Sophie Anne Finlinson

Sophie Anne Finlinson 

Born on October 24, 2008, at 8:07am

Weighing 7lbs 2oz., and 20.5 inches long

Both Sophie and Amanda are doing great!  More information and pictures to come! Thanks everyone for all your phone calls! We love you all!

Rob

Friday.

Quick update on baby girl #3! Unless something happens in the next two days, she will be born on Friday morning. I have a scheduled c-section at 7:30am on Oct. 24th! I can't believe I am actually going to make it close to my due date! After having the twins so early, I didn't know if my body was capable of going full term. Apparently I am! So check back on Friday, hopefully I can get someone to post pictures of her! I don't know what I am more excited about...not being pregnant or seeing my sweet baby! Of course, seeing my sweet baby!

The little darlings...

Emma playing with Austin! She is a little aggressive! She kept hitting him in the head with a plastic soda bottle! Sorry little buddy! We still love you!

Camden doing karoke at Grandma's house! My girls love the microphone!
We have to wear our hats backwards so we do not pull them off!

Just a few snap shots of the girls! I absolutely love the stage the girls are in right now! Everything is new and exciting, and everyday is different! It is pretty much impossible to get the girls to take a picture together. One is always on the move! They were weighed last week at the doctors office, and are quite chubby! Camden is 21lbs 8 oz., and Emma is 21lbs 6 oz. No wonder I have to stop and catch my breath every time I carry them up the stairs! Being pregnant does not help! I love the picture of Camden holding the vacuum! She loves the vacuum, and thinks it is a game to chase it while I am cleaning. Emma on the other hand, hates the vacuum, and is usually crying the whole time it is on. She is also hiding behind the couch, to avoid getting near it! It sometimes surprises me how different the girls really are! I swear I am doing the exact same thing with both of them, but the reactions are always unique. Camden is a very busy girl, and gets into everything she can touch. She will not sit still and talk to me unless she has something really important to say, or wants my attention for a new trick or needs food. She is always smiling and happy to see her parents or her sister! Emma is very dramatic and vocal. She knows how to scream, and demands the attention of everyone in the room. Her verbal skills are impressive, and she loves to fake laugh when anyone else is laughing. She also pretends to pick something off the floor and eat it, so of course I am constantly putting my fingers in her mouth to fish it out. Only to discover there was nothing ever in there! Both girls are moving everywhere, Emma thinks she can walk like Camden sometimes, but really she is not quite there. They are both so much fun to watch! I could not imagine our family without them! Seeing how different they are, makes me wonder how this new little baby will be! We can't wait to meet her! I am sure that she will be just as unique! The big question is will she have blond hair or brown? Good thing we do not have to wait much longer!

Mariah's Homecoming Dance

My cute little sister Mariah went to the homecoming dance last night! It was her first dance experience, now that she is legal to date, and I was thrilled to see her all dressed up! She looked just beautiful! Here are a few pictures of my adorable little sister! (Lucky for Mariah, she was blessed with three older sisters, we all made it a point to share there opinions about hair, makeup, shoes, and jewelry! I don't know what she was more excited about, going to the dance, or getting away from us yesterday afternoon!)

Camden's Black Eye

Last month our faithful computer decided it no longer wanted to work! It woke up one day and decided it was done! Rob and I were beyond upset when it happened, and were just praying that our very computer talented friend Aaron would be able to retrieve all of our pictures and documents from the hard drive. Luckily, Aaron is brilliant and was able to recover everything! Anyway, to make a long story short, we finally have a new computer, and I was able to download all of the pictures from my camera. So I want to record a few things that I missed posting about in the last month!

First, while I was getting the bath ready for the girls, Camden took a spill into the dresser and instantly had a black eye. When I got the room, where Rob was "supposedly" watching the girls, all I could see was Camden crying and her eye starting to bleed. Being a new mother, I was instantly preparing to take my child to the emergency room for stitches. Rob quickly calmed me down, and showed me the tiny scratch that was already done bleeding. The least I could do for my daughter, who was already on to her next accident, was place a band aid over the wound. The next day her eye was completely black and swollen! I was afraid to take her out in public, I thought someone might report me to the authorities for child abuse! When I removed the band aid the next day, there was a nice rash left in its place. To make the whole eye worse, my attempt at doing something to fix the problem, actually gave Camden's sensitive skin a rash. She is allergic to the sticky stuff on band aids! Anyway, it was crazy! Here a few pictures to document my wild child!

Camden's First steps

Last night at family dinner, Camden decided to let go of whatever she was holding and walk to her Grandmother patiently waiting at the other end of the room. Rob and I just couldn't believe our eyes! We thought she would be weeks away from letting go and stepping into the big girl world of walking! We were very wrong! We were also completely unprepared for the event...we left the camera at home, and the video camera battery was not charged!! She has not tried it again since last night, but I am sure that she will be going everywhere she wants in no time at all! I was so proud of her in that moment...but at the same time I wanted to cry! I am not ready for her to be walking...that will mean that she needs me a little less! I guess they have to grow up no matter how many times I try to stop them!

P.S. Cute, chubby little Emma has no desire to walk! She can pull herself up and walk around the couch, but she is still very content to sit and play with her toys. Good baby! One at a time!

Rise and Shout!

The cougars are out! We are trying desperately to teach the girls how to clap and cheer when BYU football is on TV! It has been pretty challenging considering they don't even acknowledge the TV when it is on or off! We are hoping that by the end of the season they will automatically begin cheering when they hear the Cougar fight song! We also always dress them in cougar colors on game days! You have to start young, if you want them trained right!

For all you cougar fans out there...don't miss the game today against UCLA! If only I were not so pregnant, we would be traveling to Provo to see BYU in person!

Fun in the...Snow! What!

So we took off this weekend for Solitude ski resort with Rob's family! A fun weekend in the sun! It was beautiful weather for most of the trip, until Sunday night! It started raining, and it rained all night long. In the morning as we were packing to come home, the rain turned into snow! We could not believe it! Rob took several pictures of the snow...to say he was excited would be an understatement! It was really nice to feel crisp air after feeling heat all summer long!

We really did love our weekend getaway! We had so much fun spending time with family and relaxing with our sweet girls! Thank you Jensen's and Turman's for hanging out with us! We love you!

Other highlights from the trip:

1. Swimming with the girls!

2. Nature walks...trying to get the girls excited about ducks and deer!

3. Playing with cousins!

4. For Camden the coffee table in the condo was the most exciting thing! Even though she came home with too many bruises to count!

5. Eating lots of yummy junk food, and staying up late watching movies!

Here are some more random pictures!

The girls in the back seat on the drive home! They were ready to be out of the car!

Finally! McCall Part 2

So I finally got the pictures from my mom's camera of the trip to McCall in July! I wanted to post the pictures of us canoing, because I still can't believe we did that! I felt like Pocahantas the whole time! And believe me I was singing.."just around the river bend" the entire ride! Rob was pitching in on the parts of the song he could remember! It was pretty funny! For those of you that did not read my previous post, Rob and I took the girls in their car seats for a ride in a canoe down the Payette river. The river was only about four or five feet deep, and I could see the bottom. There was absolutely no current, and our canoe was very stable. The girls laughed and smile the entire ride! It was definitely the highlight of the trip and quite possibly the highlight of my summer!

5 Years! Happy Anniversary!

On Saturday, August 16, 2008 we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary! I still can't believe how fast time has gone! In the last 5 years we have both graduated from BYU, changed jobs two or three times, moved to Las Vegas, moved houses twice, and managed to have twin daughters! With the third child's arrival approaching quicker than we ever imagined! So much has happened and I would not trade one minute of it! In the process I have learned more about Rob than I thought I ever could! I thought I knew everything about him before we got married! And through it all, I love him more today than I did on our wedding day! So happy anniversary Rob! I love you more than words can express!

To celebrate our special day, Rob surprised me and took me out on a date! We had dinner at Ruth's Chris Steak House, and just sat and talked for two hours! It was fabulous! After we went and got Golden Spoon frozen yogurt, and bought enough to share with our awesome babysitters- Melanie and Jason! Thanks for taking care of our girls!

As for gifts this year...we were extra romantic...and bought each other electric toothbrush's! WOW! We could definitely step it up a notch next year!