12 Year Anniversary!!

This year marks our 12th year Anniversary!! What a fun 12 years it has been. Of course there are ups and downs and trials that make us stronger...but we LOVE each other to the core...and that is all that matters. We splurged on our big day by going out to eat at Chili's and then an AMC movie. These theaters have recliners for each and everyone to sit or lay on. DANG was it nice! No other way to watch a movie ANYMORE!!! ha ha! We enjoyed each others company without kids for a change. We could talk without being bothered. ;) It was a great evening. Of course we loved going back to the boys afterwords as well. They are our life our marriage as well! Happy 12!!!

Valentines 2014!!

This was our first Valentines in Davis County, and it was just great! The night before the big day...my dear friend Cheri Robinson came and did a cupcake demo at the Clinton City Rec for me. I volunteered to be in charge for some weird reason! ;) I have been going to these classes with some of my new friends from around here. It's a great way to get out in the winter time, for free! :) They are informative and fun! Cheri was so great up front teaching us and helping us afterwords on our own. Ours were just not the same for some reason. We had a good time goofing around.

Valentines day!!! In the morning we surprised dad with a whole bouquet of edible flowers. Me and the boys had an enjoyable time making them for him. I made the boys pink, heart shaped pancakes and gave the boys some super sour candy binkis! It was funny to watch them lick them. :)

I am room mom for Tate's Kindergarten class this year and am in charge of all the class parties. I had four moms come and help do different activities for the kids. They all had a great time and it is always great to have it over with and done. :) (Davin came and enjoyed in on the fun as well!)

Tate brought home a lot of fun Valentines from his class. Davin did as well. His party was the day before tho.

That evening we did our annual family Valentines picnic on the family room floor and a movie! We watched the Vow! It was all enjoyable for us! Even the boys and Dad wrestled afterwords too. We LOVE holidays! Until next year.

Happy VALENTINES!!

Sisters weekend 2014!!

It is that time of year again that all us girls got together for a sisters weekend out and about! It was awesome! Each year we think it can't get better...and it always does. We laugh so much. It is great for us to get away from all the kids and hubs for a couple days and just girl it all out! We eat lots, we shop LOTS and this year we added an 'off broadway' play! It was called SORT-OF the RINGS! (Spoof of Lord of the Rings!) It was super cheesy but of course funny. We really enjoyed ourselves. I have a bunch of pictures on my phone that I still need to upload. These gals are fun to live by now, but I still don't see them all that often since we are all busy with our own families. This was a blast, can't wait til next year! Sure love my sissssssssssssssers!

Davin got C-diff! :(

Our sweet lil Davin sure has had some tough issues in his short little life. This last month has not been any exception. It all started a few weeks ago when he had a bad ear infection. He was put on antibiotics at that time. A week of so later he started with extreme abdominal pains, diarrhea, which then added fever and he was super pale with sunken dark eyes. This continued about 9 days...and we just couldn't figure out what to do for him. He was down right miserable and so were we. Sleepless nights were wearing on us all, and the doctors weren't sure what to do with him as well. Finally we brought him in one last time and they sent us to the Emergency room for blood work and an ultrasound. They sent us back to the doctor afterwords. The doctor got the US back and said that his appendix had probably burst and his blood work was through the roof. He was needing surgery ASAP! We asked if we could run home to get things in order and grab some extra clothes, they said NO, it was too risky to wait. Surgery was needed now! Since he is so small for his age, they decided to send us to primaries. We thought that was a great idea since they deal with a lot more kids his age. We took off to PMC. Mom was a mess! No mother wants their baby cut into. :( When we got there they decided to do more tests and re~test the ultrasound. THANK GOODNESS!! They are much more trained and skilled and knew a lot more what to look for. It was NOT appendix whatsoever! UGH and SIGH! They were really concerned about how he looked, felt and the extreme dehydration from so many days on end of diarrhea. He was in bad shape. They drew more blood and tested his poop and figured out that he had C-diff! (The antibiotics from the ear infection a couple weeks ago killed all the bad AND good bacteria in his tummy!) They admitted him to get the pain, dehydration and blood levels under raps. We thought it would take a little while, but it turned into days and nights. Davin wanted daddy with him there. I went home and cared for the other two since I know the school schedules/routine in general better. It killed me to not be with Davin too though. So hard when you want to be in two places at once. Aaron took lots of pictures and sent them to me. It helped. When they finally thought it would be ok to let him go home, they were concern that he kept fluids still going since he wouldn't have an IV anymore. He was sent home with a lot of pain meds, flagyl, and probiotics to build up his body again. He had a couple episodes where he got super pale again and looked like death. Scared us, but he was ok. What huge ordeal I tell ya. Not fun, but so glad that his is ok now and his happy old self. Sure love that little boy and will do anything for him.

Checked into Primary Childrens Hospital.

Feeling so miserable. This pain had gone on for too long!

A few days into it. Pain meds going strong = smiles! :)

The brothers were so happy to see each other again. Tate was not himself and was really missing his brother. This visit was the best thing for them both.

Momma sure loves her little Davin! He didn't even look like himself.

Primary childrens hospital is so awesome! They gave prizes, played games and spoiled him like crazy. Pretty much made him feel like a million bucks during his stay. Tate was a bit jealous. We kept telling him, it's not all that great with pokes and up all night with doctor and nurse checks. ;)

Tate and me made WELCOME home signs for Davin! We just couldn't wait for him to come home!!! He was feeling pretty good (still need some pain meds for awhile) but soooo much better!!! YAY!

The bishopric, family and lots of great neighbors were so kind to text, call, and bring by treats! It was very nice of them all to care and give so much concern! Hope this doesn't happen again though. :)

Davin's field trip!

Davin's cute preschool goes yet again on a field trip....and this time it is to the grocery store! He was so excited to go and loved it the whole time as well. They visited all of the departments and learned about how they all worked. It was cute to see and watch the kids.

January blahhh!

January has always been the most boring and blah month of the year. It really is hard to have such a high during Christmas and have nothing a week or two later....So we try and fill in the gaps and get out. Well, this year the illness has been going around like crazy so we get out when we can, but have to be careful not to get all the fun germs at the same time. We took the risk and went to the mall to get out and to let all the cousins play together. They have so much fun! It is so cute.

The boys also are loving going out to play in the snow. They are old enough now that they go out and play for along time too. Sooo nice! Mr. Snowman was built along with two more. Tate built them and I decorated them...and Zip ate the carrot nose about as fast as well. Ha Ha!

 Date nights are always nice to get out and maybe get away from the kids for a minute...(did I just say that?) Love the kids, but need a break at times too. Dinner and treats!! Mmmmm!! Fun times with the hubs and our besties!

New years Eve and New years Day festivities! 2014!!

New years eve we decided to take it easy this year. We normally are party animals but due to the funeral right after Christmas...we needed to slow it down a notch and let the kids sleep. We were bummed because we had numerous invitations to super fun homes...BUT you do what you gotta do. It still turned out super FUN though. We had a little New Years Eve dinner with the kids before they went to bed. They thought it was great. After they were snoring logs, my sister Cindi and her family came over to hang the night away with us. We had lots of chip dips and drinks. YUM! We watched a movie and played a game before the clinking of the glasses along with the ball drop! It was a great and enjoyable night!

The kids New Years Eve dinner!

The Smith's came to play!

Happy NEW YEAR 2014!!!

I will be up all night peeing after all the bubbly!

New Years Day was SUPER duper fun! We were invited to our friends "The Robinson's" for a huge breakfast! It was super delicious.  We then hit the Surf N Swim in Layton. It was our first time going and we all LOVED it! We will be going a lot more, that is for sure. The evening we went over to Robinson's again for pizza and to play "just dance" on the wii! It was hilarious! What a blast of a day to start off the New Year of 2014!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! 2014 will be GREAT!