&vtid=email_conf_sbo