Four Girls

I can't believe I have 4 kids. Wow. I don't feel old enough to have 4 kids. My girls are such sweet hearts and they love their new baby sister Eva. Annie is by far my biggest helper. She carries the baby and will rock her. Mags loves to hold her and give her kisses and Elizabeth loves her and calls her "my baby Eva" when she cries she says "she's hungry feed her". I love my girls. It is so amazing to have a new baby in the house.

I don't know how anyone gets 4 little kids to hold still. I took so many pictures and this was the best one.

Eva meeting Otis and Ruby.

Eva is such a good baby, but she spits up all the time. It's horrible.

Scott's Cruiser

So not very many of my blogger readers will really appreciate this post, but a few will. But it is a long one so hold on. We have had many cruisers since we have been married and Scott sold my favorite FJ40 in 2002 because someone bid alot for it on Ebay. It was not his plan to sell it and he put it on Ebay just to see how much it would go for. I was very sad. Scott bought our most recent FJ40 way back in 2004 and it is not finished yet! AAHH Really this is partly my fault. But this cruiser will never be put on Ebay!!!! When we bought the cruiser it was completely rotten and Scott really only kept the frame. It isn't finished because we bought a house completely gutted the house, went to Oklahoma about 10 times for like a year in total, fixed our yard up, finished Scott's sisters basement, finished our basement, worked on friends cruisers and projects. He has been a little distracted and he is very very very anal (which is why I love him). Scott is amazing. He took the cruiser completely apart and cleans up every part (or buys a new one) and paints the part and puts it on the cruiser. He does everything. He cuts and welds medal and does all of the mechanical work himself and paints himself. He is amazing and I can't wait for the cruiser to be finished THIS SPRING! Here we come Moab!!!! Here are some pictures to show his progress.

April 2004 - Scott completely took the cruiser apart piece by piece and put it into boxes. We lived in an apartment without a garage, poor guy.

The entire cruiser was completely rotten. I don't think we have a picture of the cruiser all together.

This is seriously how dirty he was. I had to take a picture.

May 2004 - Scott bought this Cruiser just for the tub. It looks horrible, but was better than the first one.

September 2005 - Scott cut the bad body panels out of the tub of the white cruiser he bought.

September 2005 - Scott welded new body panels back in.

September 2005 - Scott welded a new floor and wheel wells in.

June 2006 - With the help of our good friend, Shawn, Scott finished all the body work.

August 2006 - Scott scraped, cleaned and painted the frame. Scott rebuilt his original 2F engine and mounted it on the frame.


March 2007 - Scott and Shawn painted the tub!!

June 2007 - The front dash and pedals and many other parts are installed.

January 2008 - The roll bars are painted and installed. Scott repaired the seats and is getting new seat covers upholstered.

February 2008 - Scott had the seats upholstered. He put the longer seats in back for our growing family. We can have 4 kids back there now!!

March 2009 - Scott sold the 2F engine and bought a 13bt diesel engine from Japan and had it shipped over. The trucker literally dropped it off in front of our house. It made the biggest bang. So Scott ended up getting a killer deal for it because the insurance company had to give us money and he bought the damaged engine back from them.

Dec 2009 - Scott took the engine apart and rebuilt it. He also painted every piece and made it look brand new!

Jan 2010 - Look at this cruiser. Scott put the hood and wheel skirts on so he can make sure they fit and mount more parts. Now he will take them off and do their body work and paint them. YEAH We are getting so close.


Look at that Diesel!

Ellie had to get in this post about the cruiser!

Our cruiser should be done in a few months. We can't wait to take our girls four wheeling and listen to them scream!

Snowman

The girls were so excited to make a snowman and had so much fun doing it. Darn Ruby ate the snowman buttons and pipe and knocked the snowman over getting them out. She eats everything. Annie was so upset.

Elbows

Kids are so precious. Well it has been amazing how much the girls love Eva. They all want to help me hold the baby and bath the baby everyday. Ellie is especially interested in her and what I am doing while I'm nursing. I told her a couple of times that it was called nursing or breastfeeding. Maggie tells everyone that I feed the baby "out of my boobs". But Ellie still insists that I feed the baby from my Elbows. Sounds okay to me especially when she tells our friends and family.

It's a girl!

We are extremely blessed and excited to have our fourth baby girl, Eva Marie. She was born on January 12th and weighed 9 lbs 4 oz. It was by far my hardest delivery, of course. I should have listened to the Doctor and let him deliver her early, but of course I didn't want to have an epidural so I didn't want to be started. Big mistake. I had Ellie without drugs and it was the best childbirth. One hour of labor after my water was broken. Well Eva didn't want to come out and didn't fit. Anyway this was my longest labor and after 15 hours of labor with pitossin and hard contractions and absolutely NO PROGRESS, I decided to get an epidural. They turned the pitossin way up and I finally started to dilate. It was my hardest delivery and even with the epidural I thought I would die, but she was worth it.

Look at those cute chubby cheeks!
Annie was by far the most excited to see her new sister. The girls came to the hospital on Tuesday to visit her and Eva wasn't allowed out of the nursery. Eva's glucose levels were too low, surprising for a big baby. The doctor said it was actually normal for a big baby. Anyway Annie was so upset and cried when the girls had to go home.

We let Annie miss school Margaret miss preschool on Wednesday to come and see the baby. They are proud big sisters!!

Ellie was actually very excited to see and hold Eva, but she didn't want to smile for the picture. After she held Eva she came over to me and asked to see the baby in my belly again. I tried to explain that Eva was the baby in my belly, but she didn't believe me. She then dragged my neice Chanel down to the nursery to see her baby. She was so funny.

Proud new Daddy!