Our New Family Picture

This is our family picture. My eyes are kind of funny looking and Mayley's hand is in her face but everyone else looks good. We took them right outside our front door by our pomegranite trees.

Home from the Hospital

Mayley in her Christmas outfit that my mom got for her. The hospital gave her the hat and they are so cute together.
The kids stayed with Grammy Tammy until Sunday evening. This is the first time that they saw Mayley. They all wanted to hold her but they do a good job at sharing her.
Here is our most recent family picture. I can't believe that we have 4 kids!!
She is a snuggler. I love holding her. She love to be held close and she wanted to suck on anything that is near her mouth. She even started to suck on my chin.

Labor Story:

We are finally home from the hospital and ready to start life with one more kid. When we got home my mom and dad, Briana and John all came up to see Mayley. We are so excited to have another girl in our family. She is so beautiful and Briley, Dayton and Colton want to hold her all the time. I am feeling really good after delivering her. We went in on Saturday morning for me to get induced. It took three nurses and four pokes for them to get an IV in me and it still wasn't in good. I couldn't move my arm at all or an alarm would go off and the nurse would have to came in and reset the IV again. They started the pitosin at 9:30 and it didn't really do anything until they broke my water at 2:00. The contractions got really hard and I dialated from a 4 to an 8 in an hour and a half. About 3:40 I started pushing and she was born at 3:51 PM. We are so excited to have a little girl.

Mayley is here!

Mayley Miner was born December 1, 2007 at 3:51pm.

She weighed 7lbs. 2 ounces is 19 inches long.

She has beautiful curly blond hair.

Colton

Colton was asleep for most of the time we were at the Museum. He woke up when we went to do the activity outside. It was really cold outside. It was in the 50's during the day and then it was also windy. So we had to bundle up. Colton didn't want to get out of the stroller into the cold.
When he finally got out off the stroller he went over to play with the musical brake drums and roters. He loved hitting them and seeing that each one makes a different sound.

This isn't a very good picture but it is Wes, Briley, and Dayton in a big bubble. This is in the car on the way home. Colton was throwing up all night our last night that we were there. So Briley helped him get to sleep in the car on our long trip home. Colton just hugged her arm and fell right to sleep. She is going to be a big help to me when I have this baby.

Crazy Boy

This is as far as Dayton got to painting his face. He drew spiders on his cheeks.
They had a big pin thing that you can press you face, hand or body on it. It was fun to look on the other side and see your imprint.
They had a big magnets that you can make different things with. Dayton and Wes built a cowboy.
Dayton loved to do this. He weaved beads through the string. He thought this was so fun. This would be tedious for me to do. He loves doing things that take patience.

Children's Museum

We went to a Children's Museum in New Mexico and had a Blast. Wes made huge bubbles and this is Briley jumping off the stairs to pop the bubble.
They had a face painting station for the kids to paint their own faces. Briley had so much fun thinking she was putting on makeup.
This is the finished product. I so glad she can not wear make up yet. She wanted to keep it on her face until Monday so she could go to school like that for her show and tell. She was pretty disappointed to take a shower when we got back to our hotel room.

This is Briley climbing the wall their she made it all the way to the top. Then she wanted to do it again but they were closing.

New Mexico Trip

This last week we went to New Mexico. We had so much fun, but are glad that we are home. While we were in our hotel room, Dayton asked me why I'm not cooking anymore. We are all tired of eating out. I never thought that I would say that!