Im back!

Since this is a very unique time in our lives I have had the thought to start blogging/journaling again....

A Lot has happened since I posted last!!! The world right now is shutting down because of Covid-19. No church gatherings (conference is boradcast only 😳), school closing for 6 weeks starting tuesday, people are buying out all the store of toilet paper 🤷‍♀️, washing your hands ALL THE TIME, its an interesting time! Right now lets focus on something positive and play catch up with the kids and our life!

Easton is 3. He is funny and always on the move. Hes starting to refuse naps with is not so great! He loves super mario, legos, hotwheels, sharks, pj masks, mickey mouse.... His favorite song is Me and My Gang by Rascal Flatts. He will sing is all day long on repeat! He isnt quite old enough for preschool or sports so we have some fun at home. He is learning to draw and color and its so fun to see his brain work hard to produce artwork. The beginning of this year he moved into primary and is a sunbeam! He is still learning to sit and be reverent but loves it. Im in the primary presidency so it makes it a little difficult for me to get him to sit and not come find me

Taryn is 5 and in kindergarten! She is loving it and loves Mrs. Tye. She works hard to write out sentences and spell words. She is getting really good at reading. Its still a lot of work but shes doing great! She is (was? It might get cancelled like everything else) in soccer with her cousin Kai and Uncle Josh is her coach. Taryn loves pigs. Its super cute. At fair time her #1 thing to do is go to see the pigs. This past fair a pig kept nudging her with its snout and she had the biggest smile on her face. Taryn also loves earring and has a huge collection. Taryn is full of drama and sass. I always say she could win an oscar. She is funny and loves to do silly dances.

Harper is 8 and in 3rd grade with Mrs. Shelton. Harper is full of love for all around her. She loves to make friends and talks to anyone. She has been missing her front tooth for over a year and a half and it FINALLY started to come in. Harper loves to snuggle and be around people. She has started piano and loves it. Harper has always been drawn to music. She has been able to memorize songs super quick. Im excited for her to keep this going. Last year Harper was baptized. It was a beautiful time. We showed up at the church and no one was there except the other girl from our ward and her family. The church was locked! I quickly called people to find out the stake baptisms were move to a different day and our primary wasn't informed! More people were called, missionaries showed up to unlock and fill the font. People quicky thought of talks and it worked out wonderfully. It was such a blessing that things worked out how they did.

Adyson is 11 and in 5th grade with Ms. Dyk. Adyson is out of primary and in young womens 😳. (About a year and a half ago (2?) The prophet changed the time kids get to move into young womens.) It is crazy to me that shes old enough! Im am excited for her though. I loved young womens! And im a little jealous she get to go to camp. Adyson was supposed to start softball but for now its postponed. She loves to draw and do anything arts and crafts. She loves to spend time with her best friends Asis, Nora, Ava, and Kamaile. A few months ago Adyson made a goal to buy roller blades. She finally made enough and bought a pair and some padding. She has been eager to learn and goes outside when its warm enough to practice. Adyson is helpful and loves to teach her younger siblings. She learded to sew and has made me quite a few pot holders and recently made her first quilt

Spencer is 34 and I'm 32. Spencer works for iFiber and gets to travel with them to different areas. His most recent trup was to Ohio. With this outbreak Spencer will be working from home for a little bit. He has bought a smoker and wants to make dinner on it all the time! Its his new hobby. He got into woodworking a little bit ago, but smoking food has taken over. He still makes a few stove top covers here and there. He also got into doing snow cones and walking waffles with his dad. They sell them at the farmers market and they are yummy! He recently celebrated his birthday and went to Back to the Future with the Spokane Symphony with Laska and Dustin. As for me, I have discovered a new hobby! I love to chalk and make signs and decor. I found an awesome company I signed up with and love it (just fyi im not trying to sell you anything! Its just what i love to do, besides taking care of my family 😊). In August Spencer is taking me to Backstreet Boys!!!! This past December Spencer and I celebrated 12 years together. We made a quick trip to Spokane and ate some sushi! Our favorite sushi place is Mizu in tri cities though!

Our family as a whole has grown and gone on many adventures. We made a week long trip to Rexburg, Manson, WA for a king famiky trip, went to Utah for Tristan and Anas wedding, drove to Gooding, Idaho for a family reunion, and lots of hockey games! 2.5 years ago we bought a bigger house..... directly accross from our old house!! Spencer brought home a puppy so now we have a 1.5 year old labahoula we named LaRue. She has a ton of energy and gets into everything, but shes so cute! This year we hope to go on a trip to Silverwood!

Easton is here!!!

Easton Rodes King was born on October 18th at 9:11 AM. Weighing 8 lbs and 1 Oz and 19 3/4 inches long. about his name... Spencer knew for a while that his name should be Easton. it took me a little bit to be 100%. I had a couple other names I liked but Spencer was sold on Easton. I didn't hate it so that's what it is. It fits him perfectly (spencer was right, I just wanted to see him to make sure). His middle name had been decided for a long time (a couple kids ago, lol). Rode is short for Rodeback and the S stands for Spencer.

And now for the birth story....skip of you don't care for the birth story.... on the 17th I went in for my usual weekly appointment. they asked if I wanted to be checked and possibly have a sweep done. I hesitantly said yes. I was dialated to a 2 so he did the procedure. "oh my goodness, what have I agreed to!!!!???" was the main thing running through my mind. I don't necessarily recommend this to ladies but it obviously helped.... any who after the visit I began contracting. I was having contractions all day long but nothing serious and I went throughout my day. I kept contracting that night, they were getting uncomfortable but still nothing serious so we all just went to bed. about 2 am I woke up to really uncomfortable ones but nothing I could time and I was able to get back to bed. about 4 am I woke up and it was PAINFUL. They still weren't consistent so I tried to tough it out. Spencer got up and got ready to go, but I insisted it wasn't time yet. around 5:30 I couldn't take the pain anymore and we called my parents to come get out kids. we got to the hospital around 6 and got all checked in. I found out I was dialated to a 7. A SEVEN! I couldn't believe it. I have never been that far along and haven't had an epidural. they took my blood and sent it off to labs.... all the while I had to wait to get an epidural until the results were back. I didn't think I would last. I was in so much pain and I was begging for the guy to come and give me drugs!!! I don't know how long it took but it felt like an hour. I was going crazy. the guy finally came around 7 and I was happy as a clam after that. lol. modern medicine is awesome. anyway I labored for a little bit longer, my body did the usual vomiting to speed up labor, and the room was prepped. pushing was longer then the rest but after a little bit he was here (still weird to say he/him).

he has platinum blond hair and fair skinned. he definitely takes after spencer. his original due date was the 27th. I have mixed feelings about the procedure I had done to go into labor, but I am glad he came sooner! I was ready to be done. Our family is now complete and we are in love!
(More pictures coming soon!!)

Baby moon

Spencer and I took a much needed vacation! We didn't go far but we had a fantastic time. We originally wanted to go to Spokane or Coeur d'Alane but every hotel was booked! I didn't want to travel too far, this pregnancy has been super hard on me, so we decided on tri cities! We stayed in a fancy hotel and ate our way through kennewick, pasco and richland! It was a perfect lazy weekend! I had such a great time with Spencer. I sure love this guy!

 

 

(More pics coming soon)

May 2016

May is a big month for us!
 First off we celebrated Cinco de mayo. Nothing big this year just ate some tacos and had some really good flan!
Next was Harper's 5th birthday! (See other post). The theme was frozen fever!
The day after was mothers day! The day before we went to brunch with my family to bobs. Yum. On sunday we went to cathys sacrament and had dinner at her house. After we headed on over to my parents house for dessert. Busy day but we had fun. The girls made me a bunch of drawing and hand print art. Spencer gave me some money and said don't come back unless you find clothes. I really need clothes to cover my growing belly and replace my worn out maternity clothes. It was a wonderful mothers day!
Laska needed someone to house sit for her for the weekend so we headed to Wenatchee for the weekend. We had a great time and explored the plibus market for the first time. We had a lot of fun!
Adyson had her last softball game. It was a great season. We found out after that Adyson's team was first in the division! So proud of them!
The next weekend brought springfest!!! So much fun! The first night Spencer and I went on a date and had some great food while Adyson and Harper had some fun of their own. Dee and America bought them wrist bands to ride the rides and they had a blast with their aunt and uncle. They even won huge stuffed animals. Saturday we did the usual camp out at the PUD and wait for the parade. Monday brought the visits to the cemetary. After we went and got some fruitalettas.
It was a busy month but a super fun one.

April 2016

Not too much going in this month. Some of the Rodebacks all got to ether to help out/surprise my Aunt Elaine paint her house. I couldn't do much but make a salad for the bbq but we had a lot of fun. It was a mini reunion and her house was painted very quickly. Adyson had her first softball game and she did great and had a lot of fun. She was also in the softball/baseball parade with her team the snap shots. It was a long warm day but we had fun. Adyson and I were able to attend muffins with mom at the end of the month at her school. It was fun to go and take a silly picture with her and have a yummy poppy seed muffin. She had a lot of fun. Also at the end of the month something big happened! Harper registered for kindergarten! Can you believe it! I am still in shock she is old enough to be going to school. Now I will have 2 in school and for a little bit one at home (2 in october!) Life is just flying by!

March 2016

March brought on a big celebration! Spencer turned 30! We clebrated by having a Back to the 80s themed party at chicos. We dressed in our best 80s clothes and pigged out on pizza. We even had a guess the singer/song game for everyone to play and a best dressed contest, which Cavern won, but Cathy was a close 2nd with her pregnancy outfit (since she only remembers being pregnant through the 80s, lol!) We also announced to the family that we are expecting (Spencer could NOT keep it in any longer. The day I told him he told 3 or 4 co-workers!)
I have noticed that I really haven't spent one-on-one time with the two older girls so this month I tried to make an effort. Adyson and I went to the BYU I dance ensamble. She was in heaven! They had music and dances from all around the world. It was really awesome. She danced in her seat the whole time. I really wanted to take harper to shrek the musical the community put on but I was feeling super sick so Grandma Cathy took Harper (thank you!) She had so much fun and talks about it all the time. She even got her own set of shrek ears. Next month I plan to make up our mommy/daughter date!
We of course celebrated St. Patrick's Day. Didn't do much, dressed them in green and colored their breakfast (eggs) green. I'm super tired right now so that's all I came up with.
Harper ended her soccer season. She had so much fun and received a trophy, the highlight of the season. We had a pizza party at the old adventure park building and they were able to play in a huge play place they had. It was a great time.
Adyson started up softball! We are all super pumped if you cant tell!!!
I almost forgot to mention easter! It's so weird when it falls in march. We dyed eggs the day before at my parents house. The next day we had both our parents at church with us and the girls wore adorable matching dresses and shoes from cathy. We went to Aunt Marge and Becky's house to celebrate with the kings for lunch and an egg hunt and later we went out to crystals house to celebrate with the Rodebacks and Bruces. The kids had a hunt and the adults had a in the dark hunt with glow sticks. It was hard but everyone won a giftcard. It was really fun. Had to wait until it was super late to do it though. I won a hastings gc and bought myself a new jack johnson record :)

February 2016

This month brought sickness/dr. visits, superbowl/valentines, a field trip, soccer and a surprise!

Sickness: Adyson woke up super sick one day with really bad weezing (sp?) and a fever. She was not feeling well at all. We made it into the dr and she had to be xrayed to make sure it wasn't anything really bad. The dr concluded that she had some sort of lung thing going on and she had to be on a nebulizer. Luckily insurance covered the whole thing and now me own one. They had all sorts of animals to choose from and of course we went with a panda. We call him weezy. Adyson was sick for alost a week and missed 4 days of school. When she went back she couldn't go outside for recess for a week. It Sucked but now she is all better. At the beginning of the month Taryn had a specialist appointment. We have noticed that Taryn walks with one foot turned in and her legs were slightly bowed. Not too big of a concern but enough to be checked out. Dr. Wu confirmed that she does have a turned in leg and walks with her left leg/foot turned in. It wasn't bad to require surgery or brace so that awesome. He reccomends that when she's old enough, she need to try roller blading or ice skating to help turn the leg out. So glad it's not as bad as I was imagining! He said she should grow out of it.

Superbowl/Valentines: we celebrated the superb owl over at my parents house for tristan's bday. Although we were sad the Seahawks didn't make it, we were super happy Denver won and Peyton went out on top (ok I don't care too much for watching the game, I'm just there for food and commercials, lol)
  Well this year Valentines fell on a Sunday so we stayed home and had dinner as a family. I of course dressed up the girls in vday shirts and forced them to take pictures. I have to! It's in my blood to celebrate almost every holiday! The day before Spencer and I went out to eat at China Buffet and did a little shopping WITH OUT kids. It was awesome!

Field trip and Soccer: Harper went on another field trip, this time to dominos. She was able to make her own half of a pizza with ANY topping she wanted. It was packed with tons of stuff on it. It was actually good too. Harper started soccer up again too. She was put with a really great team/coach this year (any thing is better then last year's coach!) She is having a great time.

AND the surprise is...... we are expecting! It was another one of those, "well i guess we are blessed with three and that's it but check one last time to be sure" moments. Happened with Taryn and now with #4. We are super excited and I am due in october. Hoping/praying/crossing our fingers for a boy but anything happy and healthy is more than welcomed into our home :). Can't wait!