Happy Belated Birthday to my Caden J.

Friday May 2nd was Caden's 5th birthday. I can't believe that my baby is 5. :( He is growing up so fast. We celebrated his birthday on Sunday May 4th. Anyway, we had Grandparents, Great-Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Brothers, Sisters and Friends over to share in the cake and homemade ice cream with us. Caden picked out a Cars cake. He loves Lightening McQueen. We also bought about a dozen cupcakes with little plastic rings on top. The kids all got to run around and play outside. We opened up the presents and he got lots of toys to play outside with. Here are some of his favorite things right now.

The movie Transformers & toys

Matchbox cars

Playing outside all day

Playing Nintendo (mostly Mario Kart)

Chasing Jake around the house

Chocolate pudding

The movie Short Circuit

His nerf dart gun

Talking to family on the phone

King Burger

Chocolate milk

We also went to Kindergarten round-up in April. He was pretty excited and came home and told me everything that he had learned. I came home with a huge stack of papers to go over. We just went to Caden's year check up and the little tyke weighs in at a whopping 38 pounds and is 43.5 inches tall. He has recently become much more inquisitive. He asks what everything means.

Caden "Mom was does 'I love you too' mean?" Me "It means that you love someone." Caden "oh ok"

Caden "Mom what does 'agree' mean?" Me "Well Caden agree means that you feel the same way. Like if you said I'm tired and I said I agree that would mean that I felt tired too." Caden "Oh ok so agree means that you are tired?" Me "Well not quite but close." (Which then lead into a discussion on what that meant.)

He really makes me laugh, and then drives me crazy at the same time. I do have pictures, I"ll have to post them later as they are on Guy's camera and I don't know where it is right now.

So I'm a Slacker

It has been brought to my attention, that since I sent this wonderful blog up I have not been updating it. Our lives have been quite busy since I last was here. I'm going to put my stories separate blogs to keep them straight. Missions, Graduates, Temples, Babies (not mine), almost accidents and Birthdays. But first a funny story or two to get you going.

The other day Guy and the boys and I were watching TV, (for the life of me I can't remember what we were watching but that's not the point) when something somewhat exciting happened and Caden said our favorite phrase "What The?" Zach followed about 5 seconds later with "Heck?" I looked at Guy and he looked at me and we both just started laughing. Ok well we thought it was funny.

So then today I get home from work and I need to go potty (can you tell I have kids?), so Zach of course said he needed to go too. I said ok let's go upstairs and go. (We are tyring to get him to want to be a "big"boy.) So up we go, I get all done and I'm doing my thing, Zach is sitting on his little potty saying "It's not coming Mom. Oh here it comes. Nope it's not coming Mom." Then he looks up at me and says "Mom, you don't have a pee'er." (That what daddy started calling "it" when Caden was being potty trained.) I said no I don't, and he follows it with "Well I have one, and so does Caden and so does daddy, and I can poop too and so can Caden." I was at quite a loss for words by this time. Mostly because I was trying to contain my laughter. Little boys are just too funny. Sorry if that was a little TMI for some of you but I found it greatly amusing. Alright well on with the rest of the stories. :)

Oh yes and I almost forgot. Ashley's arm is getting much more better. It pretty much doesn't hurt her anymore, unless you punch her. Her lung is all healed up, along with her rib. However about a week and a half after the accident we found out that she had fractured her pelvis in three places. The doctor said that it had already started to heal, and it wasn't displaced so there wasn't really a lot that they could do for her.

Crazy Horse Weekend

Wow who knew that so soon after I set this thing up I would have something big to write about? So this past weekend for my family has been quite exciting to say the least. So most of you know that Ashley is an avid horsewoman. She loves to ride and is a good rider. Saturday afternoon, she went out and saddled her horse went for a ride, then came back and got the boys and took them for a ride, then came back and decided that she was going to run the barrels in the back pasture area. She had been out there for about an hour or so (it's about 3 in the afternoon) and the phone rings. Guy answers the phone then almost immediately throws the phone and runs out the door into the back yard. I was getting ready for work so I grabbed some flip-flops and took off after him. I got the back door and saw Ashley's horse Thumper walking around with no Ashley on his back. I said to myself oh crap this can't be good. I ran after Guy going through all the gates to get to her, she was laying flat on her back, with her left arm at kind of a weird angle. So we get back to her and Guy says "she broke her arm, I'm going to go and get the car and pull it back here, she can't get up and walk". I walk back to be by her and I lay down next to her in the field (in the dried up horse poop and everything, I must love this girl). Guy goes and gets his car and drives it back to where we are we get Ashely up and into the car and off Guy and Ashley go to the ER at Davis Hospital.

On the way to the hospital, Ashley starts to complain about her neck hurting really bad, and it was getting to be difficult for her to breath. Guy gets her to the hospital and they X-ray her arm and yep it's broken, her humorous has a compound fracture. Then they do a chest X-ray and tell us that she also has a broken rib, contusions on her lung, and her one lung was partially collapsed and they were going to move her to a different hospital where they could watch her more carefully. So she gets to ride in an ambulance to Ogden Regional Medical Center which is a level 2 trauma center. They finally get her into a room about 945 on Saturday night. Guy spent the night with her that night and said that she was really uncomfortable, and still in quite a bit of pain. On Sunday the discussion came up as to whether is would be better for Ashley to have a gravity cast on her arm, or to have surgery and put a plate in her arm. The cast would be on her arm for at least 8 weeks, and then it would be another 2-4 months after that before her arm would be back to normal. The surgery would be about an hour and while it would hurt more at first around the surgery site she will heal faster, and be able to use her arm again sooner.

Guy and Melissa (Ashley's mom) talk and decide that the surgery will be the best for her as she is too active to be immobile for more than 2 months. So Ashley had the surgery on Sunday afternoon. That night her mom spent the night at the hospital with her. Monday morning Guy and I went back up to the hospital and our Ashley was back, she was doped up on pain meds, but she was smiling and laughing with us. During her stay she had several chest X-ray's to check on her lungs. But Monday morning her lungs had stabilized and the Dr said that if everything was good she would get to go home the next morning. Well everything went well and Ashley is now home, safe and sound. She is still in some pain from the surgery, but she is glad to be home. She will be out of school for the rest of the week, but we did go to the school and get her homework for her so she can be working on that.

We did find out what had happened, Thumper was getting tired and Ashely was trying to turn him to go back in the barn, the shortest distance was to turn him left and head back, however, the bit that she was using he doesn't like to turn left with, so he got mad and reared up, when he did that Ashley tightened her grip on the reign's and her momentum combined with his pulled them over backwards. Thumper landed on top of Ashley and then rolled off her. Ashley caught her breath, the reached in her pocket and called home on her cell phone. That is the reader's digest condensed version of the story. :)

Conference Weekend

Well this weekend like many other conference weekends was spent at Grandma and Grandpa's house. The boys had such a fun time on Saturday during the baby shower playing with all their cousins. I heard a rumor that Caden was playing tea party with Jessica and James and having a grand old time. Zach really enjoyed chasing Berkley around the basement and squealing and cute likely Berkley Jo squealing right back. We had such a great time getting to see everyone. Looking forward to getting together again. Hopefully before the reunion in July.