Christmas FUN

We had our little Barker family Christmas party on Saturday because Katie and Lance were suppose to be spending Christmas day in Oregon. Because of the weather they will be in Utah after all. It was fun though first they all went sledding while me and Katie stayed home with the babies. As always my Mom made a delicious dinner of Lasagna and Breadsticks YUMMY. Then the kids had to wait and wait and wait to open there presents from Grandma and Grandpa, it was driving them crazy. They stacked those presents and rearranged them so many times I didn't know was possible. Then Grandma and Grandpa made them sing songs it was hilarious watching them, I often times forget what it was like to be a kid but this brought back lots of memories.
Sunday we had the big Barker party, good food, good Bingo (White elephants have gotten a lot better over the years) and great conversation. I love this time of year!!!! I can't believe Christmas is in 3 days.
I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!!! The amazing cooks themselves
The kids in there matching pjs that Grandma and Grandpa gave them.
McKell loved the party,
Camera just died, I will have to upload the rest of the pictures later.

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She has arrived!!!

Our sweet little girl made her life into this world December 6, at 10:58 a.m. and weighed 7 lbs 15 oz. 21" long. Her name is McKell Ione Jensen. (named after me and my Grandma Baxter)
It all started Friday night we were over at Sabrina and Billy's watching a movie, I sat up and felt as if I had just wet my pants but I kinda thought it was the what I had been feeling for the last couple months so I just stood up and went to the bathroom but as I stood up more started coming and it was dripping down my leg. We hurry and leave and Jeremy just kept saying are you sure she didn't just kick your bladder so I was almost convinced that was what had happened so when we got home at about 11:15 p.m we call my Mom to see what its like when your water breaks, she has no idea though because that had never happened to her, so we think about it a little longer and then give my Brother Lance a call (who is a doctor) he didn't sound like he thought I had really broke my water but after talking for a while he tells me we better just go in. We get there they check and sure enough I had. I was a bit shocked I had not felt a single contraction yet and my Doctor kept telling me no sooner than the 18th. Labor was a lot different than I expected, I had in my mind it would be a lot worse so it was good. Everything went well. The sec0nd day at the hospital her bilirubin was a little high so they had to take her under the lights. But we are home now and she is a pretty good baby we can only hope sleeping through the nights comes a little sooner. At our Doctors apt. today they weighed her and she is 7lbs 7 oz so she is loosing some weight. Me and Jeremy love her to death and we are so happy she is finally here to join our family. Now here is what you have all been waiting for I know sorry about all the writing.

Cute bows

After seeing many cute bows all around I finally got around to making my own. With the help of my addicted sister Vanessa :). I think they turned out pretty good. I made the bigger one first and decided that was way too big for a new born head so I had to make a smaller one. Now I just gotta figure out how I want to hook them on a head band.

Doctor says....

We went to another doctor appointment yesterday, and not much has changed. She said my cervix has thinned a little more but I have not started to dilate yet. I didn't gain a single pound which I was happy about, but I went from a 34 cm to 37 cm. So with there only being 2 weeks and 5 days I decided to finally ask how long she will let me go over since she just kept telling me to not plan on my due date. I had been looking at the calendar and noticed that Christmas is exactly 2 weeks after my due date. She said that she will only let me go a week over HOORAY!!! so she might be born on my Dads birthday after all. (but I can hope not that's the 21) I have heard that walking up hills might make me dilate a little faster so that will be my routine everyday for the next 2 weeks. Go to work, come home and walk hills for an hour and possibly even jog a little.
Here is my latest picture I am getting VERY BIG

hahaha

Well me and Jeremy are not very good in the leveling department. We were putting up these shelves that I had bought and the leveler we were using was not working so we figured we could eye it with the laser beam. We drilled the holes into the wall and I put the shelf up and took a step back to see how good it looked. Sadly they were not straight it was going at a down hill slant, so we took it down and we are now in the process of patching the huge holes it made and I will have to repaint those spots. Hopefully our second try will be a little more successful.

We got our changing table delivered to us today, at this moment Jeremy is putting it all together, what a great husband. Well with only 5 weeks left, I can't wait. Pregnancy is not exactly what I thought it would be like even though I have had it pretty easy. My back is starting to kill, for the most part I can still sleep very well at night which I am very thankful for. Tomorrow I start with my weekly appointments, I am not so excited for those its been nice to be able to stay fully dressed at each appointment.
My sisters, sister in law and Mom gave me an awesome shower last week Thanks so much, I got so many cute things. I did not think pink could ever be cute until it is on these tiny little outfits. She will definitely be dressed well to go to bed.
I will have to post pictures later I am too tired at the moment to walk over and get my camera.