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We are so happy to have a new baby boy! Everything went really well and mom is feeling pretty good already. We had a little problem with him being jaundice as we have with the other two boys, but this was the first time we had to use treatment for it. A biliblanket was delivered to us and we used it for about 24 hours on him. I went to the hospital and had him re-tested two days in a row and they reported that his bilirubin levels are in a safe range so hopefully they will still be there for his two week check up. Thank you to everyone who said prayers for him, I'm very thankful to have family and friends that love and care for us. I still have to take him to a urologist on Thursday to see if it is safe to perform his circumcision, but I'm certain everything will be okay. He is a sweet, healthy, very hungry baby...just the way it should be. Our love to everyone, hope all is well with you! Enjoy our most recent family pictures! :)

Enoch is a week old already, we took him to church on Sunday and mom dressed him up in a cute little preemie outfit that she couldn't use for the other two boys since they were so big. Here he is peeking at me while I'm taking a picture too...what a cute boy!

We welcomed our third son Enoch into the world on August 2nd. He was born at 10:11 am weighing 6 lb. 13 oz. and was 19 inches long. We were shocked at how tiny he was considering our other two boys had been over 8 pounds. It was okay with his mommy though, she will have a much faster recovery this time around. :) We are so happy and feel so blessed to have three beautiful healthy boys in our family.

We went to the Pioneer Day parade and the boys had fun watching cowboys shoot at each other (the baby didn't like that part all that much, he was jumping around inside of me). There was a motorcycle cop that stopped and gave the kids some little deputy police officer stickers and there was also a big group of missionaries in the parade. I think they got the biggest cheer aside from the group of soldiers that were also in the parade.

One of the boys' favorite parts was the train (more like a tram) that went by. Elijah snapped some pictures with his own camera.

Grandpa & Grandma James were able to be here for Elijah's birthday, he got some fun presents. He got some stuff for school and had fun buying a bunch of little dollar toys for himself with the $10 Grandpa and Grandma gave him. He also got a big bottle of bubbles, a flashlight and a kite from Grandpa Smith and a doggy pillow pet from his Grandma Teri! Thanks everyone!

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Well, we are near the end of the pregnancy already...time has flown by!! I hit my 36 week mark yesterday and the countdown has begun. Josh is betting on the 26th, and it so happens there is a full moon that night so he could be right! We will see if we get to post Elijah's birthday first or if there will be some baby pictures first. I think Elijah understands a little of what is going on, we'll see what Ephraim thinks when Mommy's belly is gone all of a sudden and there's a baby! We have had a fun summer so far, I posted a few activities we have done since early June. Hopefully we will get to do a few more things before fall comes and school starts. Elijah will be starting kindergarten this year and he is really excited about it! Hope you all enjoy the pictures and hopefully we will see the new baby boy soon! :)

This is what happens when my boys have too much sugar! I thought it was pretty cute, he started dancing to the music all of a sudden. I took the video with my regular camera, I didn't take my video camera, so the sound quality is really poor. You can kind of hear the beat though anyway.

We're almost to the end! Here is my belly at 36 weeks...and I finally got a rocker/recliner! We found one in good shape at the D.I. and I cleaned it up and love it, I can't wait to rock the baby in a comfortable chair!

We had a little birthday thing for me at Josh's dad's house, the cake was really good!

We went nearby to Clearfield to watch the fireworks show, we got there a couple hours early and played around for a while.

Waiting for the fireworks to start with Grandpa.

We went to the Roy Aquatic Center for a few hours over the weekend. They have a lot of fun slides and water toys. There's a special section for the really young kids that only goes up to 2 feet or so, and there's an area for some bigger kids and some big slides for the adults.

Ephraim was a little intimidated at first, but Elijah jumped right in and had a blast!

I HAD to post this one...our ward rented some sumo suits for the adults at our ward party and everyone wanted Josh to wrestle with our Bishop (Yikes!). He had fun, and now has experienced some of the pains of pregnancy. :) Hopefully they do this again next year so I can challenge him and have some "marital counseling", haha!

The primary played a game, they threw a bunch of candy in the grass and the kids had to go grab what they could. It wasn't as violent as I thought it might be luckily, haha. Here is what the boys found.

Our ward rented a bouncy house for the annual ward party, the kids loved it of course. The priesthood holders had fun trying to only keep 10 kids in there at a time, there were some sneaky little kids popping in and out.

I thought my family might enjoy this...I went to our cousin Karen Zerkle (Peterson)'s baby shower a few weeks ago, she lives down close to Provo. She is also having her 3rd boy and is due a couple of weeks before me. It was fun to see her and visit with her for a few hours.

Missionary Break.....

Here are some pictures of Josh's brother Curtis sent to us recently. He is in Chile on his mission. Looks like he's been having fun here and there. We thought the Ghostbuster car was really cool.

Spirit Bull

A friend and I were in charge of a relief society birthday program. We played the game show "Deal or No Deal: Service Edition" and had a couple of the men play "Howie Serve" and the Banker for us. The theme was service, if you can't tell, so instead of having dollar amounts in the cases, we had service items such as "2 free hours of babysitting". The women had a blast so we're happy it turned out so well. We thought it might be fun to come up with some commercial breaks so I brainstormed (and with help from family too I might add) came up with some scripts and had some volunteers from the ward be our actors and actresses. They turned out quite funny. Here is one we came up with. This one is my favorite of the 3 we made, my friend Krista is the wife, and she is due with her baby about 6 weeks before me. They did a great job of acting, very cheesy. You can hear my voice briefly in this one, I'm the teacher asking the question. :)

Serve-On

The sisters really enjoyed this one, we got some good laughs through the entire thing! Our relief society president was kind enough to lend us her acting skills.

Tastee Squeeze

This was based on an idea I got from Kenny & Melissa. Thanks you guys! It was put together by my friend at 3 in the morning the day of the program, so it unfortunately didn't get the same attention the other two did, but I think it turned out okay anyway...

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Well, here he is! Another boy! Guess I'm going to copy my sister Merri, haha. He looks healthy and is very strong...already kicking mom in the stomach and giving her heartburn earlier than normal. I guess that means he might have more hair than the other two boys, we'll see. I was teasing Josh that if he pops out with lots of red hair then we'll have to name him Esau since he likes the bible "E" names...but that would also leave me with some explaining to do seeing as neither of us has red hair, haha. So, I am at 5 months right now and am due August 3rd but am expecting that he will probably come toward the end of July. I asked Elijah if he wanted a baby for his birthday a few weeks ago and he gave me a funny look. I had fun showing the ultrasound to him, he is getting old enough that he is beginning to understand a little better, but all Ephraim said was, "Eww! Gross!" when he saw it. :) So I will try to keep up with the belly shots along the way, nothing too exciting. Love you all!

Here is a clip of my ultrasound, I took the best sections from it as it is close to 10 minutes long. I always find it amazing when I see that little thing kicking around in there. About halfway through the video she was trying to get a good shot of his feet, but he was so irritated that he was kicking pretty violently, I could feel it. So if you watch closely you can see his feet briefly, that's one of my favorite parts. Also, right at the end you can see him moving his lips and sucking a little, very cute.

There it is! The boy shot...

This is him looking right toward you, creepy huh? Haha.