Disney Vacation Part 1

I cannot even tell you how much FUN we had!! My kids were so excited just to fly on an airplane, that we could have flown there and turned around and just have come home. We got to the airport in plenty of time, not knowing how long it would take us to get checked in with all our luggage and with 4 kids. So once we got to the gate we had 2 hours to spare. We took our laptop to watch movies at the gate and the kids also played games on mine and Richs phones.
Brylee did so good, I was so proud of her. She just played and was so happy at the airport. She found this cute puppy by us, and she is fascinated by animals. She just loved him and crawled after him on the ground.
The kids did so great on the plane, the stewardess even commented that Brylee was so well behaved. She didn't fuss or anything. The kids loved looking out the windows at the clouds and seeing the tiny towns! The flight was about 1 and a half hours. It went a lot more smoothly than I had hoped.
We got to Disneyland Tuesday afternoon, and the first ride Rich decides to take the kids on is the Matterhorn. All 3 come off of it crying. Awesome. So we went to look for something a little more low key. We spent the rest of the evening going on little rides that we could all go on.

On our way out of the park we found Mickey Mouse!! The kids were so excited to see him, especially on the first night. We headed back to the hotel (it had been a VERY long day.) Our hotel was perfect for us. We had a room with 2 queen beds and then a separate room with bunk beds and their own TV and table. It was perfect. The kids liked having their own space and watching the shows that they wanted to watch.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
We found Pluto in Toon Town, the characters there are amazing. They all take time for each of the kids and interact with them. They will sign autograph books and pose for pictures until moms are satisfied!!


This is in Mickey Mouses house.
Another one with Mickey!

Stitches

Do you like that look? Its one that I get a lot!! This was just shortly after she tried to fly...(she is in pajamas because it was pajama day for preschool) She tried to fly off of the stool in my dining room. I watched it all happen in slow motion, her pant leg of her pajamas caught on the top of the stool which caused her to fall instead of landing on her feet. It also knocked over the bar stool. My stools are metal and have a large knob on top with a rim around them. It hit her square in the forehead. It also gave her a big goose egg right between her eyes.
I panicked and called Jolene to come and look at it because it just started bleeding EVERYWHERE! We got it cleaned up and it was actually not too bad. (The band-aid covered it.) I just didn't know if I needed to take her in or not. We sat and went back and forth and finally decided that she was fine. Shortly after another one of my good friends stopped by for a minute and I told her what had happened, her husband works in the ER at the hospital. She looked at it and said she probably would need stitches but would have her husband stop and look at it.


Can I just say...again...I have amazing neighbors! He stopped and took a look and said we should do some stitches in it. He went home and got his stuff and just did it in the living room. It was so nice not to have to deal with a bunch of doctors and nurses, because if you know Leah she is very shy at first and freaks out in large crowds. Leah did so good, she didn't even move. He put some numbing stuff on it and then put a few shots in her forehead. Her daddy may have been more nervous than her.

We ended up with 5 stitches, and he did an amazing job!! The scar is fading more and more everyday and it looks great! Leah was such a trooper, and now whenever she sees our neighbor at church she tells me...Mom, I like him, he put it my stitches!

Easter

The kids are patiently waiting for Rich and I to be ready so that they can dig into their baskets.

They each got a Webkinz and a Pillow Pet PeeWee. My kids are a little bit obsessed with stuffed animals if you couldn't tell!!
Nate with his Webkinz, he affectionately calls Buster Bow-Wow.

It was fun to watch Brylee with the Easter Grass, it's all she cared about. She loved it!!




We had a nice Easter, it was fun to just stay home with the kids after church and just enjoy each others company.

RSV

My poor baby got RSV, and it was the saddest thing I have ever had to deal with, with any of my kids. She was completely fine on Sunday morning. I got everyone up and off to church, and during Sacrament meeting I went to feed her. Which as soon as she was done, she threw up everywhere. So I went home and changed her and I (we were both just covered) and Rich stayed home with her so I could go back and teach my lesson. By the time I got home 2 hours later, she had a low grade fever and just didn't act like she fell great. She slept okay that night, but by the next day just wanted to be held, and eat all day. She continued to throw up, and I wondered if she had gotten some kind of flu from the kids bringing it home from school. That night I debated about taking her in to the doctor, but she finally slept so we waited til morning. The next morning, which happened to be Richs' birthday she woke up and just started coughing and couldn't stop. She tried to cough some more, but there was so much mucus in her throat it just created giant mucus bubbles. (sorry, probably more than you wanted to know.) By that point I was scared, and Rich said if you are worried just take her in. So we ran to insta care, where they ran every test, for pnemonia, RSV, influenza, and everything else. Sure enough it was RSV. They started her on some breathing treatments, and she didn't even move, she felt so crappy. Then they took her in for xray.
Sorry the pictures are not the greatest because they are off of my phone. They stuck her on this bicycle type seat, and told me to hold her arms above her head. Then they bucked this tube around her. By this point I just feel terrible for her, and Leah is with me, so she is starting to worry about her baby! Brylee didn't even cry, she just sat there. The technician said, it would help if she would cry so that they could see her lungs better in the xray. By about the 4th of 5th she started to fuss, and they had gotten what they needed. It just broke my heart to leave her in there.
We ended up bringing home a nebulizer and did breathing treatments every 4 hours for about a week. Rich and his dad gave her a blessing that night and she started improving so quickly. I was just so grateful that they didn't have to hospitalize her. She was back to her happy self completely by about 2 weeks later. I am so grateful for amazing friends and neighbors, I had friends showing up with food and dinners and treats for me!! They brought Brylee sweet little toys, I am always amazed at how generous people are. It helped so much. I am grateful for everyone that helped us, it made life a lot easier that I could just focus on my baby!!

SLC Trip

In the middle of April, we were sick of the crappy Cache Valley weather, so Rich and I joined my sisters and their families to SLC. We stayed in a hotel and went swimming, and then the next day shopping!! We hit IKEA, Costco, Target, and had a lot of fun. It was nice to enjoy some weather besides SNOW! We went to a mall down there, and there was carousel, and a train right in the middle of the mall. The train took them all around the store, they enjoyed it.
Abby, not so much. She was feeling a little too old for such things!!




It was a nice few days away, I had fun picking out new dishes and bedroom stuff at IKEA, and the kids enjoyed just being able to run around.

Brylee overload!

In no particular order, these are just a bunch of Brylee the last few months. At 7 months, she had just started sitting up by herself!!

We had just gone on a walk to get the kids from school, we were outside for about an hour total, it was very windy, and cold. But the sun was shining. Brylee had a jacket with a hood and blankets. Well, apparently there was a little of her that saw some sunshine. She got the worst sunburn, that turned purple, got blisters, and then scabbed over. I felt terrible, it didn't bother her a bit. It just was kind of funny that she only had it on about a quarter of her face.You can see it under her right eye here, this is after the blisters went away, and it started scabbing.
She loves to chew on stuffed animals, especially when they are the big sisters!!
At six months, daddy took her and pierced her ears, She hasn't been bothered by them at all.
At about 5 months, it was her first time in her walker.
She found her toes!!
I just love this one of her, she is just about 6 or 6 1/2 months.

A Surprise

The first of March, I wanted to do something fun for the kids, so I told them I had a surprise for them, each day I would give them a clue about something we would do. It was even a surprise for Rich. We started by going to Smith and Edwards, and Rich got himself a nice new pair of shoes. (Early birthday present) Then we ended up at the Mayan Restaurant. It was a lot of fun, the kids loved watching the divers, and we were close enough for a good seat, but didn't get wet. Then we went over and visited Grandma Perry. Rich thought that we were done, but I still had one more trick up my sleeve. I had brought along one of my sisters, and she watched the kids for me at Grandmas house. I told Rich we had somewhere to go, and we were off. I told him to head into downtown SLC. Where we ended up at a Jazz game! Thanks to a good friend, we had great seats on row 19!! It was a great night, and was a lot of fun to see him be surprised.


Playing on the tank at Smith and Edwards.

Brylee Jo

I LOVE Abby's face in this one, it just cracks me up! Brylee is just growing up, she is such a good baby...even though she is quite the mommy's girl right now! She loves her sisters and brother, and gets so excited when her daddy comes home from work.

This is when we brought out her highchair, and she tried her first real baby food, she loved it!!
All covered in food and cookie, but still just so cute!!!

First Grade Program

This is from Nathan's first grade program back in February. It was so cute, All the classes were dressed in different patriotic outfits. Nate's class was Abraham Lincoln, so they were asked to wear black pants and a white shirt. They all sang songs and had parts. It was the best program I have ever seen for Elementary school, I was so impressed. My pictures aren't the best, because I was on the wrong side of the gym for his class. My favorite class was the Statue of Liberty, their costumes were too cute! Nate worked on his part for months, he had it memorized inside and out. He probably could have repeated it in his sleep!

Four Wheeling

I was informed it was time for an update! Thanks for missing me!!! So, I am going back to where I left off. Here is Abby and Nate playing during our endless winter.