Hill Air Force Base

Grandpa planned an outing for the family. We went to KFC and Hill Air Force Base. We had fun. Tyson wanted to read every sign and was fascinated. He should go to more museums with Grandpa. They have a much longer attention span for this sort of thing. 

We have lots of bouquets in our house after our walks with the girls. I love the spring flowers. Kenzie is having to learn what flowers she can pick. 

Adam and Kasey had their baby a few days before they headed to Minnesota. We don't know when we'll see them next so we're glad we got to meet Chase.

Crepes! Yum!

We took the kids and went to the ballroom concert at BYU. The kids all loved it. Tyson was not interested in going with us but once it started he was captivated!

May 2016

Kenzie loves having her hair curled. I tell her she has hair like Lexi and she says, "I've always wanted red hair."

Uncle Ed's funeral

Tyson getting an award at cub scouts

Lexi's baton twirling class

Grandma Joan's funeral - siblings together again

Grandma and Grandpa took us to the farms at Thanksgiving Point. The kids had a blast. Grandpa murmured a lot. He thought it was quite amusing to see the play farm.

Taking a picture of Thayne's awesome spade hand. We recently lost our winning streak.

More fun at Trafalga

Our ward carnival was a hit with the kids

I think this was a week before the baby came.

Mommy snuggle time. I used to like to snuggle. Now I usually just want space.

Grandpa Henrie

Thayne's grandpa passed away this spring. He had been deteriorating for awhile now. It was really hard at the end to see him suffer. It was fun to see all the family at the funeral. Most of Thayne's cousins were there and it was good to catch up. Funerals are a bitter sweet thing. After seeing Grandpa Jim suffer, it was time and it was so good to get together and reminisce about all the memories and the good things he did in life. At the same time, funerals are so hard because of the separation during this life. The kids went to three funerals in a months time. They are a bit obsessed with death. Tyson was really sweet at the funeral. He would put his arm around Lexi and help her know what was going. I love seeing that side of him.

The Panguitch house. Thayne had fun showing the kids around.

Jordyn Joy

Heading into the hospital. Everybody said I was little. I felt big. Looking at this picture that was taken when Jordyn was born I definitely don't look big.

Jordyn Joy Gardner joined our family on May 23, 2016. I had been having painless contractions for a few days and had been losing a lot of sleep. Mostly because I was scared of repeating Lexi's birth story. I didnt want the quick fast labor and the tearing that comes with that. The contractions would get as close as 3 minutes apart and then stop for an hour or two. It was kind of frustrating. I taught my Sunday School class in labor. My parents showed up after church and we decided to go to the hospital. I really wanted the baby to come then because we had things happening over the next couple weeks (Thayne's schedule and the SoJo Summerfest that I was in charge of). Plus, Thayne's parents were flying in that night to go to a funeral the next day. It was great timing. We decided to go to the hospital. We talked about how they would laugh at us again and send us home. (They laughed at us when we showed up for Kenzie's birth. I'm way to calm in labor.) They said they had a policy that we had to be monitored for at least an hour. They checked me I was only at a 3. It was a bit disappointing. On top of that, my contractions settled down for the first 30 minutes. I was sure I was going home. After a little bit, the contractions started again. They checked me at the end of the hour and I was a 4 1/2. The nurse checked us in and told us we were having a baby. We were like "Really?" We were so sure we were headed back home. My doctor had two others (one with some complications) that evening so he just let things go slow for awhile. They gave me the epidural and we hung out, laughed, played Agricola, and basically felt like we were on a date. They had food for Thayne and would get me juice and ice chips whenever I asked. It was great. After my doctor delivered his two other babies, they hooked me to pitocin to speed things up. This was probably around 10 or 11. We decided to nap. Thayne fell asleep but I couldn't. The contractions started getting stronger. Around midnight I was having some painful back contractions. I woke Thayne up and we called for the doctor. I was ready. Baby Jordyn was born at 12:23.

Coming home

Following the baby footsteps at the hospital

Grandma Joan's (Grandpa Jim's second wife) funeral was the day Jordyn was born so Diana and Davis were able to see the little one right away. 

Flowers for mommy

I love Tyson's gentleness with the baby. He's such a good big brother.

Kenzie: "It's a boy baby. It doesn't have any hair."

Billy lights for her jaundice. Those were a couple of sleepless nights keeping her on the lights. 

My Uncle Ed also died the week she was born so she had her first funeral at three days old. I was in a lot of pain this day but we made it.