We are pleased to announce the arrival of Beth Jana Chase. She was born on October 12, 2009 at 4:38 p.m. Beth weighed 7 lbs and was 20 1/4 inches long. Delivery went great.

I was scheduled to be induced on Tuesday the 13th, but when I saw my doctor on Monday I was dilated 5 cm. He didn't think I would make it to the next morning so he told me to meet him at the hospital at 1p.m. My mom and dad made it into town about 45 min. before I was supposed to go to the hospital. Phew!

I think this was my fastest delivery. It took them until 3:30 to get all the paperwork, I.V., and epidural taken care of. At 3:30 I was dilated 6 cm. and they started my pitocin. Just 1 hour and 8 minutes later Beth was here. She is perfect (of course) and the kids are very excited to have her here also. There has been a little fighting over who holds her next, but they are doing a pretty good job sharing.

So far she is a content baby. She has her nights and days mixed up. That is why I am updating my blog in the middle of the night. Hopefully she will figure it out soon. I am recovering well. I have had lots of great help. Jeff has been here all week, as well as my mom and dad. Jeff''s mom and dad will be here tonight. I am so blessed to have a great support system. Jeff and I are so blessed to have 5 beautiful children entrusted to us.

Thanks to everyone for all their love and support.

Children's Village

I am a little behind on getting the blog updated. We took the kids to the Children's Village here in Cheyenne on September 25th. It was the grand re-opening so they had a balloon artist and a magician there along with all of the other fun activities for the kids. It is basically a botanical garden for the kids. There are fountains, ponds, sand, flowers and activities all centered around kids. They were able to pump water from the pond and water the flowers, plant seeds and put them in the green house, visit the secret garden, play in the fountains, hop on stones across parts of the ponds, play in the sand and water, visit tee-pees and play Native American drums. The kids absolutely loved it. We were there for a couple of hours and they could have stayed longer. We were able to go when the weather was beautiful (before it dumped a foot of snow on us). We enjoyed spending the day with the kids.

FHE

A couple of Mondays ago we had family home evening with a family in our ward. Dinner consisted of spaghetti, salad, and bread. The fun part was that we were lacking important "tools" in eating it (no plates or utensils). As you can see the kids had a blast. They were breaking all the rules. Our fhe lesson focused on the "tools" we have within the gospel of Jesus Christ that help us stay on the path that leads to eternal life.