We just had a little family party for her birthday.  We had it the Sunday before since Jeremy had to go out of town for work on her actual birthday.  I had an idea of a cake I wanted to make and in my mind it was a complete fail.  Everyone said they liked it and Kinley was thrilled, but I didn’t even want Jer taking pictures of it.  So with regret, I show you.

See, I didn’t even care that Kinley stuck her hand in it before the pictures!  I didn’t even really finish frosting it and then we couldn’t find the Rapunzel and Flin Ryder that go with the set.  Sigh…oh well.  She got lots of fun stuff!  Mason got her a laptop that she absolutely loves and takes everywhere with her.  She was so funny when she was unwrapping, she had to make sure every bit of paper was off before she would even look at!  She also got some dolls, clothes, and a bike.

Happy Birthday baby girl!!

The kids went outside and played for a bit.

We went home that night, I still wasn’t ready for a overnight trip with little Austin!  Plus, I had this great idea to Black Friday shopping by myself.  My parents were in Phoenix for Thanksgiving and my mom, Grandma, and Aunt Denise went out also.  We were all going to the same place, so I pretended I was with them and talked to my mom on the phone while we all waited in a long line outside of Target.  The deal was whoever got in the store first would just grab everything then call the other person.  Well, I got in the store and was 2 feet from the stack of stuff I was after when my mom called and said she got everything.  So I just turned around and drove home to a hungry and crying baby.  In other words, my trip out was pointless, BUT I got to feel like I was in on the action!

An attempt with all three…fail!

And we’re done

Then later that day, we went to Jeremy’s work and did a little trick or treating to the cubicles.

Then on Monday, they got all dressed up to go out!  My parents were nice enough to come up and my mom stayed home with Austin so I could go out with the kids, Jer and my Dad.  They had a great time, got a little worn out, but ended up with lots of candy and maybe got a little spooked!

Her wig got pretty tangled even though we never let her wear it before Halloween…oh well, she still looked really cute!

Our little poser, what a handsome Jack Sparrow!!

Austin by the pumpkins

And an attempt of the 3 of them…didn’t work very well!!

This was one of the things that spooked them and this wasn’t even the scariest house!!  Our neighborhood really goes out on Halloween, it’s so fun!  After we got home, the kids loved eating some of their candy and answering the door.  Here’s one more picture of Austin in his Halloween jammies!  So cute!

A few on the little guy on his first outing that didn’t involve a hospital or Dr. office!

We took some pictures of the kids and family while we were there.

And then some of us were all worn out, hehe

A few day later, we carved ‘em up!  The kids thought it was pretty gross pulling the insides out, but they also thought it was fun!  Mason wanted just a basic face, with circle eyes, a triangle nose, and a toothy grin!  Daddy did a great job!

This is what Austin did while we carved…such a good baby!

We are extremely grateful that he did so well on them because he was on them for an entire week!!  He did get off of them for a day, but his levels bounced back up so back on the bed we went.  Between the bili tests everyday and all the blood sugar test in the hospital, his poor heels and hands were so poked and prodded by the end of the week, I felt so bad!  But we are just so glad he is healthy now!  Here’s a few more pictures we took the day after we brought him home before the lights.  The kids were so excited and wanted to hold him constantly!

And just some cute ones during his first month!!

Little Smile!

Now, for some reason, my boys think they need to come out posterior, so the Dr. had to turn him and his poor little face ended up being pretty bruised up, so sad!!  His poor upper lip was bruised and swollen for several days.

During his bath, he started crying hard and turned really red!  The nurse got a little worried and took his blood to see if something was off, but we just learned he turns red when he cries!

His blood sugar was low, so they had to stick a tube down his throat and feed him a little.

And then he finally came to my room so his brother and sister could meet him!!  They were pretty in awe of him, it was pretty cute.

Then he got to meet his Grandparents (Grandpa Stowell came up a little later when the camera man was gone)!

This was my longest stay in the hospital after having a baby and by the end, I was pretty stir crazy.  They weren’t sure if they were going to let us go home that next evening because of his blood sugars and I was group B unknown, but after a long an very annoying evening, the on call pediatrician finally said we could go home. He also had to pass a carseat test, where he had to sit in his carseat and be monitored for an hour to make sure his heart rate doesn’t drop.  They always do this on preemie’s, but everyone thought it was pretty funny to see such a big baby doing a carseat test!!   Then right before we left, the nurses brought him back from the nursery and we noticed that he was VERY swollen from his circumcision.  The nurses agreed that they hadn’t ever seen that before and that we should probably have our Dr. look at him, but I wanted the pediatrician who did the circumcision to look at him, so we waited even more longer for her to come back.  She too, was surprised, but in the end decided that he probably had an allergic reaction to the medicine they used to numb him!!  We didn’t get out of there until almost 10:30 pm, but I was very excited to get home.

Austin resting on Daddy while we were waiting.

One of my favorite pictures!

Finally going home!

The kids got spoiled and got to drive the truck with Grandpa

My dad was hiking with the kids and they were walking along a log when suddenly a swarm of bees came and chased them.  He grabbed both the kids under each arm and started running while Mason started crying that his back hurt.  When he felt they were a safe distance away, he set Mason down and told him to keep running.  That’s when Mason started saying his hand hurt, too!  Meanwhile, me and Jer were back at the camp rolling our eyes, thinking he was crying over nothing!  We felt a little bad when they got back and showed us the damages!  It turned out that while my dad was running with both kids, the bee’s were chasing them and one stung Mason on his back.  Then once they were pretty far away and he set him down, one STILL came and stung Mason in the hand!! They chased them a pretty long way!  Kinley somehow made it though without any stings and my dad ended up with a little bit of a swollen nose (hehe!)  Luckily we discovered Mason isn’t allergic to bee stings!  It’s kind of hard to see them on the pictures.

My dad’s favorite thing to do is paint Kinley’s toe’s and finger’s. So manly! (hehe)

Mason stole my camera and took LOTS of pictures of everything!

Here’s a few of his best!

And just playing around camp!

Always a good time!