March 24, 2008 HAPPY BIRTHDAY COURTNEY

Happy Birthday Courtney we love you!! I can't believe my little girl is already 6!! I couldn't decide if I should post now or later because she had quite the day planned. She's on a field trip to the zoo with her kindergarten class (daddy got to go...first field trip for dad- way to go dad)and then has a b-day party planned at Chuck E. Cheese this afternoon. So more pictures will be coming. I want to find some old pictures of her and scan them in so you can see her as a baby!! Don't hold your breath!!
She was so excited to have breakfast in bed but when it came right down to it...I'm not sure she was even awake to know she was having breakfast in bed!!
In case you were wondering...she's holding up three fingers on each hand because she's six today!!

OUCH!!!

Last night we headed to Sonic for a treat (ok it's what we did for family night...I know worst mother in the world award goes to me- but sometimes you just got to do what you got to do) and Nicole got a vanilla milk shake. Well Bridget's window was down and Nicole was sitting next to her in the middle seat so she leaned over to roll up it up. When she did the bottom of her cup hit the car seat jamming the straw into the back of her throat!!! She made and awful shrieking noise and we couldn't figure out what had happened-she wouldn't talk. We were asking her if she had a cold headache and then she said no something popped. So I told her to reach her finger back there and feel around. When she pulled it out it was covered in blood!!! She shoved a napkin in the back of her throat to stop the bleeding and when I looked inside this is what I found... It looked someone had taken a whole punch and punched a whole in her check. When we got home I called a neighbor of ours who is a Dentist to ask "WHAT NOW". He asked me if any of the straw had broken off-which it hadn't and told me the most important thing was to get the bleeding under control and other than that it just had to heal. He said she was lucky it was on the side of her throat so that when she swallows food it wont scrape the scab off....gross I know! She was incredibly brave and really didn't cry she just got real quite and said "I'm going to bed". He told me that her throat was going to be SUPER sore and feel similar to strep throat for a couple days. When I woke up this morning she as already awake and I tried to convince her to stay home but she wanted to go to school more or less to show off her battle wound I like because around 9:00 am I received a call from the nurse and Nicole wanted to come home her throat hurt so bad. She's been resting which I think she needed more than anything after that fun filled spring break and when I asked her what she would like for lunch surprisingly she said...a vanilla milk shake from Sonic!!

Easter March 23, 2008

My pictures didn't turn out that great but I didn't have time to re due them. Church started at 12:30 and I was taking these at 12:35 but I knew if I didn't take them before church they wouldn't happen. So needless to say they're not the best but it they're done!! We had a beautiful day and hope you all did as well.





This is the only picture I could get of Bridget-she wanted the camera so bad there was no reasoning with her so I gave up and settled for this

Saturday March 22 Annual Easter Egg Hunt in the Park

Bridget was so excited she could hardly wait for us to say go and when we did she ran as fast as her little legs would allow!!


Courtney found so many eggs she had to put some back!! To be young again! Gunner was there he was just so busy searching for eggs we couldn't find him for a picture.

Congratulations to the Beck's!!

Our friend's the Beck's who recently moved to Utah welcomed a new baby yesterday making that number 5 for them. He is so beautiful and perfect...it makes me anxious for September!! Welcome Baby Isaac we can't wait to meet you!!

Sun Splash in March???

After visiting the Farnsworth's the kids were lucky enough to be invited to Sun Splash with some friends of ours the Arnett's. Sun Splash is opened during spring break from 12-6 and the pool's are heated of coarse. We have season passes so that worked out great for me. They said it was a blast and the lines weren't long at all. I don't think many people know it's open which made it even more fun. You know what that place is like in the summer...hot and crowded with long lines so yesterday was a treat for them! Thanks to Lanie and Debbie for making that happen.

Farnsworth's Parakeets and Guinea Pig

As you can tell Bridget wasn't too excited about holding the Guinea Pig in the beginning but she did eventually look at it. As for the rest of them they loved it!! I was on the floor taking pictures when the pig got away and I bolted to the coach...I hate those things. Melissa got a good laugh out of it and Gunner tried to bring it to me until I threatened his life!! They loved the birds as well. I had to hold it on my hand so that Bridget would look at it and I was really glad it didn't last very long. I'm sorry to say I am NOT an animal lover. My children will have to have animals when they have there own house. We had a dog for 2 years, a turtle, fish of coarse, and an albino hamster (for 5 days). I'm done with animals...I'll stick to kids!! Thanks Farnsworths for letting us visit your zoo!!

Spring Break

It doesn't get better than this!! Sonic on the front lawn and a polar bear dip into the pool. It's been absolutely gorgeous the past few days. Spring break started out with a bang...spend the nights with the cousins on Sunday night which led to a fun filled Monday with lots of kids jumping on the trap, playing basketball, eating pizza and let's not forget the (brief) jump in the pool. Today Nicole and her friends went to the mall to have lunch and of course to buy matching outfits while Gunner, Courtney, and Bridget went to McDonalds with Grandma Perk where they ran into Aunt Lisa cousin Hannah, Leah, little Kirkie and Blair. Which gave me a much needed chance to lay on the coach and gear up for our next adventure which was a late afternoon trip to Makutu's Isaland in Chandler with Aunt Jenet and her boys. Tomorrow we will visit our friends the Farnsworth's to see there 3 new parakeets (Sister Farnsworth gets coolest mom award for that one) and then the girls and I will head to the mall in search of Easter dresses. We ordered some on line in hopes of saving me this agony but they didn't work. If I'm feeling up to it we plan to see Horton hears a Who tomorrow late afternoon. We'll see...but all in all it has been a great couple days with many more to come!!!

My Angel Nicole

I've been meaning to do this for some time now...I wanted to tell the world how great this kid is!! She has been a life saver to me the past few weeks. She is always helpful to me but has really stepped up to the plate since I've been pregnant. She is so willing to come home from school and take the two little girls down to the park or for a ride on the golf cart so I can stay laying on the couch. She has even changed dirty diapers without being asked!! She's pretty much picking up the pieces for me!! I was most proud of her last night. She has been working on a science project for school and last night was the science fair. She was a little disappointed at the fair because she didn't think hers was good enough. But I told her I thought is was the best one there because she did the whole thing all by her self. She even typed it letter by letter by herself and that is something to be proud of. There were some pretty amazing inventions at the fair yesterday but there is no doubt there was a lot of parent involvement in those ones!!! There's no way there couldn't have been. But not Nicole, I didn't have to ask her once how things were going and if she was getting it down. Everyday I saw her working on it and doing her best and in my mind that's what makes a winner!! I was so proud of the hard work she put in and even though it wasn't the greatest invention, it was to me because she took responsibility and did it her self!! Way to go Nicole, I love you and I am so proud of you!!!

Blob or Baby???

They tell us it's a baby??

I had my first OB appointment on Tuesday March 4th and it was a pretty rough day. In fact it had been a rough couple of days and by the time I saw Dr. Huish, it was time to bring in the IV fluids!! I was dehydrated and having a hard time keeping anything down. At first I felt like the fluid was making it worse but by the next day it seemed to be helping. They tried to draw my blood that same day and because I was so dehydrated my vein popped as soon as the nurse started drawing the blood. Needless to say it left a big bruise and we didn't try to take any more...there's always next time. I went back yesterday, Thursday March 6th, for an ultra sound to make sure the baby's size matched my due and thank goodness it did!!!! Really the only thing we could see on the ultra sound (I know it looks like a big blob of nothing to you) is that the baby does have 2 legs, 2 arms, 1 head, and a heart beat. That was good news. It's so hard to believe that this little tiny 3cm baby is making me so sick!!! It did make it more worth it when I saw that little thing moving all over inside!!