Thank god things are looking UP!!!

TODAY little Riley checking out mommy and mommy checking out little Riley.

He want to eat food so bad but his little digestive system is not working quite yet. One thing at a time. He is off oxygen and breathing on his own.

Auntie Kaitlyn seeing him up close today.

getting his footprints yesterday. see how big his foot is.

Amanda is out of ICU and off the IV's. She is looking so much better. Her face and body have shunk in half. She can see again. She is pink instead of grey. Cathiter out and kidneys functioning. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!! thank you everyone for the thoughts and prayers. They worked.

MORE PICSS

My thumb with his little hand.

sleeping peacefully dreaming of meeting his mommy. Thinking he could use a boob instead of that green thing. BUT he does know how to suck that is a wonderful thing.

sleeping on his back

sleeping on his tumm

Grammy is so excited!! He sooooo adorable and he is quite the fighter. He has pulled off his sticky monitor off his chest pull out his air tube out of his nose. Tryed to get the tape off his upper lip and got mad when his hand and arm were out of the oxegen tent and cold. So he will fight to get stronger every minute.

Riley is here

Riley came into the world at 2:30AM weighing 3 pounds 15 ounces. 17 inches long. He is doing good breathing on his own now. Things got crazy in a hurry all of a sudden last night and we could have lost both of them in another 1/2 hour. So scary to think.

Baby update Thursday.

Amanda turns 23 today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!! I'm singing this and lucky you, You can't hear me singing!
Well I came home at 6:30 Am this morning thinking she might get to go home today and rest for awhile. (that was the plan last night) then she calls and says the doctor came in this morning and said No going home preeclamsia is worse and they are thinking of doing an amemio (spelling?) on the baby and possibly induce today. But at least he can be born in Bellingham now. Caiden has been a trooper visiting friends and relatives this week. He got to stay home with daddy Tim last night and wake up at home. He is coming over in a bit so Tim can go to hospital and then I will go up later.

hello

We are still watching monitors and the doctor just left again. Contractions all day 3 minutes apart but they decided that it was because she was dehydrated so IV's for the last couple hours then they are coming in with Morfeen(spelling?) Hoping to relax uterus and her to get sleep all night. They still want her to make it to at least Thursday to have him here. So I am going home later to sleep and hang with Caiden... I might stay home tomorrow if nothing changes. I don't mind hanging out but I'm not getting anything done at home.

update

Just got here this morning Ed is dropping Caiden off with Dee., Thank YOU Dee I know it's crazy to ask when you have been gone and up so late. Amanda is dialated to 2 and having contractions. They say she is still a day away from 34 weeks but they will let her deliver here. waiting for doctor to come in this morning. Blood preasure OK heart rate a little high. Don't know anything else.

still here

sitting around here at the hospital watching Amanda sleep. Last night after the steriod shot they gave her 2 vicadin for head ache, Then her heart meds, then a sleeping pill then she was sick to her stomach so they gave her a pill. She was up most of the night I don't think she could handle that many different drugs at one time. Her contractions were buggung her so we timed them and watched TV from 2 to 6 AM. Waiting for the doctor this morning so we know more. But in the mean time I am bored on their lap top so thought I say hi..

baby update

Hello Amanda and I are spending the night at the hospital. They just came in and gave her a steroid shot for Riley's lungs because they don't think she will make it much longer. Her blood preasure is high and the pre eclampsia is getting worse. Tim just left to go home and get some sleep so he can be at work at 6 AM so he can have some days off with Riley when he gets here. In two days she will be 34 weeks pregnant and can have him here instead of in Seattle. So holding on hopefully. Well they will be back soon to do vitals and sleeping pill. Looks like if things don't get better she will be here until Riley arrives. (or Seattle)

Eyes

Brown eyes Green eyes and Blue eyes.
Such cute kids

Shiloh and Katy's wedding

My Nephew Shiloh got married tonight in an outdoor beautiful wedding. The weather was perfect and then the reception they had a great DJ with music and dancing plus a mechinal Bull.Bride and groom wore their cowboy boots and kicked up their heels.
Mr. and Mrs.

The groom riding the bull.

The Bride

3 of my kids

Kaitlyn, Katy, & Shiloh

Cousins, Andrew and Amanda

Erik & Kaitlyn

School Buddies Dillion, Shiloh, Matt, Erik, and Casey

Mothers Day

THE RUNT 1 day old

Amanda took this perfect picture of spring. The neighbors apple tree in full bloom.

Kaitlyn and the puppies

Uncle Erik and Caiden

Dominic

All the kids were here at the same time and I didn't get a group picture. Bummer. Amanda and Caiden came over for mothers day. Caiden had made a really cute handprint picture for me, Then Erik came with his dog Ellie, and Carl, Kaisha, and Dominic came with their new puppy and their boxer Zues. So with our 4 dogs there was 7 dogs all playing. Kiwi thought she was pretty tough with the 8 week old rotweiler but wait a couple weeks and she will be running from him. I had to run to Blaine and deliver baby goats and come back so I didn't get to play with the kids the whole time but Uncle Erik did his share of swing pushing and ball throwing. Kaitlyn got me some new clear stamps I can't wait to get to scrapbook again. THANKS Everyone for coming and hanging out on Mothers Day.

OMG 14 babies

Black headed one is the runt.

1/2 hour after birth.

another nice day riding horse and playing. Waiting for piggies

Garage saling this weekend we found a pedal go cart for the boys. Caiden loved it and was speeding around the driveway. Also found a few toys and clothes for Riley.

Skylar and Dee came out yesterday to ride horse. Skylar had fun on Jasmine.

Doesn't she look happy up there. Such a pretty girl.

Jasmine and Kaitlyn running around.

Easy to see what colors to use for scrapbooking and it wasn't planned.

Tigger the cat with Jasmine and Kait

Miss Piggy is due today. I have the monitor camera in the house watching her as I post on here. I am hoping she waits until later
today so that I don't have Dominic because he is here until about 2.