5 Newton Kids....

Just a little tribute to my wonderful kids. With each child we have the same picture with Steve and I holding our new baby. (I say the "same" picture, but if you look at my ROUND face holding Linden, you'll realize, yes I gained 60 pounds with her!!!)



You just can't describe the feeling you have right when you're holding your new baby, it's amazing!!! And a feeling I won't get to feel again, so I will love and cherish these moments I had....


OCTOBER 16, 1993

LINDEN ANN NEWTON

(both her Grandma's have the same middle name)

8 lbs 6 oz

8:32 am

(labor 8 hours)
I started feeling "uncomfortable" and told Steve. He finally said, "you're feeling uncomfortable every 2 minutes!!" We were told when the contractions were 5 minutes apart to call the hospital, so I was reluctant to call (bigger dork?) Steve finally called and they said to get right in to the hospital!!

Born in Salt Lake City....

Linden - 14 years old...

FEBRUARY 16, 1999

CAMRYN NICHOLE NEWTON

(mom has the same middle name)

7 lbs. 6 oz.

2:16 pm

(labor 6 hours)

Camryn is my painful labor!! The epidural wore off, so I felt the whole thing. Not fun! But she was so worth it! Our best baby out of all of them. She was so good we thought something was wrong!

Born in Idaho Falls, ID

Camryn - 9 years old

AUGUST 9, 2000

BRANDON STEVEN NEWTON

(middle name same as dad!)

8 lb.s

2:39 am

Born in Idaho Falls, ID

(4 hour labor)

Our Brandon tried to come at 32 weeks! I was on bed rest for a month and then at 36 weeks they let me stop taking the medication. I had him the next day at 36 weeks. He was a whopping 8 lbs!! That boy was ready to join the world!!

Brandon - 7 years old

FEBRUARY 3, 2003

BRADEN LLOYD NEWTON

(middle name same as Grandpa's middle name and Great Grandpa's first)

7 lbs. 12 oz

9:47 am

(labor 2 hours)

I went into the hospital at 7 in the morning. They started the pit, put in the epidural and then told me to push. I was so shocked how quickly it happened. Steve worked at the hosptial and I had told him to go up and do some work while I waited for the pit to start working. I called instead to say tell him to hurry up and get down to the room to have the baby!!

(another memory of mine is how much I hated wearing the hospital gown because it was green and white, (Olympus colors) it just didn't feel right!! Give me my blue and gold forever in the sun!

Born in Idaho Falls, ID

Braden - 5 years old
JUNE 8, 2007

RYAN HOPE NEWTON

(named after the Angel of Hope)

7 lbs 7 oz.

4:56 pm

Born in Salt Lake City

(6 hour labor - thought it would be faster with the track record I had!!)

My last baby!! I tried to just enjoy it (as much as you can enjoy that!) I remember sitting there with my epidural eating a popcycle and them telling me it was time to have my baby. Steve started making fun of me at how easy the whole thing was!!

I was nervous with my Ryan to see what her hand was going to look like. What a relief when she was born. I saw it and just knew that everything would be alright. She's our angel!!

Ryan - 8 months old There's a song that describes what I've wanted to be my whole life. A few people will recognize it...... "When I grow up, I want to be a mother, and have a family, one little two little three little blessing from above, and I will love them all day long, and give them cookies and milk and yellow balloons, and cuddle them when things go wrong, and read them stories and sing them pretty tunes" Funny thing that song says nothing about poopy diapers, sleepless nights, temper tantrums!! Just the parts we love!! We put up with the bad to get all the good, right?

Camryn's Birthday Weekend!!!

CAMRYN NICHOLE NEWTON

BORN 2-16-99 AT 2:16 PM.... (couldn't have planned that one any better!!)

Our Beautiful Camryn was born 9 years ago!!! I was induced around 8:00 am. Things went great until the real pain came and my epidural wore off!! I remember asking Steve over and over to push the "button" that would give me more medicine. Poor Steve, there was no button to be found to take away the pain!! Needless to say, I pretty much felt the whole birth, and it wasn't pleasant! BUT, once it was over I was holding a beautiful baby girl in my arms and life couldn't have been more complete. Camryn was a PERFECT baby, and continues to bring our family so much joy!!!

Camryn is a great Big, and Little Sister....
We had a heart birthday party for her, it was really fun...

Crazy friends...

After her party, we were off to the cabin with Camryn's cousin Emma, and friend Sara. They had so much fun playing with makeup, playing in the snow, watching movies and just giggling and being silly!!!

This is a perfect example of my Camryn's personality. Laying in the snow in her new bikini!! What a crazy fun girl!!

The snow was soooooo high at the cabin!! I can't wait to go this summer and look at the Hammer Hideaway sign and remember that the snow was up to it!!

And of course, a photo of the moose!

Camryn, I love you, Happy Birthday! You are a fun, spunky, beautiful, cute ,outgoing, wonderful 9 year old that we love so much!!

What a Weekend!!!!

Our weekend started out with a Birthday party for our Braden Lloyd Newton!! Braden was born on February 3rd, 2003 at 8:47 a.m. He is the sweetest boy and we can't imagine our family without him. It was so fun to have him run in the morning of his birthday, so excited to see his signs and balloons. And then I layed with him and told him all about the morning he was born. We love Braden Boy so much!!!



Braden had a Kid Super Bowl Party!! It was fun playing with footballs and trying to play a few games. The noise level in the house sounded just like it would at a football game!!!

Cute cousin Clara - her turn as Quarterback!!

Thanks for the presents!!! What great cousins we have!

The whole gang at the PARTY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BRADEN!! I LOVE YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH 5 YEAR OLD!!


Now, the next part of our weekend......

We woke up to a phone call on Sunday. I answered thinking it was someone calling to sing to Braden, but instead it was someone calling to let us know church had been cancelled. I jumped out of bed to look outside and find this!!!!

18 inches of snow on our deck!!!

The back yard was a winter wonderland!! So much snow that the kids were able to jump off the deck into the snow!! They had so much fun!

And then the front yard became a great place to go sledding!!

This is the snow on the side of our driveway, it was as tall as me!! The people across the street couldn't even get out the front door without shoveling down the front steps!!

Last but not least.... THE SUPERBOWL!! I can't believe I didn't take pictures of everyone here, so caught up in the fun I didn't think about it!! We had so much great food, and t.v.'s on in every room with the game playing, and kids running and playing and people laughing and talking, and Colter and Abi dominating the prizes for guessing the scores!! (except for 2nd quarter that mom won!! And Codye was so close to getting 4th quarter, but those Giants worked some magic!!!)

Here is my cute SuperBowl baby!! Of course a picture I couldn't pass up even with all the craziness!!

Thanks to everyone for a great weekend!! Love you all!!!!!!!!!!