We are safe!

So you might be thinking, "Whatever happened to Whitney blogging every week or so?" Well I'm

still trying to make it a habit :) Life gets so busy and when I do get a minute, sometimes I don't want to blog. But like I said before, I'm trying to be better at blogging more often :D

Now that that's outta the way ;)

About a week ago we had a few major storms that came our way. Most of them resulted in tornadoes in other areas but thankfully in our area we didn't get one. I'm sure some of you heard of a town called Joplin, MI being almost complet

ely leveled by a tornado. Joplin is about 40-50 minutes away from us. One day the weather people were predicting huge storms to come through our area, (and since we don't have a basement in our home or a storm shelter) we were a little worried. We packed backpacks with food and some clothings and prayed we would need to use them. The storm was estimated to come in the middle of the night, so Eric stayed up waiting for it. Thankfully we were so blessed (with many many prayers from friends and family, I'm sure) and the storm had died down quite a bit by the time it got to our area and the tornado siren didn't even go off. I'm so thankful we were safe! This last weekend, Eric went up to Joplin with our church and helped clean up in Joplin. It was so good of him to go up there and help with the devastation up there.

The day before all these tornadoes came through, Bailee was invited to a birthday party at a place called Jumpzone. She had so much fun. I liked it too :)

Austin also had a blast on the little kiddie blow ups. Wish I would have gotten more pics but me and kids were having too much fun!

A good laugh

For Austin birthday (pics to come later) we got him a car that moves when you push something on the top. It will also move with a little rattle that came with the car. If the rattle is close enough, the rattle noise will make it move. So tonight Austin and I were sitting in the living room and the car was maybe a foot from Austin. I hear Austin farting and then I hear the car taking off. It made me laugh so hard!

Beautiful weather = fun in the water

The weather here has been beautiful the last few days and we have been loving it! It was so hot outside today we brought out our little kiddie pool and the kids loved it! Just a few pics...

On another note,

I've decided to try and get back into blogging. So here goes an attempt to write every few days or at least weekly. Wish me luck!

I'm back to the blogging world...for tonight :)

Wow, time sure has gone by fast lately. We have been enjoying our summer, it's been really really hot, but we're still having fun. We are currently in the process of painting our house and yikes, it's a lot of work! We've only partially painted the bathroom and it has taken a while to do. The only time I can really do it is when the kids are sleeping which isn't a lot of time to get something like painting done. Slowly but surely our house will get painted. Other then painting our house, not much has been going on. I just have been loving my two kids!

Aren't these two the cutest?! I think they look a lot of alike but some people don't. What do you think?
I seriously love this girl so much! She is so much fun and so funny! Bailee has been loving Austin! She likes to take his arms and move them up and down because it makes him smile and laugh. She loves to get a reaction out of him. Bailee, of course, is loving princess's right now. Anytime we go to the store she always wants to go to the toy section and look at the princesses. Then, when I tell her it's time to leave the toys, she says, "Wait just a second" or "come here and let's play together." She has finally started getting out of her bed in the mornings and comes and wakes us up. She would always wait for us to come get her out of bed (yes, she is the most awesome kid ever!) but I guess she was done waiting for us to wake up and get her out of bed. I'm just glad that she did that for as long as she did! She has started to whine...a lot, so if any of you have any words of advice, feel free to share them with me because it really drives me crazy!
Austin being as cute as ever. He likes to hold his hands like this a lot. I think it's pretty cute. He is almost done with wearing a cast, yay! He has had six casts on and right before they put on this last cast, they did a minor surgery on his heel cord. He will get this last cast taken off in a week and a half and then he goes into a brace. I'm so happy that we are almost done with the casting period. He has done really well with the cast. Every time he gets a new cast put on, he's fussy for the first couple days but then he's great. I hope that when he gets his brace that he won't be too fussy because we are going to be travelling back up to Idaho that same week and I don't want a crying baby on the plane! He really is a sweetheart though. He just LOVES to be talked to and given attention. He smiles and laughs like crazy when he's talked to and I love it :)
Father and son. They are pretty cute huh :) You can really notice Austin's mohawk in this picture. He was born with a mohawk but the hair was really long and just laid to the side. I finally decided to buzz it a little shorter and spike it a little. A lot of people say, "Did you give him a mohawk?" and I say, "No, he was just born cool." Lol. No I don't always say that but sometimes :)

Adjusting to two

Well life is starting to get a little more back to normal. I am adjusting to having another kid and I think Bailee is getting used to a brother and having to share my attention. Bailee really is sweet with Austin and I love watching her with him. When he starts crying she immediately says, "Mom, Austin needs his binkie." She is such a huge help to me! She really is my sweetie and a great big sister :)
Eric brought home a t-ball set and this is the first time Bailee played with it. She liked hitting the ball with the bat but I think she likes just doing whatever she wants with it rather than how it is supposed to be played with. :)

Newest picture of Austin. I realized that I didn't post his newborn stats on my last post so here they are...7 lbs 7 oz. and 19 in. long. He also had his 1 month check up yesterday and those stats are: 8 lbs 11 oz. and 21 1/2 in. long. He sure is growing but that doesn't surprise me with how much he eats!

And here is Austin's club foot. I'll have to take a closer picture of his toes sometime because they are freakishly long! Eric has extremely long toes so he gets it from him but every time I look at his toes, I think "wow thoses are really long toes!" Anyway, back on the subject, he gets his first cast put on Monday so this is just going to be a before picture for when all of the casting is done. After he gets his cast put on I'll put up a picture of that. Oh...after looking at this picture for a minute, I realized that his left leg looks way shorter then his right but it's not, he's just bending his left leg...just in case you guys were wondering. Haha :)

I also have to say that Eric is a great husband and Dad! He loves playing and spending time with Bailee. She has so much fun with him, they are constantly screaming and laughing when they play together! He is so good with Austin. On the weekends when he doesn't have to work he will take Austin in the morning if I didn't get much sleep and he will let me get some much needed sleep. He also makes sure that I get some one on one time with Bailee...he watches Austin so Bailee and I can go do something together and have fun. I am so grateful to Eric for the things that he does. Just had to brag a little about my hubbby :)

P.S. sorry if some parts of this post didn't make sense, I am really tired and am not going to proof read...I'm just happy that I got a post up :)

I know I'm late...but Austin is here!

I know that I am really late with this post but he is here!!! Austin Taylor Goldthorpe arrived on April 15. He is such a sweet baby and we love him sooo much already!
My sweet baby boy :)

This picture makes me smile with his fist on his chin. He looks like the thinking man :) I was getting sewn up from the c-section and Eric was able to go with Austin while they gave him a bath and get him all nice and clean before I saw him :)

Me meeting Austin for the first time :) During the c-section I started to feel sick so I was trying really hard not to throw up. A girl had had a c-section right before me and had thrown up and I really didn't want to do that so I was trying really hard to breath and focus on anything but being sick. When I finally saw Austin, I was so happy, but I wasn't able to touch him or anything because they had my arms strapped down. When I had Bailee I was knocked out for the c-section and didn't get to even see her until she was a couple of hours old. I honestly don't hardly remember anything from the first day because of the anasthesia, so I feel like I missed out on some stuff with Bailee's birth. With Austin's c-section, it was weird not being able to hold him or see him for very long before they took him to get cleaned up but I am so grateful that I was awake during this c-section and was able to excperience more with this birth :)

My beautiful family! Love Bailee's face in this pic. Bailee has never really been into babies so at first she kind of just ignored him but she has become a lot better :) Now she will give him kisses, talk to him and give him some of her toys. She even volunteers to take his dirty diapers to the trash for me :) It's really fun to watch her with him...she is a great big sister!

Our family! More pictures to come later!

Advice anyone??

Since we are a month away from having our baby boy come into this world, I thought I would seek advice from all of you fellow bloggers. I need advice on how to make the transition to having a new baby in the house easier on Bailee. I don't want her to feel jealous or neglected when we bring the new baby home, so what are some things that you did to help your little ones? I know there is an adjustment period for every kid when a new baby is brought home, I just want to make the adjustment as easy as possible. So any suggestions or advice are more than welcome.

Also just wanted to add that I am so excited to almost have our baby boy here! This pregnancy has gone by pretty fast and I only hope this last month doesn't drag on. I am, of course, uncomfortable and have some major heartburn but other then that, this pregnancy has been great.

Another bit of news, we put an offer in on a house and it was accepted! We are so excited and hopefully everything works out. The closing date on the house is April 2, so we would like to move in before the baby is born. It will be a busy, stressful time, but I would much rather move before the baby is born instead of after. The next couple of months are definitely going to be busy but exciting!