life on the move

      Not really a whole lot has happened since my last post. I feel like we are stuck in the middle of moving. Because of some unforeseen circumstances it looks like we'll be here until may. :(  Not really our plan, but we feel confident that things will work out. 

     we are getting ready for Halloween.   Alex is going to be Clark Kent and Superman, like he's in the middle of changing.  Paige is going to be a bumblebee.   Elijah is going to be Batman. Isaac is going to be Robin.  Brett and I are going to be villains.  I have made most of their costumes. I really like homemade costumes. I think they look way cuter than store bought. Plus I try to make them around regular clothes so it's also warmer and much more comfortable.  for a bonus it also ends up cheaper I spent about $60 on four full costumes.  (Brett and I are just wearing masks.)

    when I was pregnant with Isaac my hands swelled up over night.  I had to have my wedding ring cut off. I had exhausted all other options and it was cutting into my finger.  this last weekend I was able to get it fixed. I am so happy to have my ring back on my finger.

    here's a quick update with how all the kids are doing:

Alex: he is in third grade and doing so well.  he is playing soccer again. he has high hopes for football but we'll have to see.  It makes me a little nervous. his sugar numbers have gotten a lot better with the pump.  he is learning to read food labels properly so that he can have a snack whenever.

Paige: She started kindergarten this year. she has the same teacher Alex had which I am super happy with. She is an amazing teacher.  She is still in dance and she absolutely loves it.   She loves drawing and performing (aka being center of attention).  She tells us that she wants to be a news reporter when she grows up.:)

Elijah: He is almost 3. We started potty training again because last time it just wasn't going well. I am glad we waited.  He is doing really well. I am hoping to start a little preschool with him soon I wanted to start when the older two started school but my plans didn't go well.  I will probably just do one or two days a week.

Isaac: He has so much energy. He just wants to explore everything he's not supposed to touch. He has definitely been keeping us on our toes.  He is so cute getting older.  He has started to play more with the kids. oh and we got a cat Paige named him Tom (as in Tom and Jerry).  Isaac absolutely loves him he likes to pick him up any time we go out. he even feeds him if his food dish is empty.  it's so cute.

pics:  Isaac in the swing. Elijah with the bandages he insisted he needed for nothing. Paige at the skate park. Alex in some new school clothes.

what's happening?

I'm not really sure when the last time I posted was, so this is what you get. 

We moved in with my (Erin) in-laws.  we are saving up to get into a house.  I am really excited.  we have been here since the beginning of April.  hopefully everything goes smoothly.

Alex officially has an insulin pump.  he loves it. it makes snacking a lot easier.  there are still difficulties with it but for the most part it is a lot nicer than shots. 

Alex also got baptized on June 1st.  it was really nice. everything worked out really nicely.  I was really glad that Brett was able to have the day off for it.

Paige is starting kindergarten in the fall.  she is so excited. we did home preschool throughout this last year.  she has done really well.

Elijah has started his first day of potty today.

p.s. the picture is Brett and Alex at the baptism. I'm using an app so I'm not sure where the picture shows up.

New talent??????

          Last week in church we had a meeting for all the primary teachers.  We got our new books for the new year.  Brett and I were a little sad when they moved us from junior primary to senior primary.
          I was so nervous all week. The senior lessons are a bit less self-explainitory. But I got it all planned out and made some cute hand outs. I even made a handout with the primary theme for the month.
           We got to church right on time. Our goal was ten minutes early, but with four kids and church at nine, I think we did good getting there right at nine.
            Our lesson went pretty well.(I should note that sacrament is last, so we went right to class.)  The kids did good and participated well. 
             On our way out a member of the Bishopric pulled me aside. At this point I knew I was getting released.  I had been in primary for nearly four years straight.
             After informing me of releasing me,  he extended the call of ... releif society pianist.?.  I was just thinking "what ". He must have read my mind because he quickly assured me that I did not need to know how to play as all I would need to do was push a button on the piano,  and choose music.
           I was released and sustained that day in sacrament. (They really mixed things up.  A lot of new callings.)
           I am way nervous.  The only calling I've had in nearly 9 years of married life has been in the primary.  Plus I don't know how to play the piano. 
          I feel a little bit like I'm being forced to grow up.  Primary is so simple. You really get the simplisity of the Gospel. I feel like it helps to remember that life really isn't so complicated.  We make it that way. 
          I will miss the primary. We have a really great presidency that made things easy for the teachers.
           Brett is also a little nervous. He hasn't really ever taught primary without me.  But he will do great. 
          I've decided that this may be a good opportunity for me to learn. I would really like to learn to play the piano. I feel that it would help me better in this new calling.  I mean what if this fancy button pushing piano doesn't work right one day?  Or they decide to sing in sacrament?  I just feel as though this is a good time for me to expansion my talents.  I guess that will be my new year resolution.

          On a completely unrelated side note,  Alex will be getting an insulin pump in February.  :-)  and Isaac took his first step about a week ago.  He's only 10 months old.

That's about all for now.:)

With love,
Erin Mecham

Paige is 4

My little princess Paige turned four on sunday! We had a party for her on saturday. It was a lot of fun it was a pinkalicious party. First we read the story then we colored pinkalicious pictures. We made wands it was a lot of fun. For her birthday she told everyone who would listen that she wanted lots of stuff for her birthday, and that is exactly what she got, lots of stuff, barbie's, hair things, coloring books, a very pink scooter, a stick horse, clothes....the list goes on. She is definatly loved! She had a lot of fun! She has been talking about her birthday since last April asking when it's her birthday and so I think she's finally satisfied with her birthday! :)

Isaac Charles Mecham

Isaac was born on February 29th 2012 he weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz. And was 21 inches long. We are very happy.

Here's the story: on the 28th I woke up and had an extremely hard time walking i was so sore! I am sure this was the baby dropping. Throughout the pregnancy I was having Braxton hicks contractions and they were about 10-30 minutes apart nothing I couldn't manage! With these developments we were sure we would have the baby by the end of the week! On the 29th I felt the same as the day before we went about our day Brett went to school and then took alex and Paige to the school's dr. Suess night. When they got home my contractions were a lot stronger and about 8-10 min. apart. At about 10:00 p.m. we decided that we needed to go in regardless of how close the contractions were so we called to have the kids picked up by the time my parents got to our house (about 20 min later) contractions were 3-4 min. apart. We left for the hospital and got there about 11:15 they got me all set up and I got an epidural:) then the on call dr. Checked me and I was ready to push so he broke my water he said my regular dr. wouldn't make it in time and in two pushes he was born with 9 minutes to midnight! :)

Here are some adoreable pictures of our handsome little man!!!:)



just after birth





ready to go home

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daddy and isaac



busy life!!!

Wow i have not posted on our blog in a really long time! 

Here is a Quick up-date from last june to about october:
Alex started first grade! 
Paige is learning to write her name!
Elijah learned to walk!
Brett is going to USU Tooele extention!

In october our life got really busy really quick and it takes more explaination!  so here it goes:
We noticed that Alex was going to the bathroom a lot and knew that it wasn't normal and so we decided to get him checked out by a doctor!  We were thinking that he probably had a urinary tract infection and they would give us a perscription and we would be on our way!  Well the got a urine sample and came back in and said that he had glucose in it, so they needed to check his blood sugar levels ( I still didn't think anything of this because i have had this happen to me with pregnancy)  then they began to ask if he'd been eating a lot, drinking a lot, acting more tired and a whole lot of other things that were all things that have been happening we just didn't ever make any kind of connection between them.  When the doctor came in to talk to me he said he blood sugar level was in the 460's  (it's supposed to be between 80 and 150 for his age)  My was in shock!  then he proceeded to tell me that he thought he was type 1 diabetic!  I was in complete shock!  The diagnosis would have to be confirmed by an endocrinologist(i'm not sure if that's spelled right)  Our doctor sent us to Primary Children's Hospital for this!  We went and picked up brett and headed in to Salt Lake!  When we got there it was confirmed after about an hour and a half, that he had type 1 diabetes!  We were then admitted into the hospital so that we could learn how to take care of him!  He was starving at this point because we went to the doctor's right after school and it was now between 8:00 and 9:00 at night and he hadn't had anything since lunch at school (that is at 11:30 for him)  They had to get him some insulin before he could have dinner so we had to wait for the pharmacy it ended up being around 11:00 before he could eat.  I felt so bad for him, he was so confused.  After that we all just went to sleep.  I worried about him all night!  ( i still worry every night)  Then next two days we spent at the hospital learning everything we needed to know to take care of him!  We were actually lucky that we brought him in when we did because he wasn't nearly as sick as most kids are at the time of diagnosis.  They said he had mild to no dka, which i still am not quite sure what it is, I just know that it was a good thing that he didn't have it.  Before we gave him a shot ourselves we practiced on oranges with saline!  We had to give him a shot ourselves before we could leave the hospital!  This was the hardest part for me!  It made me sick! ( I sill dread giving him a shot everytime!)  He has been so brave!  He has never once complained about shots, checking his sugar, or how his life has drastically changed.  He is the toughest kid I know!  The day after we got home was a friday and his school haloween party so we went to school and got things started to get him taken care of at school!  We found out that his teacher was a nurse in the military, so that has been a huge relief that if something goes wrong in class there is someone from the medical field there all the time!  (the school nurse is only there 2 days a week)  It took a lot longer than it should have to get him taken care of at school (because of the nurse) but we got things worked out the way they need to be(because of the principal:) she was a huge advocate for us)  Things are still hard and i don't know if they will ever not be,  but we are managing!  I know that we were prepared for this situation even though we didn't know that's what was happening,  looking back i can see how we were prepared!

Shortly after all of this we found out that we were expecting #4 at our first appointment the dr. did an ultrasound he said "you've got a big baby in there"  we are due March 8th 2012! 
So there is quite a bit going on right now!

Oh and last night alex lost his first tooth!  I think paige was more excited about the toothfairy coming!  Alex got up early before us and was so excited to show us what he got from the toothfairy! :)  It was a lot of fun and we took pictures that i will put up when i get them downloaded (or uploaded i don't really know what the difference is)

-Brett and Erin Mecham

vacation

on Thursday we head out on our vacation to the Tetons!  I am excited!  I think no one is more excited than Alex though he has had a count down for a while!  This is really our only vacation this summer.  We are going to idaho for matt's wedding in july but we wont really be doing much sight seeing that will mostly be just get up there do wedding stuff and come home!  It should be fun though anyway!  I have never traveled for a wedding before!=0)  We have a lot planned though anyway for the summer just around town!  We want to take a trip to the zoo and go to Kennecott for a tour!  Hopefully we can get in a few trips to the pool too!  Then we have holidays and birthdays in july!  For the holiday's i am making paige a dress!  I am really excited about it!  It is the cutest fabric!  I am really excited for brett's birthday he turns 30 this year!  He really doesn't want a party but i have something else planed.  I don't think he like it either but i think he'll hate it less than a party!  I don't think he's to excited to be 30!  That's pretty much our whole summer in a nutshell! :)

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Today is Alex's birthday he is 6 years old!  I can't believe how fast time goes by!  I feel like it was just yesterday that he was born!  He is the sweetest kid that i know he takes such good care of his siblings i love to just sit and watch him be the best big brother in the world!  We have had a lot of fun today even though it hasn't been the best weather.  For his birthday he got some water balloons and sidewalk chalk and a new scooter!  The weather was nice for enough time today to ride his scooter and play with a few water balloons but when he went to try out the sidewalk chalk it started to rain so he had to come in!  On Wednesday we are going to have cake and icecream with grandparents and then Friday we will be having a party with his friends!  He has been really excited about the party!

Last friday alex graduated from kindergarten!  It was so much fun!  they did a really cute program!  After we went to mc donalds for lunch and then we went bowling.  Alex really liked bowling.  He did pretty well too!  Paige lost intrest about half way through the first game.  We also played some of the arcade games they have there!  Then we went to Check out the new JoAnn's store and discovered  that it's not really a fun place for kids but i did get some super cute fabric to make paige dress for the 4th of july!  Then we went to home depot and got a push mower (something we should have gotten 6 years ago when we first moved in)  Then Brett and I we exhausted.

These last few months have been very busy and have worn both Brett and me out!  It has been fun though.  Alex has been playing T-ball again this year his team is the orioles.  It has been a lot of fun to watch his games!  Next year he will be able to do machine pitch.

We have so much planned for this summer i am so excited!

Pictures of Elijah!!!

Elijah Brett Mecham

our baby is here and he is adorable!  He came on tuesday morning at 4:44 a.m.  He weighed 7lbs. 9oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long!  After he was born he was trouble breathing.   at first the doctors thought it might be some amniotic fluid in his lungs but then they looked at the x ray and found some air inbetween the inner lining and outer wall of his lungs they call this  pneumothorax!  This can cause the lung to colapse!  To get the air out they had to put a tube in and just suck it out!  The dr.s decided that it would be best if he was under close watch by a neonatologist just in case more air got in!  sooo,  he had to be life flighted to primary children's hospital!  He had to have an oxygen because it was making it hard to breath because he could not expand his lungs fully!  They put an iv in to give him some fluids and medicine just in case of infection!  By wed. morning they were able to take the tube out and he was moved from The NICU to the Infant unit!  We were able to stay with him there!  On thursday they told us he was doing well enough to come home!!!  We are so grateful to have our little boy here safe and sound!  There are so many people who helped us in this hard time and we are thankful for the gospel that it has given us the priesthood!  We will get pics up soon!

kindergarten

Alex starts kindergarten on Tuesday!  I am just a total mess about the whole thing!  Alex is so excited though we have even been marking the days on the calendar!  On Tuesday he had his assessment and they said that he did good!  our neighbors were able to see the class list for their son on Tuesday and we found out that him and alex will be in the same class!  His teacher will be Mrs. g.  that is what she is called because she has a hard last name and  i can't even remember it!  They will post official class lists today!  I am curious to see who else is in his class!  If there is any that were on his baseball team!  On monday they do a kindergarten tea party where they get to meet there teachers and parents come too!  Then tuesday is the big day!  Yesterday we went school shopping and discovered that we should have probably gone a lot earlier!  Almost all the stores were cleaned out in his size it was so hard to find him a nice shirt for the first day of school.   Although we did end up with 4 outfits when we only intended on one!  He also got an outfit from his grandparents!  He also got a haircut yesterday!  I told Brett i was just going to tell them to give him a missionary haircut!  Brett thought that was funny!  I don't get it!  but Alex looks good!  He is definatly ready for school to start!  Alex will be afternoon kindergarten because that's when the bus comes!  I know that everything will be fine but that doesn't make any of this any easier! 

we're having a baby

Well since i haven't written in our blog for quite a while and i haven't yet announced this I thought now was a good time!  We had the ultrasound yesterday and we found out that we're having a BOY!!!  I am so excited!  I am due on November 23,2010!  That is two day's before thankgiving!  Things have been going pretty well!  here are some ultrasound pics!

sunday stuff!

hi!  i decided to change our blog from st. patricks theme early because i was getting tired of all the green so i made one that has some green in it and also helps to celebrate our anniversary!  The temple on there is the Jordan river temple which is the temple we got married in!  Our anniversary is on the 19th so it's pretty close to the holiday!  I think this works well for both!

Yesterday was a very interesting day for us!  When i got to church we only had one kid in our class!  he ussually cries but this time he didn't i was so glald!  Then we were just siting there listening to all the talks and stuff and he turns to me and shows me this little bit of skin on the top of his finger that was coming up a little!  It didn't look sore just like it would maybe catch on something!  He says to me as he is showing me "i think i need to go to the doctor!"  i told him that i thought that he would be okay without going to the doctor!  Then he proceeded to tell me that he needed the doctor to give him a shot for it! I thought it was so funny!  I love teaching the sunbeams!  they say the cutest things!  

Earlier that morning before church brett went to pec meeting and the bishop asked them to join the ward choir!  Our ward is in desperate need of male voices in the choir!  So brett joined the choir!  I would have liked to go as well  but they meet at three and that is right during paiges nap time so just brett went!  Our ward now has a total of 5 men in the choir!  Brett is very excited to be in the choir!

baseball

we signed alex up for baseball last week!  I am really excited for him to play!  he will be in tee ball!  i think it is so much fun to watch these little kids running around playing ball!  our neighbor is coaching and so we are going to request him!  We would have requested him at the time we signed him up but we didn't know he was going to be a coach then!  I think it would be fun if he got on that team because he plays with that neighbor's son a lot!  The games start in April!  We don't have a schedule of when the games will be yet because they need to get the teams assigned first!  They said we should hear from the coaches by about the middle of march!  I don't know if alex other friend that they play with is going to play baseball but if he does that would be so cool if they got all on the same team!

In other news for our family,  we got our washer and dryer!  They are whirlpool and they are really nice!  They look fairly new!  It has on it accuwash, which keep the water at a certain temperature so the clothes will get clean better, and the dryer has accudry, which sends a little sensor through the dryer to detect any moisture!  and we got them both for only $400 i think that is an amazing deal!  They really work great and i am glad that we were able to finally have a good set and they match!  I think we got most of the features that we were looking for in a washer and dryer!  The only thing we would have liked is the low agitator in the washer but that is a pretty new feature in washers so i kind of didn't expect to get one with it!  I don't think we would have got one with it even if we got a brand new one!  i was ready to compromise on most of the features we wanted so I'm glad that i didn't have to give up very much!

We also got an ipod!  We got the one Brett wanted!  it's an ipod touch!  It's a lot of fun but we only have two songs on there so far!

Today is alex's doctors appointment for his kindergarten checkup!  I am a little nervous about it!  I hope that this appointment will help calm a few of my nerves!  I think that another thing that will help is when we  go in and register him!  i think the rest of my nerves will just have to be worked out in time!  Like when he actually goes to school in the fall!  Wow just saying that gets my stomach all tied up in knots!  After his appointment we are going down to the health department to get his birth certificate!  Then we are going to get a strong box to keep it in!

hello

wow a lot has happened in the new year and most of it wasn't really what we wanted!  But I know that it is how things are supposed to be!  

For valentines day weekend we went to my brother's house in st. george to help him get his life back in order!  My dad was there already he came with Matt and then we followed my mom and my cousin Chelsea   We had a pretty nice weekend the only problem was that i think we may have gotten spring fever! :( then we had to come back home to this stinky cold weather!  and it really was stinky!  there was a smell coming from the salt lake when we got off the freeway!:P it was yucky but luckily we couldn't smell it from our house!  I had a lot of fun going to the outlet stores!  I found one of those things that you put olive oil in that's really cute!  It's hand painted with sunflowers!  it doesn't really match my kitchen but neither did the other ones and i have been wanting one of those for a really long time!  It's a smaller one but i think it will be good for our needs and now i don't need to choose the olive oil i buy based on the container it's in!  And it was only 5 bucks! :)  I have already got my oil in it!  Anyways!  On valentines day we had a bbq!  We has steaks and fish!  Melissa's friend Bonnie Kay came for dinner!  It was really a nice dinner and it was really yummy!  We had strawberry shortcake for dessert!  It was really good!

On Friday we got our tax money!  I am so excited because we are going to get a washer and dryer!  things will be so much easier once we get it!  We are going to get a refurbished washer and dryer from a place called best appliance!  We also will start potty training once we get it because that will make potty training so much easier!  

Next week is kindergarten registration!  I am so nervous!  There is so much we need to do for it!  We have a dr. appointment scheduled for next tue. at 3 and we still have to get his birth certificate!  I just don't feel ready for him to go!  I know that he is but it's just that i'm not ready!  It's kindof like when it was getting close to the due date and i just wanted a little more time to get ready but un like this i wanted the baby out!  With this i would rather he just start going back and be my sweet little baby boy!  I just don't want him to grow up, i want him to be a toys r us kid, just kidding!  It is kind of exciting though but i still have a lot of questions!  This will also put a lot more responsibility on my part as well!  I will have to make sure he gets up and gets off to school i will have to make sure he is getting his school work done!  I will have let go and hope that i have taught him well enough that he will be respectful to his teachers a peers!  There is a lot of pressure with going to kindergarten, luckily it's on the parents and not on the children!  Alex is so excited to go to school!  I hope that he will continue to enjoy school!  Also this spring we are going to get him signed up for T-ball!  I am really excited for that!  It is so much fun to watch those little kids out there playing!  If you are low on entertainment and really need to get out go find a local t-ball game!  I've also heard that this little ones in soccer are great for that too! :)

Well that's all for us for now i think!   I don't think things will be slowing down anytime soon for us so i guess we will just have to get used to this new busy lifestyle we have!  I think it just comes with the kids!  I'm sure after a while we will get used to it and it will feel like we slowed down and then something else will be added to make us busy again!  Judging from my parents things don't ever slow down they just get busier and you just have to learn how to manage your time!

Love the 

Mecham's

thank you!

i would just like to say thank you to all those who prayed for my sister in law and my brother and their daughter dayna!  Prayers help so much!  Thank you also for the prayers for my family and helping us to get through this difficult time in our lives!  I know that things will still be hard especially through out this next year,  but i know that with the Lord's help we will be able to make it through and that one day we will be with melissa again and that she is happy where she is and is doing great things!  Thank you!

a blog for melissa

http://matt-melissashepherd.blogspot.com/

Here is a blog that my aunt created for my sister in law! It has a lot more details about the accident and has post with updated information about her condition!

please pray!

Everyone who reads this please pray for my sister in law melissa . Matthew my brother has been staying at the hospital day and night. Anyone reading this that doesn't know what happened Melissa was in a terrible accident in their Expedition early Monday morning near the utah arizona border.

They, Melissa and Dayna her daughter  were on their way to take their 17 year old foreign exchange student to Las Vegas to the Airport when Melissa over corrected and rolled over two lanes and landed on the drivers side of the vehical.

Melissa was life flighted to IMC on 5300 S. and taken into surgery immediately due to the massive head trauma. Dayna was hanging by her seat belt and Niko, the foreign exchange student helped her out of her seat belt. They survived with only bruises and scratches. Melissa is in critical condition and needs everyones prayers. Thank you all and May God Bless you also.

thanksgiving pictures

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christmas

Well thanksgiving went well!  Even though all we made was rice crispy's that didn't even get put out!  On Friday we went to Wal-mart!  It was okay but the little coats that i wanted to get paige they didn't even have any before the sale even started because they never got the shipment in and it took forever to find an employee who knew why they weren't there!  We got our Christmas stuff out later that night and we set up our tree and put the lights on and the garland and that was as far as we got then it took us clear until today to get the rest of our Christmas stuff out and all set up!  All we have to do now is get presents and go to all the various parties that we have next week we have a party on Friday and then 3 on Saturday!!!  Then the next one that i for sure know when is will be on the 26 and that will be with my brother's and sisters!  There is two on brett's side that i am not sure when they will be yet but we will see i guess!  Brett's sister Hollie usually does something on Christmas eve at her house and we usually go up there!  I think that most of our shopping that needs to be done we are going to try to go in to salt lake and get it done because there is only so much you can do at wal-mart and we are really tired of going there!  We will probably take the kids into salt lake one day to see the lights and all the things going on in there!  I would like to go to Christmas Street again this year but we will see how things go!  We definatly will stay busy but i think most of it will be fun!  hopefully we can get all our shopping done in one trip!  That's the goal!  On sunday we will be going to Seth and Jessica's daughter Serephim's blessing, then after the blessing we will go up to spanish fork for a family fireside that my grandma meldrum does every fast sunday!  It is supposed to be a special christmas one!  Cassi and I are going to have our kids sing picture a christmas for it!  and any of my other sister's that come can have there kids sing to!  All i know is that it will for sure be my kids, well probably just alex and cassi's kids!  Merry Christmas everyone!

more pictures

I had to put these pictures in a different post because they did something wired in the other one!!!

Before church on the day of his first primary program!!!

Paige dressed like a princess for church

The kids love going to church they get so excited

  

 

silly boy!

Seth and Jessica's new baby, Seraphim

2 weeks old

Alex and Paige at Seth and Jessica's house!

pictures

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primary program

Today was alex's first primary program!  He did really well!  We are so proud of him!  He got up and said his part so loud!  He even memorized it!  He knew a little bit of each song but the song they did the best with was a family is of god!  I love that song it has a really fun tune and it is fun to sing but it made me cry during the program!:(  oh well!  Through the parts of the songs he didn't know he just would open and close his mouth to make it look like he was singing!  I couldn't see him though becasue I was sitting on the other side with my class!  He ended up sitting by his friend so they were talking and being goofy almost through the whole thing!  Most of the sunbeams were being silly and having a hard time sitting still!    It was a fun day and i was happy to see that he wasn't too shy to get up and so the program!  We have been trying to encourage him to be a little more outgoing in primary by raising his hand for questions and volunteering when they need someone!  I think he has come a long way!  Hopefully this will help him to not be shy in school!  After church my parents came over for dinner!  We played a couple games and then they went home!  Brett's parents were going to stay but then his sister was having a birthday party for our nephew in park city and so they just decided they better get down there for that so they don't get home to late!  I think that things went well!  I am so happy that alex had a fun day as well even though i didn't get to buy him a new outfit like i wanted to but oh well i will get one for thanksgiving soon enough and i will be able to buy one for paige to so double the fun!

update on the flu

Well Paige is doing a lot better now than she was just a few days ago she has only coughed when she wakes up yesterday and this morning nothing throughout the night and nothing during the rest of the day! I think it's very exciting because i have been starting to feel like a hermit staying inside all the time!  Alex still has a cough but that's all he has had!  We will probably still stay in for a few more days just to make sure things don't get worse and to make sure she is completely better!  then when we do start going out i think we will probably just be going over to some one elses house or something or to the store!  I have been pretty impressed with how well she has done with this because alex got the type a flu a couple years back and he was really sick he had it all and was down and out for a like three days with really high fevers!  When we got him to the doctor his temp. was 105!  it was crazy high!  Paige's highest temp was 100.8!  We probably wouldn't have even taken her to the doctor if the swine flu wasn't going around!  But we thought we should get her checked out!  It's always better to be safe than sorry!  Esspecially when it comes to your kids!  I would definatly rather take them in to see the doctor and them tell me everything is fine than to have all the worry about whats wrong and end up with aner visit or worse!  I am so glad that she is on the road to getting better i think i will still worry for a while and i still need to watch her to make sure she doesn't get that infection from it so we are still watching her very closely!  We are watching alex too because he has had a cough but so far that is the only symptom he has had so i think that he is okay for right now!  In other news my best friend Jessica had her first baby on October 30th at 6 am they had a baby girl who weighed 7 lbs 7 oz (that's the same as alex!!!) and was 20 inches long they named her seraphim (it's a bible name) and i can't remember the middle name but i know it is russian!  It was i think her birth mom's name or middle name i can't remember!  I am so happy for her i think it is so exciting!  I want to go see the baby so bad but i don't think it's a good idea right now because of poor little paigey right now!  I would hate to be the one responsible for someone getting sick esspecially a new little baby!  I am so happy for Jessica and her husband i know they will be wonderful parents and will be the cutest little family!

The flu: type A

Well Paige has the flu! It is type A!  When they said that my first thought was " oh good it's not h1n1"  Then they said that h1n1 is a strain of the type a flu and that she probably has that strain!  So i thought that there were 3 types of flu but still there is only two!  I don't think that she has it to bad because a couple of years ago alex had type a flu and he was A LOT worse than she is!  This puts a huge damper on our halloween plans!  She may or may not be feeling well enough to go out on sat.  If she's not i think i will still dress her up anyways and take her picture!  We will still be able to do some things like paint pumpkins and decorate cookies just no parties!  They said that it is highly contagious so keep her away from other children!  We will need to watch her close to make sure it doesn't get any worse because the flu can cause her to get a bacterial infection that would need to be treated with anitbiotics!  So i think if we just keep a close eye on her and keep her indoors we will be fine!  We already have been staying indoors for the most part and we kept both kids home sunday so i don't think that we have been spreading it really to much!  The only thing that i am really too concerned about now is Alex getting sick he had a cough last week but hasn't really coughed much since last week so i will just watch him and his symptoms and make sure everything is going okay!  Well that's really all the news for now i hope that paige will do better at least to go trick or treating around our neighbor hood!  We'll see!

first day in nursery

Well yesterday was paige's first day of nursery!  I think she did pretty well!  When we first got thier she was really clingy to me and so i took her in a little further and showed her a little toy and she just kind of looked at it and then i just said good bye and left and she didn't cry at all and then between classes i looked in the little window to see how she was doing and she was sitting there and smiling at one of the teachers so i think she will do pretty well in nursery!  I was a little nervous that she wouldn't do very well and would be crying the whole time!  With paige i knew that it could go both ways because of her personality and i think we ended up with the best case scenario!  It was a very busy Sunday for us so i was relieved!

costumes

Well we have the kids Halloween costumes Paige is still going to be a lady bug but we had such a difficult time finding a cute lady bug costume that didn't cost $20 or more we decided just to go for making our own!  I think it will work out pretty well she has a red shirt already and so we got her some black sweats and a black jacket and then we got so of that material like what you put under a skirt like!  I have noticed that a lot of people have been making like little toutou's out of it so i thought that would make a cute lady bug skirt but to buy on already make was like at least $12 so we went and looked at the fabric and it was only .77 cents a yard!!!  I was shocked there was no way i was going to pass that up so we got some!  Those people making those little toutou's are making a bundle on them i couldn't believe it!  For the little antenna's we are just going to fix her hair into two pigtails right on top and then spray her hair with the black spray!  We don't have wings yet but i think we can just get a wire hanger and some nylons and some black paint for the dot's We just have to find the wire hangers and then wal-mart has some knee highs for .33 cents and i have paint so i think everything will workout well for her!  

Alex decided that he didn't want to be batman anymore and we went through an array of other ideas and then at wal-mart we were looking for stuff to piece together alex a costume too!  Then we saw some football jerseys and i asked him if he wanted to be a football player and his face just lit up he was so excited so that's what he is going to be!  It was the only thing he got this excited about!  so he picked out the color of jersey he wanted and we got him some sweat pants and we have a long sleeve shirt already that will look good underneath and then all were going to do is get some black make-up and put the lines under his face!  I think I'm more excited about him being a football player than batman!

As for brett and me we still don't have anything for us for halloween  but i'm not really to concerned with that!

the holidays

i am so excited for this i feel like these last two months we kind of got a little break for our family from all the business july brought!  Now it's time to get in full swing again with the holidays!  I love being busy!  First up halloween which i love because i get to dress the kids up it's so much fun i get to go shopping and be creative and it's like my kids are part of my decorations =)  i love dressing them up for all occasions i think my absolute favorite is thanksgiving it's like a great big dinner party that the whole country is having all at the same time!  For halloween paige is going to be a lady bug and alex is going to be batman and his cousin emily i think is going to be catwomen!  sweet!  We'll have to get their pictures if it all works out!  I am way excited!  Brett and I don't ussually dress up but i think that i might get some of those little head band things that are cute and wear i don't know what brett will do!  This year we let alex pick his own costume and he only mentioned superhero's before he decided on batman!  So far he has stayed with his decision!  Now all that's left to do is to get the costumes!

pics of all our activities in july

here are all the pictures looking cute from all of our activities this summer they just all happend to fall in july so i was a very crazy month but it was a lot of fun!

capitol reef!!!

Well now all our vacations are over! Our last one was a lot of fun! We went to Capitol Reef for a family reunion! It was really cool to see! The reunion was fun too! Where we stayed they had a swimming pool! Alex loved playing in the pool, but Paige absoulutly hated it! Brett and I got a little burned but the kids didn't at all thankfully, because we forgot to put sunscreen on! Also some people in my family brought up some 4 wheelers and Brett and I took a ride on them! It was a lot of fun! We took a ride up to some red rocks and we got some really cool pics there! We all had a lot of fun! I still haven't got the pictures downloaded yet i think i will try and get that done today and i will try and post pictures from all our vacations soon! It's kind of nice to kind of get a break from just going all the time! It will be fun just to stay home and do a few one day adventures! I kind of would like to make it out to the zoo this month! Well that's all for now hopefully i can get those pics up soon!

the 24th

we had a great day yesterday for pioneer day! We went down to Spanish Fork for the parade it was fun! Before we left for the parade alex said he wanted to play the drums in the parade! ;) Alex had a lot of fun running out and collecting candy! Paige really got into it she was waving and clapping and pointing and telling everyone about it! She took candy to anyone who would open it for her! Both kids were very sticky by the end of the parade! They had so much fun! Then we went to macey's to get out of the heat for a while and at the front of the store they had the float that was in the parade and Alex really thought that was cool! Then we went to my Aunt Paula's house and had a BBQ! It was really yummy, they had homemade root beer! Then we started to make our way home! We decided to stop at Cabella's on the way home! Both the kids really liked it they had a lot of fun looking at everything! Paige even found herself a little friend! When we got back to tooele we went to the children's parade two of our nephew's were playing in the tooele jr. band! They sounded really good! After the parade they have some fun stuff to do at the park! We only did one of the activities because the lines we so long! Then we came home and and we did some fireworks just the ground flowers and some sparklers and the little poppers paige really liked the sparklers and alex liked it all but he wanted some bigger ones! oh well! It was a really fun day! But we forgot to get batteries for our camera so no pictures!:(