Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Introducing...

At the doctor's appointment on Monday morning, her due date, the doctor scheduled an induction for Wednesday.

Tuesday night Lee and I finished up the shirt project.
Big brother, big sister, and little sister shirts.

Wednesday morning the kids got ready for school and we got ready to go to the hospital.
Almost ready for school. Ready to meet Kayla.
Jessica and Clay were in town for her brother's mission farewell. We lucked out and got to use them as babysitters for the day! I gave Jess a copy of the kids schedule for the day and left her to get the girls ready for the bus.

We checked in at the hospital at 7:20am.
We were ready to meet Kayla too.
They started the pitocin at 8:30am. Then broke my water about 10:30am. My doctor had a meeting to go to, so she came and checked on me before she headed to her meeting, to see how it was going. The nurse told her not to leave. Kayla was born at 12:08pm.

Kayla Mae Crookston
May 16, 2012
8 pounds 10 ounces
20.5 inches long
Kayla's here!
Mommy and Kayla
Daddy and Kayla
All five kids!
Headed home from the hospital.
4 days old
One week old
Andrew caught her smiling.
Her eyes are open!
It's cute now, but don't make this be a habit.
We love having Kayla as part of our family!!

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Scout-O-Rama

Lee camped at the Scout-O-Rama with his Boy Scouts. Lee has stories about the camp out (that include scouts calling home at 11pm to get picked up).  But, this post is about the next day when the rest of the family came over to explore. We started at our Troop's area, but I didn't even take any pictures of their Blacksmithing and Firestarting booths.

Tyler and Andrew stood in line for an hour and a half to do the zip line. Andrew said when he got to the top it was a little bit scary, but he wasn't going to go down the ladder because then the wait would have been for nothing!
Andrew and Tyler with the safety harnesses on.

Climbing up!

Tyler on the zip line.

Andrew on the zip line.

Emma, Lee, and Laura waiting for the boys.

After the long wait, we quickly saw a few of the other stations. The first one we headed to was Archery.
Tyler

Andrew

Emma

Then we went to the BB Guns.
Ready, aim, fire.

Cocking the guns.

The last area I took pictures at was the Wrist Rockets.
Sling shots vs. pop cans.

We saw lots of other booths too. It was a lot of fun.