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!

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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!:(