Fun weekend with Grandparents and Flash Game

We had a fun weekend last week with grandpa and grandma Burnside. We always get to spend extra time with Eric and Julie and kids too which is a good bonus also. Not much else to report on but just add a few cute pictures of the kids. Thanks to Julie for helping us go to a Utah Flash game on Friday night. It was fun and the kids liked getting their faces painted by Almary. Ryan and Almary went out on the floor with cousins Andrew and Alex to dance. The first picture is of Tyler at Eric and Julie's. He knows who rules the roost in our house. My (Mark's mom's mom) grandma, Lenna Jacobson, was in a Church news article about service. Click here to see the article.

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Tyler's Birthday and Family Time

Our youngest is one year old. We are so proud of Tyler and how far he has come. He set a new goal for 2009 to have no surgeries this year. It could quickly become a yearly goal for him, not that he can control it though. He thoroughly enjoyed his birthday cup cake and quickly licked off the frosting first and foremost. He still didn't have down blowing out the candle. He figured he could grab it. Later we went to the Kangaroo Zoo, a blow up slide play place. It was so much fun to celebrate with our cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. We even got to see both grandparents for Tyler's birthday. It was wonderful to be with family.
Since Cheri's parents were in town for the long weekend, we played and went sledding down the huge hill next the freeway at the point of the mountain. It was a lot of fun, as well as, touring the Draper temple open house. It was such a great experience to be there as a family. It was beautiful and so neat to encourage the children at a young age to go to the temple.
We love having family to play with and spend time together.

Phoenix and Las Vegas Trip

After a long time with no posts - two posts - see below for Tyler update news.
We had a fun Christmas Eve with family here in Utah and then a Christmas at home. The kids loved their toys. Friday after Christmas we started our joyous journey to Phoenix. Traveling with kids is not the most fun we have had. Tyler usually says he is done during short trips around Utah. We did stay in a hotel to break up the trip into two five hour segments but bad roads on the highways to Page, AZ slowed us up. We were all very happy to get to Scott and Pam's (Thanks for everything!). We had a great time in the warm weather and having fun with family. On New Year's Day we left with Grandpa, Grandma, and Scotters to go to Vegas. It was very fun relaxing and swimming in the pool. We enjoyed the room we had in the hotel but missed the family that couldn't make it. The kids were very spoiled. Tyler had his own room next to ours. Almary had fun staying in a room with Grandma and Grandpa, and the older boys stayed in a room with Uncle Scott. Bryce did mention tonight after we got back when we were talking about the trip and laying by him that Uncle Scott forgot to lay by him too at the hotel. We thought that was pretty sweet. So next time Scott will have to lay by Bryce for minute when he goes to bed.

I didn't do much picture taking with my bigger camera but here are a couple shots with the cell phone.

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Tyler getting ready for a bite of grandma's ice cream

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Tyler celebrating Katie's B-day

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Katie's hair celebrating her b-day (on the trampoline)

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Ryan and Bryce playing as Bryce calls it "Mario cars"

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Bellagio water show and Eiffel Tower

Pictures from Tyler's Torture

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Crossing the cankles and saying are we done yet?

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Kick stand for the jowels (He succumbs moments later to the mass and sleep)

Ty-Ty Update

Vacation makes it hard to stop to update the blog. Tyler had an echo-cardiogram and EKG up at Primary Children's Hospital Friday December 19, 2008. The wait was extra long at Primary's versus the office at Orem. The results were good again. He valve pre and post pressure difference was about the same as last time which is good news with his growth.

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Tyler getting an echo-cardiogram (more expensive ultra sound)

We have to use every toy and entertainment device at our disposal to get him to keep laying still. The last ditch effort is usually a sucker.

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Tyler getting an EKG. They use more nodes than when I did my own in anatomy in college. I am sure it provides a lot more detail.

Cute kids sayings

Bryce has been waking up in the middle of the night for the last couple of nights. He comes in and has to lay by mommy and daddy until we make him go back to bed. Usually he ends up back in our bed at least one more time 10 - 15 minutes later. We have told him in the past that if he wakes up to roll over and go back to sleep. Cheri was reminding him of this idea when he lights up and says "ok mommy when I wake up I will roll all the way back to my bed" with a that's great idea mommy grin. He was thinking that it would be a great idea to lay with mommy and daddy and then instead of walking back to bed, he could roll on the floor all the way to bed.

Ryan also had a funny moment. He talking about a dinosaur show and said something about Broccoli-o-saurus. Mommy said you mean Brachiosaurus. He said yea Broccoli-o-saurus. Well they are vegetarian and like eat vegetables.

Thanksgiving

We had a great time having Thanksgiving in Idaho. Dinner was great since we had the kids eat in the garage while the adults ate just inside the door. My dad's house has great insulation so when Thanksgiving dinner is cooked, the house gets really hot. My sister had the idea to open the garage door to let the house heat up the garage. It felt very nice and the kids could be messier (just spray it all down with a hose) and noisier.

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Thanks to cute Kaden who was a super nice cousin. He pushed Bryce on the swings a couple of times. Bryce referred to him as "his friend."

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I probably played a little too may games on the computer for Cheri's sanity. My brother Paul and sister Maren play an online linked game Lord of the Rings. It was pretty fun.

The kids made some cute Indian headbands.

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Ryan doing some peace moves?

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crazy Indian!

Today was a great adventure. All three boys have been throwing up. Bryce doesn't seem to get what is good for his stomach. Right after throwing up he is ready to eat and drink whatever. On the way out of the Wilkerson Center at BYU after he threw up ,he didn't think it was fair that mommy got a big drink and he couldn't. We could let Ryan eat or drink whatever he wants because his stomach tells him he doesn't want any.

Bryce Mouse

When we were getting the kids quite for prayer time, Bryce says out of the blue "I'm a mouse" as he holds his ears out. Bryce says some pretty cute things. I took a picture so the other kids got in on the action.


Ryan is a big collector of any and all toys (Almary is too for that matter). I have to laugh when he tries to carry everything. Usually someone else is coerced into helping but sometimes he can carry everything as seen in one of the pictures in the slideshow below.

It is always fun watching Tyler walk. I have to laugh when you see someone so short walking. He can walk as far as 20 feet without falling but most often will fall a couple of times. He is now over 20 lb (20lb 6 oz) at the last doctor's visit. All of the kids got their flu shots. Almary threatened to be a difficult patient but she pulled through in the end. She has been know to need assistance when getting shots (1 doctor and two nurses). I can image that would make the shot hurt more when flexing like that.