Sadie's Birth Story

Sadie's birth was unlike Camille or Jason's birth. And I would like to write it down so I remember. If you haven't heard, I have a terrible memory for anything important. I remember the most random facts, but nothing of importance.

Well to start out lets go back a couple months and write down some facts. I was not nearly as sick with Sadie as I was with Camille, but was more sick than I was with Jason. Also, during the last leg of this pregnancy, I started eating dates. I had read somewhere that if you eat dates your labor time goes down. So dates I ate. And with the previous pregnancies, I was huge during the winter months so I never thought I got extra hot when I was pregnant. But I sure was wrong. With Sadie I found out that I do get hotter than normal because I am pregnant. Sleeping at night was terrible for Kevin. He wanted two extra blankets and I wanted to have no blankets on because I was dying of heat. Usually it is the other way around where Kevin wants fewer covers and I want more. The biggest craving I had with Sadie was soda pop. I just wanted carbonation of any kind. Except for cola drinks, I don't think those taste very good, but bring on the root beer and fanta orange! Those are a couple of the facts that you need to know.

We had been waiting anxiously for Sadie to come for weeks! Jason came a week early and Camille came a day early, so I thought maybe Sadie would come a week early about as well. So we waited and waited and June 9th came and went. So we scheduled an induction. Note how hot and miserable I was in the paragraph above. The earliest my doctor could schedule one was the night of the 11th. I took it! We took the kids to Shantel's house (who we are so grateful for) on the 10th. On the 11th Kevin had to go to work for a while, and I cleaned the house. It is always nice to come home from the hospital to a clean house. Then Kevin came home in the afternoon and we went and got some Panda Express for my "last meal". Then we drove up to the mall in Ogden hoping to get some contractions going so we went walking. I was hoping to be able to go into labor spontaneously, but it wasn't to be. So we headed over to the hospital. I was kind of nervous to be induced into labor, but the nurses were so comforting. We got set up by 9 PM and the contractions started. I went without an epidural until 1 AM and then enough was enough. The epidural went in and I got a little sleep (and so did Kevin).  A couple hours later Sadie started getting a little stressed out, so I had to sit up instead of lay down for a while. That was a little uncomfortable because I wanted to sleep and it is difficult to sleep when sitting up. And when you have an epidural and you can't actually move your legs, sitting is a little hard. About an hour later I was able to lay back down and get some more rest. Then around 6 AM I was almost ready to have Sadie here. I told the nurse when I got to the hospital that I hoped to have her here in the 6 AM hour because I was born on June 12th in the 6 AM hour. And she was ready around 6 AM. Dr. Lammi came in and just a couple pushes later at 6:11 AM the sweetest little girl came out. I felt so at peace. I just held my sweet Sadie and felt at peace. I knew she was supposed to be a part of our family. From before she was even born I knew she was waiting to join our family and she was finally here. She was 19.5 inches and 8 pounds even. She was healthy and strong. I just want to note that this was the fastest labor of the three taking only 9 hours where Camille and Jason's took at least 12 but more like 15-20. So maybe the date eating helped speed things along?

We went to recovery and I recovered very well. This was the easiest recovery (once I could use my legs again anyway). Sadie slept a lot, and I slept a lot (because having a baby takes a lot of hard work). We watched some movies and spent time together with our new little addition. The hospital made us watch this channel with a repeating show and it was terrible. I have to write that in here so I don't forget. Kevin is always a trooper when it comes to the hospital. The food isn't very good, and the beds are terrible, but I feel so grateful to have him there taking care of me. He takes such good care of me.

Overall everything went well, and we are so happy to welcome our sweet little bundle into this world. Sadie we love you and can't wait to see what you have to offer this world. I can already tell it is something great.

Major Update

For the past what seems like forever I have not really had a computer, and life has changed so much! I am so sad that I missed so much of our lives. So I am just going to do a brief recap of the major things that have happened. I am so sad I didn't keep up on blogging the last couple months because we have done some really fun stuff.

-We sold our house (more on that below) we needed some place to live before we went to school. Kevin's parents just moved to Rigby, Idaho and were kind enough to let us live with them for a while. Camille LOVED it. She loved picking raspberries with Grandma, and swinging outside with Grandpa. I am glad that she got to make such a great relationship with them while we were there.

- Kevin decided he wanted to do a Masters Program. So he applied to some schools and got accepted at several of them. He decided he wanted to do the Masters in Finance Program at the University of Utah. So we declined all the other schools, and accepted the University of Utah's offer. In that time period we sold our house (oh yeah...we bought a house a year ago) and moved in with Kevin's parents until we moved to school. A month or so later Kevin was having second thoughts. So we decided to reapply to Utah State for their Accounting program. We finally got accepted (again) to Utah State. After the sale of our house we moved all of our belongings down to Logan into a storage unit, so that when we moved down to start school, all of our stuff would be there. Little did I know at the time, our life was still going to change. The day after we applied for a housing contract in Logan, Kevin decided he actually would rather go to the University of Utah. Thankfully it was not accepted and we didn't lose a deposit.

We moved down to Salt Lake City. Unfortunately all of our stuff was in Logan. So we moved everything from Logan to Salt Lake City. I just feel so grateful that Kevin and my dad are such troopers. My dad is just the best. He has helped us move our stuff several times now, and this last week my car broke down on the side of the road and he immediately left work to come pick Camille and I up. I just don't know what I would do without him.

We have been here in Salt Lake for 5 months and it has been great. Kevin is doing an internship for URS right now and isn't loving it. Other than that, life is pretty good. We love our ward and the people that we live by.


- Oh, we had another baby. We missed all of the pregnancy posts and delivery. I will write a birth story hopefully. Just in case I don't, his name is Jason Scott Haderlie and he is perfect. The pregnancy went really well. No major cravings, and not really too terribly sick. With Camille I had terrible morning sickness, but Jason I was just a little sick in the morning, but I didn't feel like throwing up constantly. One weird thing was with Camille I couldn't drink enough water. There was a water bottle in ever single room and car. But if I drank any water with Jason I almost immediately would throw it up. I just couldn't drink anything.

-Did I ever write about selling our house? We love our house, and technically it is still ours. Sometimes we want to just move back to our house. It is scheduled to be sold this spring. Hopefully it goes through because we need that money to pay off our student loans. I left my aprons at our house when we moved. That was a sad day.

-Camille is 2 years old. I will try and write a two year old post. I am sad that I missed that last 8 months of her life. She is so smart and funny. She speaks in full sentences and is wonderful at remembering things. I can say something once and she will remember it forever. She is the sweetest thing I have ever seen. I love her a million. (That is our little saying and it is so sweet).

Well, that was the briefest summary of our life the last 8 months or so. I will try to be better at writing what is going on. I am not very good at blogging, but I sure love being able to look back and read what happened.

Jason's Birth Story

I haven't written much about Jason's pregnancy and I am sad about that. But I want to at least write Jason's birth story so that I don't forget. We had a scheduled induction date of December 18th. His due date was December 23rd and we really didn't want to have a Christmas baby. I mostly didn't want to have a Christmas baby because I wanted Jason to have his own special day, Not something that got smooshed together with Christmas.

The night of the 16th I started having contractions all night long, and they didn't stop. When Kevin woke up I told him that I was having contractions, not just braxten hicks. He had to finish up some of his school and work. So he did that, then cleaned the house, then drove Camille down to Shantel's house, and came back to wait with me for the contractions to get stronger. We walked down to the apartment offices and that took forever, but make contractions come closer together.

Around 4 we decided that it was time to go to the hospital so that I could get an epidural. With Camille I thought that I got the epidural like 10 minutes after we got into the hospital, but Kevin said that was not true. They gave me some medicine with Camille that made me a little loopy. So when we went in for Jason I thought I would have an epidural before 5, but that was not the case. We got there and checked in, then we had to answer ten thousand questions that I already filled out. Then around 7 I finally got an epidural. Camille's epidural was awesome. I did not feel one thing. With this epidural my left leg was numb, but my right leg wasn't really numb. It kind of was, but not 100%. It didn't end up being a problem,

After the epidural went in we just had to wait. We were sleeping and just passing the time, when the nurses ran in and made me move. Jason's heart rate dropped and she was worried. It was kind of scary, but once I moved he did a lot better. I was so uncomfortable anyway so it was good to move. They ended up putting a heart beat reader thing inside of me so that they could have a better reading than the one that was just put on my tummy.

Around 11 they finally started getting me ready to push. My doctor wasn't able to make it, but the on call doctor was wonderful. We felt so taken care of and felt like she was very capable and wonderful. She came in and we pushed for maybe 20 minutes, just 5 rounds of pushing and he was out. It was great. I only tore a little bit and felt great. The feeling of holding your sweet little baby is something that words can't describe. He was perfect. His little face was squished and he had a really strong cleft chin when he came out. It has gone away, but it was so cute. He was born at 11:30. Weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces and was 22 inches long.

By the time we were all ready to go over to recovery it was already 3 AM. I am never going to the hospital in the afternoon again. It was terrible. I was so hungry and tired and when we got to recovery the nurse had to give all the information and that took 30 minutes. She did give me a sandwich and it made me feel so much better. I hadn't eaten since 1 the day before. We finally went to sleep and got to sleep for a while.

The stay at the hospital was nice. We just hung out, had some visitors, and Kevin actually ordered some food from food services and actually ate something. (That didn't happen with Camille. He just starved).

Jason has been such a blessing in our lives (even though he has been sick 3 out of 6 weeks he has been alive. We love you Jason and are so glad you are a part of our family.

Denver Family Vacation

This year for a little family vacation we were able to go to Denver. Kevin had a work convention to go to, so Camille and I tagged along for the ride. It was a great way to travel, because Camille had to take lots of naps anyway, so it is not like we could have been out and about all day, so Kevin would go to meetings, then come back and have lunch with us, then head to more meetings and Camille would take another nap, then come back and go do something, then go to dinner, then back to the hotel. It actually worked out really nicely, and we didn't have to pay for gas or a hotel and that was really great too.

The hotel we stayed at was actually fairly fancy/expensive. We had to stay there because that was where the convention was being held, which again, we didn't have to pay for, so it was okay. We are glad we were not paying for that hotel, because we would NEVER actually stay there. We decided we are not fancy people. We want to have a hotel with a continental breakfast so that we don't have to eat oatmeal out of the coffee pot (yes we are cheapies...$10 for a plate of fruit...no thank you). We also want a place that we don't have to pay $20 a night in parking, and a $20 occupancy fee for staying at the hotel. All in all, we were not too impressed with the hotel, and they were probably not too impressed with us. We had two queen beds in the room, and stood one of the mattresses up on its side to make a little wall so when we laid Camille down, she wouldn't be able to see us. We also had a baby that still cried a little and I am sure our neighbors loved that. Oh well...it was fun. Anyway....

Traveling down actually went really well. We brought food, and planned on taking lots of stops for Camille to run around. Unfortunately it was raining the whole way down. It stopped for a little while as we were passing Little American in Wyoming. So we pulled off, went the bathroom, played for a little bit, then jumped back in the car. That was our only stop the whole way down. Camille was such a trooper. I was so grateful because we couldn't really have stopped because of he weather, and it was Sunday.

Our first full day there Kevin did his thing, then when he was finished we went to he children's museum. It was so fun. Camille was still a little young for most of it, but she still had a blast. There was a fire engine that I am pretty sure Kevin thought was the coolest, and a dog that Camille was playing with. I would probably say that our favorite part was the bubble room. They had bubbles that you could make that turned out huge. And they had a platform that you could stand on then pull a rope and a bubble would encircle you. They also had an awesome bubble maker that filled the bubbles with fog or something so you could see them explode. Camille really liked it.


I am finishing this post 10 months later. I am such a slacker. But I want to post it so that I can remember at least a little bit of this vacation.


We also went to the Denver Aquarium and it was so awesome. Kevin and I loved it. They had this really awesome recreation of a flash flood and it was so fun to watch. I think the Aquarium was our favorite thing that we did on this vacation. We loved looking at the fish and they even had a tiger there!


We scheduled a time to go to the Denver Mint. We were really excited to take this tour. Unfortunately we scheduled it for the week after we left. We showed up and the guard said that it was closed for school tours, and we were so confused. Then when we showed him our tickets we were really embarrassed. We went in the gift shop and watched a little show about the Denver Mint. Camille was playing with an eagle, and Kevin thought it was so cute. He is such a push over. He just loves our little Camille so much. He ended up buying it for her. She is so lucky to have a dad that loves her so much!

On our way out of town we stopped at the Aviation Museum. Kevin and I did a flight simulator. It was so hard. I couldn't do it at all. Kevin did a lot better than I did. My excuse was that I had Camille on my lap and was taking care of her, but to be honest, I was just really terrible at flying. It was still fun. They also had some recreations of the pod racer on Star wars and a fighter jet on Star wars. Kevin loves planes and loves flying. It was an enjoyable morning before we headed home.

We drove home and again Camille did awesome. I was so grateful for her. She is the best. I was so grateful that we were able to go down there for a fun family vacation, and I was grateful that Kevin's work paid for a lot of it so we were able to do a couple of fun things.

Camille - 15 months

Camille has been through a lot this months. Mostly good things, but a couple hard things, so it has been an interesting month.

Okay, confession time. I am writing this a month late. I have been such a huge slacker in blogging (sorry Camille). I wrote down some of the new things she is doing, so I will just write those because I have forgotten the specifics of last month. I am so sad.

Camille is a little talker. I love it. Some words that she says are fishies, in reference to the goldfish crackers. Hot, especially when I take something out of the microwave. I know, which is so cute because she just repeats it and repeats it, "I know, I know, I know". Hi and Bye. Strawberry (a favorite fruit of hers). Careful (I think I say this a lot to her, probably because she is climbing on everything). Hachoo, it is so cute. When she hears me sneeze she will pretend to sneeze and say hachoo, and last but not least "oh no". I think she picked that up at her Aunt Shantel's house. Instead of saying uh-oh all the time she now switches between the two. It is so cute.

Camille just loves monkeys!

The reasons that this month has been hard is because first she got six shots!!!! Six shots at one time! Three in each leg. Oh goodness. It was so sad. She was such a trooper at the doctors office. It is the first time in months though that the next day her legs have been so sore that she didn't want to walk. Her legs use to hurt her after shots when she couldn't walk or crawl, but ever since she started walking we haven't had a problem with shots, but we did this time. It was so sad.

A day after shots we headed down to Utah and on the way picked up the stomach flu from my parents. Luckily it was only a 24 hour deal, but it was still nasty. We went to church with Shantel and David Sunday Morning, and Camille wasn't feeling 100%, but I didn't know if she was sick or just from her shots still. We luckily ended up sitting in the overflow on the basketball court. I was holding her and she was holding her bunny rabbit, then all of a sudden an explosion came out of her mouth. I had never seen so much throw up. It went all over me and the bunny rabbit and the floor. It was really disgusting. We hurried and walked back to Shan's house and hopped in the shower and changed our clothes. It was just quite the experience. That night after putting Camille to bed I wasn't feeling very well and threw up many times during the night. I was so grateful that Camille only threw up once. Especially at Shantel's house where other healthy babies were.

Camille loves to play at the park, and also loves Hippos for some reason. 

I cut Camille's hair for the first time in her life this month. It was getting kind of long, and I was babysitting a little girl and her hair was so cute. So I decided to cut Camille's hair. A month later I am still so glad that I cut it. It makes her look so cute and not as homeless.

Camille learned how to find her tongue this month. It is so cute, I will say where is your tongue and she will point to it. Then she will try to find mine and when she touches it I make a noise and jerk back and she thinks it is so funny. I just love her little laugh.

Camille, you are the sweetest girl. I hope you know that I love you and think the world of you. I hope you always stay sweet and stay you. Don't let the world tell you to be anything that you don't want to be! Love you!

Easter

This Easter has been so fun with Camille. Kevin's parents are so great. They had a fun little Easter party. We went to the park and played baseball with Jenny's family and Grandma even was batting. It was so fun. Then we went and ate soup and had an Easter egg hunt. Camille was not exactly sure what to do, but once she saw some goldfish in a bag on the ground, she was all about finding more things. I love spending time with family and I am so glad Kevin's parents live closer to us.

Another fun thing we did for Easter this year was attending a Easter egg hunt in a swimming pool. Have I told you how much we love our neighborhood? We absolutely adore the people here. We are so sad to leave. There is a club house in the neighborhood and the owners put on a fun Easter egg hunt. They had some eggs outside on the lawn that everyone went and collected first, then everyone moved inside and they had the pool sectioned off into age groups. Camille's group was in the little wading pool. They had put empty Easter eggs in the pool and even sunk some with little rocks for the older kids. Camille had so much fun picking up Easter eggs and putting them in her little bowl. After the Easter egg hunt was over Kevin hopped in and we all went swimming for a while. We always take advantage of free swim days over there.

We dyed eggs for Easter this year. Kevin was unfortunately gone, but Camille and I proceeded to do it anyway. She thought it was so cool. She just wanted to touch everything. I probably should have let her explore them more, but they were so wet.

The next day for her little Easter egg hunt she found them though. She started hitting them together like she did with her blocks, but they started breaking so I had to take them away. She was so sad. This was her first Easter basket (last year when she was 4 months old I didn't do anything, I am the lame mom like that). This year though she mostly liked the basket the most. She would carry it around for a long time after. The basket was so large that she had to put her arm practically straight up so it would stay off the ground. It was sweet. She is just the sweetest (have I ever said that in any other post? probably not. I should say it again) She is the SWEETEST girl.

I was so glad that General Conference landed on Easter weekend. It always makes for a special conference and this was no different.

A week after Easter Camille and I went down to Utah to spend time with family. Melissa was so awesome and made a little Easter Egg hunt for Lydia and Camille. Melissa is so awesome and thoughtful. Camille was pretty sick, but she still really enjoyed it, and we just love being with family!

Happy Easter!!

3,2,1...Blast off

This last weekend we moved Kevin's parents. Friday we went to Paul and packed and cleaned and moved pretty much everything. It surprisingly went really smoothly. Even though it was just Shannon and I inside the house cleaning and packing with two little babies, and only Kevin and Michael outside moving all the farm equipment and packing the things into the trailer. Kevin and Michael were champs. They were so strong and worked so hard.

It was fun to see some of Kevin's things from growing up. Kevin is so awesome. He used to BMX a bunch and we found all these fun trophies that he won.

On Saturday we woke up and went to Rigby to unload. We had several more hands, but it still went really well. After spending the day unpacking, Kevin said that we should go to blast off in Idaho Falls because you can go see some new baby bear cubs. Of course I was all over that. So we headed back to Idaho Falls. We got there and paid to go in. We have never been inside of blastoff and it was awesome. When Camille gets older we will defiantly be going there. It is this huge playground with balls and obstacles and all sorts of fun.

Anyway, we were able to see the little bear cubs. It was $20 to be able to touch them, so we didn't get to pet them, but I just wanted to cuddle up with these little bears. I never thought that I would want to cuddle with a bear, but I really did.

See the bear under the chair! I still just want to give it a big hug! 

After we decided to try a couple tacos from the taco bus. It was such a fun little adventure. I love these little things we get to do every once in a while. I love my little family.