July

Be Prepared. Lots of Pictures. So this is going to be a picture post with little side notes.

This is a pic of Cody, Kaizley, and Ryker (my friends boy that I have been watching this summer once a week) after taking Kyce to school.

We went to the gorge. This is what Kaiz looked like most of the time.

Went 4-wheeling with my parents up by Bear River service. The Forest service people couldn't believe we would take a 16 month old 4- wheeling. I guess they frown upon that ?! She had a blast though. So did the boys. They love anything outdoors.

Kaizley and her Studly dad

Over the 24th we went up to Big Piney camping. So beautiful!

Dad crossing one of the 3 very deep water crossings.

The boys on their 4-wheeler

One of the fish we caught at North Piney Lake

Here is a video of Kyce doing tball.

He had fun doing it and was so excited about the little medal that they got for participating. He is pretty sure that it has secret special powers :) We have Weston and Kyces birthdays coming up and another gorge trip which hopefully I will take a ton of pics of so I will have something to blog about. Hope your July has been as fun as ours!

Kaizleys 1st Birthday

As I was doing the post for Cody's birthday I realized that I forgot to do Kaizley's 1st Birthday from way back in February so I am going to do that now. We had 2 parties for her. One with my family and one with Weston's. It is too much craziness if we try to do them together. She got so much fun stuff. I think I was more excited then she was. I can't believe my baby is already 1! (I guess 1 1/2 Now!)

Of Course you have to have the messy cake picture!

Some of the loot.

Aunt Megan is making levi blankets for all the kids this year and i couldn't be happier :) Kaizleys is in the corner of this picture with the purplish/pink color.

At the Hurdsman party we celebrated both Kaizleys and Trayvns Birthdays. Here is a pic of the party goers:

Birthday Boy and Birthday Girl

Notice the guy in back? That is Kaizleys favorite person. He gives her pop whenever she wants it. She loves her uncle Kevin.

So I guess that pretty much sums up her birthday. She is doing great and loving life. She is a bossy little stinker too! We are just so thankful to have her in our lives! Shes our little princess and miracle!

Cody's 4th Birthday

Cody turned 4 on the 18th of June. It was so much fun. We rented the rec centers Extreme Rush inflatable house thing and their upstairs room since we have so much family. Let me tell you. SO WORTH THE MONEY. I don't think I have had that much fun in a long time. We practically had the whole place to ourselves. Megan sent me a pic from her phone of the extreme rush because I was having so much fun that i didn't take any but I do have some of the gifts that he got. He was so spoiled!

Extreme Rush

Stick your Hands UP!

I can't believe how fast time flies! I can still remeber the day he was born. He is such a mischevious little man and smart as a whip! We love you Cody James!

Jamaicain Girl, Cousin Tim, and Trampolines

So I guess it is about time that I do this. I am not going to mention names (Nichole and Megan) but apparently some people think that I have been slacking. When I went to find the camera, low and behold, it is gone and we don't know where it is. So if we find the camera, I will post picks of Kaizleys birthday. Until then, we will have to use the pics from our cool little video/camera thing called a Sony Bloggie. Love it! Anyways we have been up to nothing real spectacular. Just enjoying life. Kyce has his first t-ball game tomorrow so I should (no promises) have a post about that one coming up. My parents went on a cruise and brought back a bunch of fun stuff for the kids and us. Here is Kaizley sporting her cool Jamaican hat with the dread locks.

Cody is pretty sure that Cousin Tim is the coolest cat in town. Everytime I ask him to guess who is coming to our house today, it is ALWAYS cousin Tim. He plays with his horses and it is always "This is like Cousin Tims horse" or "Cousin Tim wears a Cowboy Hat" whenever he sees a cowboy. About a month ago, they got to ride on one of Cousin Tims horses. Here are some pics of that.

Notice the Huge Grin

Weston broke down and bought the kids a tramp. They LOVE it. They are constantly on it and I am so glad. It gets them outside and playing. On Sunday, my mom and dad came over and the boys convinced grandma that she needed to try out the tramp. Here is the video of them jumping and their tricks. My mom is totally going to kill me!

So there is my post. I guess I will update in another month! :)

Monster Jam and More

So this one is pretty much for Megan. She has been wanting me to blog about something so here it is. Last weekend we took the boys to Monster Jam. It was Awesome! We all loved it. Here is some pics from that.

The Boys Before it Started

Kyce and his muffs

Cody and his muffs

El Toro Loco (one of our Faves)

Grave Digger (another fave)

The next day, we headed to the Gateway and hit Build-a-Bear. The boys decided that is what they wanted to get Kaizley for her birthday.I know, yes she is 1. Crazy!! I will have a post for that later. Anyways, being the slacker mother that I am, I didn't take any pictures while we were there. Its kinda of a crazy place anyways. After that, we went to Gnome and Juliet in 3D. We have never been to a 3D movie before and it was pretty fun. The boys liked the movie and I thought it was cute. Weston not so much but it had good music. Here is a pic of the boys with there cool glasses on. Sorry so Blurry.

So pretty much that is what has been going on with us. Kaizley is growing like a weed and just a happy little girl. She has some attitude and knows how to get exactly what she wants but we love her anyways! The boys are facinated with every little thing she does. Kyce has started the process of registering for kindergarten and it sends me into a panic attack everytime I have to think about it. I am so not ready for it but he can hardly wait. Cody is doing kinderkamp at the rec center and loves it. It is good for him to have something to do to keep his little mind busy. He is full of it! Weston is doing alot with infrared up at work and is hoping that he will get to start doing that full time. Me, well, I am just being a lazy blogger and enjoying spending time with the fam. Later!

Fun stuff, good news, and great news!

So I have alot to catch up on. A couple Fridays ago, my mom and I took the kids to the zoo. They absolutely LOVED it! If you know my boys, you know how much they love animals. They couldn't get enough of it. Cody was so obsessed with wanting to know about all the animals poop! He is a funny kid. He would say "Does that animal poop? What does that animals poop look like?" He was quite infatuated. Kyce really liked to ride the train and all the cat animals like the tigers and the lynx.

Kyce on the Elephant (I love his face!)

Kyce and Cody in the Gorilla

Grandma and the kiddos

Me and the Kiddos

Good news. Weston went hunting last weekend and got a really nice deer. He is getting a European mount done with the head (don't have a clue were he thinks he is going to put it!).

And now for the great news. Kaizley had a doctors appointment on Friday and she got to go off of her blood pressure medicine and she doesn't have to go back for another echo appointment for a year! It made me a little nervous when they said a year but I guess they know what they are doing and our pediatrician here said that he would check her blood pressure everytime she comes in for well child checkups and whenever I want him to do it so that was some what comforting. The cardiologist was so impressed with how good she is doing and looking. She is such a happy baby and makes us all smile. She just learned to wave bye bye and to shake her head no-no (she uses that alot when she sees Cody getting close to her!). Here are some pictures that my friend Amber took of her. Isn't she a doll?!

Going Private

So.... I guess it is that time. I want to try to keep my family somewhat protected from crazy people out there so if you want to remain able to read my blog, please leave your email in the comments and I will add you (unless of course you are crazy! JK) Mom and Robin, I will help you to still be able to view my blog if you don't know how. :) Thanks Guys!

Camping

So this weekend we decided to get back to nature and go camping. It was a blast! It was so good to get away from the everyday demands and pig out on fantastic food! We went with Weston's parents ,thanks Kim and Robin, up in the Uintas. We just got a pop-up camper so we had to try it out before it got too cold. We rode fourwheelers, had tinfoil dinners, ate delicious dutchoven cinnamon rolls, and just relaxed. The boys enjoyed every minute of it. Kaiz got to have a grandma and grandpa weekend. We thought it would be too cold for her at night. Thanks mom and dad! Enjoy our pics

Cody and Great Grandpa Hurdsman

Gorgeous!

Beautiful Country

Our camper

Kyce and his dirty face

Cody and His dirty Face

Kyce and Cody on their Fourwheeler

The kiddos

Kaizley Kim

So this is probably going to be one of my biggest posts. This little girl has been through alot in her 6 months since birth. She was born February 23, 2010. She weighed 7lb. 12 oz. 4 weeks after Kaizley was born, she got to take a ride in this.

That was one of the worst days of my life. She started having this horrible cough on Wednesday March 17th. That night I took her to the emergency room because it just kept getting worse. The ER doc there told me that "babies this age can not get sick" and that it was probably reflux. Well, I decided to go home and I would call the doc the next day. So the next day she hadn't gotten any worse so I decided to hold off on calling the doc. The next night she started getting a little worse so I took her back to the ER this time Weston came with me. The doc tried to again tell us that nothing was wrong with her. Weston wasn't going to take that as an answer and told him that something is wrong and to check her out more. So they did an xray, said couldn't see anything and sent us home. The next morning I was done with the docs here and called the on call pediatrician because it was saturday and all the offices were closed. It just so happened that the oncall pediatrician had seen her xrays from the night before and told us to get to her office as soon as we could because she was concerned. So we showed up to her office and she immediately admitted us to the hospital saying that she had pneumonia. We stayed that night in the hospital and that next morning she was getting worse so they decided that they needed to send her to Primary Childrens Medical Center. I was a complete and utter mess by this time and all I could do was cry. I couldn't believe that this was happening especially since I am one of those people that don't leave the house til the baby is at least 6 weeks old and here she was with pneumonia! After they lifeflighted her to PCMC, we rushed down there and were greeted with this:

Once they got her to the hospital she quit breathing. She was intibated (on a ventilator for breathing) for 3 horrible days. They concluded that she had RSV not pneumonia.

This is the other breathing device that she was on after they took her off the ventilator. It is called a CPAP. She was on this for a couple days and then she went on to a regular nasal canula which she was on for a few more days. I didn't cry the whole time (11 days) that we were at PCMC and if you know me, you know how that is not me at all. I cry about everything. I guess I was in survival mommy mode or something. I did cry once we got home though. I cried for days. I cried everytime I told the story to someone. I cried everytime I thought about it! I could probably cry about it now if I thought too much about it. I have never been so helpless in my life. The worst part of it was when she would cry and we couldn't do anything but stand next to her bed and touch her. We couldn't hold her for a week because of all the tubes and stuff that were in her.

When we first got to PCMC, the doc asked if we knew that she had a heart murmur. We didn't. Nobody had ever mentioned it to us. They called in a cardiologist and he concluded that she had a PDA or patent ductus arteriosus(SP?) It is were a vein doesn't close that should have after birth. It wasn't that big of a worry so they said that we should make an appointment for a month after we got out of the hospital and they would run an echo on her to see if it had closed because sometimes it takes a couple weeks for some babies. Well, they did the echo and decided that something else was going on because it hadn't closed yet so we scheduled an MRI. After the MRI, they found her Aortic Coarctation. It is where there is a narrowing of the aorta. The PDA didn't close because of this and so she was getting deoxygenated blood cycled through her body and eventually she could have some major problems and die from this. Not at all what I had originally been thinking when they found it in the hospital. So we scheduled her for heart surgery. If I was to look back on the whole RSV experience I guess there is one postive thing because if she hadn't gotten lifeflighted, who knows what would have happened to her. It's kind of a blessing in disguise, just wish it was a little less dramatic and traumatizing! Anyways, I feel like I have blabbed on and on but not making any sense!

Friday, August 6th Kaizley had her heart surgery. Another one of those horrible days for me. We were not really prepared for what was going to happen and I think I down played it in my head to try to make it less severe but after the doc, anesthesiologist, and everyone else tells you the risks and how it is one of the most painful incisions that you can make on a human, and more, you kinda lose your mind. She went into surgery at 1 and we finally got to see her at 5:30. Longest four and a half hours of my life, but she did awesome. She was in ICU until Monday evening and then they moved her to a patient room. The next morning, all the docs were doing rounds and when they came to our room, Kaiz was smiling and kicking around. One of the docs actually said that she is the first kid he has ever had that has been happy and smiling when they come around. They asked me if we were ready to go home. I was a little worried because we hadn't even been out of the ICU for 24 hours but they said she was ready to leave. So we did. She will have to go back every 3 months for a while and will eventually get to where she only has to have an echo every year to make sure that the narrowing doesn't occur again because it can come back.

Here is a picture of her scar. It is on the side underneath the arm pit and goes back by her shoulder blade. This is the day we came home. Now it just looks like she has a scratch. It is healing wonderfully!

I guess after all is said and done, she is now a healthy, very happy 6 month old baby girl. We refer to her as our little miracle because she has been through so much and she is such a fighter.I know that she wouldn't be here without modern technology and the million and one prayers that were said for her.

I had to throw this picture in because last Saturday the 4th, me and my mom were shopping and we got Kaizley's ears pierced. If you ask my mother, she will say that it was a very horrible exprience but in all reality, she was done crying by the time we left the store and hasn't had a problem since. Isn't she adorable?!

Here is a pic of her cute little teeth. She got these a couple weeks back. She is pretty proud of them!