Fun time at the Farm

So Zoe's love of horse continues.... One of my sweet customers let us come over and play with her horses, chickens, dogs, and hawks!!! Yes, hawks. Zoe was in heaven!

Handprints in the NICU - Utah Valley Hospital

A month or so ago I was able to visit a very special family, at the NICU at Utah Valley Hospital. I was asked by their cousin as a gift to go and handprint their son Graydon - who at birth weighed a little over 2 pounds - WOW. Now he is a little over 5 pounds. He is so cute and sweet. I could have held him all night.

It was a little surreal once the doors opened to the NICU - and all at once a flood of memories surfaced. I was there to do handprints - so I kept it together, for the most part. The smell of the soap, the flourescent lights, then incessint beeping of the baby monitors, the friendly and helpful nurses, the rocking chairs, they brought it all back. It seemed like it was just yersterday, not 2 1/2 years ago that I beheld our little Zoe for the very first time.

It was two days after her birth- and as excited as I was to meet her, it took all I had physically just to climb into the wheelchair and take the painful ride up the elevator from the ICU to the NICU - just a couple of floors. It seemed endless to me. It is difficult for me to put into words how I felt when we turned the corner and I caught sight of her. I was overwhelmed with so many emotions - but most of all I think I was just so relieved. Relieved that she was alive - and perfect. Just as Mike had shared with me.

Let's just say I am really glad that my "swelling" went down. Or as Janel says - note to others DO NOT have spleen removed and baby removed on the same day!

It was reported to me that Mike said upon seeing our little one - and reporting on all her stats 3lbs. 4oz, 17 inches long - my little brown trout! 17 inches long for a preemie is quite long...........

Blogging Break

Okay I am tired of all the comments about my blog or lack of blog. I post this blog with a little trepidation and a great deal of time (I am the slowest blogger ever) Proof - four pictures posted, approximately 50 words typed - 1 hour 37 minutes............ priceless!!! I am not totally convinced blogging is for me. Honestly I love reading yours - but I am definitely insecure. This whole blogging universe is a little overwhelming - every ones life is so fabulous, extremely funny, pictures are amazing, their writing so eloquent, vacations never ending. Me - my days are good and bad. My emotions up and down - and every place in between. I guess what I am saying is here I am - some days funny - writing anything but eloquent, pictures truthful, and my life still definitely FABULOUS.

Where did the summer go? I can't believe 10 weeks went by so fast. Here are the girls posing for the first day of school. Micaela 5th grade, Brielle 3rd and Zoe - you know!

And of course my camera battery died so this was the best of the 2 shots

What am I made of?

Monday is definetly our busiest day. Run to pick up the girls on time - at 3:15, take Brielle to Choir - eat a snack run into change her clothes. Micaela home, snack change clothes take her to Choir and Brielle to gymnastics. Of course in an attempt to make a busy afternoon crazier - I decided I would make the most of the moments not in the car- and clean out under my sink - this had to be done because I was mopping my floor. Do you see the logic? Actually it did end up being a good think - because I found we had a leak going on under our sink. So our neighbor the plumber came over and we solved the myster - a leacky sprayer faucet - I am sure that is the technical term. Thank goodness it won't be too expensive to fix. Now that I have all the contents strewn all over my counter - to the cupboard can dry, I proceed to mop my floor - Our floor has become the bane of my housecleaning career - it just kind of has a foggy film on it, once mopped it looks cloudy!!! I have tried everything - amonia & vinegar, murphy's wood floor cleaner, the potion the door to door salesman sold us, a new mop, and evern water. Anyway I am off the supject. Admidst all my cleaning, carpooling, soup making, dinner dishing out, math test preparing . . . I get Zoe and Brielle in the bath - and somehowhave the sense to sit down for a moment and talk with Brielle who is totally submerged and "swimming" around in her bubble bath. She pops her head up for a moment and asks me - Mom, I wonder what I am made of? I proceed to give her a very intelligent answer I think - Blood, bones, skin, etc..... I smile and finish with all amazing and wonderful things. She simply smiles and says oh I was thinking I was made out of clay!!! And back under the water my little Brielle goes - made of all all things wonderful and amazing - blood, bones, skin, and perhaps even some clay. So what am I made of?

Da Horse....

Last night, I returned home from a fun girls night - bunko. I was just trying to take care of a few things around the house. It was about 10:30 and Mike was in bed watching t.v. - in marches - little Zoe - polka dot pajama's and all and proceeds to climb into bed and snuggle down into the crook of her dad's arm - and we think drift back to sleep. She has been feeling pretty sick - progressively getting worse since Monday - with a hacking couph and a fever. Knowing this, Mike was especially accomadating of his little night visitor. Around 11 I finally slipped into bed and we were randomly watching who knows what and what commercial should run - one like my new background. The Zoe we thought was drifting off to sleep - her arm shot up pointed to the screen of these beautiful galloping horses - and loudly exclaimed "da horse"........ Zoe has few loves - well since her birthday on the 24th - she now has many more loves - her true love is horses... horse was truly her first word. She is so fun - so easy going -but truly truly so happy with a huge stuffed horse in her bed, a horse to hold and a horse to take whereever she goes.
a little side not e- I did take her to the Dr. the next morning - Zoe's confirmed misery sickness has a name - strep...... we opted for the shot -(don't even get me started on that experience) but it really was my best option because she is horrible about talking medicine. Zoe was so upset beyond upset crying all during the shot and after. He little bum is still quite sore - all 22 pounds of her. Oh we love her so - our little Zoe

Our three little women and one struggling mom

I will fiigure out how to do this. I will enter the world of blogging. To all who have inspired me I thank you. Keep the inspiration coming it might help. Am I only one laughing!!! Can I really even call this a blog, no I think this is what my sweet friend Janel calls throwing your hat over the fence. So it is thrown and what now!!! I think it means I have to retrieve it - or enjoy life without my hat, or maybe go and get a new one... okay new lesson on this saying Janel. Does it apply? I am just trying to say my first blog is not how I imagine - with the wonderful title - the computer will not allow me to change font color or background color - and pictures well that is definetely putting me over the edge - or at least will make me go downstairs and put the pictures on my desktop to the shared file - so I just spent the last twenty minutes switching the ones on my desktop to ge shared - this will coninue just not tonite. I will win and will have a blog to be proud of. keep checking - love shelby