Kohen turns 4

 The last picture of my 3 year old!! 

 Kohen was introduced to paw patrol by his Grandma Trina and has been in love with it ever since. He was SO excited to have a paw patrol party and invite some of his friends and school friends.

 yes, we didn't have plates.. just dog bowls to eat out of haha 

I was actually really nervous to have a friend party with him being so young but he was so excited to have his friends come play and everything be paw patrol. The hit of the party was the pinata. no surprise there. Grandma Trina was also so sweet to make Kohen's birthday cake that he thought was so cool being a huge dog bone. We celebrated the next day (sunday) with family. He loved running wild with cousins and eating more cake!
I can not believe I have a four year old. We are hoping this year brings a happier, better behaved Kohen. He is so smart. He loves to learn but has hit a stubborn spot and is just wanting to review things he knows which we are ok with. He is ready to read but has no interest. He knows how to trick us parents now and is dang good at it. He is obsessed with playing monster and hide and seek. He has the most contagious laugh and the cutest smile. We love him more and more every day and know we are so beyond blessed he is in our family.

baby makes 3

 Kellen and I had decided we wanted to start trying for another baby. We knew there was a possibility that it could take longer or we would have to get extra help because of my colon being removed. We tried for 13 months before going to the fertility doc we saw before we had Kohen and Hadley. We started the week after talking to him with the intentions of doing IUI. ^^ picture above is the box of shots and hormones for me to give myself!!!

 When I went in for an ultrasound to see how many follicles we had after the shots, etc.. we had 7! (I wasn't even on the amount of hormones as normal woman who does IUI, I was on less!!!) With having Kohen so early and knowing that we didn't want multiples because of the high risk of premature birth the doctor said there is no way he would continue with IUI for me. He knew we would get multiples because of how many follicles were mature. We moved on to IVF knowing we would only transfer one egg that hopefully wouldn't split! This is a picture of me Kellen took when he came to pick me up after they retrieved the eggs. November 4th

 Transfer day!! This is November 9th.. the day they transfered our embryo into me!!

 The day we found out from the blood test and urine test that we are expecting another Robbins babe!!

My 5 week baby bump picture. It is kinda weird that two weeks after placing the embryo into my uterus that I was 5 weeks pregnant. This pregnancy has been the longest pregnancy already. I had to give myself progestrone shots for 10 weeks and they made me miserably sick. I tried to convince my doctor to let me stop but because of IVF I had to continue. Once I was done with them I was feeling like my other two pregnancies which was better than this. FOR SURE.

My kids are SO excited. We may have told them I was expecting too soon because they were so excited and Kohen kept telling people before we were ready. Kohen now thinks its a boy and Hadley will only talk about it being a girl. I asked her if she will be ok if it is a boy, she started cry and said she will fight with it if its a boy. Hadley is also convinced she has a baby in her belly as well. She is always saying if she eats too much her baby will get a tummy ache, or if Kohen hits her she says he hurt her baby. It is so funny!

We are due July 28th but the doctor will only let me go to 37 weeks tops because of the pressure that will be on my j-pouch the bigger the baby gets.

Hadley's 2nd birthday!

 My sweet Hadley, the last picture as a one year old.

We did a twinkle twinkle little star theme for Hadley's birthday. We decided to do this theme because she loves loves to sing this song. all. day. long.

We rented a bounce slide. The did have a lot of fun going down the slide and being wild. We had a scare with it that made the party a bit dull for a while but everyone got over it after a while and enjoyed the slide.

 Grandma Julie made the cake this year and Hadley loved it like we all knew she would!

 We take a picture with mom and dad every year on the kids birthday. I haven't shared all of them (because my face was massive in some) but we always take one :)

This sweet girl LOVED her birthday. She loved her party, her birthday day, her cake and everything between. This picture is of her dancing while eating a cupcake. She would eat junk food ALL day long if we let her. Thank you to everyone for coming to celebrate Hadley. She still sings happy birthday so often and wants it to be her birthday again. We love this girl and all her wildness.

Kohen turns 3!

Kohen had such a fun birthday this year. He is still in love with anything farm or horse related so we decided to do a john deer theme and have his favorite farmer Gil come with his horses. 

 Hadley loved holding the rope and leading the horse around :)

 his cute cake Grandma Trina made :)

cousins enjoying suckers after the FUN pinata Kell was super excited for. We were able to have the horses and farmer Gil for a while in the backyard. The kids all loved riding the horses. It was so cute to see how some just fell in love with riding.. just like Kohen! He was so spoiled and opened gifts from loved ones.. ate lunch and hit the pinata. It was such a fun day for him. When everyone left he said "mom, where did all my friends go?" He would have lived that day over and over again. 

I still can't believe my baby boy is 3! We love that he is part of our fam. and some days can't believe how strong he is. 

4th of July happiness

as everyone knows. this is my favorite holiday. ever! 

We started our day off with the yearly parade with my family. We have my moms side and my dads side there. It is always so fun to see everyone. My kids loved it! Hadley was a bit tired from staying up late the night before (poor girl is getting 2 top teeth) so she mostly sat with different people and watched. Kohen was waving hi, giving high fives, getting candy and loving it all.  We then went back to my parents house with everyone and had breakfast. 

best family tradition. 

we took a nice family nap and then went out to dinner.

then off to the fireworks with my moms side of the family. they had some music playing and grandma julie got the kids toys that they enjoyed so much. 

we drove home and passed out. We love this day and the time we are able to spend with family and remember those who have made it possible for us to have our freedom. 

let me just show you how hard it is for us to get a picture.....

and soooo when we have a family picture where my 1 and 2 year old are looking at the camera (or anywhere near) we are happy haha

love them and how much energy they have. 

life keeps going

As I am sure everyone knows by now that I had surgery. I had my entire colon removed! yikes. This was a long time coming surgery and was a very hard decision we made as a family. I kept saying "what if I die".. just trying to be all dramatic. ha! so I wanted a picture with my babies before I went in for surgery. We took this picture the night before I went to the hospital. I HATE my fat face from all the medicines I was on but I wanted that picture in case I died. ha!ha!
on a side note, I am on ZERO medicines now. could not be happier about that.
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as I said. life goes on. Even though I was in the hospital for 4 days having my lovely surgery life was still going on. Hadley fell down the staris and needed her daddy. He had just gotten off work and came to hang out with me at the hospital when we got a call for him to go home because Hadley needed him. The first picture is of Kellen and Hadley at the doctor office. She broke her sweet little arm. Doesn't stop this brave girl though. She does everything she wants still and is so funny with her cast. She knows how to take it off so we are constantly putting it back on and trying to keep her busy so she will leave it on.

Kohen still had gym class and still loves it so much. Since Kohen was born so early he has seen and still sees many many different doctors. He had a doctor appointment while I was down with one of the higher up doctors and so Kellen and Grandma Julie were able to go and take him. We are so lucky with how things turned out with Kohen. We have heard stories and seen other children who were born early like him and are not as lucky.

We have been so spoiled and lucky that my mom was able to take FOUR weeks off from work to stay home and help take care of Kohen, Hadley and me. She has been such a huge help and my kids have grown even closer to her. I can not thank her enough for changing a million diapers, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, feeding the kids and so much more. She is the best mom to even think about taking that time off from her life to help keep mine going. THANK YOU mom! we love you so much and appreciate you more than we can ever say.

Life is going on and we are getting super healthy around here..
going to ride horses has become a usual thing again and of coarse the library.
LOVE getting back to my normal healthy life.