Okay, I am finally getting around to blogging about Jacob's birth. He missed his due date by less then two hours, but I was just glad he came. Jacob Fay Hepworth was born at 1:47am on August 5th. He weighed in at a whopping 9 pounds 2 ounces and was 21 3/4 inches long. By far he was my biggest baby!
Labor went pretty fast. I started having contractions that were 3 minutes apart consistently at 11pm, but was still hesitant to call the midwife thinking they would go away as all the other ones have the past weeks. But Kendall insisted that he should call so at 11:30pm we called Charlotte (the midwife). She got to our house at midnight and checked me and said I was only at 3 1/2 cm. That's so not what I wanted to hear! But then she checked an hour later and said I was at 4 1/2 cm. But she said to push on the next contraction and I did and my water broke. And 22 minutes later Jacob was born! We were very surprised when Jacob came out a boy. I have felt this whole time that the baby was going to be a girl. We hadn't really even talked about boy names. So it was later that day before we came up with his name. Jacob was not a name I would have ever considered, but he just looks like a Jacob, it fits him. I don't know how to explain it really. Kendall's grandfather's name is Fay so that's where we got his middle name.

Here Kendall is weighing Jacob. We were amazed that he was so big! No wonder I have been so uncomfortable these last few weeks!

Little Jacob right after birth.

We woke Emma and Noah up to say hello. They were so happy he was here.

Poor Emma started crying when we told her that she had a new brother. She really wanted a sister to share a room with. But she got over it and keeps telling us how much she likes him.

Sassy took this picture in the morning of Kendall catching up on some sleep later in the morning. I thought it was kind of funny.

Aunt Sassy with little Jacob. We were so glad she was here these past two weeks. It was fun to spend some time with her and get to know her better.

When Daniel woke up in the morning he came in to cuddle with me, as has been his habit of late. I told him that the baby had come and he was so sweet. He came and peeked at little Jacob and smiled and said "Ahh, baby!". It was so sweet! He likes to come up to Jacob and say "pet, baby" and then touch his hair. I was a little worried about Daniel's acceptance of the baby, but so far it's been just fine.

Lots of Kisses! It's amazing how much Daniel seems to have grown this past week! He's so huge now!

Little Jacob one day old. He's a pretty good baby so far. I have learned that I can't eat chocolate the hard way, poor Jacob. He has his days and nights totally mixed up but we are working on getting that fixed!

Sunday naps are a wonderful thing!

Day At the Lake

Kendall and I went out late Monday evening and ended up coming home with a new toy. We bought one of those little 3 man blow up boats. The kids were so excited the next morning when they saw it. So we packed a picnic lunch and headed over to a little lake near our house to spend the day.
I think this is the only picture of me pregnant, I had Jacob the next day, and yes I'm huge! (but you would be too if you had a 9 pound baby in you!)

I love this picture of Daniel trying to coax these ducks over to him.

Daniel doing what he does best....eat! Sassy told him to stick his tummy out for the picture.

After Noah got the hang of rowing the boat we let him have some time alone on the lake. He had so much fun that day.

When Noah wasn't in the boat he was pulling the old fallen tree around.

Daniel playing with a feather. I love how the kids can find such simple things like a feather, or an old tree and be content for hours.

Daniel and Kendall in the boat.

Noah and Sassy. It took them a little while to get the hang of rowing and I was getting a little dizzy watching them.

It was a fun day and everyone came home tired and a little sunburned. On the way home Noah proclaimed that it was the best day of his whole life!

Fun With Sassy!

So the other day while Kendall and I were catching up on a little shut eye after Jacob's birth a little photo session was taking place out in the living room. These are just a few of many. I laugh every time I look at them.

Sassy comes to visit!

Kendall's sister Sophia "Sassy" arrived on Saturday. She is visiting for two weeks. Poor Sassy didn't know she was going to be attacked by six little kids when she arrived.

Kendall, Sassy and Noah went ice skating yesterday in Everett. It was Noah's first time. They all had fun on the ice.

Sassy striking a pose. We are just waiting for this baby of mine to come. It's really hard to be patient and we are all excited to meet her/him. Hopefully my next post will be full of pictures of our newest member of the family!

Noah finally was able to buy his Swiss army knife! He worked hard and saved up all his money and all that hard work finally paid off. He carries it with him EVERYWHERE! He is always looking for an excuse to use it. He did cut himself the other day opening a box for me, but it wasn't a bad cut and he cleaned and bandaged himself right up.

Cousins

This past weekend my sister in law Sharon and her two kids Hyrum and Lilliana came for a visit from Colorado. My sister Jessica and her daughter Emily also came up for the weekend. So we had a full house. The kids had a blast getting to know their cousins. We spent Saturday at one of our favorite parks by the Sound.

Noah and Hyrum got along great and had so much fun playing together!

I love how Emma blends in with the play ground equipment in this picture.

All the kids eating lunch at the park.

One more picture of all the cousins together.

Hyrum had a birthday in June and so we had a volcano cake for him. He really likes dinosaurs and volcanoes.

Noah cooking something up. He had way to much fun with the dry ice!

Catching Up

We've been really busy here at our house.
Noah called us outside the other day and said we had to see something. We went out to see Emma riding her bike! She has had the balance down for about 6 months, but has refused to peddle. I guess Noah has been out there teaching her how to peddle and she finally got it down. Now we can't seem to get her off the bike! Kendall was really nice and finally repaired Noah's bike this past weekend and now the two of them ride around the neighborhood.

Another project going on at our house is bunk beds for the boys room. They are coming along really nice and I can't wait to put them up. Noah likes working with his dad on this kind of stuff.

Noah's got all kinds of plans for how he is going to get up and down from the top bunk. According to Noah he will have a rope ladder to get up and then wants to make a pole to slide down. That way no one can get up on the bed. I think he's going to be a little disappointed. :( I'll post pictures of the beds when they are done.

My "little" project has been strawberries and cherries. I got 45 pounds of strawberries and 50 pounds of cherries last week and had to get them all processed before they went bad. So I made 34 pints of strawberry jam and then froze the rest of the strawberries to make smoothies. I pitted the cherries and froze most of them. We have had a couple cherry pies and cobblers too. I love cherry pie with ice cream! My mom helped pit a bunch too, which was a very big help. My hands are still stained with cherry juice! But it feels good to have jam for the next year and fruit in the freezer for smoothies and pies.

Also, our couch FINALLY came! We've been without a couch since my mother moved out in February. I was really getting tired of sitting in the lazyboy recliner (which was our only place to sit all that time). As you can see the kids love it. It it big and comfy and I LOVE it!

I remember as a kid when we got our first brand new couch and how excited we all were. Then my dad ruined all our fun by giving us a very long list of things we couldn't do around the furniture (no eating, no dirty feet on the couch, no standing, jumping, climbing....) All us kids thought he was so mean! Now I find myself doing the same exact thing as he did! Daniel has gotten to the point that he will come up to me and hold out his hands and say "clean hand" before he goes near the couch. Poor kids! But I know some day when they have kids they will do the same thing!

So that's what we've been up to lately. Hopefully soon I will be able to post pictures of a cute little baby!