CATCHING UP...

I've decided to make it a goal to try to blog about once a week.
Its actually going to be our family journal.
And its been awhile since I've blogged on here's whats been going on with us....

BABY COHEN COMING HOME
These are pictures of when we came home from the hospital. The kids weren't allowed to come to the hospital because of the swine flu, so this is when they met their new baby brother. This was one of the sweetest moments of my life. They were so excited and wanted to hold Cohen and give him lots of kisses. Even a month later they still are excited to hold him and love on him.

PICTURES

In September and October we had our friend, Brenley take some pictures
of our kids. We LOVE them. Cohen's was taken about a week and a half
after he was born.

BABY COHEN

VIOLET CHRISTINE

JUDE DUDE

Halloween!! GO DUCKS !!

He's here!

COHEN KNIGHT CAMPBELL

Cohen was born Friday afternoon at 4:36pm. He weighed 7 lbs 9 ozs and was 21 inches long. He is the sweetest little boy and his brother and sister can't get enough of him.

Come on baby!

ITS ALMOST TIME!

Only 13 days left until our little baby boys due! From fear of having 3 children I have been more than happy to have this pregnancy take a long time. Its not that I didn't want to have this baby boy join our family, its just the thought of having 3 kids is an overwhelming thought. When I found out I was pregnant I said to myself, "I still have 9 long months to go, plenty of time to prepare myself". That attitude actually made the 9 months fly by. Now that I'm down to the last stretch and can't wait to get this little guy out of me it feels like everyday crawls by. My cervix are thinning and I'm having a lot of Braxton Hicks contractions, so hopefully that's a sign that things are getting ready. I actually have loved my last two experiences of giving birth so that's another reason I'm wanting to get this show on the road. We're not 100% sure about his name so we'll blog that when he gets here.

VIOLET & JUDE
My kids are the cutest. They are so good!

Violet just started preschool for 3 afternoons a week and loves it. She is in the same class as her cousin Jaxon. She's a really good sister, wanting to give her little brother kisses and hugs and show him how to do things. She's looking more and more like a little girl and less and less like a toddler.
Jude decided to crawl out of his crib last month so until a couple days ago he was sleeping in his playpen (shorter fall). Below is a picture of when Violet had crawled into his playpen to cuddle. Now that Jude is in a toddler bed half the time he crawls in bed with his sister. After we put the kids to bed we always hear Violet saying in her high pitched talking to a baby voice "Jude its okay, its time to sleep...". She's such a good big sis. Jude is also talking like crazy and always has a bruise from trying to jump off something or crawl up on something.

It's a........

We went in to have our ultrasound today
and found out we were having another BOY!

P-land trip

Last Saturday Paul and I decided at the last minute to take the kids up to OMSI. They both loved it! We both wanted to get out of town cause there's not tons to do around here when its raining. Here are some pictures:

On the way to OMSI we stopped to show Violet the temple. Paul explained to her that it was Jesus's house. Then Violet said "I want to go and see Jesus". How cute is that?

Thank you everyone!

THANK YOU to everyone who has been saying prayers in my behalf! I'm now officially into my 7th week of pregnancy and I haven't had a bit of nausea (prayer works, who knew? j/k). Seriously, in my last 2 pregnancies the nausea started in my 6th to 7th week so I'm feeling super blessed. A couple of nights ago i had a little bit of bleeding and it scared me straight - I realized how much I now want this little baby. Luckily it stopped and I feel fine!

Updates on the kids:
Violet has been a really good girl. She's super into pretending. I hear her having little pretend conversations with different people when she's playing in her room alone. She's also a little monkey - wanting to climb on anything she can. And she is now officially going on the potty!
Jude is always a good little boy. He's always happy even when he's sick. Just last week he started signing for "food" and "all done." Its pretty dang cute. He's also walking like a pro. A couple of weeks ago he had his first haircut. I'll post pictures soon.

Uh oh...

CAMPBELL FAMILY PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Trojans do not work!