East Davis Verses West Davis

It's a.............baby

2011-08-02T05:51:00.000-07:00

Yup you saw it right. We are having a new baby. Due Feb 18, 2011. It was a suprise for us! But a wanted surprise. Except just not right when I had a tonsilectomy and adenoidectomy! What a nightmare that was. We are really excited and can't wait to add the LAST addition to our family!

New blog

2011-03-02T20:43:00.000-08:00

Ok so I have a new blog. it's a weight loss journey blog. It's private. Leave a comment if you would like to view it

Colby a little too Honest

2010-09-20T15:56:00.000-07:00

So my cute cousin J-Cuz was taking mine and Tim's picture with her cell phone...and of course me only wanting my head in the shot was telling her to make sure she didn't get any of my fat.......well Colby said...mom you aren't fat.....my sister laughed and said you don't even know what fat is......of course colby said...yes I do it's when you have bigger legs, bigger arms, bigger feet etc......and my sister said............oh crap...I am fat!!!! J-Cuz said oh Colby I love how honest you are! He is so cute...............and which one of you told him about being fat?.....that's a swear word at our house!

Funny Boys

2010-09-13T08:22:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile..One day I will post about our summer!!! But just a cute thing my kids have done....

At dinner on sunday night we were saying the prayer and Parker the little stinker refuses to fold him arms and stuff for the prayers....well I was saying the prayer and right after I start I hear Colby whisper to Parker "Don't you love Jesus?" It was so stinkin cute.

We were getting ready for bed and some of our story books have stickers. Well Parker grabs a sticker and sticks it on his forhead.......he then holds one hand out in front like he is going to catch it if it falls. Leans his head forward and starts tapping with his other hand the back of his head trying to knock the sticker off......I guess he had just saw something like that on America's Funniest Home Videos with a penny or something. It was so cute!

Colby's 1st year of Preschool

2010-06-13T17:35:00.000-07:00

Colby's "graduation" from his first year of preschool was May 27th. I finally got the pictures from my mom's camera. They sang a song that we got recorded and did a little skit about goldie locks and the three bears. Colby was apart of the trees. He part was "down by the trees by the pond where the bees hide away from the bears living there." He had it memorized before I even started practicing it with him. Here are some pictures.

May 2010

2010-06-01T12:02:00.001-07:00

So may FLEW by!! What a month for our family! We had a lot of thing happen. May 1st my Cousin Kiera was in town from Florida and had a Breakfast with some of the kids from the neighborhood and her friends and family. It was so nice to catch up with her and some of my old friends. Her dad had the same problem as I do. He had a stroke last year I think it was from a PFO. We all talked about that. When we were visiting my Dad came bye as I told my mom what we were doing and said My grandma's & aunts new house was up the street and they were moving boxes and would like our help. So we loaded up the kids and Tim went and helped them move the boxes. We made a couple of Trips and Grandma bought us pizza's for helping. Tim was suppose to go to a priesthood leadership meeting that afternoon and us Stake Conference Adult session but we ended up not going because we were to late helping grandma. But that's ok.

On the 8th of May we were suppose to race in the Race for the Cure but it was my Grandma's official Move day so we didn't sign up. That morning we got up early and went to the church for a scout fundraiser breakfast. It was a silent auction and breakfast. I ended up getting/payingfor a haircut, a printer, and tim got banana bread and the kids got a book and sword. We then had to run over for Colby's last soccer game. He threw a huge fit and didn't want to play but shaped up by half time and helped them make a bunch of goals. he got a Medal to wear around his neck and was proud of it! We then ran home and my dad was waiting with his truck and Tim loaded most of that by himself. We had to call the rest of the family about 1 hour and a half later to come load the rest of the stuff from our basement(we were storing my aunts stuff) For some reason they all were just hanging out there thinking my DAD was going to load it all? What? So they got it all loaded and taken away. My neighbors all thought we were moving out and they told us they wanted to come over and tell us not to move.....I think they secretly were saying "YES" finally :)
After that we didn't go up to help unload the stuff because Tim and I were going with our neighbor Jenn to get our flowers in Layton at J&J. We all grabbed a bunch of flowers. I won't tell you how much we spent....but there were a lot of flowers. We went and planted my mys yard with flowers as that is what we give her for Mothers day. We then went to our house and and planted flowers in our yard, trina's yard and helped Jenn rototill her flower beds. It was long and we were wore out!!! On mothers day I woke up and my boys gave me a super cute purse I was eyeing at a boutique. They worked something with my sister to get the purse without me knowing it! Then we had a BBQ at my parents house with my dads side of the family! It was nice to see everyone.

On the 15th We went to the Brain Injury Associations 5k. We run for the little boy I help on Fridays with some therapy to help him walk and stuff. His name is Charlie. We had our friends the Cary's come with us as their girl received a similar brain injury as Charlie but a different level of Damage persay. In a way I was runing for myself also as strokes are an injury also. My friend Donna was also their with her Hubby who had a stroke also. We know too many people. But we ran the race. I pushed the boys and Tim helped push the photographers childs stroller as she took pictures. It was fun. And nice to have the Cary's there with us! That evening we went to a birthday party for Charlie. They were planning on 200 people..holey cow that is a lot of people to feed. I asked if I could make charlie a B-day cake. It was an incredibles cake as they call him Charlie Jack jack...this was a nick name before his illness that hurt his brain. I didn't have time to put trim on the cake so it wasn't as finished as I would like but it turned out good. Sorry no pictures. Our camera is still broken....I am waiting to see if Charlies mom will send me some! The boys loved the party. There was a bounce house trampoline, soccer, sandbox and lots of food and fun!! What an awesome family the Christensens are!!!

I had a boutique at my house the 21st with my sister. The turn out was ok. But we still had fun with those that came and the people selling stuff. We had purses, jewelry, scentsy, blankets, headbands, hats etc.

My sister had surgery on Monday before mine to see why she had a lump under an old surgery scar from 7 years ago. They found a massy thing with an old suture that never dissolved. This last weekend I spent time recouping from my surgery. Friday when we came home the boys of course didn't notice I was gone for a day and a half and ran right to daddy. But oh well. We went home and I settled in on the couch!! We had to go get some prescriptions but that's it we did. Our friends the Woodruff's of course brought us a delicious dinner!! We were spoiled. our friends the rogers also dropped us by a Pizza to eat anytime we needed it. It was take and bake. On Saturday we got up and Tim wanted to get yardwork done but it was cold so I told him I would bundle up and sit outside while he did the yard work so I could keep an eye on the boys. So they just played with the neighbors and I sat there resting and Tim did our yard work and Trina's. I guess they both helped each other. My sister came over during Parkers nap time and We watched a movie the two recoveries watchin shows. Colby played in the basement with neighbor kids. That morning my friend/fellow relief society presidency member brought us breakfast. We had the pizza for lunch and our friends the Cary's brought us dinner. I felt so good and didn't feel like I had surgery so I felt guilty letting people bring me food but they all insisted. We then watched another movie that night with Tim. He ended up spending the afternoon helping at our friends the woodruff's frame in a fireplace in their basement. Yard work, basement finishing what doesnt that guy do!!!

Sunday on memorial day we didn't go to church and I guess there was a wow factor in Relief Society. Heather told them they excused me because I had Heart Surgery. I guess they were all shocked and concerned. She had to back up and say not open heart type of surgery they were all thinking but just easy surgery I had. We did go put flowers on the graves and the cemetery with my parents, syblings and uncle. Its a tradition of ours. We walked all over the cemetery and even went to my future burial plot!! When we were about done colby said Mom when I die I want transformers on my head stone thingy. It was so cute!!! That night our friends the Wolfley's brought us dinner also!!! Seriously don't we have the best friends ever!!! They all volunteered to bring food non of this was set up by the compassionate service committee like it usually is!!! The husband made the food and he even made it when his wife was home sick....worse off than me!! I felt really bad!

On memorial day I was off my 2-3 day take it easy after surgery days. We went to Woods Cross City Park memorial day celebration with my parents. I helped start this Celebration14 years ago when I was on the youth city council. We had breakfast and played at the park. We ran into my cousin Liz so we hung out with her and let our kids play. It was fun. After that we went to the store for Tim to buy my b-day presents....oh yeah it was my b-day too...on a holiday yeah no work!! He got me some unmentionables......sheets and new pillows. We got the boys a few more summer outfits and we only had a couple. We then went and got some new flowers to replace some that died for what reason we don't know. We quickly planted them and then our family and my sister went to see the last Shrek movie. colby loved every minute of it. Parker well he was a little stinker the whole movie walking around in our isle and talking loud I was embarrased. We then all went with my parents to Robintino's for my Birthday dinner!! It was weird not having a memorial day BBQ. But oh well we can have one soon!!! That's may for you! Sorry no pictures one day we will fix our camera or get a new one!

It's done

2010-05-27T15:32:00.001-07:00

So I went in at 6:00 am this morning for the PFO fix. They of course had to poke me 3 times to get blood and and IV. I was wheeled into the Cardiac Cath Lab Operating room at about 7:15. I spent most of the time in there just hanging out. They got me ready and prepped and tried to pull the gown out from under me after transfering me to the table. This nurse saw me leaning to one side and came running she thought I was rolling off. But i don't think she was big enough to stop me if I was. They gave me Versed(sp) I was a little nervous that I would turn into the devil incarnate like Parker did. But it just made me sleepy. I was hoping t be asleep....but no they made me stay awake but it wasn't as bad as I thought. They gave me local anesthetic to go through the femoral artery. All I felt though was a little butterfly feeling in my heart when the camera went in and when they put the "helix" in. He said it was the best device because it allowed the thinner part of the heart and the thicker part of the heart to mold around it. I had a 1/2 inch hole and the device was an inch. He said it is in there tight and ain't goin anywhere. I think the actually procedure took about 15 mintues. I was rolled back into the recovery room by 8:15. Dr Sorensen said that this was a fix that needed to be done. It wasn't just a PFO but a ASD atrial septic defect. So it was something that needed to be fix. As some people don't need PFO's fixed. So I am glad I got it done. I was tired for another hour and then I was ready to get up and go. Of course they won't let me. I had to lay flat in bed for 2 hours and not lay. But the amazing feet is that they had me take 3 pills and eat breakfast laying flat on my back. My mom fed me breakfast like a mother bird. It was kind of embarrasing. I have just been hanging out in my room with my hubby watching movies, playing on the internet and taking a few walks around the hallways. I feel just fine. I feel a lump in my throat everyonce in awhile and my IV hurts worse than the incision!! So I think this will be and easy recovery. Thanks everyone for their prayers and concern. It means a lot to us!!! Thanks to my dad and grandma and mom for taking the kids today and playing with them!!! I think they forget me and Tim are their parents!! I am grateful for and awesome family!

6:00am WHAT?

2010-05-26T09:54:00.000-07:00

Ok so tomorrow is the day....how did I get so lucky to get the 6:00 time slot!!!! Seriously! Oh well I guess I get to be put to sleep for part of the day! I haven't gotten nervous yet!! Just excited for what I hope the out come will be after!!!! Wish me luck!

Blood Work

2010-05-13T06:00:00.000-07:00

So I got my results over the phone from all that blood work that was taken by my neurologist.
I have low Vitamin D and Vitamin B12. My liver function is elevated(but could be from all the tylenol I had been taking for the headaches.) . My glucose was up from the last time. About 100 points. But I was given early that day a solumedrol infusion. That skyrockets your blood sugar. So I am not worried about that and neither are they as it wasn't a fasting blood work. So I just have to take the Vitamin D and B12 supplements now.

I had about a week break from headaches....too bad it didn't last long. They are back! Oh well hopefully in 2 weeks they will be gone for good. It's funny when I get a headache my left eye will almost droop shut with the headache. I unconciously just close it and watch the world go with one eye! I hope this improves in two weeks also!

April 2010

2010-05-06T13:34:00.000-07:00

So April went by superfast!!! Most of the month was spent going to doctors and me feeling sick so not much fun went on. Our camera bit the dust at disneyland so no pictures from this family for awhile! We had a good Easter. The easter bunny came and visited the kids.....don't ask me to remember what he brought them candy....and something. Oh yeah shoes I think. Maybe some toys. We had dinner at my parents house. I was in charge of the potatoes. My sister and mom like always were fun and did an easter egg hunt for the kids. It was fast because it was a little chilly. We got the yard all ready for planting and weed prevention. Well I shouldn't say we. TIM got it ready. He brought in compost for the whole yard and weeded and got the garden ready for planting and even planted our stuff in our basement until it warms up here!

Colby has been playing soccer again. His team isn't doing as good. The other teams seem to have learned how to dribble and be agressive over the winter break and Colby's team stayed the same. But they have fun. We do find Colby running off the field whenever he wants without the coach saying so to grab a drink. He's so funny he wants a drink water all game long. He still is pretty agressive on the field and makes a lot of the goals. He has gotten hurt more and cried a few times but he enjoys it!

+We had a few BBQ/Hot dog roasts/marshmallow roasts at our house with friends and neighbors it was fun! I love having good friends and family over. We have some good friends that live by us that gave us a whole bunch of stuff because they were cleaning out finishing their basement and their boys are older and weren't playing or using stuff anymore. We got new Luggage, A new electric play truck for the boys and a set of dressers for Parkers room. Parker needed the storage space in his room!!! It's all be fun and nice.

Parker has been learning to talk and say peoples names and put words together its so cute. We sometimes can't get him to say a word right. We are trying to teach him some neighbors names. Craig is Kaig. Julianna is Anna. Trina is Noah(don't ask but he refuses to say it any other way) Jenn is gnenn. He loves to see them now he learned their names and talk to them and wave at them. He is starting to get into his 2's though a few more fits and he is stubborn! But can make you laugh all the time. He has my dads and grandpas sense of humor. It's cute.

Colby is still enjoying his preschool. He has made some friends and he gets to go to their house after preschool and plays. We are trying to learn that we don't throw fits when grandma comes to pick him up! He is turning into a big boy now. he likes swords, and action things now! he loves driving the truck around (the play one) and loves loves loves to argue with us and talk back and say no. But we love him. This has been the hardest stage for me. But I am sure it can be worse!!

Cardiologist

2010-04-28T14:51:00.001-07:00

So I went to see Dr Sherm Sorensen the Cardiologist....kind of a weird Duck. he didn't like me saying I was getting old when He's probably older than my dad. I had a Transcranial Doppler done. They put two dopplers on my temples where the arteries that go to my brain are. When she put it on it was a faint heartbeat sound. She put the IV in...one the first try might I add. That doesn't happen that often to me. She then injected aggitated saline(bubbles) into my veins and almost immediately you heard the bubble on the doppler. In a heart without a hole they would get filtered through the lungs and back through the heart before going to the brain. Well the hole in my heart allowed them to go immediately to my brain. The test ranges the amount of bubble from 0(meaning none) to a 5, and then a 5+. Well at resting mine was a 4. When I applied pressure I was a 5+. He also said I have a septic Aneurysm which can collect clots and send them the wrong way. So I have three things against me. Spots on my brain, the 4 & 5+ reading and the aneurysm I have a really high risk for a Stroke. He suggested surgery to close the hole with an artificial something or other :) He will go through my femoral artery and insert the mesh device and it will close the hole off and my heart tissue will grow over it and hold it into place. There is a 99% success rate with this surgery. It's only one night in the hospital and back to mostly normal duties in 2 days. No lifting heavy things for a month or strenuous exercise (not a problem as it hurts to bad to do strenuous exercies). Anyways that's the story for now. I have the surgery scheduled May 27th. Then I follow up with the neurologist a week later to go over the rest of the results and see if they ruled out MS or not. As the Cardiologist said this problem doesn' t rule out MS. It just prevents strokes from the PFO. So the neurologist knows in the future if I continue to have problems that it's not the PFO. I hope this all makes sense!!! Lets hope it's all the PFO.

Echo.........

2010-04-22T15:53:00.000-07:00

So I had an echocardiogram today. Well what do ya know....I have a hole in my heart. I have a PFO. It's a hole you have as a baby that usually closes but mine didn't. Now off for more heart tests and to meet with the cardiologist to get the plan of attack to make sure it quits attacking my head. I am SSSOOOO done with headaches.....hopefully this means no more steroid injections....that is nasty stuff!

Dr Update

2010-04-21T07:55:00.000-07:00

So I went to my first Neurology appointment on Monday thanks to sweet Angel for getting me an appointment ASAP. The anticipation is killing me...knowing your brain is getting damaged and don't know why. So he looked at my MRI's and he said there are spots on my MRI that are typical placing of MS lesions but that the MRI doesn't show for sure if it's demylenating lesions or if it's from some type fo vascular problems(small clots or strokes or whatever) So now the testing starts to figure out what it is. I started monday with Steriod infusions for two days. It did a number on me but has helped in some areas. It did make my headaches more massive and painful but it's a side effect of the drug. I had rapid heartbeat at points in the night with 110 beats per minute. I got flush for hours and still am. But I have had some relief in pain and stiffness. He said if this relieves some symptoms it means that it might be autoimmune like MS or Lupus or something because it will take down the inflammation and pain caused by those in the brain and spinal column. Second I had about 10 vials of blood or so (I think it was more) taken for all kinds of tests. I have some of them back on my dr's webpage he has for me but I can't tell what all of them mean with the medical gibber gabber. So I will have to wait for the dumbed down version from my dr! But all the autoimmune, kidney,liver and lupus ones are higher than normal. I will have to have and EKG with bubble this thursday to rule out a hole in my heart that could be sending clots to my brain. Right now they are just ruling out things and trying to find out what could cause all my pain, fatigue, headaches, miscarriage, my left eye having problems, muscle twitching etc! He did show in my appointment that my left hand was weaker and had drifting left eye, and i saw double at one point out of my left eye. Which is where the majority of my headaches are. I am also realizing I can't concentrate. Remember things as well and I can't remember even some of my close friends names. So don't be offended if I all the sudden can't remember your name. I know you just can't pull your name out! He said that alot of times after someone has a kid or the hormones from a pregnancy loss could make a flare up in an autoimmue disease and that's why I could have had more problems since the miscarriage. So we will see......only time and tests will tell. I hope this is the beginning of some relief and not the beginning of worse things to come! We are doing good. We are grateful for all the outpouring of love and support. Life gives us challenges, but the lord knows we can handle all that he gives us so we will handle all of this! We know we aren't the only ones that struggle.

Pondering (warning long emotional post)

2010-04-15T06:34:00.001-07:00

These last couple of months for me have been a humbling experience. I have been pondering a lot about my support system I have. Lets start with my family. I was lucky enough to be born to my parents. I do indeed have the best parents in the whole world. They serve me everyday and never ask for anything in return. The tend my kids EVERYDAY I am at work. They do special errands for me as I can't do everything because I work full time. They are loving and supportive and are wonderful people who serve their family and community.

My Husband....what did I EVER do to deserve such a wonderful man! Words can't describe how awesome he is. With all the pain and sickness I have had in the 5 years we have been married he sure has stepped up to the plate. Not once has he ever blamed me for being lazy(which I blame myself all the time) not once has he told me to help him when I am just watching him because I am so fatigued or hurt to bad to help. This is the list of things he does for me. He does the Laundry, all the yard work, Cleans, takes care of the kids, does dishes, grocery shopping, and many more things. You ask what do I do? Not much. I pretty much do the little cooking we do and sometimes dishes but he takes care of the rest. He picks up all the slack without complaining or degrading me. Which I probably wouldn't give him the same respect. He loves me and his family...all his family and would do anything for any of them. Not only does he do this for me....but he finds time to help my parents, and syblings out. He finds time to help our neighbors with their projects. He is the definition of Service. Each day I spend with this man I fall more in love with him. What a blessing he is in my life.

My sister......not only did I get the best parents I got the best sisters too. She has stepped up to the plate for me too. Since we work 10 hour days and are required to and since we only have about 1 1/2 hours with our boys before they have to go to bed because we drag them out of bed at 5:55 or so to go to grandmas......well any who. We didn't want to spend that time cooking and cleaning up dinner........so what does she do she says. Well have something in mind or something ready and she will cook us dinner each night and stop on the way home from work and do that for us. She exercises during that time to on our WII. So now we come home and dinner is on the table. What a selfless thing to do! Did I tell you I love my family! She is like another member of our family at our house. She does so much for me. She will tend my kids anytime for free. She takes my kids on auntie nephew dates. She is so awesome. She pushes me to exercise even though its painful. Which I need. She makes me want to be a better person.

My neighbors & friends......how lucky I am to have such wonderful friends to live by. They are just neighbors they are friends and some I would consider family. I am somewhat of a social butterfly...I am shy but I love having friends over for social events. I love just being able to walk out the front door and be able to know I can find someone to talk too and know that they care about me as much as I do them. They bring so much joy in our family and I know I can count on them for anything and I hope they feel the same for us. I love our monthly dinners we have with a couple of our friends. We have done it for 5 years and look forward to it every month. The are such a blessing in our life! We love them so much! I am grateful for Janae...for comforting me through my break down at church and crying with me even though she didn't know what can of worms she was opening. The sincernest in her eyes comforted me! I think all those former neighbors and friends I grew up with know that they have effected me all in such a way to mold me to the person I am today! I am grateful for each one of them.

My coworkers..........ok Well two of them...they know who they are. I can count on them for anything! Did you hear me anything. Even though I spend 40 hours a week with them they aren't sick of me. I can talk to them about anything. Any question I am to embarrsed to ask anyone else................I ask them. They will explain to this sheltered girl! They would do anything for me and I love them and I am grateful for them each day!

Unexpected friends.....Every friday Tim or I (it's my job to do but tim fills in when I can't) one of us goes to Charlie's house to help this little sweet angel try to regain some function in his sweet little body after having bacterial menegitis. We go and with a couple of other people at a session help him crawl and learn sensation and sound and sight again. We started in November I think it was of 2009. I know from us serving this sweet family that we have been blessed. How do I know Charlie. Well Charlie's mom Angel(the name is fitting) grew up close to us back in childhood days at one point we were in the same ward. Well she is my brothers age and her and her husband Rob are friends with my brother. Also when they got married they moved in the duplex across the street from my parents so I lived by them for a while. I was heart broken about Charlie for them. When the opprotunity came for me to be able to help them. I didn't hesitate. I always think what if I needed help? How could I not help someone in need. Once I found out I had the problems with demylenation I had my dad call a neurologist while I was in disneyland and make me an appointment for me. Well at my last Therapy session with Charlie I asked Rob about Angel's job(my dad had mentioned he thought she worked for a neurologist) He said she did but it's strickly and MS clinic. We talked about things for a minute and immediatley he said I am going to ask Angel if they take your insurance and see what we can do about getting you in ASAP! He looked at me and told me that his heart hurt for me. I never in a million years thought one of my brothers friends would ever feel that way for me! I always felt like the stupid little younger sister with his friends. Angel and Rob have never treated me that way. Angel is working right now with her Doctor to get me into him as soon as possible even though he only works 9 days in the next two months. I even remember when I was still single and struggling with loneliness and stuff I was outside my parents house and Rob and Angel, my brother and a bunch of their friends were going to dinner. Angel invited me. There was no way in heck I was going to hang out with my brothers friends. I was never accepted there. I declined. But Angel being the sweetest person ever INSISTED I come and join them. I went and it was just what I needed at that time. Being accepted somewhere were I never dreamed I would be accepted. It was wonderful. In a small way it changed a perspective in my life. Also when I help with Charlie another one of my Brothers friends helps at the same time as me Troy. What an awesome guy he is! He talks to me and actually cares too about me! I guess I have never been accepted in that part of my Brothers life.....so to me it's shocking. I guess these weren't the guys that hung out at our house when growing up. But I wish they would have been the ones!!! I am glad that now I get to see them once a week and chat! They are funny too. I am sorry about getting on the Brother band wagon but apparently I have some brother issues. Don't get me wrong I still love him. I guess we have just never grown out of the sybling rivalry/ older cool brother vs younger sister that he thought was annoying. Maybe by the time I am 70 we will be over that.

I am grateful for all the people in my life that have influenced me for the good. Even if you weren't mentioned I hope you know the impact you have made on my life and I am grateful for you. Even though I have struggled physically and been sick for a long time I am grateful for all that I have and I just wanted to share it with the WWW :)

March 2010

2010-03-16T10:23:00.000-07:00

On March third our night was going so well. We had the kids bathed and ready for bed and about to read them stories at about 7:30....we were on top of it. Well I was in our bedroom. Tim was in the Living room and Colby and Parker were playing in the hall. I heard a thud and a cry and Tim did to. He was quicker to get to Parker than I was and he yelled "Kari" I ran! Parker was pouring blood out of his mouth and screaming. Then Colby started crying super hard.....saying he was so so so so so so sorry he didn't mean to make "Parkers blood stick out." He was so sorry. Well it looked like to us that his tooth went all the way through his lip. We didn't know wether to take him to primary's or an insta care. We stuck with insta care so we didn't want to take him around all the sick kids at primary's. Well instacare said they can't do stitches on a lip on a kid and we had to take him to the emergency room. So off to Primary's we went. He luckly cut his lip on the heater vent and his tooth cut the inside so it didn't go all the way through. The inner lip they let heal on it's on but the outer lip they put 3 stitches in. Well they gave him versed to calm him down and it would make him not remember the process. Well with him it didn't calm him down. He became the devil incarnate and screamed and hit and kick and threw....well that ain't my sweet little parker. It lasted for about 1 hour and a 1/2. He threw a popscicle at the Doctor. But he looks as good as new! You can hardly see it now. How it happened....well we can only tell you what a 4 year old did. Their ballon strings got wrapped together and he pulled hard and pulled parker down and he landed face first on the heatervent air return!! Boys will be boys.

Two days later my dad got put in the hospital again for bleeding in his stomach and really low blood pressure. He was in Intermediate care unit. A step above the floor but a step below ICU. They got it all stopped and his stomach feeling better and released him 3 days later. While this was all happening.....I got a nasty eyelid infection and had to go a week with glasses (my most unfavorite thing in the world) all with the worst headaches and dizziness I have had. The eye is cleared up and I am working with Dr's on the headache. I have had a couple of MRI's and have a probable demylenation disease. Isn't that wonderful. I meet with a neurologist in May.

We have decided how this year has started for all of us WE NEED A VACATION!!!!

Parker had his 2nd birthday. He is getting to be such a big boy. He is just learning to but more than one word together and starting to say a lot more words. He is a verying loving boy and so cute. He loves his older brother and loves to repeat him. He loves basketballs, footballs, soccer balls, anything ball related. HE loves bubbles and balloons. He likes to put his hands on his cheek and yell your name when he is trying to get your attention. Its so so so cute. We had a birthday party with just family. I made him a sponge bob square pants cake only because he could say spongebob before mom. We had sandwhiches and chips and salad for his dinner. We love this kid and we are so grateful he is a part of our family!

So we took one at the end of March. Ok it was planned before all the craziness. But it came at a time we needed a break. But still had stuff going on but we made it work. Last year at the fair Tim got us into one of those timeshare meeting things that they tried to coerce us into getting a timeshare....well we didn't but we got some cash, gas gift cards, two nights in vegas, and 100.00 at planet hollywood in vegas and a bunch of other stuff. Well we decided since my Cousin was blessing their baby in Cedar City on March 28th that we would take our trip after that. So Saturday the 27th we drove to Cedar City and played in the pool at the hotel with all our extended family and had pizza. My mom and sister came with us. The next day we went to the blessing. It was so fun to see our family all in church together and Tyson did a awesome job blessing Grady! It's the first boy in my Uncles family. I hope they know what to do with him. My uncle has 5 girls and all the grandkids up till grady were girls! We left right after the blessing to head to Vegas....well when we were rolling into Vegas. My cute mom said...."you know we are only a couple hours from Disneyland" We should have just gone there. We all laughed and said that would be fun. Well we started driving down the strip....MISTAKE. it took forever to drive down it! We were frustrated with the lights and everything. It was so crowded even that early in the day. My mom said we should really go to disneyland. We started talking seriously about it. We got to the hotel. And before checking in we tried to find a computer and internet. My sister had forgotten her laptop so we couldn't use the wifi. Well they only had outragiously expensive pay computers. So we called my brother at home. He said he would look for us but I am sure was disappointed that we were going to disneyland without them. He found us a hotel and gave us the number. In the mean time we found a free internet at the travel bureau. We found a hotel with half price rate and booked the rooms. We stayed one night in our hotel in vegas used our 100.00 at planet hollywood and the next day headed to DISNEYLAND! Seriously....no one in my family is spontanious...if I didn't know better we were all on something. But we weren't! We spent the first day in California getting ready for disneyland....We had to buy another umbrella stroller for Colby because we only brought one. We had to buy deoderant for me i forgot mine and had to use Tim's one day...gross I know.....I forgot a lot of stuff...swimming suit. deoderant..church shoes....2 strollers. I Am loosing my mind slowly but surely. We bought sandwhich stuff and breakfast stuff so we didn't have to go out to eat too much. We were sick of eating out already! We spent three days in disneyland. Colby and Parker loved it!!! Colby Hated Space mountain but pretty much liked everything else...oh wait he cried on.....Thunder mountain too....but didn't hate it as bad. He says he loved....buzzlightyear....pinocchio....dumbo.....rocketship. All of which he rode with me :) He loved meeting the characters. Goofey put the moves on me!! Tim said watch out Goofy! He stared at the parade and never looked back. We ate at a BBQ in Disneyland one night. He was brave and got on stage and was so cute and Parker had to follow...they kept wanting to go back on stage! We only got to spend a couple of hours in California adventure so we rode the monsters inc ride and a few of the dorky bugs life ride for the kids before we headed off to California Screamin! It's an awesome roller coaster. Colby and my mom went on Toy story 3d....they loved it. Parker couldn't behave in line so I had to take him out. We ended our trip with me, tim and malene riding the grizzly rapids or something and I got completely wet! It was 9:00 at night and freezing cold....but it was worth it. No one was in line we got to stay on the ride and go twice. The boys fell asleep while we were riding with my mom. It was fun and we made lots of fun memories. The drive back all in one day was rough but the boys were so good in the car! We were exhausted. We crashed at night...well atleast did. I saw my friend Christy at Smiths the next day and she took one look and me and said holy cow you look tired is everything ok...I said we just got back from disneyland..she laughed and said she understood! What an adventure! Our camera broke so all I have is my sisters pictures so enjoy!

The only shot of got of Parker's stitches. He didn't want his picture taken he wanted to take pictures.

Here we come Disneyland. Ok so we took our coming to disneyland picture when we were leaving!!!
My mom and sister Malene looking cute after eating a BBQ dinner.

Me and Colby taking a self portrait.

Colby showin off his new Mickey ears he made himself.

My sister and mom waiting for a ride!

Parker and Tim enjoying the parade...Of course we were by the COCA COLA Store!

Me and Parker waiting for the rocket ship ride. He loved it. He is not a scard of rides at all.

Me Colby in the Buzz lightyear ride. That buzz that was talking and moving was so cool!

Isn't my sister GORGEOUS? She single and would make any man happy if you know of someone let's hook her up!

Sister again!

Us riding the tea cups. Parker was sleeping and my mom and sister get sick on these types of rides so it was just us three.

This is us meeting Goofy. Goofy decided to get a little fresh with me. Kisses and then loves and hand holding!!! I have never been so forwardly flirted with!

Us in Vegas in front of the Bellagio!!!

My sister getting her picture taken by colby in the planet hollywood restuarant. Did I mention lots of my sister cuz she was the only one whos camera decided to work?

This is the cake I made for my nieces 1st birthday.

This is the Spongebod cake I made for Parker's second birthday.

February 2010

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I had a 8 week ultrasound appointment in early february with my dr....we found out that the baby didn't make it and that I was going to have a miscarriage some time in the next two weeks. Luckly I was able to have it on my own and it only took about a 1/2 a week. We understand that this happens and it's a part of nature. It was just the chromosomes not all right. I still get sad when I see babies but I am grateful for my two little ones I already have and know that I will have another one when the time is right!! A couple of days later my dad went in the hospital he had amonia built up in his body so it was making him very forgetful and didn't know where he was or what he was doing. So they got him fixed up and his mind was as clear as it had been in a long time. He also celebrated his 60th birthday!

January 2010

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January is a big month for our family. We have soooo many birthdays Tim had his 35th birthday....we love you OLD FART!!! We had a fun shower that me, my sister and my cousin Liz and cousin Becca threw for their sister Rachael who lives in Cedar City. She came up for the shower. It was so much fun. We had soups and treats and rolls. Our family, their moms family, and old neighbors all came. It was nice to catch up. We had fun afterwards too. We sent Tim off to hang out with Liz's husband Gaylen and all the girls and kids stayed at my house and we did pedicures, Ordered in Applebee's and watched Julie and Julia(boring show) but fun company. I was exhausted by the end of the night. The night before that Tim and I spent the night in the U of U emergency room. I had a very high heart rate it stayed between 130 and 180 the entire time I was in there and of course throughout the whole night.....The diagnosis......early pregnancy and it was an early symptom of it. It luckly was gone by the end of the weekend. I spent the next two weeks going from normal clothes to maternity clothes. Come to find out at my first dr's appointment I was only like a day pregnant when I was in there because two weeks later the ultrasound only showed 5 1/2 weeks along. but I looked about 6 months pregnant. More about this in february. No pictures this month either

December 2009

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Well December was busy like always. My Uncle and Aunt moved in with my parents since their house sold so we had fun eating dinners with them most nights. We went to the Michigan vs Utah Utes basketball game. We did the normal trip to see the lights. We had christmas eve at my moms with her brothers and all the cousins. We had christmas breakfast at my cousin liz's house since Uncle Kevin is moving :( We helped make breakfast casserols to share. The boys enjoyed their christmas. Colby got like 7 transformers and that pretty much cured him of his gimmie gimmie gimmie attitude at the store asking for them. What else is there to ask for when you have it all. He got clothes and a cool school computer. Parker got a wagon and he seriously sat in it the whole time we opened presents. It was cute! He got toys and clothes also. The day after christmas we went with my parents, sister and nieces to Hardware Ranch to see the elk and go for a sleigh ride! New years eve....well I did the normal falling asleep at 9:00 on the couch so Tim had to ring in the new year all by himself!!! Does anyone else never have something to do on new years and want to start a tradition with us and ring it in with us?

The elk!

This is my moms, sister, dad and Nieces on the sleigh ride at hardware ranch.

Other people enjoying their carriage ride!

All of us waiting happily for the ride!! Well my sister looks confused and my dad well that's almost his bitter beer face!

My Aunt Lori surprised with a ring from her family

My sister and Parker enjoying Christmas Breakfast.

Parker enjoying his new wagon

Christmas can sure wear a boy out!

Pictures so early?

Very blurry picture of us enjoyoing lights on temple square

our whole family enjoying temple square.

Michigan players at the U of U vs Michigan game!

This is a blanket I made for my cousin Kiera who had her first baby boy.

November 2009

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Ok so nothing really happened exciting that I can remember. We had thanksgiving with my mom and her side of the family. My Uncle moved to away in Dec so he decided to come with us even though it wasn't our year to have them so it was a nice surprise. No pictures this month!

October 2009

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We had colby's birthday he turned a big 4 years old. For Halloween we went to the ward party and trick or treating. Nothing else that I remember really happened that was exciting. Here are some pictures for the month.

These are cupcakes I made for colby's preschool program.

A close up of the mummy cupcakes

Colby and his cousins enjoying birthday cake at his birthday party. It was a transformer birthday party of course.

Some random day of Parker eating breakfast

My Sexy man in his Halloween outfit!

My cute little bumblee bee transformer and little monkey.

Colby opening presents on his birthday. It was on sunday. That's why he is all dressed up!

Colby got a transformer bike for his birthday

Here is his birthday cake

The top of his transformer birthday cake

Me and Colby making his cake.

September 2009

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I know I posted some of this but here is pictures from salsa and peach jam. We had our wedding anniversary for 5 years. Tim sent me flowers at work and took me to dinner and to the temple on a date.

This is the finished product. All of our salsa and Jam. This was only one of the three times we bottled.

We made yummy shish kabobs for dinner......crazy I know. too much work!

We had some left over peaches from the jam and made peach crisp.

We shredded zucchini to freeze for zucchini bread later or whatever uses.

Just our finished Salsa

The garlic we use

Our Jalapenos

Breakfast Jenn always provides

Getting our tomatoes ready to peel.. apparently at 8:49 am

Our onions peeled

Our fresh from the garden green peppers

Our home grown Roma Tomatoes

Me, Julie and Jenn just having fun making salsa.....well by the looks of it Julie might be.....constipated?

Last but not least......my Anniversary Flowers Tim sent me!

Parker Turns 2 years old

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It's been awhile since we gave a shout out to our blogger friends. We just wanted to wish our Parker a happy birthday and we will but updating soon!! Parker loves any type of balls, footballs, basketballs, baseballs, anything. He is a comedian in our family. He pulls funny faces and expects a laugh. The cutest is when he looks out the corner of his eyes while he faces forward. He can say a lot of peoples names but still doesn't talk much. But boy does he understand what we say to him. He is a sweet loving boy. We are so happy to have him as a part of our family.

Colby turns 4 today

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Colby turns 4....how time flies....Happy birthday to a very sweet and handsome little boy! How he loves his little brother, his parents and his grandparents and the rest of his family. Oh and he loves transformers...

The announcement of our little man and how he has touched our live ever since...

here he is in his 1st halloween outfit....trick or treat... = )

trick or treating is hard work, maybe it is time for a nap...

Our little man turns 1...how cute he is...

The big two....it wasn't so terrible after all...

I don't have current pics on my pc at work...so I will have to go home and upload some...for his 3 and 4 year old birthdays...

Anyways, I am grateful for the joy that Colby brings into our lives. He is a treasure. So Colby here's hoping you have a very happy birthday!!!

Update, Update, Update...

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It has been a busy summer and we have just been busy (or lazy) to blog. So here you go...Let's start in June...well June we got a lot of rain which helped the garden.Here are some pics of our garden. We planted corn, cucumber, egg plant, squash, pumpkin,watermelon, canteloupe, roma tomato's and Jalepeno's.

the canteloupe and watermelon:

Here is a view looking from front to back:

Our handsome oldest boy standing in front of the flower bed.

Here is another shot of the front flower bed.

A shot of our side flower bed in front of the house.

One of our favorite activities is picking raspberries so Parker can eat them all... = )

Here is a pic of our little Parker helping harvest the garden.

Colby took this pic so I thought I would post it. It was taken when I was taking pictures of the flowerbeds in the front of our yard.

Here is our handsome boy making his silly face...Colby is so silly!

Here is our fire pit where we do dutch oven and roast marshmallows...

This is our sweet little Parker while learning to walk. He likes to play with golf balls.

With a face like this it is hard to imagine the trouble I can get into huh?

Balance...almost got it...There we go. Sorry about the blurry pic.

Some of the comments below are from Kari...

What else happened in June? Neighborhood campout. This year we went to Crystal Hot Springs again. There were about 4 families that could join us. We had so much fun. Sorry No pictures on our end. We had Navajo Tacos and Smore's. It was a bit rainy and so we did get a little wet. In fact on Saturday we all decided to go swimming together and the water slides had cold water and it was too cold and rainy so we literally only stayed like 15 minutes. It is always fun to hang out with such good neighbors of ours!

In July.....

On the Fourth of July it's Kari's family tradition that we all get together and go see the fireworks at Eaglewood Golf Course. We can always be found on the 1st tee. It has also become a tradition that a bunch of our neighbors and friends join us. It was so fun to have the Cantenzaro's, Cary's, and Thatchers join us this year. We did miss the Woodruff's! If anyone else joined us...sorry I have Alzheimers!! I know there were more...but that's what I get for posting late!

The circle of fire between neighbors around us. We had lots of fireworks and it was a good show by all. Sorry no pictures for that either...

We also make it a tradition to go to the 24th parade with Kari's family and the Woodruff's. This year was no exception. We have Subway and coozied up by Marie Calander's and even had a surprise of the Ingles joining us it was fun. We did however have an accident that happened in front of us. A lady with Down Syndrome bent down to pick up a piece of candy she was throwing at the crowd that she had dropped and lost her balance and fell. She got run over by a big Jeep and so it stopped the parade for awhile..I hope it was a good lesson for the kids if anything good could have come of it!

In August, we had another campout with Kari's dad side of the family...We stayed at a RV resort in Moab. It wasn't super hot so we were ok. We hiked some hikes in Arches again. Our first night there we went to Moab Brewery for dinner.....well that was a mistake the food wasn't good and afterwards our waitress followed us out asking if our service was bad because Tim didn't give a good enough tip she thought. even though it was standard. And then tried to give us a guilt trip about how they don't pay her and our tip is her only way to live....but I sure do guarantee she makes more off drunk people in an hour than I make all day at my job!! We won't be going back there.

In September we had our annual Salsa making Party with Jenn Woodruff, but this year we were lucky enough to have my friend Julie from work helping us. IT was fun. Well we decided the first batch of about 70 pints just wasn't enough and our garden was still giving so the next weekend we bottled and additional 60 or so pints plus we were crazy enough to bottle about 50 jelly jars and about 20 pints of peach jam...only with one ALMOST little fire from the stove from me putting the jelly in a too small of pan and it boiled over. Good thing Jenn had the stuff to clean it off the stove with!! That was a 13 hour day of work. I think I still am recouping. But it is always fun!

Just a quick update on our boys...

Colby is almost 4 I can't believe how time has flown by. He started preschool at Miss Melanie's preschool it's right close to my parents house and so it's easy access. He goes with his good buddy Jaxon. He has already learned so much. He knows his ABC's and 123's and can make the sounds to the letters he has even began to learn to write his name. It's coy or cobl...he leaves a few letters out but it's a start. He drew a picture of his family and he included a little baby in it. He told his teacher it was his little sister Tori. Well Tori is his baby cousin. I guess he wants her in our family....only time will tell if he get's his wish. He is a really smart kid and so out going and so loving. He asks everyone he meets their name. He is IN LOVE with Transformers. He always talks about them and wants a new one the second he does get a new one. He loves primary and his teachers. and he had a part in the primary program... they asked what their mothers did for them. and he said that "my mommy gives me, hugs, kisses and yogurt"I guess I do something right!!! He also has a friend in preschool that is African American. He said I have a new friend at school that is BLACK. I don't know where he learned it but he must know some people call them that. Well his grandma asked him what his name was and he said I don't know I think I will just call him BLACKIE....UM NO!!!! we put a stop to that quick. We made his ask his name...it's Keaton and it sounds like they are good buds!!! WE LOVE having our sweet Colby in our family he is very loving out going little man!!!

Parker is 18 months old. He has attempted to go to nursery but it has failed. He is unlike Colby and he does not like to go and have us leave him. He crys and crys and crys. But he is our little comedian at home. It will make funny faces and pause and look at us and when we laugh he laughs and thinks he is so funny. He loves to try and be a big boy like his brother. But well he is a little limited. He loves ballons and balls. He loves to pucker up and give kisses. He is a very happy boy and again like Colby they both love and adore their daddy!!! They couldn't be two different looking and acting boys but we love them so much equally!!! Can't wait to watch them grow but don't want them to grow at the same time.

More pics will follow soon....

new baby, easter, race for the cure, camping etc.

2009-05-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

To start out our biggest news is that we have a new addition to our extended family. Tori Lynn Davis. My brother and his wife had their third baby March 13th 3 days after parkers birthday. Easter activities included the ward breakfast and easter egg hunt, the easter bunny visiting our house and having a hunt and an easter egg hunt at grandma and grandpad Davis' house for our family home evening activity. On easter Tim got called to be the ward membership clerk. Lucky him! We decided as a family to do the race for the cure this year in honor of a family friend Eileen Knighton who lost her battle with cancer earlier this year. We prepared for 2 weeks by walking as our exercise. We made it in 107 mins longer than we hoped but what can you expect when it's so crowded it's hard to pass other people. Last weekend we went to Moab with our friends the Irelands( and two of her sisters) and the Morris'. It was a fun experience. Can't wait to do it again. We camped 23 miles up the colorado river in hittle campground or something like that. Most of the men went and road slick rock trail(except Tim as he doesn't have a mountain bike) so the rest of us played at a fun park and on a Sandy mountain as Cobly called it. We had dutch oven potatoes and dutch oven rootbeer chicken and dutch oven peach cobbler that night. Then next morning we all packed up and went to arches and hiked to delicate arch. Only 3 of us had been their before. and I am proud to Say Colby hiked it all on his own the entire time without getting carried once step of the way. I on the hand barley made it but did! Below are pictures of the past couple of months.

Tori Lynn looks just like her daddy! Blonde hair and all
Another shot of Tori

Colby and Parker coming down the hall on easter morning to see if the easter bunny came

One night Colby and Parker were so exhausted Tim was sitting with them a little bit and they both just conked out in a few minutes. so cute.

Parker and the Easter bunny at the ward breakfast and hunt

Parker loving his food at the easter break fast and I am sure Colby running away from his.

Colby and his loot at the ward hunt

The easter bunnies loot at our house. He brought sunday clothes and swimming gear and way to much candy

Parker showing Daddy his egg he found

Parker and Colby both just finding an egg

Colby looking at his loot. They also go some Cars cars

The boys ready for easter sunday

The Davis grandchildren getting ready for the easter egg hunt at grandma's

Colby going on a bike ride at the end of the day with Daddy and Parker. They have such a awesome daddy!

Parker and cool spikey all over hair

Colby and his cool all over spikey hair

Me and my sister Malene waiting for the race for the cure to start

Tim and I waiting for the race for the cure to start

Us and the boys waiting for the race to start. You do see Colby irritating Parker and they both ended up crying for the first mile of the race.

Colby at the park in Moab it had awesome music toys to play with. all different kinds

The sandy mountain and if you look really hard you can see two of the kids who went with us climbing up it.

Tim, Colby Parker and Brinley playing in the sand

All the ladies and little ones hanging back in the shade watching Tim Jacob and I think it was Corbin climb to the top

Exhausted after climbing and playing on the sandy mountain.

Parker exhausted also

Daddy and Parker on the hike to delicate arch. Thanks to the Morris' for lending us their child backpack

Us at delicate arch we actually reached it

Colby posing at delicate arch end of the trail

The kids found a shelf in the trail they wanted to climb up to and sit in...Cute little brinley was always snuggling up to Colby....do we see a prom in our future!

Me and Colby at the top part of the trail that was a slick rock mountain you have to climb up!

Spring has arrived.....well except for the snow

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The few nice days we have had have been wonderful! We have been working in the yard, goin on Bike Rides, Blowing Bubbles, going for walks and just plain enjoying it. Attached are some of our activities this month!

Colby playing with the camera and taking a self portrait

Me and the boys hangin out

Parker....well being...sneeky looking

Parker in the last week has just started doing peek-a-boo....this is a shot of him actually covering his eyes.

Peek-a-boo again

Colby got a new bike....it doesn't have peddles it is suppose to help them learn balancing better without the training wheels.

Cobly enjoying his new bike and his new bike helmet.

Flowers that have sprung up in the spring. We planted spring bulbs for the first time last fall....love them!!! These are my hyanthe.....oh I don't know!

My crokasis...ok I don't know how to spell them or say them but these came really early and I only have two left blooming but they were pretty!

My pretty Tulips...I love these they are short border tulips that come early too. With a pansi in the background

Ok so actually I have planted bulbs before but every year until this one I just got a few green things on this one...but these are tiny little butter cups...really cute

Ok so I had to show the buds on my parkway trees! I can't wait for them to flower and for green things to start coming!

Colby and Tim blowing bubbles....um Tim are you enjoying this? I think not!

Parker doesn't like the grass yet so this is him climbing on me.

Parker and Colby with their Bike helmets on getting ready to go for a bike ride...Parker hated his.

Parker and Colby all loaded up and hooked up to dads bike....Boy did dad have a load to carry and he even went faster than mom!

A closer shot of them through the mesh :)

ode to the photographer

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I just thought I would let all my peeps out there know about our AWESOME photographer! We got awesome pictures this time and now she has a blog here it is....see some of her work! She's just starting out....but I say! She was born to do this.....

http://www.rememberthemomentsphotography.blogspot.com/

Swimming

2009-03-19T07:33:00.001-07:00

We took the boys to the rec center last night and went swimming with them. We were worried about Colby but he was a lot better than he was last year. He was so afraid of the water even though he loves his baths. Maybe it has something to do with the bubbles. Parker was just having the time of his life. We think we will put the boys in swimming lessons, in the meantime, take them swimming as much as possible so that they get used to the water! It was a lot of fun and if you have been swimming in awhile a lot of work.

Tag It , Part 2

2009-03-16T12:17:00.000-07:00

tag your it

8 Favorite TV Shows: (not in any particular order)
1. Biggest Loser
2. ER
3. Survivor
4. Amazing Race
5. Smallville
6. Lost
7. Friday Night Lights
8. Heroes
8a. Whatever Colby wants to watch: cartoons

8 Things I look forward to
1. Being out of debt, having the house paid off, the loans paid off, etc...
2. Having my basement finished
3. Warm Weather
4. My boys growing up (not to fast though)
5. Retirement so I can do fun things all the time, instead of working all the time and doing a few fun things here and there.
6. Activities in the yard with the boys and spending time with the neighbors.
7. The day I turn 100 years old...my 50th wedding anniversary = )
8. Living in eternity with my family and meeting Heavenly Father and my other brothers and sisters of the gospel
8a. Life in general...next time the University of Michigan plays a game in sports, perferrably Basketball or Football and wins.

8 Favorite places to eat
1. McDonald's ( i know it isn't healthy but hey i love the fries)
2 through 8: Rumbi, Bajio, Elmatador, Tepenyaki, Robintino’s, Iggy’s, Winger’s, Chili’s

Things on my wish list
Debt free, a finished basement, finished cement porch in back with a new deck and a fence to be totally fenced in, a finished garage, my wife to not be in pain anymore and to be healthy, the rest of the day off work

Favorite Movies
Superman movies, Batman movies, Indiana Jones movies, Star Wars movies, Lord of the Rings, X-Men movies, certain chick flicks...

People I tag
Anyone who wants to participate

tag your it

2009-03-16T11:59:00.001-07:00

8 Favorites

8 Favorite TV Shows:
1. Biggest Loser
2. ER
3.Survivor
4.Amazing Race
5. Smallville
6. Ace of Cakes
7. Challenge
8. One Life to Live…& General Hospital

8 Things I look forward to
1. Seeing my husband and kids everyday
2. Having my basement finished
3. Warm Weather
4. Taking Cycling/Spinning Classes (I start today)
5. Loosing weight
6. Getting in shape
7. My next kid (I am already getting baby hungry)
8. Living in eternity with my family

8 Favorite places to eat
1. Bajio
2. Rumbi
3. Elmatador
4. Tepenyaki
5. Robintino’s
6. Iggy’s
7. Winger’s
8. Chili’s

8 Things on my wish list
1. Basement
2. Finished cement porch in back
3. A maid
4. a clean house
5. A finished garage
6. a finished storage room so I can put all the food storage from an awesome sale at smith’s
7. My sister to find the man of her dreams and get married.
8. My dad to not be sick or hurt anymore

8 Favorite Movies
1. 10 things I hate about you
2. how to lose a guy in 10 days
3. Fugitive
4. The Patriot
5. can’t remember anymore
6.
7.
8.

8 people I tag
1. Tim
2. Elise
3. Becca
4. Jeanene
5. Ashly
6. Kristen
7. Elise
8. Kelly

What a weekend!!! The weather was lovely...

2009-03-16T11:41:00.000-07:00

We finally had a weekend of lovely weather and we got a jumpstart on the yardwork. Our yard is almost weed free(for now) and preen has been laid down to prevent future weeds (we hope), although we ran out and so we will need to go get some more. Hopefully this is the year where our garden gives us some really good results. In the past we have only had a few things grow instead of everything we grow. It is never to early to think ahead and be prepared. We signed up for memberships at the Bountiful Rec Center - so if anyone ever wants to hang out at the bubble, let us know. Or just chill at the pool. = ) We put Parker on the grass and he didn't like it one bit. Maybe once it greens up and gets a little softer things will be different. Of course he should be walking by then. When we weed, Colby likes us to find worms. He likes to hold them in his hands and then he will put them back in the dirt when he is done playing with them. Which usually leads to us having to find more worms! Silly boy!

Anyways that was the weekend! I hope everyone else was able to get out and enjoy it!

Pay it forward-tag

2009-03-12T06:20:00.000-07:00

Here's how this game works, the 1st 5 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the year, a handmade gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise! The catch is that you must participate as well. Before you leave your comment, write up a pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going. Then come back, let me know you're going to play and sit back and anticipate the arrival of your gift. After you receive your gift you only have to post a picture and story about it, so we can all share in the excitement.

Happy Birthday Parker

2009-03-10T18:21:00.001-07:00

Here's a little bit about our little Parker

He's a very happy boy
He likes to walk while holding your hands. He won't sit on laps anymore he just reaches till he gets both of your pointer fingers grabs them and arches his back and slides off you lap and begs for you to walk him.
He doesn't crawl he scoots. So we call him scooter (hence his birthday cake)
He can pull himself up and sit down and slide off couches.
He makes funnies with his mouth.
When we sing " I'm a bullrider" (my dad's nickname for him) he puts one arm or both in the air and waves them
He likes to smile big.
He loves food...but is a little more leary about just letting us put anything in.
For his birthday on saturday my whole family went to build-a-bear. Colby, Parker and their cousins Madison and Morgan built animals. Parker a monkey with a Jazz outfit. Colby a doggy with a football outfit. Madison a kitty in a summer dress and Morgan a bear in a summer outfit. My mom, dad, sister and grandma came to watch and enjoy. Afterwards we all went to Rumbi to grab a bite to eat.
Sunday we had his birthday dinner with the same croud at my house and my Uncle this time and had cake and ice cream. I made him a scooter cake because he's our little Scooter. Today on his birthday Tim and I worked but we went to paces for ice cream cones as a family to celebrate! Here are some random pictures and pictures from his birthday!

Parker with the happy birthday sticker from Build-a Bear

Colby being cute

Cute Picture of Parker

Parker opening gifts with the help of brother and cousins. Look at that smile

Parker again opening gifts

Parker eating his cake. He actually ate it little bit by little bit very dainty....not what I expected

Just about to dig in!

The Scooter cake

Another shot of the scooter cake

My mom and sister, brother and sister inlaw watching my nieces bears get stuffed

Parker with "Scooter" his Jazz Monkey

Colby and his football doggy.....the outfit was demanded to come off just after we bought it...doooh!

My nieces and their animals

My brother helping Madison dress her bear

Colby giving Diego and Scooter a bath

Mydad amd Grandma watching with.....dad is that a painful look? Maybe it wasn't so fun for him

The girls watching their animals get stuffed

Colby making the stuffing machine go!

Me and the boys posing with the stuffless animals

Parker turns 1 today!!!

2009-03-10T15:40:00.000-07:00

Our little Parker aka Scooter turns 1 today! How does the time fly? We are thankful that is has been 1 year since our little boy has joined our family. I am grateful for a wonderful family and the blessings that come with it! We will post pics later of his wonderful birthday experiences.

Recapping the last couple of Months

2009-02-21T10:39:00.000-08:00

It's been a long time since we have been able to post. It's been busy. Here we go:
Christmas Time

Parker getting over RSV

Colby going to the emergency room two nights after christmas with Croup.
For christmas the boys got a train table and a thomas train and a bunch of other toys and clothes.
Karii gets a Upper GI done to see why she still has the same pain after having her gallbladder out. She has a Herniated stomach and gastritis.
Old Neighborhood Party- I decided to have all the kids in my old neighborhood over for a party a lot of them were going to be in from out of town. It was so fun to see everyone and their families and to catch up. I just wish it could have lasted longer!!!
January
Tim turns one year older and wiser too!
Surprise trip to Michigan. Tim's Father passed away in January from a fight with Colon Cancer and Leukemia. We got to go to Freezing cold Michigan for the funeral. I have never met him but it was something Tim wanted to do and it was good for us. It was cold and we got to see his family again and we got to see a lot more of them than last trip so it was nice. Get this Tim's brother's Fiance has a dog that is a brown lab mixed with a Weiner dog.....who would of thunk? Cute though! Sorry we didn't get pictures of everyone in Tim's family but we got some!

Kari finds out the back pain isn't from her stomach....she has more tests done. She has Scoliosis....guess those embarrasing back tests in Jr high for this didn't find mine....nothing they can do to help with the pain... :( More pain to deal with.
Kari's dad almost had his stomach out again.....but it got canceled again. They have to figure out his Liver problems first. Poor guy has everything wrong with him. But his stomach disease is Genetic....so guess who has to get a Colonoscopy in their 20's and early 30's.....yup all his kids....aren't we Lucky!

Tim get's yet another attach with Kidney stones poor guy. We went in the emergency room a couple of monday's ago and they were slammed. They said yup you got one...it's huge go home and drink lots of water and cranberry juice. Two mornings later we end up there again with more pain. they take and x-ray.....it hasn't budged. It needs lithotripsy. They blasted the stone. over two weeks later he is still sore and thinks is still passing the fragments. He was sick...he said it's worse than birth because we get epidurals!!! Now ladies yell at Tim not me :)

The day back from Michigan The bishop visited us and called me to be the Relief Society Secretary.

Here are a few pictures

This is our house in a horrendous mess the day we got back from Michigan. We had to leave without cleaning it and returned and started unpacking. My bishop said I needed to blog it to prove to everyone that my house does get messy and the only reason it's clean when they are over is because I know they are coming.

This is us waiting for our flight home in the Detroit Airport

Poor Tim this is how he ended up sleeping in the hotel during Michigan trip. I can't sleep with Parker and so some how he ended up with both of them.

This is Parker on his cousins bike. You can see the Brown Lab/Weiner dog in the background. And the cute young lady on the couch is Tim's youngest brothers fiance Jenn. She's a sweetheart.

This is us lounging around in our last night in Michigan. This is the hotel splurge we make every time. It's a nice hotel in Novi Michigan about 30 minutes outside of detroit. What freakin nice beds!!! We all slept good that night!

This is Tim's Best friend from Michigan that he grew up with. Her name is Angel. She is with her daughter Gracie and her husband Troy.

This is Angel's son Cole. He had more toys than we have ever seen in one room and Colby was in heaven. He begs us to this day to go play at Cole's house.

Again the wiener dog/black lab mix... Toby

Parker with future sister in law Jenn

This is Tim with his Uncle Harry (they look a ton a like you would think he was his dad) and Harry's wife Robin and Tim's cousin Ethan.

Again sorry a duplicate with Tim looking down

Tim's mom holding Parker

Tim's Cousin Sandra with the blonde hair and Jessica with the brown hair the funny thing is I have a cousin on my dad's side that looks just like jessica.

This is how we fed Parker in the hotels.

Colby getting bundled to go out in Michigan weather

Parker's first hair cut

This is just a picture of Colby one day he went downstairs to play with is train table and it became quiet and this is what we found. Him sleeping under the table.

Closer shot of our tired boy

This is a picture of my old neighborhood gang party!

Just a cute picture of Parker...and yes those are his gorgeous blue eyes!

This is the boys loot for christmas....spoiled much?

Colby opening a present at christmas

Parker enjoying his toys at christmas

Colby's suprise at seeing his train table santa left him and Parker.

Parker feeling better

2008-12-24T13:08:00.000-08:00

Parker is doing better now. His oxygen is finally back to normal levels and his heart rate back to the 115's instead of 180's. I took him to the Doctors yesterday and Tim took him today but I got the real scoop. They think he has RSV. They don't really want to bother testing him because they would treat him the same no matter what. They think he may have gotten a Secondary infection which caused the high temperatures and really bad cough. So he is on antibiotics to help get rid of bacteria if he has it or prevent him from getting it. We can now Nebulize him a lot less. So things are looking better!!! It's sad watching your kids so sick. I can't imgine doing it with a terminal or really sick kid...I admire everyone who can and does!!

Sick Baby

2008-12-23T05:05:00.000-08:00

So our Little baby Parker has had a slight cold for about 3 weeks. Well this last weekend it took a turn for the worse. He started with a bad cough really deep and congested and he looked like he was in pain when he coughed. Then he started with a fever sunday. We were having to be up with him in the nights. Monday morning we woke up and I took his temperature it was 102.1 and he wouldn't wake up for anything really lethargic. We made an appointment with our NP Lisa and she said he had pnemonia. His oxygen was down to 88 when it should have been up to 94. They gave him a shot to open his airway and nebulized him ( i guess that's what you call it) she sent us home with a machine to give him treatments and amoxicillan. While all of this was happening me and Tim were at work. I was so worried about him and was feeling guilty for being at work while he was home so sick. My mom and dad took him to the doctor for us. My mom said that he was so close to be hosptialized and we need to sleep with him sitting up. So that means we have to hold him all night....so needless to say I don't have to feel guilty because I stayed up with him last night and held him up and gave him treatments while Tim slept to go to work today and he will take care of him tonight while I go to work tomorrow. Poor little guy he is so sick and I feel so bad. None of my kids have ever been this sick.

Surgery Canceled

2008-12-21T11:02:00.000-08:00

Thanks for all your kind words about my father. The Doctors have canceled his surgery for now. They want to wait for the genetic testing to come back and then they will decide if they are taking out the entire stomach or part of the stomach....We all think he wasn't thinking when he scheduled it for 3 days before Christmas and didn't want to worry about him and have to be in the hospital with him. We are grateful for the doctors concern and that they are making sure they make the right decision for my father's health!

Princess Cake

2008-12-17T18:25:00.000-08:00

I made this cake for a neighbor girl. It's a princess barbie cake. Her mom said she liked it.

December so far

2008-12-12T08:51:00.000-08:00

We have had two more birthday's in the family my brother and Niece Morgan. We had Cake and Ice Cream and my brothers the day of his birthday and then the sunday after my nieces birthday we had dinner and cake at there house with family. I made the birthday cake...still no camera so they have the pictures but I will post it when I get them.....what a cake to make. IT was a castle cake.....It looked really good until I went to transport it to there house and 4 of the pillars fell over taking some of the decoration with it...but I fixed it good enough that hopefully in the picture you can't tell.... We have been busy doing christmas stuff and all that.

We found out last week that my father...who has been suffering the last year and half with stomach problems is going to have his stomach removed on the 22nd of this month. It's to high risk for him to keep his stomach because of the big tumors in it has a 60% chance of turning to cancer so they are going to remove it and all the lymp nodes around it to be safe. It is a scarey surgery so anyones prayers will be appreciated.....he is the worlds best father and I hope it makes him feel better I feel so bad watching him suffer in pain and sickness...he has gone through a lot with his health over the years and I just want him to feel better. They did decide to do the surgery around christmas because the sooner the better for my dad to feel better and hopefully easier to get babysitters. I still have a cousin in high school that will have time off and she will watch my kids for two days and my sister is taking two days of work to watch them and tim has two use or lose days at work to use...so we have it covered and working 4 tens at work we have two 4 day weekends so its a good time for that reason but I will be sad not having my father home for christmas. If everything goes well he will still be in the hospital for 7-10 days!

November 2008

2008-12-12T07:50:00.000-08:00

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would sum up November. I don't have all the pictures from november. We still don't have a camera so my mom has some of my cakes on her camera and Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was a fun day this year. We went to my uncles house and all his kids that still live around here came. Only one was missing and my brother and his family were also missing. We had tons of food and we played games until into the evening. It was fun and it's always nice to play with games and hang out with my cousins!! It's nice to have them so close and be people that I can actually call my friends!! Well I decided that I would try black friday out to get some deals on things we are needing. So me and Jenn my neighbor and friend decided to venture out. I dragged my cousin Liz along also. We started at Walmart....what a zoo...crazy people let me tell ya. Things were gone in less than a minute. luckly it wasn't what we came there for. We headed to Kohl's, then Shopko and then Smith's market place. IT was fun to hang out with them and go shopping. I was tired though and boy did my feet hurt. We ended the morning with Breakfast at dee's. We had such a busy november I hope that I remember everything we did. Below are some pictures but some of them didn't happen in november I just found the pictures.

This i Colby being silly with his Big Boy underwear. We thought if we bought him Buzz lightyear and other Disney big boy underwear it would entice him to go potty on the toilet....well needless to say that and many other attempts haven't worked...but they do look good on his head....you can tell it was more summer time for this picture because my dad is wearing shorts in the background.....and my dad get's cold easily so it was summer with this one...sorry it's sideways!

This is the Diego Cake I made my niece for her birthday Her and Colby love Diego and Dora. She had a Diego Party Colby had to miss so I didn't get to see her reaction to the cake but My brother seemed pretty impressed

The next two cakes are a cake I made in September for my grandma. I tried a new icing and stuff so it doesn't look very good but it tasted good. She went through the temple and took her endowments out. It was an awesome experience and I was glad I was there to see it happen. I can't wait to see her sealed to my grandpa and their kids. We miss him a lot and it will be great to know that they can live forever as a family! A life long dream is coming true!!

Ok so I thought I would show you my very first cake ever that I made....This is a barbie cake I made for an old Co-worker's daughter...man I had to have been about 6 or 7 years ago. It actually has been my best barbie cake ever.....I think I made a total mess of one I made for my cousin a couple years ago...I think I owe her a new one! For free

In november while shopping at walmart they were doing free pictures with santa. Colby was excited to share with santa what he wanted for christmas. It's changed from GEO Trax (Thanks to commercials he knows what this is) to Thomas the Choo choo train that comes out of a water fall. I guess we will have to see if he is a good boy or not and if santa brings it to him!! Parker kept staring at santa like what the freak is that!

Now to the reason we missed Madison's birthday party for the kids....Disney On Ice.....Colby was completely mesmorized for the first half.....We coudln't get him to look away. It was so cute. He Loved seeing buzz lightyear on ice(the reason we went) He enjoyed his buzz toys he got ....He really likes the buzz lightyear arm his aunt bought him.....it makes lots of noise...the rest of us say THANKS Aunt weene weene!

This is a cake I made for Jenn's Birthday It was chocolate cake that I crushed grasshopper cookies into the batter and baked then I put chocolate whipped cream on the top with a slight bit of mint flavoring...I put fresh raspberries and then I covered mint leaves with chocolate to make the chocolate mint leaves! It was good. I love working with the whipped topping...this was a really easy cake to make!

Last but not least....some of the ladies in our circle went to lunch to celebrate birthdays...Three of the ladies have birthdays in oct and nov. WE actually went on Kathy's birthday...we call her Kafy at our house because that is what Colby calls her ....he loves Kafy and derick......Jenn's was earlier that week and Julianna's was in october. Mine and Trina well we are summer babies....so it was our turn to buy! I was so fun. We went to Ruth's diner up emigration canyon..I was I think the only one who hadn't been there. It was good...they have the fries with the crunchy top...like Galaxy Diner (if anyone lived here long enough to remember that place) loved it!!!

Well that's about it for november! I think.

Mr Potato Head?

2008-11-09T15:02:00.000-08:00

So today Colby woke up from his nap crying. Which he usually cries when he hasn't slept enough and woke from a deeper sleep. I went in to see what was wrong and in the midst of crying he said...."I want a Mr Potato head Cake!" I repeated it to make sure that is what he said. and he said Un huh! It was so so cute....maybe his mom make too many cakes? I guess maybe I will have to try a Mr Potato head cake!

family pictures

2008-10-31T09:50:00.000-07:00

We had our family pictures taken last week. We just asked a friend Audrey that lives by us to take our pictures because she always has cute pictures of her kids that she takes. So I asked her and she said yes. She said it was her first time doing family pictures. She did an awesome job. They are the best we have had... Here is a sample of the pictures we had taken. We did them at WX city park were a lot of fall leaves had fallen.

Picture time

2008-10-20T17:36:00.004-07:00

We got Colby his Buzz Lightyear halloween costume and we tried it on so we had a picture taking session and got some cute ones of Parker too. I thought I would share. You can see how big Parker is getting.

Disclaimer

2008-10-20T17:36:00.003-07:00

I have been told by Tim I misspell and mis type words. Sorry..I am usually in a hurry so I really don't care. I hope you get what I mean

Colby's Birthday Party

2008-10-20T17:21:00.000-07:00

We had Colby's third birthday party with some of his friends. It was fun for him. Of course all the kids behaved themselves but the birthday boy. It was a Buzz lightyear birthday party. We had it in our unfinished basement. We put up buzz lightyear green on our walls to hide ours and my brothers storage. I assigned each child a character from toy story. We had Woody, Bullseye, Ham, Mr and Mrs potato head Etc. All but two kids we invited showed up so we had 13-14 kids. We played a matching game with the characters and then I hid pictures of their character around the room and they found them. We had cake and Ice Cream and played random games like duck duck goose and red rover red rover. Colby had fun and got way to many toys. But he has had fun playing with all of them. We had my family over on Colby's actual birthday and had Hamburgers, french fries (colby's request) and salad and more cake and Ice cream. Below is a picture of the cake I made for Colby's birthday. It's the scene in Toy Story 2 (colby's favorite) where the toys are crossing the road under cones to Al's Toy Barn. I only had Rex and Buz as actual figurines so if you look close one is Slinky Dog slink I made out of Gum paste and put between two cones because that's what he had in the movie and I put hams feet and Mr potato head's feet under cones I made out of gum paste also. I know everything is out of porportion but you get the picture. The cones are bigger then the tipped over semi!

5 days and counting

2008-10-14T15:01:00.000-07:00

In 5 more days I will have a 3 year old. How time as flied by. I am in the process of making his Toy story Birthday cake today I started making some of the things for the cake with Gum Paste. Colby wanted to help so I gave him a piece. It's like playdough but dries out really fast. He was rolling it out and making a worm. My mom asked him what he was doing. He said Grandma I am making a cake with my mommy! It's so sweet. I wish I could stay home every day with him! He's so fun to be around. He has been determined since day one that he was going to have a Buzz Lightyear Birthday Party so a bunch of his friends are coming over Saturday for a party. I invited each kid and assigned them to be a Character from the show. I hope it turns out fun!!! I know he is excited. And if you ask him He is already 3. Some of the thing Colby is doing. He will burp or pass gas...I know I should be proud and he will say "Excuse me.....did I scare you" This was also a little thing he said to me last night.. he was asking to play hide and seek he said "ok I will hide and you come find me...you go into my bedroom and say are you in the closet...no....are you under the bed....no......is colby in Parker's room....no...." It was so cute. He just rehearsed a hide and seek game we have played before. He usually hides in really easy spots or tells us where he is going to hide so we will talk loud and act like its really hard to find him. I love this boy!!!

Bad cough and Teeth

2008-10-14T14:53:00.000-07:00

My poor little Parker is getting 4 teeth all at one time. At first I thought he was just getting his big two upper teeth but come to find out the two just one both sides of the big teeth just cut through today and the big ones are still coming. He's had some fussy moments too. Since I am off work still until this thursday post surgery I have got to spend some time with my boths how fun it has been. I can't lift them but it's been fun. At lunch today Parker was sitting on the table next to me As I picked up a piece of Colby's treat he didn't want I ate a bite of it and took it right past Parkers face not knowing he would throw a fit that he didn't get anything as it went by. I just thought he was crying about something else. So after Colby took a nap and my mom ate her lunch I actually got to eat mine. and My mom was holding him by me and each time I took a bite he Arched his back and started crying. This was all after he just ate almost a whole yogurt( he would have eaten the whole thing but I didn't think his little body should have that much) So I took him in my arms as I ate and he opened his mouth everytime I went to take a bit. So I let him have a taste each time and he enjoyed it. It was just a sandwhich wrap so he just was able to like some of the dressing off the tortilla. He thouroughly enjoyed himself. He's not suppose to have table food for another couple of months but he wants it bad. He is so cute.

He has also learned to fake cough. He will do a little fake cough and we will say oh bad cough and he will smile at you. The first day he did it my grandma was holding him and my entire family was sitting around on Sunday after Sunday dinner and My Grandma wasn't talking to him or paying attention. So he turned to her and did the fake cough and she talked to him and he started to smile and laugh. And today when my Uncle Jim came by for a visit my mom was talking to him and Parker was fake coughing so my mom would pay attention to him. It is so cute!!!

Surgery

2008-10-09T16:43:00.000-07:00

So I have been sick with Nauseousness for about 5 weeks and then I started with Liver pain. Went to the Dr a couple of times. I got on prilosec incase I was having some of my dads stomach problems. Then the pain came so I got a CT done they thought they saw gall stones so I went to a surgeon on Monday. He said it sounds and looks like gall bladder disease....well needless to say once you ahve stones they don't go away you just get attacks whenever they feel like it. So he if you want it out I had a cancellation for tomorrow or I will be out of town for a couple weeks and we can take care of it after that or whenever you like. I was at a good place when I left work so I decided to do it Tues oct 7th...so here I am two days post op with a body part missing. I hope it makes me feel better after the scars are healed. I had a scary thing no one told me about but Tim. But I guess somebody labeled the Anethesia wrong and I got epidural drug in my IV instead of Dye and so I had to have an antidote and then they had to monitor me for Cardiac arrest. I heard someone talking to my nurse as I was coming out of it about Cardiac arrest and ICU but when I could talk and asked how it went she said fine. I am going to ge my medical records so I know what really happened. Tim Didn't quite get what the doctor told him what happened. But everything went good and I am fine. My darn shoulder hurts more than the 4 incisions. I guess they pump you full of air doing surgery and you get phantom shoulder pain.

First Baby Meme

2008-10-09T16:35:00.000-07:00

I was tagged by my friend Amanda

1. Were you married at the time? yes
2. What were your reactions when you found out you were pregnant? Excited! Followed by doubt because my husband didn't believe the test.
3. How old were you? 25
4. How did you find out you were pregnant? Pregnancy Test
5. Who did you tell first? besides Tim? Tim took the test with me...well he didn't pee too he was just there at the results. We came up after that to my moms house with cookies that said, grandma, grandpa, aunt etc. So we told My mom, Dad and Malene
6. Did you want to find out the sex? Yeah I have to know
7. Due date: Um am I suppose to remember that. Oct 24th or something like that.
8. Did you deliver child early or late? Early..about a week
9. Did you have morning sickness? THE ENTIRE TIME AND ALL DAY LONG
10. What did you crave? Nothing really just different things at different times. Just normal type cravings.
11. Who irritated you the most? Um I don't remember. I didn't get to irritated I dont' think....this is one Tim should answer
12. What was your first child's sex? Male
13. How many pounds did you gain throughout the pregnancy? 15 I think
14. Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? Nope just sick
15. Where did you give birth to your child? Lakeview hospital
16. How many hours were you in labor? 7am-10:15 pm
17. Who drove you to the hospital? Tim
18. Who watched? Tim and My mom
19. Did you take medicine to ease the pain? Who wouldn't..hated Anethesiologist though
20. How much did your child weigh? 6lbs 6oz
21. Why did you name him/her the name you picked?I wanted to name him Hogan but too many of my family around with that last name still. I had heard colby from someone around the time we found out and Colby Hogan sounded good together.
I going to tag: Julianna, Jenn, Becca and whoever else wants to

September 2008

2008-10-01T08:26:00.001-07:00

We have had a busy month....I mean it was National Stay at home week on TV starting this month.....We have our schedule but Wednesdays are the only day we don't have a show we are addicted too during weekdays. I have been having my cake classes on Mondays, I play on the Ward volleyball team on Tuesday nights....for some reason when I get put on one or the other of the two teams our ward has that team looses.....not good! I hope it's really not my fault. Tim is playing on our ward football team on thursday nights. They are doing good. We got most of yard ready for the winter. Pulling up our petunias and planting bulbs for the spring. We have gotten our first year of raspberries....not enough yet to make jelly or something but we have had a few snacks. We keep busy. We love our boys.

Parkers has learned to sit up. He is starting to jabber. He has only rolled over a couple of times but is so so so cute. Colby can make him laugh just by looking at him. He is so precious and we love every moment.

Colby just says the funniest thing everyday. He talks better and can understand so much I just can't believe how big he is getting. He will be 3 in 19 days......

We went to the fair this month and looked at the animals. We ate at the Cow association(or whatever) and had fresh tender beef sandwhichs. My sister and sister in law weren't impressed but the rest of us liked it. Me and my mom shared a bavarian cream funnel cake...not as good as I thought it would be. We all got cheap sunglasses there. Tim and I went into the Dish Tv truck....well we ended up signing up so Tim could see all his Michigan Games....and We have Tivo now...so we can record without tapes. We record a lot of our shows we don't want Colby to see (maybe we shouldn't be watching either) We got the internet...but our modem hasn't come yet and so we don't have it yet and we will inherit an old Computer from my parents.

That's our month in a nutshell...sorry for rambling.

Fondant and Gum Paste Cake Finale

2008-10-01T08:20:00.000-07:00

Here are pictures of my Fondant and Gum Paste Cake Finale cake. I had an issue with the Marshmallow fondant. I made it myself and it was a little difficult to work with...but maybe I will get better. It tastes better than other fondants. I made the flowers with Gum Paste. I love Calla Lillies so when she showed us how to make them I just had to make them for my cake. The cake was Chocolate cake with Grasshopper cookies crushed into it and I flavored the Fondant Mint....IT was good...rich but good. Thanks to those who helped us eat it.

Salsa, Salsa and More Salsa

2008-10-01T07:52:00.000-07:00

So I continued my yearly tradition of bottling salsa. My neighbor Jenn has joined me the last two years to continue this tradition. It's nice to have help and more supplies. This year we made some changes....we did it a lot more effecient then our first time together. And it went a lot faster. We added more peppers and onions. It was good. We bottled 70 Pints....did you hear that 70!!! It was awesome. We now should have enough to last till next season. Here are some pictures from that fun and exciting time.

The most important thing....the babysitter....Tim was wonderful to take care of the kids and play with them.

See they had tons of fun. Colby loved playing with Tanner. Colby woke up from his nap that afternoon and said I want Tanner. It was so cute.

Pureeing the ingredients..it's alot faster than hand chopping.

Me and Jenn Filling the bottles

The finished product. I had to process my bottles three times...I think I filled them too full.

Jenn and I posing so cute....I hope you realize I hadn't done my hair or showered for the day.

Not only 4 blissful years but my best friend as well

2008-09-17T14:35:00.001-07:00

Really one of these days we will get a updated family picture.

In the meantime, I am thankful for my wonderful wife and the mother of our wonderful and special boys. It seems like it has been longer than 4 years because we were friends before that. Every day I count my blessings that I have a wonderful lady that I am lucky enough to spend time and eternity with.

4 blissful years

2008-09-17T14:22:00.000-07:00

Happy Anniversary to the best husband there is!!! It has been and awesome adventure. Thanks for coming into my life and blessing me in everyway. Thanks for our two sweet and beautiful boys. I can’t wait to spend Time and All ETERNITY with you J

Course II Final Cake

2008-08-31T18:23:00.000-07:00

I finished Course II in my cake decorating classs. It focused on flowers and borders and basket weaving. All which was on the final cake. We used Royal Icing (Icing they use to hold ginger bread houses together) We made the flowers all through the month because when they are made out of royal icing they can last for years. It's just sugar, water and meringue powder so it taste like sugar but is hard and not that tasty to eat but it can make a pretty cake. When in the class I swear it was 90 degrees. My elbow pits were sweating etc....so my icing was melting as I was doing the basketweave and by the time I got home one of the flowers had put to much weight on the basketweave and it fell and exposed the cake. But it didn't totally ruin the cake. I gave the cake to the Wolfley because Craig was begining for a friday cake( which is excuse for me making him was a cake was just because it's friday and I am home on fridays to make him one)

The flowers I made and put on the cake was Victorian Roses, Primroses, Apple Blossoms, Violets, Chrysanthumums, Daffodils, Daisys and Pansy's.

My class next month is Fondant and Gum paste!! It will be fun... but it will be nice if Michaels would actually have the product in stock for me to buy for it!

Parker's First Teeth & Colby's Cute Sayings

2008-08-31T18:08:00.000-07:00

Parker got his first two teeth this week. His first tooth came through on Monday and then Saturday his second tooth came through. It was his middle bottom teeth. He is 5 1/2 months old. He was such a good boy when he got them and is cute. His is starting to stare at people and really focus on them. He smiles at everyone he sees and smiles at him. He is a really happy boy and we love having him in our family. He has been on Solid foods for about 2 months and he loves to eat!!! He is a Davis through and through.

Colby is getting bigger every day. He is really cute and says the cutest things. He is starting to say "um no thank you" and When I ask why he does suff or likes something he say "Because I mean" For example "Colby why did you get out of bed" "Because it means I woke up". He is really into Toy story Movies and The bee movie. He will say "Black and Yellow....Hello" and he loves Buzz Lightyear and puts a golf club behind his back and runs around saying he's buzz and then he wants us to fly him and when we put him down he says "That was falling with Style". Style sounds more like Kyle. When we were camping we were all in our friends tent getting dressed for the day and Tim was taking off the shirt from the day before and right when he lifted up his arms colby said "Dad what's that smell" I about busted a gut laughing it was so funny and perfect timing. He has a cute personality and he is getting very creative.

Adding my two cents

2008-08-27T06:59:00.001-07:00

Some of my favorite things: Molly (we miss her)

Our engagement picture! Look at how much younger we look, especially me!

Our 1st born: Colby at Birth with my hand!

Our 2nd born: Parker at birth with my hand!

Of course other favorite things include being with the family, Michigan football, our neighborhood and our wonderful neighbors, i do like to golf even though I am not very good at it.

I will be adding more of my 2 cents when I can along of course with photos.

More Cakes

2008-08-23T16:36:00.000-07:00

I made this cake for a bridal shower my sister had a work for a co-worker. We made the cake and she didn't know if it was going to feed all the people she needed to so we made the cupcakes to match. I had a few errors but hopefully they weren't to noticeable. She said everyone liked it!! But man those flowers took all day saturday to do! But I have tons extra if anyone ever wants one like this!!!

Guests at Selecthealth's summer party!

2008-08-23T16:28:00.000-07:00

My sister Malene works for Selecthealth and she invited me to be her guest at their summer party. It was at Franklin Covey field. We had lunch. Hot dogs and Hamburgers and everything that goes with those. They had a lot of Activities for kids so we picked one and did the face paintings. It was fun but extremely hot! The next saturday they all got to go to a bee's game and bring their families. Luckly my sister Scored enough tickets to take her and my family with her!! Colby got kind of bored but it was fun!! We got the tickets in the shade so it was perfect. The Bee's got blown out in the game so we left early! It was late for the kids too.

Me, Malene and Megan (malene's co-worker/friend/carpool buddy etc.)

Malene's face painting

I didn't want the painting on my face so I had a baseball put on my leg it was fitting for the baseball field we were at and Tim was playing in the Region softball tournament for church that day too! I also have two boys and I thought Colby would think it was cool!

New Car!!!

2008-08-23T16:18:00.000-07:00

We are officially inducted into the "Mormon Community" We bought a mini van! We love it! It's so roomy and has such great fetures and kids are easier to get in and out of it!! Probably till we have to put kids in the back seat! We decided to finally buy a mini van after a year of hemming and hawing over it and going camping and having to take 2 cars! It's a 2008 Toyota Sienna...we would recommend it to anyone!

Working 4 Utah

2008-08-23T16:16:00.000-07:00

At the begining of August the State of Utah went to 4 day 10 hour work weeks. The Governor wanted to save energy on the building use and Employee's travel costs and Give us an extra day with our families. It has caused a lot of contention in the office's but Tim and I love it! I had already been working them because my office was flexible enough. But Tim's wasn't so now we have 3 day weekends everyweek with each other and love it. We actually have gotten to clean our house and do yard work!!!

Cake Decorating Class

2008-08-03T17:58:00.000-07:00

I decided to take a cake decorating class. My sister Malene joined me. She didn't like spending money on it and it wasn't good for her diet! She has done soo good on her diet and frosting I guess is her weekness. Thank goodness it's not mine. Here are the finished products for course one. I start course 2 tomorrow(by myself, well a girl from my ward happened to take it with me and she is moving on to course 2 also) One weeks out come isn't on here. We did cupcakes and I didn't have time to really decorate them and so they weren't picture worthy.

This is my first class. The butterfly fly marks are scuffed on one side because I accidentaly stuck my finger in it when cleaning up my station! It even tasted really good. Chocolate with carmel pudding in the middle.

This is my sister completing decorating her first cake. She didn't have time to finish it during the class so she is finishing at home

Her finished product on her first cake

Final cake in the last class. This Is Malene's last cake. She did good on the Roses and it was cute.

This is my last cake for course one. The Icing I had was horrible so it was hard to work with. But I have lots of trouble with the roses. but this is what I did in the end. I take my cakes to work because they are to big for us to eat at our house so I had to write something and since tomorrow we start the state employees working 4 tens I put the slogan the govenor came up with. Most of the coworkers didn't like it. They wanted to celebrate something else!!

2nd Annual Friends Campout

2008-08-03T17:48:00.000-07:00

As a kid growing up my neighborhood would have a campout out every summer/spring as a neigborhood so I have started this tradition in my new neighborhood. Sorry no pictures our camera is broken I haven't gotten any pictures from anyone else yet. All other pictures I have posted are my sisters. Tim and I decided to stay two nights as most people only stay one. So we went up to Coalville to stay at an RV Park that has cabins camping and tent sites. Well needless to say we got their and unpacked and took a walk around and noticed none of the tents sight or anything had tables or firepits...how to tenters cook food without a firepit....well when the Ingles our friends got there we started driving around to find a new campsite for 8 families on the july 24th weekend. We went to Echo reservoir and it was like beer drinking camping on the beach of the lake(with toddlers and kids yeah right!) Well then we went to Rock port State Park and they were all full at the top campground but said there was first come first serve down below and we went down and they luckly had 5 open sites. So we reserved them went back got our money back and packed up and went to our new site. The Irelands met us there by that time. We didn't get dinner cooked or eat till 11:00 at night and since we had a cabin at the other site we had to sleep with the ingles in their HUGE tent with a blanket and sheets...it was a little chilly but we survived. and 5 kids under the age 5 sleeping in one tent....it spells disaster...but they were all perfect. I think the Ingles are the most giving people I have met. We all spent the next day riding bikes and playing at the beach at rockport. Other families came up we had the Beebes' the Catenzaro's, and the Henriksen's. The Woodruff's and the Roger's just drove up for dinner as they had conflicts and couldn't sleep over. It was fun to get to know our friends more and talk. After dinner all the kids and adults that could played football. It was fun. In the morning we all packed up and left after breakfast. Everyone who was done first helped everyone else pack up I have never had that happen on a camping trip before it was nice!! Tim and I after two weekends in a row are done camping for the year. Oh yeah the second night sleeping over my parents had brought up all the tent, and supplies we needed for the next night. We had to bring two cars up!

Davis Family Reunion July 18-20th

2008-08-03T17:27:00.000-07:00

We went on our Davis Family Campout to a place called Red Canyon RV Park in Red Canyon Utah. It's about 15 Minutes outside of Bryce Canyon. This is about the last place in Utah I hadn't been so it was cool to see. Bryce Canyon was an incredible wonder that we know only heavenly father could make such and awesome creation. It was kind of touch and go weather. On the way back from bryce canyon to our campsite we got poured on! But it was fun. Not many of our family members could make it because of gas prices. Below are some pictures.

Colby and his best boy cousin Canyon eating dinner.

Madison and Morgan Colby's cousins eating dinner next to Canyon and Colby

Tim Kari and Colby posing so cute!!

The only hike we could go on that strollers could make it on was a waterfall. This is the kids playing in the water above the water fall.

A picture down into Bryce Canyon. We will have to go back when the kids are older to do these hikes as you can see it's all down hill then back up!

My Uncle Mike and Aunt Carma making hot dogs for dinner!!!

Grandma Davis Holding down the table cloth through the wind blowing.

Grandma Davis and Aunt Carma pushing Colby and Canyon around on the bikes...boy does Colby love these bikes

Parker and Tim hanging out while dinner was cooking

Summer Lovin'

2008-08-02T09:52:00.001-07:00

We bought Colby a Pool this summer...here is a few pictures we have of him and his cousins swimming in the pool.

July so far!

2008-07-13T16:43:00.001-07:00

Well July has been a busy one for us. I guess like most of you! We had some fun adventures. We went to Eaglewood Golf course to see fireworks. We Sat just by the 1st hole t-off spot(whatever that is called) There was a little tree for shade that my parents got to sit under so the rest of us got the hot sun! It was fun. My Mom, Dad, Malene, Heath, Angie, Madison, Morgan and our neighbors the Woodruff's and our friends the catenzaro's joined us. It was fun. We played cars. Went down in the crowd and saw a few old friends and watched the Fireworks. Parker even watched them with awe. I had to cover his eyes with the real strob like looking ones and the finally I covered his ears just in case. Colby said he was scared of them and asked for his Mommy(which I doubt he did because he never does. I think Tim was trying to make me feel better). We even didn't get into a traffic jam down the mountain. On the 4th of July We went with Grandma and Grandpa to the centerville parade it seems to be a tradition for us now we always sit by our dentist office. It was fun. I think Colby liked getting the candy. We spent the rest of the day just hanging out. I made enchiladas for dinner and had Grandma and Grandpa over. They were actually pretty good. Just hope I can remember how I made them for next time.

I started a Cake decorating class with Malene last week. It's going to be fun. Of course Malene turns to me in the middle of it and says what have I gotten myself into! Can't wait to see her first cake.

Last night we had our first little sickness with Parker. He has slept through the night since 2 weeks old and last night he kept waking up so finally after an hour of laying with him I unbundled him(which is the reason he sleeps through the night) and he was all sweaty. I felt is head and he was on fire. He had a temperature and he was coughing and snorting when breathing. I fed him thinking he would want to eat because he was awake but I don't think he cared because he is use to not eating at night. Well right when I got done he threw up all over me. Not just spit up but throw up. I didn't know a little think to get rid of so much I felt so bad. Needless to say I was short about 6 hours of sleep. Luckly it was saturday to sunday night so It wasn't a work day of waking up at 4:30 in the morning. He seems better now but I hope he can make it through the night tonight sleeping.

We took Colby to Lagoon for the first time. We took him on easy stuff first like the boats and cars and puff the magic dragon. We finally met up with our friends the catenzaro's and he was more eager to go on rides with their two little boys and Weston was so cute helping him get on the rides. But at the end of the night we took him on the two scarier kids rides. He didn't like us after that. They have a kid type Rocket ride. Yeah he didn't like that. and the swings that go over the lake well they kind of have a kid one and he didn't like that. Oh well we had fun and I had fun watching him.

We went to Kangaroo zoo yesterday with Colby's Cousins will my sister tended them. It's a place that has blow up slides and bouncy stuff. Colby was leary at first but then started to like it. He didn't like the slides at all though. Tim made him go down one and he was so mad. But of course when we went to leave. He threw a fit! Madison was a little dare devil she went down every slide even the one that went up to the ceiling. Nobody tell her parents. But she loved it!!! It was cute to see her go!

Well next weekend starts our camping vacations. I will update you then. Hopefully our camera will be functioning a little better so I can get pictures. Sorry it's been broken!

Babysitter funnies

2008-07-03T08:28:00.000-07:00

So I have a funny!!! I thought one night I would help get the diaper bags packed for the next morning. We had put both Boys down for bed and so I went and got Parker 2 outfits. I didn't know if the 0-3 months size would fit anymore because he's getting long and it snapped between the legs so I grabbed a 3-6 month out fit of jean shorts and button up shirt. I couldn't grab Colby an outfit because we had already put him to bed and didn't want to wake him up. So I told Tim I got Parker's outfit. Well the next morning Tim didn't realize I didn't grab Colby an outfit. Well I got a phone call from My mom at 7:30 that morning saying "Did you know you brought Colby a 3-6 month outfit?"I told her it was intended for Parker if the other one didn't fit. She said Tim didn't bring Colby one then. She then said "well the outfit kind of fits Colby" So what would make her even try it on him? Did she think it was his and didn't notice the size and put it on or saw the size and thought I'll try it anyways. Needless to say Colby got to wear that outfit all day. It fit pretty good for the size. I mean he's almost 3 years old wearing 3-6 month clothes. We even took him to Costco in it. Below are proof of it fitting ok and some more pictures

Colby's smaller clothes experience

Colby and Parker sporting their 99 cent matching hats from children's place

Parker ready for Church

Colby and Parker hanging out on mommy

Colby waiting to get ready for church after Parker got ready

Sleeping baby

New work schedule

2008-07-03T08:24:00.000-07:00

For those of you who live in Utah you may have heard the Governor has mandated that all state employees work 4 ten hour shift. Well I already worked that schedule and since Tim also works for the state he now gets to work that schedule with me. So starting August 4th we will both work Mon-Friday 7:00 am -5:30 am (time might change but Tim's whole office has to work those times, I have a little more flexibility) The bonuses are that me and Tim can both get the kids ready in the morning and off to the babysitters and we can ride into work together and only use one car and save tons on gas. The only downside is that the Kids have to get up earlier and Grandma and Grandpa will have a longer day tending them. They are awesome grandparents and parents we wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. I thank my lucky stars everyday we have them in our lives and they do spoil us!!! I try to spoil them as much as possible but I am not as good at they are to us!!! Thanks mom and dad you are a true blessing in our life and boy are your blessings going to be big in heaven.

busy as a bee

2008-07-03T08:16:00.000-07:00

It's been a busy summer so far for us! For those of you know me well I spend a lot of time at my parents and that's my only place to blog because we are to cheep to get the internet or a computer. Long story short. You see how long it's been since I could just come hang out at my parents house. I haven't been here in so long I haven't gotten to blog a lot. So here's an update. What have we been up to. We have had a couple of fun BBQ's at our house. We first had a BBQ with all the "kids" from my old WX neighborhood. Who aren't so much kids anymore as adults with kids themselves...well there's still one kid....Chris...who will always be that way! No relation I swear! It was good to see all those who still live around here and see all their spouses, children and friends. We had a BBQ with our neighborhood. We invited all those who built a home with our builder. It gives us a cut off point. Otherwise we would end up inviting the whole ward. Not as many came this year as last because of their busy summer schedules but it was fun! It's nice to socialize with those you live by. I am a flake at taking pictures so sorry no pictures. We have spent the rest of our time playing with our kids and keeping up on the yard's and working. That's a low down on summer!

What have the boys been up to!

2008-06-15T14:22:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to say a little now about my boys!! The loves of my life!

Colby what cute rambunckious(sp) boy. He is so cute. He is starting to sign Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, I am a Child of God and Rock a bye( a song him and grandma sing). It's so cute. Out of the blue in the car he just started singing them. I didn't even know he knew them because I hadn't ever gotten him to sing them! I loves CARS (the movie and toy cars) and he loves every sport he can get his hands on! He actually is pretty good with hand and eye coordination!!!

Parker besides being a baby is pretty darn cute!! He is a western Davis through and through. He looks like my dad and heath and he is chunky like us :) He is smiling and just laughed for the first time today it was so cute. He was probably laughing at how funny looking I am but all in all he laughed and it was cute!!!

Well with today being fathers day I just wanted to say HAPPY FATHERS DAY to the best husband in the whole world. Every time I am with my grandma she tells me how lucky I am to have Tim as a husband because he is a great father!!! And that he is. Not many dads will do what he does. HE has gotten up with the kids at night more than I have and has changed more diapers than me.....and he will play with the kids for as long as they want. We love him and love all he does for us and continues to do for us!!! We may be poor financially.....but man we are rich in love.....HAPPY FATHER'S DAY we love you!!!!!

Weeks gone by

2008-06-15T14:09:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks have gone by what have the Davis' been up to! We said good bye to our Grandpa Davis. We miss him so much but we know he is doing much better. I know he is not sick or in pain anymore. I am amazed when I go to visit my Grandma now how peaceful her house is and you can feel by Grandpa is there sending love and peace to us. We love you Grandpa and miss you tons!!!

I had my 29th birthday....wow am I old! I had a fun filled day. My mom, sister, and neighbor Trina went to Color Me Mine. It's a place that has pottery you can color and they fire it. It was fun. I did a platter with it turned out pretty cute except for a few human painting mistakes. We then went to The Cheesecake Factory! I swear we each gained 20 pounds....it was good but we were pretty sick! I then spent the day with my wonderful husband and kids after that and it was fun just being with them. I did go to dinner with my parents, sister, sister-in-law and my niece's, my Grandma and my family the next friday we went to Elmatador. It was fun!

Tim and I are playing Softball for the church....we are learning we are out of shape and practice. Tim is hitting the ball really well and knows how to place it so no one can catch it!!! I on the other hand have already pulled every muscle possible in the 2 games I have played. We didn't have enough women in our ward want to play so we combinded with another ward the 13th ward.. It was cool because they all showed up with their baseball bags and own bats and balls and baseball gear which shows they play a lot so we are doing pretty good!

I have gotten a new hobby. I love making creative cakes for birthdays, showers etc. I have made, barbie cakes for princess themes, I have made a star wars cake with a rock and molt and lava with bubbles blowing out of the volcano (pretty cool I might add) I made a simple white cake with japanese branches and flowers on it. and a pregnant belly cake. My first one was a jungle theme. I had a mountain with water fall and a river and lake I had a mud pit and trees and all the animals to go with it! I have pictures I will post some later but pretty fun! I might have to start making them for money!!!

I will try to keep our blog updated a little more and try to add more pictures but till then!!!

to blog or not to blog

2008-05-26T15:06:00.000-07:00

That is definently the question. I enjoy so much reading my friends blogs that I thought this would be the best way to keep everyone updated on our family. Tim and Kari are both full time workers for the state and rest of the time parents of Colby 2 1/2 and Parker 2 1/2 months. We enjoy every moment of our lives with our kids. Last friday Tim took the day off and all of us and YAYA drove up to Heber Valley Railroad to ride Thomas the Train. Colby LOVED it. I am not as into Thomas as the next person but I was able to set aside my personal feelings about it and take my kid who adores Thomas, Percy, James, Etc. We did get jipped. We paid for a 45 minute ride and only got about a 20 minute ride. I guess there was a mud slid over the tracks and it was unsafe so they had to cut the ride in half. Do you think we got a refund or anything for 1/2 amount of what we paid for....NOT! I guess it was worth seeing Colby enjoy himself. Parker well he could have cared less. He slept through the entire experience only waking up to eat. This last week we have had a lot of family time. My Grandfather Jay Davis passed away on thursday and so we have had a few family gatherings. He is probably much better now and not hurting or as sick but we are all still sad to not have him here with us anymore. Me and my sister Malene threw a last minute shower for my cousin's wife who is having a baby they live in california and we weren't going to see them before the baby came but we are able to see them since they came home for the funeral. It was a nice little shower. Tim and I saw Indiana Jones IV today it was our first date in a long time except for a temple date. It was good. But a little weird at the same time...but who wouldn't love anything with Harrison Ford in it!!!! Him or Tommy Lee Jones are worth seeing in anything! Well that's it for now. We will see how well I keep this bloggin thing up and will post pictures as I get them downloaded.!!