Well school is officially out and yes, I am excited. Kaymin's last day of 2nd grade with Mrs. Ostler was on Friday. However, they had to do their field day first. It was on Thursday and I went and helped. It was a lot of fun and I got to help with pin the nose on Pinocchio with my friend Kari. That made it even better. 
After Kaymin did all of the games once, she got bored and took my camera and snapped a few pictures.
Okay, I have to start out by telling a little bit about how Kameni came to be. Once we had Kaymin we were unsuccessful getting pregnant. I did get pregnant in 2003 and had a miscarriage and knew then we were suppose to adopt. So we went ahead with the adoption paperwork. In the meantime it was time to have another laproscopy to burn off my endometreosis. When I had the procedure done my doctor recommended me doing Clomid since my chance of getting pregnant was greater for the next 3 months. Clomid would increase the number of eggs I would drop, therefore increasing my chances of getting pregnant. Of course I went ahead with it. 
Every month I took the pills days 4-8 and went in around day 14 to get checked out. On my 3rd month I went in and found out I dropped 3 eggs and found out about Deilen. I stressed out the rest of the month and sure enough I was pregnant. I took 3 tests just to make sure. I told Blake and we decided to not tell anyone just any case I miscarried again. 
That same day Kaymin came to me and told me that we needed lots of cribs because we are going to have lots of babies. I asked why she would say that and she told me that she just knows we are going to have lots of babies. 
That following Sunday Kaymin told everyone I was going to have a baby girl. I kept telling everyone she was just confused because we just found out we were going to get a baby boy. Then she would correct me and tell me that she was getting a baby brother and baby sister and her baby sister was in my tummy. 
Well she was right and she knew it. Kameni was born on May 27, 2005 at 1:50pm at McKay Dee Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces and was 21 inches long. I was induced and was suppose to have her on May 26, but the hospital was full. They kept putting us off coming in until the afternoon where they called and said it wouldn't happen that day. The ended up giving us a $25 gift certificate to Chilis as their way of saying "sorry". 
I was originally due on May 31 but because Kaymin was so big they wanted to take me early. My delivery with her was so easy. I didn't tear and didn't even need one stitch. Because I had pushed 3 hours with Kaymin, once I was at a 10 they had me start pushing. 
Then the nurse yelled at me to stop and she yelled down the hall for Julia Johannson, my doctor. She came running in as two nurses held up her apron and I pushed once more and out she came. 
She had the grumpiest look on her face. They called her the grumpy baby. 
Now she is 4 and I can't believe it. All she wanted for her birthday is to swim in her "new" pool. 
She invited the neighbor kids over (but I think it was Kaymin since most of them were her age) and I didn't even know up but it was fun anyway. I felt bad because some of the kids brought presents and it wasn't even a party. I didn't do cake for them or anything...I just let them swim. 
We went to dinner at McDonalds and then came back for her mermaid ice cream cake. It was a really fun day and the kids had a lot of fun. Happy Birthday, Kameni!
On May 11th I went with the 2nd grade to a field trip to the Treehouse Museum. Kaymin was so excited for me to go. However, I didn't ride the bus because I wanted to stop off at Kitchen Kneads on the way home to grab some Rye to make Rye bread for Blake. Two buses took the kids there, however, only one bus stayed. I ended up taking a van full of parents back to the school. They were nice enough and still let me stop by since it was right there...but why in the world would a bus leave the kids there? So they crammed the kids on the one bus and told the parents to find a ride home. It was a lot of fun anyway and no one was left behind. Kaymin never stayed in one spot. She was too busy running from thing to thing. 
I have been such a slacker lately and I'm not even sure it is that. I have been busy, busy. I feel like I can't even catch my breath at times. Should I be sitting here typing this when I just walked in the door and I need to leave in an hour...nope..but yet, here I sit. On May 13th Gerrit turned 1. This year has flown by for us and I have no idea where the time has gone. Gerrit is one of those special blessings we have had in our lives. Several months before Gerrit was born Deilen was asking where his brother was. I told him he didn't have a brother, only two sisters. He was get so mad at me and just cry searching the house for his brother. Shortly after Mandi found out that Gerrit was a boy. Gerrit was a planned pregnancy for Mandi and Dale but things did not work out as they had hoped they would. On April 19th we received the best email we have ever received. Mandi, Deilen's birth mother, asked us if we would adopt Gerrit. I remember crying so hard and leaving the email up on the computer forgetting that Kaymin could read. She read it and began jumping for joy. I was a wreck all weekend long. I had been praying and fasting for us and Mandi and Dale. It was really hard to get too excited knowing the pain and anguish that Mandi and Dale must be going through. We met them for dinner a few days later and began the adoption process. 
On May 13th our precious little boy entered this world at 7 pounds. I still remember the first time I saw him. He was SO beautiful. We were able to take him home on May 16th. The kids have been in love with him ever since. A friend that placed a baby 10 years ago asked me if I felt different for my adopted kids as I do with my biological kids. The answer is "no". However, there is a difference that only those who have adopted can appreciate. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of Mandi, Dale, or Shane (Deilen's birth father). How can you not have so much love and appreciation for them when your kids remind you of them everyday. So when I look at my kids I love not only them, but Blake, Mandi, Dale and Shane as well. To me there wasn't a difference in that immediate love that a mother has for a child whether the nurse put my baby in my arms or Mandi. The love was immediate and continues to grow each day. 
Okay onto the birthday. My sister's birthday is on the same day so my mom had her little girl, Violet. We went to the Dinosaur park where Gerrit is fascinated by the robotic dinosaurs. 
The weather was perfect and he had so much fun just playing in the sand or swinging on the swings. 
Afterwards we met Blake and went to Kentucky Fried Chicken then to our house for cake. 
I made this cake for him that consists of cake, pudding, and cookie pieces. He hated getting his hands dirty. He would freak out each time. It reminded us so much of Deilen. He still does this, but Gerrit has never shown any sign of it until now. 
But he still managed to eat some. It was a really fun day and he was so exhausted by the end.
Okay, so I have been a little behind...or maybe just really busy. Last year as we redone our backyard, we decided to bury our trampoline. It has been a mess ever since with water and mosquito's. We hit the table water and even though we have a drain, we constantly have standing water under it. We even put 2 feet of gravel at the bottom and raised it up on those castle bricks, but still it didn't do any good. If the kids just too high, they hit the water. It is especially funny for the adults who decide they want to jump and end up drenched (Eric). Anyway, about a week ago, Kameni, our curious monkey found out that if she moved the tramp pad she could stick her watering can under it and fill it up. Then she figured out if she kicked the castle rocks that they would fall in the water and she could stick her feet in it. See, we never fully finished it because we couldn't figure out the water problem. Kameni soon began showing all of the neighbor kids and I was constantly worried that one of the neighbor kids or my own were going to fall under the tramp and I would never know it. On Tuesday, I was on my walk and a neighbor of mine was putting in a RV pad and there was a pile of sod. My friend that I walk with, Sarah, asked them what they were going to do with it, because I was being a scardy cat, and they told me that Jen, the owner was just going to have it thrown out. So I came home and called her since she was at work and picked up the sod plus a truck and half full of dirt/grass mixture. We moved our tramp the next morning to find green moss and tons of toys. The next day I hauled all of that in the hole and realized that I didn't even put a dent in the hole. We ended up ordering a dump truck load of fill dirt on Friday and Blake and I hauled dirt by wheelbarrow in the pouring rain from 9am to 8:30pm. Needless to say, our hole is now finally buried, however, it made such a sloppy mess from the dirt being poured in the water and it raining. The next few days will be nice and hopefully it should dry out so we can finish what we started. 
Also on Saturday, I joined a food co-op called Bountiful Baskets. It originally started in Arizona (Jessica you need to seriously look into this). It is a basket full of fruits and vegetables at a wholesale rate. They do a delivery in Utah every other week. You have to order online by the previous Wednesday by 10pm. The cost is $15 plus a $1.50 handling fee. I can't believe all of the stuff I got and our family has been eating it up. 
You can also order other things as well. I took a chance and ordered the Italian food kit and got all of this for an extra $7.50. It was so fun. It was like Christmas all over again because you have no idea what you are getting. Someone said they went home and weighed it and it came out to $.58/pound. I am really excited for the next time. The pick up locations they currently have in Utah are Clearfield (7am), Roy (7:30am), and Brigham City (8am). I hear they are going to add another one in Ogden. In Arizona, they have a ton of different ones. If you want to try it, ordering begins on the Tuesday before delivery. So for those in Utah, on May 12th. 
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