New Home

We are moved into our new apartment. Now we are just trying to unpack. Landen has been doing really well with the move. He is a little overwhelmed with everything being packed up and not being able to touch anything. Dade has been having a hard time. He hasn't been sleeping very well. He just wants to be held all the time. I haven't been able to get very much done because I have been trying to hold Dade and spend time with Landen. Drew has been in school for a week now and is liking most of his classes. He will be on vacation for 2 weeks starting tomorrow. It will be nice having him home and his help with unpacking and to help with the kids.

Dade had is Doctors appointment last Friday with the specialist. He has Vesicoureteral Reflux in both kidneys. There are 5 stages of Reflux. 1 being very minor and 5 being serious where he would need surgery. Dade is a level 3. The Doctor said that Dade should grow out of Reflux by the time he is 5 or 6. We are starting him on antibiotics which he will probably have to stay on until the Reflux is gone. The goal of the antibiotics is to prevent a UTI and kidney damage, while growth and development allow reflux to disappear with time. Dade will have to get an ultrasound every 6 months to check up on it. We also found out that Dade has a possibility of a blockage in his left urethra. One of the tests they did counts how long the medication they give him takes to pass from the kidney to the bladder. Up to 10 minutes is good, 10-20 minutes is a gray area and more then 20 minutes means there is a blockage. His right side took 7 minutes, which is good, and his left side took 13 minutes so we don't know for sure. But that would explain his left side being dilated. Because he has reflux and the possibility of a blockage Dade will have to get an ultrasound in 3 months and if everything looks good we will start going every 6 months. If there is anything wrong then we will have to do the test again. I will keep you updated. Once we have more put away and organized I will take some pictures of the apartment and post them.

The boys and our camping trip

Dade is a very messy eater. I cut his hair the other day because it was looking funny with the top so long and the sides short. You can see what it looked like before the haircut in these pictures.

And here is Dade after his hair cut. He looks so much more like Landen now. I cut all the darker color out so now his hair is as light as Landen's. I miss his longer hair. I really liked it long, now he just doesn't look like Dade anymore. But his hair is growing fast so hopefully it will be long again soon.

Dade is starting to sit up on his own now. He is doing really good but still falls over sometimes.

Landen was suppose to be in bed but fell asleep in his time out corner. No he was not suppose to be in a time out but when he is suppose to be in bed he likes to put him self in a time out.

We went camping on the 12th-14th and Dade loved being out side. He had a huge smile on his face the whole time especially when we went for walks.

Landen got really dirty. He couldn't walk properly at all and kept tripping all the time so he got dirty very quickly.

He wasn't watching were he was going and walked into the grill and burned his leg. This is right after it happened.

This is what it looks like now. You can tell how big it is in this picture.

Landen had a lot of fun throwing rocks into the river. We had a really hard time keeping him away from the river when we weren't with him.

Daddy and his boys. This was on our last day, we went for a hike before going home.

Like I said Dade loved when we went for walks.

4 years

Drew has one more day of school then he is done at Salt Lake Community College with his Associates Degree. He will be starting on his Bachelors Degree at the University of Utah on August 24th. Then on August 28th we will be moving into our new apartment at the U of U family student housing. I am so proud of Drew. I love you so much sweetie.

On August 11th we will be married for 4 years. It feels like the time has gone by so fast. But it also feels like we have been together for so much longer. We have had our tough times but we have made it through them all and we are so much stronger because of them. I love you so much Drew and I am so thankful to have you as my husband. You are a wonderful man, a great husband to me, and the best father to our kids. I am so happy that I have you to spend eternity with.