Welcome Baby!!

We went to the hospital on Wednesday night so that we would be ready to start the induction early Thursday morning. Thursday morning (March 24) they started the pitocin around 6:30 am, the Dr came in and broke my water, and the contractions started. It was pretty smooth sailing from there. I started getting pretty miserable so I got an epidural, turns out I was now dialated to a 6. The epidural worked great, and I felt wonderful afterward :) A little while longer and I was ready to go. I pushed for about 20 quick minutes and then we welcomed our sweet new baby boy at 12:21 pm. He came in weighing 7 pounds 15 ozs, and was 19 in long. It was a great very quick labor, I still can't believe it went so fast. We didn't have a name picked out at all till that morning, somehow I thought of Ryan and it seemed to fit. Lance and I both agreed on it, so it just stuck. Dean is after Lance's grandfather who married us. So we have Ryan Dean Beus. He is wonderful, and healthy and we couldn't feel more blessed to have him. Here are some pictures from the big day :)

Wednesday night....ready for this to be over!

Welcome baby Ryan....

Still drugged and no longer pregnant...thats why I'm so happy :)

Babies look a little scary at first, luckily he gets cuter everyday

Family of 4.....

Getting ready to go home, finally

Kendall loves her brother

Both getting much needed rest in the hospital
She's such a big helper

Happy Birthday Kendall

As I'm putting these pictures on here, the order seems to have gotten all messed up. But I guess you still get the idea :)

Kendall turned 2 on Feb 12. I can't believe how the time has flown by, what a crazy wonderful couple of years it has been. We are so lucky to have our little princess, she makes everyday more wonderful.

She loved opening presents, and she really loved playing in the wrapping paper everything came in.

We had swimming lessons in the morning. She loves swimming!! The only problem is that she really thinks she can do it all by herself, she's not afraid of anything.

Blowing out her birthday candle.

Opening presents, she is in a Thomas the train phase, so she about died when she saw this.



We bought her a bunch of balloons, so when we woke up she knew it was her birthday from all the balloons. She thought it was the greatest thing ever.

We love our sweet Kendall!!!!

In other news....I'm still pregnant. Now 35 weeks miserable. Trying to hang on for this last little while, but we are getting very excited for our new little boy to get here. Kendall loves going to the Dr and listening to the heart beat, she gets really excited and talks non stop about our baby. Of course she lifts up her shirt and thinks that she has one too, but I'm glad she's excited.

We are so blessed!!!

February so far....

I can't believe its already February!!! I mean didn't we just have Thanksgiving?! Honestly, where does the time go?!

Kendall has decided that she loves shoes now, especially ours. She's actually pretty good at walking in heels already.

We have been trying to make Valentines to send out. Kendall has decided that she loves making hearts, so thanks to the cold weather we're still having we've been making lots of them. She has also decided that she loves saying "cheese" when I want to take pictures of her, so this is the face we get alot these days :)

And finally I have taken a belly shot. Oh surprise, if you didn't know, I'm pregnant! Here I am in all my 32 week glory. I feel huge already, and am so ready for March to be here. I feel like this pregnancy has taken extra long this time. Probably cause I was so sick, and now I'm in way more pain then I ever was with Kendall. So I'm counting down the days. It's a boy this time, so we're super excited for Kendall to have a brother and all the new adventures that are sure to come.

Christmas

We spent Christmas in H0uston, we had a great time being with my whole family. It seems like its been a while since we were all together. But it was great, and Kendall loved being able to play with her cousins. We wish that we lived closer, she asks about them everyday. She got so many toys and things to play with our whole house is being taken over by Kendall and her toys.

Family picture, too early, on Christmas morning.

Kendall is really into saying "cheese" now for the pictures.

She got a kitchen, thanks zach for putting it together!!!

Reading with her cousins Ethan and Alivia, Uncle Chad, and Grandpa

Cousins Cade, Breck, and Kendall

Playing the Ipad with Uncle Zach

Kendall with her Thomas train, a very popular gift

Kendall in her Belle costume, she is still wearing everyday!
Watching her new favorite movie "The Grinch" with Cade

Setting up the candles outside Grandmas house with Cade and Ethan

I love Christmas, and am sad that the holidays are now over. We love being able to spend time with our family and friends and are looking forward to 2011 and for all the adventures that it holds for us!!!

Temple

For Christmas we got to go down to Houston, we had a great time, but one of the best things we got to do was go with my family to the temple. Haley was going through for the first time and so we were so lucky to be able to go with her. We are so proud of her, Haley is going to be serving a mission soon. She was called to the El Salvador/Belize mission. She leaves Feb. 23. Although we already miss her, I can't wait to hear about all her adventures and just know she will be the most amazing missionary ever!!!!!

Dollywood

Last year around this time we went to Dollywood, we were suckers and got talked in to getting season passes for 2010. Funny thing about that, we never quite made it back throughout the year. So while there was only a couple of weeks left of 2010 we decided to finally go back and make buying the stupid passes worth it. We had a great time, Kendall was able to go on a bunch of the rides and loved it, which made it all worth it for us. Christmas time is the best time to go to Dollywood because of all the fun decorations and lights that they put up for the season.

And no, we didn't get sucked into buying passes for 2011 :)

Thanksgiving

I have not been doing a stellar job of keeping up with this, or of taking pictures lately. But I blame my huge belly that seems to have taken my brain away too. So I'll try to do some quick updates from all the recent holidays. For Thanksgiving we stayed here at home but were lucky enough to have Lance's parents come for the week. We had a great time with them, and always want to have more visitors (hint, hint). Of course I didn't take many pictures, but one day we went to the zoo and I did remember the camera. So here are a few shots from then.

Kendall loved the zoo, she just loves animals. And she got some new sunglasses for the days, she wouldn't take them off the whole time we were there.

What a fun week we had, we have so much to be thankful for!!