Santa

While most kids are afraid of Santa, ours can't wait until it's their turn! Last night we went to a family Christmas party which Santa was making an appearance. He calls each person including adults to sit on his lap and asks what we each want for Christmas. Well Madelyn kept asking, "Is it my turn?" When he finally called her name it was just like the Price is Right! Everyone move outta her way, she was running through everyone trying to get to Santa as fast as she could! It was so funny. And when he asked her want she wanted for Christmas, she said, "Everything!"
Isn't Christmas just the greatest time of year? We want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and the BEST New Year!

2 1/2 Weeks

Here is an update on our new family... Tate is growing fast! I forgot how quickly they change at this age. We took him to his 2 week check up this week and he weighed 9 1/2 lbs! BIG BOY! Already grown out of his newborn clothes & diapers.This is Madelyn with her Papa Oberg. He was holding her and she feel asleep on his shoulder, it was cute. Madelyn has been a GREAT big sister. She grabs the wipes & diapers every time we change Tate. Every morning she gets up and has to find Tate and check on him. Bricker wanted me to take this picture. He came to me and asked if he looked like a cowboy. It was pretty funny. Bricker has been adjusting to the new baby well also. He loves to hold his new brother, but hasn't been able to for a few days cause he caught strep throat! Poor guy has been pretty sick, his fever got up to 104! Today is his first day I let him go back to school. So I'm glad his is back to his normal self!
Shane & I are finally catching up on our sleep as Tate has got himself into a schedule now. He sleeps awesome at night and eats well.

Tate Mel Olsen

Shane's Story:
At 4:07 A.M. on November 28th Rachelle gave birth to an 8 lb 15 oz baby boy 2 and a half weeks early... and I was camping... missing the birth. I will tell all the guys right now, "Your Welcome" for making you look good. At 4:07 I was just getting the news from my dad that Rachelle was at the hospital, an hour and a half later I finally arrived at the hospital. Beat that!
Rachelle's Story:
Shane is lucky I am a forgiving person! I told him not to go camping, but he went anyways. My mom was visiting for Thanksgiving and I asked her to stay with me that night since Shane was gone, so thankfully I wasn't alone!! And sure enough contractions started up friday night about 11pm. All I could think was, "you've got to be kidding me, Shane is gone!". So I left my mom home with the sleeping kids and drove myself to the hospital while contractions were only 5 minutes apart. Got there, saw the doctor and she told me we would do a c-section within the hour. And that's when I lost it and cried. Everything happened so fast! So I hurried and called shane's parents who live only a couple minutes away to see if they could stay with the kids so my mom could come up and be with me. Shane's dad left immediately to fetch Shane up in the mountains. My mom was brave enough to come into the c-section with me so I wasn't alone. I am so thankful she was willing to do that. And a few minutes later Tate was born. Shane arrived an hour later, luckily he was still able to help bath Tate. Tate was in the NICU for about 12 hours, before they let us have him in our room. Nothing too serious though, but it was hard not to see and hold the little guy right away. Needless to say it was an emotional rollercoaster of a day for me! We are all well and at home now. They let me and Tate go home the next day, usually c-sections have to stay for 2 days. It was nice to just get back to my own house! Thanks to everyone who has been helping us out with everything! Bricker and Madelyn love their new brother!This is how Tate looked the first time I got to see him. It was so sad!