Happy Birthday Abigail!!! The Big 4

Our first born is 4! Time flies. So we took her on a special date night with mom and pop to Chucky Cheese and Build a Bear. What a blast we had! None of us had ever been there and it was just the best time with Abigail. It was just constant fun and games. After Chucky Cheese we went to build a bear and she was treated like royalty. There was no one else there so it was easy for her to be catered to. She picked a pony that she named Rosie. Abigail was a dream to be around and I never want these days to end.

Abigail's favorite game trying to beat pop, which she did once.

Oh boy, these faces I just want to kiss.

A sneak peek on what Abigail got for her birthday. Evee wore wouldn't take them off the next day. Abigail had a family birthday party on Sunday following her birthday. That was also so much fun. Grandma Combs, Lareesa, Rachel and Family, and Eric and Solea all came. Abigail wanted to have hamburgers and root beer for dinner. Also, she wanted a Jessie themed party, which was a lot harder to do then I thought. I went to several places looking for a cake but then had to make one up myself. It worked, she help me color the Jessie so it was a great time together.

Here is the birthday girl all dressed up in her cowgirl outfit. It was the best we could do not having any cowgirl stuff. (She was getting all the cowgirls stuff her birthday)

Opening presents.

Evee was right there with her sister and having so much fun entertaining all the adults.

There she is. Cowgirl Abigail....

This is an awesome picture. It was so wonderful to have Eric and his fiance Solea there. She is the best and I am so excited she is going to be my sister-in-law. She fits right in. We love her... Eric was so great too, to have there. He helped Justin cook and clean and then they gave me a blessing at the end of the night. I was pretty much useless due to my sickness. Everyone was so kind and helpful..

She thought Uncle John was bullseye.

Don't you just love this picture...

Evee looks so sad in this picture but really she was running around like a crazy girl and being silly, so i don't know why this looks sad.

Grandma and Abi

Don't grow up too fast girl.

My fun loving man. Can't say enough about him. He helped me all weekend by letting me sleep Saturday and got the house ready for the party. He just takes care of me all around. Evee I just love you..

Evee got to open some gifts too. Eric and Solea brought their gifts for Evee because they couldn't be there for her birthday. She felt so special and loved everything she got.

A labor of love

I just had to start this post with that sweet baby Evelyn. She is seriously the greatest thing and that picture makes me laugh every time i see it and that is what I have been needing this week.

In my last post I talked about the back pain I have been having for over a month and now we have a better idea of what I have since I have been to several doctors. I have hydronephrosis. This is pretty common in pregnancy but still extremely painful they say. (oh really like I wasn't aware of that. ha ha) It happens usually after your 20th week because you baby starts to get bigger so your uterus puts pressure on the tubes leading to the kidneys. In my case my right kidney is not functioning like it should and it isn't releasing any urine making it swollen.

What they mainly due is give you pain meds to manage the pain but the ones they give me I don't do so well on so I only take them at night. So I deal with the pain during the day. Some days I just stay in bed with heating pad and a tissue box. On days where I have no other choice to get out of bed and be a mom I just prepare myself for a hard night and a hard next day. My girls do thier best with a "sloth" like mom and keep my spirits up. Other days I think they go crazy from lack of doing and aren't so helpful but they are not the ones to blame. Poor things. But hopefully this will all end soon. I have an appointment with a specialist and I am praying that they will have a solution for I can not go 2 more months in this amount of pain.

Not only am I having to deal with that crap I went to my eye doctor just to do my annual check up because I am running out of contacts and I got some terrible news there too. I have several cysts on my left eye (3 dozen) where the doc thinks that it could lead to an ulcer if I don't get it taken care of. So that means no contacts for 3 weeks maybe longer. ( that is a big deal for me, i hate glasses) I got this because I over wear my contacts. Yeah... Also, both my astigmatisms got worse by a lot. Some of this could be due to my pregnancy but he wasn't so hopeful. So now I feel sick, feel like a huge balloon and bloated and now I get to wear my stupid glasses. Just doesn't get any better than this...

After all that I will say that my life is pretty good and this is just temporary. I look back at my life 6 to 8 years ago and I was lonely and didn't think I would have the family I wanted and now I do. My life is full of love and life and I wouldn't have it any other way. My Heavenly Father knows I am tough and I can get through this temporary pain if I know that there is a greater good at the end of the road. Our little boy is worth it and I can't wait to meet him. Thank you God for what is good in my life and thank you for the rough road to remind me of all that is good in my life.

Now enjoy these cute faces as I do every day.

This may start out with an innocent picture but she has many more faces she was just waiting to throw out once my camera was on her.

This is the reaction I got from the girls when I said that Uncle Kort got his drivers license. Made me laugh.

Evelyn is so stinking cute. She is just full of spunk at this age and keeps me on my toes.

My how old she looks in this picture with her gymnastics outfit on. Stop getting older.

Here she is with her loot after her preschool valentines party.

Arrrrgh... that is one pretty pirate. Don't know why she loves this eye patch so much but every time we go to my friend Laina's house she finds it.

Here is my tummy at 27 weeks and my cute outfit. It at least made me feel cute for our Valentines date night. I even got a sweet compliment from a random girl in the mall. Made my night. Thank you random stranger. Some time soon i promise to get a picture that I didn't have to take on my phone myself.

My new favorite restaurant is Mama Chu's in Provo. I have been there once before years ago and kinda forgot about it until Saturday. For our date night we were going to go to the Macaroni Grill but after seeing traffic and the wait we decided that it wasn't worth it, so we saw this place and I wanted Mexican so we headed right in. It totally hit the spot. Their servings were perfect not too big or small and the drink below (virgin Pina Colda) was a dream. Made my pregnant belly really happy. Then off we went to get pedicures. Yes my husband and myself went and go one. We had one of the best nights. No rushing, lots of talking, relaxing and just being friends. Luckily, I had a good night health wise so that made for an even better night. However, two in the morning I was in excruciating pain and didn't sleep the rest of the night but it was worth it.. :) I love my husband more than anything. He has made me a better wife, mother and person and no one can make me laugh like he does. I love you Justin. My beautiful flowers from my amazing man.

Evelyn snuggling up with aunt Lareesa. She sure does love her and has a special place in her heart.

While trying to make a baby cover for the car seat the girls wanted to take a spin in it. They had a blast playing baby and it made mom's day to see them playing so well with one another.

Abi's turn.

Abigail pouting one day that pop wouldn't answer his phone when she tried to call. She was not a happy camper.

Abi's and Evelyn's valentines gift from mom and dad was this board and here is Abigail's picture of her baby brother.