Samuel Whaley Purves

Our baby Sam was born on April 6th at 10:11pm.

He was 2 weeks early and weighed 7lbs, 5 oz. We went to the hospital that night around 6pm that night for me to be induced. Around 8pm they broke my water. Contractions didn't really start coming until close to 9pm. But that's when one of our favorite shows, Lost is on. I jokingly told Chris that I can't have the baby until Lost is over. Contractions started coming everything 3-4 minutes apart during that hour. After a contraction ended I'd ask Chris what I missed. A couple of minutes before the show was over, the nurse came in to check me and she said I was almost dilated to a 10, so I could start pushing. What? I didn't expect it to happen so fast. I gave a few practice pushes with the nurse there, and then when the doctor was there and ready, I pushed him out. It was so fast and I was so happy to have a smaller baby than my other two boys. We love having a little baby to hold. He is so sweet and brings us so much peace to our crazy lives. Other than being exhausted from lack of sleep, we are happy and adjusting well.

Merry Christmas

We had a nice Christmas with just our family.
Here's the dinner that Chris made for us all by himself. It turned out great and I was very impressed.
















George quickly opened each of his presents and asked for the next one. He was excited for his remoted control helicopter from Santa, but sad that Santa forgot to buy batteries. Oops. Here's the one picture we got of him with a present.

















Tommy would have been happy with just soda for Christmas. After he opened his presents he wanted to drink his. He pointed to this glass that was on the counter. He started smiling and giggling when I started pouring his soda in it. Then he sat there for atleast 15 minutes drinking his soda. He enjoys fine dining.

Baby #3 is a...

BOY!
Today we had an ultrasound and found out that we're having another boy. We were so sure that it was a girl-probably because we wanted one so bad. But we're happy that he looks healthy and we're already used to boys. George is very happy. We're happy too. I guess the cute girly clothes will have to wait.

















I'm 19 weeks pregnant and already looking big.

















But there's more room to grow. This is me the day I delivered Tommy. Can I really get that big?

It's been a while but here are some of the thing we've done lately.


George's first day of preschool.
New outfit and bucket to take his
show and tell and snack in.



















Our little firemen















Yummy batter
















Our sweet neighbor girls that George and
Tommy love to play with.















Chillin' in the dump trucks

Our Garden

This was my first time to really plant anything. We started from seed a couple of months ago and I'm so happy that everything is actually growing. We have watermelon, corn, carrots and green beans.

We've Moved!

So we've finally moved. The process of selling our condo was very stressful. Our closing date kept getting pushed back and we weren't sure if we were going to lose this house, but it all worked out. We've been here for about a month. We love our new home and all the space it provides. George says his favorite thing about his new house is having his own bedroom. Chris likes taking the train to work (45 minutes), but we miss being so close to each other. I'm still getting adjusted to being in a new town and missing how comfortable we were in Davis with our family and friends. I can't wait for things to feel more normal. We're almost out of boxes, and we have a lot of painting ahead and a yard that's just weeds (come summer it will be dirt). We're excited to get this place fixed up and make it feel like home.

Here the boys are helping me pack.



Unpacking into our living room. Yes, we will
be painting it. Chris calls it our 80's Rock room.


Tommy's excited about all the new things he
sees in the phone book.



Here's Chris mowing down our weeds with
The Billy Goat. He couldn't stop smiling.


Halfway done.

We're Moving!

Our exciting news is that we are buying a house. We've been looking at homes since September but they've all been close to Davis and in our stake. Then over Christmas break we started talking about a town about 40 minutes away. It's called Roseville and what drew us there was that there's an Amtrak train station (Chris' commute), it has a lot of members of the church, homes are so much more affordable than Davis, and it helps that there's every store you can think of to go shopping at. When we got back from Texas we drove around a neighborhood, but we were still deciding. Then a couple of days later we drove around again and I had a list of homes we wanted to drive by. We went to the home that was having an open house first. We couldn't believe what we saw. Our mouths kept dropping as we looked around the house (in a good way) We loved it. And the back yard was amazing. That's why we came to look at the house. We drove to the train station to see how far away it was and then drove back and told them we wanted to make an offer. Chris and I are very indecisive people, so we couldn't believe we had just made a decision. It still felt right, so we went with it. It's been 2 weeks now and it's crazy. We've adjusted more to the idea. We're so excited with a mixture of sadness because we're moving out of Davis. We never thought we would. I guess I'm going to have to change our blog address. We're scheduled to close Feb. 20th. We feel so blessed to be buying this home. If we had waited a day longer we would have missed our chance. There are 3 back up offers on this place. Crazy.

And this is the reason why.