Tball

Peyton is playing Tball for his first time, and is LOVING it! We decided to have him play in Syracuse with one of his buddies becasue they have the coach pitch first then have the kids hit off the tee. He has been playing well and making Dan and I proud. He looks so cute in his uniform, I love game days!! I'm not sure who's loving it more, me or Peyton :)

Disneyland 2010

BEWARE: LOTS OF PICTURES AHEAD!

In May we were able to take the kids to Disneyland for a week. We kept it a secret until we got to the hotel, we just kept telling the kids were running errands. I can't believe Dan and I kept a secret that long, we're the type of people that have a hard time keeping anything a secret! We were pretty proud of ourselves but now wish we would have just told the kids when we got to the airport to fly to California. Peyton had multiple breakdowns because he just wanted to play with his friends and was very unsure of the whole thing (what can I say, he's like me...not OK with not knowing the future). I think we may have gotten a better reaction had we told them earlier. We had a great time despite the rough start.

Pictures from the airport and airplane.

Video of us breaking the news.

This pictures was just after we told the kids what our "errands" were, they were fighting over who stood where in the picture.

We decided to stay at a Disney hotel Paradise Pier, It was nice and close to the parks. The weather could have been a little warmer for swimming, but it was nice that we weren't roasting at the parks.

Aunt Kathy met us there and spent the whole time at Disneyland with us. It was so great to see her! I really can't believe it but I don't have any pictures of her with Bailey! That just shows how slowly Bailey takes to warm up to people.

The kids loved the parades! We watched the Celebrate parade 3 times while we were there!

Here are some of Bailey's favorite characters, besides the Disney Princesses of course.

And some pictures of Peyton with his favorites.

More characters...

Some of our favorite rides...

And more silly pictures of the family...

Bailey LOVED meeting all the princesses. Upon meeting each of them she would cover her mouth and act shy, with most of them she asked to see their shoes. She was very unimpressed with Mulan's shoes because they were not very dainty. One of the mornings we were there we went to breakfast at Ariel's Grotto which was so fun and nice because Bailey was able to meet all of the princesses during our Disneyland vacation.

Most of the princesses were very friendly and talkative with Bailey. I love this one of Tiana telling Bailey a story.

Peyton was able to do the Jedi Training Academy. We were pretty nervous that he would get scared and start crying when Darth Vader came up out of the stage (he's just a little tender, gets that from his Dad). He did really well though. The show was different from the last time we saw it, now they have added Darth Maul, who looked scarier then ever! When the Darth's came up out of the stage Peyton got a look of concern on his face and took off running toward us! Just as he was bolting across the floor toward us a Jedi Master clothes lined him and pulled him back to where the other trainees were. After that Peyton seemed OK, just very concerned (no crying at all!) and went on to fight Darth Maul, it was so awesome! I think he was just thinking what the BLEEP, this doesn't look good I better get outta here (see beginning of the video below)!!

Dan being silly in Toon Town

Graduation...

Graduation went well, besides the speaker at our departments ceremony, coulda done without her! It was nice to have so much family support. Here are some pictures from the day.

TOMORROW...

...I graduate from Nursing school!!! For so long this day has seemed so far away, I really can't believe it's here already! It seems like this was just yesterday. I am so excited yet so scared of what happens now!
Where do I go from here? Well, I start full time at PCMC on May 2nd! I orient until I get authorization to take and then PASS my Nursing Boards then I integrate for a bit then on my own. I'm gonna give full time a try for now since the kids really like daycare but we'll see how it goes.
Graduation pictures to come.

Baby Animal Days 2010...

Every year at Easter time we love to go up to Wellsville for the Baby Animal Days at the American West Heritage Center. We all love to see the baby animals and over the years the festivities have grown.
This year Peyton tried the mutton bustin'! I was so nervous for him, I think I told him at least 10 times "grab on tight and squeeze the wool as tight as you can, oh and wrap your legs around his belly!" He just looked at me like, "yeah, yeah I know Mom, just chill out, I got this". Well, he didn't stay on for very long, I think he thought he knew what was going to happen but then when the sheep took off he got a little freaked out. I told him he'll have to practice for next year by riding bucking Dad.

Bailey rode the pony for the first time and loved it!

Of course the blow up slides are always a hit, at least with Peyton. Bailey usually goes down once then decides she's done.

They both loved holding the ducks and all was well until Bailey decided she was finished and tossed the little thing! After we reprimanded her she swore it had scratched her hand and that's why she jumped, not sure if that really happened but no one was actually injured so all is well.

Spring Soccer

Peyton started soccer a few weeks ago. Already he is doing much better then he did in the fall and has spent the majority of both games on his feet! Hopefully his interest will last. He's a little discouraged because he hasn't gotten a goal yet, but last game he had at least 3 assists. We have tried to explain to him that assists are pretty much as good as a goal but he doesn't seem to believe us :0).

Easter 2010...

I know this is a little late but better late then never, right?? We had a fun Easter this year, it was a little crazy since I had to take the ATI the next day. For those of you who don't know the ATI is a test RN students at Weber State have to take AND PASS in order to graduate and be able to take RN boards (the NCLEX). It supposedly acts as an indicator as to what percentage the RN students have at passing the NCLEX on the first try, it also acts as an indicator as to how well they are teaching us. Anywho, I had the test on the 5th and rocked it! I'm so relieved and happy to have that over with!
Back to Easter, we forgot the camera for MeeMaw's Easter egg hunt, and we also forgot to take pictures of the kids as they saw their baskets :( . We did however take pictures of the baskets after the Easter Bunny had come and gone.

We had a family home evening lesson earlier in the week and talked about what Easter is about. It's amazing how much Peyton is retaining and can tell us about what he is learning in church and in FHE. Every week in FHE he readily participates and is excited when he know's the right answers (which is quite often). Bailey on the other hand, we're lucky if she sits still!

The last month...

February flew by. Things were pretty crazy with me working 3 nights in a row but things went just fine as we knew they would, there were very few break downs thankfully!
We started out the month by squeezing one last tubing trip in. Peyton's friend had a fun sledding party and we were introduced to an awesome hill! We got some new tubes for the kids but it was pretty dark when we got there. We didn't get a lot of pictures but we had a ton of fun!

Bailey had her tonsils out on February 4. The surgery part went well but because of her age we had to stay overnight at Primary Children's. Her pain was pretty bad and we weren't too surprised by her reaction to it, poor thing. The night at the hospital was a crazy one filled with much crying and discomfort for Bailey. She went into surgery at about 12:30pm that day. After the surgery she was barely making it 3 hours before she would be writhing in pain, which was a problem because she could only have the Lortab every 4 hours! The last hour was spent unsuccessfully trying to distract her. At one point she had pain meds at 9:00 then at 10:00pm she was screaming so bad saying it hurt. The more she would scream the more her poor throat would hurt, it was an endless cycle! Knowing that she had another 3 hours before she could have anything we begged the nurse to call the Dr. and see if she could give her something else. She came back and said they could give hr Benedryl, better than nothing I guess, except for the fact that the Benedryl and Lortab combination made Bailey's oxygen levels drop all night! Needless to say I didn't sleep much because I kept needing to move the blow by (a funnel that blows oxygen into her face) so it was pointing at her face since she kept moving!
Her recovery (the next 2 weeks) was just as rough. For almost 2 weeks she needed the Lortab every 4 hours, sometimes we would barely make it 4 hours! The day was pretty predictable including at least one crying spell that would lead to vomiting due to a very sore throat and gagging. As expected, we also dealt with the result of narcotics added to decreased fluid intake which is constipation, that was super fun for cute, innocent little Bailey who slapped me in the face after I nicely announced to her that I was going to do 1 last glycerin suppository (the last of 3, which didn't end up working anyway:( ). Good times, glad that's over with! Most importantly we had a lot of great, very kind family who were willing to help out with Bailey since she couldn't go to daycare for 2 weeks but I still had to precept. Thanks Betsy, Jenny, and MeeMaw!

Dan and Peyton gave Bailey and I these beautiful roses for Valentines Day. The red roses were for me and the pink were for Bailey. What sweet boys we have!

Precepting turned out to be an ok experience. I didn't get my first choice of specialties, or my second, or my third, well, actually I didn't get any of my choices at all but at least I got a good preceptor. I was at David Hospital (not my choice either) on the Women's Surgical GYN unit and also did about 1/3 of my shifts on Postpartum. I learned a lot about piggy backing antibiotics, PCA pumps and meds, hysterectomy's, bladder slings, and postpartum care, removed a whole lot of Foley's and checked dozens of fundus'. All interesting in their own way but not really something I would like to spend my nursing career doing. I may have liked an experience with labor and delivery since it provides a little more action and my experience in that specialty is very limited but I guess it wasn't meant to be. Anyway, I'm glad that's over and now I am back to working for $ which is always nice!

Last but not least, today we finally got Bailey's hair cut. If you remember she was quite the hair twister as an infant and can still be caught with her finger stuck in her hair. All the twisting made the left side of her head a little thin and bald in some spots. Her hair is growing back ok and the shortest spot is now almost to the top of her ear. We decided to try to even it out a little since the right side of her head had hair that is all the same length and fairly thick. It looks so much better now and you can barely notice the difference. She is getting to be so grown up, I just can't believe my baby is going to be 3 in 2 months!