We love him

He had to have a picture on my Blog because myself and the girls love him especailly as Link. We saw this movie 5 times in the theatre. I just noticed that it is now at the dollar theater so I am sure we will be going. If you have not seen this movie it is a must. Give me a call and I will go with you. He is so cute!!!

Check out my Slide Show!

I finally got a slideshow to work for me. We really did have a great time at Disneyland.

Saturday

Adam, Kenny, Steph, Taylor, Me, Dad, Lexi
Snowflakes, look to far right bottom corner, that is the top of Mr. Heater
Myself and my sweet Lexi
What to do on a Saturday. Lay in bed on a cold morning and drink hot chocolate. No! Lets go on a hike. So at 5:45 this morning myself and Lexi layered ourselves with clothing and set off for a hike with my fam. When we got to Big Cottonwood canyon the weather was still nice, a little chilly but dry. But no more than 10 minutes later we watched the clouds roll in and we knew we were in for some fun. Because I have not played in the snow for years nor do I ski I have no winter attire. But thanks to Stephanie over packing (a good thing this time) I had some ski-pants to wear. One slight problem, Steph is a size 4 and I am not. She was able to unzip them on the sides so I could get them on, but unfortunately I could not button them up. So consequently they kept falling off my butt the entire hike. Nothing like too small of pants to make you feel like a fat a$$! But hey I was dry. Throughout our hike we had thunder, lighting, rain, wind, sleet, and yes snow. But you know what, it was so much fun. An adventure I was happy to be experiencing. Adam packed in Mr. Heater so that when we got to our destination we were nice and toasty. There is something almost magical about being in the mountains. God's creations are just breathtaking. So as nice as it would have been to lay in bed and drink hot chocolate (do people really do that?) I would have missed out on mud, wet clothes, bonding time, butt crack, God's creations and some good old exercise. It truly was a great way to spend my Saturday morning.

Labor

This is another Blog for myself. One I want to forget but need to remember. During my pregnancy with the twins I had a lot of pre-term labor. My Doctors rule is more than 5 an hour go to the hospital. Mine were always right around 5. Sometimes 6 extremely painful but always in the middle of the night. If they were during the day I probably would have gone to the hospital but being in the middle of the night it was just way too inconvenient. So the morning of July 2nd I awoke around 7:45 with very mild cramping. Nothing painful. They were consistent but not painful. The only difference was I felt pressure. I kept going to the bathroom hoping (and not hoping) that I would have some kind of sign that I should go to the hospital. I quickly said a prayer asking for something and then I got a painful contraction. I called my mom told her I was bringing Boo over so I could go get checked. I told her it was nothing I was just playing it on the safe side. As I am driving to her house the contractions increase so I call her and ask her if she is dressed because I need her to drive me to Shaun so he can take me to the hospital. In the mean time my dad calls me and says he is just leaving his office. He wants me to wait at the house and he will take me to the hospital. I am crying because the contractions hurt so bad and I tell my dad that I can't wait at the house because I am ready to die. Strangely enough I still don't think that I am in real labor. I guess because I was only 31 weeks I just figured I would go to the hospital they would stop all labor and I would go home. I got my mom, and as we are driving I am hesitating calling Angie. I don't want to alarm her for no reason. My mom watching tears roll down face tells me I must call Angie. I can't get a hold of her so I call my mother in law, I am trying to tell her that I am going to the hospital and not to worry (because I am really not in labor, right?) but my contractions are so bad I can hardly talk. They are two minutes apart now. She assures me that she will get a hold of Angie. We finally get to NuSkin, my dad met us there, Shaun and I get in my dads car and off to the hospital we go. I am really dying of pain now. I can't get the seat to recline so at a stop light I get out of the car and get in the back seat. We pull into the hospital, I don't really know where I am going because I have never delivered at Utah Valley. Luckily in the elevator is says 5th floor LD. We get off the elevator and a sweet Doctor is right there. I look at him (he later tells me that I gave him the look of death)and he beeps us right through the doors. A receptionist rounds the corner and says she will be one minute, she takes one look at me and says oh come right this way. She asks if I need a wheel chair, I decline because only women in labor use wheel chairs. She takes me to a room and asks me to change in the gown. You know the ones with the snaps on the sleeves. Well someone forgot to snap my little snaps, so here I stand stark naked in so much pain I am ready to kill someone and I can't focus enough to put the snaps together. I am walking around in little circles and am moaning. Shaun opens the door and asks if I'm all right. Of course I am not all right I am naked, in pain, and can't snap my dress. I am this close(my fingers are making the this close sign)to just laying on the bed naked. The only reason I don't is there is this huge huge window in my room. Finally I focus enough to snap that damn gown and I lay on the bed. A contraction is hitting me so the nurse says as soon as you can we need to check you. After the contraction stops she checks me and here is where the fun starts. She says to me "Oh honey you are a 10 and your bag in bulging." Okay now I freak out. It is not going to stop and my pain is for real. Then I start to ramble. I am only 31 weeks, I am pregnant with twins, they are not mine, they are my sister-in-laws, one is breach we have to have a C-section, call my Doctor. CALL MY DOCTOR!!! 714-3450. Then I start yelling for anesthesia I start saying all those naughty words that women in labor do. I had this one sweet nurse who helped me get through my contraction. I looked into her eyes to focus and breathed breathed breathed and squeeze her poor little fingers until the pain stopped. She gave me words of encouragement and literally saved my life. I still smile when I think of her. While I am rambling the room starts buzzing my nurse is yelling for help and tons of people come running. (I am still amazed at how great that staff was. I have warm fuzzies thinking about it) They are trying to get heart rates, trying to get an ultrasound to make sure baby is really breach,(they really want me to have them vaginal because that is easier in this moment of chaos, but that means no drugs for me) they are trying to get an IV started, they are trying to get my history. When they talk to Dr. Baxter he lets them know that we are doing a C-Section and away they wheel me to the OR. As they are wheeling me I am yelling to Shaun call Angie call Angie. When we get to the OR I have had it, I can stand no more pain. I make my hands into fists and I scream. My nurse looks alarmed for a moment and then once again takes control and saves me. Then happily Dr. Gardner (anesthesiologist)comes to the rescue. He gives me a spinal,ten seconds later I can't feel a thing, Shaun lets me know Angie is on her way, my Doctor arrives. I can relax. Now that I am not ruled by pain I can think rationally. I make sure that Dr. Gardner has not exposed my saggy boobs to the world. He kindly pulls my snappy gown so that only body parts that have to be exposed are. Life is good again. Angie gets there gives my hand a squeeze and waits for the excitement to start. They pull first baby out Happy Birthday Dr. Young says, they tug a little, pull a little, and here is baby number two. Happy Birthday I hear. Then I start to get very sick. My blood pressure is very low so they lower my head, and then I start to vomit. The problem with this is my guts are on my chests and my head is lower than the rest of my body. There is no muscle support to vomit so it just rolls down my cheek. Once again that sweet Dr. Gardner comes to the rescue and wipes my vomit from my cheek. I also had dried mascara on my cheeks and he wiped that away too. After I vomited down my cheek about 4 more times I was ready for some versed to just knock me out. Thankfully they were just finishing up and I would be back to normal. I was extremely miserable and was so glad that was over with. All day long I sat in my room in complete and utter shock. How in the sam hell did that just happen. How do you get checked at 9:14 and then have two babies by 9:39. How do you survive more pain that possibly imagined. How do we go through all this and then somehow do it over and over again. And then you look at that precious newborn (for me two precious newborns with a glowing mother) and your heart melts a million times over and you know at that instance you would do anything for that miracle you are holding.

Cul-da-sac Fun

Payton, Kinley G. Lexi, Kinley P.

Yummy food
The Stevens backyard is awesome

Girls night out

Tina, Dianna, Destiny, Me, Vanessa

I haven't mentioned much that I love my neighbors. So I want to say that I LOVE MY NEIGHBORS. When it was time for us to move I really felt a direct hand from our Heavenly Father guiding me to this lot. I didn't know why but now I do. I have the greatest neighbors. We all have kids around the same age and they all love to play. They have the best time together, and so do the moms. We gather at one of the houses (with grass) and sit and visit as we watch the kids. Or if I have stuff to do inside then I know that someone is watching out for my kids. One night last week the moms got together and went to a show, and then tonight we all had dinner and FHE at the Stevens. It was so great!!! My family is truly blessed to live among such great people.

So tired Boo

Savanna hates going to bed. Lexi and MaKaya just go right to bed, but Boo doesn't want to detach herself from her mom long enough to go to sleep. At night is usually when I work on my Blog. She loves to sit on my lap as I type. But tonight she just couldn't last so she laid her head on my hand and fell asleep. I personally would much rather lay on a pillow than a hand that is typing. But you know what, it feels so good to be so unconditionally loved.

Most Embarassing moment (do not read if offended easily)

Okay so this post is mostly for me, because when someone asks me what my most embarrassing moment is, I don't ever want to forget (or maybe I do) In preparing for invitro (for the twins) there are many steps that have to be taken. I had to have a number of ultra sounds to make sure my uterus and ovaries where doing what they were supposed to. So one particular day (first ultra sound) I go to Dr. Youngs office and the cute assistant takes me back to the room and tells me to undress from the waist down. I do as I am told. While I am sitting on the table (half naked) I am sort of wondering why I had to get undressed. I have had many ultra sounds before and never have had to get undressed. I tell myself that Dr. Young is just thoughtful and doesn't want to get KY Jelly on my clothes. I really don't think much of it. So a few minutes later in comes assistant and Dr. Young. He says Hi is really nice and then proceeds to take off the sheet and spread my legs. I quickly put them back together and ask him what he is doing. He proceeds to tell me that we are having a vaginal ultrasound today. (See you can't see ovaries with a regular ultrasound)I think my face must have lost most of its color. I quietly tell him that I am on my period. He tells me that is okay. But its not. Because I have a tampon inserted where he would like to put his ultrasound stick. I tell him that I have a tampon in and he says, oh I will just take it out. I hope that all of your mouths just fell open because that it what mine did. I think he could tell that I was about to die because he then suggested that I could take it out. I agree that would be best. So I think he is going to let me go to the bathroom, oh no he and the assistant leave the room for me to discard of my problem. After I finish he comes back in and all is well. (for him) As I am driving home I am wondering to myself how do these things happen. How could I be so naive to think that I would not have to have a vaginal (such a pretty word) ultrasound to see my ovaries (duh). So friends don't make the same mistake as I did. Get rid of the goods ALWAYS before going to the OBGYN!!!

MaKaya

One day the girls and I are driving in the car. MaKaya says to me,"Mom everyone tells me how cute my nipples are." My eyes get big and I say, "What did you say?" (hoping I had heard her wrong) Again she says "Everyone tells me how cute my nipples are. See" This time I am looking at her when she says it. When she says "See" she is pointing to her cheeks. Indeed she does have very cute dimples.

A night of Broadway

A few weeks ago it was NuSkins convention. One night for entertainment they had a group of performers right from a Broadway stage in New York come and perform. Stephanie (my sister)knowing how much I love Broadway had me come to the show with her. It was so much fun. Besides the fact that I got to dress up, the music and dancing was incredible. The only downer of the night is as I watch these incredible performers I want to be on a stage like them singing my lungs out. Then for the next few days my girls have to listen to me belt out all kinds of musicals. Sweet things they are, tell me how good I sing. I am hoping that one day I will get to go to New York and watch show after show after show. Until then my night of NuSkin fun will have to do.

Rachel Tagged Me

Jobs I have had
1-Clogging Teacher
2-Hogi Yogi
3-GMI Insurance
4-AF Hospital

Movies I could watch over and over
1-Hairspray
2-Somewhere in Time
3-Somersby
4-Dirty Dancing

Favorite TV Shows
1-Greys Anatomy
2-Brothers and Sisters
3-Dancing with the Stars (Apollo Uno)
4-Desperate Housewives

Favorite Hobbies
1-Shopping
2-Reading
3-Baking
4-Singing

Places I have lived
1-Springville
2-Provo
3-Spanish Fork
4-Embarrassing Spanish Fork

Favorite Foods (Drinks)
1-Brownies
2-Pepsi
3-Tiki Punch (Shasta, you should try it yummy)
4-Cafe Rio Pork Salad

Places I'd rather be
1-Bear Lake
2-Shopping
3-Home ( I am at work)
4-New York (I have never been, but would really like to)

Websites I visit
1-IHC
2-My Blog
3-Rachels Blog
4-Jaimes Blog

Who I am Tagging
1-Kenny
2-Jaime
3-Adam
4-Krista

Esme

I wasn't expecting Esme to be my character but really shoud I have been suprised. I love these books and I can't wait for my girls to be old enough to read them!

Best Friends

I have been lucky to have had many best friends in my life. My first best friend was Dana Smith. Our backyards faced each other. We even had a gate that connected them. Her mom was my first clogging teacher. The reason we stopped being best friends is becasue she moved to Texas.
Next came April Wilson. We met in Mr. Hurst 4th grade class. We thought we were so grown up wearing side ponytails and going to the mall by ourselves. But all to soon the fun came to an end when she moved to Arizona.
And then came Rachel Lambert. I am sorry to say I can't remember how we met. I know it was 7th grade. We spent the entire summer at Seven Peaks. Rachel still says that was the best tan she has ever had. Our best friendship was invaded by a new best friend for Rachel her name was Rachel Gardner.
Lucky me, Melanie Downing was next in line. We met while doing the play "West Side Story" She was the girlfriend of the lead Jet (Matt Lewis) and I was the girlfriend of the lead Shark (Danny Bird) All though we were enemies in the play we were best friends at heart. Our best friend status ended becasue I got a boyfriend (Jake Killpack)
Next up to bat was Callie Haggard. We hit it off our Sr. year in High School. We had almost every class together. Her being the smart one helped me excel and love my Sr. year. Our friendship faded becasue Callie went off to college.
Lucky for me, all of my old best friends are still my friends. Most of them live out of the state but I have stayed good friends with all of them. Isn't that great!
After High School I got married and Shaun was pretty much my best friend. As great as it is to have your husband as a best friend I really missed having that girl best friend. After waiting years I was blessed again with another best friend, Kate Patterson. Out of all of my best friends Kate and I are the most alike. She LOVES pepsi, so do I. She gets ready every day, so do I. She loves to be on the go, so do I. She does her girls hair every day, so do I. She loves to eat out, shop, talk on the phone, get her nails done, go for Pepsi runs, go to the movies, read novels, go bowling, and so do I. We are Two Peas in a Pod. She was the main reason I talked myself into buying a minivan. If Kate can drive a minivan, then so can I. We think so much alike that one might think we shared a brain. It isn't often that you find a friend like that. But as my luck with best friends has been in the past this best friendship has too haulted (I hope it is only temporary)What happened this time, Kate got a BOYFRIEND!!! (Sammy Giles) Almost over night I went from number 1 to number 5. (Sammy is 1 2 3 and 4)Shaun kept telling me it was going to happen but I didn't believe him. As happy as I am for her I am so sad for myself. I feel like a lost school girl without a friend. My fun filled days with Kate are now boring days to myself. What does one do without her best friend. She looks at Blogs. Thanks to dear Rachel introducing me to the Blog world I have been able to keep my loniless to a minimum with Blog stalking. Becasue so many of you share your life I feel like you are all my "Best Friends" becasue I know so much about you. So Thankyou for sharing your highs and lows becasue you have made this lonely girl not quite so sad. So until I get my best friend back I will be hanging out with all of you, my new (and old) Best Friends!!!

This is Boo

Boo is going to stay with Granny while we are gone. We love you Boo!!!

Time for a break

We are leaving for Disneyland today. Yipeeeeeeee!!!! I promised the girls after I was done having the twins that we would take them. So we will touch base when we get back.

The TWINS!!!

Some of you know and some of you don't, for those of you who don't know, I carried a set of twin boys for my husbands sister, Angie. Because so many people have been so interested on this subject I figured this would be a great place to share. They were born July 2nd 2007, 9 weeks early weighing 3lb 14oz and 3lb 15oz. (I guess it is uncommon for twins to weigh that close to each other.) They were in the hospital for about 5 weeks. They are home and Angie is having the wonderful experience of having twins. The most common question asked to me was "how are you going to give those babies away?" Just imagine never having the chance to smell your new born baby, or never snuggling close with your baby after he has just had a bath. What about never watching them fall asleep in your arms and never wanting to put them down. Now imagine being so close to having those precious moments become a reality and then having a perfect 37 week stillborn. Now imagine not only loosing a baby but to be told in order to save your life, your body can longer have any more babies. My heart could not bear going through something as devistating as this. As I watched my sister-in-law mourne and grieve for her loss, and my own heart dying inside for her, I knew in an instant that I could sacrifice a few months of my life, for a lifetime of happiness and joy for her. To give the chance for her to be a mom again was the greatest gift I could give. Any sorrow that I might have felt has been so over powered by her joy that it's not even an emotion I have felt. So if you ask yourself "how did she give those babies away, I hope you now understand, to give love away is getting so much more love in return.

The Happiest place on earth for the Kearns Klan

Every year since I was 10, my family has taken a summer vacation to Bear Lake. It was, and still is the best vacation. When I am there I am the happiest. Life is so care free and simple. Playing on the beach, riding on the boat, skiing on the beautiful blue water, eating good food, catching up with my siblings, not getting ready, and of course spending time with my family. What more could you ask for. It truely is the greatest place on earth!!! The fun part now is that my girls look forward to going to Bear Lake all year long.
Lexi is the biggest fish of the group. She loves to be in the water. She learned to water ski this year. She loves adventure!!! It was a rare moment when she was actually in the boat. She had rubbed her skin raw from riding on the tube. Lexi is happiest when she is at Bear Lake.
MaKaya has been very shy around the water until this year. She was jumping off the boat into the lake over and over and over. She was disapointed that the skies were too big for her feet. Although she likes the water, playing in the sand would have to be what makes MaKaya happiest.
Savanna is Hell on wheels in every aspect. She thinks that she should be doing everything that her sisters are doing. She is very mad when that is not happening. She loved the boat, loved the sand, and liked the water as soon as the cold wore off. She was everyones favorite and everyones worst nightmare. She is happiest when she is napping on the boat.
Shaun is liking Bear Lake more and more each year. (maybe its because the house my dad rents gets bigger each year.) Unlike the rest of us he does not love the sun or the heat, but we are grateful that he comes with us to enjoy some good old family time!!! Shaun is happiest when the Bear Lake house has Central Air!!!

I have often said that the only bad thing about Bear Lake is that we have to go home.