Nana

I think when all is said and done it is true, the relationships we have with others will be something that we can take to the other side. Not the possessions we acquire in this life but the wealth of love we glean from those that we come in contact with. I've had the privilege of knowing one of these rare jewels for the last 12 years. Hilda May Wilson died today after a life full of love and giving to others. She was an example of patience and could be seen with a grandchild or two always hovering around watching her knitting or crocheting needles fly. Her latest creation would adorn babies soft skin. Blanket after blanket, if she knew you were having a baby she would whip one out. She wasn't limited to blankets anything she wanted to create would magically come to life under her hand. Always smiling and in good spirits even when she had had a hard day. I don't know to many people who were alive during the great depression and the sinking of the titanic but loved instant message like Nana did. Did I mention she could whip us all at scrabble, that woman was sharp and always ready with a joke to lighten a tense or uncomfortable situation. No you can't take it with you but what are you going to leave? What is my legacy going to be? What are the memories I am making with those I love. Will they remember that they did not practice the piano or get their chores done or will they remember the 2 hours I read the same 2 books over and over just because? Today Heaven takes home an amazing woman who leaves behind a rich legacy of love. Love you Nana I'll miss you! Tell Granddad Cody we've been looking for him!

From the lips of 3

Mason walked in the door from church today and I asked him how it went he sighed and said "church is hard, we have to sing, draw, color, eat and play with toys!" ah the hard knock life of my sweet 3 year old!

First day of school 2009

I know there are a lot of moms saying they can't believe their five year old is going to kindergarten but I'm not one of them. She has been so ready for school for so long it seems like she has always run out to the bus every morning! Yes that is a scrambled egg sandwich, never mind that we were up at the crack of dawn we still were running late!

New Car

So we bought a new car, a Jetta, she is gold, cost us about 2 grand we named her Blanche (the e is silent) I'll post pictures later! Blanche is named after Jay's dog he had while growing up his dog was deaf and with a deaf dog come special problems unique only to them. Blanche (the car) was born in 1995 it's now 2009 she has some special problems, we don't know what they are yet but we know that things start to act up in something as old as Blanche...we love Blanche!

Sometime this summer

since I'm blogging I should put in important info like Miles had a check up oh sometime this summer and he weighed 12 pounds 8 oz and was 26 inches long. He's getting bigger every day. Megan and Hannah set up a corner of their room with a baby blanket on the floor, diapers, wipes, two changes of clothes and jammies. They are the best little mommies Meg and Hayden change diapers all the time Meg actually enjoys it which works out great for me. Hence the changing station there was just nowhere to take care of business! Oh and also a little bucket for dirty clothes.

Hot Rod

Jay switched jobs this week so we need to find a second vehicle. In the mean time we are borrowing a murdercyle (my dad's words) from some friends talk about a guy magnet if that thing is in the driveway men can't resist stopping by. Little boys can't resist it either...Jay took about 20 shots of Row and he never would look at the camera. I think he and Mason look like they could be brothers, those brown eyes are so cute.

Sharing lessons

Miles is such a great sleeper my only complaint is he likes to stay up till 11:00 every night but I guess on the up side I'm getting some blogging done right? Today I had a reunion of sorts with my BYU roommates. We had a blast, it's crazy to think that we were once 4 add husbands and kids and now we're 18 for those of you doing the math at home I single handedly produced 50 % of the kids! The main attraction at our house is a yellow tractor little boys can not resist it! Oh and sorry Heidi, we share at our house. Let me just note that I was not the photographer. Oh as usual I put the pictures up in the wrong order it looks like Mason stole this but he was drinking it first and Row wanted some so he shared;)

On a roll

Well we did get a new camera at some point so Jay had taken up a new hobby. I like the digital aspect of camera's because you can take as many photo's as you want and not worry about "wasting" film but now I have 100 shots of the same thing and never sure which one to delete so my hard drive gets pretty clogged! The following are fourth of July photo's. Except for Hannah's I liked this picture better than the one we got at the pool!

Miles

You it's been along time since you blogged when you last blogged about Miles birth and he'll be 6 months old in a couple of weeks! I started him on rice cereal this week he is a Peterson at heart and will eat pretty much until I stop feeding him. Someday he'll change from the lil runt that he is into a big strapping boy like his brothers! I have to point out the very cool bib he's sporting from down under! His Nana and Pa sent that too him.

ok

Ok I thought nobody read my blog and I got busy on facebook so I let my blog slip a lot! I'm not sure how to catch up from here so I'll just do some posts. No lie...Halloween in July. I came home the other day and Jay told me the kids had come to the door trick or treating (Hannah and Mason and a bunch of neighbor kids) The embarrassing part is that they already had candy in their buckets so our house was not the first stop!

Miles Robert Riley

On Valentines day around 3 in the afternoon I went to the bathroom and there was some spotting I didn't think much of it. Then within the hour there was 2 or 3 more instances of small quarter size amounts of fluid leaking out. I called the doctor since nothing like this had ever happened to me before and I was freaked out a little bit (one would think with it being my 5th child I would have had this experience before but no this was all new territory). My doctor sent me to the hospital, Jay was in Provo plowing snow and so I called him to meet me at the hospital and then called my neighbors over to help with the kids. Bob and Larene Jensen came over, Larene to stay with the kids until Grandma could get there and Bob to drive me to the hospital. Bob asked if I would like a priesthood blessing before we left and I said yes. At the end of the blessing before he closed he paused for a really long time and then said you and your baby will be fine. I felt such a rush of calm and peace come over me I was no longer worried or afraid at all. We went to the hospital where Jay was waiting for me. We went up and they hooked me up to machines and started running tests after being there for 4 hours I asked if they had done a test to see if my water had broken they hadn't and did the test but by then they had done so many other tests that the results came back negative. They sent us home saying everything was fine. Sunday I had the same leaking all day long and Monday I had it as well I finally called my doctor and said humor me I think my water has broken but it's such a tiny leak it's not constant can I come in so you can run a test? I went in and he came back in with the results and sent me straight to the hospital he was pretty upset that the hospital hadn't caught this 2 nights before. I called Jay and told him to meet me at the hospital our wait was over we were having a baby that night. I had called mom and got her on board with the kids and as soon as I got to the hospital I was met by a team of nurses who immediately prepped me for surgery (this was about 5 pm). We waited for Jay to get there and suited him up in surgery garb and then they wheeled me into the operating room. In a c-section you always have to have 2 doctors there. My doctor was there and the other doctor was in the middle of a delivery so they did everything to finish prepping me and then we waited a few minutes and the other doctor rushed in and at 7:02 they made the first cut 7 minutes later Miles was born he was 5 lbs 15 oz they had a newborn ICU team there to whisk him away for fear of infection or pre-mature lungs etc. they looked him over and pronounced him perfect and left him in the capable hands of the nursery. They did a blood sugar test on him and his blood sugar was low so they put a tube in him and gave him some formula. They took blood to check for infection and started him on antibiotics certain that he would have an infection and thought it better to do preventative rather than let him get too sick. As it turns out he never did have an infection he did an entire round of antibiotics but the first culture they did never came back positive. With my water being broken for 2 days the risk of infection was very high but because of a priesthood blessing he was fine. We are so grateful to a loving Heavenly Father for sending us this sweet spirit and for the tender mercy of a healthy baby when so many things could have gone wrong. Although it’s been a rough recovery for me I am very happy that I have my little Miles here and best of all I’m not pregnant!

Chef

Mason keeps us on our toes with his culinary skills the other day I put him in front of the tv while I tried to get a much needed bath I got out to the smell of smoke he had decided to cook himself a bowl of oatmeal in the microwave I’m not sure what the original time he set to cook it at, when I got downstairs the microwave had ten minutes left and the oatmeal was a charred, smoldering mess, the stoneware mug he had chosen was broken in half and here we are a week later and I can still smell smoke every time I use the microwave! I opened all the windows and doors in my house to air it out and went up stairs to get dressed that's when a friend of mine stopped by for a visit wondering sure if I had completely lost my mind! If this had been his first attempt at making oatmeal I would still have been bugged but it's more like his tenth (points for never giving up I guess) I thought he would have remembered from our last lesson ADD WATER!)

more Hannah B

Hannah and I were talking about how many kids we had and whether we were going to have more and she looked at me with some degree of disgust and said "but mom you already have five sluts!" taken much a back by this comment I didn't know how to respond, where did you hear that word? Do you know what that means? why are referring to my kids as sluts? what I said was WHAT? and she said yeah you know cuts in your tummy OH slits, i not u big difference! Well she gets the whole c-section thing at least!

Hannah

The other day I was watching a skin care infomercial with Hannah she furrowed her brow and said "mom I totally need that I've got a ton of wrinkles!" I started laughing and she looked at me and said "What? you need it too mom!" When I told her Nana and Grandma the story they both said not to bring her around them!

Happy Birthday

Mason turned 3 yesterday he has been such a joy in our family! This past weekend he and his cousin Lexi were at my dad's. What one didn't think of the other did so they were being destructive and getting into things. This day in particular they got into the freezer which is a chest freezer so of course they just turned Grandma's canning pot over thus creating a stepping stool. This gave them access to all of Grandpa's frozen raspberries. Grandpa caught them red handed (no pun intended) and told them they were not to play in the freezer. Well it got quiet again (in a matter of minutes) and Grandpa went to investigate there were two little sneaks sitting on all of Grandpa's camping gear ie sleeping bags, foam pads etc. and when confronted Mason whipped out the concealed bottle of hershey's syrup he was hiding behind his back. Rule number two at Grandpa's stay out of the fridge. Next they started slamming the doors. Grandpa worried about little ones losing their fingers had already put this rule in place weeks before but these two needed a reminder. After talking them into unlocking the door they were behind Grandpa got on their level and said "no slamming doors, got it?" to which Lexi replied "I got it, you got it Mason?" Well Mason this week started quoting me the rules from Grandpa's I'm going to record it and post it on here but now we all know the rules at Grandpa's.

Hook me up

The other day Jay was at the kitchen table talking to some door to door salesmen and Mason asked him for some soda (of which he'd already had 3 glasses of) Jay told him to come and ask me. I told Mason no that he had had enough soda for one day. He stomped back into to his dad and with a look of disgust and utter frustration said "Dad, mom won't hook me up!" We of course thought it was hilarious the sales guy couldn't believe it.