Josh and Jen's Little Team: 2009

Friday, December 25, 2009

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

Mommy in her new robe and Wade

Wade loves to pull himself up on things and stand forever, especially if its in front of the tv

Wade was as happy as can be......he is not afraid of the camera like Justin is....

Natilie was in heaven with all of her gifts, here she is sitting with "Pa"

Justin was overwhelmed with toys, he didn't know what to play with..

Natilie and our little dog Shadow, who is wearing his new doggie coat that Dan got him

Miss Natilie wanted a new coat and hat, scarf and gloves, she is totally into fashion now..

After Daniel finally got his game, he was hooked to the ps3 and tv....sitting in Justin's chair

Natilie, Daniel and Justin Christmas morning

Daniel adores his little brothers..

My almost 12 year old sporting spongebob footie pj's...gotta love this kid....

The kids at Grandpa's house in their new pj's

We had a fabulous and blessed day. We were worried about Christmas and didn't think we would really have one because of our "run of very bad luck" these last 3 months with some things that have happened, but I have to say how thankful we are to all of those who helped our family out and made this the best Christmas ever for my kids, it brought tears to my eyes, and you all truly are angels the lord has blessed us with! Here are some pictures from our fun day. Daniel and Natilie got up at 7:30am and woke everyone else up, we had to drag Justin and Wade out of bed and my Dad and the kids father came over to watch them open presents early in the morning. I think Justin was a little overloaded and didn't know what to do, Wade actually loved crawling around and ripping paper and playing with everyone's stuff. Natilie was so crazy with excitement it looked like she drank a whole 2 liter of Mountain Dew she was going so fast. Daniel was very grateful and had his eye out for one particular presant that was a game for the ps3 and we had him thinking he didn't get it, but in the end it was the last present he got and opened, he let out the biggest scream. I made a HUGE meal that my dad had bought, the ham was 17 pounds, needless to say we have ham in the freezer for a while :)
The kids got pj's for Christmas eve, and they all looked adorable, my Fave is Daniel's though, even if they don't fit him next year, it was worth it just to see him in them this Christmas, it was so funny!!

Friday, December 4, 2009

NEW HAIR-DO

As a lot of you know I am obsessed with and love hair and I love to do different things with hair all the time (and Josh has been wanting me for sometime now to stop highlighting my hair blonde) So I decided for a change, some of you wanted to see pictures, and against my better judgement (because I dont like pictures of myself) here is one. Our ward has been blessed by having an awesome couple move into it and Jen does hair and let me tell you she does a FABULOUS job!! I have gone darker a few times in my life, mainly in winter and she has done the best yet. What do ya think?

NATILIE'S FIRST DOG SITTING JOB

As a lot of you know, that Natilie is our animal/pet lover, especially of cute little dogs. She is really excited to have her first little job with pet sitting. We have had Hayley's cute little dog Juicy since Thanksgiving day while they are out of town for the holidays. Natilie loves her and here is a picture. Juicy is very timid and likes to stay mostly in Natilie's room and hide, but she will come out for Natilie and Josh and we think Shadow is scared of her which is funny because Shadow is about 10 pounds and Juicy is like 2..... we have enjoyed it.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Happy Holidays

I was really bad at having my camera ready this year to take pictures, but we still had a great Thanksgiving. I cooked over at my dads house since his kitchen and dining room is way bigger than ours. I love to cook holiday meals! We had a huge dinner with just about everything, but Justin was picky and would only eat corn and rolls.....We just relaxed, ate, and watched some football, and helped decorate my dads Christmas tree. I went thru the sale ads making my map for black friday shopping. I had everything planned out according to the times the stores opened and what I wanted from each store. I have gone shopping every year since I was a teenager, and I didnt think I was going to be able to go because money was tight, but my dad had me do his shopping for our presents from him. I got a ton of stuff for great price. I got up at 2am and was at old navy by 2:30 because they opened at 3 but they were a MAD HOUSE, people were putting their stuff done and leaving, which is what I did too. I hit then about 4 other stores. It was fun and productive, but I was beat when I got home around 9am. We had our Christmas tree up the weekend before Thanksgiving, and here is a picture of the tree (which I might add that it was a 15 dollar craigslist purchase that is a 3 piece and prelight tree :), but my camera is junk so the picture doesnt look very good. So far Justin does great with not pulling it over and Wade crawls over to it and touches the bottom ornaments but that is about the extent. We are really excited for Christmas!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

CHRISTMAS IS IN THE AIR...AND A FEW RANDOM PICS

this is my niece Julie who is 1 and Wade, we were cracking up because she kept making this face.

I love his 2 little teeth

Wade at my nephew and niece's birthday party

We pulled out all of our Christmas decorations and put up our tree this last weekend, and needless to say, Justin is "psyched" about Christmas!

WADE IS AN OFFICIAL CRAWLER

Oh and don't worry, I didn't talk a lot in this one :) After I played that last one, I realized, wow...that the high pitched mommy voice sounded a little annoying, I think I went overboard that time, or is it just me :)

Friday, November 20, 2009

NEW MOON-GIRLS NIGHT OUT

On Thurs. night we decided to have a girls night out and go see the midnight showing of New Moon. Now, I have never done this before with seeing a midnight movie on opening night, with Wade getting up numerous times at night and being pregnant I am pretty tired and have been going to bed around 8:30, but I haven't been out in so long and just thought it would be fun to do this, even though I did not like the first movie and thought it was dumb, but I am happy to report that I thought the 2nd movie was much better and now I am interested to read the books that Jen is going to let me borrow...It was a very fun and exciting night, my sister Cheryl, Julie, Jen Meeks and I met at Applebees at 8:30 to eat appetizers and then we showed up to the movie theater around 10 and there was already line, thank goodness we were able to all sit in the same theater. We ended up meeting Laura there and saw Anna and her mom and sisters, the Juhasz's, and the Jone's girl. It was so fun to see other friends from church there and all be together. I am looking forward to doing this again for the next movie! Thanks girls, for a fabulous time, love ya!

Friday, November 13, 2009

Mr. Wade is trying to crawl

Wade is now beginning his first few crawling steps, he goes about 2 crawl movements and then he gives up or does this bear crawl type of thing, check out the video. It is so cute to watch. On another note, this kid is still getting up a million times at night and he just turned 8 months old, we have let him cry it out and 2 nights ago, he cried for 2 hours straight without stopping and last night he cried for 3 hours straight, the kid just doesn't want to give up. Anyone have any suggestions, do I just keep letting him cry like that and he will eventually get over it??? I have been running on no sleep for 8 months and being pregnant (which always makes me extra tired) I just want to run and hibernate in a hole to get some sleep :) It's a good thing he is just so darn cute :)

OUR FIRST WEEK OF RECOVERY

So this last week has been challenging...well let me be honest, our house has been a train wreck! It has been a week since Justin's surgery and the first few days he did pretty well as long as he was medicated and even ate a few things, now its a different story, he cries, whines and is so irritable, he will hardly eat a thing, looks so tired and weak and when we go to give him the pain med's it practically takes 2 of us to hold him down because he hates the taste and throws a huge tantrum, and to think we still have another week to go. So I apologize to those I usually talk to or hang out with, we have pretty much stayed at home, while I listen to Justin cry, Wade cry, and Daniel and Natilie fight with each other all of the time, boy I am going crazy.....Here is a funny picture soon after Justin came home when he "was" doing better playing with Wade in the shopping cart...

Friday, November 6, 2009

OUR LITTLE MAN IS HOME....

This was this morning and he is eating breakfast, the only thing he would eat was the scrambled eggs, which he has NEVER done before, even after many attempts, but I guess the kid was desperate, he can only have this type of soft foods for 2 weeks...

Justin settled into a room overnight and the med's kept him pretty comfortable..

We were called back the recovery room and there were a ton of kids crying because they woke up from surgery, but as soon as the doors opened, we heard Justin above all other cries, he was in so much pain, and loopy for med's, the nurse said he was freaking out going crazy in the crib and trying to pull out his IV, my poor baby...

Mommy and Daddy with Justin in the waiting room before he was taken back for surgery, he loved the train table and the fish.

Today Justin and I came home from the hospital, they did take out the Tonsils and Adenoids and put tubes in his ears, the works. It has been exhausting 24 hours, with little sleep for the both of us. We took a few pictures of before and after. Everyone at the hospital was great and Justin's ENT doctor is amazing, we love him! The first 8 hours after surgery was horrible, the poor thing, I felt so bad for him, he was miserable and looped up on morphine and motrin, he didn't want to sip a thing. After the morphine wore off and they gave him motrin and Lortab he was able to tolerate the pain to eat some egg noodles, ice cream and canned diced peaches and a ton of Sprite. After we got home today he took a long nap, but when he woke up evidently his med's had worn off and he was so out of sorts, and crying rolling on the floor, it was so sad, thank goodness for med's!! The Dr. said it will be a rough next 2 weeks, but he should be so much better afterwards.We appreciate everyone who has helped out with our kids (and Laura for taking Wade)who have sent emails, made phone calls or text's to check on us, we appreciate all of you!

We are so proud of you Justin and love you very much!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

LITTLE JUSTIN'S SURGERY

Our little man Justin is having his first surgery the day after tomorrow (Thurs. Nov. 5th) he has had problems since he was about 6 months old, with constant sinus infections, upper respiratory infections and some ear infections and has been on antibiotics ALOT. So he will be having his adenoids and tonsils taken out, and probably tubes put in the ears (the Dr. said he would decide about the ears on the day of surgery, but he had a double ear infection about a week and a half ago, so it will probably be a go) I get so nervous with him being so young and I am a huge worrier, more about the anesthesia than anything, well...and the long recovery afterwards, I guess he will be living off of milkshakes for 2 weeks, because he can only have soft foods and liquids for 2 weeks after and he cant stand, soft, mushy, slimey food, I am afraid he is going to drop from his 38 pounds to 20 pounds or something crazy like that....Here is a cute happy picture of him before surgery, and I will do an after post when we get home for the hospital which will be friday. (they will keep him overnight because of his age.) Please keep him in your prayers!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

HALLOWEEN 20009

On our way to Trunk r Treat at church. Natilie is a girly gorilla, Daniel is a zombie prom nerd, Justin is an elephant and Wade was a turtle but he didnt like to wear the hat :) all of us sitting around Pa.....

Monday, October 26, 2009

SO FAR SO GOOD...

I had my third Dr's appt today and another ultra sound. It was still very hard to see anything but we could see a "shadow" of a baby and more importantly we saw the flicker of a heart beat :) The heart beat was 113 and they said it probably just started to beat. I am 6 weeks 2 days and my due date is June 15. I still get a little worried because there is still some kind of blood clot in between the baby sac and my uterine wall, but the Dr. said that he thinks it will be fine and not cause a problem but they will keep an eye on it. I was happy today to at least see the little flicker so hopefully it will be smooth sailing from here :) Thank you all who have helped out saying prayers, watching kids, brought over a meal, and just being there for me!!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

ROCK ON DUDE....

DANIEL ON DRUMS, NATILIE ON GUITAR AND JUSTIN ON MICROPHONE ROCKING TO ROCK BAND...THEY HAVE SO MUCH FUN ON THIS GAME.

A LITTLE BIT OF FALL

We have over an acre of land and lots and lots of trees and leaves, Josh was having so much fun trying to tackle the job...

Wade loved touching the leaves

Natilie had fun playing and posing in them...

Natilie, Wade and our little dog Shadow

Friday, October 23, 2009

SICKNESS...WILL IT EVER END....

Well our family too have had a horrible week with sickness. It appears that Natilie had H1N1, that was the sickest we have ever seen her, and trust me she has been sick a TON, they started her on Tamiflu right away which helped instantly, she has missed a whole week of school, but she is not liking the nice big stack of homework that she has to make up. Now Justin and Wade have been sick, so I have been terrified that they will get it too. I took them to the Dr.'s today and Justin has a double ear infection and Wade has Para Influenza, which is just the regular flu, but we have to watch that they don't develop breathing problems or higher fever because they could still get H1N1, but hopefully not. We are so grateful for a WONDERFUL pediatrician, who does whatever it takes to make her patients better and to find out what is wrong. I just hope somehow Josh, Daniel and I remain healthy...

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

2009. AUG. FAMILY PIC'S THAT WERE DONE IN UTAH

My In-laws just emailed these pics last night, they are the ones we did in Aug. when we went to visit them in Utah. They are not the best that we have done but at least it has all of us in it, right... Trying to do pics that day was horrible, Justin screamed and cried, for almost the entire time! We tried to talk to him, bribe him with M&M'S, which worked in a few pics that he is not looking at the camera but at least he is not screaming! We found out afterwards that he was just starving, after he ate, then he was fine, so we now know for the future to FEED him first :)

I can't believe he is not a newborn anymore :)

I love this picture of Natilie, it is just so her!

Josh's whole family

Daniel and cousin Ashton

Natilie and her cousin Kylie

Daniel thinks he is one cool dude

Monday, October 19, 2009

ANOTHER PREGNANCY UPDATE

I went for my follow up Dr's appt and ultra sound today and here is what they said: comparing ultra sounds from this week to last weeks, my ultra sound had improved. Last week the sac was just a speck and there was lots of fluid and a pocket of something outside of my uterus. Today, the sac was in my uterus, it had gotten bigger so that was a plus. Its measuring about 5 weeks, which was still too soon to see the actual baby, but they said usually 6-7 weeks you can see the baby and yolk sac, so I have to go back next Monday for another ultra sound and hopefully we will for sure see something and that things will be OK. The fluid was reduced in general and the fluid pocket that was found was smaller too. They also found some kind of blood clot type thing in my uterus which was hemorrhaging last week but that too was smaller today as well and they said it should be OK. So as of right now, we did not get any "bad" news, but I will feel much better when I go in next week and hopefully see an actual baby. On another note, when I got back from the Dr.'s (thanks Jen Meeks for watching my kids, they love you and your little dog!) Natilie now has a fever of 102.9 and a red sore throat and headache, and are awaiting a phone call from the Dr. about her. The nurse said that those 3 things can be swine flu stuff, strep throat or hopefully just they "typical" common virus, but poor Natilie looks awful!