Outside Myself

After all this time without internet, Jacob remembered our computer has a WiFi card. So WE HAVE INTERNET! now onto my post...

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind." - Theophile Gautier


I have decided to put a quote with each post that would help "enhance" the post so to speak. I feel in love with this quote because it is probably the best description I can give as to how I feel about photography. I sadly don't have much time to go out and take photo's or edit them, but when I can I am so at home. I also feel this way about painting...I like to say my "art" is my outside myself. I have recently thought about doing a blog for just pictures, paintings, or any other for of art or craft I feel connected to and naming it "Outside Myself". Wether I did it myself or just found respect and love for someone else's creation. Still haven't fully made a decision on this due to the fact that would involve finding time to do both my blogs and of course to take more photos and such. I will keep you updated as to what I decide.


Well all of this leads to of course PICTURES! Scarlette turns 2 on thuesday (can you believe it..me neither) and Sienna was blessed this past Sunday, it was beautiful! Scarlette also started dance this week, she did pretty good for it being her first class. I am truly looking forward to watching her learn and grow as a little dancer! Now I will proceed to the pictures to go with all the lovely things in my life...


Sienna's Blessing Pictures...Taken a couple days before the blessing.

Our wonderful family the day of her blessing.



Scarlette on her 1st day of dance!

Uhm..LOVE THIS NEXT PICTURE!!!

Our beautiful 2 year old...well almost 2, but these were these were taken for her turning 2!
She is such an amazing daughter and had taught us so much, we love her dearly.

ps...she is IN LOVE with the American Flag or "Fly" as she calls it. no matter where we go, she is constantly yelling "Fly, there, right there!!!" Love her little heart!

I honestly feel so blessed for our daughters and to have such and amazing husband to be by myside. I couldn't ask for anything better.

Recap Of Post Quote:
"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind." - Theophile Gautier

Banished

yesturday it was discovered i could post on the blog through jacobs phone, and since i have been banished to our room so jacob could work on my mothers day present i am using his phone to post. as excited as i was to be able to post again i have already found some flaws, i figured there would be a couple since it is still via phone and not full internet or computer access, so of course limitations were expected. but not being able to use the shift button to capitalize my letters or use the button that gives me puncuations like apostrphes and numbers and such was not expected. i have access to comas and periods that is it. so no am not grammar challanged i do know how to puncuate and capitalize but for some reason when on the blog it doesnt registar the way his phone works to make these things happen...it is very frustrating.

please forgive me, i would never purposely toment people with such mistakes, dont worry i am just as tormented.

i will continue despite the issues. so most, if not all, of you know sienna has arrived. i would normally put an explaination point there but of course cant...sad face here.

sienna arrived april first as planned @ seven forty three am and weighed seven pounds thirteen oz and twenty inches longer. please remember i cant use numbers so yes they are in long form. for those who havent seen her she hair brown hair and beautiful blue eyes looks like her sister, with of course her own differences. she is such a good baby and scarlette has been a great big sister. scarlette has handled her arrival so well and we are very proud of her.

our family is very blessed to have such lovely little girls, jacob and i could imagine our family without them.

ps...due to the slight disfunction of this whole phone usage i wont be posting daily...but because it is the best option i have i will take advantage of it at least once a week. yay for being partially back to blogging. now i just need jacob to see if we get put pictures in a post...he at least helped me get one picture of sienna on the side with each of our pictures...we just couldnt move it to the spot i would like it in. i cant wait to have internet on our computer again.

just checking

just checking if this works through my phone.

p.s. this is jake my first post

Gasp for air...

Where do I even begin?!

So to explain the lack of post, first our computer got a virus back in August, then we canceled our internet for a while(which is still off...I am just at my in-laws on their computer). I honestly feel like I am getting to come up for a big breathe of air considering there is SO much I would love to have shared in the last few months. But I can only gasp for air and go back under until the next time I have computer access with internet. My goal in this post is to update everyone(that cares) with little tidbits of what has been going on in our world.

Let's see where did I leave off.

OH YEAH...I was only like 7 weeks pregnant. I am now 34 weeks pregnant 35 weeks on friday, wow did this pregnancy fly. I am sure having a toddler and watching kids has helped that. Considering I am 34 weeks that does mean I know what we are having. Can I just say first that Jacob and I stink at intuition of what we are having? With Scarlette Jacob talked to my belly like she was a boy and ONLY a boy until the day we found out she of course wasn't. Then considering how pattern seemed to go with the O'Haver family, which is no one has had 2 girls in a row our of what was 17 grand kids. Surely this baby MUST be a boy, RIGHT?! As we went into the ultrasound we both were just like "We are gonna go in, they will tell it's a boy no biggie". If only you could have seen both our faces...

It's A Girl!!! yup that's right, we will have TWO GIRLS running around. Jacob is terribly screwed : ) it also turns out my sister-in-law due a month before me(which is next friday) also broke the O'Haver pattern. GO US!

You may be wondering the name. Her name shall be...wait for it... Sienna Tornae O'Haver. If you don't like, I am sorry, but we love it. ps... Tornae is pronounced Tor-nay if you were not sure.

When is she coming you may also be wondering?(this is all based on her not coming early on her own) well we just got the call yesterday our c-section is schedule April 1st(yes it is on APRIL FOOL'S day) and we have a check in of 5 am. We are so happy about that, we get to start our day with meeting our baby girl. I am especially excited due to the fact that our of like 4 ultrasounds SHE WON'T SHOW US HER FACE! we have NO CLUE what she looks like, oh except she has cheeks like her sister. But I would like to have compared more between their ultrasound pictures and have a good one to scrapbook, but no. : ( So here I wait twiddling my thumbs thinking up what she will look like.

I also can't wait to see Scarlette with her little sister, she has recently been able to spend time with 2 new nephews of ours born in December. She adores them and loves to touch, cuddle, and huge them and help hold bottles. She doesn't get jealous if I hold them. Does this guaranteeNenna hugs and kisses and gets excited when she looks at her ultrasound pictures on the fridge. I really can't wait for her to meet Sienna and to see the two on them together...I promise I will end up crying about, this will either be do to me just being naturally sappy or pregnancy hormones, either way I already know it will happen.

Oh and just in case you were wondering Sienna and Nenna are the same baby. ScarletteNenna, which we found cute, so it stuck as her nickname : )

Things about Scarlette...

Gosh she has grown and changed so much I don't even know where to begin. I will try to make it short and sweet, since you just read an essay up there. Uhm...her hair has grown enough to do pig tails(I am more excited then anyone else of course haha), she talks up a storm(at least at home, she has to get comfortable before you see her loud side if she is out of the house), she is losing her baby face :( but still adorable, says prayer(well babbles and then will say thank you and love you when prompted, followed by AMEN), she has learned to draw a "skircle" aka circle, knows her basic shapes and colors, has come to love movies and even has an opinion of what she wants to watch. Beauty and the Beast is always watched first thing in the morning, this has gone on for almost a month. Recently Corpse Bride has been the next most watch movie, closely followed by Nightmare Before Christmas, Prince of Egypt, and then Despicable Me. We have plenty others to choose from, they apparently just aren't as cool.

Then there is my favorite thing, DANCING, she loves to dance. She has learned to plie, and does her little routine of " Plie, up, turn and repeats". She can officially start dance classes in June when she is 2, yes I am counting down the months. :)

Well I think that is the best I can give you. If there is something I forgot, I am truly sorry. We hope to get our computer fixed so we can get the internet back on it, but until the first happens the second is pointless. But don't give up on me yet!

Hopefully next time you here from me I will be a mother of two wonderful daughter's and with pictures to show for it : ) I CAN'T WAIT!

ps...sorry for any grammatical errors, I don't have time to re-read and correct things : / things will go grand with Sienna, no, but it gives my high hopes. Plus she LOVES to give Baby only calls her

He is...

all grown up...my brother that is. For those who don't know, I have one sibling, a little brother who is 5 years younger than me. He is now a SENIOR in high school, can drive, has a job and has now even treated US to dinner. He really has grown up to be quite a wonderful young man, very bright, smart, and handsome. He has goals and plans for his future, honorable ones too. He plans to join the Military (special ops or air force I believe are the too things he is interested in), this something he has been working towards since he was like 3. NO JOKE...by the age of 5 he could name WWII plans for you, by 11 or 12 he was giving tours an air field, joined ROTC in high school and excelled in that...SHOCKER, NOT. Of course we know that doesn't fully prepare him for the real thing, but I believe he was born to this.


I must say I am very proud to be his older sister. To have had the oppurtunity to teach him to read, help him with homework, our summer walks to Burger King or McDonalds and then Target just so he could by pokemon cards or Bionicles and I could buy well whatever I thought was cool at the time(probably clothes and make-up haha), and watching his dorky shows with him just to make him happy, cooking our lunches and dinners and making them look gourmet even if it was just romen and a grilled cheese sandwich(yes, its a talent haha), and all the times I let him sleep in my room when he was afraid, or being stuck playing Halo the day I stayed home sick with him when he was having hallucinations(the goal was to kill the bad guy to save our dad...weird long story), and just flat out being there for each other. Through the good and bad, yes we went through both, and both came out great people...well I think so at least.

I had the privilage of getting to do his senior pictures this past weekend. He is such a dork, and goofed off most the time, and yet that is why most of the photos turned out so great. Here are a few of the pictures.
















Love you Shane!



IN OTHER NEWS...

We had our first ultrasound last week, and saw a healthy 7wk and 3 day old baby, and could see a wonderful little flutter for a heart. Of course baby is now 8wks and 4days. The due date was set for March 30th with a scheduled c-section about a week before then, the ultrasound tech said the date may or may not change since the baby was measuring a few day behind what we were thinking. I am fine either way, just excited to have a healthy baby. We see our doc next week so we can talk to him and see what his plans are for us. I will keep you all posted!

On this day, God wants you to know

"...that God sees you as you truly are, - a holy child of light: I see you strong and whole. I see you blessed and prospered. I see you courageous and confident. I see you capable and successful. I see you free from all limitations or bondage of any kind. I see you as the spiritually perfect being you truly are."


This was on my Aunt's facebook, I read it and loved it. It was kinda the perfect thing I need to hear(well read) today. I thought I would share it...

New Home..New baby?!

I never have very long to be on here, so I am just giving a mini update. First off we have MOVED! Had to on a short notice, stressful but all has worked out and to be honest I am in love with our house! I really couldn't be happier with it. Funny thing is when we came to see the house originally just to check it out, we left not as into it as much as we thought we would be. It ended up being the house we got approved for plus everything price and time wise for the move out date was right for us, so we took it. Heavenly Father must have known we would love it!(of course he did) Exactly what our little family needed...which leads me to my next second bit of news

We are PreGnaNt! (again...finially) I feel like it took forever to get this news again. For those who don't know, we lost our last baby in January early in the pregnancy and then had to wait till April to start trying again. Every month was an unfortunate negative, but we kept up hope and knew our time would come when Heavenly Father felt it best. And it has!

Estimate Due Date= APRIL 7th, 2011...then take off a week for scheduled c-section, if my new doctor does the same gameplan as my old OB doctor would have(I have to switch doc's mine stops delivering after december)

Now I am not for sure how far along we are since the miscarriage messed up my cycle. My 2 guesses are either 4 weeks and 4 days or 6 weeks and 6 days. I am going to go with the lesser simply because I would hate to loose weeks at the doctors office when they figure out for sure how far along I am. I figured I will either be right or close enough, or wrong and possible further then I thought(which would be great!) My first appointment is next friday, I am excited! I will keep you all update.

I do have one request... if you all could send good thoughts and prayers for this baby and his or hers health and strength, I would be beyond greatful : )