No Aunt Trish and Aunt Jocelyn there only Stickers!

A couple weeks ago my sisters wanted Maylee to get her ears pierced when we were in twin, we took her to Claire's and she loved it! There was only one girl working, I knew she would get one ear pierced and then cry because it hurt, so Maylee and I were at Claires today and she wanted her ears pierced again, on the top of her ear this time, I assured her if she got them pierced it had to be on the bottom! Thank heavens for only one worker again, she still was persistent on piercing them though I pinched her ear to show her how it might feel and she still wanted it done, hmm where's my sister's at that had this great idea? I hate ear piercing it makes me sick to watch it at the salon I have to walk away it just makes me sick, crazy i know. So I talked Maylee out of it which wasn't hard to do with these cute clip on earring I found, they seemed heavy and looked like they might fall off so I asked for stickers, they had a page of 30 stickers one for each day of the month we bought two sheets and we are set, she loves them and changes them a couple times a day! We also found this cute little skirt for dance class, she loves it and wants to where it all day on dance day!

Gracie's 10 Months

I can not believe my "new" baby is 10 months! She is gtting busier by the day, we are so glad she is feeling better we still are keeping her in but she is back to normal! Her new favorite trick is to climb up on the entertainment center and turn on the cd player then she looks at us until we come to get her and she takes of crawling as fast as she can. She has started clicking her tongue to, she is getting up about 3 times a night but what do you do about that! Love Ya lil Gracie!

Look at our special visitors!

A special picture Becca made us from school we had to ahng it on the window!

The 4 of them had a favorite game of dropping the chairs back and putting them up again they loved this as you can see

These two are more happy to sit and watch Braden and Becca be funny!

Becca laughed so hard when we put her arm around Braden these two were quite the pair



little jokers




Rachel in her purple pj's

Sweet Rachel

Okay this was the funniest moment of the whole week we put Gracie in Becca's chair and Rachel alughed forever, she thought it was so funny that she stole Becca's chair!

another funny story were loading up the girls for schhol and I took Becca out and told her I hope Jeff remember's were you go to schhol at you might have to show him I don't think he can remember, she had this look of worry and doubt on her face I had to assure her he could find it, by the time he loaded up Rachel and I went in the house she was more concerned. It is a good thing we live close to the school, Jeff said she was worried the whole way!!!

Here we are showing the girls the princess wii game

Becca and Braden making funny faces at each other

Maylee and Rachel hanging out!

Ilove this picture I toold Braden to pose with Becca and he put his head on her so cute!

happy times

We were lucky enough to have 2 special visitors come stay with us last week, besides trying to keep them away from sick Gracie we had a great time! This is Rebecca and Rachel Jeff's little cousins they were fun to have, I think they were fully entertained by what I call our 3 ringed circus! There is always something going on and they loved being apart of it, I took them to Maylee's dance lesson which they loved, we then went to get there Book IT, pizza awards, as you can see from the pictures my kids loved having visitors! There is something special about these 2 sweeties a different feeling in your home when they are around, I am glad we had the chance to have our special visitors, we love you Becca and Rachel!

RSV

Here is sweet Gracie taking a breathing treatment, it makes her really tired by the time we are done!
She has been such a trouper, when they tested her she cried when they swabbed her nose and throat but not when they pricked her finger, she really cried when 2 nurses held her down for the steroid shots, I wanted to cry to!

She has been so snugly

Yes it's true my little Gracie has RSV, I didn't want to mention that she got horribly sick at the cabin on Saturday night. First she started throwing up, then a fever, then cough, on Sunday still the high fever and cough, by Monday morning she was croupy and wheezing I had a bad feeling then we took her to the Rexburg Medical Center on the way home, they tested her for RSV and other virus she actually tested negative then but he told me she was close to it but that she had the croup and a upper virus of some sorts they gave her steroid shots and told me to take her to her regular doctor in a few days. Tuesday she went to my parents house and seemed fine most the day and night, by midnight she had a fever and was wheezing again I took her to Dr. Graham and he walked in the door and said if that is not an RSV baby then it is a carbon copy of one so we tested and sure enough positive, she was taking big gasps of air and then taking big fast breaths, so we had to make a decision on keeping her there or going home she had been breathing really fast like 65- 72 beats a min. which was way to fast he decided to give her a breathing treatment and see how she did, it seemed to help some so we decided to take the machine home and do 3 treatments and let him know if they worked, so what Dr. gives out his cell and home # and says call anytime and we will admit her if she is not better, I love Dr. Graham. I forgot to mention Maylee spent 5 days in the hospital with RSV when she was 7 months Braden got it 3 days later, also we got a call from Aunt Ami and Breken got RSV on Sunday they were in Salt Lake for the weekend so he spent the night in Primary Children's he is doing better and as we talk it seems Gracie is about 2 days behind him in the progress of getting better. Anyways Dr. Graham sent the machine and a prescription for her ear infection that she developed, so poor little Gracie is in isolation for a couple weeks. I forgot to mention 1 small detail we are babysitting Rachel and Becca (Jeff's little cousins) this week while there parents are on a much deserved cruise, so we have been disinfecting and keeping things separate as best as we can, Dr. Graham said they were old enough to not get it so we have just been trying to keep everyone apart. Gracie seemed to feel better today she actually got on the floor and crawled around for awhile. So here we go on to the road of healing we have been so lucky this season to not have much sickness, hopefully she can kick it and recover quick! Gracie is almost 10 months old she weighed 19 pounds 14 ounces!

Island Park here we Come!

The snow report in front of the cabin for Grandpa to see

The nap after sledding

Daddy's Girl's

Braden is signing the guest book that is at the cabin

Gracie and I snoozing

Silly Braden

Gracie fell asleep in the sled, it was so funny she slept forever I think it made her nice and tired being out in the snow

Maylee would rather rise the snowmobiles then go sledding

Gracie was done sitting in the snow








What a crew











Braden loved the snow he stayed out for hours!

Maylee was bundled up tight

Gracie reminded us of the little boy on Christmas Story because she was bundled up so tight

My Girl's

Right when we got there Maylee and Braden went and put on these snow clothes, they were'nt theres obviously they were excited to go outside in the snow

We decided to go to my parents cabin in Island Park for the weekend, we left after work Friday night and came back Monday night! The kids have wanted to go for along time so we finally had a time where we could go. We played in the snow, went swimming, watched movies, went to pizza in West Yellowstone, AND RELAXED ALOT! We hated to come home like always!

Kindergarten Valentine's Party

The 4th graders brought this poster down to the kindergarteners for kindness week

the heart sandwiches

Preslee and Jaylee these two had the cutest hearts braied into their hair, there Mom's did a great job they looked adorable!

Jaylee

Peyton

Tanner

Braden snack time!

I got to help with the Braden's kindergarten party, I was incharge of games and treats it was fun to see him in school, we played Bingo, and Braden and I made bean bags for them and we had a bean bag game also, I saw these cute Valentine sandwiches on the internet so we made them with cookie cutters. I think the kids had a good time!