Alia's first Halloween!

My Little Alia, 7 months old.. My friend Carolyn came over today and helped me with these pictures. She is a great photographer and captured her personality perfectly! Literally there are so many pictures to choose from if I could I would post all 200 of them for you all to see.. I am in love with this little girl! I promise I do know that I have 2 other children and on Halloween I will get pictures of them as well :)

DIY Project

Well if you know me very well, you know that I am not very crafty... but this project seemed easy enough even for me.. so, today I decided to spruce up an old end table that I have. I bought it at target many years ago. I used wrapping paper that I already had, and bought some modge podge, total cost $6.00.. Before After

Alia's Baby Blessing

We blessed our sweet baby yesterday, It couldn't have been a more beautiful day! We had so much family come down, it was nice to have everyone come see where we live and share this special day with us. Alia looked beautiful, I had her blessing dress made out of my wedding dress.

Kindergarten Graduation

More pictures from Alias' photoshoot

Baby Story

I use facebook so much nowadays I forgot to post on here that we had our baby!!
Alia Maxine Andersen
Born March 21st 2011
6lbs 14oz 19.5 inches

Alia is pronounced Ah-lee-ah just in case you were confused.

Well up until the last few weeks of my pregnancy it was pretty uneventful. I got a little morning sickness and was pretty tired.. gained a lot of weight! but at 34 weeks my blood pressure all of the sudden skyrocketed! They ran all sorts of tests on me and put me on bedrest which was one of the hardest things that I have ever gone through! My amazing in-laws took the boys for the first week which was such a blessing but it was really hard to be away from them. Then the next week my neighbors and friends took my boys everyday when they got home from school until Casey got home from work at night.. It was really hard to sit at home and do nothing when I felt great! I will tell you what though my house sure stays clean when the little boys are gone!! Well the bedrest wasn't working, my blood pressure just kept getting worse and at 36 weeks my doctor here in Delta decided that I needed to go up "north" to have her because I needed to have her early and they aren't equipped to do it here. So we went back up to my doctor that delivered Tysen and Logan up at Logan Regional, and she decided that she would induce me at 37 weeks. So on Monday morning we headed up to the hospital at 5 am, they had to give me 4 hours of antibiotics before I could deliver her because I was strep b positive. Then at about 1030am my doctor came in and broke my water, at that point I was dilated to a 6. I thought it was going to for sure take all day because I came in dilated to a 4. Well 2 hours later at 1230 I started to get sick, which was miserable but after dry heaving for a couple of minutes I ended up being dilated to a 10, so at that point we just hung out and waited for the doctor to come in and catch her..(my doctor was at parent teacher conferences) haha well anyway, Alia had a hard time breathing so they took her to the NICU for about 5 hours to watch her and make sure that she was ok. We left the hospital the next day as soon as we could, mostly because I couldn't wait to get home and also our boys couldn't come into the hospital at all because of the flu season, any children under the age of 14 weren't allowed to come into the hospital at all. She will be 4 weeks tomorrow I can't believe how fast the last 4 weeks have gone. She has been so much fun! She loves to cuddle and be held.. and at least right now she hardly ever cries, but she makes little grunting noises all day and night. She looks just like Logan, except I think she is going to have blue eyes. She has the cutest little dimples just like both of my boys. The boys adore her, and Tysen asked if he could have an older sister too.. Sorry buddy!

My kids.. I can't believe I have 3!

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It's a girl!

After what seems like a very long wait, we finally found out today that we are having a girl! On Tuesday I went in for my ultrasound, right away he looked at my stomach and said, oh you are for sure having a boy, you are carrying it right out in front like a basketball, then next came the heart beat, and again he said oh that is a boy heartbeat! Unfortunately the technician couldn't get the baby to uncross her legs long enough to get a good look. He thought he might have seen that it was a girl, which was totally frustrating! At this point we had been there for a half an hour and I told him that I was paying him $300 for the ultrasound and that he better find out what was going on down there.. haha well he told me that I could come back in 2 weeks for free and he would look again.. Well I couldn't wait that long! Then yesterday My doctors nurse called to tell me that everything looked great with the ultrasound, and I told her that everything was great except they couldn't tell me if I was having a boy or girl, well she then told me that the doctor would look at my next appointment in DECEMBER?! Well that was just totally unacceptable.. luckily last night we had dinner at my doctors house, he is in my ward and in the Young Mens with Casey.. anyway I told his wife what happened and she volunteered her sweet husband to look the next morning! Of course he was totally great about the whole thing and after I got done with morning rounds ( I draw blood at the hospital) He took me over to the little labor and delivery room and right away he was able to tell that indeed we were finally going to have a little girl!