SAMANTHA B YATES

She is finally here, i was beginning to think that she really wasn't going to come. I went into the hospital at 10 yesterday so they could induce me. They started me with plitocin around 11:30 and then broke my water at 1:30. i Thought for sure it wouldn't be too long after that. My mom guessed 4 o'clock i guessed 6 and clayton guessed 8. Well Samantha thought it would be funny to arrive fashionably late and make none of us win! Nothing was really happening with dialation, i was at a 2 FOREVER and then i went 3,4, in about 4 hrs then around 11 p.m. my doctor came back and checked ,me and i went from a 4 to a 7 rather quickly. My docotor walked out of the rm and then the pressure contractions started to come. I tried to hold off for about 5 min cause my doctor was just in there but i had to get him and when he checked me i was fully dialated. it was 11:45 when i started pushing. Earlier that night i said,"wouldn't it be funny if she came at 11:59" well she didn't but the little stinker did not want her birthday to be on the 22nd cause she arrived at 12:04. It was worht the whole nine months. She is amazing already!

Way too much too Post!

Yes it's true we have had lights and our tree up for a wk

Clayton is now making custom framesm they are very very cool. i love them and he is very talented!

Clayton called for me and said he wants documentation that this is how he put jayni to bed every night! He lays with her til she falls asleep, she is very spoiled by him.

Jayni has been so fuun this year about christmas way more involved than last yr.

Jayni and lydia trick or treating, they were so cute, they kept saying happy new year and happy birthday instead hope Tick or Treat.

This picture is blurry but the only one that we have taken as a family in the last little bit.

We went to the pumpkin patch which was super fun and freezing.

Janyi with baby macie and Brielle
Jayni either always has a coloring book or a puzzle. She has never had my help putting a puzzle together the first time, she just takes her time and figures it out. Except for one harder puzzle which clayton and i were helping her with and we all starting fighting cause we each wanted to do it. She kept sayingm "but it's my puzzle". Sorry Jay!

Jayni is the sweetest little thing there is, i know it! She is so smart, funny, sweet, caring about others, very interested in how things work, loves her mommy and daddy, She is going to be such a Great big sister, Is always willing to help me, she cleans her room almost everyday pretty darn good. She is just so innocent and we lover her so much. i have to admit i am a little sad that she wonlt be the "only one" anymore.

We are anxiously awating the arrival of baby Samantha, i go in on sun which is 2 wks early because i have high blood pressure. The baby is fully developed so everything should be fine. This has been such a long 9 months, i forgot what it was like to be pregnant. i have felt perfectly fine except for all the added hormones and lack of energy. i have been in school this last semester and have continued to work my regular hrs so i have done a lot more than i was when i was pregnant with jayni. Today is my last day to work for a couple wks. Jayni i don't think really understands completely that our baby is going to be with us forever or maybe she does and i'm just trying to get different responses from her. i told her yesterday that when daddy and i get home from the hospital we are going to have a surprise(present) for her and her response was, " And it won't even be the babies" so i think she has gotten a little tired of all the excitement for the baby. I have done pretty good with telling her the things i did to prepare for her, all the new clothes and things. I was able to be in the room when michelle's baby, macie was born 2 months ago which has made it the longest 2 months for me. It was absolutely amazing, the first birth i've seen besides my own but it is just not the same. I have had i'm sure the regular worries and fears but am quick to understand that everything will be just as it should. Not much has happened the last few months so We will post as soon as we can to announce the birth!

finally.... A POST!!!

So one day while leanne was watching jayni, lydia(4)-who loves hair, decided to give jayni a haircut. Leanne texted me and said "i'm sick to my stomach, i'm so sorry". Lydia has cut her hair a lot. Leanne has hid scissors in impossible places to find from lydia and she always found them. It was pretty funny to me because i thinkwe would have made it without jayni cutting her own hair. At least it was salvageable, it could've been worse.

My Sweet Sweet baby girl turned 3! and can't wait for her next birthday:)

Jayni and Lydia's last summer dance performance

OH john how we love you!

REALLY! no pics while pregnant and in a swim suit!

Thats My GIRL!

So i don't even know what we have been up to the last couple months. Trying to stay cool in this HEAT. It was nice though cuz jayni didn't care to play outside during the day and being pregnant this summer was so miserable. We went to Lake Powell for a few days which was really fun, and have just stayed busy busy with our everyday lifes. Jayni is at such a fun age, she is growing into her own little person. She has quite the personality. She is so very sweet has never really been one to be too curious and mischevious. She loves anything princess/fairy, dolls, and her cousin Lydia. I love to listen to her talk when she's playing by herself. there are some revealing things about how i talk to her it's hillarious. She love to sing, carrie underwood is one of her favorites and she has a pretty darn good voice. She is so spoiled by the two of us and pretty much everyone else. I am so excited for her to be a big sister, she loves babies so much and i have always known that she is a special one. Her little sister is going to be very lucky and i am excited because i really feel like she will be a big help. I just started school aug 25th and am due dec. 5th and have finals around the 18th of dec. my doctor says we'll try for thanksgiving break to be induced of course depending on her growth. This pregnancy has been SOO.. different. It feels like the very first time. I am so much more emotional and have had a little bit of a rough time, i have cried almost everytime i've gone to the doctor and cry pretty much at anything. All in all it has really gone great i am just very good at trying to do so many things and get overwhelmed and stressed so i am trying to take it easy.

Jayni had to be put under to have 4 crowns on and 2 cavities filled. her molers grew in wrong so decayed in a part of her tooth, it was the hardest thing ever. both me and my husband cried( don't tell him i said anything) He is such a huge support for me and for jayni, he is i think the best dad out there. I just sit back and watch him talk to jayni and explain things to her so patiently, our kids and myself are lucky to have him!! He has been growing a gotee(?) and jayni always feels it every time he talks to her or holds her and i HATE it, cuz it hurts! I asked him if he would please shave it and he said he wouldn't cuz jayni likes to feel it. She has him WRAPPED!!

It's a GIRL!!!

Our quick trip to california

We wanted to take jayni to disneyland before i got too big and pregnant and also before she has to share the attention with a little bro or sis. It was so much fun, she was SOOO..... excited to meet the princess' she got too excited with sleeping beauty she ran off. the beach was super fun too. In one of the pictures she got a mouth full of water and her face was hillarious for about 2 min. she was so confused why it tasted different from our water. thurs was my birthday so i got in free to disneyland which was super cool and jay got in free as well cuz she is two for another wk. we took a little break and went to cheesecake factory and i have to sa y that i was a little dissapointed because i have heard such great things about it and it was just average. it could be that i'm pregnant and all i like right now is really spicy tangy pickled flavored things. I just discovered pickled okra. All in all it was way worth the drive. We will be doing that trip again for sure. more beach time though