Goodbye Hawaii

Our time in Hawaii came to an end. We were sad to say goodbye to the Halles, our home and ward.

We absolutely loved living in Hawaii for 3 years!

Baby McKinley

Baby McKinley Susan Kunz joined our family

October 18, 2014 at 10:13pm

weighing 8 lbs. 6 oz. measuring 21 inches long

 

At 36 weeks McKinley dropped but at 38 weeks she floated back up.

Tricking us to think she was going to come soon. ha! for the next week and a half she kept going back and

forth. When I checked into the hospital on Oct. 18th at around 10 am I was dilated to a 4 at -2 station. After a couple of hours of labor McKinley floated back up and I was only dilated to a 5. Everyone thought for sure I would have her quickly since this is my 5th baby but she fooled us all! for the next 12 hours she kept doing the same thing....down and up.

They waited hours before breaking my water because they didn't want to risk breaking it while

she was floating and then have the umbilical cord wrap around her head or else come out first.

After many hours of little progress of dilation and after they broke my water I was given Pitocin to speed up

the labor process. I went super fast after they gave me a little Pitocin.

 

McKinley is such a good baby! She eats every 3-6 hours. She wakes up once in the middle of the night to eat.

She barely cries and loves to be held or cuddled! 

 

 

After we spent a fortune on family beach pictures we decided to 

invest in a really nice camera so we can take our own family pictures!

So we went to the beach and I tested the new camera out!

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE it! It takes such nice pictures and I guess it helps

that my kids are so photogenic and we live in such a beautiful place! 

 And this is my favorite!  haha!

Family Beach Pictures

 

Christmas Day

All the kids did so well with not opening presents this year!

not one single present was opened! yay! The oldest 2 had a lot of fun! The gift that everyone loved the most is the trampoline that Santa brought!

Liberty was still feeling pretty sick. She didn't

want to open any presents so Alexis and I helped her. She

did have enough energy to put on some jewelry and glass slippers.



One of Caseys favorite gifts was this darth vator

mask that his Aunt Susie got for him!