All Things in Moderation

I just wanted to let everyone know of a great new blog that my awesome sister-in-law has started. It's a blog of great deals that she has gone to a lot of work to put together to save us a lot of time. She also has great tips for things like saving on prescriptions and your electric bill. If you have a chance you should stop by, you never know what money you could save.

Tomato Soup- Yum!

Sharing

My boys are really good at sharing certain things. Last week Zack decided to have high fevers for 4 days and thought he'd share the germ love with Austin who had high fevers with vomiting for 3 days and then he lost his voice and got croup so then he thought he would be nice and share with Zack who got croup that turned in to pneumonia. Yes, you read that right after a chest x-ray yesterday we found out that Zack has pneumonia again, but luckily his oxygen saturations were still okay so he doesn't have to be hospitalized and we just get to do breathing treatments at home.

Zack loves to play with the mask until it's time for mom to hold it on his face for the treatment. Luckily he's a pretty patient kid so despite a few outbursts he does really good!


Austin loves to help mom listen to Zack's lungs.


Zack is trying to take the stethoscope from Austin and Austin thinks it's pretty funny. Aren't they cute?!


Not sharing very good right here. Hey, you can't ask for perfection all of the time.

Daxton's Place

Last night was the big unveiling of Daxton's headstone. It is so cool and unique that I thought I'd share it with everyone. Sorry there are a lot of pictures, but I wanted to show you it from all sides.


My boys have been sick this week (I know you are all shocked to hear that) and poor Austin had thrown up a couple of times yesterday, but he obviously approved of the chocolate cake Aunt Michelle made.


The boys all seemed to like the headstone and had a great time playing by it.

Friends

We have been so lucky this past week to spend some time with some of our best friends Blake, Kristin, and Owen. Last Thursday they came down to our house and we went to the park and had a picnic and played on the playground with the kids.



Then on Monday we went to Blake's parents for a barbeque. Blake made us some excellent hamburgers and hot dogs and some amazing salsa. There isn't much better than great food and great friends! The boys had the best time playing with the dog and being outside while we had fun chatting.

(Kayla and her family were there, but we didn't think to take a picture until after she left. Sorry Kayla!)

Family Update

Here's a quick update on our family:

The boy's developmental nurse came yesterday and said they are now caught up! We are really excited and hope to be able to keep working with them to keep them where they are supposed to be.


Austin had his cardiology appointment today and his cardiologist felt like everything looked great and we probably won't do another echocardiogram until December or January. This is Austin getting an EKG done, he didn't quite know what to think of all the stickers and cords. Luckily it's pretty fast so he didn't get bugged and we had bubbles that the boys were going crazy for.


For those of you who haven't heard Aaron started a new job at the beginning of July. He is going to be a branch manager for JP Morgan Chase. He will be in training until the first of October and then they will place him in a branch. They told us maybe Bountiful which we are keeping our fingers crossed for. So far he is enjoying the change and I'm loving it because at the first of October I will be able to cut my hours down to one day a week! :)

And last of all for those of you who didn't look very close or read the comments from our last post, you will have to look closer at the middle picture. We had a wonderful surprise and are going to be adding to our family in March. I am due March 25th so I'm 7 weeks along right now. I've been really tired and pretty sick this pregnancy, much worse so far than with the boys so I'm looking forward to being out of the first trimester! We are really excited and a bit nervous. So far they only see one baby in there, but I was still pretty early so we will know for sure in 3 weeks. We'll keep everyone posted.

Just 2 short years ago

We found these pictures tonight and it brought back a lot of fun memories (kind of, you know how pregnancy is) so we thought we would share.

Good News!

With all of the illnesses that Zack has had especially this spring and with how sick he would get with common viruses his pediatrician wanted to test and see if he had an immune deficiency disorder from the steroids he was on for so long. The problem was he needed to be healthy for at least 3 weeks before we could go get the blood work done. She gave me the prescription in May and finally last Wednesday we made it to 3 weeks of healthiness and were able to go get the blood drawn. She called to tell me the results today and I'm happy to report that his numbers were all where they should be and so she doesn't think he has the disorder! Here's to hoping for many more weeks of healthiness!!

Favorite Things Swap

My cute friend Lori is hosting a really fun swap on her blog. It should be a lot of fun, the basic idea is that as a participant, you will be asked to choose at least three objects that are some of YOUR favorite things to send to your partner who will be randomly decided if you choose to sign up. Everyone head over to her blog for details and to learn how to sign up. It will be fun!