Carter John VanDyke

Carter John VanDyke was born at 9:06 p.m. June 3 2009. He weighed in at 6lbs. 8 oz.
He is such a good baby and we are doing well. Dallin loves him already and is still a little confused about why he has not gone home to his own house. He still calls Carter-that baby. Oh well. Pictures are soon to come! Our life could not get any better. Thanks to all of our friends and family for the food, gifts and visits.

A wonderful Mothers Day!

My day was beautiful! I cooked breakfast for my entire family (I loved it). Then we got to visit our Mothers and Grandmother. What a wonderful day to celebrate Moms. I then spent the day with my husband and my son, who are the two reasons I am a mother. Thank you so much Drew and Dallin I love you both with all my heart! I also want to say how much I love and appreciate all my Mom, Kathy, has done for our family. She not only set the Mother standard, she continues to be a great example to her kids and Grandkids.
Funny thing going on for the Field girls (me and my sister Karlee) and my brothers wife Kristen (who is a Field girl now) we are all very PREGNANT!!!! We must have drank the same water or something. I am still not sure of how it happened, however, we are so excited! I am due in June, Karlee is due September 5th and Kristen is due September 30th. So much fun! My Mom is so excited she can hardly stand it. Karlee is having a girl (the first one) and Kristen is getting a sweet little boy. I think it is so funny that all of my Moms daughters are pregnant. We are taking lots of pictures, it might not happen this way again.

Nothing going on lately!

The VanDyke house has been, well, pretty lame lately. Nothing really exciting, just getting the house ready for the little bundle of boy-joy that will be here in less than 6 weeks. We are getting so excited and Dallin asks me everyday if his "budder" is here yet! We have moved Dallin into a big boy bed and he loves it! He runs in there every night to sleep and for naps. Drew has been very busy at work and I know he is a little stressed. I am feeling very, very good for once and I am so glad. Our Dr.'s say that Carter is looking wonderful and that he is just shy of 4 1/2 pounds.
Just a side note here. Really it has nothing to do with the previous paragraph. I feel like the luckiest woman alive! I have a very loving and supportive husband, he is the strength of our family and I know that without his dedication to his family we would not be the family that we are. Drew tells me at least twice a day, "Thank you so much for staying home with our babies and taking such good care of them!" Enough said. I have a son who continues to amaze me everyday. He wakes up with a smile on his face every morning and I love that he appreciates lifes small pleasures. Yes, I get frustrated with him, and that is the best thing about parenting. No matter how mad a child makes you, you still have this unconditional love for them. Dallin loves his Daddy and it is so sweet to see the relationship that he has formed with his Dad. Their favorite thing to do lately is to read. Dallin listens so well and he just wants to absorb everything that the book contains.
Anyway, I just think sometimes I might not be the most appreciative person in this world. But I truly am. I love my family. Their is really no other way to say it.

Baby Carter Update!

Drew and I went and saw our Perinatologist on Wednesday, and..........Carter looks great. His growth his right on track and they took a 4D ultrasound, and he is the sweetest thing ever. He looks just like Dallin. Kind of weird. Drew was glad he was able to go with me because he missed the last appointment and work has been crazy busy. I now have to have a Non-Stress Test twice a week until Carter is born. I am at very high risk for still births because of my chronic hyper-tension. I think I can do it! Maybe just eight weeks left. I am so excited and I am cant wait to finally meet our little angel.

I just have to brag!

So the VanDyke house got some great news Thursday night. Drew got a promotion working for the same company just doing something a little different. He is the new Quality Control for SLC. It was a great job oppurtunity for him and I am so proud of him for getting the new position. He will be commuting everyday, which is okay because he has a company truck, and he will be doing most of his work at the new City Creek Center in downtown. I am very proud of the choice that he has made and I love him so much. A giant leap forward for us! He is really missing his friends though and that has been the hardest thing for him to do and one of the reasons he was wondering if he should take the job! He will still see them on occasion and he hopes that they will keep in touch with him and that their friendships will stay strong. In the end friends are all ya got really! I just had to brag because I am so proud of all he has done for himself and for this family. Love you sweetie!

A moment for Mommy

So last night we were getting ready for bed and Dallin and I were just sitting on our bed. I looked over at Drew and said "Oh man this belly is getting big!" Drew was rubbing my belly and said " Well, yeah but it's cute!" And then this is the conversation that followed:
Dallin: Mommy, Can I hold Cotter?
Me: Um , no not for a few more weeks, but then you can.
Dallin: Why cuz?
Me: Just because he is in my belly growing big before we can hold him.
Dallin: Can I kiff (kiss) Cotter?
Me: Yeah, you can kiss my belly.
Dallin: (Talking and rubbing my belly) Hi Cotter, I kiff you, I ub you. I wanna hold you. I pay trucks wis you. Bye baby budder, see you gator gator.
Me: Crying to hard to say anything else.

Well, after that I am now sure that Carter knows that his brother loves him very much. Dallin is such a loving kid and he is so excited to be a big brother.

Oh Wow what a weekend!

K so my weekend totally sucked. I started to not feel good on Wednesday and I told Drew my neck was hurting really bad. So I woke up on Thursday and decided that I might die, it hurt so bad. So I called my Dr., who was more than caring to listen to a whining pregnant girl at 8 o'clock at night, and told him that I was in a ton of pain. He told me to try to sleep one more night and if it got worse to go to the after hours. So Friday I start to feel a wee bit better but I wanted to make sure that I didnt have something serious. So Drew and I went to an after hours clinic to get checked out. The diagnosis-a strained neck muscle. Yeah right, you mean my neck has been broken, that is how bad I felt. So I was prescribed a muscle relaxer and told to sleep it off. Well guess what, Saturday night I thought it was over and done for me. I told Drew to just take me to the ER because I know that it is not a strained neck muscle. So off to the ER we go on Saturday and 9 p.m. and luckily it was a slow night and we got right in. Diagnosis-How about influenza A. Yeah that would explain why my head feels like it is going to explode. The Dr was so nice and made sure I was comfortable and off to home we came. I dont feel much better but I am glad I dont have a rare disease like I thought I did. So what other health problems can I get? I am 6 months pregnant, have Influenza A, and I also have high blood pressure. Wow, could it get any worse? No, but luckily as usual Drew has been great and in less that 3 months I will be holding a brand new baby boy! I cant wait!