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Walk Now for AutismUtah 2008
Saturday, May 3, 2008Cottonwood High School - Murray, UT

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Morgan is 5 months old now!

Morgan is such a sweet baby, she is so calm, happy and good! I walked in on Ivan telling her "You are the reason people have 10 kids" I thought that was sweet! She is our last baby and time is going to0 fast. I can't believe she is 5 months already.

She can talk! A couple weeks ago I was at the church and the kids were home with Ivan. Whitney said that she repeated the word Hi to her and Casey several times. I really didn't believe it too much and thought perhaps it was an accident. Well last week Ivan said "kissy" to her (something he says to all of our babies to get them to smile) not only did she smile she said "Kissy" back to him. She did it a few times. We were freaking out! Then last night Carter was having an OCD attack about an ice cream cone he left at the restaurant. Janika started saying "Ice cream" Morgan repeated it! I started freaking once more and called Ivan over (he was remodeling the stairs), she said it for him too. We were just so amazed. Too bad the video camera was not charged. She is a baby genius!

Stats

14.8 lbs 75%

25 1/4" long 90%

Darling and sweet 100%

Family Night at Krispy Kreme

Whitney has to eat as many possible before they cool off. She ate 5!!!!! I don't know how she can eat so many and stay so thin. She actually shoves them in her mouth very fast it is crazy, sick and wrong.....

The kids.... We brought Casey along for the fun. He is really brave coming with us out in public.

Weekend get away....

Highlights

• Railroad Museum, after the 4th time being their we found out it was haunted. That explains the creepy feeling we always get at that place!


• Beautiful wedding, great food.


• 1lb of cheese later, John getting Janika over her fear of dogs.


• Janika and Carter bonding with John and Marlo and even going for a ride in their car. Amazing!


• Laying in Marlo's beautiful bedroom talking about stuff.


• Kraymer showing me the coolest things on the guitar.


• McKoy, taking over Morgan and letting Janika and Carter play in her room, giving me a break!


• Kennedy, finding a green marker to calm Carter's OCD attack, she saved the day!


• Eating a stale doughnut and a bowel of Cheerios with my parents at the hotel! While Ivan and the kids slept. I love spending time with them.


• Balance Rock Eatery & Pub, I never knew you could get a sandwich that big. Made a fat lady sing!!!!


• Visiting the ghost town Hiawatha, crazy how it was so alive one day with a hospital, school, church, store and now totally dead.


• Carter and Janika painting the rocks they took from John's landscape as soon as we got home.


• Ivan driving the entire trip


• Whitney at home missing us while we were totally missing her.

Kurtis Came to Town!

My dear brother Kurtis was in town for a few days. Last night we went to Moms house for a little dinner party in honor of him being home. It was so awesome talking to him. I just have been missing him so much. We decided that we are so much alike because we are just so crazy and silly. I just think it runs in the family to be funny. I got to visit with My brothers Kraig and Kevin too. The evening was ended with watching home videos. It was totally funny to see us all so young and thin and Whitney was such a baby doll! Kurtis told Janika that he missed seeing her dance and she totally started dancing for him and then gave him a huge hug. All the kids have always loved Kurtis, Jeremy is now an adult and he was talking about how fun Kurtis was growing up. He went home today back to Texas. I will miss you Squirtis!!!!

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The Manicure

The Tools

Waiting for Mom

The Procedure


Soaking

Ahhhhhh, The Massage

Hot Towel Treatment

All Done

April Fools Day!

I have been trying for Years to get Whitney and it never works out. We put those Easter egg dye tablets in the bathroom sink faucet the night before. The next morning she stumbled into the bathroom and turned on the sink. NOTHING!!! Ivan and I were dumbfounded because we had tried it and it worked for us. Why didn't it work? Ivan decided to put a bunch of them in the shower head at once. She showers at night so we had to wait all day. While we were at Wal-mart grocery shopping I received a phone call from Whitney she was totally freaking out and afraid to get into the shower. She said oil looking stuff was coming out of the shower. She even called Casey's Dad to find out what it was (he is a plumber). I told her that Ivan would look at it when he got home. When we got home Ivan told her that he thought it was an April Fools Day problem. HAHAHAHAHAHA We finally got her! She did admit she saw something blue in the sink in the morning, but was too tired to process it. Thank you Bunnie for giving me that idea! Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us spend the day with you! The kids had a blast at Grandma and Grandpa's doing a craft, playing with Grandpa and eating snacks.