Ben's view

The wall of love in Ben's room. Love seeing all the pictures tha you guys have sent!!

Giving birth without Daddy

I wish that I could say this was the first birth of our children that Ben has missed but I can't. This was the second one out of 4. 

Each time I am always struck with the fact that although I bear the physical pain of him being gone, I cannot imagine his emotional pain for not being here.

(Or what he had to listen to and the powerlessness of not being there to help out.)

Here is our deployment birth #2~

Ben via Skype before he got cut off. They have a process called "river city" when communication gets shut off due to an incident while they are in country.

Sending him email updates praying he would get them 

Before I left for the hospital 

My lovely labor coaches

Kursten

Mom

BreAnn

Getting through some fierce pain, contractions, epidural, etc

Trying to breathe on through

A bit of humor with my birthing mask from Kendall

Ben trying to talk me through some contractions

Thankful he got to hear her first cry before the phone cut out

So thankful she is here safely

Daddy with Kenzie in the hospital 

Until they meet in person....

My 4 little loves

Besides marrying their father, here are my biggest blessings from God!

We are all in love with our sweet bundle of Kenzie!

17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not changelike shifting shadows.  James 1:17

A picture a day....catch up!!

The crazy, everyday life of my little loves! They make me laugh everyday....just some days more than others!

Sleepover memories....

Kendall and Isaac so love sleeping over with friends! Thankful I can enjoy some of their sleepovers from pictures. This one was last weekend at Ms. BreAnn's.

Happy Valentines Day Daddy!!

Pre-nap snuggles

I snapped this picture yesterday, realizing that we (Kymber and I) probably won't be able to snuggle as much with Kenzie on the way today. Just wanted to let my sweet Roo know how much I enjoy her and her crazy antics!

Delivery day less than a week

Yikes!!! Did I just type that?!? Valentines day is right around the corner. I am so excited and nervous all at the same time! We have been getting some super cute gifts!

Of course I have to show off my Aunt Donna's amazing talent with her quilting!

Date nights...

The past two Fridays I had date nights with Isaac and Kendall. I wanted to give them some individual time before Kenzie gets here. It was much needed especially with the deployment behavior challenges we have been having.

Isaac and I went to eat at a sports bar in Oceanside called "Rookies." It was quite colorful even at 4:30. Isaac loved all the tv's with different sports on and talked my ear off! I think his favorite thing about the meal was his root beer float!

We went shopping for Pokemon cards (new obsession) and had dessert. I feel bad that I couldn't take him to do more but I of course have to be careful with the baby!

Kendall was much easier to plan for! I took her for her first pedicure. She was so quiet!! I think just taking everything in. She also shared that she couldn't understand the workers.

My 38 week belly

We ate in Oceanside at a place called Teri's cafe. I could have ate my weight in food and Kendall did awesome clean in her plate!

I hope that Ben and I can make more time to have individual time with the munchkins!! How different their personalities are when they are apart!