First Haircut!

So Lindi got her first hair cut sometime around the end of February...So ya! Basically I am a huge slacker! But who has time to be a Mom, Teacher and updated on Blogs??? I had to share these pictures of her haircut from her Aunt Shantel at the Shop. Shantel had this little Hot Pink Apron that fit her perfectly. I should post a picture of how well her hair is coming in now. and...I can not believe that her first birthday is this next Monday, April 18th. I promise that I will post pictures of that too.

Rusty's Big Hunt...And Rodeo!

Our Little Cowgirl taken about 3 months ago! She is 7 months old TODAY!!! AHHH! Time is flying'!

This was us at the Bryce Canyon Rodeo. Lindi LOVES horses. This was taken in August.

Rusty Riding his pony while out scouting for the BIG TROPHY BULL ELK! This was taken on the Bolder mountain. Rusty, after putting in for 14 years, finally drew out on the trophy elk unit. It was the hunt of the lifetime. He will have to get on here and write the story. No elk, but he had a really good time.

Up on our mountain, the Griffin!

We are quite the photographic couple! LOL.

She is almost SIX Months!

I can't believe that my baby girl is six months old on Monday, October 18th. Tear! I could cry because time is flying by too fast. But if I was guaranteed to have a happy baby like my Lindi Vayle EVERY time I have a child...then I might just would have 8 or so kids :) She truly is a SWEET HEART! She has a personality the color of a rainbow. I HATE leaving her and working everyday. But it is very good for my mind and depression to work and be busy.

We entered Lindi in a photo contest at the Bryce Photo Lab. You can go in all the month of October and vote on the cutest baby shoot. So if your down this way...please stop by Ruby's Inn and cast your vote.
Here are some photos that my dad had taken at the hospital...

Lindi Vayle Rich

She is here & She is Beautiful!

Lindi Vayle Rich

Born: April 18, 2010 @ 6:54 pm
Weighed: 6 lbs 12.9 oz
Length: 20 inches
Long hair on the very top and in the back...Can you see the hair sticking straight up?

I LOVE the Thumb in the Binky!!! So Precious!

The Proud Daddy! His first time holding his newborn baby girl... I love this picture... she was so alert right when she was born.

The exhausted mommy! This is where they laid Lindi when she was born, and so she loves this position. She is only like three days old here, I think that it was our first day home, and we took an hour and a half nap like this. I love the cuddly stage.

Grandma and Grandpa Rich at the hospital. Lindi was just a sucking away on her fingers!

Great Grandma Twitchell! She is 87 years old, and we are so glad that she is here to share this baby girl with us. This is Rusty's only living grandparent. I could shoot myself, because my grandpa George and Dorothy were at the hospital when Lindi was born, and I didn't get a picture of them with her... So Grandpa, if you read this and you have a picture of you with Lindi, then I need a copy...PLEASE!!!

This is Grandma Gayle!!! I was so lucky to have my mom come and stay with me the first week of Lindi's life... She helped me to become confident that I could do this! I love her with all of my heart and I am proud to tell the story of Lindi's middle name. My middle name is gayle : Trista Gayle. I wanted Lindi to be named after mom and my Grandma Vayomee, that we called Vay. So I blended them together and named her middle name Vayle!!! I love it. I love you mom, Happy Mother's Day!Grandpa Steve and Deanne! My dad is so proud of his beautiful little grand daughter. He was such a nervous wreck while I was in labor! His Baby Girl having her first Baby. I pushed for about 2 1/2 hours, and he just didn't think that things should take that long, I think that he harassed my nurses until they were ready to just come and pull the baby out of me so that he would leave them alone...Ha Ha!

Labor was as good as I thought that it could have went for the first time! I LOVE the epidural. I started contracting at 4:45 am when I started to time my contractions and they were every 6 to 8 minutes. Woke rusty up at 6:15 and told him that my contractions were every 4 to 5 minutes. So we Showered at 6:30 am and left for the hospital at 7:30. Got to the hospital at 8:30 am (yes Rusty speeded just a little, a 1 hour and 15 minute drive only took us 1 hour) when contractions were every 2 to 3 minutes and were very HARD back labor because she was turned and her nose was face up. Was finally admitted at 10:00 with the most painful part, the I.V. ! ( I am still bruised in my hand today). The doctor broke my water at 10:30 I was a 3+ and there was melanoma (spelling?), Lindi had had a bowel movement in the water. At 12:00 I was a 5+ and got the epidural, and life was great! @ 4:30 I started pushing. They had me stop pushing at 5:30 and rotate from side to side to get Lindi to finish rotating to the right position. I got a new nurse just after 6:00 and she came in and checked me and kind of asked why I wasn't pushing, because my bladder was full, and she said we needed to get the baby here now! She was a life savor and an inspiration because she had me do one hard push, and made me stop so that she could call the doctor and get him there fast! My whole family stopped Dr. Gatherum out in the hall way and said, you better get that baby here fast so that we can see her, they had been waiting in the hall for a solid 4 hours. Doctor arrived at 6:30 with a hat on that said "Stay Calm" and Lindi arrived at 6:54pm. It was such an amazing experience. I only had Rusty in the room and that is how it should have been! It was so calming and relaxing and a moment that we will never forget. I love my Husband, and I love my baby girl. She is such a good baby and sleeps a good 5 to 6 hours at night before waking up for a good hour to hour 1/2 (which isn't the greatest, but I will take it!)

Well There you have it! I am sorry that it took me three weeks to get this done, but its done now! If you go to http://www.janicetwitchellphotography.blogspot.com/ you will get to see Lindi's first photo shoot taken when she was 12 days old! Lindi is the first two posts on the blog, so keep looking...

It was Rusty and I's fifth anniversary on March 25th. Since I am eight months pregnant, and he with a broken wrist, we decided to take a trip down to Zion and stay for a night. It was a short trip, but I got a sub for friday and made it an extra long weekend. I can't beleive that we have been married for five years!!! I have the best husband ever and I am so lucky and blessed to be his wife. He is so excited to get our baby girl here and to be her daddy!

Rusty with his cast! He is still so handsome! I think that he gets better lookin' every single Day!
This is me after I swallowed a bowling ball! I love my belly! So we did get to go on a short hike to the lower ponds. It was like 1.2 miles round trip, we walked so slow, and just enjoyed being outside in some spring weather for a minute. As we were coming back and crossing a bridge this older man looked at my belly and asked "did you make it to the ponds?"
I said "we made it to the first, and lowest ponds, yes."
He replied "Well thats encouraging!"

I am so glad that a pregnant woman can be such an encouraging and inspiring figure ;)

This is Satin the Mule! We went and visited our friends Hank and Swany that work on the horse rides down in Zion.

Can you see the rainbow? Where are the skittles?

This is just below Angels' Landing. I wish that we could have hiked up there, maybe next year!

We stayed at this hotel called Pioneer Lodge, and look at what views we woke up to!!!

So this picture is two weeks old and taken when I was 36 weeks pregnant! So yes, I am bigger now, and this might be the last swollen up picture that I will be posting (cross our fingers). I am scheduled to be induced on April 21st, my due date, at 1:00 am.

Baby Shower Down South!!!

I got so many gifts at this shower...it was lots of fun...Thank you for all that came and Thank you to my sister-in-laws, and Mother-in-law for the great shower.
My nephew McKlayne having fun at the shower with only women and little girls...(I get a feeling he might be hiding from something :)

This is Rusty's only living grandparent. The is Grandma Gretha Twitchell...I am so glad that she is here to see our baby and to experience this fun time of our lives.

My Funny Sister-in-law Holly...I hope you know how much I love you Holly...You look like you might be in trouble.

My lovely elementary librarian, and my great and loving step mother Deanne...

Dana works with dad at the park, and Emily is her daughter that I got to student teach when she was in third grade, and she is now in fifth grade... I feel old. They gave me the CUTEST swimming suit ever.

Gay is our speach therapist, and I taught her grand daughter Shianne for most of this year. Pennie is my bestest friend since we were walking and my touch with my old Emery County roots. I am so glad I have a friend close by, whether we see eachother often or not!

Mommy, Tana-banana, and BiRd! Love you guys, thanks for helping me put together my baby girls bedroom, and thank you for the jogging stroller.

Janice and Eliza!!! Don't smile Cambri!

We had a lunch at this shower, and it was so good! I love Ethel's fruit salad, and then best of all, I got to keep the lovely flowers in my house. My house NEVER sees live flowers! Thanks again to my Rich family for all that they do for me! Love you guys...I am so lucky to be a part of this family!

Surgery!!!

This is Rusty just before going into surgery on Tuesday, March 9th.
On Saturday, we drove down to Mesquite so that Rusty could practice riding his Motorcycle around their race track. Well we got down there around 11:00, Rusty got to go out three times, only getting to go around the track two or three times each. His last time out he was on his fourth lap, and I was timing him and I looked down the rythm section and I thought, "Wow, he's going pretty fast." Then his bike kind of did a Wheelie through the last jump and by this time I am thinking, "Um, maybe this is not so good! That didn't look to pretty!" And then.......

.....Right in front of me comes Rusty flying off the track!

I first thought, well it really didn't look too bad, but Rusty wasn't getting up, and some other woman was running into the track area to check on him, so I thought "Oh No, I am going to take care of my own husband...(though it was nice of her to help)." Some other kids rode over there and picked up his bike for him, which was nice since I am almost 8 months prego and know that I could have never gotten it up.

Well We finally got him on his feet, and the fist thing his says, is "Babe, look at the Pipe on my bike!" and the next thing he said was "Are you mad at me?" Ha,,,I could care less about the bike as long as my husband is still breathing to help me take care of this little bundle of joy of ours!

He started to play with his bike (the pipe was pinched in half, and the back fender is broken) and he said "I think that something is broke in my wrist. So at 12:30 we loaded up, I drove to St. George ER, and sure enough he had broken his Naviculour (???spelling???) bone. They put on a temporary cast and said that we needed to see a bone specialist. On Monday his mom and dad took him over and the doc said that he would need a permanant screw in his bone since it is in the joint, and the joint bones have no blood in them to heal them.

We were supposed to go in for surgery on Friday, but his doc called us at home on Monday night and said that he would not be in on Friday so we could either do it the next day, or the next week. Well it was done on the next day. He was in surgury for just a little over an hour. Everything went great, but the poor chap was in a TON of pain the first 24 hours. He says that it still hurts, but it is gradually getting less painful.

Well if I can take anything positive from this it would be that Rusty is not thinking about racing his motorcycle anymore...And I am so glad, so that he can just be a safe and sound daddy!