Daddy's Girl

Byron's Birthday Bash!

Byron here to tell you all about my amazing birthday!

For starters I was the boss of all the other kids for the whole day! It was after all my birthday, and I let the kids know that is the way it works on your birthday. I was a little embarrassed when my Aunt Lara overheard me filling the kids in! That is confidential 'kid information' after all!

Anyway, I had a DINOSAUR party! 

It was pretty much the coolest party ever! My mom and dad got me a dinosaur bounce house for the whole day (even the day before for Thanksgiving) just for my birthday! When my friends arrived we decorated our treat bags and jumped in the bounce house for a long time! It was pretty rockin'! I took full advantage of the bounce house time to shoot the girls, and then they tickled me!? I thought people usually die when you shoot them. Pretend bullets have a strange effect on 5 year old girls! What is that all about? Sorry, I digress!

Here is a picture of my awesome Triceratops Bounce House!

I totally loved every minute of it!

My mom is a genius! This may just look like a pool full of shredded paper, but it is actually a 'dinosaur dig'! Buried inside was candy, dinosaurs, cars, army men and paratrooper guys! It was so awesome. My mom had to help the little kids.

The big kids were so fast though! We got lots of stuff (and paper) in our bags!

I had a moment when I nearly lost my nugget because Jack got the color of paratrooper I wanted, but I found another one 'with a little help from my friends'! So my nugget stayed in tact, mom said that was a good thing since I was the birthday boy!

Poor, cute, little Taryn! She thought the object of the game was to take the paper out of the pool! She didn't get very much candy, so I shared with her at home!

Present time! I really got into it! My friends rock! I got some awesome gifts! Hotwheels, legos, superhero walkie-talkies! So cool!

Jack and Severin were my faithful gift-unwrapping sidekicks!

My Aunt Brittany and her team of cake decorators made me the most amazing dinosaur cake ever! It had an erupting volcano, flying pterodactyl and everything!

The dinosaur carnage was my favorite part of the cake! T-Rex totally got the brontosaurus! He's dead for sure! I mean, look at the blood! No dinosaur bleeds that much and lives!

Dallin is my hero for coming up with the dinosaur carnage and death!!!

Then I blew out my candles of course, and made a wish! I can't tell you what my wish is, or you'd have to end up like the brontosaurus! Ha ha! I'm just kidding, if I told you my wish it wouldn't come true!!

Jessica, Kaia, Abby and Tyler eating birthday cake! We're missing Evelyn because she took her cake 'to go'!

Maurin and Chloe with their grub!

And me of course with my sidekicks Jack and Severin eating our goods! Don't worry about my boys, I took a turn being the sidekick on Saturday!

I put this picture in because mom said I had to! Ok, and I do think my sister is pretty stinkin' cute! I love to squeeze and tickle her! So here's my shout out to my one true homegirl!

To conclude my picture adventure I though I would throw this one in, so you knew what my dad was doing during my party! That's right, playing Rock Band! He does a pretty good jam on the guitar! Someday I'll be that good! Oh, and mom said he 'supervised' the dinosaur dig! Whatever that means.

And last but not least, here is Taryn, my mom and me! Aren't we cute? Ok, I'm a bit of a cheese. I was just so excited about my fabulous day! Birthday parties are killer sweet dude!

Thanksgiving!

I love Thanksgiving, it competes closely with Christmas for my favorite holiday! I love the food, the family, visiting and relaxing! We had a great Thanksgiving this year. My Squires Grandparents, and Aunt Marie and her 10 beautiful, fun children joined us. All in all with the missionaries my mom fed 39 people on Thursday. Grandpa Jack told me my mom is "an amazing lady" last night, and I just have to whole heartedly agree! I really enjoyed having so much family around! We hung out the whole weekend, it was great.

Here are some random pictures of all the fun! There are a lot of pictures! Enjoy! They are in no particular order. Oddly enough I don't have any pictures of food! Too bad, as usual it was amazing!

Taryn and Ava checking each other out on Nonni's lap. Ava is my cousin Mandy's little girl. These two aren't always sure what to think of each other. They are pretty funny!

Oh the intensity of Rock Band! We jammed all night! Always entertaining, especially when the little kids get into it!

Cute cousins! Mandy, Brittany, Emma, Eden and Elyssa.

I always love the Thanksgiving 'sleeping' pictures! Isn't he scrumptious when he sleeps? Sounds like I'm talking about about one of my children! Ha ha!

The Ashworth version. Didn't even flinch when I took this!

A raucous game of ping pong! Todd is crazy and competitive!

So is Jarrod, Mandy's husband. 

This one just had to make the cut. 'Nuff said!

Taryn checking out Grandma Jean. Decided she was A-0k, and hung out with her for a bit!

This may be my favorite picture of the day! The smokin' hot ladies in the kitchen making all the goodness happen! I'm just bummed my mom walked out of the shot before I took this!

Funny cousins! Hamming it up for the camera are Clayton and Brittany!

Uncle Mike, Dad and Grandpa Jack. The OG Squires men! Good looking to boot!

Fun in the bounce house! Maurin, Byron and Tyler.

Byron LOVED the bounce house!

Maurin's crazy action shot!

Taryn adopted Liberty for the weekend! She glued herself to Lib as often as possible. Sometimes we had to force Taryn to hang with someone else and give a girl a break! They were too cute!

I am grateful for FAMILY, FUN, AND FOOD!

Miracles Happen Every Day!

Some are just bigger than others! And yesterday brought a huge miracle for our family. Our little baby is doing just fine. I got to check the little bugger out at Dr. Roberts office, for about 30 minutes with Julie, the ultrasound specialist! What a cute and spunky little fetus! And oh the RELIEF I felt when I saw him and that blessed heart beat! 

Dr. Roberts now has a very dear place in my heart. He does do some deliveries, of very high risk pregnancies. You could tell he has seen a lot in the years he has practiced! He was very kind and informative, one of those doctors that makes you feel like you are the only patient he has to see that day! Loved him!

So the news is that there is a blood clot between my uterus and placenta. Dr. Roberts thinks that I must have had a placental abruption (meaning that the placenta tore away from the uterus wall), that may have pooled blood. Causing all the fear and concern on Friday. The good news about it being a clot is that means it is healing now! He anticipates the clot healing completely within 4-8 weeks. I am not considered high risk at all and he sees no reason that I can't go forward with my plans to deliver at home with a midwife. Yeah!

I am still under orders to 'take it easy' which means: rest a lot, don't over exert yourself, and don't lift anything over 10 pounds. That is hard to remember when Taryn falls and bumps her head. I'm doing my best to sit on the floor and comfort her in my lap. Taking it easy goes against my grain! It is not my personality, but I'll do anything for the cute little bugger to show up safely in June!

Hopefully Taryn will guest post again soon and lighten the mood of our little blog! Byron saw this picture and really could see the nose, eyes, mouth this time! Even the hand I told him had been waving on the screen, but he couldn't quite figure out how that little blob at the end of the baby was really the foot, when it doesn't look like it is attached to the baby's body! Then he said, "did you find out if it is a boy mom?"

I told him it was still to early to tell. Then I said, "do you think it is a sister this time?"

Byron replied, "I hope not, because I have been waiting for a brother for YEARS!"

Home Again!

This is the second Sunday in a row that I have had to ready the children and send them off to church with Steve. The second Sunday I have had to call and say, "sorry, I won't be making it to church tomorrow. Can someone else please teach?" The second weekend in a row that I am spotting! It started Friday night this time and was much heavier. Has slowed to nearly  stopping again. I haven't miscarried yet, and so tomorrow morning I will call Margie, who will call Dr. Roberts (an OBGYN who specializes in high risk pregnancies). We are hoping that he can figure out why I am threatening to miscarry after the 'safe' date of three months pregnant. Most women are totally out of the woods then, and it feels like that is when the trouble begins for me. I share to asks for prayers! We are still counting on a miracle!

Not to worry. We are still full of faith and hope to see this child arrive.

Details!

Pregnancy Details!

The baby should arrive on or around June 10th! 

Judging from my other two babies anywhere between June 7th and June 20th!

I first discovered I was pregnant the second week in October! 

I did two pregnancy tests just to be sure! ;)

Here is what the Chinese Gender Prediction Calendar has to say:

Month	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45
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Results: It's a Girl if you conceive in Sep at age 30 

No more torture for anyone this time! We will be finding out the sex of this baby. I never heard the end of it with Taryn! Byron is the catalyst for that decision! I think he will need some mental prep time if it is another little sister! 

He has been asking for a baby brother for 6 months now!

"Is there a baby brother in your tummy, NOW, mom?"

Saturday afternoon began a bit of an adventure in this pregnancy when I had some red spotting. I had my moment of sheer panic, "This can't be happening to me again!" I then gathered myself, took stock of my resources and called on the priesthood! My dad works on Saturday, so I called the Garbers. Todd and Karalee arrived as quickly as they could. I laid in bed, cried and prayed, Steve comforted me and chased Taryn around!

I was the recipient of a sweet blessing. No specific promises were made about this child at that time. I thought long and hard about what I should pray for. I learned from my other two miscarriages that praying for anything but the Lord's will only brought disappointment. So I basically prayed to know what to pray for. I received a confirmation that is was okay to pray for this child to stay with me and come in June! Sweet relief! Little by little the spotting stopped. I didn't spot at all on Monday! I prayed fervently for my miracle nearly every moment until I walked into my midwife's office and saw this:

My baby!

Steve was with me. I think the cute little bugger was sleeping when we started. First I was so relieved to see the baby, then I looked for the heart beat. I love seeing that little flutter, it reminds me of hummingbird wings! Then Steve asked, "um, should it be moving more than that?" My new midwife Margie (Kaye retired and moved to Utah. Boohoo!) replied that we may have woken it up. She pushed gently on it, and two little arms shot out and pushed right back, as if to say, "seriously? Go away, I was napping! Growing a lung here at the moment, it's hard work, OK?" Shortly after the little guy turned it's back on us, "you are dismissed now!" Funny little character. I swear their personalities form way earlier than we think. :)

Oh the joy of ultrasounds!!! Even more the JOY of knowing the baby is okay!

I didn't realize what a miracle Byron was! (Of course he was! He was just an easy miracle.)

I absolutely knew that Taryn was a miracle and answer to prayer!

This baby is no different, a miracle in answer to a different prayer!

Taryn's thoughts: "baby? Oh yeah, I have a baby. Hold on, I'll run right upstairs and get her for you. It might take a minute, I should probably put clothes on her before I bring her down. What? Mom's having another baby? You are full of baloney too! I AM mom's baby!"

Byron's thoughts: "are you sure you have a baby in your tummy?"

When he is shown the ultrasound picture he nods very convincingly as I am pointing out all the baby parts, as if he knows exactly what he is looking at. Then says, "so it is a BOY!"

I replied, "that baby is really tiny so we can't tell yet if it is a boy, but we will find out when we can."

B: "Okay." Walking away, "it's a boy."