Bill and Kym Peavoy

Friday, March 13, 2009

Indian Tree

I saw this video at a workshop I attended and it really touched me, I thought I'd share it with you.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Sorry my blog is all crazy and changing and probably will be until I get it fixed. Hopefully most of my kinks are out, but we'll see. If this doesn't work I will be moving my blog :(
I hope this doesn't happen!
Okay, it happened. And I'm sad... BUT my blog is working now, and it's way cuter, don't you agree?0

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Heartbroken

The other day I shut down Liam and Ezra's homeschooling blogs and put the posts on this blog simply because I don't post enough on the individual blogs. When you close down a blog you lose everything, so I was very careful to write down in a word document all the cute quotes from the kids and all the homeschooling type links from the sidebars. Not thinking I just left the document open that night and went to bed... I forgot to save it. I came back the next morning to find a blank screen with just a little window open that said something about an error, so I rebooted the computer. I didn't even realize there was a problem until about half an hour ago. I went to find the document and it is no where. Usually when my computer dies word will save the document open, but this time no such luck.

My heart is so broken, and I'm sitting here with tears rolling down my face. I know it probably sounds silly to you, but sometimes it's just the little things like easy access to school stuff and cute quotes from your children that make you happy.

I try to post about positive things, but I learned a lesson today, and I just wanted to share that lesson with you and myself. Save your stuff before you go to bed.

Okay, I'm gonna go make some hot chocolate and watch a comedy or something.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

I is like Superman Mom!!!

I was taking a shower while the two older boys were napping today, and Mo was watching Toy Story. After my shower I was drying off and Mo came into my bedroom and stuck his hands underneath the bathroom door. I wasn't worried about him barging in on me, because he's still just a little to little to open doors with regular doorknobs... or so I thought. After we played the "see my hands Mom?" - "Yes, I see your hands Mo" game for about 5 minutes he stood up and started fiddeling with the door. To my shock and suprise (and Mo's) the door opened and I said "Wow Mo!!! You did it! You are so strong!!!" to which he replied "Yeah! I is like Superman Mom!!!"
These pictures are of him opening his bedroom door later to show his brothers how strong he is.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Help!?!?!

Okay, so back in the day you could click on all my pictures to make them bigger (on the blog), but now it's just not working! It started randomly, for example, this post here. If you click on Mo or Liam's pictures they get big, if you click Ezra's nothing happens.

The two cake pictures are from Obi's baby shower on Saturday. Made by my good buddy Cambria. I posted them for two reasons: 1. because this is a blog, that's what I do. and 2. to see if you can click and make them big.

And then I changed the setting on my camera and posted this picture to see if that fixed it. If it did, then yeah! (I guess). If not then I really need help! Does anyone know why my pictures are being ridiculous?

I uploaded Obi's pictures (a couple posts ago - the one with the preschool pics) from my computer, not my camera and you can't click on them either. Could it be Picasa that is screwing me over? I seriously need help!!!

Friday, February 13, 2009

Happy 4th Birthday Ezra!!!

These pictures were taken the day after Ezra's birth, which is February 11, 2005. Liam was so happy to see his new baby brother, and wanted the world to know that it was his baby.

Now, four years later they are still best friends. Happy Birthday Ezra!!!!

The Royal Birthday Chair:

The royal birthday ribbon:

Rudy made this special chocolate rice kripsie treat just for Ezra. How sweet!

This has to be the best "surprise" face I have ever seen!Ezra asked for a green spider cake this year, instead of a blue one. Instead we made a green crab, and he was even happier with that!Happy Birthday Ezra. Mommy and Daddy love you more than you will ever know!

This is me, explaining to Mosiah why he couldn't open the presents. He was very upset, but got over it when Ezra let him hold one of his already opened presents. What a nice big brother.

Hearse Day

Bill and I were asked by some friends of ours to drive a couple of their hearses into Las Vegas for a Cadillac car show. Little did we know... the mountain was not only covered in snow on the way in, but it was also being dumped on as we drove over. Luckily we've all had experience driving in the crazy stuff! I wanted to get way more pictures but it was freezing, so this is all I've got. Bryan and Dusty drove Mr. Frost, Robyn drove Reaper, I drove C O T C (Car of the coffin) and Bill drove Doom. (Those are the names of the cars by the way). Obi came with us, and we made him a little outfit and car seat cover to go with his hearse. He was the life (death?) of the party.

This last picture is not of a hearse (obviously) but it was the winner of a lot of awards at the car show!

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Preschool and Obi

Our preschool group had a photo shoot 5 days after Obadiah was born, and the photographer happens to be a friend of mine, so she let me do nakey pics of little Obi. I found out when I showed up in my pajamas with no bra and no makeup that the "teachers" (aka. Moms) were supposed to get their photo's taken too... hence the akward sweater picture. My midwife says I look like a 14 year old girl in the picture... actually, she didn't even say girl, maybe I look like a 14 year old boy?!? LOL.

Ezra:

Liam:

Preschoolers and Teachers:

Obadiah Franklin Peavoy:

Monday, January 26, 2009

Stroller Give Away

There is this drawing for the Bumbleride Indie Twin Stroller! Okay, I totally love this stroller! And check out the color, super cool for little boys don't you think? Wish me luck, oh and you can enter to win here.

It's awesome because you can set it up for infants or toddlers (or one on both side...) and you can put your car seat in it. What's not to love, seriously?And look how much space it has underneath, yup, it's the perfect stroller for a mama with a new babe and 3 other boys to boot!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Baby Boy Peavoy

Welcome to the world the newest Peavoy Boy.....

Obadiah Franklin Peavoy

He was born at 6:01 pm, Saturday, January 17, 2009.

Because of the ease and the beauty of Mosiah's birth I wanted to share this experience with my Mom, and whoever else wanted to be there. Kelly and Vanessa decided to come too and Vanessa even brought Sonnie! It was a very crowded, hands on, wonderful experience! I had my first contraction at 3:50 pm, and was afraid it might be another false labor (like a couple of weeks ago... 24 hours of contractions that were 4 minutes apart!) so I waited awhile before I called anyone. After it got to the point that I was unable to stand or move or even breathe through the contractions I realized it was the real thing, and started calling everyone who was supposed to be there as I was home alone.

Bill arrived shortly after the phone call. Vanessa came to get the other boys, so she could drop them off with Jake, pick up Kelly, and come back for the birth, which she predicted would happen around 8:00ish. Cindy (our awesome midwife) was at a restaurant, and said she would pack it up and be there shortly. She later told us that they had just ordered the meal, and they had to tell the waitress that Cindy had to go deliver a baby, could they put a speed on it? The waitress ran the food out to the car just before they drove away! My Dad called while I was in the middle of a huge contraction so I just yelled, "text Mom, tell her I'm having a baby and she needs to come home now!" and Dad went "OH!! OKAY!" and hung up. Unfortunately Marion was at work, and unable to attend the birth, and we sure missed her!

After Vanessa left with the kids I couldn't even get out of bed anymore, so I just laid there and breathed through the contractions while people started to show up. My mom made it and immediately started making lasagna for everyone! Cindy showed up and saw the shape I was in and instead of doing what she normally does with her tools (I'm really not sure what that is, but it doesn't matter) she gave them all to my mom, told her to throw them in a pot of water, and boil them... To which I replied "Ahhh, so you really do boil water at a birth!"

When Cindy checked me she told me that I could start pushing whenever I wanted to, and that was all well and good, except Kelly and Vanessa weren't there yet. Vanessa ended up calling and Bill said "If you aren't here in 3 minutes you are NOT going to make it." So they jumped in the car right then and started on their way. Meanwhile, back on the bed I'm trying to wait until they get here. I know I can hold a baby in for a least a little while because of our adventures in Mosiah's birth story!

When I finally heard their car pull up I rolled off my side and onto my back and decided to let that baby out! When his head crowned I yelled out "the ring of fire!!!" to the amusement of all involved. After Obi's head came out I was surprised to feel that his body didn't slide right out. I said "Is his head out?" and they all said "Yes..." plus more stuff like, "awww" and "he's so red" and so on, and I'm going "THEN WHY DOES IT FEEL LIKE THERE'S A HEAD RIGHT THERE???" and they go "Oh, you have to push his shoulders out!" Well! I've never had to do that before, so I pushed and out he came. Um, ouch! Those shoulders were a bear! I actually tore delivering his body, but not his head!!!

Anyways, it was a quick labor from start to finish, 2 hours and 11 minutes, and the end result was beautiful.

We let Kelly cut the umbilical cord, and then we all looked at the little cutie. They placed bets on how big he was (anywhere from 8 1/2 to 9 lbs seemed to be the going rate), and then we all ate dinner. Cindy was so hungry! She did share her fries with me, and they were YUMMY!

After we all ate (including little Obi) they did the weight and measurements for Obi.

He weighed in at a whopping 9 lbs 14 oz (that's almost 10 lbs.... WHAT????) and he was 22 inches long. (I would like to point out that he may have been over 10 lbs because he pooped 3 times before they actually weighed him!)