Happy Birthday Grandma Merrill!!!

It is Grandma Merrill's birthday today!!! We wish her a very Happy Birthday and great health too!!! Hope you get feeling more like yourself very soon. We love you lots!!!

Kayden is walking!!!

Today Kayden is officially walking! He is getting better and braver every day now. My little baby is growing up... sniff sniff :(

Mom Update

Yeah! Mom got to go home today from the hospital around 11am. I stopped by the hospital after a work meeting and she looked SO much better today! She will have to wear a neck brace for a few weeks and will need to be EXTRA careful and take it way easy for quite a while but they said everything went very well. They gave her a presciption for some nice drugs, so i'm sure that should help forget about the pain for a little while :) Were all hoping the surgery will take care of everything and that she will make a full recovery. We love you lots Mom!

Grandma Olsen

Another surgery in the family :( Grandma Olsen (my mom) had surgery this morning. Although it makes us all nervous when anyone has to have surgery, this one will hopefully be a good thing. Mom has been in pain forever it seems like and she has kind of been getting the run-around from doctors until now when she was finally told she had bone spurs, which was causes a pinched nerve. They had to go in through the throat and kind of move everything aside to go in and fix everything. It sounds so weird and scary that they actually have to cut your throat open!!! Yikes!!!
Me, Allissa, Colton and the babies went down to keep my dad company and to see my mom when she was finished with the surgery. She was really out of it and seemed to be in alot of pain. It is so hard seeing my mom like that! It was just a few weeks ago, Bruce's mom was in the hospital. I'm hoping after this, that everyone can stay well for a while.

She should be able to go home tomorrow and actually get to rest. While you're in the hospital they are in checking on you so often that you barely get to sleep at all.

Kailey is a Brownie!

Kailey is a Brownie in the Girl Scounts of Utah. One of my friends Robin and her daughter Rachelle are her Girl Scout leaders. Kailey LOVES going to Girl Scouts and just had to have the uniform even though it is optional. She saw the little girl on the website and begged me for it. So, down to the store I go to get the uniform and her books... over $100 later, I have the uniform, books and all kinds of extras :) That little store is trouble! They have all kinds of scrapbooking paper, stickers, etc. Now I just need to find the time to actually get the scrapbook paper into the scrapbook with all the pictures.

Kayden's new trick!!!

Kayden is now... NOT walking but standing on his own without holding on to anything. He is very steady and could probably walk but it too chicken. Fine by me, this is a way to keep him little for just a little longer! He was so excited because we were clapping for him, but as soon as I brought the camera out, he wanted the camera and wouldn't do it anymore. Me and Bruce had to bribe him with cell phones to get him to hold still for just a second :)