Vacation!

My Dad, Coleen, Jake, and Sacky were all in town from Michigan the last two weeks and we have had a lot of fun with them! They bought Doran a Speed Racer track and he kept making Jake and Sacky play with him! We went up to Boise this week and stayed at Ry and Emily's house. We floated the Boise river on tubes and did a rope swing and it was very fun! I even did the rope swing and it was really scary! We stood on a plank that was nailed up in a tree and jumped from there and I thought I was going to die. The boys were all really good at it though.


Here we all are together before heading home. We ate at an interesting restaurant that was styled after a trailer. It was pretty funny.




During our trip to Idaho we ate at the Cheesecake Factory and Brooks had the biggest sandwich I have ever seen! I had to take a picture! Needless to say he didn't even eat half of it before he was full!
Now they all went back to Michigan and we already miss them!

2nd Birthday Party

Doran woke from his nap on Saturday and was so excited when he found a kitchen full of balloons! He kept gathering them all into one little area and then would jump on them as hard as he could! He was not one bit worried about getting hurt, he just went for it. We had his party at the park so we brought all the decorations over there and he brought a balloon down the slides with him for awhile.

He got lots of cool cars stuff which made him very happy! I decorated his cake with some new Speed Racer cars and he was not happy that they were so dirty.

Brock was very sad pretty much the whole party. It was nap time for him!

Here are the boys with Seth's parents and then Brock with my Dad and Coleen who were here from Michigan for the last 2 weeks! My Mom was really sick all week and she fainted during Doran's party, which is scary, but I wish I got a picture of the boys with her and Kevin too!

Four generations in this picture! I am standing by my Grandpa Cloward, the boys Great Grandpa!

After the party we came home and relaxed and Doran had a blast with all his new toys! It was a really fun day over all but I get stressed out pretty easy so I am so glad it is over!

Pictures

A few weeks ago we got pictures taken at Pretty Pictures in American Fork. I love her, she is so amazing and even made Doran smile during a very grumpy mood!

Please notice the AWESOME NEW YORK GIANTS jerseys! How cool of a wife am I?


I can't decide if I like the teacup picture better in color or sepia, but I do love them both! He is such a stud.

To add to my dorkiness...

I finished Breaking Dawn Sunday afternoon and I loved it!!! I will not be holding any bonfires I guess, which could have been fun, but this better!!!

Breaking Dawn

Who would have thought that being a geek could be so fun! Last night Jen, Gay Gay, Sarah, Samantha, and me waited in line for Breaking Dawn at Barnes and Noble and it was so fun. The news paper this morning said the Orem Barnes and Noble had the most copies reserved then any other location nation wide for Breaking Dawn or Harry Potter 7! How cool is that?! And we were there in all our geekiness!

Please notice all of our cool Edward Cullen shirts!
Here we are at 12:30 with our books! Poor Gay Gay was so tired she didn't even know her books front from back!
You can't tell in this picture but there were SO MANY people there! The line went around the west side of the building...

And all the way down the plaza to the Outback Steakhouse! I could not believe there were that many dorks, I mean fans! We are not dorks we are FANS! (who are in love with Edward Cullen who happens to be fictional!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DORAN!!!

Today our little Doran turned two! Tomorrow we are having a party for him and hopefully this year he will have fun and actually eat his cake! He has been having a lot of fun telling everyone he is two! If you ask him how old he is (and if his mood is permitting) then he will say TWO all high pitched and adorable!

Visitors!

Right now we are having a good time! We have lots of family in town and soon to be more (my Dad, Step-Mom, and brothers are on their way from Michigan right now)! Seth's sister Angie, her husband Joel, and their kids Sam, Alex, Emma, and JoJo are all in town from Switzerland! (I haven't gotten any pictures even though I purposely have been carrying my camera around! I forget so much when I have two kids to distract me!) My brother Ryan, his wife Emily, and their kids Cassie, and Clark just got in town from Boise. It was so funny when they pulled up Doran was bouncing and screaming CASSIE over and over! He absolutely loves her. All night he kept talking to her, giving her toys, and even kissing her. When she left he kept saying, 'Bye Bye Cassie.' It is so fun to see how excited he gets about seeing her. It makes me laugh!

Here is my sweet little Brock with his uncle Ryan. Seth and I are both VERY strict about not giving sugar and stuff until our kids are one, especially with all Brock's problems! So Ryan was holding Brock and next thing I know he is letting him suck on a juice bar! I about died! He however kept grunting and doing everything he could to try to get it back!
Her is Emily and Doran's best little buddy Cassie! I think he was kind of overwhelming her, she was just wanting to do her own thing!
Here is 2 month old little Clark. I am disappointed because this picture doesn't show how amazing his eyes are! I have never ever seen eyes as beautiful as his are! I hope they don't change.
Doran overseeing Cassie. You can't see in this picture, but he loaded the side of the chair up with toys for her. He is so funny.
On a different subject... I just love this picture of my Poppy, Doran and Brock's Great grandpa with Brock. Ever since Brooks was a baby he has always held the little babies and sings hush little baby and pats their back. He is so sweet and I am so greatful Doran and Brock have them in their lives. We are really so blessed. We have so much family all right here by us. We have Seth's Mom and Dad and his two sisters and their families (so six cousins!), my Mom and Step-Dad, my sister and her family, my Grandparents, and lots of aunts, uncles, and cousins!

I love these boys!

This morning when I woke up I propped Brock up on the couch so I could start Speed Racer for Doran. I turned around and found Doran had climber up and was sitting as close to Brock as he could and they were both so happy to be by each other! They are both so stinking cute!

Brock Rodney

When Brock was born he weighed 9 lbs 15 oz and he quickly gained weight. At one month he was just shy of 13 lbs! Then he got RSV lost a pound and a half and gained it back slower. He got acid reflux at the same time and has been a fussy eater ever since. He was in the 94%ile for weight at 2 weeks, in the 80th at two months, 70th at 4, and at his six month check up last week he was right at the 50th. (He is still really long though. He has always been around 95%ile for length!) This concerned me so bad! I explained to the Doctor how hard he is to feed and how I pretty much force everything down his throat and it is still nowhere near enough! She said he has something called Food Refusal. She said his acid reflux could be causing it and upped his dose of his medication and told me to slightly concentrate his bottles. He is going to be weighed again in a couple of weeks and see if it helped at all. I still am not seeing a big difference in his eating and feel helpless about it. If any of you have ever dealt with anything even close to this please give me some tips or advice! I just want him to be healthy more than anything.
...but you can't say he isn't dang good looking! All he is does is smile! The first thing he does when he wakes up is smile at me and he is still smiling when I lay him down. I love my boys!

Brock's First Tooth!!!

Ok so you can't really see it, but I swear it is there! I took this picture with my cell phone so it is a little foggy but you can see it on my phone! He just turned six months yesterday and the tooth was through this morning. Doran didn't have his first tooth until he was like 8 1/2 months so this seemed so fast! He wasn't even grumpy last night! Slept just as good as ever, he is an angel.

Tubes

Poor little Brock got tubes today. He is doing ok now, but when they brought him back into the room I thought he was going to burst blood vessels he was crying so hard! He cried for about thirty minutes and had a hard time opening his eyes all because of the anesthisia. Finally they let us go and he fell asleep the second I started driving! He has been grumpy off and on all day, but over all if this takes care of the ear infections then I think today will be worth it to both of us!
Doran got babysat by my mom and PaPa K during all this and he was so excited when he saw them pull up in a black convertible porsche. He started saying, "Mommy cool car!" They drove him around with the top down and my mom said he was laughing and saying vroom vroom! The boy loves cars. Speaking of his new favorite movie has changed from Cars to Speed Racer! He walks aroung singing go go racer go go, it is really cute.

And last but not least only 29 days until Breaking Dawn is released! I can't wait! I will tell you all now though, if Bella doesn't marry Edward and go vampire I am burning every copy of the books that I see! I will be furious. I have a theory though: Bella hates the smell of blood right? So maybe when she becomes a vampire (she better) that will carry on as well! What do you think? Maybe?