Rocky Point

We spent Memorial Day Week - Monday to Thursday - in Mexico with the Bleazard Family. In fact, Jeremy, Aiden, Zack and I were the ONLY ones there whose last name isn't Bleazard. My grandparents, aunts & uncles and all my cousins were there(except Casie & Logan who were very missed!) .

We had a BLAST! It was a riot to watch Aiden play in the water. Grandma Robyn spent tons of time just sitting at the water's edge with him while he took shovels full of sand and dumped them back into the ocean. She taught him that "Heavenly Father made the water." It's so cute to hear him say that. We stayed in a condo resort. Our condos were on the ground floor (to the left in this pic)

Which meant no stairs to get to this...

We did lots of this...

And a little of this... (I don't recommend night snorkeling for anyone with claustrophobia!!!) We can't wait to do it again! Here is the whole gang and a few other family pics...(Josh and Jen were inside nursing Josh's sting from one of the many stingrays... so the family isn't complete) :(

Thanks Jeff & Mauri for organizing the whole thing and making it fun for 30 people!!!

Aiden & German

Of course, now that my camera is back (see previous post), I am busy taking pictures again. It has been raining this afternoon. Aiden and German wanted to watch the rain so here they are sitting on the front door step.

Miracles Happen!

The first 2 weeks of Zack's life are documented fairly well. The last 6 weeks aren't. I lost my camera the second week of April and the only pics we have of him since then are on our camera phones. (thank goodness for modern technology!) But still... going without my camera was like a fish going without water. It hurt so bad, I couldn't even talk about it. I searched under couch cushions, in cupboards and drawers (the ones within Aiden's reach anyway) and everywhere I could think of. About a week or more ago, I humbled myself and even prayed to find the darn thing!
Today I learned a couple of lessons. The first lesson is that when I pray for something, and then have a thought regarding that something, I should pay attention to the thought!!! The second lesson is that I should roll around on the ground with my kids more often!!!
I found my camera in the one place that I kept thinking it might be - under the china hutch. I looked there once, but I didn't get down on the floor and REALLY look I guess cause today when I was laying on the ground talking to Zack, I looked over and there it was. 6 WEEKS!!!
I am filled with mixed emotions about this! I'm TICKED at myself for not finding it sooner, especially after the prayer followed by thoughts of looking under the china hutch. But I am also elated because ITS BACK!!!
We are going to Rocky Point, Mexico next week and we CAN'T WAIT. And now that I have my camera I will be able to document the trip and share it with all of you!
Normally, I would feel silly blogging (especially at this length) about my camera, like it is a member of the family or something... but I know that there are MANY of you out there who would feel the same way if you were with out your electronic appendage.

Mother's Day & Zack's Blessing

Happy Mothers Day to all of you wonderful mothers! I got a special mothers day gift today because we got to have Zack's baby blessing. Both of our families were in town for the blessing. I was glad to be able to spend a little time visiting with my mom and have her close on this special day.
Thanks to Josh & Jen and my Dad who bought a beautiful bouquet of flowers for me. Thanks to Jake for the orchid corsage. And thanks to my hubby and boys for the cute card and for PS I Love You! (Can I just say that the movie industry played their cards right in releasing that movie the Tuesday before Mothers Day?!?!?!?)
Jeremy did a great job blessing Zack. Zack felt like he should talk during half of the blessing too. At least he wasn't screaming. Thanks to everyone who came to support us. We love you all.

Aiden's Broken Elbow

Its been about 10 days since it happened. I was at a bridal shower for Jeremy's cousin's fiancee when I got a call from Jeremy saying that Aiden fell off the porch swing and had been crying for over an hour. So I headed for home knowing that we could very easily have a super long night ahead of us. When I got back to the house, Aiden was still crying but kept telling us he wanted to go to bed. We decided that maybe some of the crying was his pure exhaustion since it was way past his bedtime. So we put him to bed in hopes that he would feel better in the morning. NOT the case. He woke up in just as much pain as he was the night before. So off we went to the ER.
The ER was sloooooooow as always... it took over an hour just to get an x-ray. Then another hour before they looked at it and told us what was going on. They said there wasn't a break and that it was probably nursemaids elbow (a dislocation that happens often in kids). The PA came in and "adjusted it" or "popped it back in to place" and said he should be fine in a few minutes. Another hour passed and there was very little improvement. (This should have been my first clue that they were wrong) They discharged us with instructions to follow up with a bone doctor. (2nd clue!!!)
When we got home he seemed to be doing a little better and the next day I thought I saw even more improvement. That evening is when I changed my mind. He was still in a good deal of pain and I was feeling SoOoOo bad for him. We called the bone doctor and got an appointment for the next day. They wanted to see him at the office in Deer Valley (for those of you in Vegas, it would be like having to travel to Logandale to see the doc!!! SOOOO Far away!) because that's where the Pediatric bone dr. is.
Pretty happy kid for having a hurting arm... This is while we were waiting in the bone dr's office. To make an already long story a little shorter...
They found a break in his elbow. Apparently pediatric elbows are a specialty and the ER had NO CLUE what they were looking at so they GUESSED! UGH!!!!!!!!
We got the cast put on and he was a new person. Today we are going to get it changed cause it STINKS sooooooo bad! Luckily there is an office close by that can take care of that.

Note To Self

Hot laundry fresh from the drier is GREAT! Unless it has newborn clothes with metal snaps on them! OUCH!

Our Date

Nicole asked about my DATE with Aiden, and I thought it was worth a quick post. On Wednesday I promised Aiden I would take him on a date since he was jealous of Jeremy and I going on a date last week. We were both excited for our "night out on the town." Really, all it consisted of was me taking Aiden to go get ice cream at Water & Ice. And the whole time we were eating our ice cream he kept telling me "Mama, I wanna go on a date with you!" He didn't get that that WAS the date. But when we got home, he proudly told Jeremy "I went on a date!" It wasn't anything spactacular, but it was well worth my time because we both very much enjoyed it.