Christmas 2010

We made the trek up to Detroit for Christmas this year to visit Ryan’s Shannon and her family.  The boys were amazingly good in the car, the weather was great, the Chino’s are always a great time. It was so much fun…except for the fact that Lincoln was throwing up 3 of the 5 days we were there.  He was just sick over Thanksgiving!  The poor guy.  I felt so bad for him and so grateful for Shannon’s washer and dryer that we used every night to wash blankets and pajamas.  Luckily no one else got sick.

Here are Shannon’s adorable kids on Christmas morning waiting to go downstairs to see what Santa brought.

And here’s Lincoln Christmas morning after being sick all night with his very tired mama.

Here we all are.  Lincoln got a ball popper toy and fire truck riding toy.  Sawyer got…nothing, but it’s cool.  He’s not too upset about it.  I wish I would have gotten a close up picture of him on his first Christmas.  My parents gave us a cruise to Alaska!  Yay!  My whole family minus the 5 grandbabies will be going in June. Anybody want to volunteer to babysit?  It’s so fun to have something to look forward to.

Here’s the whole gang except me.  We really enjoyed the Chinos.  They are such a fun family and my nieces and nephew couldn’t be cuter.  And they were so sweet with my boys.

Maya is 4 years old and all she wanted for Christmas was a hockey stick and puck.  Too funny.  Glad Santa was able to find her one.

We also went swimming at the Chino’s amazing gym pool, went to the temple, made doughnuts, played games, watched movies, painted our nails…good times.

 

Merry Christmas!

Family of Four Pictures

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Our awesome friend McCall took some family pictures a couple weeks ago, and I think they turned out great! Here are a few of my favorites.

I realized I never blogged Sawyer’s birth pictures…so these are really outdated, but better late than never.  They are from when he was one week old, so they’re 3 months old now.  My awesome friend Haley took them.  Aren’t I so lucky to have so many awesome friends who are equally awesome photographers?

P.S.  If anyone can tell me how to get the white bar under all of my pictures to disappear It’d be much appreciated.

Cousin Bonding

I spent the past two weeks in DC with my fabulous sister and brother-in-law Wendy and Harley and their two kiddos Anderson and Max.  I went because Ryan’s schedule was such that he wasn’t going to be home much at all, and so while the parent to kid ratio wasn’t any better, at least Wendy and I could enjoy the madness that was four babies together.

Max and Sawyer were able to bond and have multiple sleepovers.

And Lincoln and Anderson had a wonderful time playing together…..when they weren’t crying.  Although Anderson never maliciously hurt Lincoln, Lincoln did get knocked down many times resulting in him bawling and Anderson in time-out.  But for the most part, or at lest the part we choose to document and remember, it was smiles and happiness. 

Thanks so much Wendy for putting up with us for so long and for being so much help.  Can’t wait until next time!

Awful, terrible no good day.

Just look at this face.  Does it not break your heart?

At 2 months and 2 days old he had a fever of 102.3.  I was in DC and called my pediatrician.  He told me what I didn’t want to hear – take him to the ER so they can run a bunch of tests to make sure it’s not bacterial or something deadly.  We knew it was most likely viral and just had to run it’s  course, but for babies under 3 months the standard is if their temp is 100.4 or higher they need to go to the ER.  I went through this with Lincoln last summer.  His temp was 106.  We went to the ER, they poked and prodded him and it was horribly traumatic for both of us.  At the end of the day we went home with instructions to wait it out.  This time with Sawyer it was the exact same thing – a miserable day of tests to be sent home with no diagnosis.  Don’t get me wrong….I’m grateful that both times there was nothing life threatening discovered as the cause of the fevers, but it just stinks that they have to go through so many painful procedures when they already feel awful to reach that verdict.  I can think of few things that are worse.  I’m so glad Wendy was able to be there with me the whole day and Harley took the day off to watch Lincoln.  Such an amazing family I have.  Now please…no more trips to the ER.

Happy Halloween!

Ryan and I were on a Safari with our Lion and Monkey.  We threw our costumes together last minute so they weren’t great but better than nothing right?  Great ward party.  Too bad Lincoln was super tired and cranky the whole time and we could only stay for a half hour.  We’ve got to get that boys bed time moved back.We took the costumes to DC and dressed them all up for cousin pictures.   We didn’t plan to have Lincoln, Max and Sawyer all in the same color scheme… Anderson kind of sticks out.