Loving baby

Ethan love his baby cousin Kyler. Every time I hold him Ethan is right there wanting to hold him and help feed him. He will try and give him his binky and just loves looking at him. He is 100% Not jealous of this baby which I thought he would be because he loves to have all of the attention. But with Kyler, Ethan just wants to be around and help with him.

Not fun!!!!

For the last 2 1/2 weeks we have been dealing with something like hand foot and mouth. They didn't get rashes on there hands or feet but has sores in their mouths. 2 1/2 weeks ago Ethan woke up from a nap with a slight fever. By that night he had a fever of around 102. The next day woke up with a fever about the same and wouldn't eat. He would put his hands in his mouth and say ow. When Matt got home we held him down and looked in his mouth. In his throat he had sores all over that looked like cankers. So we took him to the Dr and they told me he had coxsackievirus which is the over all virus that causes a whole bunch of different things. The treatment for this was let it run its coarse. The next day he wakes up with sores in his mouth and on the outside of his mouth and still a fever. His gums got really sore and would bleed like crazy if you barely touched them. He had a fever for a couple of days and still has sores on the outside of his mouth that are now almost healed, His gums still slightly bleed when we brush them. Overall I think Ethan did pretty good considering the sore mouth. I had 1 canker and thought I was going to die. Not really but it hurt like crazy, so I can't imagine what a hole mouth full would feel like.Then last week Trey came down with the same thing. While Ethan was sick Trey kept drinking out of Ethans sippy cup. We would tell him all the time not to but I think that just made him want to do it more. I think Trey had a harder time then Ethan. He had a fever for 5 days that was between 101 and 103. Those fevers really did it to him. We would give him medicine and he would be fine for a while but you could always tell when the fever was kicking up because he wuold look like death warmed over. He would sit on the couch with glassy eyes and bearly move. Then he would take a nap and Trey doesn't take naps. He got horrible sores on his tounge and the corners of his lips. His gums also were sore to and bleed as soon as you touched him. This poor boy has lost 3 pounds because he can't eat (good thing he is such a solid kid that it didn't really hurt him to loose that much)You can tell to. Today is the first time that he is even really eating without a problem and its only a cupcake. He would cry because he wanted food and everytime he tried to eat it his mouth would bleed and he would cry. Milk and ice cream were the only things that he would eat.

New Do

Last week I went to visit my great friend Bonnie for a much need hair cut. I told her I wanted something new and this is what I ended up with. I love it. It has been 10 years since I had bangs. I am getting use to them but I really like it. She also gave me some blond highlights. Before I got my hair cut I told Matt to be prepared for something new. As soon as she was done cutting it and I got in the car I called Matt and told him I was a sexy momma. Its amazing how different you feel when you get a little change in your style.

Not the best picture of me but you get the idea.
Trey took it.

I also use to use cheap hair spray and always complained about my hair never holding. So I bought some hair spray from her and I can't tell you the difference. My hair actually holds. I can actually have my hair do for two days and only do a little fix the next morning. I can't believe I waited this long to buy good hair spray!!!

Bunk Beds

This is the boys new beds. For the last 2 weeks Ethan insisted on taking a nap on Treys bed. At night he would sleep great in his crib. So we figured he was ready to move into a big boys bed. We knew we would eventually do bunk beds, but figured why not now. This bunk bed was actually Matt's when he was little. Matt added some wood to cover the frames and made the ladder, and also gave it a new paint job. The boys love it. Ethan goes to sleep great both for nap and at bed time. Once in a while he will get out but for the most part no problems. He did fall out of bed the first 2 nights so we put up a side rail but he still managed to fall out on night. But over all this has been an easy transition.

mowing the lawn

I was reading my friends blog and she had written about how she mowed the lawn for the first time(way to go) which reminded me of my lawn mowing experience I had not to long ago. Growing up my dad loved to take care of the yard (he still does). We had an immaculate yard. I never had to mow the lawn or ever pull weeds. No I wasn't spoiled. That is what my dad loved to do and plus we never had weeds seriously. I do remember going over to my friend Jill's house to help her pull her weeds just so she could play sooner. So anyways in my new house we have weeds and lots of them but that is a story for another day. Back to the mowing the lawn. Matt always is the one that takes care of our yard. I have mowed once or twice but have always done a horrible job by leaving strips of unmowed grass. So Matt ends up fixing it. Since
Matt is hardly ever home anymore and when he is he has so much going on that I decided that I would mow the lawn. On day in particular I was mowing the lawn, I couldn't get the dang thing started, it look almost 5 minutes to start it. I wasn't pulling it hard enough. So finally I get it started and its going great. I was mowing away and I had mowed 3/4 of the front yard when all of the sudden the front wheel falls off. I call Matt and asked him what to do, he tells me so I fix it or so I thought. I start mowing again and the dang things falls off again. After about 15 minutes of trying to get the wheel back on I finally did and as soon as I was done the neighbor leans over the fence and asks if I needed any help. Now he asks! I finish the front and moved on to the little strip that on the side of the drive way. I am almost done with that and I have 2 strips left and I run out of gas for the mower and we don't have any in the gas can. I called Matt and told him I was done. I am to scared to get gas in the gas can I am afraid of blowing up. So the lawn had to wait until Matt came home and could go get gas.

4th of July

The 4th was a lot of fun. We first woke up at 6:00am to get ready to go to Delta to spend the first half of the day with my family. It is a tradition to go to Delta every other year and have a big family party. We go to the parade and then go over to my sisters house and hang out do kids crafts and then go to the demolition derby. This year we went to the parade and then to my sisters for a few hours to eat and have the kids do some crafts and then we had to leave. The rest of my family minus one brother and his family stayed and went to the derby. We had to head home because Matt had to work. Luckily for me Matt's family was hanging out in Layton. While Matt went to work I went to hang out with Matt's family. Matt cousins little girl was born on the 4th so they have a little party and a BBQ. Matt's work was so slow which we knew it would be, (Who's going to order pizza and the 4th.) but it was mandatory that he worked. He only delivered one pizza . So he was able to come over and hang out with us. When it started to get dark the kids did sparklers and then everyone went to what the big firework show.

Every year Delta had the fighter jets do a fly over. My mom was worried that we wouldn't be there in time. I assured her that if we missed it that it would be ok. We see fly overs every day 2-3 times a day or more. But we made it and it was still awesome to see. I was a little caught of guard I had my back to where they flew in from. After these 4 plans flew over a big refueling tanker (i think thats what it was) flew over head and really low. I too see these on a regular basis but never as low as it was that day.

Waiting for the parade to start. Grandma made cute little bags to put all the candy in and there is a lot of candy. I think some of the adults-I won't name names had almost as much fun as the kids with the candy.

Getting glow sticks before the big firework show

I have some better pictures but my other camera battery is dead and the charger for it is in Mexico for another week with Grandma.

June

June was a busy but fun month.
First we started with a trip to Logan for a wedding.
The next day I went to Cedar with my sister-in-law to visit my parents and to let the cousins play. We had a lot of fun. They had water fights, played at the park, played at their cousins house, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows in my parents backyard. Saw my friend Susy and let our kids play. (pictures of this weekend are coming)

Us at the Logan Temple

Then we had my friends from Omaha's come and visit a couple of times. This is her little girl.

Trey and Cameron

For Father's Day e tried to make Dad breakfast in bed but we weren't fast enough. Dad got up just minutes to fast. Treyson got to sing with the primary the prelude music in church. After church we went to visit with Matt's family. Heather came over for a few minutes and visited.

Hanging with Bonnie and her kids at the Gateway for Bon's birthday.

Visiting the zoo multiple times

We have been swimming with friends and with Matt's family. These pictures are at Kearn's when we went swimming with Matt's parents and Ron, Marcelle and LeStar.