These pictures will not be in any particular order...mainly because it will take forever and if I try to put them in chronological order, I probably won't get back on here for another year to post something, and I really don't want to do that:-) Hope you all will enjoy and like the ending!
We received this wood cut out from our adopted AZ grandma and I finally got to painting it:-)
Miss Addison with her -tude...this was just taken in January 2011
We went on a hike at Thanksgiving 2010 with Josh and Carlie when they were in town from Washington.
Me, Carlie, and Amanda on our hike:-)
It was Josh's 30th birthday while they were visiting, so we got to celebrate with them.
Megan on our hike with her best pal, Beary!
Hike November 2010
Hike November 2010
Christmas Eve 2010 in the kids new pj's
Christmas Eve 2010 looking at Aunt Carlie's awesome calendar that is now tradition:-)
Cute Addison being a ham bone Christmas 2010
Posing again Christmas Eve in new pj's
Random picture of Addison after a bath:-) Dec. 2010
December 2010 Anna's First Piano Recital
December 2010 Megan's School Winterfest, where in my opinion, she ROCKED the stage with her Drama club performance:-)
Megan December 2010
Megan and Amanda at Winterfest 2010
Okay, now we are going backwards:
Here is Maggie at my sister in-laws beautiful family property in ID. Her late father had made these awesome swings that my children just LOVED!!! We all often reminisce about our ID, trip of 2010. It was absolutely just an amazing time. Hopefully we can visit again.
Carlie and I walking at the hatchery. There was a little farm (go figure) behind the hatchery. The kids as you will see, loved seeing the horses. They are all obsessed with horses:-)
ISn't my sister in-law GORGEOUS...sorry to make you blush Carlie, but you are:-)
Uncle Josh with the kiddos
Carlie's Mom, Dawn (who was SO kind to let us stay with her), with some of the kids. BTW, she is GORGEOUS to, inside and out.
We went on a walk/hike to Mesa Falls. WOW, L.O.V.E.D it. I wish I could've just stayed there in that moment forever. I loved all of the colors and beauty.
Sorry I am sure that there are more ID, pictures down below, but again I am not willing to burn myself out to move them:-/ Anyway, here is the Bountiful temple. We went for my sister to receive her endowments in July (the day before our ID trip started). It was a beautiful day!
WOW, I didn't realize how random these pictures were...oops:-/ The below picture must've been taken by my step-mom of me getting down...waahoo:-) This was at my brothers wedding 4th of July weekend. I LOVED IT!!!!
Here is their cake topper...super cute huh:-)
Andrew and his bride Amber
Amber and the grooms men (I think that is what they are called)
Andrew and his groomsmen
Amber and her bridesmaids
Andrew and my Dad
Andrew and my mom
Andrew as he just came to the reception hall. It was pretty emotional for my mom especially...I'm getting teary eyed myself thinking about it. Remember to keep our troops in your prayers...PLEASE!!!!!!
This was at the Science Center in June of 2010. this was the weekend of Megan's baptism. Jonathan's parents came which was a treat, along with both of my parents and their spouses and some other close friends. It was a nice day!
Amanda above, working that thing-a-ma-gige
Anthony below, Jonathan's special needs brother having a blast! We were SO happy to have him come and get out of his normal element to enjoy a different scenery. I think he had A LOT of fun while visiting:-)
Jonathan and Addison
Brave Jonathan and Addison on the bed of nails:-)
Anthony giving a try at it...what a trooper!
My mother in-law, Dorothy, me and my mom chatting away the night after Megan's baptism.
Megan ready to play after her baptism
Megan with her closest "boy" friend Ben. She was so happy that he came:-)
Jonathan and Megan after the baptism. Can you tell Megan is HAPPY???? WE are SO incredibly proud of you Megan for choosing to be baptized. You are always ready to learn about the Gospel and help all of us to choose the right. You are simply AMAZING!!!
Right after the baptism outside of the church with grandparents!
All of her family who was there to help support her
Looks like Maggie was having a little fun in the water:-/
Baptism weekend playing outside.
Another out of order RANDOM picture: Uncle Jared messing around with a Halloween wig. Seriously these pictures are so random that I am starting to think that this blog is really representing how my brain works....that is a scary thought:-) Those who know me, know that I can be a pretty random, or how I like to say ADD in my thinking:-)
Halloween Sunday 2010
We decorated Halloween sugar cookies instead of trick-or-treating. The kids had a blast and got enough sugar from trunk-or-treating the night before.
One of our neighbors daughters at our wards trunk-or treating
The brother of the above girl. I get to babysit this cutie pie. He is only four days younger than Addison:-)
Maggie turned 4!!!! October 2010 We had a little family/friends gathering for her birthday. This is her opening gifts in the backyard..the weather was PERFECT!!
The neighbors, who are practically our family.
Eating cake at the birthday celebration
The neighbor daughter and dad
Here's Amanda and Lily. Lily and her parents were our very first neighbors here in AZ. I babysat Lily when she was just 3 months old til she was 3 or four. Anyway, they are considered family to us.
I love this picture.....It's screaming, "Umm, Yeah, like I am a BIG deal!" hehehehe
My wonderful step sister in-law helping at Maggies birthday.
We are now back to our July 2010 trip to UT/ID. This is a picture of Magster at Cherry Hill, in the pirate ship. We had a ton of fun going with family and friends.
This is the Rexbur, ID, LDS temple. We drove by it when we visited my step sister on our way back down to UT. Meredith if you have any pictures of us being at your house, send them my way.
Here is the best picture (un-edited) of Jonathan family, minus the Zubeldia's...they are in Spain for a year)
Back to Halloween 2010 night and making cookies
Yummers!
Addison sporting her Pirate costume! If you notice, in one of the very first pictures on this post, Megan has her special bear dressed up in the costume that Addison is wearing:-)
Amanda being a beautiful snow orange fairy...I'm not for sure what she was, but it works:-)
I love that we all put together our Halloween costumes about two hours before the Trunk-or-Treat party. I think using our imaginations instead of money is the way to go:-) Halloween 2010
Looks like no one is complaining over their costumes!
Don't you just love that cute chubby doctor with a pink chef hat, and that other chubby pirate with a root beer belly? So fun!!
Eliza looking at Addi wondering what the heck is on her face:-)
Back to Maggie's Birthday
CHEESE!!!!!!!!
This is Anna's closet cousin Ashley and her closest UT friend, Lauren. She has know Lauren since she was 2 or 3. I can't remember.
Megan at Cherry hill doing what she loves, being a pirate!
Addison playing the piano at Carlie's family home in ID. It looks like she could be a player here in the near future:-)
The Snake River was right in Carlie's family backyard. They took the kids down to go fishing one evening. It was so beautiful!
Uncle Josh being crazy with the girls. He probably told them to kiss the fish or something:-)
Beautiful Amanda!
Their walk down to the Snake River to fish
Maggie and Natalie
Playing in Carlie's families backyard....SO MUCH FUN!!!!
WEEEEEEEE!!!!
So one of the days that we were in ID, they took us Kiaking on the Snake River! We all had the BEST time enjoying the beautiful weather and scenery!
Here's the girls loving the horse's at the fish hatchery. I loved the old barn!
Back to Mesa Falls walk/hike. Megan was SO excited, an you tell???
Me and Addison loving the hike:-)
I didn't realize how scraggly my girls looked. Maybe I should make more of an effort to make them look more presentable:-/
Carlie and her mom had made some yummy sandwiches for our hike. It was SUPER windy!
Here are the girls minus Maggie at the temple waiting room. My sister Kaitlyn got married in August 2010. It was a beautiful day!
Maggie or Jonathan are not with us at the temple because the day before the wedding, we had just arrived to Utah. We decided to visit with Jonathan's parents, mainly because it was his dad's birthday and also because we knew it was going to be a fast trip. Well, while we were at there home, Maggie was taking a ride on a tree/stick swing. The swing was raised from it's normal height to 5 feet or so off the ground. Maggie was getting scared and wanted to get down, but didn't want to wait for someone to help her (btw she is a VERY independent kiddo). She fell of the swing and got a compound fracture in her left forearm ( her bone in her are popped out of her skin....YIKES) To make a LONG story short, we ended up at the Primary Children's in Salt Lake, and she had to have surgery. Before we went to the hospital, a good friend, Luetta, had come to my rescue and picked up the other children for me and took them back to her house, where we were going to be staying. It was SO nice to know that I could turn to a friend:-) After being up for over 24 hours straight for me, I somehow was convinced by the nurses to still attend my sisters wedding. I somehow had the strength to drive an hour up to Layton to my friends house, sleep for about an hour n' half, get up to help get the rest of the girls ready...Thankfully Luetta is extremely capable with doing girl hair. She was a huge help:-) We had to be at the temple I think by 10??? Anyway, I was just grateful that I was able to join her on that special day! She looked AMAZING!!! After the sealing and luncheon, the girls and I went to pick up Jonathan and Maggie at the hospital to then go down to Provo, for the reception.
This is Maggie at the reception a little over 12 hours out of surgery. That girl is one tough cookie. She endured a painful injury to her body, to where she didn't get administered ANY pain meds or anything until 6 hours after the accident happend (that's a whole other story for a different time), and then she refused to take the "disgusting" as she put it, pain meds that they gave us for her pain. She said it taste like poop, no thank you I am fine, I don't need it. She is a trooper and we love her. The accident could've been worse.
This is the MOST random of all the pictures: Last but not least, that is if you actually got through all of these pictures..................drum roll please................don't scroll down if you don't want to be grossed out.........................Do NOT judge this is for memory sake only................Addison swallowed a penny at the beginning of June and it came out several weeks later, during Megan's Baptism weekend, while family was here.
So Addison one night while Jonathan was babysitting he was on the computer, and Addison had taken a late nap for some reason that day. Anyway, during that time there was apparently a penny on the ground. I don't know how or why it was there. I am SUPER paranoid when it comes to small things on the ground. I have this fear that one of my kids are going to swallow one of those small batteries and their stomachs are going to explode. Weird, but it did happen to a family here in AZ. That's what sparked my paranoia. Anyway, so I try to keep small things off the ground.
So when I got home that night, Jonathan said that she had thrown up. Well I thought that was weird and then asked him, "Do you think that she swallowed something?" He replied, "I don't know, she could've?" He then proceeded to tell me that she had coughed several times and that she made some choking noises and that he thought that she must've had hair or something in her throat. Well, I was N.E.R.V.O.U.S.! I couldn't stop thinking that she must've swallowed something. We said a pray to help us know what we should do. We both felt like she was going to be okay. Well, a couple of weeks had now passed and she was having trouble eating. She could eat soft things, but if it came to things that didn't really dissolve easily, like yogurt, milk, r soft fruit/veggies, she would gag and push the food away. I figured it was her teething. I had asked a friend of ours who was a pediatrician, what he thought and he thought the same thing that I did, teething.
That weekend our neighbors babysat the kids for us, so we could go out for our anniversary (12 years we celebrated...CRAZY) I told our neighbors the situation about her eating. They still gave her a hot dog, even though I told them that she wasn't really eating solid things.
After that weekend we were going into that third week, from when she initially threw up. She actually started to eat solids again. She spike a temp, just out of the blue. I was oblivious, and just figured she picked up a bug from church or something. It lasted a good day and then passed. With in that next week, she woke up from her nap SCREAMING. I could tell she was uncomfortable, and figured she was constipated. My mother in-law was with me folding laundry. I held her as she tried to poop. So, it sounded like she had just given birth the poor thing:-( She was instantly happy though, just like after giving birth:-) Anyway, I went to go change her diaper and low and behold there was a shiny penny staring back at me. WOW everything all of the sudden seem to make sense. I screamed for Jonathan and of course he grabbed the camera:-)
I hurried and googled, "If your child swallows a penny". Of course the information that google supplies can make even the most calm person paranoid, so you can imagine what my reaction could've been to see that my child could possible be poisoned with ZINC:-) She was still having normal bowel movements during that whole time and there was no blood in her bowel, and she acted relatively normal, besides the times that I had mentioned, so I was able to realize that we were lucky and that she was going to be okay!
