Birthday Party!

Here is the little stud at his Birthday party! You can't really tell in any of the pitures but his hair looked so cute! He had a faux hawk and his little back was so curly! Look out for this one year old ladies!!!

Doran loved Brock's presents! He road this toy around while it was in the box and Brock walked around holding onto it! They were both in cute little moods.

Here they are opening toys! You can see how curly both of their hair was in this picture! He got lots of really fun stuff!

Birthday cake! Atleast he liked looking at it! When we put it on his tray he didn't take a single bite and after a minute he picked it up and chucked it on the floor! Something is wrong with my boys because they won't eat birthday cake! Doran wouldn't on his first birthday either! This picture is right before he threw it!
So we gave him a sippy cup of chocolate milk instead which he had no problem with!

Here he is playing with Jaxy with his cool new car!

One year ago!

At about 12:35 a.m. on January 8th Seth and I welcomed (Dallan Rodney for about an hour!) Brock Rodney into the world! I remember he seemed so small to us and the first thing we both said was how tiny he was. The Doctor corrected me right away and told he was actually really big! One ounce shy of 10 lbs and 4 ounces less than his brother! I was three days late and was scheduled to be induced the next morning. I really wanted to have Brock on the 8th because his birthday would be 1/8 and Doran's is 8/1! Kind of silly but I love it!

Brock with his parents for the first time!

Doran wasn't very interested in him while we were in the hospital. He started liking him when we got home!

Doran was however interested in the wheelchairs that were all over in the hall!
Happy 1st Birthday Brock!

The Holidays

We had lots of visitors over the holiday season. We had Zach and Nikki, Sammi and Katie, Ry and Emily and the kids, and Dad and Coleen and the boys. It was pretty fun and kept us real busy from the week of Christmas until Friday after New Year. It is kind of sad now that everyone is gone.
The boys really like having company. Brock loved that there was a baby that had a binky. He would pull his binky out of his mouth and then put it back in like he was in charge. Doran loved Sacky. He would ask for him any time he wasn't around.

We also got to see a lot of Grandpa Cloward. He is so sweet, he always has a smile on his face even though I am sure he is pretty miserable.

I made a copycate recipe of Cafe Rio on New Years and Jake made HUGE burritos with tons of meat. It got a little messy so the guys made him wear a bag teasing him and he kept it on the whole time he was eating! He is a good sport.

My Dad and Ryan left for their drives home on the same morning so we met at Carl's Jr. to let the kids play and everyone say goodbye. It was pretty sad to see everyone go and it was sad how lonely the house felt for a little while. But we had really great Holiday season with lots of family from every side and we hope everyone else did too!

picture tag

Lyndsy did this tag and she tagged everyone and I am part of everyone so I am doing it! It is to post your third picture in your third folder without altering it at all and then explaining it.

Here is Doran is his six month picture that was actually taken when he was seven months. Seth and I called this his business card pose because he is leaning a shoulder in. He was WAY chubbier than Brock and had more hair.

I tag Sarah, Samantha (if your computer is working), and Niki!

Christmas fun

Seth's birthday is on December 23rd so it always a little bit harder to get a fun party or celebration going. This year everyone who could went to dinner on the night of his birthday. The next night, Christmas Eve, was the Engman Christmas party so I brought his cake over there. I made this cake and anyone who knows him knows that he LOVED it!

Probably not the most appropriate picture, he just liked the icing!

Christmas presents! Doran is a big time blanky boy. He has carried this Lightning McQueen blanket around with him since he got it.

Here is just some of the Engman grandkids.

I had to get a picture of this. Brooks got sent to timeout during Christmas dinner for teasing Doran. He was telling people, "I am in timeout for 14 minutes because I am 14 years old." Nice...

Here is Doran and Brock playing with what is probably both of there favorite toy. They both laugh and push the balls in and just have so much fun!

Here is Doran in his new spider man pajamas and his train track. He was very excited about Santa bringing him toys but I know he doesn't fully understand because he told me today that Santa is coming to town. Grandma Geneal gave him a sled and he had fun for about 5 minutes and then wanted to go in because he was cold!

Happy Birthday Seth

Happy Birthday Seth! The boys and I love you very much and hope you have a wonderful 26th Birthday. You are the best Dad and husband we could have ever dreamed of having. Thank you for all that you do for us! Love you Daddy!!!

The Follow Up!

So Brock had his follow up appointment this morning. All the same stuff: yellow drops, the light, and exam and still not so much as a tear! The tear has healed but his eye could be red for up to four weeks! I was shocked. For some reason when she told me yesterday that it could be healed today I was thinking it wouldn't be red anymore. So when I saw how red it still was I was worried it wasn't healed. I will definately take the redness over it still being hurt though any day!

So I was trying to get a good picture of his eye and he decided to give me a big cheesey smile! It is my favorite picture of him yet! You can see the cute little gap in his front teeth, I love it!!!

The doctor today was an after hours doctor so we couldn't see the same one. When he came in the room he told me he had been reading the chart and read what had happened and wanted to know if this was a mean older brother! I was sad because I knew that would be everyones first thought, but Doran was not being mean! He was playing and make Brock laugh and did not mean to hurt him! He is such a sweet boy, but sometimes he just plays a little to rough.

Brock's eye

Today when Brock woke up from his nap Doran and I snuck in the room so we wouldn't wake up Seth in the next room. I quickly discovered Brock had a dirty diaper so I ran out and grabbed a diaper and the wipes. I came back in and Brock was standing there laughing hysterically at Doran as Doran showed him toys. Doran was very happy that Brock found him so funny and in his excitement threw a toy at Brock. This is the toy that went right into his eye!



As soon as Brock stopped crying and would open his eye I could see the outer white part was blood red! I called and got him a doctor appointment in a half hour. We got there ten minutes early and the doctor was in there five minutes before the appointment was even scheduled! They put the yellow strip in his eye and it made a flourescent yellow. Then they put the light over it a you could see a long tear that was sucking in the liquid. (He didn't cry once the whole trip to the doctor keep in mind!) So he is wearing an eye patch and we have to put an annointment in it and bring him back in tomorrow. The doctor said the eye is such an amazing thing, we might not even be able to tell anything happened by tomorrow! I guess it depends on how well he leaves it alone. He has only played with it twice so far. The only part of all this that is humorous is that we went straight from the doctor to the pharmacy which is when Doran first looked at Brock with his eye patch on... "OH! SCARY!!! Brocky scary!!!" Doran is not very fond of Brock's appearance today!
I don't know of many babies who would have such a bad day and still be so happy!

Coloring

For the past few days Doran has been obsessed about coloring. All he wants to do is color all the time. On Saturday night I scrubbed a 'mural' off the wall for about 45 minutes that he was very proud of. He asks me all the time, "Mommy, color paper. Please?" So today we went to Target and I decided to buy him a coloring book and crayons so he stops going through our computer paper like toilet paper. On the way home I gave him the crayons and the coloring book because he was begging for them. After about thirty seconds he started yelling, "Mommy help! Help Mommy! Please! Help!" I turned around and tried to figure out what was wrong and I realized he was coloring with the white crayon! I felt bad laughing, but it was so stinkin' cute! So I hurried and gave him a red crayon and he said, "Oh! Thanks Mommy." I love that boy!

A new post

I am kind of doing a post just to do one. I don't have any great new pictures or to much to write about but I just wanted to do a post! Seth went back to shift work last week and I forgot how hard it is having him work nights. Doran does not like knowing his Daddy is sleeping instead of giving him attention. He doesn't even like leaving the house when he knows Seth is inside asleep. He is such a Daddy's boy, it is kind of cute! One morning he got all his blankets and his pillow and put them by Seth on the bed, got his book, and then sat on the bed by Seth most of the morning. Isn't he sweet!? (We are kind of letting his hair get a little longer for winter.)


Brock is doing good lately. He is finally finger feeding himself foods without gagging on it. His sleeping, not so good. He has been waking up a couple of times every night. I am not sure what to do! Look at his little curls. He is so handsome!

I had to take some pictures on Thanksgiving of how awesome uncle Gave is at Guitar Hero! You should have seen him rockin out!
But the highlight of Thanksgiving for me (besides all the wonderful food!) was when Grandma played Guitar Hero! Isn't she awesome!!!

COLDPLAY!!!

The Coldplay concert was last night and it was amazing! It was so much fun! There were two opening acts that were so boring, but thats ok. I wasn't there for them anyways.

Our seats were really high up! There was probably only 10 rows behind us! Surprisingly they still weren't bad seats. We could see the whole stage and the other little stage they performed on. We could see all the screens (including these huge balls they had all over that were screens too, they were awesome!) At one part they went into the audience and played two songs. Just right there in the middle of the crowd! It was the coolest concert I have ever been too!

They opened with Life in Technicolor/Violet Hill. I had guessed they would open with Violet Hill and since Life in Technicolor is just instrumental I think I was right! They played almost every song on Viva La Vida album and lots of others from there first 3 albums, the oncore was Yellow! It was an awesome concert and I hope they come to Salt Lake City again!

Twilight

I loved, loved, loved, loved Twilight! It wasn't one bit disappointing to me and I thought Robert Pattinson did a perfect job playing Edward!

So we had a group of 12! It was really fun. Lots of us had on this sweet shirt and let me tell you we looked way super cool. Actually compared to some of the people there we were super cool...

I wanted to get pictures of everybody but I am not the best with picture taking! So anyways I loved it!

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Overwhelmed

I came across a friend from junior high schools blog today and little did I know I must have needed to be humbled. I have always complained about how hard it is to be pregnant and deliver ten pound babies, how hard it is to cope some days with the bad temper tantrums of a two year old, (Don't get me wrong, my husband and sons are my life!) and just some days needing a break. I don't even know how to express how I felt when I read about what her and her husband have gone through. They lost there sweet little girl when she was seven weeks old. She mentions her in almost every post. She has such an amazing testimony of an eternal family. I just sobbed and sobbed as I read through her posts and watched a slide show documenting their short and precious time with their angel. I hope I can value my sweet boys and be the mom they deserve to have. I hope to be the wife Seth deserves to have. I hope to never take my amazing life forgranted. I hope if I have another angel waiting to join our family I will be softened. I am so grateful I have the gospel in my life and that I got my life back on track after having gone so far off. I am so grateful for this family I have been blessed to be the mother in.

Nonis

Doran's very favorite treat is donuts. When he was about 18 months he started calling them nonis, but this last month they have officially become donuts. The other day he all the sudden started begging for one so I pulled up google images of donuts. He just sat on the chair in front of the computer pretending to eat all the donuts on the screen. Needless to say, we went and got him a real donut!
I just thought these pictures were so funny! You can see him picking them off the screen!
I am really excited this week! I am going to the midnight showing of Twilight Thursday night/Friday morning and the Coldplay concert on Saturday. I love Coldplay! I loved the first album parachutes, but then when a rush of blood to the head came out-wow! I knew they were my favorite band! I am so excited! This is my second time seeing them. The first time Seth and I saw them was at the MGM Grand in Vegas. I was in my first trimester with Doran, was sick, and had a pic line in my arm. I threw up the whole car ride down there... But the concert was awesome! I think this one will be even better because I absolutely love the Viva La Vida album!

You don't even want me to get started on Twilight! I can't wait!

We VOTED!

Seth and I voted today for the first time of our lives. We are always about trying new things. (That is a quote of Seth not me saying that!)