Baby Seth is here!

It was a long and uncomfortable pregnancy, but we survived! We went in on the 20th around 1:30pm and Seth was born May 21, 2010 at 1:14am. There were no major complications, except how lousy I was feeling. You can tell by his yellow coloring he had jaundice for the first couple of days and spent a day in nursery under the UV lights. He recovered quickly as did I. Now he's a happy and healthy little boy! Here are picture from his first 8 weeks:
I don't know what it was but I felt awful that day... I was so glad to have him in my arms instead of in my belly.Big sister Maci!
Licity loved holding her baby brother! Ethan was so proud of his baby brother... he acted very "fatherly" telling everyone to wash their hands and watch his head. He's such a good boy and has been such a huge help!

Grandma and Grandpa Rees... they were so great to take the kids for a couple of days. They moved to Arizona just in time!

"G" and "Pop" McEuen

Coming Home! He was nice enough to pee all over the first outfit... we called him Mr. Brown a lot after this outfit.

Seth (almost 2 Months already)

It's a...

BOY! It's a little old news by now but for anyone who hasn't heard, now you have :) We are so excited to balance things out again in our house. Ethan was the typical crazy boy who was always getting into trouble so we are assuming a little bit of that again... and yes, it does scare me, but I'm still excited. The worst part really is just coming up with his name. Kyle and I have always struggled with this, any suggestions would be helpful!!

Catching up...

Merry Christmas!!
I wanted to get started off right by doing a little catching up on the blog... I do have a good reason and it has something to do with baby McEuen #4. I've been in survival mode and have gotten nothing done for the last 10 weeks. Now that I'm 17 weeks, I've been doing a lot better and hopefully will get back into the groove of things... or not :)


Sorry to the many who didn't receive a card this year, I somehow lost my newer address list and only sent cards to those on my old list. I will try harder next year to have it all up to date. We are still thinking of you and have loved getting the fun updates on your families.

A great end to a great season! GO ROPERS 8-0!! Ethan's gang: Gannon, Holden, Ethan, Caden, Brandon, Anthony

We know it's not pretty... but that's some real Ropers pride!

I'm so proud of you Coach Kyle! The only team that scored a point on us was the one week that Kyle wasn't there to coach. Some may say "bad luck" but I know better than that.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN ... (2 months late)

The Big Kids Club

Ethan was getting a little nervous that his time would never come... but as if on que, his 1st tooth became loose. We've been wiggling it for a couple of weeks now, but finally today I decided it was time for it to come out (and it's picture day). So with his first missing tooth, Ethan is officially part of the Big Kids Club!

Lil' Cheeky

She's just too cute. She kept telling Kyle, "I do it dust a wittle much"... that went on for about an hour. Kyle was thrilled to have such an efficient helper :)

FOOTBALL!!

I didn't know I had it in me, but I'm completely loving football! Kyle decided to coach this year which makes me the team "Business Manager". Notice I didn't say "Team Mom". This is sooo much more than that! I have kept busier than I could have ever imagined, but I secretly love every bit of it! After 4 weeks of practice we finally had our first game last Saturday. We're 2-0... so far, so good. Kyle is a natural at coaching!
(I don't have any real good action shots of Ethan actually playing football...but the girls are cute!)

This is Maci with her little friend Olivia during one of the many late-night practices. They're doing whatever it takes to stay entertained-It works for me!
(That's one good looking coach!) We actually got caught in a down pour right before our game started so the girls got to experience the rare act of wearing a jacket in AZ in September. What a treat!I think it's worth mentioning how hilarious Maci is in the background :) She'll always pose for the camera (even when it's not her that's getting her picture taken), but you can rarely catch Licity ever looking at the camera.