Hospital!!!

Her poor eye! First day in hospital

She needed her mommy

Ouchy!

She LOVES her daddy
In her crib/cage

Madi was sorry for sister

Next morning, you can see a sliver of her eye! Already getting better

Madi loved playing in her crib

Waiting for daddy to come back with food


Hanging out

Sunday morning, the day we got to leave. Look at that eye now!

We are spent! Right after my birthday I noticed that Gracie had sores or cankers in her mouth. I thought she must have been biting on her lip. Well come to find out, she got many more and got they got huge. She wouldn't eat or drink. She was in pain. Poor thing. She was diagnosed with hand-foot-mouth disease(horrible name). Can't prescribe anything for this virus. Just has to run its course. Madi got it a couple of days later. Jeff and I didn't get any sleep the entire weekend. Then a week ago we noticed a little purple bump on Gracie's left eyelid. I just thought she got bit by an insect or something. Didn't worry about it at all. Thursday morning it was significantly bigger, so Jeff took her in and she was prescribed an antibiotic. The doctor said if it got worse to bring her back in. Well Friday it was way worse so all four of us took her in. I had a feeling she was going to be admitted to the hospital and I wanted Jeff there with me. Hilary was gone to a volleyball tournament, so we had to tow Madi around with us. It would have been nice to have her home so she could watch Madilynn for us. Oh yeah Hilary got the hand-foot-mouth disease too. From the girls. Sorry Hil! Anyways, they said that it was bad enough to admit her to the hospital to get antibiotics through IV. I was so scared for her! When we got settled in the room. Jeff said he wanted day shifts. So I got the night shifts at the hospital. What I don't think he realized when he said that was that included her IV being put in. I had to take Madi home, she was sooo cranky and she needed her nap. So Jeff got the IV duty. About three hours later they finally had her IV in after 14 tries!!!! Who does that to a little girl not even 2 years old yet? I was furious. Three diffrerent nurses tried and that equaled 11 attempts before they finally called the anesthesiologist. He even had to try 3 times before they finally got it in. My poor Gracie. She did a great job. Jeff said it was sooo hard to see that. I feel so bad for him, but glad I didn't have to be there. I would have been crying so hard and probably would have decked a nurse or two :) We were at the hospital for two nights and three days. Her culture came back saying it was a Staphylococcus aureus infection. Because of her illness her immune system was weak and she must have scratched her eye and it got infected. Anyway we are so happy to be back home. Gracie still has to take two different antibiotics every day, but her eye is getting better. It isn't back to normal yet. We are hoping by this time next week she is 100%.

BiRtHdAy!!!

I turned 25 on Thursday. It was a great day. Thanks to everyone for your birthday wishes. I got some sweet presents this year. Hilary got me a way cute bracelet. Thanks Hil. But here is another post about my sweet, thoughtful husband. First he took me to lunch while Hilary watched the girls. Then he got off early and sent me off to a massage. It felt great. He told me to call him when my massage was over before heading home. When I called he told me to go read my book somewhere for 30 minutes then call again. Which I did, and he still wasn't ready for me to come home yet. By this time, I'm thinking....wow is he cleaning the house? Cooking me dinner? I had no idea. When he said I could finally come home there was nothing different about the house, I did notice the girls were bathed, but couldn't understand why he kept me away. He told me I wasn't allowed in the computer room and that is when I noticed a sound coming from within. It sounded like an air pump. I was soooo confused! He kept going in an out and wouldn't let me in. Finally around 7:30pm, he said I could see my present. Hilary had just arrived and brought carrot cake and cupcakes. So she was obviously in on the plan. Jeff brought out a large present. He said I had to open one thing at a time. The first was a card from him and the girls. It said the girls got me the massage and a cute baby sweater....Huh? That is when I pulled out the next present and it was a cute brown and pink jacket, but that is not what caught my attention. It was the cute baby feet prints in glitter paint and a G and M that caught my eye. Then it all made sense. While I was getting my massage, Jeff was sweating trying to get the girls to cooperate and make feet and hand prints on this jacket. And the noise was a blow dryer and fan to get it to dry in time for me to open it. I LOVE it! It is sooooo priceless. Jeff went through a lot to get it done, especially with the girls who just loved getting all dirty. That is why the girls were bathed too! The next present was a dozen cookies from a bakery that I love. The last present was a printout of a hair straightener and money to get my hair done. My flat iron has been broken forever. I always get the $50 ones and they keep busting within a year. So this time he bought me one that is supposed to be better than the Chi. My sister Kelsey researched it on the Internet for him. So thanks! I can't wait to get it in the mail and try it out. So with that money what should I do? I'm definitely growing my hair out, but I can't decide what color to dye it. Highlights? One solid color? I know I want it lighter. I look better with light hair with my complexion. So help me out!!! Thanks Jeffrey! I love you soooo much. Thanks to everyone for your gifts and thoughts. I forgot to say that their hand prints are on the front of the jacket. Don't have a pic of it though, okay bye.

SuMmEr DrEsSeS!

Old Navy rocks sometimes! Love these dresses Daddy picked out? Madilynn is in the yellow. Too bad our weather here only permits these wearable for a couple of days!

Fun Stuff

This video is with Jeff's family when they came back with us. Jeff's cousin, Clayton got this toy gun that had a laser on it. My girls turned into little kitties chasing the laser around. Too funny. That is Jeff's family you can hear in the background. Thanks for some great memories.

Family Fun

We had a great time at home. I say home, because Idaho will always be my home. Some of the young women in our ward got mad at me when I told them, "we went home to visit" They said back to me, THIS is your home. Sorry girls it just isn't true. Anyway, we miss everyone and want to thank all of you helped out with the girls. It was great! I'm sometimes really bad at not grabbing my camera, and other times I'm taking too many pics. So sorry if I didn't get some of you in my pictures. (mom and dad) The first half of our vacation was spent with my family. We were busy everyday. One day was at Bear Lake, then golfing the next, and of course we had to see Harry Potter with my sisters. Oh yeah, and one day my very talented sister, Cordie took pics of our girls. Aren't they great? Thanks Cord! We had a great time!!

The second half we spent with Jeff's family camping at Stanley, Idaho. Where the Sawtooth Mountains are. It is sooooo gorgeous! Like I said earlier about the camera thing, I didn't get any pics of the mountains or when we went to Red Fish Lake. I know, I know my bad. Sometimes you want to just enjoy yourselves and not worry about a camera, but mostly I just forgot! Then on our way home, Jeff's grandparents, aunt, cousin, and parents came with us to spend 5 days here. Wondering about the elk antlers on our van??? That is the elk Jeff got last year, and his brother did a European mount for his b-day. This was the only way to bring them back with us. Attached to our bike rack. Yep, we got sooo many stares and pointed fingers at us. It was so funny. Ahhh memories!

Orange Balloons

They love balloons! In the video you can hear Gracie saying "sister" and then Madi saying "thank you" They can say quite a few words, but still talk mumble jumble too. I love it!

There won't be a post for a while because we are heading home to Idaho. We start the dreadful drive this afternoon. Won't be back until the 20th. See ya later!

Our 4th of July

The gang

Gracie's kimono

Kortney and Madi
Mommy and Gracie's "CHEESE" smile

Madilynn cooling off Gracie throwing rocks

Gracie, Madi, and Daddy
Madi and Daddy

First, we hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend. We got an invite to go camping this year and on Thursday we decided we wanted to to go and see how the girls would do. So all of Thurs we got ready and did all the shopping. Friday we drove about an hour and a half to the campsite. It was so hot when we arrived. We set up our tent and went to find our friends who were at the river swimming. They found a great secluded swimming hole. We stayed at the river for 4 hours and the girls just loved it! They didn't complain the whole time. Gracie and Madi love the outdoors. They got so dirty playing in the dirt and petting the dogs. It was so much fun, until about 11pm. And no, it wasn't the girls that made it bad, it was my ALLERGIES!!! We were a bit worried that the girls would have a hard time falling asleep, but within 15 minutes they were out. So the adults stayed up until 12 hanging around the fire. By that time I had tissues jammed up both nostrils and running through a brand new box of tissues fast. I knew it was going to be a rough night, so we put an air mattress in the van so I could sleep in there and not wake the girls up. Around 2 am, I was still awake and suffering so bad. I was running out of Kleenex fast. I decided to go wake Jeff up and tell him that we had to leave. There was no way I could have stayed. I can't remember the last time I had an allergy attack that bad. So we loaded up our perfect sleeping babies into the van and took off. That was the longest hour and half ever! When we pulled into town around 3:15 am I used my last tissue. At 3:30, I was taking a shower to get the smoke off. I was a lot better the next day, which was the 4th, so we went back up to the campground and then went to the beach to watch fireworks. Overall it was a great time, but man alive I hope I don't get an attack like that ever again!!!