Dallin- Has been playing basketball in two places. We signed him up for the Stansbury Stallions and for Jr. Jazz in Magna. He wasn't as excited about practice this year as he was last year, but I think it is because he would see that he wouldn't get to do some things that we were doing that night because he would have practice in Magna. He hated to go to the Stansbury Stallions this because it was for an hour and a half and was with over 100 people so he would have a lot of down time while the other people were getting their turn. But he had fun at the Jr. Jazz games and towards the end of the season he actually started to go after the ball. Isaac- At the beginning of the month he started getting a fever of 103. I would then give him some medicine and it would work its magic and bring the temperature down and he would be fine for the rest of the day where the fever would stay around 99. The next morning it would start out at around 99 and then after lunch it would spike again to 103. I would give medicine and then he would be fine for the rest of the day. His body would have this pattern for around 10 days. At around day 5 I took him to the doctor and there was no infection that she could find. He even had to go get his blood drawn and pee in a cup for tests for different infections. All tests came back negative. At around day 8 when the fever roller coaster still hadn't gone away on its own, the doctor started him on antibiotics. He had the fever for the next couple of days, but it finally did break and not come back on February 13th. So he was able to go to his valentine's day party the next day. he was so excited. It was sad to see him so happy and playing in the morning and then after lunch he would lay down and stay that way for a couple of hours until the fever broke and then he would start to play a little bit. After the 10 days of fever though he wouldn't even start to play. We don't really know what was going on, but he is back to his old self now and we are happy to have our Isaac back.
Kaden- What can I say about our baby. Yes we still think of him as a baby even though he is 18 months old. Yesterday he went to nursery for the first time. Jeff went with him and he thought he would have to stay the whole time through the play with toys time, but Kaden was having so much fun playing with the toys, that Jeff left to come join me in Primary to help with your 10 yr old class. No one came and got us, and when we went and picked him up he was happy to see us. Jeff got to the room first and was calling Kaden's name, but he didn't drop his toy and come running until he saw me, and knew that it was time to leave. He is such a cute boy. This month Kaden figured out how to get his own cereal out of the bag, when I forget to shut the pantry door. I was making dinner one night and turned around to find him like in the picture to the left. It was so cute that I took the picture. He was such a sneak. We call him our a ruckus when he gets into our things, but he is such a cute ruckus that he makes us smile when we find out.
Parents- This year for valentine's day I thought I would give Jeff 14 days of valentines instead of just one. So it started with me leaving a note in his gym bag so when he went to play racquetball with some guys at his work he would know that I loved him. He found the note a little early and the snack that I left in there, but he loved the gesture. I would leave a note every day for him somewhere where he would find it. Sometimes I would leave one of his favorite snacks. By the end of 14 days, Jeff was starting to say that I was making him fat, but he loved all of the notes of love and kindness. Jeff ordered me flowers on valentine;s day and it was a new experience for both of us having flowers shipped through UPS. I don't think Jeff liked how it turned out and will not be buying flowers over the Internet again, but I loved the flowers and I felt very loved that day. I snapped a picture a couple of days after valentine's when the flowers looked their best. It was definitely a bouquet of flowers that got better over time. In fact they are still doing just fine sitting on my kitchen table. We also went out to sushi that weekend when we were up at my parents and we had a ball being out together. We need to do more of that.
Family Activities-I love doing things together as a family, especially when we got to a sporting event. This year Dallin became in love with the Jazz. He went to one game when they came back from the lockout, which was free for us because of Jr. Jazz, and he had fun and actually followed the game the whole time. So we planned to take everyone to a Jazz game this month as a reward for working on the basement. The day that I had planned to take everyone turned out to be on the only weekend that was perfect to go see my family over a couple of days. So i cancelled the Jazz game. The day before we left I thought about seeing if the Utah State basketball team had a game that we could replace the Jazz game with. It turned out that they did and I bought 4 tickets, which turned out to be a lot cheeper than going to the Jazz game. Everyone had a lot of fun at the game. You can see from the picture that I took with my phone, that Dallin is paying attention, Isaac is being his normal self when I pull out a camera, and Jeff he looks bored, but if I remember correctly the Aggies weren't doing the best at this time so he might be a little frustrated. Utah State didn't win, but we all had fun and I was able to tell the boys that I used to work here and be up in the media box and on the floor taking stats. It was a little sad, because I miss taking stats for Utah State. It was one of the happiest times that I had at college. We all had fun and that is a plus.
I had to share this last photo becuase Kaden is just too cute. He is funny in the fact that he will let you put something on his head and he will keep it there for awhile. He was in the bath and I put his vampire duck and an alligator toy on his head and he thought that was fun. He wold actually continue playing with the other toys and leave these toys on his head. We play a game with our kids where we put an animal on there head and then name their heads the animal with head, brain, or any other name for the head we can think of. So since I was able to get two animals on his head I named him ducky head alligator brain for this picture.So we have all had fun enjoying our new basement this last month and Jeff and I can't believe how we ever lived without the basement being done. It took along time to finish, but now that it is done we love it. Next project will be our pantry shelves, and then it is on to my craft room where demolition will be involved. I can't wait to try my hand at breaking down a wall with a sledge hammer. It should be fun.
