Cole is 1 month

My baby is now a month old. He is starting to get a little more fun for the boys. He is such a good baby. He hardly ever cries. I love it that he is starting to stay awake more during the day and sleep for 5 hours at night. I really didn't like only getting 30 min. -1 hr. sleep at night. All in all, everything is great around here.
I really liked this crazy face he was making. It makes me laugh.

Update

It has been kind of crazy around here, staying very busy, so I haven't even had time to turn my computer on.

A couple of weeks ago, my family went to Lake Powell (they go every year). We try and go every year, because it is so much fun, but sometimes we can't. Jacob and Riley really wanted to go this year and so did Chris, but I didn't really want to take a 2 week old baby for a week in that heat. So, Cole and I stayed home and Chris took the other 3 boys. It was really nice having a week with just Cole. Thank you to all my family who helped take care of my boys. Here are some of the pictures of their trip.

There is always a pirate day. You can't go a week, surrounded by water and not pretend you are pirates. This is always the favorite day for the kids, maybe even the adults. This picture is of the treasure hunt.I was told that Parker's favorite thing was to ride the jet skis.Riley in the tube.Parker grew some new, crazy hair on the trip. He really did not like it at first, but he got used to it.My cliff jumpers. This was always on of my favorite things to do. It was Riley's birthday on the last day of the trip. Isn't he so lucky? I think so. Then of course we had to go camping. This is our very beautiful family picture (we will not be using this one for our Christmas card) during our long, up hill hike. So fun!Parker always seemed to find a way to look like this after only being out of the trailer for 10 minutes. I really loved the dirt finger marks down his right eye. We has a tone of fun camping but I didn't take very many pictures. Camping trips are always too short. Oh, well.

Cole is 2 weeks old

OK, so I am trying to get back into life. Cole is now 2 weeks old and doing well. He just had a doctors appointment and he lost weight. The doctor has no idea what is going on because he looks so good. The doctor thinks it could be one of 2 things, the scale could have been wrong last week when he was weighed or that he has a really high metabolism. So, the doctor put Cole on a higher calorie diet and we need to go back next week to get weighed again. All in all things are really good. The boys all love their baby brother. Parker is still really good with him, he will let other people hold him now. Jacob and Riley are loving school. Things are good!

He is Here!!!!!!

Cole Berner Schagel was born today, August 7, @ 9:20am.
7.0# 19 in. he has lots of hair and is as cute as can be.
We are all doing great and can't wait to get out of the hospital. Parker can't wait to get him home too. If he is near the baby he has to be holding him. What a big brother.

Baby Update

On Thursday my friends had a surprise baby shower for me. I was really surprised because I really don't need anything. I have such great friends. Thank you so very much, Jordan, Kay, and Sarah! I had so much fun. It has been way too long since I have been able to just hangout with my friends.

I had a doctors appointment on Friday and everything is going well. I am already dilated to 2 and so if I am on the same track that I was with the other boys, then I on;y have 2 weeks left. Yeah!!! It is getting way too hot here. I have another appointment this Friday. I will let you know how things are going.

Oh, does anyone have any suggestions for a name for the baby? We are having a hard time thinking of another boys name that we like.

4th of July weekend

We had a great weekend in Pintop with my parents and Saundra ans Michael. It was really nice to get away and just relax and have fun. The cooler weather was definitely a plus.

The gang getting ready for the fireworks. All my crazy boys.Jacob, Parker, and Riley watching morning cartoons. We also celebrated Parker's 2nd Birthday while we were there. He loved blowing out the candles and licking the frosting off the cake.

We did lots of other fun stuff, I just didn't have my camera to take pictures of them. Some of the things we did were: hike, shop at the craft shows, ride bikes (just the boys, not me), golf (again, just the boys), play cards, and just hangout. We had a great time.

Catching

Jacob and Riley both got to play the catcher at the last game.

Riley was the catcher the first inning.Jacob was the catcher the second inning.

They only play 2 innings because all the players get to bat every inning. So, it takes longer. It was a lot of fun watching them catch and they had a great time doing it.