time flies

these are our favorite girls....

feeding the ducks...

see the monkey's hand... story below....

So I had to add the monkey pics,,,, story.... not good clear pics, so foggy in there that day my lense was fogged up. all of a sudden baby gorilla runs over to houston and kodi at glass starts banging on it at them then starts kissing glass and tracing houston's hand and fingers around it.... so sweet wish i'da had my video camera

cutest boy and baby... i am biased though...

love her...

Don't anyone tell Brett this is on here or he will kill me dead!!!! i was threatened with my life... honest

Love little toes

i can't believe how fast they grow.... actually i should say i hate how fast they grow... quincee is now 2 months old and isn't "newborn" anymore... i classify newborn when they finish nursing and u hold them against you to burp them and their whole body scrunches right up into you... well she doesn't do that anymore even though i push her legs up to make her kind of do it. i wish we could have them stay in the newborn phase for at least six months i mean come on that's not much to ask for since we carry them around and get fat for them for 10 months, right. it's crazy to think houston is already four, kodi two and a half and feels like i just brought houston home from the hospital. now it's three! i think i take it for granted too trying to hurry and get things done, clean the house, do the laundry, make dinner, etc. all those things won't be important in ten years when i'm wishing i still had little kids and babies around. so i've decided to let things go, not worry about the mess till they're all gone.... because then i'll be sad if i didn't just sit and play with them, or read to them, or just watch them grow up. so mostly this post is just a warning sign... "MESSY HOUSE" don't mind it if you stop by.... so quincee is getting bigger everyday, growing out of clothes and diapers, making me sad. kodi is acting so much more like a big girl, sad too, and houston is the oldest and i wish he was still a baby sometimes too. they both say funny things everyday and make us laugh, my dad has a new pool table and i picked up a pool stick the other night and my dad says, "this is for boys!" kodi asked him "grampa, why's it just for boys?" he told her, "girls are supposed to be up in the kitchen getting us chips and pop and food." she says, "that'd be good!" (one of her favorite sayings) then a few minutes later she's playing piano with my mom and my dad stands by them she looks at him and says "this is for GIRLS!" we all laughed at that. houston is in love with horse racing right now, all he thinks about, he has all the horse racing blankets memorized with the numbers that are on them. only real positive about it is he knows his numbers really good now. i just have to make sure he never finds out you can bet on the horses, he's a really poor loser so i doubt betting the races would help.... well i haven't been on the blog seen for awhile now, three's keeping me busy, moving, unpacking, organizing my house, and getting ready for xmas which is only two weeks away!!! ahhhhh.... but i'm loving having a new baby around and so are the kids! merry christmas!!!

the details

October 9, 2009 - Quincee Dene Ralph... This is her story...

My moms birthday October 8, I started the day by telling my mom and Lynz I felt different. I knew today was the day but didn't want to tell anyone in case I was wrong. But started cleaning like a mad woman, all three bathrooms, vaccumed whole house, made sure I had everything for birth, double checked birth stuff, did few loads of laundry, dishes, everything else that was a mess... Brett came home around 1:30 pm made him lunch, took Houston to run a few errands while Kodi napped, came home showered and got ready to go out to dinner with the Stampeder wives. Left kids with Brett, he took them to McDonalds where Kodi told him "That boys ticking me off." in the playplace about some random kid... I picked up Mindi L. and we headed downtown to dinner. By this time I'd been having cramps all day long and I knew they were getting slowly stronger, but brushed them off so I wouldn't have to think about them. I didn't tell anyone just made a joke about Mindi maybe having to coach me on deerfoot while driving home...:) So we got to dinner at 6 pm. About an hour into dinner one girl said "What's wrong?" I said "Nothing" She said "Your whole demeanor just changed what's wrong? Do you feel something?" I said "I'm okay I've been having cramps all day." Her "What?" Then everyone started freaking out. I said I was fine. Then went to bathroom to call my mom she asked if she should come, i told her i didn't know wait a little bit longer. Then called brett and told him it was tonight and to get kids in bed before I came home. I still waited and pretended they weren't getting worse, finally at about 9:00 I told Mindi we should go, she freaked out and said I should've told her earlier. So we paid and left. She asked to drive I said I was good. She asked how I was feeling I told her they were getting closer and stronger, so she started timing them, They were four minutes apart, she told me to call my midwife I said I would as soon as I got home. I dropped her off just before ten. She was still freaking out a bit... I got home and Brett was watching his favorite, Seinfeld. I went upstairs and started making my bed, getting towels in dryer, getting things ready between pauses for contractions, told my mom to come now, called Lyndsay, called midwife she said she'd be half hour. Then Brett started a bath and I got in. They were worse now, and 3 minutes. The water helped but back labor was a killer, so Brett got his duties of rubbing it through contractions. My midwife came and got her things ready and then decided to check me, 6-7 cm and that she was really low. I tried my moms cell, dead, then called my dad and told him how far I was and he said she'd been gone about hour and half. I said to tell her if he talked to her. Then hung up for a contraction. Taina came in and asked if I wanted to have iv for Group B Strep that I'd tested + for. She said once my water broke she'd be here fast. I decided not to have iv since it wouldn't be in my system long enough and she'd be here fast after my water broke. I was glad cause I really didn't want the iv. The other midwife(Anne) arrived and by now I was close to thinking I might die (which means it's almost over in my books) Then when I wanted to start pushing I did and my water broke, I called Taina in and she said you have to get out right now if you want to have her in your bed, otherwise you can have her in the tub. My tub isn't big so I said I wanted out. Brett and Taina helped me and I got on the bed. Brett kept rubbing my back, and I pushed for about 10-15 min. and she was here, 12:30am, missed my moms birthday by half hour. I said, "This was the easiest one." Which both midwives thought was a little soon to say. Then I layed down and held her/nursed her. My mom got there about five minutes late... and Brett went and woke up kids, Houston walked in turned around and went back to bed, he was a little out of it, Kodi was so excited and never stopped talking for five seconds. Houston came back out about half hour later and then was excited. After about two hours they weighed her (7.1lbs, 20inches) and checked her. Then Anne left, Taina stayed about an hour longer. Then my mom and brett put kids back to bed and we all went to bed. The next day Brett went to football, I mostly stayed in bed, Mindi called and told me she started screaming in her room when she found out I'd had her a couple hours after she'd left me. Lynz came in afternoon with Lucy, Taina came back that afternoon. The next day, Saturday Brett left to Montreal and my mom and Lyndsay stayed till he came back Monday night, we had our own Thanksgiving dinner with us three and that was it... I loved it, even though most thought I was nuts. My dad called me to yell at me a few days prior, Bretts family was freaking out but it was awesome and I will for sure do it again if its available. I loved being in my own room, my bed, with the people I wanted around me. I loved that my kids got to be there right after and that I didn't have to leave them to have her. Even Brett liked the whole thing. I was so happy he was supportive of what I wanted for the birth and even though people were telling him we were crazy he went with it... Pretty much it was amazing. Now it's been four weeks and I can't believe it, I love having a newborn, but she's getting bigger too fast... Houston and Kodi love her and are really good with her. We're getting used to getting out of the house on time with three and adjusting to a newborns schedule... Love her!!! I think that's the whole story... and a few pics, not the greatest but what I have...

The dinner I was at prior to baby... I look fine.... I told them I was fine

About an hour and half before she arrived... I wanted a close up all the others of me were about a 100 feet away, he tried...:)

My only pic where I'm decent.... Brett not so good with camera.... don't think he realizes what he's taking pics of they were a little Risque, nothing you'dve wanted to see... and yes I look rough I did just push out a baby, none of this posing for the camera and looking good.... I had mascara running down my face, its beet red and my hair is wet.

Kodi meeting new baby sister, in her jammies with crazy hair...

Gramma Dana and Quincee, about ten minutes after birth... 'I'm still mad she missed it, I am mad it's not on video and hardly any pics... next time maybe she'll make it

Daddy weighing her... that's Taina... she's awesome




She's hiding in there somewhere all 7.1lbs.

That's it and I loved the whole experience!

tRiCk Or TrEaT sMeLl My FeEt

and my tiny little pumpkin...

Mr. Serious Bullfighter

My scrunchy nosed butterfly...

I can't believe Halloween has come and gone and Christmas will be here so soon... Brett says I'm getting ahead of myself... but decorations are out in stores so I'm not the only one... We went down to Raymond for Halloween, Brett was gone to b.c. so I wasn't taking kids trick or treating alone here. We had fun they lasted for about six houses and then they were cold, they got enough candy with that many houses so I was fine to be done that and the baby was ready. Quincee is already three weeks old, they grow way too fast... I'll one day post about her but for today its hAlLoWeEn!!!

Quincee Dene

She's Here...

Well she decided she wanted to see her daddy before he left today:) She came really early friday morning after I'd gone out with the stampeder girls for dinner, thank goodness i drove with mindi and she could time my contractions on way home from 17th ave... she's still freaking out at me;) she came two hours after i walked in my door. Very fast but so exciting. we're so excited to have her no name yet she was 7.1 twenty inches. Details and pics to come soon.... for now we're busy just keeping up with her constant feeding....

the b family

Here's the family pics I took last week, this is one busy momma, she has a two year old and one year old... and both boys so busy busy busy. They were lots of fun, N was a normal two year old wanting to run and play and eat his brother D's treats. D just started walking and is a one year old trying to get away from my camera. And their mom is beautiful as u can see in these pics the boys are both identical to their parents. One of each. Hope they like these and your disc will be in the mail shortly. Now I'm hoping to have this baby come out I was hoping chasing these two boys would've made it happen but no luck, we're counting down now, 6 days, but we'll see maybe I'm destined to be late... it is a girl so we'll see. Houston and Kodi are waiting everyday. Houston wakes up and asks where the baby is. He knows he's not going back to Raymond until after the baby comes so he's really starting to ask now. They want to go see their horses... so baby come out! Oh and Kodi has started the potty... bad timing on her part but she doesn't want the diapers right now, too bad i just bought the $50 box from Costco last week... ugh...

...belly pics...

I took a few maternity pics for my sis in law while I was in Raymond, before both our babies come, I've got about three weeks and she's a couple after that... now we'll both just wait till they make their arrivals...

...k&l wedding...

This is my cousins wedding photos that we did last weekend, she's getting married down in Utah this weekend so we took a few at her reception in Raymond. She looked stunning, and I'm sure she'll be even more stunning this weekend with the glow they come out of the temple with... they're always so giddy and excited. I couldn't make it down there cause I'd rather not have this baby in the states :( So I hope i get to see pics from down there soon too... Congrats K&L hope everything is awesome!!! Now u can see how beautiful she is... sorry L but the girl always steals the show... you looked good too (p.s. he's in training for the next summer Olympics)