Sadie's shot fun

We all know how important it is to immunize our children. Yesterday it was Sadie's turn to start the fun. We visit the health dept. for our immunizations because our insurance doesn't cover shots and the Dr. office is expensive. So Sadie and I get there yesterday and there is no one else there waiting for shots. 

Beautiful I say to myself this will be a quick in and out today.

I fill out the paper work and head back to the nurses room for the shots. Sadie is sleeping beautiful this whole time so I gently wake her to let her get stabbed.

As I take off Sadie's jeans the nurse goes crazy saying how cute they are, thanks Carrie, and she holds them up and examines how tiny they are. 

Then we continue with the stabbing. 

The nurse stabs one leg (she is getting 3 shots) and Sadie starts to scream and then Sadie lets out the biggest bum explosion.

"Hmmm", I say to the nurse, 

"that sounded a little scary". 

The nurse pays no attention and continues to stab in the other leg. 

Sadie screams and sends out another lovely bum noise. 

Again the nurse continues on her mary way of stabbing my child. 

I am thinking I hope this diaper holds.

Sadie gets her last shot and I turn her around to snuggle her up close to me.

"AHHHHHH", yellow mustard all up her back. Yikes.

The calm nurse says, 

"Nursing baby? I can tell."

I calmly ask for a room with a changing table and go to change the blow out queen.

As I get in the one room bathroom, thank heavens, and dig through the diaper bag lucky me,

No wipes. 

How do you clean off a 2 month olds diaper explosion with out wipes. 

Wet paper towels. That should work for now. I wet a couple of paper towels and then undress my baby as she starts to scream. 

Health departments are cold, especially the bathroom. 

Here is butt naked Sadie screaming and me trying to clean her off with scratchy, cold, wet paper towels.

"Hmmmm, this isn't working" I think to myself. 

"Hey Sadie, do you want a bath?"

 I turn on the water in the sink and hold Sadie over the sink and wait and wait. 

No hot water. 

Well, sorry baby girl here goes. I quickly splash the luke warm water on her back and clean her off the best I can. As my sweet little pumpkin screams her cute little scream. 

I start to laugh a little as I imagine this site,

Then I think to myself as I splash and rinse and laugh,

"Good think this is my 5th baby and not my first or I think I would be crying as well."

We finish her lovely bath and I get her dressed. Yes, I had a change of clothes thank goodness.

As we come out of the bathroom the lobby is packed with people.

"Where did all these people come from?" I think to myself.

 They all gave me this , "What were you doing to that baby" smile. 

I just smiled back like nothing had happened and continued on my way. 

Oh, what fun.

Christmas Fun

Christmas 2008, the year I didn't take any pictures. I don't know why but I just didn't snap away like normal. So here are a few picts that I did get. Fondue on Christmas Eve was loads of fun. Above we have Carrie and Jason finishing up the fun. We had a big house full but it is always fun.
This may look like a crazy picture but it means a ton to me. We had a very quite Christmas day enjoying the day with just our little family. My parents gave us the best gift, a freezer full of meat. So here is our Christmas dinner of roast and potatoes thanks to my parents. The kids were so excited because I made rolls. I am going to try and take some other pictures while I have the kids home and I will post them later.

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! We did!

Smiley Sadie!

These pictures make me laugh but I had to post them. Sadie is so smiley lately. But when she smiles sitting up her neck totally disappears. So here is the cute baby without a neck. My camera also doesn't like to take pictures without the flash so they are kind of fuzzy. 
Sadie is such a good baby. The past 2 nights she has slept all night. Last night is was from about 11:00 until 7:30.  That's 8 1/2 hours. I was in heavean. But as soon as I woke up I had to check and make sure she was okay. She was just peacefully sleeping. I hope this trend continues, I like getting lots of sleep.

Santa and Rudolf?

This is just my crazy kids again. Whitney, dressed the messy faced Will up as Santa and herself as Rudolf and ran around the house. Whitney had a jump rope around her waist and William was holding it. Whitney crawled on all fours and Will giggled behind her saying, "Merry Christmas!" I love my kids imaginations.

Concert Time

 My favorite thing about the holidays is the music. I love Christmas music, especially band Christmas music. I attended Ben's holiday concert last night. It is so nice to sit and enjoy the wonderful music. Those kids are very talented with a great conductor. Listening to them play almost made me cry. I videoed the concert and was really excited to come post it to the blog, until I got out of the shower and saw Will holding the video camera. He deleted everything. I got mad and then realized it was my fault for leaving the camera where he could get it. So I have the music on a cd and I have been trying to figure out how to post that. If anyone knows that would be great.

Anyway the concert was great and I enjoyed a peaceful evening just to myself.

Great Weekend!

We had a fun weekend. Saturday we headed out to cut down our Christmas tree. A tradition we have been doing for as long as we have been married. The kids love to go and it was fun to find snow in the mountains. We went with Jim and Carrie and the King family.
Will spent some of the time in the backpack and some out. He tried to hike through the snow but it was really hard for him.
Here we are with our tree. I had Sadie in the front pack the entire time. It was a work out. 
Today, Sunday, we blessed Sadie. All the family came. My parents, and Jerry, Drina, and Gabe drove out and back today. That is 6 hours in the car. It really meant a lot to me. 
Sadie was so good and just slept through everything. I made her dress and I am really proud of it. I learned how to do smocking and it was fun and looks awesome. I'll smock something again when I have some free time. 

On a different note, I got called to Primary Chorister today. I am so excited to have that calling again. Primary chorister is the best calling in the church and I can't wait to get started singing with the kids.

Thanksgiving part 2

These pictures are all out of order but I just want to get them up. 

Corinne was wonderful and took time to read to William while we were in Vernal for Thanksgiving.

After ice skating, (see previous post) we went to where they had tons of big blow up toys and the climbing wall. Ben ran all over the place with Will on his shoulders playing in all the toys. I kept asking Ben if he was ready to leave or if he was bored and he kept telling me no way I am having tons of fun with my little brother.

Ben also enjoyed climbing the National Guard rock wall. He said it was pretty scary when it started to rock back and forth. I always wonder how stable those are.

My kids really enjoyed climbing the rock wall. So did my mowhawk wearing brother.Corinne and Whitney were amazing they each climbed the rock wall 3 times. They wanted to reach the top so badly. In the photo below Corinne is in the middle and Whitney is on the left.

Finally, after Corinne tried 3 times she reached the top. She was so excited the screamed and gave me the biggest grin ever. She is an awesome climber and never gave up.

Thanksgiving 2008

What a fun Thanksgiving! We headed to Vernal this year to spend it with my family. We had so much fun. The kids and Jason and my dad went shooting clay pigens almost everyday we were there. My brother had a small shot gut that Ben was able to shoot with. I don't have any pictures of them shooting but they had a great time. 

The day after Thanksgiving we went downtown Vernal to join in all the festivities. These are pictures of the kids ice skating. My kids are pretty good at ice skating and they have never been before. It's all that roller blading that they like to do.

Here is a great picture of my mom and the little kids singing some turkey song. My mom is the best with her grandkids. My nephew, Brandon, enjoyed it the best. He danced and danced.