Sprinting to the finish...

So here we are at the close of another year....I have recently decided via inspired some good friends...(Bri and Dem) to recognize more of the things I am grateful for in this life instead of see what I don't have or still want. As this year closes, let me close with the things I am most grateful for this year. I am so grateful to have a wonderful husband who loves me and adores me, I know we both still have a lot to work on to get to perfect amazing marriage together, and I love that we are both willing to weather the storms together and enjoy the clear sky happy moments. I am grateful that Taegyn is a healthy happy boy, he brings so much joy to our life, he has been such an easy baby and loads of fun, he is officially walking and officially big, I am so grateful that I am not in a hospital wondering if my baby is going to be ok and live, or fighting a horrible disease or that anything other than a simple cold here or there has happened to Taegyn. I love him immensely and am grateful that I get to wake up and play, teach and love him each day, I am grateful that he can teach me to be more patient, kind, loving and grateful for him in my life. He is such a sweet little independant boy. I believe he is very special and will be a teacher to Shad and I our whole lives. I am grateful that I am able to get pregnant again easily and that we have another coming to share our lives together. There are times when I find myself getting uncomfortable or being frustrated with being pregnant, and I remind myself to have gratitude for the ability to be able to have babies and bounce back quickly. I am a lucky woman and so am daily waking up and choosing to be grateful that this new spirit is growing in my belly. I am grateful to my parents for helping me so much with school and life in general, they are trusted companions throughout my whole life, they have embraced Shad like one of their own and have shown so much love an gratitude towards him and that is something I am truely grateful for, that he can feel so much love and acceptance from them. I can never say thank you enough to all my parents have done and will continue to do for me. :) I am grateful that I have a wonderful best friend Demeree and that I can tell her anything and everything and she will listen without judgement, she is there for me when I have my lowest lows and celebrates with me my joys and highs in life, she truely is a sister to me and I know we will stay close throughout our lifetime. I am grateful despite her extreme struggles this year that she can be an example of forgiveness and letting go. I am grateful for opportunities to work and go to school. I am almost done, I have 6 more classes I need to take to get my bachelors, and then I will probley take a break. I should be done this next summer. I am grateful I have a flexible schedule where I get to work from home and when I go in the field I can pretty much decide when. I am grateful that we have a house, the goal is to get the upstairs computer room done for christmas...I used to get frustrated about living in an unfinished house, but now I realize I can be grateful for even having a house, and a big one for us at that, it keeps us warm and safe, I truely am grateful for our house and all the comfort it gives us. I am grateful for my brothers and sister, they have become my best friends and weather all kinds of storms with me, I could not make it through this life without them, well I guess I could, but it would never be as fun as it is now. I am grateful that I live in America and that I don't have to worry about someone taking my babies and making them do horrible things, I know those things are happening in America too, but I am grateful to live and St. George and to be protected and sheltered. I am grateful for the gospel, I am grateful I have something to rely on and help me have a strong foundation when life tempts and trys me. I have had a wonderful year, between school, work and family and friends I can say that 2007 has been a great time, it certainly has flown by so fast. I look forward to what the future holds for us and continue to wake up each day thinking of things I can be grateful for......:)The Sorensens

My boy is now officially walking...

Well there you go, they grow up too fast, Taegyn is now offically walking everywhere he goes, he may crawl a few paces but then he will stand up and start walking, where the heck does the time go.....

Taegyn's first Halloween, we had a blast...

So Tae had his fist official trick or treating experience, he was a tiger and got more candy than he'll ever eat...He is almost walking...so close and we have a blast with him! He now says HI really loud and lots of times over and over, and is doing more signs....we love the guy...

Taegyn is starting to walk.... :)

So our big boy is starting to walk, it is so cute, he takes like 4 or 5 steps on his own and then falls down and is sooo excited to try again, he will be walking on his own in no time. He is also acting more and more independant, wanting to feed himself and do things himself, no help from mommy. His laugh is my favorite sound these days. Another great thing just in case for those of you who don't know, we have another addition to the family on the way due April 16th! I think it is a girl, now I will have another baby to write about. So Taegyn got in his first fight today...ok well it was not really a fight, but he tried to take away a game boy from another little boy who is about 17 months and the boy bite his head, he had little teeth marks and everything....so sad, he didn't understand why that happened because he had never had that happen before. He ended up being just fine and the two of them went on playing together again and it was neat to watch him learn how to share and learn how to play nice. :) I love him so much, he brings so much joy in my life! My mom took him for two days and was able to confirm that he likes to climb and get into everything right now. The best has to be my dear husband...I was gone in the field working and Shad had him by himself for 2 days and when I got back Shad was ready to finish the house, he went on about how it is not baby proof and Taegyn gets into everything....pretty much everything I had been telling him the last 4 months, that is one of those times I am glad I leave and Shad has to be full-time daddy, then he REALLY understands instead of me just saying it. :)

The joy of cousins...:)

So this is another one of my favorite faces that Taegyn pulls, especially when Secoya tries to be big and hold him. All the time Secoya wants to hold him and he knows she is too small, (he is too heavy for her) and this is what ends up happening...I love it! :)

Poppers

Hey I was just thinking....since my last entry, nobody better get Taegyn a popper as a joke for christmas or something...Spencer don't even think about it or this will happen to your face....:)
Ok I can't get the picture to show up without it being huge....so here is the link
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w156/jenniepoolsorensen/IMG_3026.jpg

More of my beautiful boy...

blowing out the birthday candle!

Happy Boy!

Taegyn's new favorite toy!

For his first birthday Taegyn got leap frog barn, you can put a horse, a sheep, a duck and a pig, you also can put the front and back of the animals and mix them up, the little frog on the top plays banjo songs, so every so often I hear..."she'll be coming around the mountain when she comes....." and "you made a match, look what you've done...you've made a match, hear a horse sound...." in a little kid melody, oh the little frog also plays "banjo on my knee" and "the farmer and the dale..." he plays and plays and plays, then pulls off all the magnents off the fridge, the end of my day always ends with putting the DVD's back on the shelf, putting his books back on the shelf, restocking the tuperware cupboard (it is just for him, since he can't break anything and he pulls everything out) and putting all the magnents back on the fridge...Oh what I life, I love that little guy....at least he doesn't have a popper...:)

This is him eating his yummy birthday cake, he threw up later....but I am sure it was worth it...:)

Taegyn;s birthing story.....

Well, here we go, Shad and I decided we wanted to start trying for a baby, he thought it could take 6 months or more....not me! I knew as soon as we started trying I would get pregnant. Sure enough we started "trying hard" in september and I got pregnant at the start of November, I thought I had gotten pregnant in october and I wanted to try a home birth so I found a midwife here in St. George, I found the one with the most experience in town because I didn't want people to worry. I started going every month for check ins and I was always measuring small, the pregnancy was wonderful, my skin was awesome, I was never sick, and on the whole I felt great. The only thing that bothered my was the sense of smell, it was off the wall, I could smell everything to the one millionth power. I could smell meat in a way I have never thought I could, it made me want to throw up. I could smell my husband if he didn't shower everyday...we laugh about this now but sometimes I would refuse to go to bed until he rinsed off!! The closer we got the the delivery day the more excited I got, my best friend and sister Demeree is a massage therapist and she helped me with sore muscles and relaxing. I was fine as far as being comfortable until my last trimester, man then it started to get annoying and uncomfortable, I had a hard time sleeping and trying to be comfortable sitting down, and it was HOT, I live in St. George Utah and I am telling you don't be pregnant your last trimester here, it was so miserable sometimes...I would walk outside and want to walk right back inside....especially in JULY, it is the worst month here and we still had not installed central air....we had a smamp cooler, and that means that it was still 85 to 90 degrees because in was 114 outside... yeah not fun! Anyway we realized we were off because my due date was June 26 and as that date closer we realized he was not going to come that day, I took a few stress tests and he always tested fine, my midwife started to get nervous and question herself about timing and after that I started to realize she was getting nervous and putting me into a high risk pregnancy bracket because she still felt like there was a chance I was just way over due...July came and went and at that point I wanted to scream, I was so tired of being pregnant, I just wanted him here, well tuesday night I had horrible contractions all night and the morning or August 2 on Wednesday I knew that he was going to come, (guess he wanted nothing to do with the month of July) we called the midwife at 6am and she came over, measured his heartbeat and flipped out, she said it was too low, after she put me on oxygen she said if it did not change we would have to go to the hospital, at this point I was furious, here I had gone my whole pregnancy waiting to have a home birth and working with Liz and now because she was uncomfortable and couldn't accept that we had just been off on the day, she didn't was to take what was to her a huge risk and deliver my baby, once I realized this Shad asked everyone to leave the room and we prayed, I always felt good about it and didn't feel like we needed to be scared, but I could feel the tension from everyone else, they just wanted me safe and in the hospital, I agreed to go to the hospital and at least get a stress test but that if everything was fine I was going to leave and have the baby at home, I did not want some random doctor delivering my baby, fortunatley as soon as we got there I realized Dr. Lunt was oncall that day, he had been there for my other stress tests, I really liked working with him and being very angry at Liz I finally decided to stay at the hospital, Liz offered to stay, but I didn't want her there. In the end it all worked out because my whole family pretty much came down and was able to be there for his birth. I got an epidural because I was just tired of feeling the contractions, and we relaxed and played cards. About 3pm I started feeling intense contractions and I asked for more medicine, they said I was at an 8 and that we were going to go for it, I had Taegyn at 3:31 pm and he was amazing, he was so relaxed, immediatly started nursing and so sweet, my life changed for the best that day and it was so amazing to see Shad have tears of joy in his eyes for his beautiful son we had brought into this world, he was protective and sweet and such a good daddy... needless to say it was a long 10 months but worth the wait.

Taegyn's birth story

Ok so this is going to happen sometime soon, I am in the middle of finals so I am going to have to pause for at least the rest of this week, and then on to the good stuff, I have quite the birthing story to tell....:)

Taegyn's First Birthday...! Lots of fun!!

We had a blast celbrating Taegyn's first birthday, as you can see below if you play the video....he had a lot of fun eating his cake. I can't believe a year has already gone by, he is so big and learning all about the world so quickly!! I am so excited he is a part of our life. He is almost walking, still a little unsure about how to do that without help. He also is understanding more and more, we have a smart one on our hands, he does the funniest stuff and makes the silliest faces....I love it!

Taegyn's First Birthday...! Lots of fun!!

So here we go!!

This is going to be my dedication blogspot to my life with my little angel Taegyn, he had brought so much joy into my life that I want to honor and share his light and love with others....So I can start with how it all began and how we are here almost one year later with one of the loves of my life.....but I gotta run.....so more later!! At least I finally figured out how to post my picture in the profile picture box, I picked the dragonfly because that is one of Taegyn's totems, the other ones' I know he has for sure are a frog, deer and tiger.....

As I sit here....

I can't help but be amazed at the human capability! I just spent the whole night not getting any sleep getting ready for an exam that I now have realized I don't have to take till next thursday....I have to say though I was ready to take it after studying all night and into the morning long....I still am going to take advantage of a few more days, no sense in worrying about being over prepared! :)Jen