Our New Addition

He's finally here! Well he's been here 6 days already but I am so happy to have him home and joining the rest of his brothers and sister. His name is Tyson Evans Dahl. We will be calling him Ty for short and Evans is Jared's grandfathers middle name. He weighed 9 lbs. 3 oz. and was 21 inches long. He was the exact same size Payton was. Somehow she felt bigger. He is such a wonderful baby. He is only getting up twice to eat at night and going right back to sleep. I just love the newborn stage. They are so innocent and when they open their eyes for the very first times and you can tell that they recognize that it is you and they intently listen is just priceless. I love it. It almost makes me sad that this is probably the last time I experience that.


Payton and the boys are just so happy and are loving on him every second. Micah says "He's so cute Mom". I am so glad that Micah is doing so well with everything. He is constantly wanting to hold him and give him his binky and is so happy to be an older brother. I am doing well under the circumstances. The surgery went well and I am slowly healing. Still in pain here and there but that is to be expected I guess. I just wish I could fast forward a couple months. It has been so helpful and has been so nice to have Jared home right now. He is absolutely wonderful and being Mr. Mom.


We are all happy to have Ty home with us and we can now adjust to being a family of six.

Baby Shower

I figured that since this is my fourth child I didn't expect any kind of hoopla for me. But my mother in law and other ladies in my ward were so nice here to think of me and make having baby #4 as special as the others. They decided that since I probably have the baby clothes and all the other baby stuff that they decided to throw me a diaper and wipes shower. Which I thought was a great idea. Everybody needs diapers and wipes. It was so nice and they had yummy food and it was just so nice to sit without kids and gab with the new ladies in my ward. Some people got me outfits and somebody knitted my baby booties but the rest was diapers and wipes. Here is the loot that I got.

I Got Called

For sure I thought it wasn't going to happen. Seeing that I am due soon I thought they would say let's give her a break at least until after the baby. Nope. I was wrong. I got a calling as secretary of the Relief Society. I am actually pretty happy with the calling. It still allows me to go to Relief Society and shouldn't be overwhelming with everything else going on. I was just surprised that they would want me seeing that I will be out of commission in just a few weeks and for another six weeks after that. Jared actually got a calling as well as Assistant Scout Master and he likes it. And for those of you who know Jared pretty well, it's a big deal. It is a perfect calling for him. He just did his first outing with the boys in what they call the Klondike camping trip. It is where you make a snow cave and sleep overnight in it. Talk about freezing if you ask me but he liked it and that is completely a Jared thing to do.

As for an update on the baby since Maria asked. Nothing right now. I am having a ton of braxton hicks and for those of you who don't know I usually have C sections so we have already scheduled the date that I go in and it will be April 2nd. We decided not to do it on April 1st. So the 2nd it is.

Ms. Mopey

Although I should post something on my plans for Valentines or a tribute to my wonderful husband or about our heart shaped pancakes I made this morning or even post about our new life here in Park City. But lately I will sit at my computer attempting to write something on my blog and I just say...forget it. I guess I have just been in one of those moods. I will call myself Ms. Mopey. I guess that is how I have been feeling lately. I get like this at the end of my pregnancies. I am pretty much done being pregnant and this will most likely be my last time being pregnant. I am just feeling like I don't have the energy to get everything done or want to take everyone to their karate or gymnastics classes. I will say that Jared has been pretty helpful during this uncomfortable time. He is home everyday and when he isn't skiing he is helping me out. I have just 7 weeks left and then it will be all over and I will start to enjoy the new addition to our family. I will post soon what we have been up to here so stay tuned It is beautiful and we are loving it here.

Questions Answered

So I guess I didn't give too much information as to where in Park City we will be living. We are not buying a house at this time. We were actually wanting to buy a house in California but we were waiting for the housing market to go down. Now we figure it is better to wait to buy a house and see when business picks back up. Instead we will be renting Jared's parents house that they no longer live in. It is a great deal because it will be about half of what we are paying here and much much bigger to fit our growing family. Probably too big for me in the fact that it is so much to clean. But the kids will have so much room and they love the house. Jared's parents now have a condo pretty much right down the street from where we will be and we will be in the same ward as them. It is again exciting but still so sad. It's bittersweet.

BIG Decision...to Move On...

At least for now. Times are tough here in California especially in the line of work that Jared does. It has gotten pretty slow here so we have decided to wait it out in Park City, Utah. We are moving there and I have mixed emotions about it. On one hand I am going to miss my mom and the rest of my family and will miss my wonderful, unreplaceable friends and our GNO's, Jared's Nanna and Grandpa and of course the weather. And on the other hand I am excited about a change and being around Jared's family. The kids will have a great place to live and learn to snowboard or ski. It is all very emotionally draining. I am in tears some of the time and trying not to think to hard about the people I will miss the rest of the time. Jared will still be coming to California to work during the week when there is work. Our hope is that when things pick back up here then we can come back. But for now this is what we feel is best for our family. We are planning to leave either the first of second week in December. We are very sad to leave those of you that are here and the memories that we have made but I hope that we will always keep in touch and visit.

VOTED

Yeah! I got my ballot out nice and early today. Feels good to have it done and don't need to worry about it. I have done my part.