Missy and Chad's baby was finally able to come home today (a lot sooner than they anticipated). He's doing so much better and he's so dang cute! They still aren't quite sure what caused the fluid in his lungs but he's home now! YEAH!
Laurel, Jodi (our scrapbooking consultant) and Mom
Beans and Jenny
Karen and Me
On Tuesday, we had Dentist appointments. The kids have been asking for months when they get to go back to the dentist because their last appointment went very smoothly. Lindsay and Zane were so brave. I was so proud of them. They both hopped right up into the chair to have their teeth cleaned and x-rayed! Lindsay chose to watch Lilo and Stitch and Zane watched Ratatouille while they did everything. Lindsay had NO cavities which was a relief. Two years ago she had 8 cavitites (yes, 8!) and so we had to have her put to sleep (that sounds like something you do to an animal) for 2 hours while they filled 2 of the teeth that weren't very deep and they capped the other 6. So she has 6 silver teeth that she is very proud to show off. So having no cavities was a big deal to us. She got her picture taken and it's hanging on the wall in the Tuffy Tooth Club! HOWEVER, Zane had 5 cavitites! What the heck? I am so discouraged because we brush their teeth pretty faithfully since the whole Lindsay ordeal 2 years ago AND they take flouride pills everyday. So I get to take Zane back for a "special date" to get his cavities filled on April 4th. I'm so worried he's going to be traumatized and never want to go to the dentist again. Because they aren't very deep, they are going to do a sand abrasion where they just sand out the tooth instead of drill. So they most likely won't have to numb him. I'm praying he doesn't feel much and that is goes smoothly. Gavin wouldn't do much but let them count his teeth. To distract him, the dental assistant let him hold the little thing that sprays water and air onto your teeth. So he sprayed water all over me and the floor. But it kept him happy. Wish us luck for April 4th!
Because Trevor had his mission homecoming on Easter, we spent most of the day at the Doney's. But later we went to Granny Annie's and Grandpa Harry's to dye eggs, eat Ham and funeral potatoes and have an Easter egg hunt.
Dyeing eggs. Notice Gavin's bruise on his cheek. He fell off the couch in St. George and his face hit the coffee table. That kid was havin' it rough!
Dan is wearing that apron so proudly
Zane
Lindsay
The best picture I could get of Gavin. The following pictures are my other attempts to get a good picture of him, but he was so grumpy from being sick that he wouldn't cooperate and he eventually threw out the stuff in his basket and then his basket. It was pretty hilarious!
This past week we went down to St. George for a little vacation with Dan's family. The weather was perfect (70's). Ma and Pa Doney rented a vacation home in the Sunbrook Golf Course. It was a nice home with 3 bathrooms (sorry Nanna's Cottage in Palmyra, this one wins the prize - Doney family joke). Dan and I got the master bedroom with the 3 kids. The king sized bed was comfy and helped because we had Gavin sleep between us every night and somehow he always ended up horizontally. We got there late Wednesday night. We had hoped the kids would have fallen asleep on the way and then we could quietly take them in the house and then they'd stay asleep all night. WRONG! None of them fell asleep until around 10:00 pm and that is when we were in Cedar City (an hour away from St. George). Then when we got there, they all woke up because they were so excited to see the house and see Dan's family. So we ended up going to bed after midnight.
Thursday, we drove to Snow Canyon and played in the Sand Dunes. Dan's brothers had all sorts of races and pretty much had sand in all their nooks and cranny's. It was pretty funny though. Of course Lindsay and Zane had to join in too. I'm still finding sand in bags, shoes and clothes. Gavin had a cough that had turned into Croup through the night so he was pretty miserable and didn't want to do much. After Snow Canyon, we stopped by the house to get our swimming stuff and headed to the Sand Hollow Aquatic Center (the SHAC). It's an indoor pool with a water slide. It was a lot of fun. That night we went to Applebee's for dinner and Gavin was still not getting better. Later, after giving him a blessing and putting him to bed, we went to check on him and his breathing was sounding really bad, so we decided to take him to the hospital. Lindsay and Zane were asleep, so Ma and Pa stayed with them. We got to the hospital a little after 10:30 pm and they did a little check up on him (temperature, oxygen level, etc...) then we sat in the waiting room for an hour. Gavin was doing a little better because we had taken him outside and the cold air had helped open up his chest a little. Then they put us in a room and said the doctor would be in. Well, I didn't think that meant an hour later! After 45 minutes of sitting in the room with Gavin screaming, then sleeping, then screaming, I went out to find someone. They said we were next to be seen. Well, about 15-20 minutes later, the doctor came in, checked him and said we needed to do some breeathing treaments on him and he would send someone in to do that. That took another 10-15 minutes before they came back. I was so irratated that they weren't being faster considering that this was a baby having a hard time breathing. They did the breathing treatment, which Gavin HATED! He screamed and kicked and fought! Dan and I both had to hold him down. Then a while later they did another one. It was sad to watch my baby being put through this. Then a while after that, some nurse and some nurse guy came him in to give him a shot of a steroid and they apologized that all of this had taken so long. I don't remember exactly the reason (I was so tired I wasn't fully paying attention) but something to the fact that we should have been seen a long time ago and the doctors kinda screwed up on not coming to us sooner. Ya I think so? I thought a pediactric respritory problem would take a higher priority. And I guess it was supposed to be. I would have made a bigger deal about it, but Gavin really was breathing ok while we waited those 2 hours to be seen. Anyways, they gave us a prescription of a steroid to give him for 2 more days that we went and got at Walgreens on the way home and it was 3:00 am by the time we got back to the house. What a LONG night!
Friday, we slept in a little because of the events of the night before, then we packed lunches and headed to Zions National Park. There we hiked to the Emerald Pools. I'm not a hiker (unless it is a paved road, with very small hills, preferably at Disneyland) but I did it and without complaining too. Gavin was still not feeling good and was grumpy some of the time. Zane and Gavin both rode in backpacks which made it a lot easier. Zane said, "I like hiking. It's easy." Ya, because you've been carried the whole way, son! Funny kid. Lindsay hiked all the way up and back, with little complaining. A few times she kept threatening that she was NOT going to take another step. But we made and it was very pretty up there. Afterwards, we ate a picnic lunch and Dan and I headed back to St. George with the kids, while the others stayed to hike some more. We were exhausted and Gavin was too. But he screamed the whole way home (almost an hour and a half) because we didn't bring his binky! I thought I was going to lose my mind!!!!! He FINALLY fell asleep just as we pulled into the golf course neighborhood, of course! That was at about 6:00 pm and he slept until 10:30pm. Then we changed him, fed him, gave him his medicine and he slept until 9:00 the next morning. We got a good night sleep that night!
Saturday, we packed up and did an Easter egg hunt throughout the house. Then on the way home, we stopped by a campground near Hurricaen and did a wienie roast (Doney Easter tradition) and the kids played in a little stream. We also roasted Peeps, which tasted really yummy. We made it home around 6:00 pm all in one piece. It really was a fun trip (minus the Croup) and we enjoyed spending time with Dan's family. Thanks for the memories and thanks for being so patient with us and our 3 kids! (We missed you Sis, Zach, Carter & Austin and Travis!)
I've been meaning to post this for a while now but I kept forgetting to get a picture of these two. Dan's brother Mike is engaged to Brie! They will be married on June 20th in the Logan Temple. We are very excited for them and Lindsay and I are loving having another girl around the Doney house. Congrats Mike and Brie! (They usually don't dress like this. They decided to dress up for Trevor at the airport who came home from his mission last week - it was pretty funny seeing these two walk in like this!)
Trevor is the one in the front.
Hugging Ma Doney
Hugging Pa Doney
For Lindsay's birthday party, she wanted a High School Musical theme. We borrowed some cardboard cutouts of Troy and Gabriella from my good friend Hayley ("thanks again, Hay!") and I bought a big HSM banner. We hung the banner in the living room and set Troy and Gabriella next to it. When the kids came in the house, we had each one stand by the cutouts and we took their picture. Dan printed out the pics and we had the kids make picture frames out of foam. I think they turned out pretty cute. They also played "Name That Tune" with the HSM songs and we did a pull pinata where there are strings hanging from the bottom of the pinata and each child gets to choose a string to pull. Only one string opens the pinata. It is much better than the original pinatas because you don't have to worry about the children beating each other with the stick or other various injuries. Then they had cupcakes. The kids were so good and I hope they had fun.
Here's Lindsay's picture frame.
This is Zane's. If you look closely at his picture, you'll see he has his hand on Troy's arm. It cracks me up!
The whole gang!
I can't believe it has been 8 years since Dan and I were married! Time has flown and we have been so blessed! I still remember waking up that morning to a beautiful blue sky with not one cloud (unlike today, where we woke up to an inch of snow!) Everything went perfect that day. I rememeber thinking throughout that day that everything kept falling into place. We had an awesome sealing ceremony that Hartman Rector Jr. performed. I remember walking into that sealing room and becoming overwhelmed with the spirit and seeing all who came to support us. I couldn't stop crying because I was so happy! Our reception was so much fun and we were so grateful to all who helped put it all together (mostly our families) and for all who came to support us. It is all still so fresh in my mind and am grateful to Dan for all that he's done for me these past years. I love you so much honey! Happy Anniversary!
5 years ago we were so blessed to have our sweet Lindsay join our family. I went into labor on Saturday, March 15th, 2003, but she decided she wanted to be our 3rd Wedding Anniversary present and waited until Sunday, March 16th at 6:36 am to be born. Lindsay we love you so much and are so proud of you! Happy Birthday Lou-Lou!
March 2008
We've been trying to get Gavin off the binky so to slowly do it we only let him have it at nap time and bed time. So it pretty much just stays in the crib. After he wakes up and we come to get him out, he will either bite down on his binky and hold on for dear life so we can't take it out or he will spit it out and say "plaaaaaa!" It depends on his mood. Well last night, after he'd been asleep for a couple of hours, I heard him yelling "Mama! Mom! Mama!" I quietly opened the door to see why he was awake. He was searching all over his crib for his binky. He would crawl to one end and pat his hand around the matress to see if he could feel it, then crawl to the other end. He only has a little touch lamp in his room that was on low, so it's hard to see. I couldn't wait too long because I felt bad that he couldn't find it, so I finally went in and found it for him. He stuck it in his mouth and laid right back down.
March 2008
Yesterday Gavin learned how to open our door that goes from the house out to the garage! When Dan got home from work, I said, "Gavin, go show daddy what you can do to the door." He proudly walked over to the door smiling and while staring at Dan, he opened the door. Then Dan promptly put on one of those childproof doorknob thingys and Gavin started crying! It was kinda sad because he was so excited to have gotten it open and then we dashed his dreams!
March 2008
I got the kids Arctic Circle for dinner last night and Zane wanted Apple Juice for his drink. It came in a little, green can. While he was eating his dinner, he said "I have Mountain Goo like Daddy. I need to finish my Mountain Goo." I laughed my head off.
March 2008
I'm not a perfect mom and I've never claimed to be. I've slipped a few (and by few, I mean a lot) times and said some not very good words in front of our kids. About a year ago Lindsay tried one out in front of Dan and I and we told her that wasn't a good word and that was the last we'd heard her say it. Well this past week, she's tried it out again twice (that I know of). Once was at my mom's house in front of Jenny and the other was last night while we were watching "Peewee's Big Adventure." For those of you who have seen it, it was at the part when Peewee is in the car with the escaped convict and a truck with his bike on it drives right past them and Peewee doesn't see it. Well that frusterated Lindsay, but if he saw his bike then that would be the end of the movie so of course the truck goes one way and Peewee goes the other. Lindsay started yelling at the tv, "Peewee look over! There's your damn bike!" I tried so hard not to smile and laugh. Then I said, "Lindsay, that's not a very good word to say. Mommy is trying to not say it too. So let's both try not to say it ok?" I couldn't really get mad at her, since I'm the one to blame, or maybe we'll blame it on her dad!
March 2008
Yesterday, Lindsay was having a grumpy day and got mad at me. She yelled, "I'm just so mad at you and you're making me so frusterated!!!!!!"
Dan went out of town again today for just a few days, to Greenville, Texas. We were hoping he'd be able to see my little sissy, Amy, who's on a mission in Fort Worth, but we don't think it will be able to happen (sniff-sniff). Sorry Amy! He went to North Carolina last week. I can't really complain because the last time he want out of town was in October when he went to Australia. This trip and last weeks trip were for different reasons. When he usually goes out of town it is because he goes to train other companies how to use their software. But these last two times he went to go check out some of his accounts who have been having a few problems with the software. Anyways, I'm a single mom just until Wednesday. I've decided the only time of day that I really dread is bathing the kids and putting them to bed by myself. I feel like it's such a chore and it takes forever and I'm so exhausted by the time there in bed and asleep. Oh well. Count my blessings. Hurry home honey!
A little over 2 weeks ago (I'm behind on my blogging) Lindsay got her Kindergarten shots and boy did she put up a good fight. She had to get 4 (2 in each leg). It was a traumatic experience for her. She knew earlier in the week that she was going to be getting them on Friday, but I told her we'd make it a special date and go out to lunch and ice cream afterwards, just me and her. She seemed okay with it. Well the day came and she would say things like "why do we have to do it today?" and "I hate Kindergarten shots!" We got ready to go and I left the boys home with Dan. She started whining in the car the whole drive there (the dr.'s office is only about 3 minutes away). Then she said, "I wish the doctor's office was an hour away so it would take longer to get there." I took her inside and she started whimpering while I signed in. We sat down to watch a movie they had on in the waiting room and she was clinging to me. Then they called us back to a room. She instantly started crying and wouldn't let go of me. The nurse told me to pull her pants down to her knees but Lindsay would NOT let us. She bent her knees so we couldn't get them down. She also became stiff. After a minute of wrestling with her, all the while she's SCREAMING, the nurse had me pick her up while she tried to pull her pants down, but Lindsay kept her knees bent in the air. FINALLY we got them down and I held her on my lap, holding her legs down by wrapping my legs aound hers and I had to hold her arms down. The nurse was very quick with each shot, but Lindsay SCREAMED and SCREAMED and SCREAMED! Then it was over. I held her for a few minutes while she cried on my shoulder and then I walked out to see the whole waiting room staring at me. YES, they could hear it all. Then a guy said, "that deserves some ice cream." I took her to Arctic Circle, but she didn't eat much and she ended up limping for 2 days. I think because she tensed her muscles up so badly while they gave her the shots that is made them more tender. I'm glad it's over with and so is she. After we got home and Zane saw her bandaids and that she was limping he said, "mom, I don't want to go to Kindergarten." Sorry son, you will. But I don't think I'll be informing him of his shots next year until we are in the doctor's office on the day he gets his. 
