Our New Addition

Brianna, is really starting to warm up to Taylor. Elayna for some reason is really resistant...I thought it would be the opposite way around. Anyway, I feel bad cause I have no pictures of Elayna yet with him....working on that.

His NICU induced "mowhawk".....everyone asks why I don't just shave it all off. I really don't have the heart to do it, I just love the little hair he has left!

So we tried to do some family photos...these are as good as they turned out. It is so sureal to see me with 3 children.... So neat!

Very, Very proud Daddy! He has his son! :)

Giddy Mommy, so fun to have a little man! I love him to pieces!

Happy Parents! :)

I'll have to try and get another picture, but me and my Mom found this little dress shirt "onesie"...oh my goodness we couldn't resist...it is sooo cute! Expesially on Taylor ;)

Big sister taking care of him

My pretty girl in her pretty green outfit. Brianna LOVES green, and when I pulled this out, she was estatic! She looked soooo cute!

My little girl is doing pretty good, this is right before she went into the hospital for the third operation, it went really good, no bleeding this time and she got to come home the next day. We have one more in 2 weeks, then we will probably move it to 4 weeks, YEA!!! So she is doing well. I am not sure if you can tell though, but she has lost ALOT of weight, she is just tiny, and she already was tiny. It is kinda sad, I hope I can fatten her up once this is all over. They have her major surgery thinking about doing in the fall. We will keep you posted. It has been a whirlwind, but is starting to slow down. I am just enjoying soooo much having ONE baby. It is just so nice and simple. The girls are getting better, and it is starting to warm up! Life is good :)

Our Baby Boy!!!

Wow, what a ride this past month has been. I am soooo excited to be all done and have my family home with me. This is our beautiful baby boy, Taylor Raymond Lee. Born May 30th 2009 at 1:17 pm. He weighed 9.1 lbs. Yes...big boy. I went into labor while we were at the hospital with Brianna. She had her second surgery on the Thursday May 28th, we stayed over that night and she had to stay friday night as well. That is when the contractions began. I didn't think they were contractions, cause it was all in my back. It hurt so bad, I finally had to wake up Jonathan and have him go get me a hot press, (thankfully we were in a hospital). So once he did, he started counting for me and told me after 20 min, that they were 3 min. apart. So we finally decided to go. We got a wheelchair to roll me down, drove the 2 min, to get to the foothills hospital and went to triage. I had already been twice, bytheway, for false labor, that is why I so didn't want to go until I knew it was it. And it was, they got me my I.V. right away. The contractions were so bad, and the nurse told us it was because he was posterior....meaning face up. And contractions are way worse when that is the case. She suggested a hot shower...well that was heaven sent, I didn't even feel my contractions in there. I never wanted to get out. Anyway...I should make this shorter. I went pretty quick, the epidural was great, even though he had to poke me twice...didn't even feel it. All of a sudden I was 9 cent. and even though I didn't feel any contractoins till then, I started to feel major pressure and pain, and I was ready to push. I pushed for about 25 min. felt absolutly everything...thought I was going to die, and tried to get up and leave! But it was all done real quick, thank heavens, and I had my little boy. The first 2 pictures are the proud daddy and grandma, who were both there with me, and I would not have been able to do it without them. They were sooooo wonderful! Then 2 of the 3 Grandpa's. As some of you know, he had to stay at the hospital for 5 days, cause he had "nemothorax's" which are small air bubbles between the lungs and chest wall. He wasn't breathing very well. There were some other issues as well, that needed to be sorted out. So the other pictures are with his daddy with the IV in his head. Soooo sad, they had to move that one and thy poked him 9 times to get a spot, and it was only in for another couple hours. They also had to shave almost his whole head to do that, when in the end he didn't need it after all. I was livid, I couldn't stop crying. Anyway, not really that important. After is pictures of his big sisters...one stubborn one, one grumpy one. Ahhh the joy, they are sooo funny! Then the big day when we get to go home! I was elated! So happy to have him home. He is just a doll, and I seriously can't get enough of him, I just kiss him all day long. Well sorry that was so long. It has been a long journey. But he is healthy, and Brianna, will hopefully be soon. We just feel so blessed to have this family that we do!

More...

So we are home for the hospital, yea...kinda, we have to be back there on Thursday for another procedure, so it is a short break, but nice. I was going to post some pictures of Brianna and us at the hospital, but I just went through them and cried, I am not sure all of you would want to see them, it is pretty heartbreaking. I think I was in a daze at the hospital, but it is all kinda hitting me now. There are just no words to describe seeing my daughter like that, and going through what she did. Anyway, I hope we are past the peak of hardness...however we have this next surgery, then a baby to be born, then another surgery after that....sooo it is still a rocky climb. However, the doctor said it won't be as long and bad each time now that she goes in for another endoscopy. She will stay over night, and then hopefully go home in the morning. So that is really good news. I will post one happy picture of us leaving the hospital.

I hope everyone else is doing well and healthy. I will keep updating as much as possible. Again, thank you to everyone who is praying for us. We love you, and have felt the power of your prayers. I just found this, and how perfect it was for me to see at this time. I hope you like it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz41YxNiHEg

Update

Just wanted to update those who know. We have been in the hospital since Thursday, with our little Brianna. She has a condition we actually are not even sure of, but one term they have used for it is, "Portal Hypertention" it is where the portal vien that goes into the liver is blocked somehow. Creating pressure and other viens to form. Which some of those viens have traveled to her esophogus (I don't know how to spell any of these) with created vericous viens that started to bleed. Hence our first sign something was really wrong was her throwing up blood. Anyway, what has happened is they have gone in with a scope and collapsed some of those vericous viens in her esophogus to stop the bleeding, they are now trying to figure out the bigger problem, why she has a blocked portal vien and what are they going to do to stop it. The specialist are not even sure them selves right now. What we know that has to keep happening is Brianna will have to get these vericous viens collapsed every 2 weeks are so, until there is no more bleeding. And once we figure out how to solve the blocked portal vien, we will need to fix that as well. As for now, she is in the hospital trying to stablize and make sure she isn't bleeding anymore. We are not sure how long this is going to take, hopefully not too much longer.

I have not had my baby yet, thank heavens. We are hoping Brianna will be out of the hospital by the time I have him. However, it is in the Lord's hands. We ask for your prayers, this has been the most scary thing to go through, and we know we have a long journey ahead. Thank you to all who have already been so generous and kind. Brianna is such a special spirit and we know the Lord is watching out for her.

Birthday Weekend

Grandma and Grandpa, came over yesterday for Mother's day and to celebrate the girls birthday (I am going to be going backwards through the weekend). They brought these pretty presants, which happened to be little bikes for the girls! They were soooo excited!

So I took the girls shopping with me a while ago to pick out their cake, and they picked the Little Mermaid one, cause she is a "Barbie" and they love all the Disney princessess but call them Barbie. Anyway, so I made the cake, and of course it fell completly apart, so none of the detail on the front was there, I just mushed it all on top, then froze it, then iced in, then froze again. When I went to decorate, I had to go from the picture, which was hard. So needless to say, she turned out to be kind of a funny looking Ariel. But not too bad. The girls loved it, and went straight into digging their little hands into her. It was so fun, and cute!

I had to post all of these, cause the girls were just toooo cute!!! Seriously sometimes I don't know what to do with myself cause I can't get enough of them. Anyway, this was on Friday, their actual Birthday, we took the girls swimming, cause they LOVE to swim. And they had so much fun and were so excited. After we went out to BP's and celebrated there. This was all just us little family.

I love these pictures, it was at the pool, the girls were trying to show me they are "3", with Daddy helping. And the one of all of us is so fun! We had a blast.

And yes, this is big fat me at 8 months!!! I just want this baby out so bad, but it looks like I might be going full term anyway, so forget that other message. I think the one doctor I had was a little wacko. Oh well. I just don't want him to be tooo huge. We'll see what happens. None the less, I am SOOOO excited for him to come, I just can't wait to hold a little baby that is mine again!

Isn't she just a beautiful girl!

Both of them, are just such pretty girls...and let me tell you they are GIRLS! They love wearing pretty dresses, and they are so dainty. I love it! :) I had to add these cause they are so cute, and cause it was one of the first times they let me do their hair, and I love that Elayna's hair is long enough to braid now, yipee! We sure had a fun weekend, and can't believe my babies are 3. They grow up so fast. So grateful for these 2, how much I love them! :)