Tubes for Baby Leah

Finally! After about 7 ear infections, we decided to do the tube thing for Miss Leah. Anyone who knows her, knows that she was sick with runny nose, ear aches and things like that almost CONSTANTLY!! Well, we are making a trip down to Arizona in few weeks and I just really didn't want to deal with a sick child while I am visiting. (Last year when I went, she was diagnosed with and ear infection the day before) So! We took her to our ENT and she was scheduled for tubes 4 days later. She's going through a very clingy phase and doesn't want anything to do with anyone but mommy. So, any time anyone would walk in to talk to us or check her out, she freaked!! She was just SO not interested in being there. When it was time to take her back, the nurse did sort of a "snatch and grab" and whisked her away before she even knew she was leaving me. She kind of whined all the way down the hall and about 20 minutes later she was back in my arms drinking a bottle. She was all sleepy and cuddly at first, but that didn't last too long. She was either quiet and drinking or clawing at me and crying, just trying to get outta there! The Dr. said her ears were TERRIBLE! She said there was thick yucky fluid behind both ears and she had to keep adding saline to thin it out so she could suction it. The nurse describes it as peanut butter in the ear. GROSS!!!! They did a hearing test before they inserted the tubes and Leah failed it because of all the gunk in there. So, now that its all cleared out, her speech should take off even more than it already has. When we got home, she pretty much babbled and "talked" every second. It was cute to see her yell and make noises now that things sound different. All in all, she did awesome and hopefully,

NO MORE EAR INFECTIONS!!!

(pictures are out of order, but whatev)

Trying to figure out what the heck

just happened!

Daddy helping her with her stylin'

hospital jammies.

Really didn't like all the stuff

they stuck on her.

She thought the fishies in the waiting room

was the coolest thing EVER!

CD MONSTER

APPARENTLY LEAH DOES NOT CARE FOR CD'S.

PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!

It's amazing how one persons decisions and actions can effect millions of innocent people. Today came as a great shock to me. I love America and all those that defend Her and our freedoms. This is the one song that has always come to my mind for a moment such as this. GOD BLESS AMERICA FOREVER!!! MAY IT ALWAYS REMAIN THE PROMISED LAND.

LOOK WHO TURNED 1 THIS WEEK!!!

OUR SWEET BABY LEAH HAS BEEN WITH US FOR 1 FUN AND HAPPY YEAR NOW. LEAH HAS BROUGHT SUCH JOY AND A MUCH NEEDED BREATH OF FRESH AIR INTO OUR LIVES. SHE HAS NOW MASTERED GOING UP DOWN OUR MANY FLIGHTS OF STAIRS WHILE ALSO REALIZING HOW QUICK SHE CAN GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B ON TWO FEET. WE LOOK FORWARD TO WALKING INTO HER BEDROOM EVERY MORNING AND SEEING HER BIG SMILE AND JUMPS OF JOY READY TO BEGIN A NEW DAY OF LEARNING AND EXPLORING. WE LOVE YOUR PERSONALITY AND LOVE FOR LIFE! THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH A WONDERFUL DAUGHTER, SISTER, AND LITTLE BUDDY! WE ALL LOVE YOU!!!

As many of you know, we had to put down a very special member of our family recently. Poor Robbie had a rough past month of not feeling very well. We didn't realize the severity of his condition even after taking him to the vet for a check up. His body finally couldn't take anymore and he had a major seizure that caused him to be unresponsive for at least 10 minutes. Mandi and I rushed him to the ER for pets and made the painstaking choice that he would be happier moving on. It has been a very lonely past 2 weeks. Not having him at the door to greet us home is heartbreaking. We recently were going through pictures and we were amazed at just how much he always with us. On our laps, in the car for a drive, at Grandma's and Grandpa's house (his favorite), camping trips, pretty much wherever we were. Leah still drops part of her meals on the floor for Robbie to come and enjoy. Here is to a best friend that we will forever miss, we love you Rob!!!

SLACKERS!!!

Shame shame on us!! There have been 3 major holidays since our last post and there are ZERO pictures! Josh seems to have all the good pictures on his iphone. (we still dont have a regular camera) SO, he is going to have to put the pictures I want to blog about on the computer so I can slowly but surely put some up so you all can see how dang cute our little kids are and how much they've grown!! So, in the mean time, here are some of the pictures from our cruise we took 6 years ago!! ( mostly I want to put something in place of the Halloween picture thats up. Don't get me wrong, I like to be a tattoo sporting, bandanna wearing biker chick as much as the next gal, but, after 3 months of looking that way, it's BEYOND time to change the pics!) Anyway, I was barely preggo with Kolby and we wanted to get away and celebrate our 5th anniversary before we got tied down with 2 WHOLE KIDS!!! Look how young we were!! Good times! So, anyway, this should get us by until I can get my act together and blog about the stuff thats actually worth blogging about!! Until then, here ya go!

Awe!! Cute!!!

Still one our favorite places.

Catalina Island!!

Joshy enjoying his "frilly" virgin margarita.

( That drink cost like 6 bucks so we had to take a picture of it!)

I just HAD to get a pineapple drink.

So yummy despite the fact that I was SOAKED from the rain!

Hot tubbin time!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

MOM AND DAD AS BIKER CHICK AND GHOSTBUSTER

JAKE AND KOLBY AS MARIO AND LUIGI

I LOVE HALLOWEEN! I HAVE DECIDED THAT HALLOWEEN (BESIDES CHRISTMAS) IS MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY! I AM A HUGE GHOSTBUSTER BUFF! MANDI REFERS TO ME AS A GHOSTBUSTER NERD OR GEEK. I RECENTLY MADE SOME ECTO-GOGGLES AS CLOSE TO REPLICAS AS POSSIBLE. OKAY, I AM A NERD!

WE HAD A BLAST BLARING THE GHOSTBUSTER THEME SONG AND HANDING OUT A TON OF CANDY FROM DARK UNTIL REALLY DARK.