Valentines 2010

We love every holiday around here, it helps to mix things up a bit. We tend to do the same boring stuff everyday. So to celebrate valentines this year we got a babysitter and Daniel and I went out to dinner and a movie. I wish I would have remembered to take pictures because we never get to do that and it was so nice to take a night off with my LOVE. This was like the 2nd time ever I have paid to get a babysitter. We usually just always take the kids where ever we go or my mom has been around. But it was very nice and I think the kids did great. Then we woke up the next morning and celebrated with the kids. Emilie was loving every min.

Here are their valentines from mom and dad, usually I would put them outside the door but Daniel for some reason thinks that is weird...to leave a valentine and knock and run. That is what we used to do growing up, was it just a Bunkerville thing????

Getting excited to open them
Emilie was in love with her favorite candy ever 'chocolate'

Emilie got chocolate and pink pancakes with chocolate chips

Eastons face is so funny in this picture

He got some chocolate covered animal crackers

Mom and Emilie (sporting my sexy glasses and a huge zit)

Dad and Easton (My 2 love bugs)

Emilie asked if she could take her chocolates to her room, and we gave in a said yes. She was back there a while and we figured she was downing the chocolate at 9:00 a.m. so we snuck up on her with the camera and this is what we found

Not too bad, only 3 missing

Then the kiddos received a valentine from G & G Bartlett. Boy do they love mail.

Cute little letter and Easton already at the suckers, Emilie got more candy and some diapers and bottles for her babies. Thanks mom and dad!

Later that day Emilie took some valentines to some friends and the kids got a cute little valentine from Grandpa Paul & Grandma Cleo Vandyke . We had a good day. I love my little family and for me valentines is kind of extra special I kind of think of it as Our Anniversary more than our wedding date, because we met a couple of weeks before valentines. We were not quite sure if we should get each other valentines but we both did and soon after we said 'I love you' to each other. So I have now known Daniel for 7 years, and I have never loved him more than I do now. He works so hard to do well in school, its tuff and he has to study all the time. But he makes sure to spend time with the kids and me. I love ya honey.

And I think I forgot to mention this is our other posts, But Daniel got his rotations for his last year of school, starting in June. And it worked out to where we get to move home in December 2010 and he will finish from Jan-May 2011 in Kanab and Hurricane. We are super excited about being able to move home and finish up there. YAY, we are so glad it worked out for us to have all 3 electives back home and in a row. He will have 3, 6-week rotations. So pretty exciting.

Are my kids going to be sick ALL winter?!?!?!?

So I thought I needed to update, we don't have anything too exciting going on. My kids have been sick since we came back from Utah. Easton still has pneumonia he is not getting over it very fast, its viral so they are not too worried but I would like it to be over with. This past week everyone in the family was sick. I don't think moms should ever get sick. It is the worst to have to take care of sick kids along with being sick yourself. And then your husband is just as needy as the kids sometimes ;) I cant imagine how moms that have a serious illness do it. I think maybe this could be on my list of things to talk about when I die. But moving on, we have had just a simple laid back week.

This picture is of Emilie under the covers. She was supposed to be cleaning her room, but she thought she was hiding from me, so picture her sitting up in the bed under the covers. I go in to see if she had cleaned and she was just sitting there, I went and looked under the covers and she had fallen asleep sitting up, so I ran and got my camera but by the time I got back she had fallen over. But I thought it was so funny that she had fallen asleep sitting up and hiding under the covers.

(Side note: Emile does get dressed, but for some reason when I decide to take pictures she is in her pj's still) This is her getting her valentines stuffed and sent. She was so excited to get started, the minute she woke up she wanted to start. I had to convince her to eat breakfast first and then get started.
She signed her name stuffed them and licked them
Emilie has been so funny and cute with Easton lately. She loves having a little brother and wants him to play with her all the time. She has a huge personality and I wish I was better at writing down the funny thing she says, but I'm not very good at remembering. Lately when she has been getting sent to her room she cries and talks to herself, and says things like...'I cant listen' 'mom is mad at me' 'I miss my grandma' 'I want my dad' 'I don't like mom I love dad' 'your not my friend anymore' it just makes me laugh she is drama 100% of the time.
This past week when I was sick I layed Easton down and told Emilie to come into my room and I turned on the TV and tried to take a nap. Emilie never stops moving and was driving me crazy, she was rolling on my legs, jumping on the bed, touching my face, climbing in and out of the covers with me and is just so fidgety. So I said, Emilie get out, go watch TV in the living room. (At this point I didn't even care if I could hear what was going on out there or not) So she cries and walks out and Daniel walked through the door. So then she really let the tears flow and he asked why she was crying and she goes. 'Momma freaked out on me'. We were both just cracking up that she came up with that.
Daniel is helping me think of things to write, sorry if you are bored. But I need to write some of this stuff down. Daniel and Emilie went to the store and he got a candy bar. He gave Emilie half and he had half. But Emilie was worried about me and that they didn't get me anything. So Daniel said, mom can have some ice cream at home. When they got home Emilie told me that she got a candy bar and said that I could have some ice cream and then proceeds to say after she had eaten the candy bar all gone. 'Mom I don't like chocolate I want ice cream' This is coming from a little girl who LOVES chocolate and picks that over anything. It was so funny how she thought that if she said that she could totally get some ice cream too.
She loves watching scary and intense movies/shows. Daniel and I were watching 24 and she started watching it with us. And the whole time she was saying, 'this isn't scary enough'
She is such a little boss, probably got that from Daniel. :) If we don't do something for her right away or if we tell her about something we are going to do more than an hour before it happens she starts freaking out and says 'we can't ever ever do it again' 'no one will play with me' at this point I'm sick of the drama and say call grandma...So then grandma gets to hear it all :)
Well I think that is good for now, just wanted to share a few things about our cute little Emmy. Moving on.....
Daniel has a nursing home patient he has to go see and evaluate every week. The drive is about 20 min. So the kids and I hop in with him to get out of the house. Easton was being cranky so I had a sucker still the the wrapper that I handed him. By the time we got to the nursing home we looked back and he had gotten the wrapper off and was having a good ol time. I loved it and he was soaking in the sugar. He was trying to share with Daniel.
Now back into the mouth
This is what we did to kill time while Daniel was in there.

Emilie said take one of me and the car

Then she starts posing. haha and rockin the monkey pj's

This one so so funny

Easton had to have his turn

And the 3 of us having a great time...I love Eastons blue mouth.

A Trip to the ER

So we have had quite the crazy and eventful week. The kiddos got better from the previous sickness and then Friday Easton woke up with a temp. but not very high. So I kept him on some Tylenol all day and it wasn't going down much. But by the end of the night he was at 103.6 and still wasn't going down. After much contemplating we decided to take him into the ER. They ran a bunch of tests and we found out he had a bad ear infection and pneumonia. The pneumonia was small and in the early stages but he did have some. So he had to spend the night in the hospital. He was given 2 huge shots of antibiotic and had to sleep in a croup tent and had breathing treatments every 3 hours. I am so glad that I took him to the ER instead of wait to go see his Dr. We don't have the greatest Dr's out here and when you do find one that isn't Indian and speaks English I still don't like him. I think he would have just diagnosed the ear infection and we would have never found the pneumonia and it possibly could have been worse once found. Anyways, we are home now and he is doing much better. Those shots have done wonders, he went back to the Dr yesterday and he said that his ears are looking great and have improved a lot. Now we are just trying to catch up on some sleep. Here he is in the ER.

I'm trying to make a sad face and take the picture, not working too well. And it was 4:00am
Here he is in the Croup Tent, he slept in there good. But he had to wake up a bunch for more testing and breathing treatments.

Emilie and Daddy came to visit and give Easton a blessing. Emilie of course was all over the place. And this was this morning, he is doing better. Still very congested and not sleeping well at nights. But we have a happy boy for the most part. He loves the camera, he gets such a cheesy smile and tilts his head back when he knows his picture is going to be taken

Sick Kids!!! The Longest Day Ever!

Where to start...Easton and Emilie are both sick. It all started towards the end of last week, which means they most likely caught something on the flight home. Grrr. But they both have 2 totally different things, I hope so bad that they don't just swap their viruses. Easton has had a Cough and Runny nose. I took him in last Friday because I was worried he might have croup. Without the Dr being able to hear the cough he couldn't diagnose him too well, so I left in frustration. Easton had begun yet again to sleep through the night and then he gets sick. He keeps waking up coughing so much, I worry that he is not getting enough breath. But everytime I go check he seems to be doing ok. This is a picture of him yesterday trying to take care of 2 screaming kids, I had already wiped his nose 5 times while trying to get Emilie to eat something, finally I had to document this with a picture.

This is him this morning, he still is congested and is coughing all night but seems to be in a better mood.

Then Saturday night Emilie becomes cold, shaky and lethargic with a 102 temp. She as been laying in her couch/bed for 2 days. After I took that picture she goes 'mom I smiled good.' I feel so bad for her, she never gets sick and doesn't know what to do. She keeps saying mom what are we going to do, I cant be sick all day. She has never been sick like this. Before she would like throw up and then keep playing and running around. Luckily she hasn't thrown up but she just hurts. I looked at the back of her mouth yesterday and it was all red and pussy. So I thought great, her fever hasn't gone away, maybe she has strep. So I called to see if she could get into the Dr. They said bring her in I called Daniel to come home from school so I could have some help, I go in to comb through my hair and freshen up a bit and I found THIS!!!!!

WHAT THE FREAK!!!! Yes that is a GRAY HAIR. So to top things off I found that in my head, I was so bummed, but had to move on to get the kids to the Dr. Daniel ended up not being able to make it because he goes out to his car and his tire was completely flat. So I haul the kids to the Dr's. While waiting in the waiting room a kid sitting behind us pukes all over the place, just over a over. Really wanting to run to the other side of the room and gag along with sanitize every part of my kids and I, I didn't what to make the poor grandpa who brought the kid in to feel bad. So I get up and go find some paper towels to give him so he can wipe his mouth and got someone to come clean it all up. So I am really hoping we don't get that bug also. But anyways, to move on with the longest day ever. We see the Dr, he said Emilie has a good case of Tonsillitis and takes a strep test. Proceeds to tell me that its going to take 24 hours. I was thinking there is no way, I have had strep many many times and they have been able to tell me within 10 min before leaving the office. So he said OK well we can do a rapid test which takes an hour. Still, that means we have to go home wait and then if she has strep go back out to the pharmacy and get the antibiotic. It is the most inconvenient and impractical thing I have ever heard of. Anyways, so we left and went home. Called an hour later and they said it was negative. Which is good but means we don't get an antibiotic so we have to let her little body work through whatever she has. I hope she starts feeling better today, but yesterday was so long and I was so ready for bed by 6. Easton got up a few times last night and Emilie crawled in bed with us at some point in the night and I woke up to her breathing right in my face, mouth wide open. I really hope I don't get what she has. Anyways, I hope every ones day went a little smoother than mine did.

Happy New Year 2010!!!

I have been working on this post for what seems like forever. For some reason I can not get one of my videos to upload, I have tried a couple different times and let it go for hours with no success. So sadly I don't get to show you the video of Mark and I on New Years Eve racing in the snow bare foot. Daniel and Carol chose not to participate in the fun 200 yard escapade. But I do have proof on video that I did it and boy was it cold. So here are a few pictures of some time spent at the Gilbergs on New Years Eve.

Daniel and I just after running in the snow we had a lot of fun playing rook and agonize.

You cant really tell in this picture but my feet were bright red

On 2 different days we took advantage of sledding in the snow. This picture is so funny. We had the sled hooked up to the 4-wheeler and Mark thought he and Daniel could ride together. haha ya right!

So then we pulled 2 sleds around. Emilie loved it, her and I rode on separate ones for a while. And then it was time for some fun. Daniel and I had some good wars trying to push each other off. It was a lot of fun being pulled by the 4 wheelers.

Video of Mark and Daniel

One of the Gilbergs neighbors had the perfect driveway for Emilie to go sledding. She loved it and asked again and again to keep doing it. I pulled her up and down the street and up the hill about 25 times, then Daniel got dressed and came out to help. She had a blast

Here is a video of all her adventures

And last, this was just before leaving Kanab. They went on a walk and both fell asleep before our long trip to vegas.