Tracen update, baseball and other good things

I gave in and uploaded the photos to Josh's computer. And for a blessing in disguise, sometimes it's a good thing that computers hate me. I had given the ok for the computer to delete all the pictures on the camera disk about a half a second before I realized that it hadn't unloaded them all. I was so bummed. But when I opened the folder back up every picture was still there.

I also took my computer in to get fixed. It's still under warranty at Best buy. By the way, I hate best buy. If you're thinking of buying anything there you might possible need fixed someday, I would strongly recommend that you don't. Their computer fixing department stinks. Sorry if you work there, started the company, run their service dept or are married or related in anyway to someone who does, but this is my 4th go around with them on two different computers. So after fighting with the guy (I'm not as shy and timid as I used to be, in fact sometimes I think I'm pretty darn mean) about whether or not they were going to send the computer back to me if it was too expensive to fix he finally rounds up a cord and plugs it in....don't worry it's just the cord....which they replaced in December. Go figure. So in 3-5 days I should have a new computer cord.

OK on to happier thoughts:

Tracen is (more than) 11 months old!

I know people say it all the time but I seriously can't believe how time flies! I can't believe he's going to be 1 in like 2.5 weeks! Crazy!! We love our little boy though, so much. He has the funniest personality. Up until now Jesse has been the jokester in the family but I told him he'd better watch out because I think Tracen might out do him. He totally teases! I was at my friends house the other day and I didn't notice that Tracen had climbed half the stairs so I ran to grab him and he squealed and tried to climb even faster. Then it was a big game and he kept trying over and over to do it. Gabe (her little boy) was "tending" Tracen and Tricia told him to yell "red alert" if he started climbing the stairs. Pretty soon we hear Gabe yelling "red alert! red alert!" It was hilarious!
Here's more proof he's a big tease. He bites, but not hard. He will bite you and if you say ouch or pretend to cry he laughs and goes to bite again but does it a lot softer. funny kid.
Here's something else I caught him doing.....feeding the dog. He's such a little stinker! He was totally feeding Sadie his hot dog....well it was more of a one for you, one for me kind of a deal. So gross!Here's Jesse showing Tracen the ropes of a home depot cart. Jesse hasn't been allowed to ride in a cart for so long, he was loving it!

More about Tracen:

We are no longer afraid he will walk before he's one...in fact, now we're afraid he'll never walk. He walks around furniture but if you try to grab his hands and make him walk he sits right down.

He loves his tubby, eating soap, licking water and his favorite is when I lay him down to wash his hair. He gets a huge smile on his face and kicks and splashes. He also likes to shower with his dad.

He's sleeping through the night again! wohoo!!

He loves to be outside.

He loves dogs. He will stare at them, yell "daw" at them and bark at them. He also tries to crawl away from me and get them.

He doesn't like to hold still long enough to get dressed or have his diaper changed, this can present quite the problem. See above picture :)

He loves the boys, and he gets so excited when they come home from school.

He wakes up from naps happy and will just sit in his crib and play until someone comes to get him. If he's crying, he didn't sleep long enough.

He gives awesome hugs and kisses, waves bye bye with both hands one pointed each way, and plays patty cake.

He's seriously so much fun and just a good happy baby. Right now he has an ear infection, a fever a sore throat and the nastiest green snot ever pouring from his nose. I can't wait to get my happy baby back!

An Afternoon hike A few weekends ago, the weather was amazing. So we went out to Parowan Gap and did a little hiking. We had a lot of fun. It started out a little rocky with Ty. He's been super pessimistic lately and it drives me crazy. He whines and complains about everything it seems like. So the minute he started whining I made him come up with one happy thought for every whine he whined. Pretty soon he was having a good time. Josh even let him lead the way and he led us straight up a steep hill. Josh was in the back making comments about him being a mountain goat which I think made him feel pretty good. Jesse got to lead the way down the hill because we all have to have a turn you know.

Jesse believing in all things cowboy, refused to don shorts. He stuck to his trusty wranglers and cowboy hat accompanied by his camelbak, sun glasses and bb gun. He's hilarious. He also picked up every rock that could be construed as black and asked if it was obsidian because that's what the indians made arrowheads out of. I answered every question with "I don't know what obsidian looks like" Ty answered every one with "I know what it looks like and that's not it" (pessimist?)The boys made sure I found lots of pretty desert flowers and plants to take pictures of :)



Ty was really interested in all the cool rocks, but soon decided it wasn't worth carrying them all around.

Tracen sat back and enjoyed the view. At one point Josh asked me if he was positioned funny because he was breathing hard. I checked him out and he was fine. I told Josh that hiking was hard for kids his age and that he needed a rest :)

Ty finally enjoying our little outing:

And since this is my favorite photo of the day you get to see it again. I actually uploaded it twice on accident, but since it's so cute/funny....why not?

Baseball

The boys started baseball a few weeks ago. Jesse loves it, Ty loves it when he's actually there playing it (more of that pessimistic problem we're having). Thankfully they are on the same team. Jesse actually missed the deadline by 5 whole stinking days and they were going to make him play t-ball, but we begged and pleaded and they are on the same baseball team. So far they've had 4 games. One was nice, the other two were cold or windy or both. But they are having fun. Last night Jesse was the catcher he was soooo dang cute. The pads were bigger than him. He did a good job stopping the ball, even though there's not any stealing going on :)

Ty looks enthusiastic I know...

Jesse on shortstop, ready to go.

Tracen liked yelling and shaking the fence real hard :) He's Grandpa's buddy.

Ty at bat

Jesse at bat.

I miss my computer

I miss my computer. It's still on the kitchen table, lifeless. I guess I'm going to have to upload my pictures to Josh's work computer so that I can post all that I love about Tracen at 11 months. It won't be the same without the pictures. But if I don't hurry we'll be posting his 1st birthday. Where did that time go?

The boys are playing machine pitch baseball. It's quite fun to watch. My favorite was the girl in center/left field who sat in the dirt during on inning pouring dirt over her head. Somehow we're pretty sure Ty ended up with her hat. The evidence is pretty convincing.

OK well I guess I better get back to work.

Why I love my job

I was going to post my Easter pictures like everyone else but my computer hates me and died....again. So instead, I decided I'd post the top 10 reasons I love my job. Some are serious, some are sarcastic, but they really are ALL reasons I love my job, and here's why :)

10. I nearly got tasered the other night....I was doing a legal blood draw (for the police, so they were there),the guy decided to move and I yelled at him. Suddenly there was a red dot shining brightly on the guys abdomen, the other end of that red dot was attached to a taser. It was way to close to my arm for comfort. The did tell me (when I asked) that I "probably" wouldn't have gotten tasered and when I asked Josh later he said they were "probably" right. Probably doesn't quite do it for me. Ok, so it's funny now.

9. The nights that are really busy make me really grateful for the slow nights.

8. I really like working with the doctors. They are all great and they don't mind when I ask why they decided to do something, how a medication works in that particular application or other "why'd ya do that" type questions. I like having them there to learn from. Plus, they're mostly just fun to have around.

7. The nights that are really slow make me grateful for the busy nights. Sometimes 4-7 a.m. can feel like a 12 hour shift all on it's own if there's nothing going on.....sometimes.

6. I love the people I work with. The other nurses and techs are great and I enjoy going to work just to see them.

5. I love that I learn at least one new thing every time I go to work. Sometimes the information is random, but most of the time I learn something new that is useful. Some days I learn lots of new things.

4. I love the adrenaline rush when something crazy or hard comes in. It feels good to work hard, use my brain a little bit and hopefully do something good...like maybe save someone's life. That's a good feeling.

3. Some days I love the crazy patients. Especially when they're funny. It makes me laugh and is a different kind of challenge.

2. I love that working 2 days is the equivalent of part time. 12 hour shifts are so nice! I know some people think that's crazy but I love that I get my job done in 2 days and get to spend the rest with my family. I'm working full time right now (which is still only 3 nights) and I will be so excited to go back to part time. I love that I get to spend most of my time with my family.

1. I absolutely love it when I feel like I've helped someone or helped change an outcome that would have been bad/sad. Like when someone comes in with a heart attack and we get them out the door to the cath lab and the next day you find out they're doing great, or when someone comes in bleeding to death and unconcious and by the time you take them to ICU they are sitting up and talking to you. I love it when I actually make a difference.

A little FHE...

Last night we had family home evening with the Neilson fam. We had a lot of fun. The weather was so nice outside and Ty needed to cook outside to pass off something for cub scouts so we barbequed hamburgers. Then the boys did a lesson that they made at a primary activity about Christ and the resurrection. We ended the night with a little egg dying. We had some pretty eggs! They were so bright. We had about 7 dozen eggs. I had gotten a dozen for each family, but unbeknownst to me Ty told everyone that we were dying eggs at fhe and they could bring eggs if they wanted too...gotta love kids. So we had a lot of eggs!

Jesse getting down to business.

Kole getting ready to use her egg dipper. She loved the pink eggs :)

I think Jerry had as much fun as anyone else.

OK I'm a dork but I had fun messing around with the camera and taking pictures.The yellow eggs was covered with tons of little air bubbles, it looked cool.
Look how bright they turned out! I loved the all!

Drying eggs (I told you I got a little carried away with the camera)

Family home evening with extended family is something we started doing in my family when I was in high school. It was one of my favorite things and I really have missed it. So I was really excited when we started doing it with Josh's family. I'm grateful that we have been instructed to have family home evening and that we've decided to do it together once a month. At least we know we get it done at least that often!