Horse-in around

Saturday we celebrated Ryan's Grandpa Corky's B-day with dinner at Felipee's in Norco (the town they live in). Nate was stoked to see all horses that live next to them and the girls brought carrots to feed them.

Zach's birth announcement

Zach 2 week update

Wow, 2 weeks have zoomed by. We had our first Dr. appt. today and our little guy now weighs 9 lbs 5oz. but apparently he shrunk cuz his length is now 21 and a quarter inches (either that or he was measured wrong somewhere) We are still waiting for his umbilical stump to fall off - the Dr. told me if I wanted to I could probably cut it off with a pair of scissors - I will NOT be trying that.
Zach seems to be quite a little mover, here is video of him rolling over at 12 days old. His first roll over was when he was just 5 days old which I caught on the camcorder but it took a few days to "film" it on my digital camera. If you have 40 seconds to spare, watch it :)


Here are some cute pictures of Nate:

swimming at Nana's house and being a pirate.

Brothers

One of the most common questions I get after How are you feeling? and How is Zach eating/sleeping? is How is Nate doing with the new baby?
Well he's doing great with him, when he sees him he gets all excited and goes "be-be, be-be" and kinda fiddles his fingers at him. We were trying to teach him to say Zach the last few weeks but it was easier for him to say "Baby Zach" which really comes out "Be-yak" it's pretty cute.
The following is video shot by Auntie Becky of their very first meeting at the hospital.

How Zach came into the world...

Everyone loves a nice, juicy labor story right? Well Tuesday morning I was woken up at 6:10 with my first "real" contraction, then again at 6:20. When the third one came at 6:30 I got up and turned on my flat iron cuz I went to bed with wet hair and was not going to have wavy messy hair in all my hospital photos :) At 7:00 they jumped to 4 minutes apart so I woke up Ryan and we decided since they were gonna induce us today anyways we'd go into the hospital instead of risking getting there too late to have an epidural like we did with Nate (w/in an hour of getting to the hospital he was born) So we dropped Nate off at my sister's house, took a peek at the new kitties that were born during the night (orange and white if anyone's looking for a new family pet), and got to Kaiser at 9:00. By this time my contractions were still super strong but my times were all over the board: 10 min, 7 min, 4 min, 20min. So we got all strapped up to the monitors and waited to get checked. They told us everyone was getting admitted so far that morning and thought we were gonna break the stretch and get sent home cuz I didn't really look as in labor as the other girls. Then they sent home the 2 girls they checked before me: one was told to go home all the way to Hesperia on her 5th kid! But when they checked me I was at a 5 so we got a room - a big one! Once in the room we started all the paperwork and they drew blood for the epidural testing. Then they checked me and said I was at a 6 or 7 and they gave us the big choice: they said "If we break your water you'll probably have this baby within an hour OR if you want to get the epidural we can wait for those tests to come back and then after you get it, it might be awhile until you have your baby later today." So we chose the speedy way. I knew I'd still get pain meds thru my IV and Hey, I did it once w/o the epidural I could do it again - what I didn't know is that I would get OD'd on Nubain and feel like I was stoned the whole time. So they broke my water at 12:03 and immediately the contractions got serious. It hurt alot but you do what you gotta do and Zach was born 50 minutes later.

This is Zach "take home" outfit with his name embroidered across the front :)

Zach is here!

Zachary Ryan Lane

born: May 15
12:51pm
weight: 8 lbs, 1 oz
length: 21 and a half inches

No that's not a basketball under my shirt

On Sunday Megan Siana came over an took a whole bunch of maternity shots for us. It was fun showing off the "bump."
Megan went out of her way to get smiles from N8, including throwing her shoes up in the air and letting them hit her on the head. I'm sure Zach was smiling on the inside.
You should all check out Megan's photography site and pass it on to your friends :)
http://sianaphoto.com









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A "camping" we will go

This weekend was the 5th? 4th? Annual Flipside Family Camp. Being in the large state I am in and close to my due date (1 week to go) we decided to just go down for the day and it was totally worth it. We had a fun time hanging out and Nate had so much fun playing with all his buds.
Here we are on our annual walk to Starbucks (I know, real camping doesn't include Starbucks but this is nothing close to real camping) and Nate playing with the big kids on the merry-go-round.


Our kiddie pool party was a ton of fun for the little kiddos.
Here I am with 3 other preggos - I'm winning!

Rumble Rumble

This Sunday was the 4th Annual Salsa Rumble at Flipside. It was a super fun day (It could have been a bit warmer at night but we survived) This year my salsa was called "Ranchy Not Raunchy Salsa" It had ranch dip mix in the salsa and sour cream and it was YUM - the best I think I ever made. If I was ever really trying to win I think this could have been my year! (I run the event and count the votes so I can never win, that would be weird)

Here is me and some of the girls - it was so fun just hangin out with my friends that day!

So who won??? Well Andira won in the morning with "Wangy Tangy Kid Friendly Salsa" and Nicole won at night with "Flipt Fruit Salsa." Here's my very own "original" recipe if you want it (original minus the part hidden valley did)

Top 10 things I WONT miss about upstairs neighbors

In honor of turning in the keys at the old apartment I've compiled this list. Yes it has been narrowed down to 10 - I excluded things that were really annoying one-time occurrences and only listed things that happened repeatedly.

#10 I wont miss hearing them pee
#9 I wont miss having to turn up the TV when they take a shower
#8 I wont miss when they vacuum the room above my sleeping baby
#7 I wont miss when their son destroys the flowers outside
#6 I wont miss various items thrown into the bushes along the walkway to our door, ie: cigarette butts, soda cans, trash, destroyed toys
#5 I wont miss their cat crapping in the planters by my door
#4 I wont miss fearing that my son will learn the F word by overhearing them - like the other upstairs neighbor's granddaughter did
#3 I wont miss hearing their fights escalate to violence
#2 I wont miss various things falling from their patio on to my patio and my son's toys, ie: rabbit poop (twice) bbq meat drippings (twice) - or items being thrown off their patio (beer bottles and firecrackers)
and the number one thing...
I wont miss being woken up almost everyday by their squeaking bed and moaning

Hop hop hop

Some Easter images for your enjoyment. Nate's favorite thing from his Easter basket was this 88 cent recorder.
Nate lovin himself some corn on the cob.

Nate's Phares cousins (it was a popular Easter for striped polos) and Nate's Lane cousins.

Yesterday was our first full day living in the new house.
Night 1 we got N8 to bed late at 10:30 in his new room and he slept till 6:30 then I went in and covered him up and he went back to sleep till 8:30! It was awesome. Last night he slept straight thru till 7:30. So that's been nice.
The house is a mess - everything seems to have a light dusting of sanded wall on it. (or wall "knockoff" from where Ryan overshot his protective plastic barriers) So we are just sorting thru the chaos with alot of help that we are much grateful for. You never know how much stuff you have till you try to cram your life into a trailer. Kevin Siana thinks we have more stuff then they do - yeah, we'll see when you move soon buddy!
We are still working on the kitchen re-model and painting touch ups in the boys rooms. There are still 6 boxes marked "bathroom" on the floor of our bathroom and many other boxes strewn throughout the whole place.
So I thought I'd give an update since we got our computer set up - I'll post pictures when it looks nicer :)

And the walls came tumbling down

Friday afternoon we got the keys to our new home - Friday night we started banging a sledgehammer into the walls!

We are expanding the kitchen, moving the fridge and laying laminate down for the new kitchen/eating area (scroll down to see the before photos)

It's frustrating having so much to do and being in the physical condition where you cant help that much :(

If anyone is super bored this week and loves manual labor (who dosent?), come on over! We'll be working Monday night after 8pm (sanding and texturizing) Tuesday after 10:30am (painting and misc) Thursday day (flooring) Thursday after dinner (the giant move) Friday all day (unpacking and finish the floor)

Sounds like tons of fun eh?