For dinner we had pesto and noodles, green fruit salad with green Cool Whip, and green Sprite with mint chocolate chip ice cream in green cones for dessert. I would most definitely call our day a success!
Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts
Monday, March 18, 2013
St. Patrick's Day
This year, the leprechaun made an appearance at our house! He turned furniture upside down, made a mess of books and movies, and left golden treasures everywhere he went. When the boys woke up, they couldn't believe what the leprechaun had done. He also left a basket of goodies and Lucky Charms for breakfast. And he turned the milk green!
For dinner we had pesto and noodles, green fruit salad with green Cool Whip, and green Sprite with mint chocolate chip ice cream in green cones for dessert. I would most definitely call our day a success!
For dinner we had pesto and noodles, green fruit salad with green Cool Whip, and green Sprite with mint chocolate chip ice cream in green cones for dessert. I would most definitely call our day a success!
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Major Update in the Making
I realize I'm way behind on this whole blogging thing. So behind, in fact, that blogger changed everything and I feel like I'm relearning how to post!
Tanner is sick today so I figured while Montana is at church with Mason and Peyton, I will attempt to update the blog. I have so many pictures to post so it's gonna be lots of pictures and a few words! And if I'm feeling ambitious, then some pictures will get their own post. Just FYI, I will backdate the pictures with their own posts...and there are a lot of new posts!
Back in January (yes, I'm that far behind) Montana and I celebrated our 8th Anniversary. My mom came down to our house to watch the kids so we could take off for the day. We headed up to Midway to go sledding. It was a lot of fun!
Then we hit up a little diner type place in Heber for lunch. We ended with a trip to the movies to see Jack and Jill. It was just so nice to get away for a little bit and to celebrate!
My mom helped the kids make a cookie bouquet for us while we were gone. It was delicious!
We finally got a little bit of snow in January so the kids had to make a snowman.
I caught Mason reading on the counter one afternoon....
Tanner is just cute!
Tanner playing the piano with Uncle Eric on his last day of living with us.
On St. Patrick's Day, we headed to my parent's home for family birthdays. Trent was also in his school's play, Alice in Wonderland. We went to the play and then stopped at the Veteran's Memorial Monument. The have a monument for those that served in the Korean War. My Grandpa Thayne served and it was fun to find his name.
Tanner is sick today so I figured while Montana is at church with Mason and Peyton, I will attempt to update the blog. I have so many pictures to post so it's gonna be lots of pictures and a few words! And if I'm feeling ambitious, then some pictures will get their own post. Just FYI, I will backdate the pictures with their own posts...and there are a lot of new posts!
Back in January (yes, I'm that far behind) Montana and I celebrated our 8th Anniversary. My mom came down to our house to watch the kids so we could take off for the day. We headed up to Midway to go sledding. It was a lot of fun!
Then we hit up a little diner type place in Heber for lunch. We ended with a trip to the movies to see Jack and Jill. It was just so nice to get away for a little bit and to celebrate!
My mom helped the kids make a cookie bouquet for us while we were gone. It was delicious!
We finally got a little bit of snow in January so the kids had to make a snowman.
I caught Mason reading on the counter one afternoon....
Tanner is just cute!
Tanner playing the piano with Uncle Eric on his last day of living with us.
On St. Patrick's Day, we headed to my parent's home for family birthdays. Trent was also in his school's play, Alice in Wonderland. We went to the play and then stopped at the Veteran's Memorial Monument. The have a monument for those that served in the Korean War. My Grandpa Thayne served and it was fun to find his name.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Two Weeks Post-Op
I really can't believe that it has been two weeks since we sent our little Peyters to the operating room with the anesthesiologist. He is doing amazingly well. Last Saturday, he decided to pull off the SteriStrips sometime while he was sleeping. He was awake for two hours before I realized they were gone. Therefore, his incision opened up again and this time it was a little longer and wider then the last time. But since I am pretty much a nurse already, I just cleaned it with Betadine and put new SteriStrips on top and then called Bonnie. She just told us to make sure he doesn't touch it. Well, we tried to find a onesie that would fit him but they had to be ordered online and I wasn't gonna pay outrageous shipping just to have it in a day...otherwise it would probably arrive after we didn't need it. So, we decided to wrap an ACE bandage type thing around his chest (loosely) and so far we haven't had any issues. Oh, and he also has to wear his sleeper jammies instead of just a shirt.
So, other than the stitches issue, he is doing so well. I have to make sure he has Ibuprofen in his system all the time otherwise he throws up. And it's usually in the middle of the night. If I don't catch it in time, then I'm doing laundry in the middle of the night as well. So, we just make it easy and give him Ibuprofen. He doesn't like to take his medicine, but he does it. And he doesn't care for the oxygen but he wears it. He is such a trooper with so much energy. He still has to take a nap otherwise he is unbearable right around dinner time. He constantly asks to watch a movie or play MarioKart. And lately, that's what he has been doing so that I can get things done.
On Friday, Mason went to his cousin's house and spent the night. It was so nice to get a break. Sometimes Mason is the grouchiest, whinniest, must unagreeable child in the house. So, Montana and I took Peyton and Tanner to BYU to see the Carl Bloch exhibit at the Museum of Art. It was pretty amazing! And then we went and got ice cream. Peyton had a lot of fun being the center of attention.
Then on Saturday, Montana and I were able to do some spring cleaning. It felt so good to go through clothes and toys and books and the basement. We had lots of stuff that just needed to be put back where it belongs. I feel like my house is quite a bit cleaner just cause lots of the clutter is gone.
For St. Patrick's Day, we all wore green (except Montana) and I attempted to make shamrock pancakes for breakfast.
That was the extent of our green food. (We did have green beans with dinner...does that count?!?) I just couldn't do any more than that. I figure I have an excuse this year. Hopefully next year we can do some more fun things! It was also crazy hair day at school and that's a little difficult with a boy. He wanted his hair spiked and a mowhawk in the middle. So, we attempted and he was satisfied!
Oh and we went to DI and found this awesome tent. Now we can go camping when it gets a bit warmer!
Cute Tanner
So, other than the stitches issue, he is doing so well. I have to make sure he has Ibuprofen in his system all the time otherwise he throws up. And it's usually in the middle of the night. If I don't catch it in time, then I'm doing laundry in the middle of the night as well. So, we just make it easy and give him Ibuprofen. He doesn't like to take his medicine, but he does it. And he doesn't care for the oxygen but he wears it. He is such a trooper with so much energy. He still has to take a nap otherwise he is unbearable right around dinner time. He constantly asks to watch a movie or play MarioKart. And lately, that's what he has been doing so that I can get things done.
On Friday, Mason went to his cousin's house and spent the night. It was so nice to get a break. Sometimes Mason is the grouchiest, whinniest, must unagreeable child in the house. So, Montana and I took Peyton and Tanner to BYU to see the Carl Bloch exhibit at the Museum of Art. It was pretty amazing! And then we went and got ice cream. Peyton had a lot of fun being the center of attention.
Then on Saturday, Montana and I were able to do some spring cleaning. It felt so good to go through clothes and toys and books and the basement. We had lots of stuff that just needed to be put back where it belongs. I feel like my house is quite a bit cleaner just cause lots of the clutter is gone.
For St. Patrick's Day, we all wore green (except Montana) and I attempted to make shamrock pancakes for breakfast.
That was the extent of our green food. (We did have green beans with dinner...does that count?!?) I just couldn't do any more than that. I figure I have an excuse this year. Hopefully next year we can do some more fun things! It was also crazy hair day at school and that's a little difficult with a boy. He wanted his hair spiked and a mowhawk in the middle. So, we attempted and he was satisfied!
Oh and we went to DI and found this awesome tent. Now we can go camping when it gets a bit warmer!
Cute Tanner
Thursday, March 25, 2010
I LOVE Strawberry Jam!
I went to a store yesterday cause they had a sale on strawberries. I had good intentions of only buying one or two pounds so we could eat them. And then when I get to the store, I check the prices and realized that I could get 11 pounds of strawberries for $10. I couldn't pass it up...since the baby hasn't come yet. So I bought 11 pounds of strawberries and made strawberry jam this morning. It's a good thing it goes fast cause by the end I was exhausted...and it only took 2 hours. But now I have lots of jam to go in my freezer and I don't have to worry about it after the baby is here!
These strawberries...
Turned into this jam!!!
And here are a few random things from the last couple of weeks!
This is me at 37 weeks! Only a few more weeks and hopefully he'll come early!
On Sunday, Mason made Montana and I Easter Baskets. It was so cute and he was so proud of what he did! He made a mask for each of us with our favorite animals on them. Montana's was a whale (or maybe a shark) and mine was a tiger. He also added a dinosaur, an easter egg, and two treats! He really can't wait for Easter.
Montana's Basket
My Basket
We took the boys to a park the other day when it was fairly warm. They had a lot of fun riding their bike and scooter, playing at the park, and feeding the ducks.
And last but not least, we had a very green dinner for St. Patrick's Day. (Green Jello, Green Alfredo with Broccoli, and Green Soda.) And we added Irish Soda Bread and Toffee Shortbread. The boys thought it was so fun to have everything green!
After I took a picture of my food, both of the boys wanted a picture of them with their green clothes and green dinner!
Oh and we took Mason bowling when Grandma Randee was in town and I got a video of him bowling that is just so darling cute!
These strawberries...
Turned into this jam!!!
And here are a few random things from the last couple of weeks!
This is me at 37 weeks! Only a few more weeks and hopefully he'll come early!
On Sunday, Mason made Montana and I Easter Baskets. It was so cute and he was so proud of what he did! He made a mask for each of us with our favorite animals on them. Montana's was a whale (or maybe a shark) and mine was a tiger. He also added a dinosaur, an easter egg, and two treats! He really can't wait for Easter.
Montana's Basket
My Basket
We took the boys to a park the other day when it was fairly warm. They had a lot of fun riding their bike and scooter, playing at the park, and feeding the ducks.
And last but not least, we had a very green dinner for St. Patrick's Day. (Green Jello, Green Alfredo with Broccoli, and Green Soda.) And we added Irish Soda Bread and Toffee Shortbread. The boys thought it was so fun to have everything green!
After I took a picture of my food, both of the boys wanted a picture of them with their green clothes and green dinner!
Oh and we took Mason bowling when Grandma Randee was in town and I got a video of him bowling that is just so darling cute!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
A Week In Review...or a little more!
Just a heads up...this is a long post! Lots has happened since our last little post. To start, Peyton was up again on his weight at the doctor today. His Pediatrician said that we can send back his feeding pump and be done with the tube FOR GOOD! It was such great and exciting news...And we only have one more synagis shot! Peyton has also wanted to start eating anything and everything that we put in front of him. If we don't give him some of our dinner, he gets mad and refuses to eat his dinner. I guess that's good except he doesn't manage some of the foods well enough yet!
Montana keeps asking me when I am going to post about him and the adventures that he has put me through lately. What better time than now?!? On the 13th of March, Montana decided to throw a curve ball into my day. I was cleaning the house, doing laundry, going to the store, etc., so I would be ready for my mom to come and stay with me Friday night and Saturday. Well, around noon I received a phone call from Montana saying that he needed me to pick him up at work. He had the car at work and I didn't understand how I was supposed to pick him up without a vehicle. He proceeded to tell me that he was having chest pains and the doctor at work told him to go see his doctor and to NOT drive there. He finally found a ride to the doctor and the doctor sent him to the ER at Orem (right next door). I finally found a babysitter and a ride to Montana's work to pick up the car and I headed to the ER.
When I got there, all of Montana's tests were coming back...NEGATIVE. This is awesome news when you have chest pain! The doctor at the ER called a cardiologist at Utah Valley Regional and we were given a couple of options. Montana could be put on a bunch of meds and go home for the weekend and come back on Monday for a stress test. If this test showed anything, then he would have to go in for an angiogram (heart cath - Peyton has had about three of these, I think). Our other option was to go straight to Utah Valley Regional and just have the angiogram. Side note - Montana's dad has had heart problems for a lot of his life...including heart attacks, triple bypass... Because of Montana's dad's history, we decided to go with the angiogram. Since Montana went to Orem with chest pain, I couldn't drive him to Utah Valley Regional...he had to go by ambulance...just what we need, more bills! I went to pick up the kids from the babysitter and get somebody lined up to give Montana a blessing and hurry to Utah Valley Regional to make sure they didn't start the angiogram before we arrived. Well, I got there with the kids and two men from our ward and Montana still hadn't left the Orem Hospital. He finally showed up and we all went to his room. This was about 4:00PM.
My mom arrived and we took the kids to get dinner and then went back to the room to wait. The techs came at 6:00PM to take Montana to the Cath Lab. We followed him down and waited, and waited, and waited.
Finally they wheeled him out and the tech told me that there was some disease and the cardiologist would be out to talk to me in a minute! Well, we waited and waited and waited and waited............ About 20 minutes later, the cardiologist came out. I was so nervous by then that I couldn't even help my kids. Good thing my mom was there! The cardiologist explained that there was only some plaque in Montana's arteries but nothing that was causing trouble right now. He put him on a low-fat diet and 4 different meds and said he would be released from the hospital in a couple of hours. I was finally able to breathe again and we went up to see Montana. He doesn't remember us coming into the room at all. The boys were able to see him for a minute and then we took them home to put them to bed. On the drive home, I explained to Mason that I was going to put him to bed and then go back to get Montana. He started to cry and I asked him what was wrong. He then said, "But I didn't get to say goodnight to him". He was pretty upset so I told him we would call when we got home. He forgot until I put him in bed and then I had to tell him that the phone wouldn't ring in his room because it was so late and it would just go to the nurse. He was okay with that! My mom stayed with the boys and I went back to the hospital to pick up Montana. I asked the nurse, while we there, why Montana had chest pains if no arteries were blocked or partially blocked. Her theory, as well as ours, was that it was a blessing in disguise...Heavenly Father's way of saying that something needed to change so that Montana doesn't end up with a heart attack early on in life. He recovered well from the angiogram and he has lost over 10 pounds since! I was definitely ready for a break by the time he was up and moving again!
We had a very fun St. Patrick's Day! We started off with a Preschool Party for Mason at our house. The kids had a great time and the weather was wonderful for us to hold most of the party outside. We had green waffles and green orange juice for dinner that night. We don't have pictures of it because Montana made the dinner and didn't take pictures. Oh well. I did make this cool cake for Preschool though.
Last weekend, we decided to invest in a bike trailer for the boys. We found a bike for me at Savers for cheap and we think it's even nicer than Montana's. On Saturday we took a ride up Provo Canyon. We didn't realize how much of it was uphill until we came back and we flew down the canyon. We packed a lunch and stopped at a park to eat. Mason thought it was great and Peyton got a little nap in. And Montana rode a bike for 10.5 miles that day...I did 6!
Sorry for the long post...Enjoy the pictures!
Montana keeps asking me when I am going to post about him and the adventures that he has put me through lately. What better time than now?!? On the 13th of March, Montana decided to throw a curve ball into my day. I was cleaning the house, doing laundry, going to the store, etc., so I would be ready for my mom to come and stay with me Friday night and Saturday. Well, around noon I received a phone call from Montana saying that he needed me to pick him up at work. He had the car at work and I didn't understand how I was supposed to pick him up without a vehicle. He proceeded to tell me that he was having chest pains and the doctor at work told him to go see his doctor and to NOT drive there. He finally found a ride to the doctor and the doctor sent him to the ER at Orem (right next door). I finally found a babysitter and a ride to Montana's work to pick up the car and I headed to the ER.
When I got there, all of Montana's tests were coming back...NEGATIVE. This is awesome news when you have chest pain! The doctor at the ER called a cardiologist at Utah Valley Regional and we were given a couple of options. Montana could be put on a bunch of meds and go home for the weekend and come back on Monday for a stress test. If this test showed anything, then he would have to go in for an angiogram (heart cath - Peyton has had about three of these, I think). Our other option was to go straight to Utah Valley Regional and just have the angiogram. Side note - Montana's dad has had heart problems for a lot of his life...including heart attacks, triple bypass... Because of Montana's dad's history, we decided to go with the angiogram. Since Montana went to Orem with chest pain, I couldn't drive him to Utah Valley Regional...he had to go by ambulance...just what we need, more bills! I went to pick up the kids from the babysitter and get somebody lined up to give Montana a blessing and hurry to Utah Valley Regional to make sure they didn't start the angiogram before we arrived. Well, I got there with the kids and two men from our ward and Montana still hadn't left the Orem Hospital. He finally showed up and we all went to his room. This was about 4:00PM.
My mom arrived and we took the kids to get dinner and then went back to the room to wait. The techs came at 6:00PM to take Montana to the Cath Lab. We followed him down and waited, and waited, and waited.
Finally they wheeled him out and the tech told me that there was some disease and the cardiologist would be out to talk to me in a minute! Well, we waited and waited and waited and waited............ About 20 minutes later, the cardiologist came out. I was so nervous by then that I couldn't even help my kids. Good thing my mom was there! The cardiologist explained that there was only some plaque in Montana's arteries but nothing that was causing trouble right now. He put him on a low-fat diet and 4 different meds and said he would be released from the hospital in a couple of hours. I was finally able to breathe again and we went up to see Montana. He doesn't remember us coming into the room at all. The boys were able to see him for a minute and then we took them home to put them to bed. On the drive home, I explained to Mason that I was going to put him to bed and then go back to get Montana. He started to cry and I asked him what was wrong. He then said, "But I didn't get to say goodnight to him". He was pretty upset so I told him we would call when we got home. He forgot until I put him in bed and then I had to tell him that the phone wouldn't ring in his room because it was so late and it would just go to the nurse. He was okay with that! My mom stayed with the boys and I went back to the hospital to pick up Montana. I asked the nurse, while we there, why Montana had chest pains if no arteries were blocked or partially blocked. Her theory, as well as ours, was that it was a blessing in disguise...Heavenly Father's way of saying that something needed to change so that Montana doesn't end up with a heart attack early on in life. He recovered well from the angiogram and he has lost over 10 pounds since! I was definitely ready for a break by the time he was up and moving again!
We had a very fun St. Patrick's Day! We started off with a Preschool Party for Mason at our house. The kids had a great time and the weather was wonderful for us to hold most of the party outside. We had green waffles and green orange juice for dinner that night. We don't have pictures of it because Montana made the dinner and didn't take pictures. Oh well. I did make this cool cake for Preschool though.
Last weekend, we decided to invest in a bike trailer for the boys. We found a bike for me at Savers for cheap and we think it's even nicer than Montana's. On Saturday we took a ride up Provo Canyon. We didn't realize how much of it was uphill until we came back and we flew down the canyon. We packed a lunch and stopped at a park to eat. Mason thought it was great and Peyton got a little nap in. And Montana rode a bike for 10.5 miles that day...I did 6!
Sorry for the long post...Enjoy the pictures!
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