WE LOVE SPORTS

All the boys started back up playing sports.  This season Logan and Cooper decided to try soccer.  So far they are doing great and loving it.  Braxton did baseball again.  This year he has got to pitch and play 2nd and 1st base.  He is doing great.

Happy Birthday Logan

Logan turned 6 on Sept 27th.  We had his and Braxton's birthday parties together at the Laser tag place.  They all had such a good time.  He got a bunch of legos and best of all a Ipod..  He is spoiled but he is such a good boy and we love him.

Love this little Girl

 This little girl is such a model.  I love taking pictures of her in all her different outfits.  She is just so cute I cant get enough!!!!

Happy Birthday Braxton

I cant believe I have a 10 year old.  On September 3rd Braxton celebrated his birthday.  We spent the day bowling and going to Chili's to eat.  Braxton is such a great kid and im so lucky to have him as a son.

Back to School

 It's time to go back to School.  YAHOO!!  Braxton is now in the 4th grade, Logan's in 1st grade and little Cooper started Preschool.

She's Home

 She's Home!!! We all love her so much!!!

Addie

 
 On August 18th I was working and around 11:00 pm I started having these pains that were every 3 min.  I figured I was having contractions but they were not painful at all and I still had another month before my due date.  I continued to work and just joked about going into labor.  Around 4:30 I decided to go over to the L&D floor and get monitored during my lunch break, sure enough I was having contractions and was in labor.  This time around it was not as fast.  I ended up delivering Addie at 3:26 pm.  She weighed 6 lbs 7 oz and 18 inches long.  I thought maybe she would do okay because she was a good size but I noticed she was still a little dusky.  They took her to the NICU were I work pretty quick.  I didn't even get to see her. 
About an hour later I made my way over to see her.  She was having respitory problems so they had intubated her and started antibiotics.
The next morning they had extubated her to CPAP.  She was still working pretty hard to breath and was very irritable. By that night she was not doing well at all.  They ended up reintubating her and transfering her to Sunrise Childrens Hospital.
When we got there she was pretty sick and we were very nervous and scared.  She recieved a blood transfusion and continued to stay on the vent.  She was on 100% oxygen and unable to wean.  The next morning they figured out that her PDA was still open and causing her these

problems.  The next day they did an LP to rule out menegitis.  The following day we had a fast for her and by Sunday she completly turned around.  She was extubated, nothing was found in the LP, her PDA closed and she was doing much better.  They had started feeding her but she was very slow.  I was getting very frustrated.  On Friday the Doctor said she could go if she would eat but the nurses didn't have time to really work with her on feeds so she was not eating well.  Saturday I went in planning on staying for the next 2 days to feed her and I

explainded to the doctor how frustated I was with the feedings and that I could give her really good care at home and she agreed with me and we were discharged 2 hours later.  I was so happy.  She was only there 2 weeks but that was way to long.  I dont think we could have done it without all the prayers and fasting and the support from our families.

Temple Sealing

After waiting a very frustating 9 months Russ and I were finally able to get sealed in the temple.  We were sealed on August 11, 2012.  Are parents and siblings were able to come down to Vegas and share this special day with us.  Im so glad to have such a wonderful husband.  He has been such a blessing in my life.  We have a had a wonderful marriage and im so happy to spend eternity with him.

JULY

 Took a trip up to Utah and went to the zoo and went fishing with Grandpa Dugger and Great Grandpa Dugger.

JUNE

We Got a BOAT!!  We spent most all of our weekends this summer on the lake.  Each week we took out a different family and had such a great time.  Logan and Braxton both loved to knee board and they all loved riding on the tube.  I managed to continue boating all the way up until I was 8 months pregnant.

MAY

IT'S A GIRL*!*!*!
We had our ultrasound and found out that we are having a healthy baby girl.

Cooper also celebrated his 4th Birthday.  We had a Batman birthday and he got some cool presents.

APRIL

Russ turned 35!!! The  boys both started another season of Baseball.  Braxtons team actually won every game.  He had a few great hits!!! GO TEAM

 

MARCH

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I turned 32 this month!!! My parents came down and took us out to eat at a cool resturant.  We had a great weekend.

FEBRUARY

We found out that we were expecting again and this time there is a little baby in there!!!!!

JANUARY

Not much happened this month beside Cooper knocking out his front teeth.  I guess he was up in my bathroom on the counter putting gel in his hair and I came up to see what he was doing and fell and banged his teeth on the tile.  One tooth shattered but left all the root in there, so we had to take him to the dentist and she had to pull out all the little pieces of roots.  It was awful.  A week later the other tooth turned grey and we had to go back to the dentist and she pulled that tooth.  So now he looks just like I did when I was 3.

DECEMBER

 Christmas was a lot different this year.  We went up to Utah the week before Christmas and spent some time with our families and then came home and spent Christmas in Vegas.  Of course, Cooper got sick in Utah so he was feeling pretty cruddy on Christmas Day.  After we opened presents we didn't have anything to do so me and the other two boys went to the movie and left Russ and Coop home.

NOVEMBER

The Collings family came down to visit and spent Thanksgiving with us.  We had a great time but Thanksgiving Dinner was a nightmare.  I was so nervous because im not a good cook any way and I proved it!!  We went to cut the turkey and it was still frozen,  AAGGHH.  We ended up eating rolls and potatoes and cooked the turkey for another 6 hours and then had really good turkey sandwiches the next day.  The boys all had such a great time with there cousins, so it was all worth it.

October

October was a rough month.  We had found out that we were expecting a baby and then at the ultrasound learned that only the sac had grown and there was no baby.  A week later I miscarried. It was rough on all of us but I knew that we could try again.  On the other hand,  Logan had a great season in baseball and Braxton played flag football.

                                               HALLOWEEN!!!

SEPTEMBER

 Birthday Month

 

 

For the boys birthdays we took them to San Diego.  One day we went to a professional Baseball game.  The boys only made it to the 6th inning but we had a great time.  The next day we went to the San Diego Zoo.  We had a wonderful time.

Happy Birthday Boys!!!

Cooper is Killing Me

Cooper is my wildest child by far.  In the past few weeks he has gotten into my make up and drew all over the walls with eye shadow and mascara and then proceded to dump base all over Braxton's new bed spread and the carpet.  He got into the toothpaste and sqeezed it on the carpet and then smeared it all over the walls.  He poured calamine lotion all over the carpet.  He cant just pull out one toy he has to empty every bucket.  THANK GOODNESS he starts preschool next week, and its all day long!  He is so funny though.  Everybody loves him.  The other day we were swimming and he pointed to my chest and sais "you have floaties too mom".  When we were waiting with the boys at the bus stop he was crying because he didn't get to ride it.  He said "Im not little mom, im bigger".  When we got to the school, we were waiting for the boys and he blurts out "its too freaking hot out here".  The other day he asked if we could go see grandma, I said what Grandma.  Come to find out he was talking about my grandma that past away last year and I siad, Cooper she died and is in heaven.  He said "but mom, I will give her medicine and brush her hair".  He was so sincere about it.  He sais something funny everyday, I really need to write things done more often.