Hey fishy fishy fishy

We decided to go to the aquarium in Sandy last week for the first time. Note to self, next time don't go right when it opens cause that's when all the school kids go. I think 6 buses pulled in the parking lot right before us. Good thing there are multiple rooms to go in so we could stear away from them. It was really fun, and the best part is that a year pass for me was only $20 and Oakley was free, so we can go any time we want now. I love finding cheap stuff. We took the whole clan with us. My sister Katy and her baby, sister-in-law Julie and her 2 kids, and 3 more nieces and nephews. It was a little crazy, but fun. Oakley loved it there. He would go up to each tank and try to climb on the little rocks or the step they had in front of them so he could see better. Then he'd just point at the fish and say "A-da? A-da?". I don't know what this means, but it sounds like he's asking a question or something. He loved it. I think we'll go back often. Enjoy the pictures.

This was cool. The kids could actually touch the sting rays, but they were all to afraid to. I thought they felt pretty cool.

Cute baby Kayla. Isn't that dew rag thing fun. And her cheeks kill me. All the kiddos standing on the step to see the animals.

This turned out to be a pretty cute picture. Kari, Matt and Oakley.

Matt got to drive the boat on the Great Salt Lake, or at least pretend to. Oakley loved just running around on the boat. It was nice and big.

Thompson Girl's night

My sister Kristie lives in Maine, and she had the chance to come out to Utah by herself for a few days. One of her requests was to have a Thompson girl's night up at my parents condo in East Canyon. Now you have to understand that there are five of us sisters and two sister-in-laws, plus my mom, so getting all 8 of us together took some planning, probably more then was necessary, but we all made it up there, even the 8 month pregnant one.
Here are some highlights of the night:
My sister Rachel planned out a cafe rio dinner which was so good, my mouth is watering right now. I wish I had taken a picture cause it looked just like Cafe Rio. We even had the crunchy homemade corn chips on the top.

We got to hang out in the hot tub with all the freezing snow around us. Some of us went back multilple times. I think we played the game "Ticket to Ride" about 10 times that night. It's our new favorite game as a family. We also loved munching on all the yummy goodies while we played.

My oldest sister had the fun idea of playing "Spin the Bottle" but the mormon version. We used to play it all the time as kids for family home evening. It's like truth or dare, so whoever the bottle points to gets to choose to answer a question or do a dare. It was really fun.
The best were the dares. Kristie had to go to the condo next door and say the pledge of allegience to them, and Rachel had to run around the condo singing America America. I video recorded both dares if you want to check them out below. We were all laughing hysterically by the end.

Katy is showing off our cool necklaces that Kristie gave all of us so we can remember that we have each other to lean on if needed. Some of us stayed up too late. We were up till at least 2:00 talking and gabbing. My sister Wendee and my little niece Kayla took a little cat nap in the middle of all the fun.

And here we are, all 7 sisters. This was in the morning, we we're all looking our best . . . NOT. My mom is taking the picture, but she was there too. It was a really fun night, and I enjoyed being with all the women I love. Thanks for the memories.

October 2, 2008 The day our life got so much better

My last post explained that I missed out on Oakley's first few months of life here on my blog, so I've decided to go back and reminisce a little so I have documentation of those fun months. I decided to start with the day Oakley was born, October 2nd 2008. He was actually due on the 27th of September, but didn't feel like coming till a week later. Looking back on it, it was probably a good thing because we were finishing up remodeling our kitchen, and with him coming so late we actually had the time to finish it. The plumbing was finished the day we came home from the hospital. Talk about stressful.

Anyway, I couldn't have asked for a better labor and delivery. I'm a little nervous with my next one cause there's no way it can be better then my first. I woke up around 7:00 that morning and was having back pains. I was used to back pain, but this was different. I woke up Wes and he asked if I was in labor. I said I didn't know. I got up and walked around a little, and it just got worse. We decided to just get ready and go to the hospital. Wes works at the hospital where I was delivering so he said he'd just go to work after if it wasn't anything. As he was getting ready the pain got really bad and almost imbareable. I didn't know if I was having contractions or not cause it just hurt all the time, and I thought contractions came and went. I knew this was it though, so I told Wes we needed to hurry cause I was in a lot of pain. It was wierd how fast it went from a little ache to a sharp, deep pain. So we left the house around 8:00 and drove straight to the hospital. I sat in the back with my pillow and even though we only live 5 minutes from the hospital it seemed like forever. When we got there it only took us a few minutes for them to put us in a room and check me out to see if I was really in labor or not. The nurse said I was already dialated to a 6 so we were there for good. I made her get the anesthesiologist right away and he came in by 9:00, and by 9:15 I felt so much better. Ahhhh. We called both of our parents and they came right down to the hospital.The doctor came and checked me and said the baby was posterier, which I think means facing forward, and not backwards, which could be a problem, so he had me lay on my side a wierd way to see if the baby would turn, which he did after about an hour. Around 11:30 the nurse said that I was fully dialated and that we were just waiting for the doctor to get out of a C-section. When he was done he came down, bada-bing bada-boom, fifteen minutes later out came our little guy, Karl "Oakley". I only pushed for 15 minutes. It was nice. He was born at 12:40 pm. So a 5 hour labor. Couldn't have been any better then that. The first thing I noticed on him was his huge hands. They were massive. He had quite a bit of dark hair, and was a hefty little guy. He weighed 9lbs 13oz and was 23 inches long. I didn't expect much less seeing as who his parents are. It's funny cause the nurses in the nursery were all worried about him being diabetic becuase of how big he was, and they couldn't figure out why he would be so big, until they saw Wes. Then they understood.

We had many visitors that day, and it was nice to finally have him here. The coolest part was that our good friends Toshi and Justin who we play volleyball with had their little baby on the same day. She wasn't due for another week, but she's small and had to have a c-section, so they had their cute daughter Taija that morning right as we were getting to the hospital. Sad thing was that she was at a different hospital. So we didn't get to see each other, just pictures over the phone.

I think this was the best day of Wes and my life. We love our little yet big Oakley and couldn't imagine life without him anymore. He makes our days much more fun and enjoyable, and tiring, but we love him and are grateful for his cute spirit.

Back-tracking

As you probably know, I started this blog last July. I'm planning on creating a book at the end of each year from my blog on one of those websites. I didn't do it this year cause I didn't have that many posts. Well, I'm kind of mad at myself for not starting my blog earlier because Oakley was already 8 months old then and I missed out on posting some fun stuff from his first 8 months. So I've decided to back track and fill in what I missed out on. Hopefully you won't get too bored, but it's just stuff that I want documented in our yearly book. I haven't really decided how to do it yet, whether to just do a whole bunch of posts at once to catch up, or start when Oakley was born and every month just do a few posts about that month. If you have any ideas please comment, or if you think I'm crazy and should just get over the fact that I missed out on the first 8 months of my childs life. I've also thought of making a totally seperate blog just for Oakley, but then I would have nothing to put on my blog, or the posts for his and mine would be exactly the same. So I need some feedback if you want. Thanks to all of you who read my randomness each month, and I love reading all of your adventures.