And then there were none

We took the kids to the dentist a while back.  He said Gracie needed her tonsils out because her teeth did not have enough room.  Since Gid and Hal are always getting sore throats and snore we decided to have them all checked and they all needed their tonsils removed.  We decided to get them done all at once.  A picture of Gid and Grace in their lovely hats and gowns. 

Hal just chilling before surgery.  She went first.  It was a rough half hour after surgery but after that the girl never stopped.  We had to tell her to stop running around when we got home.  She never whined or cried or anything.  She did however take full advantage of the popsicles and ice cream.  She is a wonder. 

Grace after surgery.  It again was rough so we called in reinforcements.  Tricia came and played with Hal while we were dealing with Gid and Grace who had a much harder recovery.  Grace cried quite a bit then fell asleep on her Dad.  She did not recover as quickly as Hal.  She refused to eat or drink much which I think is why she had such a hard time. 

Hal hanging with Aunt Tricia.  She was such a sweet heart to drop everything at work and come and run down.  Thanks Tric!!!!

Then there was Gid.  The picture explains it all.  He puked a few times before leaving the hospital and had a hard time when we got home.  We did get through it though.  Mom came and kept Gabbi since we had to get up so early and be to Logan.  She stayed for a couple of days and played with the kids which they loved.  They were all back in school on Monday.  It is good we live so close to the school to run pain pills over when they were hurting. 

All done and on the road to recovery!  If we had to do it again we would do them all at once.  It was not even close to being as bad as everyone said.  They really did awesome!

Tender Heart

 

One day on the way to Becki's house to visit I turned on my I-pod and was letting the kids listen to some of my favorite songs.  I turned on the song the little girl by John Michael Montgomery.  I love this song and sang along.  When the song got over I looked in the rear view mirror to see Gracie sobbing in the back.  I asked her what was wrong and she said "that song is just so sad, I feel bad for that little girl".  I love that so much about our little Gracie Jewel.  She has the most tender heart and does not want to see anyone sad or hurt.  What a sweetie.  Love that girl so much!

New rooms

 This year with little Gabbi coming into our home we decided Gid especially needed his own room (even though he loved sharing a room with Gabbo).  We moved Grace and Gid downstairs and finished a room for each of them.  They got to pick their paint.  Gid (despite my attempts to keep the baseball room) decided he wanted a hunting room.  It was a way fun project and he loves the results.  This is a picture of his camo wall and camo desk decked out with hunters orange.  He has his picture of him and Grandpa with Grandpa's moose on the wall and his camo lamp from Grandma and Grandpa Blauer. 

 We decided to take an extra bed downstairs for now just to have when extra people are around.  It will eventually be Gabbo's bed. 

 For his birthday we bought Gid a fathead Elk.  He loves it! 

 He also got Bri's elk horn from this past year to hang his hats, gun and bow on!

 Gracie decided to just pick out fun colors that she loved.  She found a cute gray bedspread and picked her colors from there.  We also painted old furniture from other rooms to put in here.  The mirror, dresser and an old shelf Bri made me years ago we did not use anymore. 

 We spray painted the knobs on the dresser to match the coral on the wall.

 Because she has the bigger room Halle wanted Grace to take the barbi house downstairs. 

We also painted her bed gray from the upstairs green.  They have loved having their own space. 

Our last 6 months......

 



Our last 6 months have been INSANE to say the least.  We finished up soccer for Gid and Halle.  Gid did so awesome this year with his new coach.  He scored several goals so he got several shakes from Big J's (yes we bribed our children). 

 

Halle also did well (as long as she wanted to play).  She did score her first and only goal this year and wouldn't you know it she did it in the one game mom missed being in the hospital having Gabbi.  Grandma and Grandpa Taylor said it was awesome though!

We blessed Gabbi very quickly.  I think she may have been 2 weeks old.  We had to hurry and do it to ensure Grandma and Grandpa Taylor would still be here.  We had a family dinner at the fire station afterwards and had our first family pictures.

Playing around with Hal.

Love this picture of her with her dad.

 

We went to Grandma Corbridge's Legacy House Halloween Carnival again this year.  The kids love it and love to spend time with Grandma and their cousins.  They have treats and games. 

We took a fun picture of all the kids in their costumes with Grandma. 

We love our little Gabbi Bo.  She is such a sweet addition to our family.  She is doing well.  She does have bilateral ureteral reflux so we are waiting to see a pediatric urologist at Primary Childrens in February to discuss surgery.  She is on a daily dose of antibiotic to keep her from getting another kidney infection.  She is a happy baby unless she just had her medicine .  It upsets her stomach and makes her really gassy.  Other than that you would never know she has any problems.

Gid earned his bobcat and is pretty close to getting his wolf now.  Especially since we have a new leader in scouts that actually holds den meetings. 

I tried my hand at being a photographer.  Not the best.  Sarah my awesome sister in law came and took some pictures and we are just waiting to see them!  

Gabbi is now not quite 4 months old.  She is smiling, giggling and rolling over like crazy.  She was even doing pull ups in her bouncer tonight.  It was so dang funny.  She is so strong. 

Halle doing her song and jig with the 1st grade classes for their Christmas program.

The 3rd grade classes did a dance instead of singing this year.  When I heard this I really worried about Gid.  He does not like to dance at all.  He did awesome though and really got into it.  I dare say he even  had fun. 

Gracie finishing the reindeer dance.

Our annual Christmas Eve party with the Taylor family.  We do white elephants and one our ours was a fish.  Yes it is real.  We thought it would be so funny to have Tricia or Erin get it and see them freak.  Erik got it instead and thought it was funny.  I still love Tricia's reaction to it though. 

Christmas at our house was fun.   The kids loved their gifts and loved having Grandma Corbridge come and stay with us for Christmas.   

Gabbi loves her ball.  It is her favorite toy. 

We let the kids go pick out pajamas with the money they got from Grandma and Grandpa Taylor.  Halle picked out her pajamas because it had a sleeping mask with it that she wears every night.

Brian worked the Aggie Gymnastic meet so we decided to go.  The aggie bull and his girlfriend came to see us.  Gid saw them coming and ran to the far side.  Gracie posed for a picture with them instead.

Our cute family.

Gracie has been bugging me to change diapers.  I guess it took all 3 kids to do it and this is how it turned out. 

Halle's idea of "wrapping" the diaper.  More like folding.

And somehow they still managed to get the diaper on backwards.  Gabbi was a trooper.  She just giggled though it all like she knew they were doing it wrong.

 Gid with his first pinewood derby car.  He made a police car and won first place out of the wolfs. 

 We got to go see Santa again this year at the fire station.  It is a fun tradition the department does for the firefighters. 

One more ....

A couple of months ago I went to help out in Halle's class.  One of the boys in my group had hurt his wrist at recess and had ice on it.  Halle came home the next day from school and told me that "Mom, Degan did not just hurt his wrist, he broke his uterus".  I laughed so hard.  When I told her I did not think he broke his "uterus" she informed me "he did to, Mrs. Morrison said he did". I guess she combined "ulna and radius".  We had a good laugh.