It's coming along...

Still here....

Yes, we're still here! So much as been going on the last 3 months, I haven't had time to update the blog.  But I have logic reasons!
Reason #1 - The week before school started I got a call to be a long-term sub for a teacher who was having some medical problems.  It was supposed to be the first 6 weeks of school possibly longer depending on the circumstances. I scrambled to get things ready and am still scrambling to get the hang of things! It is 3rd grade which is a great grade! I wouldn't want to go any higher but I do enjoy third.  I recently found out there is a great possibility I'll be there all year.  The teacher is going through chemo right now and won't finish the treatments until February.  She won't be able to return until her immune system is built back up so chances are I'll be there all year.  It's been a great, overwhelming, exciting and stressful experience! I couldn't give up DQ because when this job ends, I still need a job! I am still doing the schedule and working a few days a week.  I'm so lucky to have a great crew and people who are willing to fill in different places for me.  Not to mention the best boss who knows I'm trying to get my foot in the door for my career! So I've been super busy between both jobs.
Reason #2 - The house!! We started our house the middle of September.  I don't have alot of things picked out so I am going to be really busy when it comes to getting everything picked out and making decisions.  I have a few things picked out but the major stuff - not even close!
Reason #3 - Pregnant.  Need I say more. I'm now 15 weeks and I have been extremely tired and am pretty nausieted during the day.  It's more at night than morning so that is good with school.  I have been sooooo tired I can't stand it! No matter how much sleep I get, I am still exhausted! I have been alot more emotional and onery but I contribute it to all the stress, not just the pregnancy. I am quite certain it is a boy.  I feel identical to how I felt with Dav and I've had dreams about it being a boy.  I eventually want a girl but I won't mind if this one is a boy.  Davin needs a friend and if it's going to survive him, he better be tough!
Reason #4 - Trying to keep up on the mother/wife end of life.  Davin is at  such a fun, wild, mean, hilarious, crazy stage of life.  I hate having to leave him to go to work but I try and do what I can when I get home.  He is quite the child! He is a whole other post in itself! I have totally slacked on keeping up with the house.  Luckily I have a husband that will dive into house work without a problem.
I know everyone else has crazy busy lives too, but there is the story of our crazy lives right now!
Here are a few pics of lately:

 Brennen's little brother, Rylan, left for his mission a week ago.

He is going to Boise, Idaho.  Funny huh? He'll be a great

missionary but we are going to miss him!

 Dav and I went hunting with Brennen one night during

the spike elk hunt.  I sat

on the four-wheeler and watched Dav play in the dirt

while Brennen did all the spotting.  To bad there

wasn't anything to spot!

 The house. 



Only child.....

Not for much longer.....

Arriving April 2011 - forever away!

(We were a little more concentrated on getting his shirt than his head:)

Call it what you want.....

You may call me a lazy parent with lousy entertainment....I call myself .... brilliant!

Mr. Dav loves  is obsessed with buckin bulls.  We took him to the rodeo on the 24th and he hasn't quit running around the house with a rope fastened tight against his body, wildly throwing himself all over the place, making ferocious sounds...all to imitate a bucking bull.  So, what better way to keep him entertained for 5 minutes? Youtube - rodeos. 

4th of July/stuff

We had a great time celebrating the 4th in Minersville!

I've celebrated it in Minersville since I was little and look forward

to it every year! It's getting so fun with Dav at the age he is!  He's actually in tune with the festivities and enjoys them.  When he's not tired I guess.

First was the parade. 

Dav's main interests: horses, 4-wheelers, and motor bikes. Imagine that.

Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa's to have lunch. (no pics)

Then off to the park for the games and foot races.  I was so disappointed

they didn't have the little tractor/train thing they have had I swear every year.

Dav would've loved it.  But they didn't have it and he didn't know he was missing

out so whatever.  He ran in the foot races.  Our starting gate plan didn't work

so great and I think it held him back a little.  I love his face when he was running.

What's the 4th without a good messy snow cone??

Dav cheesin and enjoying himself.

Watching the Greenville fireworks with Grandma and Grandpa Black at Grandma and Grandpa Orton's house.

Brennen's parents have their trailer up on the mountain so we rode up to see them and go fishing.  Dav was obviously super excited but this fabulous catch. 

Sitting by the campfire

I can't believe July is going by so fast. We have been CRAZY busy, I'm sure like everyone else and loving it.  As for Brennen, he is super busy with work and playing lots of softball.

I'm pretty busy with work as well.  This is prime time for business for the DQ and with me still trying to get the managing part down it's been rather stressful.  We put our loan application in last week and are waiting to get the appraisal back within the next week or two then hopefully we can get going around the first/middle of August! I'm excited for next week - the 24th and our 5 year class reunion...in my backyard! Ah, stress! I hope everyone is having a fabulous summer...enjoy it while it's here!

It is so not our year - for medical business that is.

Yup, you guessed it.  We got to visit the hospital...... again.  This time, it was Dav...again.  He was put in the hospital on Thursday night due to MRSA Staph Infection.  Monday I noticed he was getting a staph sore.  I totally know what they look like, since we have had about 7 of them since Brennen's burn.  So I gave Dav some medicine they gave us to have on hand.  I guess once your a carrier you are pretty prone to get it.  Obviously we're a little more prone than others.  Anyways I started him on the medicine Monday night and Tuesday morning he was covered in hives the the sore didn't look any different.  I gave him some benadryl and continued with the medicine on Tuesday.  The day I noticed the one on my foot.  Yea, lovely.   Wednesday it wasn't getting better and benadryl and zyrtec weren't clearing up the hives so I took him to the doctor.  They took one look at it and clearly identified it as staph.  However, this one was a little worse than the ones we've seen at our house.  So then they popped it and took a culture to see if it was MRSA, which is the more dangerous kind of staph.  He changed the antibiotic because he thought the one he was on, bactrum, was causing the hives.  He checked my foot and I had staph on it but it wasn't as bad as Dav's and clearly not the same kind as his.  So he wrote us both out prescriptions.  Thursday, the hives were gone so I knew it was from the bactrum.  I went to work and got a call around noon that the results came back and it was MRSA.  I took Dav back out there to have it looked at again.  Dr. Oakden couldn't decide exactly what route to take.  MRSA is resistant to alot of medication and it was resistant to the one he was currently taking.  However, the main antibiotic they use for MRSA is bactrum.  But since Dav had broke out when he was on it they couldn't give it to him because it could end up causing another serious skin disease.  So he called a skin and infectious disease doctor to see what medicine they should give him.  The decided to try another oral antibiotic.  So, I went and got it filled and tried to give it to him.  I have the worldest gaggiest(sp?) child! He seriously can get a funny taste and just puke it up.  So he did that when I gave him the medicine.  3 times.  So I called back out there telling them I couldn't get him to take it and the decided to put him in the hospital because we couldn't let it go longer.  So I took him out around 8:30p.m. and they admitted him.  The IV's and blood draws were horrible.  I felt so bad for him.  They got a good IV in his arm and started vancomycin.  Vanco is used as a last resort drug and is like comparing a cannon ball to a gun.  Around 3:30 we noticed it leaking out.  So they tried to fix it but Dav was screaming and 5 of us couldn't hold him down enough to get a good one in.  So they let it stay out for the night.  Friday morning the doc came in and they decided to cut it open to get all the crap out.  So they took him back, gave him some gas, and cut his little bum open.  He had a cut an inch long and 2 inches deep.  While in surgery they put 2 ivs in.  One in each hand so if one collapsed they would have the other one.  He didn't like that when he came to and kept crying to take it out.  He did really good coming out and the rest of the day.  Saturday morning they changed the packing.  He didn't really like it but got over it quick.  It was a rough day.  Trying to keep an active 2 year old in a hospital room..yea.  Luckily we were able to hang out down on these stairs he loved.  He could only go to that end of the hospital he couldn't be around any other people.  Saturday night they tried to flush one of the IVs and something had happened that it wasn't working.  So they pulled it.  That night at 10 they hooked him.  We watched it and everything looked fine.  He pulled the cord to hard and it disconnected the iv to the drip thing so Brennen went to plug it in and noticed his arm was all swollen.  The medicine was running into his arm instead of his veins.  So they had to pull that iv and quickly get heat on his arm.  Around 11:30 they had to try and get another IV in him. They tried three times; one in each foot and one more in his arm but couldn't get it to go.  So they got oral vanco from Cedar and switched him to oral.  Today they came in at 9:00, changed the packing and told us we got to go home! I told them last night if we didnt' get to go hom on Monday they may see the extremely impatient side of me..with my child.  So they were probably just as relieved as we were that we got to go home! Anyways, we're home! He has to go in for the next few mornings to get the packing changed and has to take vanco three times a day for probably 5 more days.  He really hasn't been in pain.  He just hates when they change the packing and stick him with needles.  

Dav cruisin the halls with dad, grandma and grandpa.Thank heavens there wasn't any patients down this end of the hall and we could go for walks down there.  He loved to play on these stairs.  Whenever he was getting anxious, we went for a walk to go up and down the stairs.

I'm not going to lie, this was the best part of the day:) 

Thank Heavens for Grandma and Grandpa Orton's portable DVD player.

It saved his life and my sanity.  He watch Homeward Bound and Savage

Sam what seemed to be 100 times over and over.

Eating a popsicle and watching tv.

Friday morning after surgery. 

Sleeping after surgery

Dav shooting the nurses.  It was pretty funny.  This particular one

he shot at her and then yelled, "Wady, you dead"  It was hilarious.

Not that he didn't love them, he just thought he'd try and get back

at them for all the needle pricks.

He saw the nurses coming and tried to hide from them.

He was playing peek-a-boo with Bos.  Earlier he was using the

curtains for starting gates.  He pretended he was a race horse

and flew out of the gates yelling, "An der off"

Little does he know...he's about to go to surgery.

The new picture stance he has been working on.  Grandma was helping

him hold it for the camera.  We played alot of football and baseball.

He was so excited when Boston came to visit.  He put his arm

around him and kept saying, "Bos, you my bud?" He loves Boston.

His arm swollen from the IV leak.

Overall, Dav was a total trooper.  He was pretty funny and entertaining while he was in there.  It was sad to see him get poked so many times but you have to do what ya have to do.  He was impossible to get to hold still and stop moving while they were doing it.  The nurses were so great and he learned to like them:) We are super glad to be home.  I can't imagine these poor kids and parents who have to spend alot of time in a hospital.  Now if we could just get rid of this crap we'd be doing great!

Dav's Birthday

I can't believe Mr. Dav has turned 2! He is at a cute/busy/troublish stage!  We had a very low key birthday at the park for him.  He was spoiled rotten, of course.  We had our family come up to the park for cake and ice cream. 

He thought he was pretty neat when we were singing happy birthday

to him.  He would keep telling everyone 'hap birfday'.  It was cute.

He can pull quite the funny faces!

He kept telling everyone he is one.  I had to tell him all day he was 2.  One

time I asked him how old he was and he said, "I one." I told him he was 2 

and he said, "NO Mom, I 1!" It was funny.  I think he's getting it down now.

If we could get him to say 2 and hold up 2 fingers we would be lucky!

 

He decided to dig right into the cake. 

 

Dad helping him get it in his mouth instead of all over him.

He got a fun fishing pole, a lego farm set, a movie, and some tractors

from Grandma and Grandpa Orton and the boys.  He loves anything

farm so he was so excited and has been playing with it since we brought

it home! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa and boys!

Uncle Skyler trying to teach him how the fishing pole works.

He got the little peoples farm from Uncle Troy's Family and

from Uncle Jed.  He LOVES it. 

Grandma and Grandpa Black gave him a cowboy hat,

some clothes and a little trike.  Everytime he sees someone

on a bike he starts yelling that he wants a bike.  He hasn't

quite figured out the pedals but he loves to push himeself around.

We got him a little power wheels four-wheeler.  It only

goes 2 mph and thats fast enough!! At first he got on it and

hit the gas and it caught him off guard.  I think it scared him a

little bit.  Then we practiced with him and now he loves it.

He still hasn't quite figured out to pull his foot off the gas

but he's getting it down.  It just took him going under the truck

to understand he does have to stop when he's going to run

into something.:)

S.L.A.C.K.E.R

..I know. I've totally slacked at blogging lately. Here are some of the reasons why...

I graduated from college!! YAY - after 5 years!! It was such a roller coaster but I'm so grateful I finished! I started out as a nursing major and did one year of generals then one year of nursing pre-requisites. I had been battling with my decision, if nursing was really for me or not. The summer Brennen and I got enganged I knew I needed to change my major because I wasn't happy with what I was doing and would be doing for the rest of my life. So, I changed it to Elementary Education. I'm SOOOO GrAteFuL I changed my major. I love elementary and it will not only help with my career but in everyday life. I know nursing would do the same, but it was so not for me. Gag. There is not a day that goes by that I regret that decision! I'm grateful there are people that can be nurses because my nerves and stomach can't support that career! So, I commuted the last 3 years - 1 year, prego, 1 year with a newborn and one year with a 1yr. old.... and I'm finally finished!! YAY no more tests, 30 page papers, and no more 45 minute commutes everyday!

Brennen has been busy umping and playing baseball/softball. He has been playing in a league in Milford but is getting ready to start the mens and coed leagues up here! YAY for summer!

I started managing our families DQ. I was a little hesitant at first..after all I've worked there since I was 14 so I knew what it was all about..or so I thought. But it has been really good. With the economy the way it is and jobs..I'm so grateful to have a good job right out of school!

Dav finally got eartubes! After 5 or 6 antibiotics in the last 2 months...it was time! He did pretty well with them. He was crying when they took him and I warned the doctors he was pretty tough and it was going to be quite the task to get him out. They laughed and acted like no big deal. When he came in after the surgery, he said, "Well you weren't kidding he was tough! Probably the toughest one I've had to get out in a long time. He is really strong." Then once they had given him the normal dosage and thought he was out, they started to do the procedure and his legs started kicking up and down. They had to stop and give him more so he would stay out! I was so glad Brennen was there because he didn't want a thing to do with me! All he really wanted...Grandma and Grandpa Orton's dog, Sandy. Seriously, he kept crying for Sandy! He has done really well with the tubes and I sure hope they continue to work!

Last but not least...we're trying to get things ready so we can build a house! It has already been stressful getting the loan application and floor plans all figured out! We're not exactly sure when we'll be starting but hopefully soon (like next month or July)!

I hope everyone is enjoying this CraZy BusY time of year! We are so excited for summer to be here! Dav turns 2 next week, sad. I'll try and post an update about him. He is keeping us on our toes for sure!