My poor little Tater!

My poor little Tater has yet been hit again with illness. Yesterday he woke bright and early. When we went into his room, he was burning up (103.5). All day on Saturday we were piggy backing Tylenol and Motrin, but still couldn't get the fever lower than 101. Tate loves his baths, he had three to try and cool him down.

We had planned a big day of yard work, not all to many days left to get it done before the weather turns. My mom came and held him for a couple hours or so, while we weeded, cleaned out trenches and tried to finish the sprinkler system. I hated to do this when I knew how crappy he felt. Thanks MOM!!

Today, around noon we both decided it was time to get him looked at. We went into the insta-care and of course the wait was a couple hours. Tate was beside himself so we drove to another insta-care, and on the way there......I saw the throat. BRIGHT red and white spots all over, there was tons!!! No wonder he wasn't eating. I just kept blaming this all on his ears, cuz that was the problem last week....it's so hard to know.

Anyways, the strep culture will be done it a couple days and who knows what the verdict will be. I think this is just some crazy viral thing...just to add on the list of adventures he has had in his short little life. We love him so much and it is so hard to see him go through these dumb and silly illness.

A miserable, great time!!

Our ward campout was this last weekend and we had a miserable-great time. We had great plans of camping a lot this summer but with Aaron breaking his foot, it made it pretty hard...so we never made it. The ward camp out came along and we thought that it would be fun to go!! When the week approached Tate got a bad ear infection and was up all night, all week. We still thought that we could try it and it would be alright. We went up with our fun friends the Holtens and we set up our tents in a spot far off from the other ward members...cuz we new that Tate would be crying a little. (Sorry Holten's) We set up around a fire ring, so we could have a fire later in the evening. Aaron and Chris made the best tasting dutch oven potatos and bbq beef, that I have ever tasted in all of my days. Angie made a mean peach cobbler and I sat back and watched!!! SWEET!! We ate and then went over by where the rest of the ward was visiting and eating smores. We enjoyed the company of all of the great people in our ward. Sometimes it is fun to get out of the church atmosphere and just be smelly and dirty. We of course were one of the last to leave that fire ring, but Tate was sleeping so soundly in Aaron's arms. It was around midnight and we headed to our camp spot, and Aaron and Chris wanted to make there own fire. I hit the sack, while they sat around the fire and chatted. An hour or so after, Aaron and Tate came into the tent and all Heck broke loose. We should have known that Tate wouldn't want to cuddle in the bed with us, he has never done that before. He is a great crib sleeper. Aaron and I were up till 2:30am tring to settle down our not so happy, ear infec. son!! I was at the point of packing up and heading out....but I was afraid that I would get lost going home. (I did hear others did leave in the middle of the night...I wasn't the only one thinking this) Finally we did get Tate settled in the middle of the bed and then Aaron and I tried to slowing get on the air mattress on each side.....tring not to touch him in any way. He did sleep for a couple hours and then the whole thing started over again. I just couldn't wait till morning to come. Finally it did and Tate was just the happiest little boy in the morning....mommy and daddy totally exhaused!!! The ward made a great tasting breakfast in the morning. Everyone in the camp just packed up and left and we stayed and visited with the Holtens, played horse shoes. We were the last to leave the camp ground. This was a beautiful oasis, with grass, tree's and pretty much everything you could ask for. Next year they are going to have it in the same spot. We are looking forward to a better nights sleep. So to sum this all up, we had a GREAT time visiting with friends, we ate yummy yummy food, but we slept crapy!!!! Ohhh well we made up for it when we got home by having a three hour nap!!!

Party time.... a success!!!

Thank you to all that came to the Fashionablee Flirtee party!!! The open house was great!! It was always busy and lots of sales! A big thanks to Brittnee and Ariana, the bows were SO cute and I really enjoyed being a sales clerck selling my bracelets. We had a great turn out of lots of great friends and neighbors. If you missed it and would like to order...see last post for email and/or blog spot sites.

If you were so lucky to have been there when the LUCKY camera came out, you might see your beautiful face!

The hard core shoppers!

Ohh there you go Susanna you made my blog!! You are cute too, JEN and ALISSA (WITH BABIES..TOO CUTE)

The always darling Ariana!!!

The "good people" making purchases.

AHHHH too much of a close up of me, good looken' Danielle!


The kids even having a good ol time in the drive way!!



Thanks again to all!!!! (it was fun Brittnee and Ariana)

Fashionablee Flirtee PARTY TIME!!!

It is time for a fashionablee flirtee by charee party!! This bracelet party is going to be on Tue. Aug. 26th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm ***OPEN HOUSE*** at the McClellan home.(first come, first serve) A table will be set out for your viewing/selections. Brittnee Neal will also have her darling baby and girl hair bows/bands available to buy. Ariana G. will have some smaller hair bows for baby's and girls. Come and go as you please or sit awhile and visit and enjoy drinks and snacks!

Visit www.fashionableeflirteebycharee.blogspot.com for the link to see bracelet's and www.bugsbowtique.blogspot.com to see bows and more....that is what is in store. Visit www.bowsandthings.blogspot.com for more cute bows.(or click on my side bar for each)

Thanks and hope to see you there!

**if you are unable to attend at this time and would like to see. e-mail me at chareebmc@gmail.com and we can work out another time.

Boys will be Boys!!

Great times with our friends Mike, Megan and (Tate's favorite) Blake. We spent the other day up at 1st dam for a little dinner. We were to go up farther but a mix up with the dams. The boys especially Blake loved the "big birds"...I am not sure what they were. Goose? Anyway and then last night we had a BBQ is the drive way, while Tate and Blake took a swim together. They swam great until the steaks were done cooking and then heck broke loose. It was pretty funny cuz they are very mobile now and can get in and out, and we were constantly running after one or the other...the whole dinner. Oh well we tried and it was still a great time. Thanks Whitesides!!

My sweet little Tater Tot!

What a hot lookin' couple!

Birds..birds, crazy birds!

Good ol' froggy pool! Tate and Blake are buds!

Escape artists!

It's what fun is!!!

LAGOON!!

Yesterday, we went to Lagoon with Alpine Cleaning. We had a blast! I was a little hesitant at first with Aaron's broken foot, but it turned out great!! The lines really weren't all that long and we really enjoyed the water rides with the heat. I was soaked!!! We had a buffet dinner and then hit the rides just before home! (Thank you Cindi for watching Tate.....so Aaron and I could have a fun filled day with friends and ourselves.)

Oh and Aaron wouldn't let me push him around in a wheel chair, he did just fine with his crutches with no pain at all!! His buddies were really funny, they all loved saying "come on gimpy" OR "hurry up slow poke". They were really sweet though and would grab his crutches quickly after the rides for him.

The ride WICKED, was Wicked. We loved this ride....awesome!!

Pretty sad when all I wanted was a nice picture of the guys at Lagoon and they couldn't even get off the PHONE!! Dang it!

Aaron's buddies!

The wondrous wives!

What?.... we wore the same shirt??!!! Crap!


Updates from the last week or two!

Aaron, Tate and I hit the Cache Valley Fair this past weekend and Tate sure enjoyed the crowds and animals.


Aaron enjoyed the animals also!!


We went with Grandma and Grandpa Barfuss up the canyon for yummy tin foil dinners and smores. We love the canyons and all of its beauty!




Girls day out in SLC!!! (and Tate) We enjoyed the day of shopping, eating and loving every moment with sisters and mom. Love you guys!

Learning how to walk!

Well bet you were thinking this post was going to be about Tate learning how to walk???!!! Well he is very close, and has done a bit by himself. But...... this post is an update on my hubby. Today was yet another follow up and yes another co-pay (that makes around $150.00 or more in co-pays...these could almost about kill us....oh well.) The doc said great news......Aaron is about to learn how to walk again. The X-rays looked good, they couldn't see any cracks anymore. He is to slowly over the next 2 weeks, learn how to walk with crutches. (and then get rid of the crutches after that) YAY!! And even better he doesn't need to wear the boot anymore. This is a slow process, cuz it has been 7 weeks and his calf muscle is pretty much the size of Tate's. He has lost lots and lots of muscle. BUT.....looking at the positive the other leg is huge and very toned from all of the hopping around. So the moral of the story is I will have 2 boys in my household, learning how to walk at the same time. YIPEE! No, I am very grateful for the wonderful news and I am VERY excited to go on real walks with him and get going on our yard work again. We are soooo close.

As a funny note, tomorrow we are going to Lagoon, with Alpine Cleaning and Rest. and guess who gets to get pushed around in a wheel chair??? Should be loads of fun!!!

Yucky foot!!! ALMOST ALL BETTER!


Remember these days with crutches?? They are almost over......YAY!



Soooo long, old friend!!!

It's not easy being green!

The other day I was wearing lime green and Tate woke up and I was looking in his drawer for something for him to wear. I saw lime! I thought it would be fun to match. We took some pictures and thought it was great and dandy......till we went to Sam's club, Shopko, and Walmart. I then noticed people smiling and whispering with there friends and family. Oh look at the mother and son, they are matching. HEE HEE HEE How precious!! Very embarrassing!!!