6-Week Makeover

So I had reached an all time high weight and decided it was time to do something in a major way. My parents had been on the 6-week body makeover and had each lost at least 25 pounds in a short amount of time. I am all for it! So, I am going to use this blog as a before and after diary of my attempt. My goal is to get down to at least 160 lbs, which will probably take some time. And when I get there, my new goal will be 140. Here are some before and after pictures.




These are both engagement pics and show me at my physical best before we got married. I was running 2-3 miles every day and was eating well. Then I got sick, and stopped running because I passed out while I was running because I couldn't get enough air because of my bad cold. WORST thing I have ever done. I love running and have tried since to pick it up, but couldn't make it a habit. This time I will succeed.



This is during my last pregnancy, I'm a little dough girl! I'll make it back to being thin once again! I will keep you posted!

My attempt at doing hair

So, to continue on with the hair phiasco, I tried to do their hair this morning. This is my glorious attempt!



Here is Lacey



Here is Tenille

I think they look just like Pebbles from the flinstones, all we need is a little bone to put in their hair. So, Shanna and Tonya, I really need you to teach me some hair-doing skills! I am at a loss, the most we ever got done to out hair in school was we were lucky to get it brushed, I always looked like this little pauper child at school, so my mom isn't any help. I taught myself how to do my hair, I could french braid it, put it in pig tails, curl it, you name it. When I try doing any of that to anyone else, it's a disaster! HELP!!!!

First Day of Fall

I love fall! The temperatures are always so mild, and the leaves change colors, you get to decorate pumpkins, makes soups, and be all cuddly warm in the house.


This is Tenille enjoying the first day of fall.

This is Lacey

We welcome you fall!!!!

Torticollis

So here's Dylan, this is a perfect picture of the way he holds his head. He has been diagnosed with Torticollis. It is a condition in which a childs head is tilted to one side and turned toward the opposite side. It is caused by having tight muscles on one side of the neck and weak muscles on the other side. He has Torticollis on his left side. I just went to our first physical therapy appointment and we are going to get it fixed, it will be something I need to be dilligent about if I want him to get better. I need to stretch him every time I change his diaper and massage him after his bath every night. he has a flat spot on one side of his head because he's had this since birth and I just need to make sure that everything is on his left, I tilt his bottle to the left so he has to reach to find it, I need to sleep him on his left side so that his head will round itself out, and etc.... We will get him better though. I have to take him once a week for a while, and then every other week. Wish me luck!

Hospital Visit

So I took Dylan to the doctor on Friday Sept 14th because he was just always fussy. If he weren't eating or sleeping, he was fussing, most of the time inconsolably. I was there for nearly an hour, he was crying the entire time, all the while, I was trying my darndest to calm him down, tears sprung to my eyes as she sat there just looking at us, contemplating what to do for him. She said, well, it could be a few things, he might have acid reflux, or it might be meningitis. MENINGITIS!!!! AHHH!!! Is it treatable? I asked. Yes, but I need you to go to the ER at McKay Dee and get all the tests done. They need to get blood, urine, and spinal fluid. SPINAL FLUID!!! Are you kidding me?!?!? So I took him there, they ran all the tests including a chest X-Ray and found that he had Pnemonia. So we were in for a few days hospital stay at the least.

Anyhow, they got more blood, and did more tests including, a CAT Scan, EEG, tested his blood for Herpes, oh yeah, and he also had a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) POOR KID!!! As a mom, seeing your child going through all of these things, knowing the pain he is in, is a very hard thing.

The Meningitis test came back "Borderline" positive, the herpes test came back "Borderline" positive, and he had a high potassium count. Just kill me now! It was over the weekend, so I wasn't with his regular doctor and she was telling me that they were going to have to send us to Primary Childrens hospital to get a permanent pic line in so that I could give him long term anti-virals at home. I was flipping out! I had no idea he was this sick, no wonder he was always crying! So, come Sunday, my doctor was back in and she came in. She was fuming! She was angry that the other doctor did all of these tests that were unnecessary and then came in and told me what I was going to have to do.

So, all the tests, besides the pnemonia, came back negative the second time they did them, and we were able to go home on Monday. What a relief, I just had to keep him on his Antibiodics until the following sunday, and we would be done.

Dylan is a much happier kid now, although he does have Acid-Reflux which sometimes makes him cranky. Sometimes all of these trials in my life make me wonder "Why me?" But then I get to thinking all of the things that I am blessed with, which are infinite! Thank heavens for that!

THANK HEAVEN FOR OUR MOMMIES!

My mother in law Mary came down this previous weekend to help me out! What a relief! Brad has been out of town a lot and I have about come to my witts end with the kids! PERFECT TIMING!


Thank you so much Mary for coming to help me out. It was such a relief, especially because I came down with a cold. I love and appreciate you so much for all you do and have done for us! I am excited for you to come live with us!!

FLATHEAD MCGEE

So, have you ever seen the King of Queens episode where Doug wants a baby and Carrie doesn't? Well, in that episode Doug is talking to the baby and told her she was going to give her tummy time as to not let her become like "Flat-Head McGee". So, ever since Dylan came home from the hospital, he holds his head in only one way. He has been extremely fussy lately when he eats and when I go to burp him. My mother in law suggested I take him to the chiropractor because sometimes through birth, their neck or back is out of place. So I did so, and I found out that the right side of his neck is shorter and tighter than the left which is why he holds his head in the same place all the time. I am to massage the right side of his neck 4 times a day and place his head the other direction so as to correct his neck, and hopefully we will be able to make his head not be so flat on that one side. It's amazing how soft their bones are that in 6 weeks it could have caused that.


This is how you will typically see him holding his head.


Here is the tummy-time so as not to become like "flat-head McGee"


These are shoes that Bryan and Holly sent. Wyitt picked them out for Dylan. I just wanted to show them because they are almost too small. And yes Wyitt, you can teach him how to play catch!






Just some more cute pics of Dylan. He loves to take a bath and this is where he is the calmest!

LINK LOVIN'

So Tenille loves the links! She flips a cookie when Lacey even has one! So anyhow, the other day I remembered to take these pictures. The reason why was because I was cleaning the kitchen and I heard Tenille let out a blood curtling scream that sent me running to see what was wrong. Well, I ran into Lacey running from Tenille with a link in her hand and a HUGE mischievious smile on her face. LITTLE STINKER! She knows how to push Tenilles buttons and does so very well.

Here is Tenille with most of the links, this is how she carries them around most of the time.


This is Lacey and her little mischievious face!!


This is where Tenille placed her links and how Lacey ended up getting one of them, Tenille usually keeps a better watch on them!

LIVING PLANET AQUARIUM

On Labor Day this year we went with some friends and their kids to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. It is just the preview exhibit, but it will be built into a much larger aquarium that will hold huge fish!


This is Tenille by the Coral


This is Lacey looking at the Trout


This is Lacey looking through the tank at me


This is Tenille looking through the tank at me


We then went to Black Angus steak house. VERY yummy food! Afterwards in the car Tenille and Lacey were bushed from all the fun and excitement!


Here is Dylan, he didn't even know where he was!

Anyhow, the aquarium was small but cool. They had sharks and Manta Rays that you could pet! Brad made a comment on the way home. "It's too bad the girls won't remember this, but I guess it's good that they are learning some of this stuff." I think that is true, giving them experiences now is helping them learn more about the world around them!