Happy Birthday Jess....gotta love spending it in the hospital!

I know....how could a baby this adorable have anything wrong with him! Well after months and months we finally figured out the the continuous pneumonia and coughing is because he aspirates almost everything he eats...crazy huh! This past Thursday Jess had a swallow study done and they feed him super thick pudding and watched as it went down on x-ray. Well lets just say not very much of the pudding went to his stomach, most of it went straight to his lungs. Primary Children's immediately admitted us and placed a feeding tube. Yesterday we took him back to Primary Children's for a bronchi scope, a laryngeal scope, and a gelfoam injection. He is doing pretty well today if he would just stop pulling the feeding tube out. The tube has to stay in for the next two weeks and then we will do another swallow study to see if the gelfoam injection helped. Staying at Primary Children's makes you feel so blessed to have such a healthy and happy baby.

Jess was admitted to Primary Children's on his birthday (which I was afraid of) so we made sure to celebrate a few days earlier. We had Jess a swimming party in our backyard and it was so fun. Here is the big 1 year old with his octopus cake.

Kade on the racing slip and slide
and the water slide

Jess preferred the kiddy pool

Tyce liked the treats

Opening presents

Best of all.....aspirating his birthday cake!

While we were at the hospital with Jess, my awesome mom and sisters took Kade and Tyce camping with them. After Jess was discharged, we were able to go and spend the day as well. Here are the kids coming back from a hike up Horse Canyon.

Shooting their bow's

Jess was glad to be out of the hospital and enjoying the fresh air

Kade has been really working on "beefiing" up his muscles. He does his exercises everyday to get them strong...it is pretty hilarious. Anyway, he decided it was time to show them off to everyone so Tyce joined in.

The kids also had fun shooting BB guns. I am not too sure about that.

A few weeks ago was the Emery County Fair. I wasn't super impressed this year, but here were a few highlights.

The bungee jump was pretty cool

Scales and Tails came and did a little show. The reptiles were awesome!

Kade loved the snakes...and yes that is a HUGE anaconda in the background.

This summer has been super hard with Jess being sick. I am just so thankful for my mom and sisters for all of their help with my kids. I don't know what I would have done without them.

Joes Valley,Rodeo, Grandpa's B-day, Riding Bikes

My Grandpa Hansen is seriously one of the greatest people I know and I just love him to death. He is so much fun to be around and he adores my boys. For my grandpa's 83rd birthday we had a little get together at my moms and it turned out great. Almost everyone was there so we all got together for a big family photo. Here are all of my Grandpa Hansen's grandkids. Pretty fun crowd!

While us adults enjoyed a yummy dinner, the kids had a ball swimming in the pool and racing on the slip and slide. Jess didn't love the water, but loved the attention he was getting. Isn't he so dang cute?

Kade and Tyce having a little race

My boys are quite the little bike riders. Kade rides his bike EVERYWHERE. He is so good on it and he impresses me everyday. There other day we went up to the bike jumps for a little fun.

About 3 months ago Tyce decided on his own to ditch the training wheels. He got on his bike and took off without any help. May I remind you that he is 3 and now rides the bike tracks and does tricks at the elementary on his bike. He is so awesome!

Going to the rodeo means so much more to me than just a few hours of entertainment. The rodeo is magical to me. It brings back so many memories of my dad up in that announcers stand or imagining him riding one of those crazy mean bulls.... it makes me smile. My dad was home at the rodeo and that is kind of the way I feel.

Here are me and my cowboys at the Desertview Pro Rodeo

Playing in the water is a must for my boys. Today we drove by this river and had to go and jump in. We didn't have much time so are are so going back tomorrow for a full on dip.

This is a cute picture of Kade, Abby, and Tyce when we went to Joes Valley to play around. It was such a cool little tree...and it made a cute pic.

Fun in the Sun

We are definitely having a busy and fun summer. We have not spent a single day at home....and each day involves getting soaked at some point.
Here we are at Huntington Lake where the kids took a dip and then spent the rest of the afternoon catching crawdads.

Swimming out to the docks

Tyce....my little daredevil
My sweet little man Jess and Jamie
Kade thought that catching crawdads was great. We were catching like 4 at a time and Kade loved grabbing them and sticking them in the bucket.

Tyce loved helping get them out of the water with the net....he took his job serious.

After catching an entire bucket full, the kids dumped them all on the docks and watched them fall off into the water.

We have also been on some fun fishing trips. Kade is really a good fisherman and he actually puts his own worm on the hook.

Tyce just likes having fun while fishing. He likes to get wet, throw rocks, and run around like a crazy person....he cracks me up!

We took a little 4-wheeler ride up Ferron Mtn the other day and there were so many pretty wildflowers. I tried really hard to get a good picture of my cute boys by sitting in the flowers....and this is the best I could get.

Little Jess eating some jerky on our ride. He is such a trooper.

I swear I have the cutest little boys in the whole world. The have some much fun with each other and are always pretty easy going. I love hanging out with these cuties.

4th of July = Primary Childrens

Well our 4th of July weekend didn't really turn out the way I had planned, but that's life isn't it?

Jess has been struggling to breath for a really long time.......long before our first stay at the hospital in May----so I decided to take him BACK to the pediatrician to try again. Well once again he sent us to the hospital to get a chest X-ray (literally our 10th x-ray in 2 months) and like all the x-rays is showed a small collapse in the upper lob of his lung. Dr. Madsen then decided that it was time to get things figured out and sent us immediately to Primary Children's hospital. When we got their they admitted us and started monitoring his oxygen level. The first night that we were there he was on 3 liters of oxygen....which is quite a bit. After 5 days of being at the hospital and being treated for asthma, his oxygen started doing a lot better. They sent us home and in a few weeks we have to go back and get a scope done of his lung to see what is going on. I hope that in a few weeks we can finally nip this little problem in the butt!!

Even though he was struggling to breath he was the happiest and cutest little baby ever!!

While Jess and I camped out at the hospital, Kyle took my boys camping with my family. He said that they had a blast and stayed extra busy. On Monday, the 4th, I was able to come home for a day and take Kade and Tyce to the parade. We had fun gathering all of the candy, but Tyce was an emotional wreck the entire day. He was having a really hard time with me being gone. I felt so bad having to leave him again when the parade was over.

Here the boys are waiting for the parade to start

They had some fun things to do at the park after the parade like riding this really awesome train

And probably the best part of the day was when Tyce got to buy this way cool superman toy. He loves superman....he actually dresses in his superman costume on EVERYDAY (he actually has it on right now).

Because Jess and I missed the fireworks on the 4th, Kyle had us a little firework show at the house. The kids had a blast with the sparklers and afterwords we cooked s'mores over the stove (my first time cooking s'mores not on a fire).

Tyce isn't a huge fan on fireworks so he climbed up on the camper shell in the garage and zonked out.

Today since everything has settled down a bit, we rode to Mill Meadows to go fishing. Jasa, Jared, their kids, and my mom all came. We had a really good time and the kids actually caught a few nice fish.

After Mill Meadows we drove over to this little lake to try our luck. We didn't catch any fish here but it sure was pretty.

silly boys!

Even though things didn't go as planned, everything still worked out! I just love my little family.
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4 years ago today my dad passed away. I miss him everyday and wish so much that my kids knew him. He was so much fun to be around and never missed a thing that I did. He worked hard and he taught us so much. I miss riding my horse with him and I miss his gigantic smile. What a special person he was what a lucky girl to have had such an amazing dad...I just wish that it would have lasted more than 25 years. I love you dad!