Souvenir

Update on my nastiness. I went to Urgent Care on wednesday. I don't really care for this particular doctor. We had been in once before and I remember thinking he wasn't much help. So anyway, he looks at my nastiness and tells me it looks infected. So he decides it is a staph infection. (he didn't test it which I thought was odd) But he did say it didn't look like MRSA. When he said that I remembered getting a paper about MRSA when I was in the hospital w/ Riley. And of course I didn't read it!! So I asked him if I could have picked this up at the hospital and he told me "you most certainly could have" So there you have it folks, a lovely souvenir from the hospital!! Don't ya love it!!

He did give me antibiotics for the staph and then another one that would kill anything else I might have picked up. And can I just say one of them I have to take every 6 hours. Who can honestly do that unless it is pain meds and you NEED them? So annoying!

Any guesses?

So it started yesterday. I got a couple little blisters. No idea how or what. It is the most bizarre thing. And they don't itch but they are super tender. I think I will have them checked out tomorrow but for now, does anybody have any guesses as to what the heck they are? They are just on my arms and hands. Tops of my hands and on both sides of both arms. but none above the elbow.

Whew what a week!

How many posts start out like that for me!! Okay so first of all Monday:
Seth started FIRST GRADE!! So weird! So this year he gets dropped off the bus the same time as everybody else so he gets off at the bus stop instead of the house. So I asked him if he wanted me to wait for him at he stop and he said he could do it by himself. Same with walking to the bus stop in the morning. So I told him I would watch him from the yard and he informed me that he didn't want me to. But lucky for me I am the MOM!! So I pulled out the mom card and told him I could walk him or watch him. He chose watch. So off he went. He had a blast and so far is LOVING 1st grade.
And moving on...
So I think it started Sunday that Riley just wasn't feeling good. She had been complaining that her stomach hurt for about 2 weeks. But come Monday she started throwing up. So I took her in and she had lost a pound from her checkup a couple weeks ago. So that concerned me a touch since she only started at 32.4 pounds! So the dr. does a urine test and an x-ray and everything looks okay. So she assumes it is viral. My instructions were to not give her food and only give her pedialite for a day and see how she does. Well towards the end of the day I gave her a bite of a peach and up it came. I know stupid!! So Tuesday was more of the same, laying around totally limp. No food! And no going to the bathroom. So Wednesday she was still the same, couldn't eat anything. And she had only drunk one bottle of pedialite since monday morning, that is 1 liter. Not enough! So I take her back and she is now 29.7 pounds. Dehydrated. And still hurting tummy. So after talking to the dr. we have her admitted to the hospital for dehydration. She was soooooo sad! They of course had to give her an I.V. and then the dr. ordered blood work. Well she was dehydrated so she didn't have good veins to begin w/. and then to add that she apperatnly has my veins, which is no veins. It was so sad holding her while they did blood. She got poked so many times, in both hands and both elbow pits. Poor thing. And then the dr. wanted more blood!!(this is just one arm. all other entry points look the same or worse and now she has bruises all over)
Well we got there at about 11:30 Wednesday and we got to leave at about the same time on Thursday. The poor thing was soooo hungry. She hadn't eaten since Sunday at breakfast. She had a few bites of food here and there on Sunday but not a meal. So by the time they were drawing blood again on Thursday morning she just looked at me and started crying and saying she was soooo hungry! Broke my heart. But on the upside of things: we had a ton of fun spending time w/ just the two of us, they didn't care if I slept in her bed, so we shared a bed, she got tons of attention and toys and she is feeling much much better now!(this was this morning in the sprinklers!)

Part 2

On Wednesday we headed over to Salt Lake to stay w/ my brother and his family for a few days. On Thursday we got to go to a beautiful lake called East Canyon. It was great!! My kids were so great! If any one has gone swimming w/ my crew, you know they are scared! (Except Riley seems to be pulling out of that phase) I couldn't believe it all 3 of them (the ones that can talk and walk!) wanted to ride on the tube and all wanted to go faster. And by the end of the day all of them would get in the lake to play. Except Lyddie of course. She just chilled on the boat the whole time. We actually made it 4 hours before we decided to call it a day!! After cleaning up the boat we headed over to the little store and had ice cream. It was a great day!

Then the next day we went fishing at a little park close to my brother's house. The kids had never been fishing before, so that was fun. Surprisingly though Seth got bored of it after nothing happened for a bit. And as soon as he went to play Riley caught a little blue gill. It was so cute! Then we headed over to the light rail. We rode the train into downtown to visit Temple Square. That was a ton of fun and really a great thing! We got to see 2 of the sister missionaries from our ward serving there. And the kids loved being at the temple.

Then on Saturday my brother watched the kids for us so we could go to Eliott's best buddy's wedding. Big Seth and Jane finally got married!! We couldn't be happier for them.

After the reception we headed home!! It was a long night but Eliott drove the whole time w/ the exception of a 25 minute catnap. The kids slept the whole way and we got home at about 8:30 in the morning. Driving all night was nice considering the kids but it took too long to recuperate! Where as driving all day but leaving early was fabulous and we didn't need to recoup from that.
Anway there you have it, our first family vacation!! (pathetic I know! but the last time we took the kids anywhere was to utah when seth was 8 months old!!)

Such a fun night

Okay I know that I am supposed to be finishing my vacation post but I just had to post this first. Like many others out there I love the Twilight books so when some friends invited me to the releasing of Breaking Dawn, I couldn't resist. A few of us met to scrapbook first and then at about 10ish we went to Ihop to meet some other girls and have way too much bad for your body food way too late in the day. But who could resist? We had so much fun then we went to walmart and chased the poor manager guy around the store waiting for him to find out where on earth we were supposed to wait. Poor guy! But seriously you would think he would have had that all figured out by then. There were about 12 of us in our group. And at least 20 others and one of the managers pretends that he is going to read off the last page. It wasn't pretty!I tried to steal pictures from Elissa's blog...but it didn't work so you can check them out over there. And yes I am huge dork but it was really late!!
Loved the book!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vacation!!! (part 1)

Okay so this might be long but oh well!! And there are tons of pictures but I hate doing the slideshow so just deal w/ it!!
We left for Utah at about 4:00 a.m. on the 2nd. It was fabulous, about 3 miles away from home we get pulled over by some completely bored cop. I was a little too chipper and he thought I was odd. He pulled us over for our license plate light being out. We were such a threat that 2 cops had to stop for it!! But then we were off and I have to do a little bit of bragging here. We borrowed 2 dvd players and we had the laptop just in case. But we both decided we wanted to wait until we had at least gotten to Flagstaff before busting out the movies. Well the kids did fall asleep again once we got going but woke up for good at about 5:30 a.m. We managed to make it about 6 hours into our trip before we got the movie going. and then when we did it made Riley carsick about 10 minutes into so she moved away from it. But that was the only movie they watched on the ride up! I have great car kids. They had such a good time entertaining themselves.
We stayed at Eliott's Grandma's house and his sister and brother and wife stayed there too. It was such a fun fabulous time!! Eliott's Grandpa used to love a place called Marion's. They have burgers and shakes and stuff. So it is tradition to go over there and get chocolate malts. So that is what we did! The kids loved it and this is the girls outside waiting for dad to pay. The best part of small town is we could walk over there. It was so fun!

At Grandma's house she pretty much let us have the basement. That left a room for the kids and a room for Eliott and I. It was nice to have a bed for them to sleep in, instead of sleeping bags on the floor. So she had a full or a queen size in there and the kids just laid sideways on it and they slept there pretty well the entire time we were there. There were a couple nights that Riley and Lexi were laying on each other!!
We got to set of fireworks on the 4th and go to a parade. The kids had never seen a parade before and they loved it!! Riley couldn't get enough of any type of cheerleader or dancer that they had. Before the parade they flew (i wanna say) F-16 airplanes overhead. And of course Seth and Eliott loved that!!


Lexi's face in those pictures cracks me up!!

We stayed there until the next Wednesday. We had the best time just relaxing in the beautiful weather. I brought some books w/ me and just sat on the swing and read or layed on the grass and slept. It was great!! The kids did awesome finding things to do. We didn't really have the T.V. on a ton and they didn't take naps. But the colored or played in the sprinklers or just hung out outside. They had a blast!!

There is a dinosaur museum close by so we took the kids over there. It was very kid friendly w/ lots of things for them to do. There was a little tunnel and this is Lexi coming out the other side!
The day we left we went to the local park. It was a fabulous park and everything was so green! The kids had a great time. And I am not gonna lie , so did I! They had one of those zip thingies where you hold on and push off and it zips you to the other side. I would post pictures but I hate how you have to do it and then move the picture all the way down and let's face it this is a huge post (by the way does anybody know how to do it w/out having to move the picture all the way down, like post the picture where the cursor is?)

Anyway it was a great time in Roosevelt and I will post maybe tomorrow about our time in Salt Lake!!

Riley had a b-day, shout hooray!

So Riley turned 4 last month, but things have been so crazy I haven't had a chance to post about it. So beware... This is a Riley picture overload!!
This 1st picture isn't from her birthday but it was too cute not to put in. So I have the kids take turns each night helping me cook. This night was obviously Riley's turn. I went to put some stuff on the table and I turn around and she had balanced 3 plates in her hands and arms and was ready to take off to the table! She thought she was pretty cool. And she actually made it w/out spilling!

So on to her actual birthday... First thing in the morning she got her gift from Eliott and I. Our kids love music and Seth has a CD player in his room, so for her birthday she got her own pink CD player. Then we made her the funnest CD. We put random Disney songs on it. Most of them being princess songs, which she loves! Now you hear her all the time, twirling in the living room, singing, "that's how you know" (from Enchanted) over and over again!

Then for dinner she picked pizza and she wanted cupcakes. So she got to help make her cupcakes and loved every minute of it.

Then while the cupcakes were cooking, she wanted to make a princess hat. So we made one and then she posed for pictures. She cracks us up, she poses by herself and she is always doing some sort of thing with her leg. She is too funny!

Then it was candle time! She was so excited.

And of course we had to burn her hair. I mean come on, it is too gorgeous! I felt pretty bad, but at her party a few days later she remembered to hold her hair out of the way!A few days later we had a family pool party. She had a blast. She decided that she was brave. She would go running and jump in the pool (she doesn't know how to swim) and there were a few times we had to hurry to catch her.
She also discovered she could go anywhere as long as she had a noodle. She would just cruise around the pool w/ her noodle. It was fun! Then we finished of the birthday celebrations with her getting her greatest desire. Actually 2 of them. She has been asking for a Barbie nonstop for the last couple months. We aren't even sure where she found out about barbies, but she wanted them. She was so excited to get 2. She is funny when she opens presents she gets all shy so this picture isn't a very good representation of her excitement but man did she love them!! All in all it was a fun week. But a little sad that my baby girl is 4! (I know I have 2 more "babies" but ya know...)