Urban Clay Walker

Sorry this has taken a few days to post, but I have three good reasons. Layla, Hazel and Urban. But for those of you who don't know, Urban was born on Monday Dec. 1 at about 5:45 am. He weighed 8 lbs 15 oz and was 21 1/2 inches. I started having contractions at about 1 am and was just hoping they would go away. Of all nights to come he chose the night Hazel was throwing up. By 2:30 am I woke up Justin and about two min later told him we had to go. He called his brother DJ to come and watch our kids. Lucky him. Sick kids at three am and he still had work and school the next day. We really really appreciated it. Thanks!!! He got to our house in what seemed like minutes, which was also great, because by then I was in real pain. We drove to the hospital and I was at a 5. I decided on the car drive there that I wanted an epidural. I was going to try to do it without. I am too much of a wuss. An hour and a half later I got my epidural and they checked me right after. I was at a 9. So I guess I did most of it without any drugs. But when it came to pushing I was glad to have it. It took three pushes and he was out. My doctor did a great job and even though he was bigger than my girls by 2 pounds, I didn't tear or have an episiodomy. ( sorry to all the men who are reading this, I'm sure it's more than you wanted to know) But it has made a big difference in recovery. We are all home now and are trying to adjust to no sleep and no attention, patient less mommy and a new family member. Hopefully in a week or two we will be better adjusted. We all love Urban so much and are so glad he is here. The girls have a real live baby doll. Scary!! Thanks to all those who have helped and gave/sent gifts. We appreciate it so much!! Here are some pics of our Justin/Hazel clone.

Happy Halloween

The girls in their Halloween Pjs

Our family at Attask's Halloweeen Party

DJ, Kate and Owen

Snow White and sleeping Beauty

The girls had a good Halloween this year. Layla finally decided to be Sleeping Beauty and Hazel got the hand me down of Snow White. But she just enjoyed being in a pretty dress with Layla. Justin had a work party that we went to. He dressed up as a doctor and I went with a baby sticking partially out of my huge belly. I was going to put fake blood running down my stomach, but Justin said it would scare little kids. On Halloween when I went to get ready I couldn't find the blood anywhere. I figured Justin hid it so I wouldn't use it. Turns out the girls were playing with it and hid it. But it was all for the best, I got tons of comments on how sick and wrong it was and how scary and grotesque it was. It would have been a lot worse with the blood. The girls enjoyed Trick-or-Treating to all the cubicles and both filled their bags full. Then we came home and went to our Trunk-or-Treat at the church, where they filled their bags again. Lets just say we will have candy until July. Justin enjoyed going through the girls candy, stealing all the good stuff and seeing the difference in the types of candy the girls chose. Hazel always chose suckers when they were a choice. She ended up with about 30 suckers, compared to Layla's 3. I think she likes suckers. Layla semmed to be more well rounded. She was also more daring, choosing things like pop rocks, gummy spiders and chocolate eye balls. They both had a good time and Justin and I enjoyed the holiday with them.

Layla's 4th Birthday!!

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Layla is getting so big!! We can't believe how fast she is growing up. We had her Birthday party on Oct 18th. We went to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point. It's the corn maze/pumpkin patch. The girls had a good time. Layla got her face painted like a butterfly and Hazel got a ladybug on her arm. They went on a hay ride, cow ride, slides and jump houses. Then at home we had a pinata, cake and homemade ice cream. The video shows most of the pinata fun. Layla loved it!! Thanks so much to all those who participated. It made Layla's day!!

Layla with her princess cake and Hazel getting her arm painted



Hazel in a wooden train

The girls going down a slide

Layla riding the cow train with her painted face.

Getting her face painted

Flag Football

Owen

DJ playing quarterback

Justin


Hazie watching Daddy


Justin falling after making a catch


Layla having a snack



Justin is playing on a flag football team with DJ. He misses a few games with travelling for his job, but the games he is able to go to, he has a good time. Even though He is the "OLD GUY" on the team. He is almost 27 and all the other guys are 24. We get quite a few stares when we walk in with our to girls and big fat pregnant me. The game this week, we were watching Owen and went to the game with him. It took us 20 min. just to get in the car. But boy were people looking at us funny. The guys played a good game. They slaughter everyone!! Here are a few pics from the game.

Fun Weekend with Grandma and Grandpa

This past weekend my family came up to the Orem area. Brandon and Zeffie had planned their family vacation and invited us to participate where we could. My parents and Mindy also made the trip. On Thursday, the girls got to experience Chuck E Cheese for the first time for Asher's Birthday. They had a lot of Fun! On Friday we drove up to Heber after hair cuts from Aunt Mindy. In Heber the girls Rode the Heber Creeper. Grandpa bought them a train whistle which I'm sure was fun for all the other passengers. Mindy rode it with them so I wouldn't have to. Afterwards she said she was never having children. She is a good Aunt. On Sat. We all went to Lagoon. Layla and Asher had a lot of fun riding the rides together. Justin rode all the little rides with Hazel. She really liked the carousel. Mindy got Justin to go on one big roller coaster and she said he screamed like a girl. Typical. My Dad, Brandon And Zeffie did the sky coaster. We all had a good time and it was great to see my family.

For those about to Rock...

When we moved to Utah we finally had a big enough place to store all of the stuff that we had left in Weiser. One of the things that finally made the trip was Justin's electric guitar. He got it out the other day and Layla, of course, had to play. Here are a few shots of our future rocker.

Hello Again

So yea, a lot of time has past since our last post. The big reason for that is because we recently moved from Boise Idaho to Orem Utah. Justin got a job down here in mid July and the rest of the family moved down the last week of July. So we are finally settled in our new aparment. We had been looking for a house but couldn't find anything that we liked for the price that we were willing to spend. So yes, we are in Utah. Things are goig well, Justin is enjoying his job, Layla nad Hazel have neighbor friends that they enjoy playing with, and Elsie is excited to be closer to her family.

Right before we moved, Elsie had a doctors appointment and we found out that we are having a boy. For the most part, we are all pretty excited. Layla has had mixed reactions, and hasn't decided if she wants a baby brother or a baby sister, her mind changes almost daily.

Between packing and moving we were able to go up to McCall and spend some time with the Walker family. It was lots of fun to spend time with the family. These are the family pics Elsie took while we were there.

Motherhood Trials

O.K. So just a little whining. My Sabbath hasn't gone as I had hoped. Hazel Refused to sit through the passing of the sacrament. Justin was helping pass and she thought that she needed to be by his side. Out in the hall wasn't much better as people stared at me like i was a bad Mom when I couldn't control my kids and make them sit and behave. I know they were thinking, " And she's having another one!" I don't know what it is about Sacrament but my kids are horrible! Then Hazel finally gets to go to nursery, But does she? No, I have to stay with her and when I do manage to sneak out, She falls asleep! Why can't that happen in sacrament. So I take her out of nursery and wake her up so she will nap when we get home. Does she? No after an hour of rocking and walking and making her cry, she is still wide awake and ornery as ever. Layla, my never napping child even took a nap. But Hazel didn't close her eyes until Layla woke up. Now at 6:30, She is just waking up and won't sleep tonight!! Just my luck! I have to work early in the morning. Here are some pics of the way she finally managed to fall asleep.

Fiddle Festival

Justin Had to work late for a couple of days, so the girls and I went to Weiser for Fiddle Week. Layla enjoyed the carnival a lot last year, so I thought it would be a good distraction. We are waiting for Justin to have a second interview for a job in Provo. We really want it and it has been hard to be patient!! So we went to Weiser on Wednesday night and stayed Thursday and left on Friday.
Grandma Walker wrecked her car while we were there. Her and Layla were going down to get the music ready for the clogging performance and Grandma rear ended someone. Layla bit her lip pretty good, But they were both OK. She kept telling me how the air bag hit grandma and she was going to miss her so much. I think she thought grandma was dead or going to jail, But she didn't think she would ever see her again. Silly Girl!!
But these are a few pics of her on the carnival rides. We lied and said Hazel was 2 so that she could go on a ride as well. It was a big mistake. She cried and tried to scale the gates to go on another ride. So I took her back to the house and Grandma and Layla stayed and rode rides until 10 pm. She Loved it!! Thanks Grandma!!

Ballet Recital

Layal had a ballet recital yesterday. She was excited the whole day to dance on "the big stage". She did a wonderful job. After her performance she was coming around the corner and a girl ran into her and spilled Coke all over her tutu. She was pretty devastated. After 15 minutes of crying she finally calmed down. After we bailed on the recital (we went 4th and there was 2+ hours more to go) we went out to eat with Grandma and Grandpa Walker. It was lots of fun. We are so proud of Layla, she dances so well.

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