May p12

This means I am one more month caught up with this blog!  

The kids having their snack outside.  I loved this picture of the 3 girls sitting together.  So cute!

Dallen getting a ride from Ry! One of their favorite things to do outside. 

The girls needed a picture of Hannah's hair.  Bethany was the stylist and they were super excited that they did it all by themselves. 

These two are becoming such little buddies, I love it!  They have started to play together and I'm sure their relationship will take off in the fall when they are the only two home once again. 

Bryleigh being cute. She loves this dress and picks it out all the time!

Rylan enjoying playing outside.  One of his favorite places to be!

Dallen still enjoys his puzzles.  He doesn't do them nearly as often as he used too, but when he does decide to do puzzles he love it. His brother is poking him in the back of the head.  Gotta love it!

On our drive to SLC during our anniversary weekend, or our trip down memory lane.  We also went by some of our old apartments we lived in up in the avenues.  This was the apartment we lived in when Bethany was born, her first home.  She lived there for about 8 months. 

Sick Bethany.  So the Monday after Hannah's surgery Bethany was complaining about doing her school work, and that she just wanted to go to sleep.  Hannah didn't have to do any school work this week and got to lay on the couch, eat ice cream and watch movies.  I gave Bethany a hard time and told her to get to work.  I thought she was having a hard time with Hannah getting special treatment and that she wanted in on the sympathy.  A little later she fell asleep on the couch.  At that point I took her temperature and sure enough she had a fever.  So we had two sickies on the couch.  She even got some of Hannah's ice cream.  I think it was the same sickness/cold that Bryleigh and Dallen had, and it just effected her differently.  It only lasted until Tuesday afternoon, and then she was fine.  It was good she got better fast, because I was running out of sympathy to give to people!

random pictures

I found some random pictures from the last few months on my phone.   

This was back in February I think.  We went to the capitol theater and saw the ballet Cinderella.  It was fun!

Hannah was helping me make her birthday cake.  I asked her to get the vegetable oil out of the pantry.  She came back with this vegetable broth.  That would make a interesting cake! 

I have mentioned that we had snow forever!!  We needed to get out of the house one day, so went to the park with the snow.  The girls thought it was warm enough to not need their jackets.  I don't think it was that warm, but it was a nice day. 

This was back when we were potty training.  Us hanging out in her room playing.  Notice her cup of juice.  I'm so glad that is over with!!  5 down, 0 to go!!  Yay!

On my way home during my run.  I love that we have a nice neighborhood to run around, or to take the kids on walks.  I don't have to worry about mean dogs, or scary people. Plus we have pretty grass and trees.  It is definitely a nice change from where we came from!

12 years

On May 18th, Kyle and I celebrated our 12th anniversary.  It has been long enough now that I have to really think about how long we have been married when people ask.  Kind of like once you pass about 25 in age, it's hard to remember how old you really are.  I have to really stop and think about that sometimes too, and have even told the wrong age more than once. 

We usually have a lemon cake for our anniversary, which we also call our family birthday.  It was one of our flavors of our wedding cake.  Since this fell the day after Hannah had her tonsils out we decided to have a lemon pudding pie, so she could be have some too!

Having fun blowing out all the candles. 

The day after our anniversary we needed to get out of the house and went for a drive.  We ended up in SLC by the capital and went to the chapel we had our first wedding reception at.  It is such a fun chapel with an awesome view.  

That really seems like forever ago!

We had our reception out on this deck.  It was fun to be there and remember our special day. 

 (We seem to match a lot these days, and it's never planned.)  

Exactly 12 years ago.  We got married on Friday and had our reception on the 19, the day after.  It was nice break it up that way.  It helped to not get so overwhelmed with everything that comes with a wedding!

May 19th, 2001

May 19th, 2013.  I guess we look a little older! :)

Then we drove by ensign peak, which is where Kyle proposed to me. 

The following weekend my mom watched the kids and we got a night to ourselves.  We went up to Logan and stayed at the anniversary inn.  The same place we went on our honeymoon. We had fun going to dinner and walking around the temple grounds. 

We stayed in the Juliette's balcony room.  It was nice to relax and have some time together alone. And the kids had fun with their Da. 

It has been a great year, with lots of changes, and I look forward to many, many more years with my best friend!! 

Hannah and her tonsils

Hannah started having some problems a year ago around the time we moved to Utah with sleeping well.  It took awhile to figure out what was going on, and if it was just related to the big move we made.  But we figured out that her tonsils need to come and and were the root of the problems. 

This is what they looked like before they came out.  They rate them from a 1 (smallest) to a 4 (biggest) and her were a 4 plus.  The dr. was asking me about some of the symptoms and if I had to cut up her food for her and things like that.  After I saw how big they were I am wondering how she got any food down her throat!  My goodness!

The morning of her surgery.  She got to come and do a tour of the hospital the day before.  She got a hospital buddy and this activity book.  She was really brave and was looking forward to all the ice cream afterwards, but she was nervous that morning. 

They told her she got to go to 3 different rooms.  This was her first room.  It is where the dr.s and nurses talk to her and get her ready for surgery.  The surgery before us ended up going super long.  We were suppose to be there at 10:00 am.  Then they called us on our way and told us to come at 10:30 am.  They say the surgery is about an hour after your arrival time.  But she didn't end up going back for surgery until about 1:00  pm.  She hadn't been able to eat since the night before.  I felt so bad for her, but she didn't complain once.  

So from this room the anesthesiologist took her for a wagon ride to the surgery room. She was being so brave, but I know her nerves were going pretty good about now. 

It was kind of hard watching your little girl being wheeled away.  I knew this was going to be the hardest part, but we were all happy to be getting onto the next phase, after waiting almost 3 hours. Headed to her 2nd room, the surgery room. 

She was a perfect patient and the dr.s and nurse's all loved her and said they wanted to take her home with them.  She did everything they asked her too and didn't complain about anything. Her biggest fear out of this all was the hurting afterwards.  She was still kind of out of it here, but she was enjoying her first popsicle, a root beer one.  Her hospital buddy next to her. She was in quite a bit of pain that first hour after the surgery. She also got a upset stomach from the anesthesia. 

This is her final room, the recovery room. 

Then magically when her medicine kicked in she was happy and perked up quite a bit. She had fun watching movies on Ky's pod and eating popsicles. She wouldn't talk because her throat was hurting her from the breathing tube they put down your throat. 

A picture of her lovely tonsils.  They were huge! They have a bunch of little pieces of food stuck in them, and that is partly what caused them to swell up so much.  Tonsils can swell up and sometimes go back down.  But how hers where they weren't going to get any smaller, so it's good we got them out.  She also got the rest of her adenoids taken out. 

So excited to go home and to get a ride in a wheelchair out to the car. We didn't leave the hospital until about 4:30, it was a long day!

We stopped at artic circle to get her some ice cream.  They had orange and vanilla swirl which is her favorite.  I think she was happy to finally eat something.

She also got a cake batter shake to have for later.  She was one happy girl, and there were a lot of jealous kids at home. She had to work pretty hard for that ice cream though!

Recover was rough.  The first few days were ok.  She was doing fine with just Tylenol.  Then about Sunday the pain worsened and she was on loratab and Tylenol. She started waking up at night 2 or 3 times just crying and it was hard to get her back to bed. 

The worst days were suppose to be day 3 and 4, which was Monday and Tuesday.  Things were still hurting, but it wasn't worse.  So we thought we were doing good about about recovered.  Then Wednesday morning things turned worse.  She was in even more pain.  She was then on Tylenol, ibuprofen and loratab, and she was still hurting.  This lasted Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  I was ready to call the dr. on Friday because she wasn't getting better, but decided to wait one more day.  Sure enough Saturday she started to get better and perk up a little.  She went to a cousins birthday party and that kind of wiped her out.  She was ready to come home and get some medicine and rest.  On Sunday she went to sacrament but was ready to go home and rest after that. 

She was on loratab until Monday, and then after that she was able to do just Tylenol and ibuprofen.  She went back to the dr. on Tuesday for her post op and everything looked good.  He said she probably shouldn't need any more medicine except at night, which was true at that point.  She continued to get better and better each day until the end of the 2nd week she was back to her normal self, except a better sleeping version!

The white stuff in the back of her throat are the scabs from the surgery. They lasted the full 2 weeks and why she had to be careful of what she ate.  She could not eat anything sharp, hard or pokey for those two weeks.  She pretty much lived off of popsicles, ice cream and mac n cheese. 

She enjoyed her special foods and special treatments.  She got to eat on the couch.  Play ipods all day and she got to sleep in mommy and daddy's room. 

At her post op appointment.  It was a long 2 weeks, and I'm glad that everything went well and she recovered well from it. 

Disneyland day 5

 Day 5 - Friday.  It is such a bitter sweet day.  Your ready to be done because your so tired, but your not ready for the fun to end.  We had low expectations for this day.  We got there early to take advantage of the early hours, and then we were going to leave around 2-3 when the afternoon crowds start.  

We did our usual that we each pick out 2 rides to go on, and we make our rounds. And add in other rides that we decide to do on the way. 

Bryleigh: Winnie the pooh and Ariel

Dallen: Buzz and Jack

Rylan: Pirates and Splash

Hannah: Grizzly and Matterhorn

Bethany: Screamin and Tower

Mommy: Alice

Daddy: Space and Cars

Then we wanted to watch the new tangled and beauty and the beast shows. 

The morning started out good and we did some rides in fantasyland.  We were trying to do the matterhorn, but it was broken down. 

We got Alice in. 

And we got buzz in for Dallen. 

Then we went and watched the new tangled show.  It was really cute and we all enjoyed it. 

 The girls really wanted to meet Rapunzel and have her sign their book.  For their dance class recital they were doing a tangled show.  So we had to see her!

Where the play was, was right next to the new princess fantasy faire.  We have only seen the princesses once, and waited for about an hour.  So when we saw the line super short, 15 minutes we decided to go see the princesses. Dallens favorite princess's is Tiana, Snow White and Ariel. Hannah's favorites are Belle and Jasmine, and Bethany's are Jasmine, Ariel and Rapunzel. Rylan's doesn't have a favorite. And Bryleigh's is Ariel. 

After the show and seeing the princesses we went to get some more of our rides in. But all the rides started breaking down.  Pirates, winnie the pooh, splash, indiana jones.  They were having some electrical problems.  So we went and watched the beauty and the beast show. 

Hannah was happy to meet Belle!

After the show we were able to get a few more rides in, but the lines were getting crazy from the backup.  So we debated whether we should go back to the hotel or to California.  We ended up doing California which ended up being slower and we were able to do so much over there! We were glad we didn't cut our day short. 

We did single rider on the car's ride. Rylan with his arms up, love it!

I love car's land and how real it seems.  It really seems like you are in radiator springs!

Ky with Dallen and Bryleigh on the big bumper cars. 

Getting ready for Tower of Terror.  Rylan decided that he doesn't like that ride and sat it out. 

Me and Bethany with our matching shoes.

The kids watching for the others on grizzly river runs. 

We found them.  This is right after they came down the biggest hill. 

We were having so much fun and kept finding things to do that it was about 10:00.  We had debated staying for fantasmic and weren't planning on it.  But at this point we decided we might as well.  The three little ones all ended up falling asleep before it started.  Rylan will still say, I should of just stayed awake.  So Bryleigh got booted out of the stroller since she was the easiest one to carry.  

We took turns holding her until the show was over.  Then it was quite the hike back to the bus.  We tried to stick her in the stoller next to Dallen, but there wasn't enough room.  So we decided to make a double decker stroller.  We held onto her the whole time, but she didn't seem to mind!

We had a great trip and like always it is fun watching the kids enjoy themselves and have so much fun!!

It was a long week and we wore ourselves out enough that at least I was ready to go home.  Not to say after a good rest I would of been ready to go again!! Tell next time!