We moved

For those of you who don't know. We had to move back to Utah. We felt like it was the right decision for our family, but I was having a really hard time because I fell in love with Colorado. I knew that we needed to move, but I was making the decision very difficult for Kevin. Until we got notice that the people who own the lot we lived on was taking over the house because our landlords didn't pay the lot rent. We had to get out in a hurry. Thankfully the Elder's Quorum and a couple of ladies from Relief Society came and helped us pack up and get everything loaded into the truck.

I am really sad because Cheltzi LOVED her school and we can't find one here. Here is a picture of her with her Teacher, Mrs. J and the T.A. Ms. C. 

And the only picture I took on Thanksgiving.

Doing what guys do best. Watching Football.

Happy Birthday Sweet Face

Today is Kevin's 25th birthday. I am so lucky to be married to him.

Thank you Veterans

Happy Birthday Big Boy!!!

Today is my Dominik's birthday!! 

Still new in the hospital

After church nap in his first church outfit

Photo shoot with mommy's new camera. He got quite annoyed.

Sitting up- FINALLY!!

In the hospital. On his way to radiology

At Hogle Zoo. We got bored at the hospital waiting for Cousin Aubrey to come.

Getting ready to go to Daddy's work Christmas party.

Smuggling stuffed animals.

Waiting for birthday dinner

Eating his delicious cake.

The cake

Nice little family drive

We took a little trip to Aspen on Tuesday. It was pretty fun. We chatted, drove, napped (well the kids slept on the way there and I slept on the way back. Kevin drove haha!), walked, and played. I even played and about broke my nose. 

Aunt Corey

July 21, 1968- October 13 2008

Aunt Corey's obituary

Apple Orchard, Cheltzi's First Field Trip

Today was Cheltzi's first school field trip. It was SOOOO cold this morning. Cheltzi had on a jacket and a coat when we got to school, but when we went back to the school to follow the bus she only had her jacket on. Her teacher didn't know she had a coat to put on also. Mommy came to the rescue though. I gave her the hoodie that I had on.

In light of recent events, Kevin decided to come with us. So Kevin, Dominik, and I followed the school bus to the orchard.

On the way to the orchard

We're here!

Not happy because it was so cold

Daddy helping Cheltzi pick apples

Nik helping pick apples

Eating the "fruits" of her labor... HAHA

I was going to upload a video of Nik, but I couldn't get it to work. Anyone know how to do it with this new bloggger toolbar thing?

My Poor Girl

We had to go to Glenwood Springs today to get my CO driver's liscense. Since Kevin now works in Glenwood and we only have one car at the moment the kids and I got up early and took Kevin to work. We came back home and I took Cheltzi straight to school. She was a little bit late, but she got there. She had a little accident on the slide. She has a scuff under her right eye. Since she has such a rotten time I took her to Family Dollar and let her pick a little surprise and a treat. We went to Glenwood and sat FOREVER waiting until it was my turn. We got done and had to run to a restroom. Dominik had spilled some milk and needs new pants anyways so I bought him some from K-mart. They fit him really wierd. But anyways, we got a snack and left the mall. Kevin hadn't had lunch so we went and got him something to eat. The kids had fallen asleep so I decided to go get gas and then just go to the park and wait for them to wake up so we could play. Cheltzi woke up and I took her out to play. Nik was alseep the entire time. We swung for quite a while then she wanted to go on the slide. She climbed up a cool little thing that was supposed to be like a rock wall. It was probably about 7 or 8 feet to the the platform. She did it once and did just great. She went down the slide and wanted to do it again. I said that was fine and I waited at the end of the slide for her. All of a sudden I hear her scream. I looked over and she was falling! I felt so bad. She didn't move until I got to her. I rolled her over and I could tell she was in pain and she had knocked the wind out of herself. I got her to settle down so she could start breathing normally and I scooped her up and took her to the car. I called my dad to see what I should check for. Cheltzi just cried and screamed the whole time so I decided to take her into the ER just to make sure. We were there for a very long time before the doctor was able to come and see us. Cheltzi had settled down, but was so sore and hurting that she just couldn't quit moving. The doctor finally came in after more than 2 hours of us waiting. GAH!!! For some reason she has a fever. The last time we took it, it was at 102. I don't know if she had a fever before she fell, but she hadn't been acting sick at all. She says her belly hurts really bad so I am watching her close tonight to see how she does. She has already woken up wimpering once. Luckily nothing is broken that the dr. could tell. I am going to keep her home from school because of her fever and I'm sure she's going to be really sore. I feel so bad for her.

Where were you?

On Sept 11, 2001 I had just gotten off of work and was laying down in my mom and dad's room relaxing before I fell asleep. My mom came home from taking my little brother to school. And we watched the second plane crash into the South Tower. It was very surreal. I remember watching the news every chance I could get. Here is a video I found from www.lds.org. It is very touching and you might need a tissue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkWc_EKLs4E

World Suicide Prevention Day.

First Day of School

Cheltzi has started pre-k. The first day went very well. She barely gave me a kiss goodbye, though. It was a little sad, but not surprising. It didn't really hit me that she is in school until I went to pick her up and saw her on the playground with all of her classmates. She told me that someone called her a "poop head" after she called them "Sharpay". I told her that maybe she shouldn't call people other names because they may not know what she is talking about. She was also a little upset that they didn't do any writing. She is really anxious to start writing. I think it's cute. Here are some pictures of her first day.

This is Cheltzi walking to class with her friend. (They were in dance together.)

Here she is trying to get her backpack hung up.

Not in the Blogging Mood

I have not been in the blogging mood. I have tons of pictures to share, but I just don't have it in me to post them right now. I am going to be visiting family in Utah for the next few weeks. When I get back I will write up a few update posts. Sorry I have been so out of touch lately. I am still planning on doing my contest so feel free to comment.

My girl is growing up.

Cheltzi was asked to do the scripture and prayer during closing exercises in primary. The scripture was from the Book of Mormon. Mosiah 4:15 But ye will teach then to walk in the ways of truth and soberness; ye will teach them to love one another, and to serve one another. She was not nervous at all being in front of all the kids and teachers. I was so proud of her.

I got sick of doing the random posts and I have some fun things I would rather post about, but I am still doing the contest. So comment away!

Randomness Contest: 21-40

21. I LOVE Billy Ray Cyrus. I have since I was in middle school. My mom let me stay up late one night so I could watch a special on TV. MMM Baby! I watch Hannah Montana just for him.

22. I share a birthday with Elvis Presley and I DO NOT like it. Yuck!

23. Kevin's favorite memory of us dating is when we took a ride to Idaho Falls for my cousin's baby's blessing. It was when he told me that he wanted to marry me. Up to this point of our relationship he NEVER wanted to marry anyone.

24. Cheltzi LOVES princesses.

25. I like girly 80's music.

26. I am the middle child. I have one older brother and one younger brother.

26. Kevin is the youngest of 3. He has one sister and one brother.

27. Cheltzi was almost 8 months old when she was blessed.

28. Kevin was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Oct. 2002

29. I hate round-a-bouts. Especially when there is one right after another one.

30. Cheltzi loves roundy-rounds (see above)

31. The gazebo at our wedding took out half of our guests. We had to stop the ceremony and re-do it at the church.

32. Cheltzi is a horrible back seat driver.

33. We have started comparing our Maxy to Marley. He is the sweetest dog and we love him, but he is horrible.

34. Max's favorite chew toy is a squeaky fish that we got in the dollar stuff at Target.

35. Dominik likes to dress up. I have not taken a picture of his dress up because I'm afraid of what Kevin will say. Nik likes necklaces especially.

36. I am a Coke addict.

37. Kevin is also a Coke addict.

38. Dominik torments Cheltzi more than she torments him.

39. We have one dog (Max) and one cat (Sunshine).

40. Sunshine is named after a puppy I had that died.

Just a reminder. All you have to do is comment on this post and you will be put in for the drawing. If you have commented for the contest already that is great! Post again and you get your name in the drawing again.

20 Random Things About Me and My Family- Count Down to 100th Post

All you have to do to be eligible for the prize is comment on each post from now until my 100th post. Each time you comment you will be put in for the drawing. You can have your name put in up to 5 times.

1. Kevin and I were married July 16th 2004
2. Both Cheltzi's and Dominik's first word was Thank you
3. Kevin is almost 2 years younger than me.
4. I was 21 and he was 19 when we got married.
5. Cheltzi was born about 7 1/2 months after we got married, but I was not pregnant with her when we got married.
6. Kevin and I lived in San Antonio for 2 months while I was pregnant with Cheltzi.
7. Even though Dominik was not a preemie he still had trouble breathing after he was born and had a few little developmental delays.
8. Cheltzi was preemie and hasn't had any developmental delays. Other than learning suck, swallow, breathe.
9. Cheltzi and Dominik were both born at 39 minutes past their hour of birth. Cheltzi was born at 4:39 p.m. and Dominik was born at 7:39 p.m.
10. I pop my knuckles. My mom has always hated it.
11. My favorite book growing up was Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary
12. Dominik's favorite food right now is "nananas" (Bananas).
13. I like Colorado more than I thought I would.
14. We still don't have Colorado Driver's Licenses, but we will be working on that this week.
15. I am not a fan of Star Wars.
16. Before Kevin got this job in Colorado he was accepted to Weber State University and was going to major in accounting.
17. Cheltzi has the same middle name as my dad. Dominik has the same middle name as Kevin. Cheltzi Lynn and Dominik Alexander
18. I use Garnier Frutise hair products.
19. Our new favorite treat is Oreo Fun Stix dipped in Nutella.
20. Cheltzi is a night owl and Dominik will fall asleep as soon as I put him in his bed.

100th Post Ideas

I am almost to my 100th post. I need some ideas here. Now that I have a few more bloggy buddies I want to do something super fun, but I don't know what to do. Do I have a give-a-way (something hand made by me), Do I just do a "100 Random things about me" type of a post. These are just a couple of idea that I have. If anyone else has a great plan or something they did that was fun please let me know. I am so stumped here.

This One is For My Cheltzi

Cheltzi has been spending the week with my mom and dad. While she's been gone I'm trying to get her room all put together so she can come home to something special. My sister in law, Jessica came to help me yesterday. We got the bed put together and the vinyl lettering put up. I can't find her quilt cover, but as soon as I do and finish getting her room totally done I will post pictures of her entire room.

New Moon

Cheltzisms

Update: after laughing so hard about what she said and telling my mom about it. Cheltzi told me she actually said BAD guys, not FAT guys....

Cheltzi: What are we watching, daddy?

Daddy: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Cheltzi: Oh, does it have fat guys in it?

Where does she come up with these things? She cracks me up!


We went to Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park for some Memorial Day fun. They have a new (since the last time we went) attraction called 4-D Theater. We watch Snow Ride and Haunted Mine. The seats move around and it makes you feel like you are actually in the action. In the Haunted Mine show you run into a box of dynamite and there are sparks and fire everywhere. Cheltzi was trying to explain this to my mom and at first I had no idea what she was talking about. Once I finally caught on I said, "No, Cheltzi not fireworks. It's called dynamite." She was still talking to my mom so she said, "Oh no, Nana, it was dynafiremite." I laughed so hard it took me a while to stop.

Happy Mother's Day

These two are the reason I am able to celebrate Mother's Day. Cheltzi and Dominik are truly a blessing to me. I thank my Father in Heaven every single day for them.

It's Coming Together...

I don't know if I can take a video from Fox 13 and post it here, so I'm just going to post the link for the video. The home invasion that happened while I was in Utah was gang related. It was a White Supremacist gang.

http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-alleged-ringleader-arrested-midvale-invasion,0,7403846.story

Something You Never Want To Get Woken Up By

First of all I am in Utah again. Just for a fun little surprise visit. We were only going to stay one night, but my mom and dad talked me into staying through my mom's days off so she could have more lovin' time with Cheltzi and Dominik. We had so much fun and I once again forgot my camera. On Saturday I was able to see one of my very good friends who I haven't seen since we moved last June. It was so fun. Home Depot has a kids day the first Saturday of every month. We joined my friend Erin, her fiance Dave, and her girls Caity and Heather and we put together wheelbarrow planters for Mother's Day. You should have seen Cheltzi and I trying to hammer together. We put it together wrong several times, oh you should have seen us. With a little bit of help from Dave we figured it out and it turned out really fun. Cheltzi even picked a flower for it. Oh the Best part of the whole thing is we only had to pay for the plant! It was completely free. She got an orange apron, a pin, and a certificate. I am going to see if the Home Depot (if there is one) in Grand Junction does it too. It was so fun and I think Kevin would have a blast taking Cheltzi to do these little projects. Next we moved on to Walmart. Lego's sent 200 lego flowerpot kits to my mom's walmart. It was also FREE! Cheltzi was so excited because her Nana was helping with the projects and she got to help her. The rest of Saturday was pretty uneventful. Sunday I was able to go up to Tremonton and visit my Nana. I loved it. I even called one of my Aunties to come over for a visit. I have some pretty amazing women in my family. Nana is right up at the top. I love her so much. On Monday my mom took me to some fabulous fabric/quilt shops. Oh how I hate not having money. There were a few patterns I wanted to get so i could make some wall hangings for my new house. Oh yeah! We moved!! We are still in Colorado, we just moved into a house that we have the option to buy. We are thinking very seriously about it. Anyways after the quilt stores we had to run to Walmart because I needed some medicine for my throat. I could barely talk. After Walmart we went to Gardner Village and I got so many fun and cute ideas for Chetlzi's room. I am so excited to get started on it. The ideas I got are going to be so easy and so much cheaper if I do it all myself. I can hardly contain myself. The kids got ornery so we went back home for a nap. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. I made a delicious dinner and we went to bed fairly early because mom had to work today (Tuesday).

So that brings us to early this morning. VERY EARLY! A little bit after 1:30 a,m. my dad came in the living room to turn of the computer and the t.v. and it kind of woke me up. I was just about asleep and I heard a really loud pop, pop, pop, pop. I wen running into my parents room and both of them were awake. I was shaking because it startled me so bad. My dad said he was laying in bed and he heard a gunshot, a girl scream and a guy go running so he called 911. By the time I woke up and heard more gunshots Midvale Police, Sandy Police, SWAT, Gang Unit, and CSI were all over the place. There were quite a few more gunshots. Then we heard a big bang. My dad said it was either a shotgun or maybe a smoke bomb thing. Then we heard and felt a huge boom we thought maybe it was a flash bang, but this morning we found out they blew a door off a garage. The story the news is saying doesn't really make sense to me because there were so many gunshots. Apparently some people were in their apartment playing video games and at about 1:30 a.m. Some people came to the door. (First mistake the tenants made: Opening the door in the middle of the night HELLO!) A guy opened the door and noticed that the people at the door had guns so he tried to shut the door on him and he got stabbed in the hand. The intruders got into the apartment and made the tenants go into the back room of the apartment. One of the guys started beating up a girl so her boyfriend jumped in to defend her and somehow he got the gun and shot the guy. He died. The rest of the people (bad guys) ran away. The last I heard they hadn't identified the guy that died. They had the Gang Unit in there trying to identify tattoos. One of the witnesses said he saw someone go into a garage. I guess that's when they blew up the door. It was so crazy and I am so ready to go home to my quiet little community. Go to Fox 13 or KSL. The last time I was on either website KSL had more to say about it than Fox. It was just super scary and something I hope I never have to witness again.

Fun In Utah

For Easter we were supposed to go to Wyoming, but in the end we wound up in Utah. I forgot to take my camera with us when we took the kids to the Easter egg hunt. It was fabulous. We just went to the hunt that was put on by the apartments where my mom and dad live. It wasn't overly crowded and Cheltzi did very well all by her self. Well with a little but of help from Papa. Here are a few pictures from our swimming fun. This was the first time Dominik has played in a swimming pool he was so cute and I think he's going to follow in his mommy's footsteps as a swimmer.

Getting ready

Playing with Papa

Playing in the Car

Cheltzi Toss

Cheese

Climbing Up to Jump In

Back Float

More Laziness

I have not updated out of pure laziness. I think the same thing happened last year! Maybe I will update later tonight when I have more time. My living room is in desperate need of a good cleaning. I would post before and after pictures, but it is so horribly messy that it's embarrassing and I'm not going to!

4 Years

Four years ago after 20 days in the NICU Cheltzi Lynn was able to come home to live with us. It was Easter Sunday! The hospital doesn't normally do discharges on Sunday, but I pushed for it. I was so ready for her to be home and I think she was ready to be home.

March 7, 2005 Cheltzi was born at 33 weeks. As soon as I had her the dr. layed her on my tummy. The first thing I saw was her tiny grey bum and lots of dark dark hair. I wasn't able to see her face. As soon as they cut the cord they rushed her away and her daddy went with her. I cried and screamed for my baby. It was the worst feeling in the world to me. Kevin came back in the OR with me and told me that she was breathing and wiggling around. I found out later this was a HUGE lie and he only did it to get me to quit crying. Her first Apgar score was 2 because her heart was beating. Then it was 7, and then 9. I don't know the exact time frame that she was on the vent. She was on it the first time I saw her and off it the second time I saw her. I am guessing anywhere from 8-12 hours. She was so beautiful. She looked exactly like me when I was a baby. (was that a little conceited?) After she was off the vent she wasn't even on oxygen. She had to be under the bililights. The biggest hurdles we had to cross were getting her to eat and getting rid of the infection that I passed to her in utero. The infection was the reason I went into preterm labor. I had been uncomfortable the whole night before, but I thought it was just part of being pregnant. My back was killing me. My aunt had even asked me if I was okay and I told her no not really. I hurt so bad. I was the last one to leave my aunt and uncle's house that night. I cried all the way home and I had to drive myself. When I got home I think I just went to bed. I woke up around 4 because I felt like I needed to go to the bathroom. I went to the bathroom I sat on the toilet for so loooong. I finally decided that I just couldn't go and I would try to get more sleep. As I stood up to pull my pants up I gushed. I freaked out and woke up my dad. He told me to take the truck to the hospital (we had just gutted the bathroom and the truck had a toilet in it.) My mom had taken my car to work because her car wasn't registered. After I talked to my dad for a few minutes and deciding he wasn't much help in my situation I woke Kevin up. He jumped up and put his shoes on and one of his nice button up shirts. He had his sweat pants on. If you knew Kevin at this time you would know that was not normal for him. I sat down because I was hurting so bad and "water" was gushing everywhere. Kevin came into the kitchen and asked me if we could just fix it. Oh my poor husband. We finally decided to call my mom at work and had her come home early to take us to the hospital. There was NO way I was going to the hospital in the truck. We got to the hospital and into L&D. The nurse said she had to check me to make sure that my water really had broke. I was irritated by this because what else would be gushing out of me like that? They got their tape thing out and it confirmed that my water had indeed broke. They called in Dr. S and he talked to me for a minute and told me I needed to decide which hospital I wanted to be transferred to because I could not have Cheltzi at the hospital we had gone to. We chose Mckay-Dee because my dad had done clinicals there and he said he thought it would be the best hospital to take care of Cheltzi. I never really panicked about having Cheltzi early until the nurse told me while in the ambulance that the medicine they were giving me was so that I wouldn't have her in the hospital. SCARY!! My labor was pretty much uneventful. The epidural was amazing and my nervous husband wouldn't let me sleep. He said I couldn't sleep while I was in labor!? My mom and Kevin would tell me when I was having a contraction and then say ooh that was a big one. My dad thought he was funny by being "Johnny Bench". If I would have been able to move my legs he would have gotten kicked! It was nice to have my family there with me. Kevin, Mom and CJ were there pretty much the whole time. Dad was in and out because he had classes. CJ got to miss school. Lucky Ducky. When I was finally ready to push and have Cheltzi they took me into the OR. We were in there for..E.V.E.R! I wasn't dilated as much as they thought so we had to wait, but they didn't take my legs out of the stirrups while we were waiting and the doctors and nurses were cracking jokes. GRR. When Cheltzi was crowning the doctor commented on all of her hair. Kevin was so excited he wanted to see his daughter born, but didn't want to leave my side. He held my hand and stretched so he could see her. He went with her while they worked on her. I had a few problems after I had her and I was in recovery for 2 hours instead of one. I was so out of it I can't really remember the first time I saw her. I have absolutely no idea what the Neonatologist even said to me.

Cheltzi is now happy and healthy. And she has quite the attitude. Some days she makes me laugh and some days I just want to scream and pull my hair out, but I am so grateful for her. I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for allowing me to have her here on this earth. I love her so much. I have loved watching her grow and learn.