quick kid pics

super small update.

Well I really wanted an August babe and he showed up on the last possible day.
Mikhail Evann Stanli Gear
Born on August 31 2007
at 3:36 am.
9 lbs. - 12 oz. - 21 1/2 in.
He arrived 5 days late. My water broke at 12:55 am and we called our doula and started to get ready to head into the hospital, which is 45 minutes away! The contractions started coming faster and faster and on the drive to the hospital Brandon and I were getting pretty scared that I was going to have the baby on the side of the road. We got to the hospital and I was already 6 cm, only 4 to go. I jumped in the shower for a bit and then decided to get into the bath tub. So Mikhail was born a water baby!

I would have liked to have taken a lot more pictures but he arrived so quickly that we didn't have a lot of time. Our doula hopefully took a few more and I will post those as soon as I receive them.

Enjoy the pictures and I will post again as soon as I have a moment.

Second Update

Here is another quick picture blog!
I am currently setting up the baby's room so that it will be all ready for the little guy when he arrives. I had a few minutes so I thought I would quickly update another blog full of some pictures that were taken during our move. Strangely enough I don't actually think there are any actual moving pictures at all but really they were taken during the moving process. I guess I just never really thought to take to many pictures of us actually moving anything. LOL

Enjoy.


This is Lucian's definition of moving/ packing.

Lucian and Grandma

My friend Angela and her new baby boy. The name is DayLynn but I am sure that is not the correct spelling of it. Sorry Angela

Lucian and Brandon at the spray park, It is only a block away from our new house.




Grandpa and Grandma Gear came for a visit.

Awww

Hee hee



Well folks, until I get another few moments I hope you enjoy this quick photo blog.

Finally time for a real update.

Let start with some pictures. The pictures were taken in May when we first took Lucian out to the part to ride on his quad that Grandma & Grandpa got for him.

And a picture of Jessica before she when in to be induced with Declan.

Lucian's first Ice cream cone!!!

Lucian's new cousin Declan!! He is such a cutie and smells oh so good. LOL

Emma, Lucian and Brandon.

Lucian pushing BABA in her wheel chair.

Lucian went swimming lots while he was at BABA's. He loved the water but he is a crazy splasher. Oddly enough he also loves to have water poured over his head.

Lucian helping Great-Grandpa fix the stool.

The crazy cat that lives by my mother house.

Lucian just chillin out eating an apple.

Well folks here is half an update. LOL I thought I would would have more time to post this but sadly it always takes a bit longer that I expect. These pictures were May and June. By next week I will post some more and let everyone know what has been happening. That is as long as I don't have the baby between now and then. LOL

Finally back.

After waiting 20 some days for a phone and another 10 or so on top of that for Internet we are finally back up and communicating. Right now I don't have a lot of time to post but I wanted to jump on here and let everyone know that we are OK and doing great in our new home. I will be back on with in the week to update you all on the move, the house, Lucian and of course the little one on the way.

Talk to you all soon!!

and the move begins

It is time, I can't believe it is actually time! We are going to move into our house. We still need to pack so much stuff. I actually shouldn't really even be on here right now, I should be packing. I need to pack, so anyway I will make this quick so I can pack. The family get here tomorrow and everything thing begins. Brandon and I must pack all day long so that we are mostly all packed when Brandon's parents get here. Then Thursday we are picking up a ton of things that we got off used Edmonton. Then Friday is the super big move. Friday and Saturday to set up then hopefully by Sunday we will have most the house set up.

When everything is set and done I will post lots of pictures!
until then!!!

Oh homeish

Well I am back in Edmonton. I haven't been able to get on the computer much to post anything. My mom is doing well, she is on her own now and I still worry about her greatly but she seems to be managing things fairly good. I am sure we wouldn't have gotten through all of this so well if we didn't have great people in our lives that we have! You know who you are!!! Thank you so much for all you have done.

We just signed the papers on our house yesterday and we get possession tomorrow. I am so nervous about everything!! I just hope everything goes well. I am very sorry but I don't think I will be able to be on here much to update until after we move into our new house. After we are a little bit settled it I will post with pictures and updates of everything.

Hope everyone is doing great!!

Off to Peace River!!

Well I am just finishing up packing to head out to Peace River tomorrow to help my momma out after she gets out of the hospital! YAY!! I am so excited to see her and so thankful that she finally gets to get out of the hospital. I won't be online half as much while I am up there so I may not get the chance to really blog here or update for a little while but I will try to blog at least once while I am there to let everyone know how she is doing!

I hope everyone is doing great and I will talk to you soon!!

Love you all!!!

Gone for a bit

Well as of tomorrow morning I will be gone to my mothers for about a month!! She need me to make her feel better, and take care of her. So I won't be online much and in fact, as soon as I get back we are moving and I may not be able to get the Internet hooked up at our new location for a while. We will have to see!! Hopefully we will but I guess we will just have to see what happens in the turn of events.

I am sad to be saying good-bye to the city life and Edmonton, even a little scared!! I know there are friends that I have made here that I may never see again!! This breaks my heart but at the same time I am so happy to be leaving this city and the fast paced city life!!

I hope everything works out and the friends that I have made that are worth keeping will always be my friends.

I miss so many of you already!!!

Our new house!!

We would like to introduce you to our new house!!


Our back yard!!



Our upstairs!

Lucian's new room!

Living Room

The Kitchen

This would be the master bedroom but the current owners weren't expecting us to show up as there Realtor didn't let them know about the inspection!! So there house was super messy!! I didn't think they would want me to take any pictures of their dirty underwear.

Downstairs Entrance.

And this would be our downstairs suite!

Notice how there are 2 bathrooms here!!! A male and female bathroom?? Yes, Strange you may say. Well it isn't so strange when you know that this house is actually a former Church!!!

So there it is in all its glory! Our new house. We get possession on July the 6th and plan to move in on the weekend of July 13,14,15 & 16th. We are so excited!!!