Our Friday Night

Lauren and I have been having some major dissagreements (thanks to the terrible two's) and I knew that we needed to get out of the house. So what better place to go than my Aunt and Uncles house on a Friday night and let Lauren play while I get some adult interaction! My cousin Amanda is there with her 3 kids and that is just the excitment we needed for the night! My sister Lila was headed over there that night too, and Lila + Amanda + the Asay crew= tons of fun!

This is Lauren and Luke. Luke just turned 4 and him and Lauren play really well together, he is just what the doctor ordered for my Lady Lauren!


The kiddos had a lot of fun playing dress up..

This is Lily, and she is a crack up :) She is pretty dang cute if I do say so my self!

Hannah and Lauren

and Lila couldn't help but dress up herself! I think is suits her :)

and Lily wanted to dress up in baby Sawyer's shirt, but it didn't work out to well!

Hannah painted all of our nails, and she did a very good job for a 5 year old! (maybe she's 6 I dont' know)

Amanda put Sawyer's hair in pigtails! I didn't think it would work so I havn't tried it, but Amanda is the master with fine hair! Sawyer looks less than impressed but I had to get a picture of her!

We played Kinect (the X-Box game) were you are the controller, and it is all this it is cracked up to be! We did a dancing game and it was lots of fun :) I passed on taking pictures becuase if I were to take pictures of everyone else they would have taken pictures of me doing it and that would be such a sight to see!

Most of all we had lots of fun and now I think Lauren and I can make it through another week!

Having Fun

I like to imagine that I am a great photographer, and that when I picture something in my mind I can make it happen.. but saddly I try and then I realize without a much much nicer camera and some knowledge of photography I just can't make it happen! The girls got tu-tu's for Christmas and I got them out today and as Lauren was playing around I thought it would be fun to take some pictures. Well grumpy mom came out and I decided that wasn't a good idea so I just took a few pictures to capture the moment and called it good!

My Sweet Sawyer

Lady Lauren

Holiday Happenings

This holiday season has been a fun one :) We have had the opportunity to do a lot of fun activities with our family! Christmas was great and everyone on my side of the family was able to be her in the Big Horn Basin for Christmas. Since Aimee and Spencer have moved across the mountain we miss being able to see them all the time. So we took every opportunity we had to be with them!!
Grandma took all of the Grandkids swimming, and Uncle Spencer was nice enough to get in the water with them so I could hang on the side of the pool with Sawyer..


Spencer only got in I think to terrorize Triffen and Lauren! But that's what Uncle Spencer is all about I guess :)

Lauren is still pretty shy when she is in the water and clings to whoever she can, she did get brave this time and went out on her own a little bit!

Here she is on her own! This is a really big step for her, but I am glad she likes the water now.. it only took her 2 1/2 years!

The next activity we did was ice skating (and in some cases boot skating)! We went out to Moncur's Skating Corral. I have never been ice skating out there before now and they have a pretty nice set up. And the best part is that they have a heater in the little hut with all the ice skates. That's were Kandace and I shacked for the most part because we had the little ones, and there was a nice big window we could look out to see everyone out on the ice.

Triffen and Lauren had the most fun with the shovel! Lauren was more than happy to be pushed around on the shovel the whole time! Like a little princess on her throne!

Jake was the only adult who tried out the skates! He did pretty good on them too :)

And thanks to a break in my parents water pipe and having to dig up some dirt and replace the hole with sand, there was a nice pile of dirt to sled on! And once again her majesty was more than happy to be pulled around on the sled! Good thing her cousins kind of like her :)

And I didn't have my camera to capture our bowling party. Every year we have always had a big Jolley Family Christmas party with all my dad's brother's and sister's and it is usually the highlight of Christmas. But as our family's are expanding it is harder and harder to get everyone together on the same day. So my parents have kept the tradition going with our immidiate family, and they take us bowling (on them!). It is always so much fun getting together and having the competitive side come out in us! Of course the boy's usaully win every time.. I think Jake was the winner overall this year! I mostly go for the pizza, and after a while the boy's finish up the game for everyone, but they love it and the girls end up talking the whole time, but we have a blast!

That is a wrap up on our Christmas Vacation Happenings. New Years was not so fun for our family because we were all sick :( But everyone is starting to feel a little better now and I am so thankful. It was the weirdest flu I have ever had before, I had the worst stomach ache with no other simptoms for (going on) 6 days. I am still not in tip top shape but feeling much better. The only thing that would releve my pain was a hot shower and 3 hot showers a day kind of dry's your skin out so I am glad I don't have to do that any more!

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

What we have been up to..

Some happenings at the Bassett house that I am pretty excited about is that we got the internet!! Yes, yes I know it seems like everyone has it these days.. but we have been living in the dark ages for the past three years and now we are moving on up! Santa also gave me my christmas present early because without this fancy computer that I am typing on we would have any reason for the internet! Thanks Santa :) Other happenings are:

Trying to catch up on sleep.. where ever we can get some!

Hunting with dad..

Holding, loving, and just being with baby Sawyer :)

Spending time with cousins. When it comes to Triffin and Lauren you never know if it will be a good day or a bad day :) They love each other and they also love to torment each other!! It is quite comical because they know each other buttons and push them quite often!

We have done a lot of singing and dancing! Lauren informed me that for christmas she would like a guitar, the sunshine one. My mom has a guitar for the little kids and Laurens favorite song right now is You are my Sunshine and she likes to play the guitar and sing You are my Sunshine. So hopefully Lauren will be a good girl and Santa might bring her a guitar!

I didn't know if a picture could show how independent Lauren is, but she is Miss Independent. Right now she is sitting on my lap and asked for her juice. I gave her the juice and she said no, I want to do it and she set the juice back down and picked it up herself! Miss Independent..

Lauren has really blossomed after Sawyer was born and is now not shy AT ALL. She is very outgoing and says hi to anyone and everyone and tells them all about her baby sister, and sometimes tells them "you can't look at my baby sister" and so on and so forth! She is talking like crazy and uses words like rediculous! I need to start writing down all the silly things she says because she is a little ham!

We have been to Chuck-E-Cheese twice in the last month, once with dad just for fun and mostly for dad to play games..


And again for my nefew Kysar's Birthday party!

Uncle Spencer really had Lauren's card at Chuck-E-Cheese, and he helped her with the games.. It was pretty cute!

Here is the kids crew a Kysars party!

Lauren has some of the funniest faces

but she can have some of the sweetest faces too!

We have been so grateful for our baby Sawyer and are so thankful for her. She is such a sweet baby, and we just can't get enough of her. (more to come on her when I post her 2 month post.. I can't believe she is almost 2 months!)

Lauren had a chance to play with Kimberly's kids, and also Hillary made a surprize trip down and so Lauren got to play with Hailey, Kennedy, Jonathan, and Marcus :)

Sawyer also had a photo shoot with Aunt Kimberly, and Hailey is a photagrapher in training! (sorry the pic is so blurry, but I have a better one Kimberly!)

Sawyer was blessed on December 5th by her Grandpa Jolley and he did a great job! She wasn't in the best mood after church so I didn't really get any good pictures, and she was ready to get out of that dress!

Lauren got her first official hair cut by my sisters old roommate Mallory! Lauren did a great job and I am wondering why she can't be that good for me when I do her hair! But Mallory gave Lauren a little trim and strait bangs! I have been trimming Lauren's bangs and I can't cut them strait for the life of me!

Last but not least Lauren got to see Santa and boy did she like him! I didn't know what she would think of him, but she wasn't scarred at all! And yes, she told Santa that she would like a guitar for christmas!

Our new addition!

Well I guess it is time agian to start blogging :) I just got really busy with life, work, and lauren that the blog took the back seat. Now that I am a stay at home mom again I think we will try this one more time! Just a quick catch up, we had our Sawyer Faye Oct 17 at 7:12 pm. She was 8 lbs. 12 oz. and 20 inches long. She wasn't an easy one to convince into coming to this world I will tell ya! I started having mild contractions about 4:30 am on the 17th and they were coming about 7-8 min. apart. I was nervous because w/ Lauren I was already at the hospital so this time it was up to me to make the call of when to get to the hospital. I laid in bed for about an hour timing my conctractions, then I got up and started to some things around the house because I could clearly not sleep.. i was a little anxious! at about 6:30 I woke up Erik and told him I was having contractions about 7 minutes apart and he went right back to sleep... So I just walked around the house and tried to keep myself busy. About 7:30 everyone was up and Erik was getting ready and then I started to get nervous thinking that we would get to the hospital and they would just send me home. We slowly got on our way and after dropping Lauren off with aunt Lila and chatting with her we got to the hospitla about 11:00 am. The nurse checked me and I was only 3 cm dialated and so she wanted me to walk around for an hour.. I walked and walked, got checked again and walked some more.. I took a bath and then finally was officially checked into the hospital at about 2:30 and the doc was on his way to check on me. My doctor was on vacation hunting, so I had the on call doc, Dr. Christiansen who I really ended up liking. Dr. C got there and broke my water and they called the anethesiologist and thank goodness they did, because 10 minutes later I was dialated to a 9 and was having the urge to push. They gave me the Spinal block because I was to late for an epidural and to my dismay the pain did NOT go away. Our little Sawyer was face up, and for some reason that makes things a lot more painful, I now understand what "back labor" is. Ok so this was not anything like I remember with Lauren, because after I got the Spinal Block the pain was gone and it was painless from then on, I had felt nothing and now I am feeling everything but my legs. The nurse suggested some pain releif that ment giving me 4 more shots in my back - yes please! It took the edge off put sadly the pain was still there and when I pushed it was there x10. It hurt so bad when I would try to push and I tried to convince the doctor that I was a wimp, but they said I was doing great (yeah right) another 4 shots in my back to help with the pain, an hour later and still no Sawyer. They had me try a new position, and with numb legs that isn't easy. After that didn't work I asked if I could lay on my side, and in my mind I was thinking this baby might not come out on it's own and I could see the doctor pacing back and forth and I knew he was thinking about a C-Section. Turns out that laying on my side turned Sawyer enough to make her way out a little smoother (for me anyways) and I built up some strength (from out of nowhere) and after a few pushes she was here! When the nurses were talking about "all that hair" as she was coming out I knew it was probably a girl because that is my recipe for little girls! I had thought this baby was going to be a boy because my pregnancy was so different but she fooled me! When I first saw Sawyer my first thought was that she looked exactly like Lauren did! I don't remember her crying to much, I just remember her laying on my chest and the nurses scrubbing her clean, and scrubbing and scrubbing! Erik looked at me and said what are you going to name her (because we didn't have anything picked out officially) then he continued to say "I named the first one, so you can name this one" I was a tad bit shocked but I didn't let the offer go! I said my picks are Brooklyn or Sawyer, and he said I don't like Brooklyn, and Sawyer she became! After a while we had our first visitors and then eating my first meal of the day at 11 pm I was in need for some sleep!

The next day was my favorite part because Lauren came to see baby Sawyer! I was just getting out of the shower so I heard her come in and she was saying "this is my baby sister, baby Sawyer" and she was so happy to hold her baby sister (keep in mind Lauren has a little lisp so it makes it even cuter)! I was alittle worried as to how Lauren might react to her baby sister, but she didn't have any problem with it at all! Lauren got to hang out with us for a while and I had some special presents for her, but I think that she felt special enough with having a baby sister!

Now that we have been home for 4 weeks and getting the hang of our baby Sawyer we are learning that she is a pretty good baby! I don't want to say too much, because if I brag then she might flip a switch on me! As for now she sleeps most of the time but is awake in the mornings around 8 or 9 am for an hour or two and awake in the evenings around 7-8 for an hour or two. She sleeps good at night waking up about 2 to eat and then again at around 5 (so grateful for my sleep!) She isn't too fussy, she mostly grunts when she wants something and takes her a while to work the grunts up to a cry. She had a hematoma (don't know the spelling, but it means she had a bump on her head from the way she was positioned at birth) on the left side of her head, and the doctors thought it would take a few months to go down, but it has already gone down and we are thankful for that!

Lauren loves to hold her baby sister and always informs me if she is crying. I know Sawyer will be well taken care of when her big sister is around! Lauren likes to tell everyone we see that "this is my baby sister" and then on an off day she will tell people "no, you can't see my baby sister" haha!! Life with Lauren is never dull :) Lauren also likes to tell people that she helps pull the straps off the babies diaper, it is so interesting the things she remembers and shares with others! After Sawyer was born I felt like Lauren matured over night and she wasn't a baby anymore. She is talking in full sentances, and making excuses to get out of church, using words like ridiculous, and coming up with phrases that Erik or I use. She is like a sponge and absorbs everything that passes her by, and I don't know if I can even keep up with her. When I read her a book she can look through the book when I am done and read parts fo the book back to me, and she comes close to saying all the words on the page. She isn't potty trained yet, but we are working on it. She goes poop in the potty, but still is carless about peeing in the potty. If I am prepared and ask her every 30 min. she does a good job, but I am not always on track! Lauren is definitely in the terrible 2 stage, and has been testing my patients as far as is it will go. I sometimes think I just tell her no all day long, but at the end of the day she still wants me to lay with her while she goes to sleep so she must still love me! Glad our Sawyer is finally here!