April

Time to catch up on my posts!

Highlights in April

After coming back from California, we took a  little stop in Vegas to celebrate my 27th birthday. We stayed at Mandalay Bay hotel and it was a lot of fun. We went to the Shark Reef and saw lots of neat things. The whole family, minus my dad, had a great time. The night of my birthday was especially fun because grandma watched the kids and Matthew and I went down to the casino and sat at a bar waiting for an all request classic rock band to come on. They were a great band. I even requested a song and wrote birthday girl on it and when they said what song they were going to sing next he gave a shout out to me and sang happy birthday. It was a great night! After Vegas, it was home and it felt really good to finally be home after a very eventful 2 week vacation.

March 2013

To quickly catch up on my life I'll just post the major events in each month starting today with March. I really want to continue with this since I'm planning on making a book from all my posts. My kids are growing up so fast, so I want to capture every moment I can and look back when they are older.

MARCH

 Wearing daddy's shoes

 Time to start mowing the lawn

 We can actually play in our yard now that there no more snow!

 Playing in the dirt we bought to fill up a huge hole in the ground.

 Cousin's wedding in California! First trip back since we moved!

 Easter egg hunting at the park!

Easter egg hunting at the park!

Valentine's Day 2013!

This Valentine's Day was really fun! As a kid I always got a little something from my parent's for V-Day. My mom used to sneak into my room and place my little gift on my dresser and some of the time I really didn't know she came in, but most of the time I pretended to be asleep when she did it. It's a fun memory that I want to do with my kids. Since I have a 3 year old and a 1 year old they are a little too small to really do that with and have them be excited. Alexa would be good with that but since she comes into my room early every morning, I can't really put her gift in her room so I put their gifts on the dining table for when they came down they would see them.
They opened up their Valentine bags and loved all the little toys they got.

 My parents put together a little birthday gift/Valentine's day box for the kids to open. Alexa loved everything, while Mason wanted the candy and played with the peanut foam.

Her cowgirl hat from grandma and papa!

Another reason why Valentine's day was great was because of the gift I thought of for Matthew! The night before Valentine's Day I told Matthew I had to get the kids v-day gifts that I left at his parents house, which I really did so it wouldn't be a lie, but I really had another reason for going over to his parents house. I planned a little riddle/clue finder game to get to his V-day gift! It was super fun to do! I placed 7 clues around Matthew's parents house and each clue had a riddle of the location to the next clue. I think I had more fun planning the game than Matthew had playing it. Anyways, it was a success! To make it more fun I had every other clue be upstairs so he had to go upstairs for one clue and then downstairs for the other then upstairs again! Haha!
He gets to work at 6 AM every morning so once he left I was so anxious waiting here at the house wondering how everything was going. I had Matthew's dad film Matthew playing the game so I can watch it since I couldn't be there.

The first thing Matthew saw when he walked over to his desk was an envelope with cutout letters of his name on it. I stuck it on his keyboard so he would see it when he walked to his desk. Inside the envelope was a letter with directions of how to play the game.

 

 I wanted it to look like a ransom note and have it sound like the game in the movie Saw.

 1- Takes him to the fridge

 2- Takes him to his parents huge bathtub

 3- Takes him to the TV in the living room

4- Takes him to the movie closet upstairs hidden in the Cable Guy DVD case

 5- Takes him to the basement hallway

 6- Takes him to his sisters room

 7- Takes him to the piano that is in the front room right across from his office

His Valentine's day gift was a card along with a v-day box filled with his favorite candies.He had fun playing!

Later that evening we had a date night planned for after the kids went to bed. We had a nice dinner that Matthew set up and then we watched a movie.

Alexa is 3!

Now that we live in Utah, we decided to have a small birthday party for Alexa here since our plans to have a party for her in CA fell through. She loves Chuck E. Cheeses so we had dinner and games there and had cake and ice cream at our house. I can't believe my baby girl is already 3!

 Her new ktichen

Mason's first Urgent Care!

So Matthew and I went through our first big Urgent Care experience with our son. Matthew and I had homework that needed to get done and Matthew's mom offered to watch the kids for a few hours while we had a little homework session. Probably after a couple of hours, and while we we in the middle of Matthew's quiz, we got a phone call that Mason tripped and sliced his head on the bottom corner of the stair post. Matthew's mom said that he only cried for a few minutes and they put a bandage on it. We said we'd be over, if Mason was ok, after we finished up Matthew's quiz. Once we got there we thought we'd come home and take a look at it. Mason was happy as he usually is and he seemed perfectly fine. We took the bandage off and it was clear that his head was cut open and he needed stitches. We called Matthew's mom and she said that she could get a pediatrician over to their house to look at him and give us the best advice on what to do and where we should take him. So back to their house we went. Luckily the pediatrician was right next door and he had another appt. to get to but he said he'd be back in 10 minutes. It was the longest 10 minutes ever!! I was standing in the kitchen just ready to scream, cry, I don't know, I was just not happy. Since this has never happened to me before, I had so many emotions running through my body that I can't even explain what I was feeling. I really just wanted Mason to be okay and for him to be comfortable with whatever we had to do to make this better. The pediatrician came and said that his head will need stitches and that it should be done within 8 hours. He told us the place that we could take him to get stitched up. We called and thankfully, especially since it was on a Sunday, it was open. We left Alexa with Sally at our house, and took Mason right over.

We signed Mason in and it was going to be about an hour wait, but it was fine because one of the nurses came and put some numbing gel on Mason's head so it would be numb by the time we went in to see the doctor. Mason didn't even mess with the cotton ball on his head for the full hour we waited. He just played with us and the toys until the nurse took us back. We waited for about 5 minutes for the exam room to open up because a little girl had a bead stuck up her nose, so she was in there with her mom and the doctor. (We were talking to them in the waiting room). Once the room opened up, the nurse took us to the exam room and we waited for the doctor for about 5 minutes. The doctor came in and said that he was going to prick around his wound to make sure he was numb, but if it bothered him then he would need a shot. He also asked if we would need a restraining board to make sure he stayed still, and we asked if he could suck on a sucker instead. Matthew and I both felt that restraining Mason would probably make him upset. The doctor said he can work with whatever makes him comfortable, so Matthew and I laid Mason on the bed, gave him a sucker and put a show on my phone so he could watch while the doctor sewed him up. The doctor pricked around his wound with a needle and Mason seemed fine, he even pricked inside his wound and Mason didn't move at all, so he decided that he wouldn't need the extra numbing shot. As soon as we heard that he wouldn't need the shot, Matthew and I both felt a little more comfortable, but we were still nervous how Mason was going to do while getting stitched up. It took 6 stitches to close up the wound and Mason was FANTASTIC through the whole thing! He didn't budge or anything and didn't even care what the doctor was doing to him on his forehead. Before going in, Matthew and I both had high hopes for it to go well, considering Mason sat very still for the face painter at my nephew's birthday party, but still you just never know. Once we were done Matthew and I felt SO much better. I know it was just something that can get stitched up, but you never want your child to feel pain and go through something like this or something worse. You keep going over in your head about all the WHAT IFS? and it can really drive you crazy in the moment. Accidents happen and that's life. You wish that you could take your child's place in every moment that causes them pain, but unfortunately life doesn't work that way. You just have to remember that it could have been worse. There is always a positive in every negative. You may not see it right away sometimes, but it's there. At the very end, I told Mason that I give him the right to cry every day for the rest of his life if he want's because he made this experience the best it could have been.

My strong boy! Even if it leaves a scar, girls will dig it.