The Petting Zoo

We went to meet my sister-in-law Lenny and my cute little niece Savanah on the way to Cruz's baseball tournament and while we were waiting for them we walked over to this small petting zoo. The kids were loving it and so was Judi and I. They had the cutest baby zebra. Both Rylee and Dax fed the zebra and goats right from their hands. It was so cute!

Look what I can do....

Here is Dax riding his 4 wheeler for the very first time! He was loving it. He actually did a really good job. I made sure Brett stayed pretty close at all times, but for the most part he did really well and he loved every minute of it. My baby boy is growing up too fast!

Happy St. Patick's Day...

Not only is today St. Patty's Day, but its Dax's 2nd birthday. He is our little lucky charm!

Rylee was pretty excited when she woke up this morning because right away we could see that some silly little Leprechaun had ran through the house leaving little green footprints all over the place. We found them on our papers, our paper towels, our vitamin container, the fridge, the milk carton, just everywhere. He had turned our milk and our pancake mix green! So for breakfast we had green pancakes with green milk. The kids thought it was quite exciting.

Later that night we came home to find gold chocolate coins scattered down the hall and into both kids' bedrooms and on their beds. Rylee was running around gathering those coins up as fast as she could.

The kids had a fun St. Patrick's Day! (This is the only picture I have and it was with my cell phone, so not the best!)

~Vegas Here We Come~

You have no idea how excited I was for this girls trip. I have been married for 7.5 years and have never had a girls trip. It was a much needed vacation and I could not wait. We had been planning it since the very beginning of January and it ended up working out even better than planned when my friend Britania moved to Salina from St. George.

Britania and I loaded up into her car and headed toward our next stop, which was Parowan for Tiff. We stopped there and picked up Tiff and her son Tanner and headed to Las Vegas with one stop at the Target in St. George on our way. We were already running an hour late so Shauni wanted us to hurry and get our butts there.

We arrived at Shauni's house, unloaded all our stuff, got ourselves all cute, and headed out. Friday night we watched a band called Yellow Brick Road, which was a ton of fun. We danced and had a good time together. Afterwards we hung out for a bit, grabbed some good ol' Del Taco and headed back to Shauni's house. We could not stop laughing and had such a good time together.

Saturday we got up, got all ready, loaded all our stuff up, left Jason with the kids and headed out for some shopping at the mall. I must mention that I bought my first VS bra ever and I have no idea why it took this long for me to buy one. Its the best thing ever...I love it. (Thanks girls for convincing me that I would love it.) Afterwards we went and checked into the hotel, got all ready for a night out on the town, had some drinks, and then headed to meet Tisha and her roommate for dinner at Cabo Wabo. After dinner we headed out to some different bars, listened to some different bands, danced, and had the best time ever. I have never laughed so much in my life. I love those girls and love the times I get to hang out with them. I have been great friends with all of them since 6th grade and I love that we are all still such great friends. I look forward to the next girls trip, and I am sure it will not come fast enough.

Poor Dax!

My sweet little Dax started sounding sick around the 6th of March and that night was up having a hard time breathing. Brett and I took turns sitting in the steamy hot bathroom with him, which seemed to help. I could tell immediately that he had croup. I knew I was going out of town the next weekend and wanted to make sure I knew what was wrong and that he was feeling okay before I left. I took him over for a doctor appointment on the 7th and found out it was croup and he was given a steroid medicine. We did some breathing treatments, which he was fine with the first 2 minutes but after that he cried and got mad. I had to do them while he was sleeping after that.

That night he slept better but all day Tuesday he was fevering really high and very lethargic. He layed around sleeping most the day and just wanted mommy to lay with him. It was so sad. I feel so helpless when my kids are sick. I called the very next morning and got another appointment to have him seen again. We went in and they decided to do a chest xray. The doctor gave him an antibiotic shot and a prescription for an antibiotic. He layed around a lot that day, but Thursday it was like night and day. The antibiotic had kicked in and he would get up and play for a short time and then take a rest. I could see a huge difference and by Friday when I left he seemed so much better, besides I was leaving him with his daddy so I knew he would be just fine. On the way out of town I got a call letting me know that he did have pneumonia and to make sure to continue the antibiotic for the full 10 days. Poor thing! I felt so bad, but was glad he was feeling so much better and that the antibiotic was doing its thing.

Rylee's Cast!

So it has been almost 4 weeks since Rylee broke her arm and almost 3 weeks since she got her hard cast on. I have to be honest, the time has flew by. She does so good with that cast, it amazes me. Honestly, you wouldn't even know she has a broken arm. She runs around playing, doing toe touches, riding her big wheel, playing kick ball, just about anything she could do before. She is so big about the whole thing, and actually she told us that she is scared to get it off and would rather just keep it on forever.



~Cute Baby Bums~

I had just bought a mirror to use as a photography prop and decided I would test it out on Dax first. I love baby bums and since Dax is almost two, it won't be long before he is too old to use with this type of prop. Here are a few pictures I got of him at 23 months old. He was actually scared sitting on the mirror....he didn't dare move. He acted as if he was going to fall into this hole to nowhere. It definitely made it easier for me to snap some pictures.