I watched my niece, Kasiah for a couple of days while my mom, who normally watches her was visiting my sister in Colorado. Arlee and Kasiah had a great time together. Mostly....They are just youngens. :)

 

Outfits provided by Arlee and her dress up stash! Their tops are from my sister, Lyndsay and the bottoms are from Christmas from me and Hans. the shoes are from Hans' mom for Christmas.

Kasiah wanted to do "silly faces".

I took the Kiddos to The Discovery Gateway the first day we had her over. They played grocery store. That baby on the counter Arlee carried around forever! Okay it was more like the whole time. Everytime that we have been there she goes looking for it. While we are at home as you can imagine it is much the same.

Kasiah rode around in the little cars

Arlee played in the water most of the time.

They played in the Beehive. Arlee was more interested in this than Kasiah, but nonetheless they had fun making faces on the plastic windows.

They had fun together on the weekend.

By the way Kasiah had cut her own hair and that is why it is really really short, especially in some spots.

OKAAAAYYYY! You can say that I am offically irritated... Here is a picture, which by the way is WAAAAAYYYY delayed since I wasn't able to add it forever and now that I thought I figured out the problem it won't let me add it to a post that I need it in. So for now this will have to do. Thanks all.

GOSH!

P.S.

Okay I feel better now. BREATHE!

HELP!!!

Someone please help me! My blog will not let me post any pictures. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Pregnancy...

Well, I think it is about time to announce a pregnancy. I have had my ear surgery and everyone else seems to be doing it. I hope this next time is a good pregnancy. We will have to see what the future brings. No, I am not pregnant, but you better believe that I would love to be. 

For now, this is just giving me an outlet to say please give me the pregnancy hormones! Sooner the better or when the time is right. Just sayin'.

Love,
MMMmmmmeeeee!

2nd Ear Surgery: Jan. 14, 2010

Well as you can tell I had my ear surgery. This time around wasn't nearly as bad. The day started off with us dropping Arlee off at my parents’ house. We got to the surgical center on time and checked in (10:30 AM). They said that my doctor was ahead of schedule; which is always great.  They had me do a pregnancy test like they do for all women and it was negative. I was able to have surgery now.  My doctor came in and talked to me and marked me up so they didn't operate on the wrong ear. Then the anesthesiologist came in and talked with me about the procedure and everything that was going to happen on her part.  She was a pretty funny lady and a joy to talk to. She even asked Hans if I was always this funny and he told her yes. *People have asked Hans this before, but other than today I don't really remember him laughing at me. After we were done talking she put in the IV and took me away. We walked into a room (about 11:45AM) that had two other people in it.  They had me lie on the bed and put some oxygen on me and the next thing I remember is waking up. 
I woke up in pain, cold, itchy, splotchy and feeling like I was going to throw up. I dry heaved Hans told me a couple of times, but never threw up. They gave me some nausea medication anyway. They put a wet wash cloth on my chest where I was splotchy and an ice pack on my neck to cool me off and to help with my nausea.   I got better really quick it seemed like. I kept on falling back asleep so Hans told me that if I keep doing this they were going to keep me here. I don't really remember keeping myself awake, but I guess I woke up enough to go. Hans and the nurse got me dressed (wished it was just Hans, but oh well). Then the next thing I knew I was in the car. Three days after the surgery and I still can't remember getting into the wheelchair and going out to the car. Hans assures me that I didn't walk out, but I am a little skeptical; just joking.
We went and picked up my prescriptions and I pretended that I was sleeping so they wouldn't try and talk to me (too emotional and loopy).  We got home and walking up the stairs was a little tricky... Hans really had to hold on to me.  After we got home (around 6PM) Hans called my mom and told her that she could bring Arlee home.   
My mom came with Arlee and Kasiah. Hans went down to get my throw up bag (I started feeling nauseous again) and to help get all of Arlee's stuff up. By the time Hans came back up with everyone else and gave me the bag I lost it again. I move too fast because something spilled and I think that was all I needed... just a little thrust and it came up. Luckily, I didn't really have anything but sprite, but still nasty. Kasiah and Arlee played for a little while. My mom was waiting for Brady to come and get Kasiah (she cut her hair by herself and they were going to try and get it fixed by Dane's fiancé, Lindsay). For some reason, they weren't going anymore and Brady and Sarah (Brady's girlfriend) came up and visited for a little bit. My mom then took Brady and Kasiah home with her and Sarah went home.
I was feeling well enough to help put Arlee to bed. Hans and I got her in bed and then relaxed as much as we could.  I couldn't sleep at all that night. I woke up about every 10 minutes wondering if it was time to get up yet. I then woke Hans up at 1AM and asked him to bring me some pain meds. He got up and took care of me. I thought it was so great to have him there and so willing to help too. It really put me at ease too.  After taking the medicine I still wasn't able to sleep, but at least I wasn't in a lot of pain anymore.
Day 2: Hans had to work 9-7PM so my mom came over from 8-1PM and Hans' mom from 1-8PM until we took her home.  My mom made Arlee and I lunch and helped me clean up a little bit around the house. She tried taking Arlee to the bathroom, but she wanted me so I had to get up and help her with that also putting her down for a nap. Other than that my mom did most everything. Hans' mom came took over while Arlee was still sleeping so we watched The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas.  She hadn't seen it before and I had it recorded. After watching that and talking for a while, Arlee woke up. We played with her and watched a movie with her. Ulla ordered pizza so we ate that for dinner. After dinner Arlee played for a little while.
Hans got home so he ate dinner (pizza) and then we got Arlee in her pjs. I wanted to get out of the house so Arlee and I went with Hans to take Ulla home. Hans' brother and sister had dates over so we went inside to see what they looked like. We talked with them for a little bit and then they wanted us to play Catch Phrase (a game) with them. Hans and I played once and then decided we should go.
We got home and put Arlee right to bed and I watched a movie. After the movie we went to bed. Let me just say that I felt like I was in heaven compared to the night before... I slept like a baby.
Day 3: Sunday... We went to church at Kali and Shawn's ward. They were speaking so we thought that we would go and see them. They did great. While we were there Arlee hit me in the ear 3 times and my mom hit me once. I only cried the time that my mom hit me. I guess I was more prepared for Arlee to hit me as she hugged me than my mom hitting me while she was talking (with her hands) while I was bending down to grab something of Arlee's. My mom and Arlee hitting me were accidents, but they still hurt the same.
After church we went home and put Arlee down for a nap before heading over to my parents for Abbie's birthday dinner.  We had tacos for dinner and scones for her dessert. I know that scones aren't really a birthday dessert, but she didn't really even want to have dessert. (I don't have cake either) A little bit after dessert we went home... I was pretty tired and wanted to relax.
Day 4: Today I was home all by myself. Hans didn't go to work until 1, but for the most part it was just me and Arlee. It went okay today. Arlee seemed to rebel more today than other days, but it was okay. Now it is just time to get all better and no more surgeries!  I hope anyway.
For some reason Blogger is not letting me post a picture so I will post it another time.

Amy's and Kasiah's Birthdays

We are already into January and already had two birthdays! Good grief I tell ya. 

Amy's birthday was celebrated on the 1st by going out to lunch with Hans' family and also to a movie.  Then on her actual birthday (the 4th) Arlee and I went out to dinner with Amy's family (Hans was at work) and then over to her house for cake and ice cream (Hans' met us there). That was a good time visiting and having Amy's favorite cake and frosting (mine too) Rainbow chip frosting not to be confused with funfetti and rainbow chip cake. It was delicious! Thanks to Amy for having it.

Amy (30) and her son, Brock (3)

Me and Hans being Cheesy! HAHA hmmmm...

Hans brother, Sven and his date, Shelly I think; Landon (Amy's other son) and Hans' sister, Stine

Amy opening the present from us

Miche bag cover

Kasiah's birthday was celebrated at my parents' house on the 2nd. We had dinner as we normally do as a family and then had cake and ice cream. Let me tell ya... The cake was very fantasy like. My sister, Kali made the cake. Kasiah has been asking for a castle cake the last couple of years and she finally got her wish. Kali did a great job and Kasiah was so excited about it. Kasiah's real birthday is on the 5th.

 

The Castle cake done by Kali Harmon Sloan

Arlee and Hans

Kali and Kasiah with her fabulous cake

She opened this one and was so excited about the $1 we then told her that it was $5. She was waving it around a lot so I couldn't get a really good picture.

We gave her two pairs of pants and a shirt for her to mix and match.

Sarah (my brother's fiance, Kasiah and my brother, Brady

Okay, Arlee loved the frosting and cake, but mainly the frosting. She enjoyed eating it off the pillars... as you can see. : P

My mom wasn't holding it close enough so Arlee gave it a try anyway.

Then she got a hold of it...

Kasiah wanted in on the action too.

My mom, Arlee and Kali

Ewwww... messy little girl.

These next pictures are of Kasiah and Arlee playing with the dress up clothes and Lovin' it!

Arlee is playing with her earings.

This is sadly the best picture out of many attempts that we got of them.

Arlee may have been telling me that she needed to go to the bathroom in this one...

A close up of the cake (don't know why it ended up down here and not by the others. Oh well.)

Coming up we have my sister, Abbie's birthday, but I am having ear surgery that day so I am not sure if I will be getting any pictures since I am usually the one taking them. We will have to see.

Here it is!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Our family spent New Years Eve at a friends house. It was his birthday/ New Years celebration.  While we were driving there we looked at the temperature gage and it was down to 0!!! That is really cold. I am pretty sure that even though it was that cold it probably felt even colder with the breeze that was coming through.
I don't have any pics because we forgot the camera. However, we did have a lot of fun visiting with them before they head back up to Washington for school.

Happy New Year again everyone!