8 years and going strong!

On March 11, we celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary by going to dinner at the Melting Pot. Our waitress was anti-Utah County and all that entails, needless to say we still left a good tip and I would recommend dessert.
We will do the real celebrating this August, when we go scuba diving in Hawaii on the big island! Kachow and Wahoo!!!

In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, we had our 3rd annual "Green Dinner" with the neighbors. After enjoying green mashed potatoes, green rolls, green grapes, green lemonade, and green cupcakes, we went on a leprechaun's gold hunt. The kids found gold wrapped Rolo candies throughout.

One other fun note; Cheri and Bryce can be seen on GoogleMaps - street view. Cheri is just coming out of the garage on the south side of our house and Bryce is playing in the dirt on the street corner.

This last weekend we took Almary and Ryan to an introductory karate class and they both earned their white belts and broke a board! I have never broken a board with my hand in my whole life. We were proud of them!



Bryce is cute as ever and has a great vocab and personality. Daddy asked what everyone wanted for breakfast and he decided to make oatmeal. He started the process by filling the bowls with water which was on the counter in front of the kids. Bryce proceeded to comment that "I don't want water for breakfast!" Like we feed our children a bowl of water for breakfast..... but it was cute! Bryce is also starting to go pee pee on the potty. It is always fun as a grown adult to use that in your vocab. He is very earnest in going potty to get a treat!

Tyler is weighing in at 11 pounds and 11 ounces. He got his yucky 2 month shots and is starting to smile, coo and grab things. We go for our follow up echo cardiagram on April 10 to determine how well his aortic valve is doing and if there will be need of surgery. We are hoping not...

The children are slowly coming off sugar detox after a day of candy and egg hunting. Happy Easter and we hope that everyone is enjoying the peace of this holiday knowing we too can live again as the Savior does.


Playing with cousins


Smiling Tyler


Saber Tooth Ry-Ry


Silly Ryan


Silly Almary

Other pictures can be seen by clicking on a picture.

Cute kids!

Tyler was in a very good mood tonight. We took lots of smiling pictures. The other kids are very good with him. They sure have a lot of energy though.


Tyler smiling



Bryce taking care of Tyler - He laid by him for a while (longer than most times with a 2 year old) holding his binky



More Smiling Tyler



Family Home Evening Fun



The Boys



The Boys and cute girl



One cute Ry-Ry



Kids helping make cookies



Huckleberry Finn AKA Ry-Ry with Bryce's pants

Some picture repeats but larger and with captions!

Ty has been pretty irritable lately which always makes us worry. We know it has to be something with gas and digestion so there may not be anything we can do. We will probably take him in to make sure tomorrow.



Ryan holding Ty


Bryce holding Ty


Almary holding Ty



Dogpile!



Bryce in a swing that supports up to 15-20 lb - Bryce Weight 25 lb



Innocent Boy



Little Guy on a big couch



Almary and a mega snow man!

Incision infection

We had a slight scare with Tyler. His incision on his back has become more inflamed and we decided it was enough to take him to the ER. The doctors decided to just wait because it is most likely a surface infection. When I had my knee surgery, I had an infection surface one month later which required one week hospitalization and antibiotics. We hope this is not the case with Tyler.

All else is going well. Almary and mommy went to the movies on Saturday while the boys (well without Tyler; he was sleeping) watched Star Wars.

Happy Valentines Day February 14, 2008

Welcome to our blog.
Tyler is now 4 weeks old. He is over 9 lbs and 9 ounces and can't seem to get enough to eat. He has a clean bill of health until April when we will do another echo cardiogram and check his aortic valve. Until then we are glad to be off oxygen and steri-strip free. Now we are working on sleeping through the night. It will be a long battle.

Almary, Ryan and Bryce are slowly coming off sugar detox after a plethora of Valentine parties and candies. They had more candy than Halloween.

Mark is getting closer to graduation. He is seriously working on his Masters project and accompanying presentation, but he needs to be a little more serious.

Cheri is learning to corral 4 kids in the car for all of her taxi-ing trips to and from school.

We are enjoying the kindness of friends and family who are taking care of us and watching out for us. We are so grateful for their kindness and feel this time in our life has been such a blessing.