This is Liam at 3 weeks, we had a little photo session in my room :)

Liam has been a GREAT baby!!! I really have nothing to complain about at all!!! he is pretty much on an every 4 hour schedule which is ok....he had his 4 week check-up this last wen. and has gained 2lbs. in the last 3 weeks!!! So I guess whatever we are doing is working just fine!!!

The other boys are adjusting pretty good, they love him very much, but like to really put on a show when people come over : It can really start to get to be alot at times :) But this too will pass (all to quick I might add!!!) Well I just wanted to throw up a quick up-date, will post again soon!!! :)

Liam Douglas Sommer

SURPRISE!!!

So I had my 38 week apt. this last Tues. morning (I was really like 37weeks 4days) and I was just going to have him check if I had a Yeast Infection or something?? Something just didnt seem right, so he checked me out and said that there seemed to be some swelling due to the pressure from the baby pushing down but he was not concerned about that and he also checked my cervix which was not open at all so he really was not concerned at all!!! Sent me home with a time to be there bright and early at 5:30 the next Tues. morning for my scheduled C-Section!!! Bummer right??? That is kinda how I felt, I was just really having a hard time sleeping and over all was just not feeling very good for the last weeks up till then!!! So I went home and continued with the rest of my day and did a hair cut then went home ( I was supposed to be done with work now but you know how that goes!!) I let Nate put the boy's to bed that night as I was just needing to put my feet up and chill! so I was just minding my own business watch American Idol and at about 9:30 I had this weird crampy pain and all of a sudden my lap FILLED with WATER!!! YIKES!!! I just sat there not really knowing what to do or what had really just happened!!! I started to yell as quiet as I could as to not wake the boys but loud enough that my deaf husband would be able to hear me!!!! :) (I knew that he had fallen asleep and I didnt know if had shut his hearing aids off or took them out or what!!) When he finally came down he was really kinda annoyed with me for some reason, so I asked him to come here please and we both just sat and stared at my lap that had continued to fill with fluid!!! Wondering what we should do????? We thought we should call my Mom (we needed someone to come stay with the boys who were sleeping) oh wait maybe we should call the hospital 1st??! Yeah we should do that, so that is what I did and they said that I should probably come in as soon as I could, so I called my Mom and told her what had happened and she was going to bring someone right in!!! I had my bag all ready to go because I brought it with to my apt that morning in case he decided to keep me there, but I still felt so very unprepared!!! and the whole way to Faribault I kept asking Nate if he had remembered this or that which he of course had remembered everything!!! He is so good at stuff like that :) We got to the hospital at about 10:30pm and they got me hooked up to all the monitors and about 11:30 or so the contractions started!!! WHAT???? Are you kidding me??? now I have to sit here and go through all of this because they are not going to do surgery till the morning!!! :( So no I did not get more than an hour of sleep all night and yes I had contractions ALL NIGHT LONG!!! And then they came in to start prepping for surgery at about 5:45am and at 6:56am they delivered a healthy happy 7lb.3oz. 18in. baby boy!!! :) He has been the "Perfect" baby, more than we could have asked for!! Here are some pictures of the big day and those after:

Pre-Op Picture

Fresh out of the oven!!!

Nice Lungs :)

Love at 1st sight!!!

Daddy's Love

1st picture together thanks to my nurse :)

Hello World!!

Brothers checking him out

All my boys :)

1st bath

Halloween 2009


Look at that form!!! :)


Look out Joe Mauer!!!

"I have wings!!! "
Cousins!!!

A day out with Mommy!!!

Going to check out the Geese at RCTC while we wait for Aunty Christine to get done with class

"Goose Poop Mommy!!! "

Gavin playing Wii on vacation in the Dells!!!


Louie and Sally with there new son Simon Gabriel at his Baptism


Simon Gabriel Grove


Nice Christine!!! :) or should I say ;)


It is always intense for Nate to carve a pumpkin!!! :)


Reed really got into the whole carving thing this year!!! Gavin......Not so much :)
Finished products!!! :)

Alot of catching up to do!!!!

In Oct. we went to the dells for one last trip before the busy time of the year came for me and also the baby!!! We took my brothers Micah and Aaron along with us and it was a very fun time!!! these are jsut some pics of the trip :) I have alot more catching up to do so I am going to try and get to it!!! (Bear with me:))


Cheese!!!

Loading up his marshmellows!!!

Going down the water slide with Daddy

Gavin and Daddy going down the slide

All by himself!!!

All my boys!!!!

Havin fun at the pool!!!!

Merry Christmas!!!
Well where has the time gone again?!?!?! I looked at the calender and low and behold it
is DECEMBER!!! We have had a VERY busy year to say the least!! But when is it not??
We have been busy with a few things that I would like to touch on :

1.)We have been doing alot of stuff on the house (Of course!!) that never seems to be
boring. We put a new driveway in this summer, did some landscaping and more recently got
the garage heated!! We have some addition plans that we have been sitting on that we will
hopefully be able to take advantage of in the near future (I quit setting dates for when
we will start it because it seems that those dates always come and go, so, no dates, no
disappointments!!! )

2.) We are EXPECTING again (probably for the last time!)!! I only have 54 days left at the time of this letter!!! Feb.16th I am scheduled for a C-Section, if I make it that long!! So that will be another change for us, as both of our boys have been in the summer and this one will be
smack dab in the middle of the winter!!! We do not know what we are having as we chose to
keep it a surprise, so we are all getting very anxious to meet the new bundle :)
Both of the boys are very excited about the new baby as are Nate and I!!! :)

3.) Gavin started Kindergarten this fall!! Kenyon-Wanamingo has All Day/Every Day
Kindergarten, so my 5 year old has now started his full time school career already!! He loves it
and is excelling!! At his conferences his teacher said that he is one of the top readers in his
class and also LOVES math!! He is really coming out of his shell, which I am glad about because I was worried about how shy he seemed around people he didn't know. But he is doing great in
that department also!!! He has also picked up a LOVE for WWE wrestling which is SOOOOO funny to see!!! Cracks us up!!! He has to watch it every Monday night (also Fri night but that is Smackdown not Raw:))

4.) Reed is in the process of Potty Training , which is going.........Well as good as it can go I
guess!!! It is the one thing about parenting so far that I wish that I could send them away for!!! He is really doing very well for only being 2 1/2 years old, I cant (Or shouldn't)complain!! He has the BIGGEST imagination that I have every seen! He can pretend about anything, anytime anywhere. He is our little entertainer for sure! Reed is very excited to be Mommy's big helper
with this new baby, He practices all the time with anything that he can find that resembles a baby :)He has a great big heart and loves to "Make Mommy Happy"!!! (His own words!!)

All in all it has been a GREAT year for the whole family and I hope it has been and will be for
yours too!!! :) Till next year Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!!!

( I cant figure out why this is posting so weird with all the sentence breaks and stuff?? Very frustrating!!!)