Tayson's 2nd Birthday...

This little guy turned TWO! We are so happy to have him in our family! As I type this he is on my lap helping type and staring at the pics saying "choo choo".
We celebrated the morning by playing with his trains!
We went to the park with cousins and had a great time!
He is such a fun little boy! He is a sweet little boy with a lot of attitude at the same time! He absolutely adores his older brother and calls him "hole" and asks for him about a hundred times a day while he is at school. When its time to pick Cole up he is the first to the car!
He is sleeping terrible right now and keeps Cole up but we sure love this little guy!

Family Home Evening...

Cole came home from church really excited about a lesson he wanted to give as a family home evening.  We had to postpone it one Monday due to the school carnival that kevin wanted to take the kids too and than we did another FHE with our ward where we went and decorated a little boys yard with hearts, when he came home from the hospital. He has cancer and the kids pray for him faithfully every night, so we thought it was important to go!

Anyway he finally got to do his lesson this week. It was on telling lies and if you tell one lie it is easy to repent and be forgiven. He wrapped string around the girls and had them get out and than if they told too many how much harder it was. He bore his testimony at the end and it was really simple and so sweet! I love that our church has us do this. Even though ours last maybe 5-10 minutes I know that it helps us out and brings us closer to Christ and each other as a family!

Lucy Lu and her Tonsil Surgery too...

Before Surgery!

We have been planning to get Lucy's Tonsils out for awhile. When she was two she had surgery on her cyst on her chin and also had a broken leg that year. We felt like she had been through enough that year and couldn't stand to do another thing. So this year with our new baby Whitley coming we decided to do the surgery since we will already be meeting our deductible. 

We took her for another consult with Dr. Tagge. He took one glance at her tonsils and said they were the largest he had seen. He told us we really needed to do this surgery so that she could get the sleep she needed at night to help her brain development.

He told us we would see great results!!!

We were planning on November but they called on a wednesday with a cancellation at Riverton Primary Children's for surgery on Friday. It was quick and we decided to do it! We are glad we did it at that facility. They were so great with her and us. It wasn't as crowded as the Primary's downtown.

After Surgery the doctor came and talked to us and he said that was the most satisfying surgery for him since her tonsils were so Big. He kept telling us how big they were and that we were going to see so many great benefits of having them removed. They did a tonsillectomy and androids too.

When they came to get us to go see her I couldn't wait to get back! She was freaking out. She was screaming and trying to pull out the IV. It took a long time to get her calmed down. It took a little longer to get her to drink the root beer slushy they gave her.

Now we are Four days post surgery and it has been a rough go. She has lost more than 5 pounds and we have a hard time getting medicine down her. When we give her the medicine she says in the saddest voice that she hates us! It is really heartbreaking.  I think we are almost through the toughest days. The nights have been pretty bad too. We had one good night and the others haven't been so great. She wakes up the other kids and than its a whole family affair of crying. Cole and Dailey will go back to bed but Tayson won't so it keeps Kevin and I both up. One with each kid. I am really complaining here but sometimes I sugar coat things and I want to remember going through this little challenge. I know it will be so worth it! And come tomorrow she may be much better! This bottom pic is what I took the night before surgery in effort to try and see what her throat looked like before. Really she had barely any room in her mouth. No wonder she never sleeps good and only wants to drink milk all the time instead of eating!
I can't wait to see the benefits from this surgery on our sweet and tough little girl!

Another side note-her brother Tayson bit her cheek the day before and that is why it is all red. The next day it was all bruised over. That little Tayson can be a stinker!

Gardner Village and Grandma's Birthday...

Grandma Bush loves Gardner Village and wanted to go with all of the kids and grandkids. So we went on her birthday! I love going and walking around the shops even though with kids we never really see to much but it is always a good time!
We sure love Grandma!!!

Cougar's first home game of the season..

We have been getting BYU season tickets for quite a few years with Kevin's Mom and Dad and Brother. This is the first year in a while that we didn't get tickets. We thought it would be ok since our kids our young and sometimes it is a lot of work to go. But this year we have noticed we do enjoy it even though it takes quite a bit of effort to make it to the games and wrestle the kids while we are there.

Kevin and Cole got the Bogle's tickets and the game was on September 11th so the team had special helmets and did a few extra stuff on that day! I think next year we will be buying the season tickets again because well we love it! That is before it gets cold. Those games in late October and November can be some cold ones!

But we love the memories!! This game was on a Thursday night and Cole came home so excited to tell me all about it!

The Girls and Tumbling...

We put Dailey and Lucy in tumbling. It is in a ladies basement. Dailey can't start yet because of her foot. Lucy had her first day of it. She was very nervous and didn't want to leave our side for the first 15 minutes. She saw how fun it was and joined in.

Dailey's First Day of Kindergarten...

Dailey was so excited to go to Kindergarten! She is in the morning class and she had a great first day! She just loves it! Her cute cousin is in the other morning class and they get to see each other at school!
Dailey has Miss. McIntyre as her teacher and has really loved having her as her teacher.

It has been so different with Dailey in school. Lucy now takes on the roll of older sister here at home for a few hours. We all miss Dailey while she is gone. She is a really sweet girl. She brings back prizes from school to give to her sister and brother.

Dailey loves to sit down and do her homework. She enjoys it! It may not come as easy for her but she really loves to sit down and write her letters and we have been working on her site words.
The teacher talked to me about testing her for speech. She has a hard time saying some of the sounds of the letters and they think she would benefit from the going to the speech therapist at the school.
It will be fun to see how she grows and watch her throughout this school year.
We sure love her!