Soccer, Soccer, Soccer

Today was Mekai's last soccer game with her team the Robin's. She was asked to play in the All Stars - so she will have at least 3 more games. She is excited about that - she doesn't want the season to end. We were able to attend a couple of Katrina's (cousin) soccer games this weekend as well. Mekai had her soccer party at Roundtable pizza where they were presented with their trophy's.

Someone please tell me how to put captions under the pictures.

Trunk or Treat

Brooke (neighbor), Mekai, Katrina (cousin)

Tonight was our ward's Trunk or Treat. Mekai invited a neighbor and her cousins that live by us. We had everyone over at our house for dinner - we had pizza. Then we all went over to the church. They had games set up in the classrooms and then at 7:30 everyone gathered in the parking lot for the Trunk or Treat. All the kids went from car to car until everyone was out of candy - which took about 20 minutes.

6 Hours of Sleep ..............

uninterrupted! The last three nights Kellen has slept from 10 pm to 4 am - of course the first night he did that I kept waking up and checking on him to make sure he was still breathing. He has also started smiling - which we just love. As soon as I capture a smile on film I will post a picture.

Friday - We attended our nieces school Halloween carnival. It was so cold outside - it really is starting to feel like Halloween. It was basically one of those nights where you sacrifice three hours of your life just so your kids can have fun. There was some great costumes though - especially from some of the moms - there was the popular "plastic surgery gone bad" and the "I still think I'm 18" -classic. Okay so I don't think they were meant to be costumes.

Saturday - I drove the three hours up to Lake Shasta with my parents and Kellen to check out a ranch we are renting out for our family reunion for 4th of July (thanks Tracy). Good thing Kellen likes the car because it was a long day driving there and back. I just want to warn anyone who may drive on HWY 50 - beware you may get pulled over by a Park Ranger - yes you read that right. I was going 80 in the fast lane and a Park Ranger pulled me over - my first thought was - is HWY 50 a state park? My second thought was he wanted to warn me that if I was only going to go 80 I might want to get in the slow lane. Well he actually was on a power trip and wanted to give me a hard time and a warning - very funny considering he has no authority to even pull me over or give me a ticket. The only reason I pulled over was I thought I must have been mistaking to think he was a Park Ranger - but his uniform confirmed he was. I was kind of laughing the whole time he was talking with me because I was in such disbelief. I asked him if he could get Yogi bears autograph for me. I had to call Sheldon after it happened - he was mad I didn't get his name and badge number - I wish he was in the car with me.

What happened to his hair?..........

The hair bandit struck about a week ago. One morning we woke up and Kellen's hair was gone - I looked every where for it - he was coughing that morning - maybe it was his hairball. I really thought I was going to find a chunk of hair in his bassinet. Would it be wrong for me to draw some hair on his head?

Kiss is Dissed, The Christian Goes Wild & The Old One (30) Falls Down the Stairs....

...just another night of bachelor. I definitely don't have a favorite - I could really care less about any of them so far. Just the typical drama and hot tub scenes.
Kellen is 5 weeks today - he has grown so much - he actually has clothes that fit now. I will post a new picture tomorrow.
Mekai came home from playing outside yesterday saying that the lead singer of Papa Roach lives on our street - of course she knows who he is because Sheldon is her dad and exposes her to all sorts of music. Mekai was freaking out - she just couldn't believe that she lived so close to a celebrity. It was quite embarrassing and I hope she never runs into him or his family. She said she ran up and touched his garage and I told her to never go on his property again. I thought I could look up the public records to show Mekai that it was probably just a rumor anyways - but I found that he really does live 5 houses down from us.
Mekai is loving school here - she does the safety patrol either before or after school everyday - she works in the cafeteria every once in a while (she gets free lunch on those days) and she is playing the clarinet. I was skeptical about her playing an instrument because of the cost and I wasn't sure if she would stick with it - luckily the school rents them to you for free ( I guess I should say borrow). Okay now that I just made her sound like a total geek. To help redeem her she does play defender on her soccer team.

Webbed Feet, Lost Boob, Human Pretzel..Sweetness

........and that was all on one episode of Bachelor. What the heck - these girls are crazy. There is always the drunk girl and a future call to 911. Every season I say I probably wont watch the next Bachelor and then I get sucked in. The Bachelor does have a hotness factor - and an identical twin - Austin is one lucky city. I can't wait to see which girls turn out to be crazy - do they really want their future husband to choose them because they took off their shirt on the first date - come on. oh yeah - remind me to never roll my eyes - it is so ugly.

Now that Kellen is almost 4 weeks old - I am feeling pretty tired - the lack of sleep is catching up with me. Otherwise I feel pretty good - I feel ready to work out but am a little nervous about it because of the c-section - I know I should take more time to recover. It was depressing to come home from the hospital weighing 5 pounds more than I did going in. Finally after 2 weeks the water I was retaining went away. They say you burn 500 calories a day by breastfeeding but I seem to keep the weight on until the baby is weaned. We will see how long I last - my goal is 4 months.

I'm Back............

Well I am back in the blogging world after a 3 month absence. As you can see we had or baby boy. I went into the hospital on Monday August 27th to be induced - after 20 hours of labor they decided to do an emergency c-section - I just started crying - this was my worse labor nightmare. Kellen Keen McGee was born on Tuesday August 28th at 4:41 am. He weighed 6 lbs 12 oz and was 19 inches long.

Mekai was so excited to finally have the baby arrive - she came to the hospital the morning he was born - she was smiling so much on the way over it made her cheeks hurt - she said they felt like they did right before you ate sour candy. She has been so helpful - she wants to change every diaper and begs to burp him when he is done eating. She wants to hold him every spare moment she has.

I am so in love with Kellen - I forgot how much love a baby can bring into your home. Everything is going great - he is such a good baby so far.