Ok, ok I know it has really been FOREVER since I updated this, but it seems like everyday I plan on doing it or even have a thought to do it, other things come up and before you know it the day is gone, well for that matter it seems the month is gone.

So I will try my best to catch you all up on the last 6 months of our lives since that is really the last time I blogged anything. First thing would be Reighlyn’s first trip to Iowa. That happened at the end of September when Reighlyn and I went on a road trip with Ana and her girls so she could go to a wedding. I am not going to lie…it was a very long trip. Mostly because Reighlyn couldn’t sleep with any other noise and she hates her car seat, so when you have to have her strapped into a car seat for 12 hours with her two cousins in the back right by her, it made for a long trip. It was good to go see my dad and everyone though. Reighlyn is getting more grown up though everyday I think. We had her 1^st birthday in November and it went great. We just had family and a couple of friends over and had some pizza and cake. It was very low key, but I think Reighlyn got enough presents that she didn’t know what to do with them all. It was nice to get her some bigger kid toys though, so she wasn’t playing with the infant toys anymore. The only bad thing about older toys is they are usually musical and annoying. Luckily most of them have shut off buttons. Christmas was quiet but went well. On Christmas Eve we had Ana and Jonathan over for our traditional candle light dinner. It was very nice to have a nice dinner, but it was snowing so bad that day and night, I wasn’t even sure if we would be able to have it, but no worries it went great. All I can say it is nice to play Santa when your kid goes to bed at 7pm. Mike and I had everything out and we were in bed around 9pm. Also the good thing about young children is that they don’t wake up at any crazy early hours. I think we got up and did the Santa gifts around 8 and then had breakfast and then opened the rest of the gifts. Reighlyn’s gift from Santa was a play kitchen which she loved along with a ball and a book.

Well for all those that know how big I get when I am pregnant you understand how uncomfortable I was around Christmas being pregnant with Keegan. It was so bad that I could no longer walk normal without very painful pains, so I was taking some wonderful drugs to help with the pain, Loratab. Well after taking this, it made Keegan very tired in the womb so the doctor decided to take mercy on me and take me 2 weeks and 1 day early. A planed c-section is a lot different than trying to go natural and then having to have a c-section. We checked in the hospital at 8am on the 2^nd of January, were I was monitored for an hour or so while they gave me fluids for the upcoming c-section. Then when it was time, I walked down to the OR carrying my own IV bag, climbed myself up on the table. Then I got my spinal block and then lay down to have my baby. I had some issues with the spinal block…yes it did numb me, but it numbed me way to high and I started having a lot of problems breathing to the point were I couldn’t talk at all because I couldn’t catch my breath and they had to put me on oxygen. Then since I couldn’t breathe I couldn’t swallow so I started to gag and choke on my spit, so they had to suction my mouth out. It was scary, but in the middle of all of that Keegan Michael was born at 10:24am.

Having Keegan has changed our lives, but for good that’s for sure. Everyone asks me if it is so hard to have two children now, if I feel like I am just running around with my head cut off. My answer is always no. I was watching my sister’s kids before Keegan was born, so I was watching a 2 year old and two almost 1 year old, so having just one 1 year old and a new born is pretty easy to handle. Especially since Keegan sleeps a lot still. We have had quite a busy last two months though since Keegan was born. Keegan was born just a couple of days before spring semester started for Mike and I. I had registered for two classes and thought I could handle it and was for a while, but I felt I was unable to give all of the time I wanted to to the kids, so I dropped the classes and decided to be done with school for awhile, at least till the kids are older. Mike is currently registered for 4 classes this semester, but it finding out how hard it is to work a full time job, go to school full time and have two children. We are very blessed to have Mike working were he is though. After my c-section I had a lot of issues with healing. First my stomach took longer than excepted to heal, but that wasn’t the worst part. It was the migraines that I started having everyday when I quit taking my pain medication. They had no idea what was wrong and my doctor thought it could be a blood clot in my brain or leaking spinal fluid from my spinal block, so I had to go to the ER when I spiked a temperature of 103.5 to have an MRI and other tests ran. They didn’t find anything with a blood clot, but I was dehydrated, had low blood count, had a bladder infection, and an infection from breastfeeding. So they treated all of that, but I was still having bad migraines to the point were someone had to be here with me at all times to help with the kids because a lot of the time I was in bed with the lights off and a blanket over my head. Luckily we have great family, when Mike couldn’t be here my sister, mother-in-law, and Lauren helped out. There will never be enough we can do to thank them all for what they did. Well after a trip to a Neurologist, he decided my headaches were due to a sudden change in hormones since I had my baby via c-section when my body wasn’t at all in labor. So they gave me some drugs that helped my get through life until my hormones stabilized. Needless to say things are back to normal and things are great now.

One new piece of news that happened to us is we sold my car in January. Now we did this for one main purpose, my transmission was going out and that is not something we wanted to deal with. So while Mike was on his way home from work one night he just stopped to look at cars and ended up test driving one home that evening. Well needless to say I never saw my car again. We ended up trading in my car for a 2003 Ford Expedition Eddie Bower SUV. It is a very nice car and has taken me a while to get use to it, but I drive it like a pro now. We had always said we would get an SUV when we got rid of my car, so that’s what we did and have been very happy with the decision ever since. We will just plan on driving that to Colorado for our Wright Family Reunion now instead of renting a car. The thing I love about it is that it seats 8 people, which means it has a full third row, so we will be able to grow into that car, but not for a while.

When Keegan was a month old, we blessed him in our home, just like we did with Reighlyn. Now I know some think you should or have to bless your babies in church on a fast Sunday, but you don’t. You just need your bishop’s permission and one of the members of the bishopric to be present when you do it. Mike and I decided to bless Reighlyn at home for a couple of reasons. First was we blessed her on Thanksgiving Day when all of my family was here, so then they could stand in the circle and such. Also Mike and I feel that a baby blessing is a very personal thing, it is that child’s first father’s blessing and that is not something we want to do in sacrament meeting. We make it very personal by doing it in our home. We have a testimony meeting first to make sure the spirit is there and then we have the blessing. My dad and little brother flew out for the blessing which we did on February 3^rd, which happens to be Ana’s birthday and also Super bowl Sunday with year, so we had the blessing and then had a super bowl party and then a birthday party all wrapped up into one exciting, wonderful, eventful evening.

Our next big adventure was making a trip to Iowa for Garth, my little brother, to go through the temple and have his mission farewell. We flew out on Valentines evening and got into Iowa about 11pm. We thought it would be perfect to fly out at 7:30 because that’s Reighlyn’s bedtime, so she would just sleep the whole way…NEGATIVE. First of all Mike and I couldn’t sit by each other because it was a small plane and they only have one extra oxygen mask per row, so we had to sit in front of each other. Well Mike had Reighlyn and I had Keegan. Keegan slept the whole time and Reighlyn was really good until she got tired and then she couldn’t get comfortable to get to sleep so she just screamed most of the time. I think I finally got her to sleep the last 10 minutes of the flight. The trip to Iowa went well and it was nice to see everyone and for everyone in my family to get to meet Keegan before he got big. Thayne brought Audrey over a lot so the girls were able to play together a lot. Audrey is 8 months older than Reighlyn, but they are the same height and weight. They also both communicate on the same level, so they would have their own conversations that were normally couldn’t understand. Garth’s farewell went well. He spoke and played a song he wrote on the piano and then Natasha and I say a song called Praise the Man. Then my dad bore his testimony. It was very nice, and then we went home, had a quick meal and we were off to the air port to fly home. Luckily the flight home went a lot better and they both slept the whole way. Garth got called to the Ghana Cope Coast Africa mission. He flew out to Africa on February 20th were he will be attending the MTC in Ghana until March 12^th, which is today, then he will be off serving the people of Ghana Africa.

I can’t believe that Keegan is already 2 months old. Things have been going pretty good with him. I must say that you learn things from your first to your second child. With Reighlyn we put her to sleep every night and it was very hard to keep her to sleep. That is not the case with Keegan, we have just laid him down, and so he has learned to put himself to sleep which is a great thing when you have two kids. The thing with Keegan is that he just loves to sleep. Right from the moment he was born he was pretty much sleeping through the night. During the day he didn’t do the normal new born schedule of eating every 2 hours, he would go every 4 hours. Then at night he would go about 6 hours. Well now I usually feed him around 7 and then go lay him down and he sleeps through the night and will wake up about 5 or so to eat and then goes back to sleep until 9. Reighlyn is also putting herself to sleep around 7 or 7:30 and then she sleeps until 6 or so, then wakes up, so she usually has a little milk and then goes back to sleep until 8:30 or so. We really are blessed to have children who sleep and are easy to put to sleep. Keegan did go through a stage were he didn’t want to be put down, but do you blame him, he has a big sister who just tries to love him too much. She loves to give kisses and hugs and really thinks she should hold him all the time. Oh and when he is cry she will force him to take his pacifier whether he wants it or not, but she means well, she hates it when he is crying himself to sleep, she stands at the bedroom door and repeats over and over, “Brother, brother”. Keegan now loves to watch Einstein with Reighlyn in his saucer. He just loves to be in the upright position and since he has been holding his head up since a week old, it works to leave him the saucer. Ok well I think that is enough updating for one day, I will update soon…I promise.