March Madness!

March was all over the place for us. The first part of the month we battled sicknesses and hospital visits! Adam had pneumonia and had to be hospitalized! He was in for 4 days! Cory stayed over night and part of the mornings and I took the afternoon to late evenings. It was hard having to leave Kaitlyn at home and not being able to nurse her. Somehow we survived... and then, when we were home again, Adam had a fever and hard time breathing again! Another ambulance ride from the ER to the hospital in Stockton with RSV! This trip only lasted 3 days. I think Adam was finally getting used to the nurses and doctors coming by every 10 minutes to pester him. It was all for his good but he just didn't understand what was going on. When we got home we had to break him of his eating and drinking everything in bed! He was very demanding at the hospital and tried to continue it when we got home, so we had to break him of that too. This picture is Adam getting his breathing treatments at home. The second time around he actually let us put his "puppy" mask on him and give him his medicine. (He's watching SpongeBob)Kaitlyn is a cutie-pie!

Kaitlyn on St. Patrick's Day


Cory and the kids decide to make a giant loopty track to race the cars down the stairs!


Spring is here!! Funny that Adam was 6 months old when we first moved here and I put him in the same swing! Kaitlyn is too young to care about the swing.

Jonny spends his "Mommy Money" and gets this cool Lego set!


Megan turns 9 years old!


Jonny becomes a robot bunny!


Adam is too cool for breakfast!


Ethan is always giving us thumbs up and telling us that we are his best friends!


I get a new haircut!


Megan, the new fashion diva!


Jonny becomes the Snuggie monster!


Kaitlyn learns how to use a cell phone but is still working on texting

Megan turns 9 years old!

Megan celebrated her 9th Birthday today!

She celebrated by having a few of her friends come to her Birthday Party.
Megan and her friends doing a painting craft!

Cake time!

Megan sporting her new outfit and sunglasses.


Opening presents!

Cory is telling her that the character in her new book is named Meggie!

Happy Birthday miss Megan!! We love you!!!!

February's post

So yeah I've been busy and I kinda forget to post to my blog. So this may be a large post for February. Kaitlyn was blessed on Valentine's Day! We had Grandma, Grandpa, Jimmy, Christy, Maiya, and Papa celebrating with us!



Adam falls asleep everywhere except for his bed!







My Children, all 5 of them!




Well I'm frustrated with Blogger right now so that is all I am posting! Maybe I'll add more but probably not!

Ethan turns 4!

Happy Birthday Ethan!!

A few pictures of Ethan opening his presents...

Kaitlyn Velouria Patten

My baby girl is here!!!

December 19, 2009
Saturday 5:48 am
Modesta, California
Kaiser Permanente Hospital

Kaitlyn Velouria Patten
weighed 8 pounds 14 ounces
21 inches long


I went in on Friday the 18th around 8pm. I got admitted this time, unlike two weeks ago when I was sent home. This time being at 5 cm they had to let me stay! However I was stuck at 5 for a very long time even after they gave me Petocin. About 5am in the morning they broke my water in hopes that that would bring baby. About 48 minutes later Kaitlyn was born! She was out after two pushes, after all she is my smallest baby. Cory and I are so happy she is here... our family is complete! Kaitlyn's first bathProud Daddy!







































Kaitlyn's first car ride home
















Kaitlyn at home and surrounded by family

What's New?

Well November went by in a flash! We went to Cory's parents' house for Thanksgiving this year. We played tons of games, ate lots of good food, and did some shopping too. I guess I only took this one picture while we were there... Adam and Ethan really wanted to help Grandpa peel the potatoes for the Thanksgiving dinner!


Wednesday, December 2nd, I threw a birthday party for Jonathan. He requested a Transformers party this year. We played pin the head on Optimus Prime and Transformer Bingo! Jonny designed his own cake this year. He asked for chocolate cake with green frosting and skittles on top. So he helped me decorate his cake before the party. Jonny had so much fun with his friends, at the end of the party, they didn't want to have to go home. I was happy to get this party in before our baby girl arrives later this month!





Here are the pictures I took of Baby Girl's room all put together!(click on pictures to enlarge) I had painted her room back in October and made all the bedding for her crib, including the matching curtains! The quilt draping over the crib is the project I most recently finished for the baby, I am quite pleased how it turned out. I also made cordinating paintings and framed them. I still want to make a cover for the rocking chair, but I'm feeling pretty tired lately and will most likely spend my energy on making her some cute burp cloths. I'm almost all the way packed for the hospital and am very anxious to meet this cutie pie!


















On Thursday December 3rd I went to the doctors for a check up. She said the baby looked like she was measuring big and ordered an ultrasound for that same day. The ultrasound tech said that she was estimated to be 7 pounds and 3 ounces already. He also said my due date looked like it should be December 24th instead of January 2nd! So we will see when she comes just how big she turns out to be! I took a picture of the ultrasound picture, sorry I didn't want to get the scanner out.


Saturday December 5th... Christmas Party!!
So we ventured to the church Christmas party. They provided lunch and had a ton of games the kids could play. Megan got her face painted, Jonny won a giant cupcake in the cupcake walk, Ethan liked fishing for candy and toys and Adam enjoyed eating all his candy before we even left for home. Before the party was over we headed over to get our picture taken with Santa Claus!! Ethan was nervous and didn't want to stand more than a foot closer to Santa and Adam liked going up to Santa but was very nervous sitting on his lap. Adam calmed down after Santa presented a goodie bag to him. Ohh the power of candy! When we were leaving Adam kept saying "Gangkoo Ho Ho!" and "Bye Ho Ho!".