were goin' back to cali

I know that I am really behind but we took a trip to California last week.
It was a long drive expecially with a baby, but we made it there.
I took a ton of pictures (397 to be exact) but I am still trying to figure out how to use it,

so only 50 turned out. So you get to see all 50 just kidding.

So here is just a few of my favs.

We had to go the Train Museum

We had our own personal guided tour.

I broke all the rules just to get 1 good picture.

The lighting was terrible in there.

The girls love to go fishing (my personal HELL)
This is Naomi catching the first fish. That is all that was
documented because I got the dodge out of there.
Holding Rylee in my arms for 2 hours is just wrong.

The next day we went up the canyon and the girls Oh! and Grandpa Jr
got into the water to cool down.

Naomi making a muddy mess.

Sadie enjoying the cool water.

What a sweet baby.

I love this hat so I was playing with my camera trying to capture

her great smile with her eyes.

Grandpa Jr plays the guitar really well. It is the one thing that I love about him.

Give him a song and he can play it. So this is right up Sadie's alley.

She loves to sing.

So this is what we did most nights. Our little rock band.

Grandpa singing a little Johnny Cash

The girls had a chance to ride horses on the last day.

Grandma Linda has a friend with some horses.

They had a great time with it, but it was sooo hot and tons of flys.

Sounds fun!!

My Girls!

It was a good time but I was really glad to be home in my own bed.

Theres no place like home!

hog heaven

Here is what I love about my kitchen.

{The sink}

It is big enough to put my kids in for a bath.

After a messy dinner on night I stuck her in the sink.

You would have thought that she was in heaven.

She laughed and played forever.

So that was my turn to try and use my camera.

I love her eyelashes they are really long and curl up.

So I thought of Carin (which she doesn't know who I am, I blog stalk her)

she is my friend Dede sister who takes wonderful pictures.

She had a challenge of capturing your kids eyelashes.

So this is my attempt to do so as she plays in the water.

Here is my beautiful baby in the sun.

I am blessed to have such a great baby.

fabric key chain

I love it when things turn out. I made this fabric keychain for my keys.

I can either put this on my wrist when getting kids into the car, or it

makes a great hold for Rylee to suck on when going to the store.

first bite

Rylee is now 6 months old. So I just started to feed her cereal. My girls were so excited to do this. I thought that she would be so ready to eat because when I am eating she trys to grab my fork or cup.

So here we go this is the first bite.

She still has a smile on her face wondering what is going on.

Not quite sure but smiling at her sisters that are so excited.

This is what her face is after the second bite. She did not like this at all.

After all that every bite she learned how to push the bowl away and the spoon.

I would put the spoon in her mouth when she was talking.

I know that this is not a first but I would have her swallow the cereal by

putting the binky in her mouth and the food would go down.

When I went to feed her today she just started crying before I got the food to her mouth.

I have got a long road ahead.

"all screwed up"

So May 27th has come and gone but I am finally blogging about

Naomis surgery on her growth plate.

I was nervous on how it would go and how would she would do. But she did really good.

We woke up at 6:00 a.m. and left for Primary Childrens and got there about 6:45 a.m.

They take you back and register and give the parents name tags (so that the doctor can remember who you are)

Then the nurse comes and weights you and has you put there gowns on.

Naomi did really good up until that part. Once we started walking back to the waiting room before the surgery she turned around and cried and said "I don't want to do it"

And if you know me of course I held it together and not one tear fell.

Her doctor came back and talked about what was happening and they put her in the wagon and away she went. They gave her bubble gum air to smell and she does not remember anything else. The surgery took over 1 hour and I went back to see her.So this is what she has been doing for the last few days.

If you have a weak stomach don't look any further.

We took some pictures of what her leg looks like. They put screws

on both side of the growth plate hopping that her leg will stop growing.

I hope that this all works out that I (and Naomi) doesn't have
to do this ever again. I think this is harder on me than her.

new wheels

My Sadie learned how to ride a bike last night. I was fixing dinner

and Rick came in and told me that I needed to come and watch her.

I came out and there she went. Starting and stopping by herself.

Thanks to Aryn Cerva for helping with the starting she is off and going.

(If Aryn is willing to move in I won't argue with anyone. She held Rylee while

I made dinner than went outside to help Sadie)

She is so proud of herself that she called everyone last night to tell them.

what do you think?

Okay Dede has helped me learn how to use my camera.

I bought it about 1 year ago and I am finally learning how to use it.

Believe it or not I have read the manual but it went in 1 ear and out the other.

So I have been playing with the camera(on manual) and this is the only

picture that I thought turned out half way good.

So I am posting this to have Dede is what I did.

I still have lots more to learn and lots more questions

now that I starting to take pictures.

So thanks to Dede for helping me out.

jyll and natalie

On Saturday we did the MS Walk at the Gateway.

We did it for my sister in law Jyll Mendenhall Roberts and Natalie Mendenhall

(middle picture of them)the MS sisters

Jyll had all the shirts made up for all 59 people that walked for her.

It was all amazing who came to support her. It is a nasty thing to have and

I hope that someday they will find a cure for MS.

You would never know that Jyll has MS. She will run circles around

everyone that I know. She works hard. She wants a family so bad

but MS does not stop her with that. She had a little girl Chloe in July.

There was thousands of people there walking, running and in a wheelchair.

We walked a 5K around Salk Lake with a break in the middle.

I was so proud my Dad and my Mom made it.(now that is dedication)

At the end they gave us medals. Sadie kept saying "I can't believe we won."

Eli said "I can't believe they gave us a bronze medal"

It was so much fun (and a excausting) day.

I can't wait to do it next year!!

2 months check-up

Rylee had her 2 month check-up on March 30, 2009

She had 3 shots in the leg and 1 oral.(which was new to me)

Of course she had her hips check and checked again.

So far so good!!

She also had a zit (thats what we called it. I am sure that is not a technical term)

on her neck which I pointed that out for you if you couldn't see it staring at you.

Her doctor removed that off of her.

She now weights 11.2 lbs (52%)

23 inches long (78%)

Sadie couldn't stand it that she was crying so much

that she was trying to make her stop. "It's okay Rylee I'm right here"

I'm sure glad that she was there to protect her.

Sorry for the picture but she wouldn't smile at the camera just at Sadie

my leg is longer

So you remember to good old days when Naomi was 1 and she had this cute purple cast on?

Well today we had our annual check up with our Dr. Cast (Dr. Stotts) at Primary Children's Hospital. I was really hoping for good news but unfortunately we did not. Naomi's left leg just keeps on growing, which makes the hip cup not growing.

So in May she will have to have surgery to stun the growth of her left leg so that they can even up. She is kind of excited about all of this because she gets to have slurpee at the hospital and she gets to have crutches. (What ever makes her happy about this)

I am trying to make this happy for her but really I am dying inside knowing what she has to go through. Sometimes life isn't fair, but I love that she will smile about it and do it because she knows that it will work out.

Please keep her in your prays and have a positive attitude when and if you talk to her.

memory

"Memory Game"

I love it when things turn out.

I made this memory game for my kids.

I found a fun paper and then my brother took mugshots of everyone in my family.

(you can have cute pictures but I don't know how to do that)

I put there pictures on the back and now my kids can play memory with pictures of my family.

This was fun and not that expense to make.

warning...

Who would have thought that a kite would be dangerous.

Today Sadie went to play at the neighbors house. They went

outside to fly a kite. Sounds simple right?

WRONG!!!

As the neighbor was trying to get the kite up the wind

said other wise and shot the kite done.

As the kite came down Sadie happened to be there

the the string went wrapping around her neck.

Luckly they got the string upwrapped and she came

running home.

Luckly she is alright, she is going to have

a red mark around her neck to remind her

(really she will remind me)

of what happened.

happy birthday jer

Happy Birthday Jer.

I can't believe that you are 12 today. I remember when you were born.

My favorite thing was to spoil you. I loved to take you to the store and buy what ever your little hands wanted. (even if I drop you on your head)

You are the best kid and will do anything for anybody.

I love you buddy!

mother of the year

Since having Rylee I might get

"Mother of the year"

I have been getting no sleep these days.

So when Naomi goes to school I will feed Rylee

and then go to bed.

So my poor Sadie has to entertain herself for a little while.

This is how she dressed herself.

(Maroon shirt-pink dress-purple pants-brown boots-

and of course her hair was neatly done)

...and while entertaining herself that morning she

decided to make me a new headboard in my room.

(that's how tired I was when I had no idea until I had woke up)

Here is a picture of Naomi's hair.

This is what we did instead of going to church on Sunday.

She was so excited about having a updo!

baby rylee

Rylee Michelle

7 lbs 6 oz

20 1/2 inches long

(isn't she cute? I will post more pictures when I have some more time)

f.h.e.

Today we wanted to learn for family home evening

about keeping our bodies clean.

We talked about keeping the insides clean, but here

we learned about keeping the outsides clean.

They were not to sure about this when the mask

started to dry and they could not even smile.

Here is a picture of all of us together.(if anyone makes

fun of me I don't want to hear it)

I just did this because they were driving me nuts and wanted to

do something fun for family home evening. To bad Rick is

not here or else I would make him to do it.

Hopefully soon I will add 1 more girl to this mix.