Caleb Peter Kirkman

Caleb Peter Kirkman was born at 8:20am Febuary 17th, 2011 after 12 hours of labor.  He weighed 6 lb. 1 oz. and was 18 inches long.  He is a sweet little boy, who has captured our hearts.  

Valentine's Day

We had a good Valentine's Day today.  I hadn't really planned on anything, because I was expecting to have just had a baby, but I'm still pregnant, so we tried to make it a nice day.  Travis picked me up from my class, and we went and got pretzels from the mall, and yummy frozen yogurt with fruit.  It was delicious, and I was stuffed.  Samuel fell asleep in the car while we were driving around, so it was like we were on a date.  We took turns staying in the car, while the other one went and got the food, and then we listened to our book on CD in the car.  We are listening to "Fablehaven", I've already read all the books, but it's still fun to listen to the books.  After the kids got home from school we went to Trafalga, and went miniature golfing.  It was nice enough outside that we did the outdoor course, and had a lot of fun.  At one point I told Samuel "nice hit" and he got a bit upset and said "but, I didn't hit anything".  I realized that he probably thought it was a bad thing, since we've been trying to teach him not to hit.  I explained that I meant how well he hit his ball with the club, and then he said "oh, thanks!"  All of the kids were really excited, and were really good at cheering each other on.  It was a fun family activity that we will probably do many times, since we bought passes to do it all year long.  We had our FHE lesson on love, and then put the kids to bed.  During Betsy's prayer she said "and help Mommy to have the baby tonight, but that she will have time to get to the hospital", afterwards I told her, I would prefer to have the baby during the day, so as not to interrupt every one's sleep.  She is sweet, and keeps praying for the baby to come, so hopefully with enough of us praying, the baby will make his appearance soon.  Although for some reason, Travis wants the baby to wait until Saturday or later.  Maybe he just wants to be able to tease me about going past my due date for once.  But, I'm hoping the kids and my prayers will counteract his, I'm ready for the baby to come now!!!

Valentine's Dance

 Travis was watching Samuel when I was in class, and I guess Samuel cuddled Travis while he was working on his homework, and fell asleep

Joseph, Betsy, and Samuel with their Grandpa Jimmy, they had a good time looking at his Mountain Man videos.

Betsy with her Grandma

Samuel decided he was going to be an alien for about 30 minutes today, and walked around like this pretending to be an alien, but since he couldn't see where he was going, he stopped after he got tired of running into things and getting hurt.



Travis and I ready for our Valentine's Dance!



Samuel's still being an alien

I have silly girls!

The kids were being silly and dancing around

This is Joseph's Christmas concert video, notice he is the only one wearing red.  He forgot about the dress code, and that he was supposed to be their early. 

This week, Travis and I went to a Stake Valentine's Dance on Friday night.  I've been really wanted the baby to come, since I'm almost to my due date, so I had done my Pregnancy workout, walked to and from my BYU class, and was determined to dance my way into labor.  I only succeeded in making myself really dizzy, and making my back hurt, and my feet sore.  So I guess this baby is determined to wait until he is ready to come out.  I don't blame him, if I heard all the noise going on outside my Mom's belly, that he probably hears, I wouldn't want to come out either.  I did have a really good time with Travis on our Valentine's Date, so it was worth it, even if it didn't produce any contractions.  They had a live band, that played good music, and the decorations were amazing.  They had some yummy food, and and floor show put on by BYU that was amazing.  We also had dance instruction for the first hour, which was fun.  We also got to talk with some other couples in our ward, and we were telling each other all how we met, and our courtships with each other.  It was fun to hear other people's stories, and to share ours as well.  I now only have 6 days until my due date, so I really hope the baby is born soon.  Saturday, the kids and I got all our chores done, and disinfecting the house with Clorox wipes, to get rid or germs from the girl's colds, before the baby comes.  The girl's colds are mostly gone, so I don't think they're contagious anymore.   I was craving Mexican food, so we went to a nice Mexican restaurant called Milagros, it was really yummy, and we had enough leftovers to use for dinner today as well.  Austin had her baptism interview today with the bishop, and she passed!  She is really excited.  We're going to try and have her baptism the same weekend as the new baby's blessing in March.  Today in Church in Relief Society the lesson was on sacrifice, and I had the thought that the more you sacrifice your time, talents, energies, for someone or something else, your love and bond with that person grows.  We are given so much more than we could ever sacrifice.  No matter how much we give, we will always get more in return from our Heavenly Father.  Maybe that is why we feel so much love for our family, because we sacrifice so much for them.

almost there

This past week, Joseph has been home from school every day except Friday with pink eye.  We had a good time for the first two days, then I went and picked up his homework from his teacher.   After that it took two days to get him to do his homework, and that wasn't very fun, but thankfully his eyes are finally better, and he can go to school again.  Samuel and Joseph were getting pretty frustrated with one another.  Samuel doesn't like to share me (or my attention) with anyone.  I know this will be a problem when the baby is born, but we'll cross that road when it comes.  Speaking of the baby, I have just under 2 weeks until my due date, and I'm ready for the baby to come anytime now.  Although I know the longer he waits the better, because he'll be bigger, and it will be harder to get to my classes, and do my homework once he comes.  But physically my body is ready to be done with the pregnancy.  I've been busy cleaning the house really good, and making sure it stays that way, so it will be clean when I go into labor.  I just have two more things on my checklist left to do, and then I'll be completely ready, well as ready as I can get anyway.  The family and I have been trying to drink a green smoothie every day, and I love it.  I have a lot more energy, and feel healthier too, the kids for the most part like them too, as long as I have straws for them to drink them with.  Both Austin and Betsy have colds with quite a nasty cough with them, and I'm trying really hard to get them better before the baby comes.  I got my first chemistry test back, and missed 3 questions out of 25, not bad for my first college test in about 9 years.  I really enjoy going to my classes, and learning, it is a great break from everyday housewife chores.  The highlight of the week was having Travis' mom and her husband, spending the night, while they were driving back home to Montana.  It was fun to see them, for the short amount of time they were here, and the kids loved to see them too.