Addason Jay is 4!

So my little boy is 4, I know cant believe it either! He has been asking me the last few months if he is 4 yet. I told him no, but soon. We decided to start a new tradition for birthdays of taking the birthday boy/girl out for breakfast. I remember going out to dinner when I was a kid with mom and dad to a Mexican restaurant in Show Low, AZ and it was so good. Also it was a great memory. Here are some highlights of his day!

I wanted to get a few pics before we went to breakfast. He posed on the swing for me.
He never missed a chance to get Jason back for licking him, I loved that he did it in this picture. I didn't even know he was doing it. So great!

He wanted Pizza for dinner, so we did mini English muffin pizza's. They were super yummy and fast.

I asked what kind of cake he wanted and he said blueberry, then the next day he said root beer cake. So I got him this blue cupcake and we also had root beer floats.

Super cute candles from the 1$ store.

Making a wish.. He didn't know what that was, so he just blew out the candles.

Had to get a pic of that REALLY blue frosting. I didn't let him eat to much of if, cause I have no idea how they got it so blue. He just ate the cake part. His teeth were blue for hours!

He wanted a remote control helicopter and we couldnt find one so he got a car. He also got his dart guns which he loves (thanks Aunt Kim and Grandma!) with extra darts. He keeps shooting the windows and the ceiling fan to see if he can hit it while its spinning. He is a really good shot. Boys are so fun!

Halloween Happenings!

So we had a great Halloween. This picture is totally blurry and I am bummed because it looked so cool from outside. Jason had the neat idea of turning the window into a pumpkin. It worked great because of the orange curtains curtsy of my sisters. It was so neat, we got alot of compliments. You could even see our pumpkin from main street. It totally glowed. We will definitely make that a Halloween tradition for sure!

One of these things is not like the other....Addi loves toy story so it made a great picture. I think other people thought the same thing because these guys were stolen off main street. The city does a scarecrow contest on main street and anyone can enter a "scarecrow", these guys were one of the winners.

Aleah scared some kids during the downtown trick or treating. I do have to say she looks nothing like she normally does. Shes got bugs crawling in her hair. It was pretty freaky!

Mickey hugging Casper?

Jason's mom and sister Kim came and spent the weekend with us. It was great, Kim dressed up as a witch. The big kids went off on their own and we took the 2 little ones to the trick or treating on main st. It was a really nice day, it got hot. I hope they can come again next year, we had a blast!

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The meeting house!

He stared for at us for like 5 min. I admit we looked away first!

Little Bro has some Sweet Moves!

Ian came down for his "shaker board" competition. Me and Jamie met him at the location in Sandy. It was a cold, windy, rainy day. Bud wasn't fazed. He rocked it even with the weather elements against him and took first; like we all knew he would! Good job E!

Chillin before!

What was so funny?

Showin his sweet skills!

Some floor action...

My favorite move of the day!

More pics!

So by the third day Anni was starting to feel bored.. We watched movies and TV, but you can only do that for so long. The nurse came in and told us that they had some games and would she like to play? Anni asked what kind of games and when the nurse got down to the Nintendo and sat up a little straighter and said she would like to play that. I thought that it would be this little box that they brought in... no way it was this huge rolling game center that seriously took up the whole room. But she was entertained and it was great! Its neat that they have stuff like this to keep kids happy. They also had a Wii, game cube, play station..etc!

Here is a shot of the room on our last day. I slept on the fold out in the back. It was not very comfortable, but really cool that they have that option for parents.

I asked Anni if she was ready to go home and this is what she looked like...Oh Yes!

Uncle Jamie came to visit. He stayed with Anni for a couple of hours so Jason could go to the school and I was at home. He brought her a bucket of candy so she could "reverse trick or treat" her nurses, to say thanks. We had some great nurses and they totally deserved those treats. They kept saying how impressed they were with Anni, because she never complained about anything. They had to ask her if she wanted pain meds. She was a trooper and a very strong kid. She is back at school and wants to run and play but has to wait till her 2 week checkup. I hope we never have to go through this again!

Annoying Little Organ!

I didn't bring my camera to the hospital (Jason will today) so I don't have a good shot of Anni living it up. Having to sit in a hospital bed all day is not as great as it seems. Even getting all the ice cream you could want doesn't make it any better. On a side note the appendix does absolutly nothing! But once it gets clogged watch out!

So here is the scoop. Many already heard it, but for those who haven't, here's how it happened.

Friday Anni complained that her tummy hurt and she didn't feel good. Oddly enough so did Aleah. Because they both felt bad we thought, well you must be getting the flu. The kids didn't have school on Friday and so were able to have a 3 day weekend. Well they laid around in the spare room and watched movies. They both ate food and never threw up. Anni started to run a low grade fever by Saturday night. By Sunday they were still hurting and stayed home from church. During this time Aleah was acting better, she wanted to go play and then would complain that her tummy hurt. I was like "if your sick you cant play outside and if you are better you can". She decided that she was sick. Sunday night Anni felt worse and her fever had gone up. We decided that Monday I would take her to the Dr.
The next morning the earliest that they could get us in was 9:40. Well that was just to late and so I decided to take her to the Instacare which takes patients as early as 8am.
After he examined her he thought she might have appendicitis and sent us for an ultra sound. As we were walking out the office to get the ultra sound they called and said it was rescheduled for 2pm. That was about 7 hrs later. We went to that and they did the scan, at first they didn't see anything but stool and were gonna send us home with the instructions of "moving her Bowell's". After we started to get ready to leave the Dr came back in and said; well the orders told us they wanted us to look specifically at your appendix and so why don't you try going to the bathroom here and we will try again. She was able to go and push it all out (she said she was holding it in because it hurt to bad to push). He scanned her again looking only for the appendix saw that it looked a little large and called for a 2nd opinion. The 2nd opinion really new his stuff, because he took one look and said "whoa! We got a hot one here!"
We were then told to go straight to the emergency room. From the time we got the ultra sound till when they took out her appendix was about 4 hrs.
It had ruptured and required a little more attention to get all the infection contained and cleaned out. We are now on our 3rd day in the hospital and will more than likely be here another 2 days. I am hoping by Friday we can go home. We will see. She is doing well and is currently playing supermario brothers. With the movies, Nintendo and all the food she wants; she may not want to leave!

Thanks for all the prayers and good thoughts.. We love you all!

My Tree Runneth Over!!!

When we moved into the house we were excited to have an apple tree in the yard. This year was so good that the tree branches were hanging down really far. We will have to trim it up this year, so that next fall we get even more apples. I am gonna take a bunch of apples and make up a basket and take them to friends!
These were all the bad apples. We are gonna find someone with horses and donate them for them to enjoy. Why waste right?

Addi helped for about 5 min and then said he was really tired and decided to go in the house...Hmm he seems to do that alot when we have chores too?

Out of the tree we got a laundry tub full! They are so good; sweet and tart at the same time. I think they are Macintosh, but not sure. ( I am not an apple eater, but these are pretty good)

We are gonna dehydrate a bunch and make apple pie and cobbler for the next few months. Guess we need to stock up on ice cream to!