Nolan's Blessing

We got to bless Nolan on May 6th (kind of a special day to me- I was baptized May 6th 17 years ago.) Trevor gave such a beautiful blessing, and we got to have all of our siblings with us, minus one of Trevor's brothers and his family. It was so much fun to get to hang out with everyone for a few days and celebrate having this little guy around.

3 of Grandpa David's grandsons. These guys are within 5 month of each other.

Family Updates

Nolan is now 2 months old...how did that happen? It's amazing how fast the time goes. At his 2 month check up he weighed 13 lbs and was 23 inches long. That's the 90th percentile for both weight and height. That's right, he's a little chunk. He has been such an angel though. He is definitely a water baby, loves tummy time, and doesn't even mind having his diaper changed. I think he just loves to be naked. He's smiling all the time now and we've almost got him to laugh. He's also a pretty good sleeper. He goes 6-7 hours at night... almost enough for me to function on, and takes two 3-4 hour naps during the day.

Kaydance and Nolan watching a movie

Nolan sporting his Easter outfit

Kaydance spends her days helping me take care of Nolan, and does an AWESOME job at it. (See the picture above?) She is such a good helper and has adjusted well to having a baby around. In the mean time, I try to let her do some fun things. She gets so excited when I ask her if she wants to do a craft or project now. One of her favorite things to make is birthday cards.

Doing the "fizzy craft"

Starting a face

"Mommy with a beard"

Trevor has been staying busy with work and picking up the slack with my lack of housekeeping. He has been such a help to me. He's always willing to change diapers, feed the kids, and keep them occupied so I can have some time to myself. He also finished up his 8 year contract with the ARMY in March. He's still deciding what he wants to do for a big celebration. His top choices so far: sky diving, bungee jumping, or a week long vacation at Lake Powell. Unfortunately, his choices are a bit limited due to his size.

Keeping Nolan occupied on Sunday afternoon

"occupied" Kaydance

I've been staying busy mothering two children. Most days Trevor will come home for lunch at noon and find me still in my pj's. That's not to say that I don't try to get ready before then; I guess my excuse is that I'm still trying to get a schedule down. I've decided to stay home with kids instead of going back to work at the dentist office, but I am still teaching piano in the afternoons when Trevor can be home to help me with the kids. Last week for my birthday, Trevor surprised me and took me to get a couples massage and then to dinner and a movie. It was so nice to spend some time with just him. I honestly don't have any pictures of me since Nolan was born, therefore, no pictures of me.

Our Easter was great and Kaydance had so much fun doing all the Easter egg hunts and meeting the Easter Bunny.

Meeting the Easter Bunny

 We went to Provo a few weekends ago to do some shopping since there is none in Moab. The kids did so well, and we decided to take Kaydance to this bounce house play park thing. It was the best $5 I've ever spent. It was so fun to watch her and she got out all her energy so she could sleep the whole way home.

She got so fast at climbing this

One other thing, the day after Nolan was born, we were still in the hospital and Trevor's car got ran into. It was actually pretty fortunate that we even found out because the lady who did it didn't even leave a note or tell anyone. She later told the police she wasn't aware she had run into anyone. But as it happens one of Trevor's class mates happened to be at the hospital that day and saw it happen. He reported it to the front desk so we were at least able to get a description of the vehicle. When the police arrived they checked out a vehicle matching the description and found evidence to confirm our suspicions. All they had to do was run the plates and go find that person in the hospital. And fortunate for us again, she had insurance. It's been an ordeal trying to get things squared away, but I think we are almost there. The damage wasn't that bad but of course the insurance company totaled the car. We had to "buy it back" from them which is kind of bogus. But the other day our check for $3,100 came. Not bad considering we paid $3,700 when we bought it and have put 60,000 miles on it. So even though it is kind of upsetting that we have a dented car with a salvage title, we are trying to look on the bright side and count our blessings. And there have been many in the last two months. We have shared a few of them and some of the more exciting parts of life. Maybe we won't wait two months before we post again.

He's Here!

The long anticipated day has come.... Nolan Trevor Knutson was born on February 28, 2012. He weighed in at 8 lbs 12 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long. No wonder I was so uncomfortable! Everything went great with the labor and was actually really fast, I thought. I wanted to let labor begin on its own this time, but they induced me at about 11:30 that morning because of numerous reasons and at 7:20 pm he was here.

Believe it or not, this is the best picture of me we got. I was SO TIRED!






Kaydance meeting Nolan for the first time.


I think we have another water baby on our hands. He loved his bath this night.




I love our cute kids!!

December

December has been such a great month! We have had so much fun doing things and spending time together. We started the month off with our ward Christmas party. Unfortunately, Trevor was at drill that weekend. I swear, he misses everything because of drill. Luckily, he only has 3 more drills left and we'll be done with the ARMY for good! Anyway, Santa came to the party and Kaydance was so excited to get to see him until we actually went to see him. Once she caught a glimpse of him, she was pretty hesitant. I'm surprised she was even smiling in this picture. She told him she wanted "toys and presents" for Christmas.



Later that evening, it was the annual Electric Light Parade. All the businesses on Main Street turn off their lights for the parade. It was fun to take Kaydance to that, but it was so cold.



A few days later we put up our tree and decorated it. Kaydance loved helping put the bulbs on. We couldn't stop laughing because everytime she said bulb, it sounded like "boob." She's too cute!


Christmas day was a long one and we were running non-stop from 8 am until 11 pm. Kaydance was such a trooper, even without a nap. She was so excited to see what Santa Claus had brought her and loved opening all her presents. She got spoiled, like always. We had a great day together as a family, though.



We went on a hike a few days after Christmas with my sister and her soon-to-be-husband. The weather was beautiful, but I remember the hike being a bit easier last year. Then again, I wasn't 7 months pregnant last year. Trevor packed Kaydance around in a backpack and I felt kind of bad for him carrying all that extra weight until I remembered I was packing around 35 extra pounds too! I haven't been great at taking pictures during my pregnancies, but this one will have to do. I'm 30 weeks here.


I think that's about all. What a great couple of weeks to wrap up the year. Bring on 2012!

Fun in the desert

Just to catch up a little We had a great Thanksgiving. All of Sarah's family came home and we had dinner with them on Thursday. We had some great appetizers and played ping-pong until dinner was ready. It was very relaxing and delicious. Since most of Sarah's family had to leave on Friday, we had dinner with my family then. All my bros and their families were here too. On Saturday since the weather was so beautiful we decided to go on a little hike. More of a drive, actually, cause Jordan wanted to get his new Expedition off road. It was really fun. We went to a really cool place called Tusher Tunnel. It is a cave that goes all the way through a giant rock in the middle of the desert. Great place to take the kids.

Back and better than ever

Many of you might remember a few years ago on Halloween when Trevor and I dressed up as gothic people. To refresh your memories, click here. This Halloween, we didn't really get creative, and just decided to do the same again, but with more accessories. Trevor won best costume at our party this year too.




This year Kaydance wanted to be Snow White. I prepped her all about getting dressed up and trick-or-treating and whole bit for a couple weeks. She was so excited about it all until the day was here. She didn't want to be in her costume at all or have anything to do with it. But the minute I mentioned she would get to wear makeup she was all over the idea. (She LOVES when I "put makeup on her") She ended up being such a cute Snow White.

We went to the trunk-or-treat and she caught on pretty quick to the idea of getting candy. And since we didn't want to scare all the kids away with our goth costumes, we changed to something a little more family friendly.

Better late than never

I guess it's about time that we announce this officially. We are having a baby. There, I said it. Ya happy? I feel like a little bit of a "bad" mom being so laid back about it. With Kaydance, we could hardly wait a month to tell everyone; and we had it all planned out. With this one, it's kind of been more of whenever the topic of babies comes up, we say something. It's not that I'm not excited about this baby, because believe me, I AM EXCITED!! I guess life just gets in the way. So if you haven't already heard the news, consider yourself in the loop now. And please accept our apologies for not filling you in earlier.

To date, I'm 21 weeks, know there is a baby boy growing inside of me, not feeling sick, feeling really tired and unmotivated, and loving being pregnant again! Time is just flying by this time. I can't believe I'm already closer to my due date than finding out I was pregnant. Our official due date is March 3rd, 2012; just in time for Trevor to get out of the ARMY. So, we're looking forward to March for a couple of reasons now!

I'm not going to post any ultrasound pics (mostly because you can't really tell what you're looking at) or belly pics (because I haven't taken any yet), but I plan to put some up the further along I get.