Aleyse Lynn Siefert

We had a beautiful baby girl Friday at 10:01 am. She weighed 6lbs 8oz and was 19 inches long. What a roller coaster the last week has been. I was scheduled to be induced at 5am on Fri because of low amniotic fluid. We got to the hospital and I was not even a bit nervous. Till they stuck me with the IV twice. My veins are normally good but I had a student nurse doing the IV. Everything was going well. Was not even feeling the contractions David and the nurse had to tell me when I was having them. All I wanted was to have another natural child birth. I did just that and a short while later I had my beautiful baby girl.

Aleyse (A-lease) Lynn Siefert!

Baby News

Went to the doctors last Thurs. Was there a little longer than we had anticipated. They did a ultrasound and found out that my amniotic fluid is low. Which protects the baby. Also means for a dry birth. I am a little scared now. The doc wants to induce labor on Fri. I will be 37 weeks by then which is term. The baby looked good and measured normal. Weighs around 5lbs 11oz. I hope all goes well and the baby is healthy. I have prepared this weekend to have a baby next weekend in my house.

My sister kindly took Devin for the weekend. That was the first weekend David and I were away from him more than 24 hours. It was kind of lonely without him. I did get alot accomplished. My mom and mother in law came and helped. So I did not have to over do it. The pics are of Devin's fun weekend with Dan Dan and Chels. By the looks of the pics he played at the mall and played guitar hero. I know he was spoiled rotten and well taken care of. I'm glad it worked out. I was really able to get alot done and prepare for the new baby.

Visitors Sat night

We had some visitors on Sat night. Gene one of David's high school buddies and his family. They have three children. They live in IN. So we don't get to see them very often. Devin had a blast playing with the kids. We tried to do some photos but only got these. Wasn't happening with 4 kiddos that young. Glad we got to visit with them.

Baby update

Went to the Doc's again today. Yes it has been two weeks already. Time is just flying away with this pregnancy. Went well but the doc ordered another ultra sound for two weeks again. I'm just not gaining the weight with this pregnancy like I did with Devin. I gained 1 lb in 2 weeks. Not so bad but the baby does need a little fat on its bones. I am now 34 weeks and measuring at 30 weeks. He said could be just the way the baby is positioned. Let's hope everything is good for my next doc visit.

Devin with Cassie and Darren

Saying goodbye!!

Fun with Cassie and Darren

This was Sun we had met with the Phillips. Danell was having a open house at her home so we deceided to meet in Findlay. Mom, Donna Loren, Kraine, Jess and Devin all went with me. We had a blast first met at the mall then went to eat at the Golden Corral then on to Meijers. The kids had alot of fun together. They rode the little rides at the mall and Darren was even nice and gave Devin a ride in his stroller with him. Notice Devin even got his spring haircut. He is surely his daddy's boy! Now lets hope for some nice spring weather. That will stay!!

Baby update

Went last Thursday to the doctors. Everything seems too be going just fine. My ultrasound went well a couple of weeks ago too. Baby measured fine. I am now 32 weeks along and measuring at 30 weeks. The doc said the baby may just be tiny but everything else is fine so far. Besides my ankles swelling up. Still trying to decide on some names. You would think we would already have some but without knowing the sex you have to come up with a boy and girl name. Can be difficult when you don't agree.

Egg Hunt

Just some cute pics of the kids out in the cold cold weather picking up their eggs. Just like last year we had to wear mittens and boots. I even had his snow pants on him. I hope next year the weather can be alot warmer for easter. Devin picked up 6 eggs and one with a dollar coin taped to it.

What to do when your bored?!?

Since we had a foot of snow on the ground and I was stuck at home. I usually bake when I'm bored. David loves to eat all my baked goods only chocolate of course. Anything else I have to eat. So I decided to put a big pot of chili on bake a cake and make some homemade peach cobbler. Our friends even came out in the cold snowy weather and ate with us. I made a marble cake for David(just a box mix.) If you look real good you can see finger prints in my cake. Wonder which little boy in this household was the culprit. I did get a pic of the snitcher. David and I thought it was pretty funny.

Blizzard of 2008

This was the big one of 2008. Last weekend we got record snowfall around Ohio. Columbus got around 20 inches or so. I beleive we got around 14-16. That is alot of snow. We were under a level 3 for about 28 hours. Churchs were canceled along with most businesses too. I got alittle antsy being stuck in the house. It was neat to see that much snow, but now I can say I'm ready for winter to go away and spring can come anytime. These are just a few pics to show you how much snow we got in our area.

Bedroom ready!

I have been harping on David to get the room ready for both kids, since we only have two bedrooms. They will have to share a room till we get a bigger house someday. So for now somebody gave us a set of bunkbeds. The bottom is a full size bed and the top a twin. We already had a full mattress so we just need to get the twin. I took pictures of the final results. I think it looks pretty nice. My mom was so nice to order a bed set to match the room for the bunks. We changed the curtains and added curtains on my closet and rearranged. Chels, Dan and my mom helped me. I am thankful they were able to help. Now we will try the real test and put Devin in the bed at night. I will keep you updated on he sleeps at night!

I will also update this week on my doc appt. I start going every two weeks now. The Doc figured we would do a ultrasound cause I was measuring small. Hopefully the baby is just a petite little thing and everything is just fine. I am starting to get tired alot easier than before when I was pregnant. Now I have Devin to chase after too. Time does seem to be flying by.

Hiler Get-Together 3-2-08

We had our annual Hiler party this past weekend. It was nice to see all the family and share all the good news of engagements and babies. As always we had a bunch of yummy food also. We always try to get a few pics of all the kiddos together. We did not have as many cousins as last year but we were able to get a few decent pics.

Swimming 2-26-08

What a witner!

While Danell and the kids were down over the weekend she decided to leave Darren here. He has been staying with the shells. We snatched him up last night. Thought maybe Devin and Darren would have fun playing together. Since we had so much snow we figured darren would like to ride on the snowmobile. Well that did not pan out so well, but Devin still loves it. He had a blast. So after they were outside we took them swimming in the midst of about 8 inches of snow on the ground. As you can see by the pics Darren would only wear the helmet in the house on the tractor instead of on the snowmobile.

Hanging with Darren and Cassie

Over the weekend Darren and Cassie came down for a visit. We had not seen them since Devin's b-day party the end of Dec. We had a blast with them. We took them swimming Sat night after Aunt Debbie had a fish fry potluck. We all had fun Aunt Chels and Dan-Dan even came out. From the pics you can see we had a blast. Then Sun morning Grammy and Poppy took us all out to breakfast 10 of us. We had fun!!

More pics of Louisville

1st pic thumbs up dad.





Wed night winning family photo.
Still can sleep with all the noise!
Aren't we two of a kind!!

Morning that is their favorite saying!

winning run 2-13-08

2008 Louisville KY farm show

I have been slacking in the blogging world. Guess we all have been busy doing this and that. Last week was the annual Farm show down in KY. I blogged last year about it also. Devin and I were able to go for 5 days this year. We had a blast and Devin was great. He sure loves his tractor pulls. David pulled on Wed night. So Kathy, Devin, and I headed down Tues night after I got off work. The weather was horrible. I never have driven that far in weather like that. We finally arrived at the hotel about 12:30 am. Woke up the next morning to find out David had caught the flu Devin and I had earlier in the week. Good thing he did not pull till 7:30 that night. So we stayed in the room all afternoon till pull time. We were excited for his time to come. He was about the 5th hook in the class. The video is the winning run of the night(If it works blogger is not letting me publish it). He did so well you can hear Kathy and I in the background screaming go baby go yahoo. He did place 1st that night which advanced him in the finals on Sat night. So since nothing broke on the tractor we were able to enjoy some of the time down there and watch the pulls in the evening. The Burger boys came down to help with the tractor also. Devin was all excited to know Chad, Ryan, and Tom were coming.
Sat night came around and we were all tense and stressed cause of the lack of sleep we had. They take the top 6 tractors of the class. There were 3 green ones and 3 red ones. So the green had a chance after all. David was the 4th hook of the class. Of course the king of smoke was winning after his run of 235.88. Gettingers pulled next they are big buddies with us so we were cheering them on too. He went out of bounds which disqualified them. Next to pull was us. Nervous and excited we were to close to the track to even video so I did not get that run at all. He pulled and went just three feet shy of Esdon 232.19. That placed him in second. The pull was not over there were still 2 red tractors to go. They did not beat us so we were excited to know we placed in the finals also. They recognize the top three. So we went out on the track to except our award with David. He was being interviewed and told the announcer that the guillotine on the turbo went shut during the run which meant less air to the motor. Or we would have beat Esdon. Oh well better luck next time. We were all satisfied with 2nd place. Can't do much better than a 1st and 2nd .