The good news and bad news!!

Well I will start with the good news! We are expecting another baby!! I found out about two and half weeks ago on a friday that I was pregnant with out second baby, I was filled with all kinds of emotions excitement, nervousness, happiness and it all hit me kinda hard. I dont know why it wasnt unexpected really but I was surprised nonetheless. When I found out I was pregnant with Orion I didnt really get to tell Dustin in a fun or cute way due to circumstances with my family at the time, so I really wanted to do something for him that would make it special. So I read online and tried to find a cute way to tell him. He was going snowboarding with the guys the next day on Saturday... so on saturday Orion and I went out and searched for a big brother shirt EVERYWHERE... I couldn't find one anywhere... so I decided to get some transfer paper and a t-shirt for Orion and make him a big brother shirt to where when Daddy came home. We were running out of time so we ran home and I printed it out and ironed it on - this is how it turned out!

As soon as Dustin walked in and Ori ran to greet him I heard him say "OH.... wow..... does this mean what I think it means?" lol I laughed and said yes - it was a fun memory for us and Ori looked so cute in his Big bro shirt. So, we are about 8 weeks and due in October around the 9th. As for the bad news... the last two weeks have been really hard I have hyperemesis again and I was so hoping to not have the same problem this time around. http://www.hyperemesis.org/

I have been in for iv fluids twice already and have dropped 10lbs... its so hard to be excited for a new baby when I have been so sick, Dustin has been remarkable however, he has taken all the load off of me and has done such an amazing job at caring for everyone and trying to do everything... he has been so sweet to me and he and Orion have had some good bonding time. I am so thankful to all our family and friends who have been so much help during this trying time. Thank you for stepping in I cant express how much it means to each of us. I miss spending time with Orion, I havent been able to leave my bed really. We love all of you and hopefully this down time will pass farily quickly. I know that the Lord gives us trials to teach - but right now I cant figure out what I am supposed to be learning (I hope it comes to me quickly). Thank you again to eveyrone.

Orion's Cheesy face...

Orion has learned that when he makes this face everyone around laughs - this is what he does to lighten the mood or just be funny. I love it ... so I had to capture it. ;)

This is how he rolls...

So there is this place in the mall that has videogames and little kiddie rides. Ori loves to go there and play - I dont even have to pay for the ride/game he is perfectly fine just running from thing to thing pretending. This last week we went there and he was hooked on the dance dance revolution game ... he was actually following the screen and spinning and jumping with the guy on the screen it was so cute!! Then these two teenage boys came in and started to play, they were total pro's they had all the moves memorized etc - anyway they were going really fast and Orion was wathching them with eyes as big a quarters and then he started going nuts on jumping and throwing himself around trying to copy - it was hilarious. He is so much fun!

Orion just got this new hoodie for christmas that has been a bit big but he wanted to wear it today, and he seems to like it a little big because he can pull it down over his eyes and be chillin' so while Steve and I were driving today I looked back at him and this is what I saw. I just started laughing he was totally talking and giggling under there. What a ham.

What I dream about....

So when we moved in we were NOT planning on doing anything to our basement since it was finished not too long ago by a previous owner - BUT... there was a leak that continued to get worse and to make a long story short now we are redoing the bathroom in our basement i.e. Steves bath :) So for the last 3 weeks I have been dreaming about this shower... it took me a week to finally finish demoing (ten minutes here ... ten minutes there you Moms know what I am talking about) so finally that part was done and here are some before pics. There was a prefab corner shower in earlier and that is what you see the remains of here.
We decided to make this a "rain" shower so I had the plumber come in last week and reroute the pluming on the bottom and then the shower head, which now comes out of the ceiling as you can see below. Then this week I rebuild the bottom of the shower bigger to fit the entire area of that nook, tomorrow I am finally going to mix and pour the mortar and then we can start putting everything back together! YAY - then I can start to relax it has been pretty stressful - but I am learning a ton! I will post more pics as I get further.

Some of what I demoed out of that bath - sheesh! I think I filled up like 5 boxes worth of stuff.

Poor Baby Check up -

So Orion had a check up today - He is growing great and everything looks good. He is the 25th percentile for everything except his weight (he is a pretty small guy). For some reason he is only in the 10th percentile for his weight- I don't get it either he eats SO much and he is not picky at all. He loves all kinds of food but I think the problem might be that his favorite foods are really really healthy and low fat. His favorite soup is miso soup - he absolutely loves green beans and broccoli and tomato's - he likes chicken tacos lol according to the Dr I should try more ice cream, cookies, and peanut butter (the problem with that is I eat it too when we get it for him ha).

Anyway - He did have to get a few shots and that seriously breaks my heart everytime. I think I have a PTSD from all the poking they did to him earlier in his life - and then I worry that if I feel that way he must have a little memory of all that. So after all that he got a sucker and we came home and rested, cuddled up on the couch and watched his favorite show - luckily his appointment was pretty late in the day so he was able to got to sleep pretty soon after we got home. What a sweety.

Fun Fun...

I was working on our wains coating the other day, and orion was just hangin out playin around, and I turned around to find this cute face...

Now he has done this before, and I dont know why it was particularly funny today but I really laughed hard, I thought it was pretty cute, I think it was because he knew he was being funny and did it just to make me laugh. What a sweet heart. Things have been really busy for all of us lately, steve has been busy with homework, and I have started planning for my residency in June (ahh!) and Dustin just started Directing instead of Technical Directing Powerhouse (9:35 on KJZZ channel 14) so we have been a bit stressed this week. Dustin's show is going great and they made a really smooth transition so that is good. He is so good at what he does. Anyway thats a quick update on us, we are also remodeling our basement shower and bath I will get some pictures up soon if I can. :)

New videos - dancing and singing

So this is a random video I got last week. Orion has learned how to stomp his feet and dance (which is kinda crazy) he is so random and fun right now. Learning so much everyday, I am amazed at the changes that are happening so quickly right now. As you can see he loves the TV also and his favorite show is the Doodlebops on Disney (that's what he is watching at the end of the video) - I Tivo it so he can watch whenever. I love to see him watch it, he gets the best facial expression while he is watching. As you can see we are still working on the house, this is where I stopped with the hardwood, I will do the kitchen with the same hardwood when I finish the cabinets :) ugh.


This second video is his first music video. Lisa gave him this cute little music alligator that he loves and he drags it all over the house playing and singing. Its hilarious.

Happy new year! Bring on 2008!

I cant believe we are going into 2008. It's craziness... anyway, I thought I should throw a couple of pics on here real quick. We didn't do much for new years because Dustin had to work, so I just rented a few movies and tried to take it easy. This is a pic of Orion sitting on Steve's lap playing, he loves to play with Steve its so cute he gets so excited and if he wakes up early will go pound on Steve's door until he wakes up.
Orion still loves to play the "where is Orion?" game... he hides in our closet, under blankets, behind his own hands etc and gets a kick out of it. He is teething again - ugh poor guy - so his shirt is pretty wet in these pics. :)
Happy new year everyone!!

The scare for this week...

So on Tuesday last week I was in the kitchen making cookies for my visiting teaching ladies and Dustin had just left for work, Orion was playing around as usual and all was well... all of the sudden he started to cry so hurried to see what the matter was and found him with a wood stain can opened and all over him and the floor. This was a little tiny 8 oz can of black ebony stain, he had found it and opened it (if anyone has used stain recently you know how hard those cans are to open) I normally have to use a screwdriver to open it. Anyway, it was all over the lower half of his body, luckily I caught him just as he was pouring it... but he cried because of the black color that was all over new mickey pjs. It was nuts, this stuff is oil base and spreads like wildfire, so I ran him up to the bath (where it just got all over our tub and repelled the water) and started to scrub him down... I was worried about what it would do to his skin so I called poison control and they said it was fine as long as I could get it off his skin for the most part. I finally thought to use dish soap and that did the trick but he was pretty upset that the black wouldn't come off while I was cleaning him off - he kept trying to scratch it off. It was so sad. After he was taken care of I went to start cleaning up the kitchen floor, luckily we haven't replaced this flooring just yet so it is still a little black but it doesn't matter too much.

Here he is sitting recouping on the couch after his bath, watching the Doodlebops and resting.

Here are his little cute black feet across our kitchen floor lol... I should have had him step on a piece of paper or something lol.
here is a fuzzy pic again of his feet to the upper rt hand side is where I had a pool of black stain I cleaned it up before I took this. Ha crazy crazy

Decorating the tree...

I know its been a while since I have written anything we just got back into town last sunday and we have been trying to catch up and get ready for Christmas. It has been a really hectic and crazy week. We really wanted to get our tree up this week, with the snow and how close it is to Christmas we really needed the tree to complete the Christmas setting. Orion was totally into the tree this year, he was helpin Daddy set it up and put the lights on. Right after we got it up and the lights on he would just sit and look at it with the dog. It was pretty cute but it didnt last long, now he has decided it much more fun to play with the lights and pull on the tree. ugh.

Here he is helping Daddy with the lights.
this is when we first got it in and up.

The Next Tiger...

I think we have the next Tiger on our hands lol I could not drag him away from the putting green and golf balls :)

He had so much fun playing for hours outside in the sun.

We so loved spending time in St. George with Gammy Grandpa and all the fam! We had such a good time golfing and Orion LOVED their backyard where he could play all he wanted in 60 degree weather... ahh... sunshine.

Thank you for all you do Gammy and Grandpa we love you and miss you.

cute pics...

Disney Land ...

We had the best time at Disney land last weekend! Orion did so well throughout all the traveling, he is getting pretty used to it now I think. He also had a really good time at Disneyland. We were worried that he would be too young but he had fun, his favorite ride was the Astro Blaster Buzz Lightyear ride and Peter pan.

It took a few days for Ori to get used to seeing the characters walking around Disneyland, but by the end of our trip he was pretty interested, here is a moment when he decided he actually wanted to go up to Goofy (a big step for him) and it was so cute because Goofy is like 8 ft tall and he looked so cute just watching Goofy interact with the other children.
In Future land there is this ball that all the kids like to spin and play with - water runs down and they have fun playing in it.

Happy Halloween!

YAY I finally got another computer so now I can continue blogging. So, poor Dustin had a show on Halloween but Orion and I went out trick-or-treating together, while uncle steve hung out and handed out candy. We weren't gone long but it was fun to go - Ori didn't really understand what was going on lol but we had a good time visiting our friends.

Fun Dinner at Chili's...

We had a fun dinner at chili's a little while ago and I just found this picture to put on here, I thought it was a cute one, so here it is.

Who needs a gallbladder anyway?

So we had a crazy turn of events on Sunday in the wee hours of the night. Steve woke me and Dustin up complaining about a terrible stomach ache. He said he needed to go to the emergency room (totally not like steve to WANT to go to the Doctor, normally he only goes kicking and screaming) so we rushed him in to the E.R. The Doctor looked him over ran some tests and decided to hook him up to an IV with morphine. They kept him there all night then early Monday morning did an ultra sound where they discovered gal stones his blood tests showed a high white count (indicating infection). Then they rushed him into the OR to have his gallbladder removed - it was crazy how fast everything happened. He was in surgery by 11:50 that morning... finally he came out of surgery around 2:40 and then they put him in post op for an hour or so, then he went up to a room to recover a little longer and go through a round of antibiotics. He stayed and slept almost all day yesterday due to all the drugs in his system, then today he was feeling a little better. He was actually able to get up and walk around a little, I was so relieved. Now thankfully he is still in the hospital but I think he will be released tomorrow to come home and rest some more. Poor kid, crazy few days.

Hotel Safe

So I forgot to throw on a few videos and pictures of Orion playing in the hotel when we went on our anniversary stay to the Hilton. He found the hotel safe inside the closet and had the best time pushing the buttons. Goofball. Its so fun and amazing to watch his mind work.

Bath Time Fun

Well its time to catch up again. My computer actually bit the dust this week - so I have a new harddrive on the way and we have a few other computers but they are desktop's and in a whole other area of the house... where I am too lazy to go and update stuff lol. Anyway, here is a quick video of Ori playin in the bath.

Two sickies

We are the two sickies ... me and Orion have this awful cold this week! It has been pretty yucky. He is handling it pretty well though, I must say he is much easier to take care of when he has a cold now that he is older (it is easier to take care of myself too). So because of this we have had a busy week and I have had little time to update the blog, so I thought I would just post a little note about this week. Orion has learned to tell himself "no". We have a fire place in out family room and I have to remind him not to play with it fairly often. Most of the time he is pretty good about obeying, so last week he went over to the fire place and reached his hand out and then turned and put his index finger up, scowled and said "no"! Micki and I were on the couch talking and we both just started laughing, it was SO cute!

Happy Wedding Day!!

To my sweet and wonderful husband. It is our second wedding anniversery today! It has been an amazing first few years. I love you and hope all your dreams are comming true! :) We go to go stay in the Hilton together (with Ori of course haha) and we had a great time! We got dessert at the Olive Garden there next to the Hilton and just relaxed. It was perfect! Here is a wedding highlight clip (thanks again Justin we love it)!

More catching up...

I missed the picture I was trying to get... Ori was using ender as his pillow, by the time I got there he had slipped off, but it was so dang cute! They are such good friends.

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We made it..

Orion had his year doctors apt last week and he did great! I have such a hard time taking him in for shots. He had to get one this trip which isnt bad comparatively - but it was still hard to take him in. He was walking all over the room and playing around - he was great. Micki and Steve went with us to take him in so that was nice to have them to support us.