For Memorial Day we went with Paul’s mom to the cemetery and visited Paul’s dad’s, his grandpa and grandma’s graves. It was nice to go on Memorial Day and to see all the nice flowers being brought to loved ones. We sure miss Grandpa Ed and Great Grandpa Red!!
By his grandpa’s grave
A pretty good looking impromptu family photo
So my Eli guy finished up his first year of preschool a few weeks ago! He has the best preschool teacher, Miss Denise. She is so great with kids and makes the kids love learning. Eli has had such a good time going to class. He is excited to go again next year to the 3 day a week preschool. We sure love preschool!
Took a couple shots of our cute little fella today.
When opening presents at his family birthday party Jackson and I wrapped his present 3 times so it took him a long time to open it. That’s why he was saying “You wrapped it three times!.”
All day he was trying to get Jackson and I to tell him what we got him, so we finally told him it was cookies. That explains his surprise when he opens it, “it’s not cookies!”
It’s a black controller buddy.
Here are some fun pictures of the kids recently!
Eli crawled in bed with Jackson! So cute!
Monday my cousin and I went to visit our Grandpa. We brought all of our kids and my Grandpa sure had fun seeing them. Here is my Grandpa with 5 of his great grandchildren. He LOVES his posterity and is so proud of all of us. It’s usually all he talks about!
Last week Jackson’s class had Daddy donut day! Jackson was soo excited! He had been counting down the days for about 2 weeks for this event. He even woke up early that day and he never does that. They both came home saying that they had a blast!!
Jackson also got to be the shining star in his class. He had fun making his poster with his dad. He wanted me to be the one to come to his class and talk about him. He also wanted me to bring Eli which I thought was cute. So Eli and I went to his class and talked about Jackson. My favorite part however was that after I got done talking, the teacher has the kids tell Jackson what they liked about him. The kids said some cute things about Jackson and he really liked hearing what his friends say about him. I really have enjoyed Jackson’s kindergarten teacher.
Shining Star
Walking down the hall to his class with his Daddy!
So I don’t have pictures to post of our Easter this year because our Easter was put on the back burner due to the fact that Dylan ended up in the hospital that day. That week Dylan had been fighting a head cold but on Friday night the cold settled into his chest and I could hear him wheezing when he breathed. Saturday I took him to the Dr and he tested positive for RSV. They gave him a breathing treatment and that brought up his oxygen level and cleared out his lungs a little bit. The Dr told me to take him to the Riverton hospital respiratory clinic that is free over the weekend to keep suctioning out his nose and throat. I took him that night, but didn’t think that it helped much. Saturday night Dylan wasn’t eating at all and all the night he struggled to breath. At 5:30 that morning Paul and I decided that I should take him back to the hospital. We went to the respiratory clinic to see if the suctioning hi him out would help. It didn’t and the Dr at the clinic had him admitted to the ER. Once there, the Dr told us there wasn’t much he could do at this hospital and he referred me to Primary Children’s. He told me they had a respiratory clinic that you can stay at for 23 hours, and that they could keep suctioning him and that should help him breath and eat. So Dylan and I headed home to grab a few things and to say happy Easter to the boys. So I drove Dylan up to Primary Children’s. While in their clinic after another suction, Dylan fell asleep. When he fell asleep his oxygen levels dropped to an alarming low. The Dr rushed in and told me that she didn’t feel comfortable sending him home with his levels this low and that they were admitting him. So Dylan and I were moved into our own room, where Dylan was hooked up to oxygen, and a whole lot of other stuff to monitor him. Luckily he did eat enough that we didn’t need to give him an IV. Paul was able to leave the boys with his mom and came up and stayed with us for a few hours. (The boys still had a good day and were just happy their brother was going to get better). I spent the night at the hospital with Dylan. Luckily by 8 in the morning Monday, they were able to take Dylan off of the oxygen, and 2 naps later determined that his levels were high enough that he could go home. We went home late Monday afternoon. We were happy to be home. After a few follow up visits with our pediatrician, Dylan is doing great and you would never know that he was sick. We are so blessed that Heavenly Father was looking out for us and that things are a ok. Here are a few pics of Dylan in the hospital.
Regardless of what was going on, Dylan did so great!!
I am a little behind on blogging but I hope to catch up soon. So a few weeks ago my Eli guy turned 4!! He was so excited. He knew that he got to have a birthday party with some of his friends and couldn’t wait. The party was Batman themed of course since he is still obsessed with Batman although Ben 10 is a close second now. He had 5 of his friends over and we played some games, made Batman headbands, and had cake and ice cream. It was so fun! Here are some pics from Eli’s big day!
With his friends
Batman pose!
playing games
Birthday cake!
me and the birthday boy!!
Here is a q & a I did with Eli the day of his birthday;
What is your name? Eli
How old are you today? 4
What do you want for your birthday? batman
What kind of cake did we make for your special night? batman cake
What is your favorite food? pizza
What is your favorite treat? cake
What is your favorite color? blue
What do you like to do? play xbox
What is something you are good at? slides
What is something you would like to learn how to do? play batman on the xbox better
What is your favorite movie? cartoon batman
What is your favorite Primary song? follow the prophet
What do you want to be when you grow up? daddy
What is your favorite family activity? jump on the tramp
What do you like most about Church? singing time
Where do you want to serve your mission? outerspace with a rocket
What do you love most about Jackson? he plays with me
What do you love most about dylan? That he talks to me
What do you love most about Mommy? her snuggles at bedtime
What do you love most about Daddy? He lays by me
Eli, what makes you happy? daddy
We love you Eli!!!
Here are some random photos of our family the past month.
bros
5 months old! Getting so big! He is rolling all over the place, eating baby food and loving it, almost sitting up on his own without falling over all the time, and he is sooo close to crawling!
Eli was the shining star in his preschool class a few weeks ago. Here is the poster he made to show at school. He was very specific how the poster needed to look. No markers, writings, stickers, etc. Just pictures in these spots. He is a character!
These are the sunglasses and “crown” he got at school for being the shining star. He has to wear them while eating his applesauce.
showing us his “owie” on his tummy
playing with Uncle Troy and Aunt Jocelyn