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Friday, July 31, 2009

Summer pictures of the kids!!

My friend and neighbor Kara is a photographer and took some awesome pictures of the kids in July up in salt lake city at this amazing church house. Here they are!!


Sweet Amelie......she is seriously an angel!


There are no words to express how crazy Porter is. We had to chase him around the garden and I literally had to pick him up and tickle him to get him to smile for the camera.... crazy little monster!!



Sweet little Lily! Her toothless smile just makes me giggle!



My sweet little man Jackson. I just love him. He is my heart!



This was the best group one of all 4 the kids together...... it was so much easier taking pictures when they were younger!! haha here is the best for last.... I will for sure be showing this picture to Lily and Jackson when they are beating each other down saying how much they hate each other!!!!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

A happy 24th of July........

Well it would have been a great holiday weekend if This didnt happen......








We went to Liberty Park in Salt Lake city to let the kids play, eat some yummy food, go on some RIDES.... let me stop there....




We have been to the park a dozen times with the kids over the past couple years, and when we lived across the street when Lily was a baby we were there daily!! We love that park!! Well, that love quickly grew to dislike when Lily was hurt. She was riding a car, and the car tipped over as it turned and she was dragged over 10 feet on rocky asphalt and got a narly case of road rash on her knee, thigh, side, hip,and shoulder. HEr dress was always murdered in the event as were her panties!! ERGH!!! HEr nose was gushing out blood, and she was HYSTERICAL!! Lets back up..... when the car tipped over, she was dragged......she was belted in so she was STUCK in the car, with it on top of her. I screamed bloody murder as my daughter was dragged past me on the inside of the 4-5 foot fence. I yell for Jake, he jumps over the fence I run around to the gate and Jake sends me to Lily as he gets our boys away from the "crime scene". We were whisked away to the cafe kitchen to get her cleaned up. The manager was FREAKING out all scared that I was going to sue her (still crossing my mind about that one). She seriously gave me $65 and 10 free ride tickets..... yea thanks.
All in all, Lily is ok.... she is more upset about her cute blue sun dress that is not wearable any longer and her favorite pair of panties =(
One of the ride workers pulled Jake aside and told him that this has happened before and a young boy had broken ribs and terrible road rash. SERIOUSLY!! AND THE RIDE IS STILL AROUND!! WHAT!!! And the mechanic who works for the park, isnt a licensed mechanic. Uh... yay for that one!! Everyone has to me to "get Gephardt" I guess you only understand what that means if you are from Utah. He is a go to guy to get things taken care of when you get scammed,mis led, injured etc etc. he works for a local TVstation. Some people have told me to SUE SUE SUE. I just want the ride to either be fixed and renovated or just removed! No other child and parent should ever go through what we went through yesterday..... I have honestly never in my life been so scared... watching Lily's body get dragged like that and hearing the pure fear and horror in her voice as she yelled for me... wow... brings tears to my eyes!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

some good news..... and some not so good news.....

Ok.... we went to see Dr. Rope a geneticist up at Primary Childrens Med Center. Well he ran some tests, reviewed her blood work and ultra sound and bone scan and felt Amelie does not have Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. YAY!! thats the good news!! The bad news is..... she needs surgery. her tongue seems to be growing right along with her, so basically in a couple of months she will have tongue reduction surgery. Her tongue blocks her airway when she lays down on her back. This explains the apnea issues when she was newborn. So they will reduce her tongue,and give her a larger airway. Anyways, we go see the ENT doctor in a few weeks for a consult and to schedule surgery. She will be in the hospital on a ventilator for a couple of days or until the swelling of the tongue goes down after surgery. Poor baby, poor mama!! All in all, she is fine,and whatever comes.... we take it in stride!! Love my baby girl!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Amelie....






Well yesterday I took Amelie in for her 4 month check up. I was so excited that I just had her, the kids were with a friend and I was looking forward to a QUICK appointment, weigh in, measurements, "how is she doing", poke her leg a few times.... Well thats not what happened. I am not blind, I know my daughter has had a big tongue since birth...... its sort of cute! Well during the appointment the doctor said "hmm, your daughter looks like she has Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. BUT..... she doesnt have all or most of the signs of the syndrome. The major signs are large birth weight. She was only 6 lbs and 19 inches long. Her head was normal to small. Her blood sugars were normal, she doesnt have the crease/flattening on the top of her ear, and her body is proportioned. Anyways, friday she has a ultra sound appointment to see if she has any tumors in her abdomen, and to get some blood work. If the tests show any abnormalities then she will be sent to a Geneticist to see if she does in fact have Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. Amelie is a little angel and regardless if she does have this syndrome, she will be fine. We all have faith that she will be OK.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Blessing...

Well in June, Amelie had her baby blessing. It was a very nice day and I was just happy to be able to HEAR her blessing. Porter's blessing.... lets not go there.... needless to say...... the sound system in the chapel was broken, and they had to use a karaoke machine thing, and the moron young man kept on flipping the switch so you could only hear bits and pieces of the blessing... yea, lets not go there...
It was a GREAT day. Amelie looked GORGEOUS in the dress that Grandma (Jake's mom) made for her. Jake blessed her with a strong body and mind, many gifts like patience, love, kindness, service just to name a few. She didnt make a sound during the blessing and looked like a angel. We had a brunch at the house after. I was up until 3 am the night before prepping... crazy I know. But I know how to throw a party =) We had egg sandwiches, bagels and cream cheese, yummy fresh fruit, hash browns, juice, muffins etc etc. It was great!! enjoy the pictures!!




facebook took over my blog...

Well its official, I am a facebook addict and find it hard to Blog and manage my facebook account at the same time. So I am sorry if I have annoyed you with my lack of blogging..... haha! Well.... what has happened in the past 2 months. Lily graduated Kindergarten, Jackson graduated pre school, Porter... is still crazy, Amelie is as cute as ever, rolling over, and is 4 months old today!! Where did the time go? seriously I am almost sad about it!! Life has flown by so fast I constantly forget what I did yesterday, and am missing when my baby was a NEWBORN.....
I got released from my calling in the Young Womens program...... not exactly happy about it, but what am I supposed to do? Lily had a dance recital and of course was AMAZING (ha). I nearly beat a woman up at the zoo..... here is the story. Lily's class went to the zoo and families were welcome. So I loaded up all the kids and we went to the zoo (I am so stooooopid). Well of course Jackson runs one way, Lily runs the other, porter is screaming in the stroller and Amelie is hungry. CRAZY!! They see the Merry Go round and FLIP OUT. I did not want to spend $2 each for them to go... but to shut them up, I did! I think Porter thought he was going to be killed and was FREAKING out. Jackson flipped out because he wanted to sit on a dolphin and some other kid got it before him. The cool Zebra just wasnt good enough. Lily was irritated because Jackson was ruining her ride..... I sat there wanting to shoot myself with a animal tranquilizer. So we pass by the Gorilla area..... I wanted to take a picture of all the kids in front of the big metal gorilla. Lily was being a snot and said "I dont want a picture with those kids". Uh THOSE kids are her brothers. She is refusing to stand there with a smile on her face. SO I took a picture, not caring what it looked like. Well during the picture issue I told Lily "stop acting like such a brat and just enjoy your time at the zoo, no one likes when you act like a brat". Some WOMAN/MOM/DEVILS SPAWN snaps out "well I wonder where she gets THAT from". Seriously the fire began to fill my eyes, my fist formed, white knuckles and all..... I held my tongue while there were children present.... but when we were heading up the hill back to the buses I saw HER. So since my kids were at least 10 feet away from me...... I had a CONFRONTATION. I told her "look, we are both moms, we both have bad days every once in a while.... what gives you the right to basically insult me in front of my children and my friends. You dont know me, you have no right to judge or pick on me for calling my daughter a brat when she was truthfully being a BRAT". She snapped at me and said "when I see kids act out, it is the parents fault". ooooooooh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy gooooooooooooooooooooosh!! I said "you must have robots for kids, because every kid I know throws tantrums. Heck, every adult I know throws tantrums from time to time.
I would like to thank my anonymous friend for standing up for me and dropping the F bomb for me *wink*. I know I am not a perfect mom. I am the best mom for MY kids. And I feel no guilt in calling my child out and calling her a brat when in all reality, she was being a brat! The truth hurts sometimes.... Lily will not need counseling for me calling her a brat. Anyways.... thats all for now.. enjoy the pictures. My kids are cute!!


















Should I be worried about Amelie's TONGUE! All i got to say about that is HOLY CRAP!! Lets hope she grows into that THING!! hahahahhaaha
Jackson had his face painted at the daybreak festival as the HULK..... he just cant frown. I told him to give me a MEAN face.... yea, he smiled. Lily was a ZUTTER FLY for her morphed animal project. "I am a zutterfly. I used to be a Zatterpillar." She was SOOOOO cuute!! Porter is a total HAM. He loves to wear my shoes, and not just any shoes, the highest ones he can find in the shoe bucket. When he gets caught wearing them, he DROPS to the ground and kicks the shoes off "danget, I was caught!!"
I love my kids!!!