Our BIG HAPPY Boy!!!

Well it has been almost 3 weeks and we are still surviving! This has been such a fun and tiring experience! Auklin is not even 3 weeks and he is already so big and strong so we wanted to just share with you some of the excitement!!! He is all big smiles and sometimes even giggles, his giggles have no sound really but the huge smile is there and he rocks his head back and forth like he is laughing! It is so fun to watch!
As said before he just loves his daddy! He loves to give him kisses and loves just cuddling with dad! They are so much fun to watch. They are going to be the best of buds!




Last but not least we have this video! He is for sure his daddy's son! So eager to be so big, Kasey already has him standing and encouraging him to walk! ;) hehehe he will be playing basketball before we know it! (sorry its so dark!)

PICTURES!!!

Auklin has been so fun to have and play with! Kasey is so sweet with him- it is going to be so hard for all of us when he goes back to work. He has been such a great help! I dont know what I would do without him! They have such a close relationship already! I love to just watch Auklin look up into Kaseys eyes and be so content. I just love my boys!!!

how to say Auklin : )

I had a request but I dont know how to do a sound clip so I will do it this way
; ) ok-lin hehehe hope that helped

how to say Auklin

how to say Auklin

The Day has Come

Well you may be surprised I am posting so soon! But I can not sleep and the Auklin's heart is getting tested so I have to keep my mind on something... We started at 7:30 am and progressed pretty well until about 2 pm when I got stuck at a 5 and 6 hours later still no progression, so C Section I went! It was scary and nervous but it was such a blessing we did- he ended up having the cord wrapped around his neck twice and around his body too- the surgery went great and he looks just like Kasey! : ) He weighed in at 8 lbs 4 oz and is 21 inches long. He is just so cute and so far so good! This has been such a great experience and we are so happy he is finally here to love and adore!

Whats in a name!

Well this will be the last post I will put on as a wife, I am a soon to be mom! ahhh- next time I write we will actually be parents and have a baby to hold! 3 days and counting, I really cant even believe it! This past month has dragged by but the last couple days have flown- Kasey and I are trying to get as much time together in as possible! We are a bit nervous and a little scared but so so excited! We are getting down to the wire with finishing finals and making sure we have everything ready for our little boy! We have been struggling for a while now with a name and we wanted name him something special to us that has meaning and that was unique all in one. I think we found just that! Auklin Reed Craven- is the name! Kasey went to Auckland New Zealand on his mission and we just kinda formed his name out of that. The middle name comes from Kasey Reed Craven. We know it is very different and will take getting used to for a lot of people but we really love it and since hearing it more and more it feels more and more fitting. We are very excited to start this new journey- we will try to keep you updated asap! Thanks everyone for everything! I have the best family and friends EVER! We love you all!

Well its official! Dec 9 is the day, unless he comes on his own before then! HE is doing so good! Almost 7 pounds- we thought he would be bigger this week but that is a good thing- he is growing just right and not getting toooo big ;) I dont have a picture to show but you will all see him soon enough! :D Until then- I probably wont have much to say!

Picture Tag

Well i am at work so the pictures I have here arent that fun- but this is the one I came up with in my 4th folder- Its a good one I guess just not a cute one of anyone- : )

I Tag anyone who would like to try it- its kinda fun!

You have to go to your picture files and go to your fourth folder and pic the fourth picture in that folder and Post it!

Kasey and I had the wonderful oppertunity to go to the Temple on Sat... it had been a little while since we had gone. We have been going to weddings and it has been great but we just needed to go and do some work! It was so refreshing!!! The Temple is the best place ever! I also just wanted to share this picture becuase it is like one of the only ones with Kasey and me together showing my belly : ) and I just love it! And this picture is pretty cool becuase we didnt even know it worked- our battery died before we got to take the picture but we both just begged it to take one picture- well... It ended up turniong on so we set it on a timer and ran for it!We saw the light blinking like it was working so we got ready and after a few seconds it stopped but no flash or anything and we just stood there wondering if it was working- after some time- we went to look at the camera and it was dead, it would not even turn on for us to see if it worked- so we left sadly not knowing if we had this picture or not! : ) it was fun to plug our card into the computer and there it was!!! Like i said- the Temple is a great place!!! :D

HALLOWEEN!

So only the cool people dressed up at work today! : D and this is us... We love Halloween here- we have everyones kids come in and trick or treat- Kasey and I are Mr and Mrs Potato head- Kasey is more like a french fry and I am the whole bag of Potatos! Amanda Is Wilma Flinstone, Jen is the little Devil, Nikki is a Camelot Princess and then there is me... Mrs ptotato head and there is little tyke! :)

So I had a shower and it was the best ever! My amazing husband gave the best presant I could ever ask for. He has been working so hard on this "project" and he has been so anxious- and finally the day came! He surprised me so good!!! He made this crib for the little one and it is so beautiful! It is so special to us and I cant wait to tell our kids when they grow that their daddy built this for them! It was just such an amazing thing and he did so well on it! Kasey decorated it all up with these blamkets and animals- He is getting so excited! I love it-

Counting Down!

Well I thought it was time to show everyone how HUGE i am... It is getting down to the days- Only 6 1/2 more weeks and it is going slower than slow! : ) he is already 5 lbs so we are hoping he will be ok to come out a little early... We thought it would be fun to also show out measuring technique with you- ever since school started the one class Kasey and I have together he has been watching my belly get closer and closer to the desk and this week it was touching! So he took a picture of it- This has been fun to watch and something to look forward to every class ;)
We are also starting to clean out our extra room to set everything up and we have found that... we have NO ROOM for anything! : ) We have too much stuff and no where to put it all so we are busting out our organization skills to see if we can rearange... It is quite a fun time! Everything is making this more and more real for us and it has been so fun. Well thats all for now!

Just an FYI

So another Dr appointment and it was great! I always love them because htey do an ultra sound everytime! It is always fun to see the little guy- I wont post the picture this time because it is a big smudge- you cant tell really what it is and I am not going to try and explain it : ) But basically he is growing like a weed- he is already just about 4 lbs and my dr said I can expect to give birth to an 8 lb baby with a "good sized" head. ; ) Kasey asked if that meant big and she said "we dont like to use those words when the one birthing the baby is around" haha oh man! This is going to be great- it is just good to know he is growing- maybe this will mean he will come a little early and he will be just fine! : ) He is healthy and everything looked perfect! So until next time!

Dr Appointment

Well I am a little late but last week we had another appointment and we were able to see our little boy! He is so so big! Now his whole face takes up the screen instead of his little bean shaped body- i put a picture of the ultra sound below on the left- it is his profile- the top middle start his fourhead and it comes down to the nose- and his cute little lips- he is so cute- we think he has my nose structure but he may just have Kaseys width of the nose- : ) oh I just cant wait to see him! He moves like crazy now and it is just fun to watch him and wonder what he is doing in that tiny little space-

TYKE

HAHAHA OK so I guess I should clear the air for some of you (Brent and Shal ; ) hehe )out there who dont know! : D We will not be naming our baby Tyke for reals that is just what we call him right now cause we dont have a name for him yet... He is our little Tyke! : ) So just so everyone knows! Love you all!

My first Baby shower!

This was a reality check- sometimes this whole pregnancy doesnt feel real yet and opening all this stuff for our baby was so much fun! A girl at work is also pregnant and so we had a double shower with the ladies at work! It was so so much fun! They spoiled Kasey and I rotten and we are so grateful for all the awsome gifts!

Kasey and Chelsi

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HAHAHAHAHA oh man Kasey totaly makes this whole thing!!! Oh I love him!! this is just great- pause music at the bottom of blog first, it is better-

This too shall Pass!

Well- we had a practice run to the hospital... Its not what it looks like! We spent labor day weekend up in park city and the one day we went shopping my Kidney decided to act up and just about flattened me out! On the way to the Dr. I decided to throw up a couple times so we came to the conclusion that it was a kidney stone!! WOOT WOOT- This is a fun story for me to tell casue i had my first ambulence ride that i probably would not have had to have if I was not pregnant but anyway... I went to the Dr. and they needed to give me some pain medicine but my Blood pressure was way low and they said if they gave me pain killer it might lower my BP so they wanted me to go in the ambulence to monitor- And i am sad to say that after the pain killer i was so out of it I cant even tell you much about my ride!!! :/ So we got to the hospital and they told me it was a kidney infection so i had to be on antibiotics for 24 hours but the scariest part is when they hooked up all the monitors to my belly for little Tyke and they noticed I was having contractions so it was a scary time and i had to stay over night. Although it was not the best night sleeping wise i was glad to be where they could keep a close eye on Tyke and pump me full of pain killer- And my sweet Kasey slept on a 4 foot cushion/couch and stayed by me all night long! the next day they figured it was not an infection and everything was normal with the baby so we were able to come home with some pills and screens to check for kidney stones... This was a great adventure and although I am not sure what it feels like or looks like to actually pass a stone I did catch something in my screen :) a little much info but Everything should be ok and back to normal!

This one is for you Hollie!

This is just me pregnant- i have had people on my case to get pictures posted... So here I am!

Well nothing too new has happened but lots of people have been asking so I thought I would just put it up and let everyone one the great news!!! I am going to be able to work form home and keep my full time benefits after the baby comes! We are so excited this is such a huge blessing for us and it all happened just so perfectly- We are so so grateful! We also switched Dr's- Our Dr is getting old and lets just say she is loosing it! The ladies at the front desk werent so nice either- so If anyone is going to Davis I would recomend a change! ; ) We are now going to the circle of life Womens center in Ogden and it is soooooooooo great! I actually feel important there and they are excited for us and they actually show it! It is nice to actually feel like this is something exciting instead of rutine! So that is about it! Well I guess i could say we start school next week and it is bitter sweet! This should be my last semester to get my Associates and finals end 4 days before our due date- so I better pass these classes!!! Kasey is excited to start experimenting with real classes now instead of lame english and history- He is using this semester to try differnt classes to determine his Major- So I think this year wont be so bad for school! Well.... until next time when I have more updates!

We Love Campnig

Well for the second week in a row we went camping- We just love to get away and just spend time with each other, We went up to south fork and we did a lot of new fun things-

We got to use our tent this time for the first time! It was a good tent, we were very pleased with our little purchase! : ) It was a great size and it was easy to set up and take down! It was good to actually camp out in a tent this time like the good ol days.

We had tinfoil dinners and ours turned out way yummy! Kasey did a dang good job preparing those! I just love going camping!

There was a lot of new first thing we got to do this trip- using out dutch oven was one of them! We made peach cobler and in the morning we made a breakfast burrito- I think we did pretty good! They both tasted great and it was a lot easier than we thought!

Kasey was able to bring his bike and ride it for the first time outside of the high school parking lot! Event though there was not much space up there for him to ride, he had fun taking her out for a spin! He fixed this bike up and did a pretty dang good job! It looks great and he is so proud of it!

After Campin we went to our cousins to go shot gun shooting! It was a blast- Kasey has been dying to go for so long- this was a good little adventure, especially for Kasey- : )

Just to share a quick story about my cute husband! Two days ago We were watching TV and i started to feel our little Tyke in side rollin around a little bit and sometimes I am still not sure if it is him or not cause it still feels like little bubbles and flutters so really that could be anything! Well Kasey came over to hurry and try to see if he could feel him and I sure could feel him so I asked Kasey if he could feel that and he kinda grinned and looked and me and said "that? oh I just thought you were farting!" hehehehehe it was funny! We both got a giggle out of it... so anyway- I love it! and it made me smile so I thought I would share. Now Kasey can truely call this baby his little fart! : D

Trip Down Memory Lane

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Sorry to post another video but I just love videos ...and Kids! This was in Mom/Dad Christiansen's back yard- I had the hose and the kids were running back and forth through it and having a blast- well I decided Kaden needed to get drenched becasue he kept telling me to "come on Chelsi" so here it is caught on camera and he is so stinkin cute!

Well we finally got to find out what we are having- the anticipation was killing us. It was so fun to see the baby again! It was weird to see how much the little Tyke has grown. When we found out it was a boy it was a shock because the tech just blurted it out and there was no way we could tell what she was even looking at- so we had to make her go back and show us exactly where to look and sure enough! you could deffinately tell it is a BOY! :D It was so much fun- It just made the reality of it all so much better! So now it is time to go Shopping!!!

This was our sweet bike that took us to the top of the mountain to look at these wonderful botanical gardens... but wait! We didnt even get to see them... I will post the video we took at the top for you all to enjoy! I think it is funny cause i was there- i cry everytime I watch it laughing so hard but i am sure some of you who know Kasey very well will enjoy it!!! :D The entry fee was only like $7 but this will give you an idea of $$$ in Kasey's mind : ) hehe I love him- what can I say?

Our Honeymoon Cruise

Top O the Mountain

This was a hoot! Everyone decided to line up and call out to Katelyn and let her decided who she would go to- Now there are rules... You must not reach out to touch her or grab her- she must touch you first! Well I mostly sat back enjoyed a good laugh and caught it all on film, and in the end... well you will find out who she picks! :D My favorite is to just watch everyones faces!!!! hehehe