Joshua and Natasha

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Wow it has been a while since I have been on to update our family blog so I guess I will just have to go backwards. We found out that we were expecting a new little one the first of April. Baby's due date 16th of November. We were excited but nervous also. It was 4 years since Cristian was born. We really wanted a little girl. So we found out what we were having on the 27th of June. IT'S A GIRL! She did not want to be like all the rest of the kids when I was pregnant with them. I was sick 2/3 of my pregnancy and could not feel her move the last 1/3. So we had lots of monitoring and ultra sounds the last couple weeks we had 2 ultra sounds a week with fetal monitoring in between. On the 1st of November I went in to my ultra sound appointment and that was when everything became a little crazy. We had a heart rate of 140 But she was not moving at all. After a hour of me being shaken and tipped on my head the doctor sent me upstairs to labor and delivery. Up their the resident doctor told me that we were having a baby that day 2 weeks and a day early. I was not ready, I did not have my camera (Yes that was my biggest thing I worried about), nor did I have a plan for the kids (but I knew they would be taken care of). Nothing was ready for a baby to come at home. But my Heavenly Father and Aribella had different plans. I called Josh and let him know what was going on and he made 2 phone calls for me. the 1st was to the Tew family to find out if they could come and get Cristian and the 2nd was to Godinez family. And then everything fell in to play. The kids were all taken care of for the night. Christine and her 5 kids came to get Cristian. But before they left Christine said a prayer and at that point I knew everything would be okay. The doctors had to start everything. I was not even dilated. But the talk of c section was there too. All the paperwork was signed and around 2 pm the nurse and doctors got thing started and Josh made the call to our parents to let them know that Ari was on her way. 9 hours, 2 pushes later, and her cord wrapped twice around her neck she made her grand apperance (she was my longest labor too.) 11/1/13 11:04 pm, 6 pounds 14 ounces, 19 inches long. She was perfect and had hair.

Aribella Marie Bokish

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Natasha trip to Wood Badge 4/20-22/13 & 5/18-20/13

Gilwell Field

I got to go to Wood Badge this spring and had the best time of my life. Well okay so the first weekend I only blacked out 150 plus times in the 3 days. I don't remember much about it other then it was totally crazy. But everyone on staff told me that it is meant to be that way. I do remember some stuff and took some pictures. I am part of the Fox patrol. We picked up on a lot of the exercises that they had for us. We did a communication exercise that we learned to communicate with each other quickly. The staff put on a great campfire. They even had Baden-Powell come tell his story. Wow that was awesome. We shot one of our own in to space. Foxy rocked in flight. I was able to be part of the largest LDS group to go through the course we had 16 members of the church there.

Joe, Mary, Rick, (Foxy in the rocket) Justin, Chris

Natasha

Nate Barlow at the launching pad

President Cowley

Jeremy Enz

Before flight

Foxy in flight

Justin holding Foxy after flight

John Harkey (course director)

Staff Camp fire

Baden-Powell

Second weekend was a blast. I enjoyed the weekend camping and cooking all of our meals. It was not as crazy as first weekend. I did have my tickets completed so there was no worries there. I only blacked out 90 or so times too. Yeah! Fox patrol had the patrol campfire program and it was prefect. Heavenly Father surely answered my prayer. I put it together over the 4 weeks we had off. All the patrols did great. Mondays flag ceremony was a very special one they flew John Harkey's dads veterans flag from his casket over Gilwell field. It was just beautiful. His father was a course director over wood badge as well. what a neat family tradition. While waiting for our banquet lunch John came up and started to chat with Jenny and I. He gave the kids their critter until they get to go through wood badge for themselves. So Kaelobbe, Brieanna, Jonathan, and Cristian are all Boboxes and Baby #5 is a fox (just because I was 10 weeks first weekend and 14 weeks second weekend and then it will be helping me as I work on my tickets.)