The night before delivery

Here are the last pictures of me being pregnant with Baby E! Deanna and Tom came over and since the guys were working on the AWANA cars, we took the pictures in the garage.

I am so thankful this pregnancy went so smoothly. I hardly had any morning sickness and I was not nearly as uncomfortable in the 3rd trimester as I was when I was pregnant with Mr. T (maybe it helped that it was not August). Maybe my body is getting used to this whole pregnancy thing since I have been pregnant 3 out of the last 5 1/2 years.

Mr. J asked me the other day if I missed being pregnant, and I have to say I really enjoy having the babies on the outside. I did love feeling her kick and move around, but I didn't love the heartburn (which quickly went away as soon as she was born!).

Miss O starts preschool!

On March 30, Miss O started preschool! Miss M has been attending afternoon preschool on base since she was 3 (actually just a couple of weeks after Mr. T was born). A couple days after Miss E was born I got a call that they had 2 slots open for AM preschool, so Miss O could start. She was very excited for her big day. Here are some pictures!

Thanks Aunt S for the cute backpack

All 4 kids...

Miss O being Miss O and Mr. T checking on his sweet baby.

Miss E is here! (posted by a proud Aunt Nanny)

Miss E arrived today at 11:00 a.m.! She weighs 9lbs. 6 oz. and is 21.5 inches long. She has lots of dark hair like her siblings did and huge Jones' cheeks. What a gorgeous gift from God!!

I (Deanna) have to brag about my sister, Mrs. Jones. She is such a pro you'd never know this was difficult or anything... I'll let her fill you in on the details if she'd like to, but let's just think about it... she got to the hospital at 6:30, got all the paperwork done and was admitted at 8:00, baby at 11:00 a.m. No big thing, just bringing a beautiful healthy baby into the world!!

SO SWEET!

Tomorrow is the big day!

Tomorrow I will be 39 weeks pregnant and it is time for baby girl #4 to make her grand entrance! I am already 5 cm dilated and so the plan is to induce me tomorrow. We have to arrive at 6am! Mr. J's parents fly in tonight and they will get to spend lots of fun time with 3 very excited kids. I thought I would post some pictures from their birth days. My plan is
to get a good nights rest and a big breakfast in the morning (since it's hard to have a baby when you are STARVING). All the cleaning/laundry/meal planning is done and we are so excited to meet our newest little blessing! Please remember to pray for us tomorrow!


Mr. T and his sisters..
All 9 lb 12 ounces of him!

Miss O, born 3 weeks early and weighin in at 8 lb 9 oz

An excited Miss M meeting her sister

Miss M, 2 weeks early and 8 lb 12 ounces, she was a tough one to get out, it took 3 1/2 hours of pushing and forceps to get her to come (see the red on her face). But I forgot about all the pain as soon as she arrived!

Great News!

Hey all my faithful blog readers! Sorry it's been a while, I have some great pics I need to post soon but we have been busy around here. I wanted to let you all know that we received fabulous news this week that Mr. J will not be deploying until July!!! He had planned to leave on the 24th of March but God answers prayers and worked it all out so that we get to keep him around for 4 more months!! We are so thankful for this.

Baby Girl is still cooking. The midwife said I am already dilated 3 cm and 50% effaced, so she may come at any time. Because they are concerned about how big she will be, the plan is for me to be induced on the 20th of March, one week from today!! This day is a pretty special day for us as it is our 10th dating anniversary! Who knew that 10 years later we would be living in Vegas and having our 4th child??

Here are some silly pictures Deanna took of me while I was swiffering the other day. I know many people have been wondering how big I am since I am now almost 38 weeks pregnant. So here you go!

Remember these?

My parents did a good job of saving things that we had when we were kids. I still have my favorite blanket (which Miss M keeps on her bed), old dress up cloths, crib and dresser (that my dad made and all the kids have used), my first cabbage patch doll -stacey ellen, etc. Lately the kids have been having lots of fun playing with our old view masters. Both girls have figured out how to put in the discs and get to see all sorts of fun 3-d images including the muppet babies, sesame street, teenage mutant ninja turtle, and snow white. I think they even have some recently made ones that I picked up at the BX a few years ago. An interesting fact... I just read on the wiki site that I linked to above that there are 25 different types of viewers and have been 1.5 billion discs produced. Despite all the changes in the materials and company changes, all discs will work in all viewers...

Here are some pics of the girls playing with them and using the sunlight from the window to see really bright images...

Sisters!

On Sunday before church, the girls and I were hanging out after we were all dressed and ready to go so I thought I would snap a few pics of them. They are wearing their new dresses from GG (my mom's mom.. their Great Grandma) that she got for them at costco. They are adorable!! I was trying to use some natural lighting from the window but I realized I need some practice on that because a lot of the pictures were really washed out. But here are some of my beautiful girls! They have so much fun together, in fact right now they are supposed to be sleeping in their beds but I can hear them talking and laughing and singing. I will give them a few minutes before I go up there and use my serious mommy voice to make them stop.

When you have girls, you spend A LOT of time "doing hair." I have found that no matter how long I spend on doing their hair, it starts to get messed up within minutes and then it looks like no effort was put into their hair. Usually this happens by putting blankets or hats on their heads or just getting into the car. So here is a shot of their freshly done hair.

P.S. It's all quiet upstairs now... and I didn't even have to go up! Yeah!

Boys Hiking Trip

Mr. J had an extremely busy week at work. In addition to getting everything ready for his "vacation," he also was preparing for a big inspection that was scheduled to start tomorrow and studying for his promotion test that is tomorrow at 1300. We worked late every evening and then as soon as he got home started studying. So he decided he needed some fresh air and went for a hike on Saturday with Mr. T and his friend JS. They had a fun time exploring some desert areas west of Vegas. I think he even got to practice shooting his new gun at cactuses. He said he let Mr. T pull the trigger once or twice, but he wasn't a fan cause it kind of hurt his finger. I had to laugh cause I had just read my friend Sam's post You may be a redneck if.. (you enlist the help of your 3 year old to make home brew) and thought our 18 month old having a sore finger could qualify as making us rednecks as well.

Mr. J tells me these pictures were taken near the end of the hike and Mr. T was "done" at that point, but I thought they were cute. You gotta love their matching Carhartts!

If you were wondering what we did for our special girl time while they were hiking, it was this....

• chew gum (a very special treat for them)
• paint robots with real paint on brown paper bags
• McDonalds Happy Meal
• finish our taxes at H&R Block (I had a great experience... I did the time saving drop-off packet the day before so it only took about 30 min of my time on Saturday... if any one wants a $15 coupon, I have a couple so leave me a comment)
• Cupcakes! We visited a new cupcake store called Just Cupcakes in NW Vegas and they were delicious. I have to say I think they were better than The Cupcakery! Miss O picked out the all pink strawberry flavor since we checked out the book Pinkalicious from the library this week. It is a cute book about a girl who eats one too many pink cupcakes and gets pinkitis! No worries though, Miss O didn't turn pink!

Another reason to love 4:30

Back in December, I wrote a post about how much I loved 4:30 every day on base. It's at this time of the day that retreat occurs and the National Anthem is played. The military does this to signal the end of the duty day and also to serve as a ceremony to pay respect to the flag. Usually the kids are outside playing at this time, and all the kids at the playground stop what they are doing and either put their hands on their heart or salute the flag. Well, Mr. T has been taught by his sisters what to do, so here he is saluting the flag, just like Daddy does. It is adorable!