Monday, June 23, 2008

Funny Faces


We had dutch oven peach cobbler with our 4-plex yesterday night. Paul is getting good with getting the coals started and stuff. Shayden liked to climb the steps and kept on pulling these real cute faces. yes, she's wearing Caelee's "Born in 2005" shirt even though she was born in 2007; we just use it as an undershirt. You can kind of see her umbilical hernia in that picture too. We'll take her in to see a surgeon for that next week. Lately Shayden has learned to blow her own nose and fold her arms. She knows "more" and "all done" in sign language, and waves goodbye.

Alisa has been staying with us the past few days and she taught Shayden some sweet dance moves. Alis will be moving into Old Farm soon and she loves her new job so far. Yeah Alisa!

Friday, June 20, 2008

Climbin' Girl

I finally am learning to do Shayden's hair. It's starting to get long. This also shows her favorite toy...Lynette's old booster seat. She loves to climb on it and sit in it.

Grandma gave Shayden a frog pool for her birthday and we whipped it out the other day. Lee liked it a lot more than Shayden. I think Shayden needs another year and a few swimming lessons. We thought it was funny that they put "Warning: No Diving" on the side. I think Paul scared her too bad with the eyes and by putting her straight in. We'll try a few more times.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Cutting Hair

I cut Kami's hair last night...her beautiful long hair. I think she almost fainted because it was too short. Kami, I think you're beautiful either way. Lesson: only do an inch at a time.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Coolest Bike Trip Ever!

Teri, Kami, Alis and I went up Logan Canyon for a little biking trip last night and had a BLAST. Teri took all these awesome pictures and I thought I could share. We live so close to some of the most beautiful places on earth. Yeah for summer!

Fruit snacks are good.
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
We're strong. Yah.
Cheese!
Givin' looks.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Parker's New Heart

Life has been very full of big news since the beginning of this week. Lots of ups and downs. On Monday night we found out that Parker got a heart and it's been beating since 4:45 Tuesday morning. He's been doing very well, and will continue to be sedated. Cody and Lisa have been keeping a really good update on their blog if you want to check it out. For right now the pressure in the right side of his heart is too high, but is slowly going down. They will take a biopsy of the heart to see if it is being rejected even though they doubt that's the case because he's been doing so well. There have been a few scares though with lots of bleeding and some blood in his lung.

One of Paul's good friends, Shane just died. He was really sad to hear that. We also found out that Paul got the job at Home Depot that he's been waiting for. Yeah! He'll be a "packer" working 4-8 am and will start training on Monday morning next week.

For now we're going to drive down to Riverton for today and tomorrow to see family. We won't be able to see Parker because he's so weak and can't have visitors. We were sad to cancel a camping trip we had planned for this weekend, but it will be warmer in a few weeks, and maybe more people will be able to come.

Shayden is now 1 year and 3 weeks old and is learning like crazy.
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She wanted to post a little bit.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Shayden's latest

Yesterday was cold and cloudy. It rained a little and Shayden loved to walk around in it. She's a cutie. Lately she's gotten to be a really fast walker.


Saturday, May 31, 2008

Drama of the Century

Paul and I are finally moved into our new apartment in Logan. It's about 2 1/2 blocks from where we used to live, so we stayed in the ward and are close to campus. We just got over a huge drama scene with our landlords. Oh boy, I could probably spend a good 5 single spaced pages ranting on about what happened, but it's over thank goodness. What's so funny to me is that the Sunday before all this exploded we had a really good talk in sacrament meeting about being slow to anger. Basically, we asked them if we could stay another year and they inspected our apartment and accused us of being dirty people...which we aren't. They were pretty rude about it, and I'm just glad we're out of their apartment complex. The happy news is that I can now babysit and teach violin. They wouldn't allow that before. Also it kind of ended in a peace treaty because Paul and I left their apartment in 110% condition and they gave us our full deposit back plus 4 days of May rent. They also apologized for "having tempers flaring" and having things work out the way they did. It's going to be hard to get over what she said to me even now though. I'm kind of numb to it and don't want to think about it any more. Where's the love? I realize now more than ever though about what causes people to be offended, and how to handle when that happens. I definitely need to have tougher skin, that's for sure.

Shayden seems to like our new place. I just took her in for her 1 year check up and shots. She's 99% in her head circumference, 40% in her weight and 60% in her height. She had a fever for a while but is better now. She has this weird wheezing cough now, though.

I also wanted to send a big thank you to Cody and Lisa. Lisa has watched Shayden for all of the time we've spent moving and cleaning and Cody helped us even in his boot. Thank you! My parents and Paul's grandpa helped us move too, and we're so grateful. Thank you, thank you!