Utah trip!

All the grandbabies dressed up for Remmington's birthday party.

Up at my sister's property.

Thanksgiving point

Family pic! We were going to do everyone but Mikey couldn't come.

I took a little trip to Utah from Wed-Mon. I had 3 free tickets and since Mikey quit his job to go out on his own I thought now would be the time since we're not dirt poor yet :-) I have 3 siblings in Utah and my other sister and I planned it so we would go out there at the same time and my mom joined us over the weekend so we all got to be together. It was so fun! We did Cafe Rio, Kneaders, Paradise Bakery, the chocolate, brunch at Sundance, Wingers, Gardner village and Thanksgiving Point. Can you tell we love food? ;-)

Jocelyn turned 5

I can't believe Jocelyn is 5!!! Really? 5? You're in Kindergarten? She is doing great and excelling in school. She's a huge help with the other two kids and I'm am SO thankful for that! I love her!!!!! We had a princess party and had 17 five yr olds over! (I didn't think so many would be able to come!!)Holy moly. Jocelyn had a great time and I was glad it was over :-)

This baby!

Have I told you how much I love this baby? Well I do! SOOOOO much! She is so sweet, smiley and even tempered. I just love it! I never knew a baby could be so sweet! A little angel from heaven. Thank you Grandma Tony!! Seriously she is so much easier compared to my other two. Night and day compared to Evelyn! Oh Evelyn, she is still so difficult. The terrible two's are seriously terrible with this one. I spoke too soon when I said I was glad we didn't give her away! J/K...kind of. Do you think Ev is going to develop a complex if she reads all of this? Hopefully it's when I'm old and don't care ;-) Love you Evie! Is that better?

Please excuse her blurred out girl part. I couldn't resist posting the pic. She loves jewelry and certainly adorned herself in it. This pic speaks so many words to me. Leave me alone while I play on the ipad mom. She is trouble. I am scared of these girls as teenagers. So scared.

Baby shower fun.

There have been sooooo many babies and pregnant women in our ward the last 4 months, I swear I've been to a baby shower twice a month for the last 6 months. Two Saturday's ago my friend from DC was having a baby shower. She now lives on the peninsula and some lady from hillsborough was throwing her a baby shower. Heidi has a special place in my heart. One reason is because when I was pregnant with Joce and didn't know anyone out there yet, she threw me a baby shower.

Well, Hillsborough is a very confusing place. It's on a huge hill and at every stop there are like 5 forks in the road. I left 30min early because I knew I would get lost. And get lost I did! I finally got back on track and saw some lovely blue balloons ahead of me. I pulled over to the side and was about to check my gps to be sure when a man came up to my window because they had hired a limo service to drive people up their very steep driveway. I asked if this was for the baby shower and he said yes. Wow. Nice!

So I get Roz out of the car and the limo/bus thing takes me up the driveway. The lady throwing the shower comes out and I tell her I know Heidi from DC and she says great and we chit chat a little. I'm one of the first ones there since I was 3 mins early. She leads me through her house which is GORGEOUS! Hillsborough is a very weathly area. Holy smokes there's was a catered lunch and everything. Anyway, I start talking to some other ladies and get Roz out of her carseat. I've been there for about 10 min when the lady comes back in with some more people. I go up and ask her how she knows Heidi and she tell me she doesn't. "Oh?" I say, "You don't know Heidi and you're throwing her a baby shower?"

"No." she says

"Heidi Kershaw?"

"No."

Giant pause as I am completely embarrassed and realize...

"Oh, my gosh! I think I'm at the wrong baby shower!!!"

hahahaha. Oh. my. gosh!

I tell her since I said in the beginning that I know Heidi from DC that would have done it then and there but she said her daughter has a friend Heidi who is coming and didn't think much of it. What are the chances that there would be two showers at 12pm both for baby boys with a heidi? Seriously? So embarrassing. So I tell her, obviously, I need to get that shuttle back to my car! As I'm getting out the girl who's baby shower it actually is gets out of the shuttle with a whole bunch of people and the mom starts laughing and telling everyone I was at the wrong baby shower. Oh dear.

Yes, I finally made it to the right baby shower that was 1/2 a mile up and around the corner and tell everyone there the story. We had a good laugh. I mean, what's the point of having that stuff happen if you can't share it, right? Story of my life.

Hospital time!

Little miss Evie had a fun-filled 2 night stay in the hospital Monday and Tuesday night. It all started the week before when she started running a fever. No big deal but then a rash developed along with some horrendous puffy, red eyes. I took her to the doctor that Friday after the fever didn't go away for a week. They gave me some antibiotics and told me to call if they didn't work by the time the weekend was over. It didn't, so I made an appt with my doctor for Monday. She examined her, made me take her to the lab and draw some blood and WAIT for the results to come in. After being there for 3 hrs (with all three kids by myself) I finally called Mikey and told him something weird was going on. He came right when the Dr came to let us know that after talking with a couple dr's they decided they should admit her to the hospital for possible Kawasaki's Disease which is life threatening if not treated. AH!

So we took her over there, by this time is was about 6pm, and they gave her an IV(sad!!) and then the Pediatric surgeon came to talk to us and examine her. He said since her temp wasn't over 101 anymore that he wanted to run some more tests before giving her the treatment since there are possible side effects that come with it. We did X-rays and some more exams and then they just wanted to monitor her until the next day. Her lab results were weird so they decided to do an Echocardio but the cardiologist could come until the next morning which meant another night in the hospital, yay! (not). She got more blood drawn Wednesday morning and the Echo done. Her heart looked good (kawasaki's affects the heart) so they said we could go home and would let us know how the blood tests they just took turned out. They came back looking like everything was going back to normal! And to come back next week to get her blood drawn just to make sure everything was back to normal.

We are so grateful she ok and SO grateful for everyone who helped us out those 3 stressful days. It was scary that she had a fever that long but we're so happy it wasn't Kawasaki's!

Santa Cruz, 10 yr reunion and first day of school

First day of school!

My friend and her son. They're in the same class!

Enjoying the Dole Whip

Evelyn was not into the rides. Poor thing.

We've had a lot of fun this past week. We went to Santa Cruz and ate a lot of food and played on the beach for a bit. The main thing that got us down there was that we found out that there was a Dole Whip stand on the boardwalk. I LOVE Dole Whip. It was one of my favorite things when I lived in Hawaii. Jocelyn had fun going on all the rides and playing on the beach. We also went to 6 flags but I forgot my camera. Jocelyn went on all the "big" roller coasters that her height allowed her to. I also had my 10yr reunion and it was fun catching up with old friends. Last but not least, Jocelyn started Kindergarten! What happened to my baby? There's no turning back now and I'm sad! I didn't think I would be but I am. Maybe I will hold her back! wah wah! I want her to be 18 months again. I must admit I was a little bit more sad packing up all my newborn clothes since there will be no more babies. I might have shed a couple tears :-( Where is the time going?

Happy 2nd Birthday Miss Evie!

The cake I made.

Evelyn wouldn't blow out her candles so Jocelyn had to help. Those trick candles threw her off and she had to concentrate really hard :-)

Sunday Evelyn turned 2!! We headed up to Mikey's grandparents house and my mom and grandparents met us there. Mikey's dad and sister Cat came too. We had a nice dinner, opened presents and ate lots of cake. Evelyn enjoyed opening all her presents and Jocelyn was such a sweetie helping her and never getting jealous at all. Evelyn loves carebears, running after her sister, cuddling, dancing and singing. She is such a sweet little thing, though, tantrums have been in the mix lately especially at bedtime. We love you so much and we're glad we didn't give you away when you were a horrible, colicky baby like we thought about doing :-)