Life goes on

Wow I can't believe how long it has been since i have written. We have been keeping very busy around here and it doesn't seem like i get a whole lot of time at the computer.
The house is coming along great we have drywall, paint and cabinets. Things are getting close to the end and now it feels like it may never get done. The siding is on but the yard is still the same as before the snow so we have all the outside stuff left to do. Tyler and I have layed the tile floor in the bathroom and our next project is to tile the shower and around the tub.

Topher is still loving preschool. He has really gotten into legos lately, which means i am really getting sick of stepping on legos and finding them everywhere while i am trying to get things packed up. He has also decided that he needs to help me more and had me make him a chore chart that he carries around all day until he gets it done!!!!

Creedance turned 4 in February!!!! She is growing like crazy. We went up to Green Canyon for her birthday. She loved swimming ,playing, presents, and her strawberry shortcake Cake that i made for her.

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T.j. is getting even wilder. He falls down all the time. He has figured out how to get to everything we try to hide from him in the house. So i know to run like crazy if i even hear a tiny squeek of a chair because that means he is getting into something. I'm constantly finding him on the counter with his mouth full of chocolate. We did get rid of the bottle a month and a half ago. I'm so proud of myself!!!! He also loves to shove dvd's into the vcr. He thinks he can watch shows that way and gets really upset when it doesn't work.

Tyler is soooooo busy all of the time. I can't wait to get to spend some more time with him eventually!!! O.k. so we did take a weekend off for his birthday and went down to Utah to get some photography stuff that this guy gave to him. I think he is more excited about the photo stuff then alot of the things on the house.

I've been sick off and on. It hurts so bad to breathe sometimes, that all i can do is lay on the couch and try to relax. I try to help as much at the house as i can but know that sometimes me and the kids just need to be out of the way more than anything. I'm starting to get tired and stressed out , but can't wait for warm weather so we can go outside and play. Can you believe we had snow this morning. Crazy, huh!

All the fun

Christmas turned out great. The kids loved their toys, and haven't broken any of them to much yet!!! We got to spend alot of time with family and Tyler was home for almost a week and a half so we got some much needed family time!!! Our house is moving along well. It is almost completely framed in!! Tyler has been working all day today to get the basement floor defrosted in hopes that we wil be able to lay the floor by the middle of next week.

We have been down to Salt Lake to get T.j. fitted for a new leg. We took Jake's friend Andrew Mack down with us to drop off there so he could head back to New Mexico. The kids loved having him in the car, and hopefully we didn't scare him too much!!! We are hoping to be able to go back some time in the next couple of weeks and get t.j's new foot. He has been growing so much and really needed a new one!

We lost our dog yesterday! Tyler had taken her over to the house while he was working and she ran off. We looked for her all night last night, made posters this morning and were putting them up when we saw her down the street. An extremely nice guy found her last night and kept her with his dog and was walking them around in hopes to find her owner. We are so excited to get her back. We realized how much she means to us and Tyler is definate that he does not want any other dog.

The Sickness

Today i finally took T.j. and Creedance to the doctor. T.j. was suppose to be going to Shriner's on Thursday for a prosthetic fitting and i wanted to make sure he would be o.k. by then. I thought the kids just had a cold but we couldn't seem to kick it. Creedance started getting a funny rash last night so i was a little worried. I didn't take Topher because he seemed to be feeling a bit better but he could not get rid of the cough that he has. Well the doctor said that they have STREP!!!! I can't believe it! So now we are getting them all on antibiotic and hoping they get better soon. Anyway, I have to get back to helping all the sick kids. Oh Yeah Tyler has it too!!! I'm sure we are going to have a fun week!!

Back to being CRAZY!!!!

Well things around here can not settle down. First off when Tyler had that glass removed 4 weeks ago. They left a very large chunk of it in his foot. They had to cut open the bottom part of his foot and remove it. He was on crutches again for a few days, and is now in a walking boot!!! That boy is having a hard time staying put together.
T.j. has started screaming constantly again. I don't know if it is because he is teething or if he has an ear infection, but we were just at the doctors office last week with him and i really don't want to take him back yet.
Creedance is suppose to be getting her cavities taken care of. But they won't put her under without the approval of her pediatrician, and with her heart troubles when she was little the pediatrician wants to make sure she is o.k.(which i am extremely glad for!!!!) So she had to have an echo cardio gram. We haven't got the results back yet but we are hoping they come back good.
Topher looks like somebody beat him up. While we were at my parents cabin last weekend, i sent him outside while i got the other kids ready. I usually don't let him go out alone but Tyler couldn't go out because of his foot and i was getting the other kids ready. Well he was fine at first i got Creedance ready and sent her out too. I had told topher to only slide on the little hill. And he is a really good listener. Well while i was pulling mine and t.j's snow clothes on i hear a blood curdling scream. I rush outside with no shoes on to see what's wrong. At first i just see toph crying, but on closer inspection his face on the left side is scratched. well when he was sledding down the little hill he went farther than he thought he would and went under my parents suburban. We are lucky he only scratched up half of his face, and didn't get hurt worse!!!

Other than that Thanksgiving was great. WE ate a Delicious dinner with Tyler's family. And then headed up to the cabin with my family afterwards. It was a lot of fun even though it was crazy.

We got a puppy!!!!

Last Saturday we were running around doing errands and while we were down in shelley we saw some puppies. Well Tyler has always said that we would never get a dog. And i told him one day i would just show up with one and he wouldn't have a choice. Guess which one of us ended up deciding to take one of the puppies home. TYLER!!!!! The kids were begging and he just gave in and picked the one he liked best. So now we have our little Star. I think she is adorable and the kids just love to play with her. The fight over who gets to feed her and i'm sure if it was warmer atleast topher would stay out all day to play with her. I've wanted a dog for our family for forever, but of course i never had to take care of a dog by myself before, my mom always did that so i'm sure it will be an eye opener eventually. Right now she never barks, she whines occasionally but doesn't make any noise through the night. Of course i already have to clean up her poop but it isn't any worse than doing a poopy diaper so i've been fine with it so far. We will see how a feel in a week or two but right now I love it!!!!!

Birthday Boy!

Topher turned five today!!!!! I can't believe he is so old. I didn't plan a big party ahead of time like a meant to, but it turned out pretty well anyway!!! Alot of family came and some friends too!!! We did presents and a pinata. Topher loved everything he got and can't fall asleep because he keeps thinking about all the things he gets to play with. He keeps coming out of his room to tell me the order that we will have to play with them in tommorow.

We sort of had a spider man theme this time. Every birthday i let the kids pick out a cake tin and then i bake and decorate them. We borrowed a spider man pan from my friend Liz and so theme began. We couldn't get normal birthday plates they had to be spiderman and the napkins and instead of hats they had face masks. Anyway, i hope everyone had fun.

The kids were pretty good today. We did gymnastics and then we went out to eat at Artic Circle. Some of Toph's friends were there and he was excited. I love my kids but they seem to be growing up way to fast. They are sure fun when they are big but i'm starting to miss that baby stage!!

Halloween

Yeah it is Halloween. We have done pumpkins and parties. The kids loved the trunk or treat we did at the church last Friday night. This year Toph and Cree are Thing 1 and Thing 2. T.j. is the cat in the hat. Topher has to make sure everyone understands who and what they are and I'm just happy that people listen to him and tell him that he is cute. Hopefully trick or treating will be fun tonight.
Tyler has hurt himself again!!!!!! He got a piece of glass in his foot last week at work!!. It took 8 stitches to get him closed. Hopefully no more accidents for us for awhile. It gets to be really hard when something like this is always happening.