"Devin's Having Surgery"

I can't believe my little dude has to have surgery. I am so so scared for this and just pray that everything runs smoothly. Devin goes in the morning of November 9th to be prepped for surgery. Please keep him in your prayers and thoughts! I appreciate all of my family, friends, and my ward that have already offered a helping hand in advance :) thank you!!

"Me And My Little Girl"

I loved this picture of Addi and I the day before halloween at Granny and grandpa's house!! All of my kids were farm animals this year hence the name "Duncan Baby Farm" on my blog :) I figured it was fitting considering we have 3 kids under 3. So my little Addison was the cow! This costume is size 9-12 month, she is just our little petite girl! Back when she was in the NICU they used to call her a little pixy because she was just so danty and tiny, not much has changed. I am just so grateful to have a little girl to call my daughter! She is so full of life and is just hilarious. Addi has such a presence about her that just lights up a room, especially her extra cheesy grin :) She makes me want to be the best woman I can be. I want to be the best example to her as a duaghter, wife, mother, and sister!! She inspires me to work hard at obtaining all of these qualities that she already exudes! Sometimes I wonder who really is the example to who. I learn far more from my beautiful daughter sometimes then I feel she learns from me. Thank you Addison for being my precious daughter and always putting a smile on my face. You are my best girl and I will love you forever and always!! Love Mommy

"Weight Loss Count Down"

So here I am once again trying to lose pounds after a baby!! Well this time folks it is my THIRD and LAST!! You all heard me right the Duncan's are done having babies :) So with that being said I can really focus on getting myself back in shape, but not just back in shape, in the best shape I can be in!! Now that I am done having kids I can get myself where I want and try to keep it there knowing I don't ever have to be pregnant again aaaahhhhh! I can breath a sigh of relief. Being 28, having three kids, and being done is a good feeling. So with all that being said I am on a weight loss count down.

I can't believe I am going to reveal my weight to you all, but it's a tradition I have revealed after each pregnancy!! So whatever I will just tell you my weight now, and then my target goal. So I am now 125lbs. I was 117 before I got pregnant with Dayton soooooo I am hoping to lose just a couple more pounds below the 117 mark. I would like to be 115lbs. I know that may sound steep to some of you, but I have always been around that weight until I started having babies. I am only barely 5'4" so that weight looks fine on me. I just need to work my butt off to roughly lose 10 pounds. Any suggestions of good weight loss programs would be much appreciated :).........

"I Think So"

I had to post about the funniest thing Devin said to me!! So the other night driving home I was saying to him "mommy loves you". Then he was saying back "love you too". So after a minute or two of silence I asked him "Do you love mommy"? His reply was "I think so"! Oh my gosh I started laughing so hard and could not believe that was his answer. I didn't teach him that phrase, and how did he know to answer my question that way. All I know is that I wanted to write this down so I didn't forget. It truly is amazing what your kids observe you do even when you think they aren't looking or oh they wont get that!! Well news flash they DO. I have decided that our kids are a product of what we are. So I want to make sure that I can be the best example I possibly can be to my kids! They mean the world to me and they make me want to do such good things :)

"Brotherly Love"

So this picture melted my heart!! I love seeing my two boys together and knowing what best buddies they will be. Devin and Addison are so adorable together now, and I know they will be the same towards Dayton. I don't care if people think Chris and I are crazy for having 3 kids under 3 years old! I absolutely love it and quite frankly haven't found it to be that hard. Our kids have found a friend for life in eachother by being so close in age. This picture says it all and makes everything we have done worth it. Dev just recently wanted to start holding dayton. He just stares at him and says "Hi brother Dayton" He will pat him and say "shh shh shh" trying to keep him calm. Just goes to show how smart a 2 year old is. He only could have picked that up by simply watching how I am with Dayton. I love these two precious boys!!

"Loving Young Women's"

So I got a new calling just recently in church! I got called to be a miamaid advisor in young women's. I was really excited to take on this calling. I have a feeling these girls will teach me much more than I will teach them!! That is the great part about getting to work with the youth, they remind you of what it is like to be 14 and 15 again. It really is very eye opening to see what young teenagers face now days. It really scares me to think what things will be like in 12 years from now when my kids will be teenagers. I have my first lesson this sunday and can't wait to teach it!! Things like getting up in front of people doesn't make me nervous or bother me, I just get encouraged by the challenge! Well I will keep you updated on how my first lesson goes until then goodnight :)

"Dev, Addi, and Dayton's Photo Shoot"

Ok so I totally love how the pictures of all three kids turned out!! That is so weird to say THREE... I have to just say I love being a mom of three it has been such an easy transition. I'm grateful for my little munchkins. A shout out to Jamie Ault that did the pictures for me. She is a great friend and is very talented :) thanks Jamie. ENJOY I will be posting more pictures!!!!....

"I'm Back"

Well i have said this many times before, but I mean it this time I'M BACK!!! I want to blog on a daily basis even if it is about silly things! I have Dayton's newborn pics, our day up at the homestead, and chris and I's 6 year anniversary COMING SOON :) check it out!!

"Welcoming Baby Dayton"

Baby Dayton Born June 27th 2011
Weighing 3lbs 5ozs and

17 1/2 inches long

Our newest and sweetest addition arrived Monday at 12:50 pm!! He is in the NICU now at IMC Hospital in Murray. Truly he came out screaming and so far is doing great. He does need assistance with his breathing, by using some pressurized oxygen. Other than that he is hardly hooked to anything and is doing great! I tell you what those small little IUGR babies do the best in the NICU. The nurses seem to tell us that every time. As for me and delivery it has gone really well so far. I do seem to have some extra pain this time along with my incision. I had a tubal ligation done at the time of my c-section, so i did two surgeries in one. I will be posting another post this evening of little Dayton to keep you updated.

" It's Been A Long Time"

So I know I haven't blogged in over 3 months now and I am soooo sorry!! Our lives have been such chaos around here. I am 32 weeks now and have a really big appointment tomorrow for the baby. We could be having our little dude in the next two weeks possibly :/ I just don't feel quite ready this time. I have so much to catch up on and so much to blog about even from just this last month, let alone the past three. So tomorrow they are doing a growth scan on the baby to see how far behind he is in weight etc... then also what percentile he falls in. I'm going to guess his weigh in at 2lbs 14ozs. It may sound big but that is actually the weight of more like a 28 to 29 weeker CRAZY!! So although this little dude has caused us less grief than our little miss Addi, he is still wanting to come early and be small like his brother and sister :) Please if anyone is interested I will be posting about how the appointment went and what the verdict on everything is dun dun dun. So check all the info.. out tomorrow. I have to get to bed now it is midnight and I have so much anxiety. My appointment is at 7:30 in the morning. So goodnight all and wish me and baby luck :)

"The Dreaded RSV"

I was hoping to avoid the "RSV" cold in my home. Dumb thought probably with a 1yr old and a 2yr old. Devin has had RSV the past week, and let me tell you for those that there kids haven't had it yet, be glad cuz it is a nasty one. Last Sunday night Chris and I had the kids up to my parents for dinner. Devin just started burning up out of no where and was acting really lathargic, so much that his eyes started to roll back. It was really scary and truthfully I just thought it was a ear infection. He tends to spike really high fevers with those. So Chris and I made the decision to leave addison at my parents and take dev to the instacare to be checked. The reason I jumped at the idea of something being wrong, was because I had Ibuprofen in him and his temp was still 103. He had a cold for about six days but nothing major. He started with a slight cough maybe 2 days prior to sunday. Addi had been so sick the two weeks before I just assumed that he had her cold. Well long story short when we got to instacare we noticed that devin's breathing was really shallow. He was so congested he could hardly breath. It was really scary, and his oxygens were even low. So needless to say the doctor saw him and sure enough he had an ear infection, but on top of it the doctor suspected RSV. So we had to do this horrible suction procedure to get some mucus. They took that to do a rapid test and see if it came back positive for RSV. Mean while chris was an absolute wreck. I have never seen him get so emotional. He had to hold devin down while they did this procedure, and the whole time devin kept screaming for daddy. I haven't seen chris cry over much before, but he did over his little buddy. After it was all said and done the doctor came back with a positive result for RSV :( Let me just say to you all this is nasty nasty stuff and is highly contagious. You do not want your little ones to get this. I'm just terrified now that my little squirt 1 yr old will pop up with it. It would be alot worse if addi got it because she had alot of lung problems when she was born. They told us back in the NICU that because she needed the ventilator to breath for her when she was born, that it may create some problems with her lungs when she is older. So something like RSV would really attack her little lungs, and could possibly hospitalize her. I just hope for the best that she doesn't get it. I have tried to keep the two apart, wash hands, etc.... but it's almost impossible to keep them from eachother 100%. I take Devin today for his follow up appt to see if he still has the RSV in his chest, and find out if he is still contagious. I will give you the update on how it all goes.....

"17 Week Ultrasound"

This ultrasoundsound was so exciting!! The little man looks awesome, and he is on TARGET! I don't want to ever get to excited, but I have to say it feels good to hear good stuff for once. There was a blood test they did on me to test my placenta about a week ago. It was to see if the placenta was having any problems yet. Well...... it came back negative they said they saw no signs of insufficiencies at this point. I was really excited to hear that, now granted this doesn't mean this pregnancy will go perfect, I'm just looking for better though :) Anyways I put the cutest little profile of the little man on this post, and I promised you all a belly pic for 17 weeks. So look below to see the belly pic of this little peanut. I wont lie I think my belly is already pretty big, but again I don't want to get my hopes up :) Well enjoy.......

"It's A Boy"

I have been way behind on blogging. So I'm posting the most important things that have happened in the last month. Well It's a boy!! Chris and I are so excited, we feel really lucky to be following the pattern of boy, girl, boy. I think Devin will be so excited to have a little brother to rough house with. Don't kid yourselves though, I think our little Addison will hold her own with these two boys, she is a little firecracker. Well I actually have an ultrasound this thursday, it's the first growth scan on the baby. We are just praying that all the heparin shots are working and he is right on target. So stay tuned for a post on that. I also will be posting my first belly picture with this little man on thursday. Until then look for any new posts in between.

"Addison's Big 1year Party"

I just cannot even believe that my little princess turned 1 year old on Feb 24th. I feel like it was only yesterday that I was waiting anxiously to deliver her. I will say she was a little pistol to get here, and fought every step of they way. I am so proud of what a beautiful little girl she has already become. She is so full of life and is more energetic than I could imagine. She cruises furniture like you wouldn't believe, stands on her own, and crawls like a wild woman everywhere Devin goes. She we will be walking I predict within a month. She is right where she should be for her age being that she was 2 months early. She is now 28 inches long and drum roll please, a whopping 15lbs 12oz LOL!!! She is the definition of petite :) Anyhow we had a party the 26th for her that was awesome. so enjoy the pics below.

"Chris Turned 30"

So Chris really wanted to keep his 30th birthday low key, but I had other plans in mind :). So I decided to throw him a suprise party. We had it at the Rock Creek Pizza in Sandy. I had the back room rented out and all of our family came to support the cause. It turned out awesome he was so suprised. How I found time to pull off a suprise party I'm not sure, but I'm glad I did. Devin and Addi had so much fun helping daddy open presents and blow out candles :)

"11 weeks Already"

So I found this image of what a fetus looks like at 11 weeks. This is my third pregnancy, and yet it still never ceases to amaze me!! I actually am only a few days away from being 12 weeks already. I just wanted to post the week I am still currently in. So far so good with everything. I don't know if you all saw my earlier post, but I am doing heparin injections to myself now twice a day. I can't lie they really arent very pleasant, but hey whatever means getting a bigger full term baby right?! Chris and I are getting excited, but boy are our lives going to change drastically. So far I truly did not get sick this time, which is awesome. I feel great actually, and have to be honest I am leaning towards this being a boy! I feel alot more like Idid when I was prego with Devin. So being that I have had a boy and girl, certain symptoms are all I have to go off of. I could totally be wrong though and they tell me that I am getting another girl :) truly I am lucky to get one of each, so we really don't mind what this one is. I just want more than anything a healthy better pregnancy. With all they are doing with me this time I really feel that it is promising. I don't want to count my eggs before they are hatched, but I really think that this time is going to be different. I know that the lord has blessed us with this new bundle for a reason. I just need to sit back and put my trust in him. The last time I did that he gave me my beautiful little girl safe and sound :) Prayer works, and I know that he heard me when I prayed in the hospital every night to keep buying addison time. He did exactly that and did not let her struggle at all. I am grateful to be pregnant again, and be able to experience all that comes with it, even if mine are a little bumpy. I will soon start posting belly pics, but I don't quite have enough of a belly yet. So look for the first one in a few weeks, until then good night all.

"Our New Years"

Every year for the past 3 new years now chris and I go to dinner together. Westarted it when I was pregnant with Devin. We wanted to do our own thing because we knew the day were coming where we would have babies every new year :). Which don't get me wrong was just fine, but we still like our alone time too. So we left the kids with chris's parents this year and went to dinner at Iggy's, I had really been craving their bread and dip mmmm. Then we went and just hung together did a little shopping etc..... and went back to spend some time with family for the new year. I know were boring but we don't care, I have loved having the tradition of spending time together alone. Holidays are for family time, atleast that is always how it's worked with chris and I. So there is no place or people I would rather be with than my family. Well all to a happy new year, and enjoy the pics below......

"Duncan Christmas"

It was so awesome this year at the Duncan house for christmas!! We had double the fun this year with our two little munchkins. We got some really cute photos of christmas morning. Oh and don't worry our kids got 3 full christmas's each. Chris and I of course spoiled them, then it's off to my parents to be spoiled again, and last but not least the other grandparents to finish off the day of spoiling. I'm not kidding our kids had to of gotten 30-40+ things each. I'm talking brand new wardrobes for both of them literally, toys toys toys, dancing mickey the biggest craze right now, and some more clothes toys and toys again. It was awesome!! Chris and I didn't make out so bad ourselves either :) Well I think I summed up how great and giving our families are, but now let me show you in pictures!!! ENJOY.................

"Bring on the Shot"

So I got word today from the team of specialists that Chris and I now have for baby #3. I had to do some blood tests last week at my first appointment. They were testing for certain antibodies in my blood that may be a contributor to what causes growth restriction in my babies. It also is a contributor to placental insuffieciency, which is why may babies are small. So with knowing all of that, my test came back as moderate positives. Anytime you even have a slight positive in this case they see it as an objective, and they will treat it immediately. Well the only way to treat this and hopefully prevent a small baby this time is taking heparin shots. It is a low weight blood thinner that I have to inject into my stomach twice a day for basically the whole pregnancy. i'm not excited about it, but I am grateful that they may have found a breakthrough that will give me a shot at a normal pregnancy this time. So here's to getting shots twice a day everyday woo hoo............ wish me luck!!

"Diaper Disaster Twice"

So my poor little devin has a double ear infection :( I took him to the doctor on thursday. The doctor told me that his right ear was so full of fluids he couldn't even see inside it. In other words that meant he had a mean ear infection. The left ear was conjested, but it wasn't near as bad. Anyhow they of course put him on antibiotics and ear drops, but anibiotics can cause diarreah bad in babies or toddlers. Well with that being said my little man has been having some pretty outrageous blowouts the past two mornings. Thank goodness it was the weekend and I had Chris's help, because it was nasty. I went to go into his room both mornings and I just saw poop all over his sheets, hands, face, on stuffed animals Yikes!! I immediately called for chris to come in and help. It was so bad we had to wipe him down so much before we could even remove his pajamas. Once we got all of that done it was straight to the bathtub! There was no messing around with this disaster. I'm just hoping this isn't an every morning thing while he is taking the antibiotic, cuz I can't do it by myself in the morning. This was definitely a two man job. Thanks daddy for coming to the rescue, and doing all the cleanup :)