New House

I need to take pictures of all the rooms in our house, but here's a picture that Brett posted on facebook of us in front of our house :)

Valentine's Breakfast 2013

In high school, Dave's friends that were girls would all have a big sleepover then make breakfast really early and go get the boys. They've continued the tradition of having a Valentine's breakfast all these years, though it's a little different these days with spouses and kids. We hosted it this year in our new house and had lots of fun! We're LOVING the space our house provides!

Brad & Elly Taylor with their little girl getting some breakfast casserole

Dave Hess, with Dave and Danny Austin in the background

Sean Holje, Aaron Hunt, Hannah Hunt, and Ashley Holje. 

The kiddos and Chika at the table

Ollie having fun :)

Danny & Brinley Austin

Ollie has loved having friends over!

The whole gang, minus me taking the picture

Childhood best friends with their boys :)

The whole gang, minus Chika who is taking the picture. Can I just say I can't wait to have Cale and lose the baby weight?!

Pictures from December, January, and February

Happy boy!

The boys at Grandma Charie's house

The fun machine I had hooked up to me for 24 hours to monitor my heart

Watching it snow :)

Just chillin' with daddy

Cale's feet!

The start of a fever of one of many sicknesses we've had this winter. It's been the worst!

Eating breakfast at Kneaders for our 5th wedding anniversary!

The 3 of us

Our Christmas tree this year. We were getting ready to move and didn't have room for a big tree, so we had this tiny one.

I noticed Ollie hadn't moved in his monitor, so I checked on him. He had fallen asleep sitting up!

The three of us with our legs crossed :)

Grandma Michelle with Ollie when she came to see our new house :)

What a big boy!

Our new front room. I'll post house pics later...

Cheesin' it

Someone found daddy's safety glasses

Two things here: If Ollie finds one of my hair things, he  puts it on his wrist like I do. There are times he'll have lots of them lol. The other is that when he hears something like an airplane or train outside, he'll point to his ear like this. It's so cute :)

A cute picture we sent to Dave on Valentine's Day

My dad and Julie watched Ollie so we could have a Valentine's Day date. It was great!

Hello Again!

I haven't been able to post pictures since November on the other blog, so I'm going to just pick some from my phone that highlight the last couple months. We're in our new home in Layton now and loving it! We FINALLY finished painting yesterday and got pictures hung up over the weekend. Ollie loves all the room he has now to run around and Dave has been busy working on projects. He made the bathroom SO much nicer- replaced the shower head and arm, put new towel racks in, took off the old dirty glass shower doors...I sure love that he's a handy man :)

I can't remember if I posted on the other blog, and everyone already knows now, but we're having a baby BOY! We'll be naming him Cale Raymond. We just like the name Cale and Raymond is my grandma Rhonda's maiden name. I sure wish I got to know her, I love her so much and wanted to honor her in some way. This pregnancy has been a lot different than with Oliver. It seems like it's been one thing after another. First my appendix, then heart issues for me, then lots of sicknesses, now I've got to watch my sugar intake because on my second glucose test a number was out of range. I'll be happy when I can finally hold this little guy and not worry about him inside of me!

The weekend we moved in, Ollie came down with a fever. By that Monday, he had a pretty bad cough and still had the fever, along with being very lethargic. We ended up taking him to a new doctor here in Layton (which I have come to love!) and he was diagnosed with RSV, along with some pneumonia in one of his lungs. He was prescribed an antibiotic and if we didn't see improvement by the weekend we'd take further measures. I was so thankful Dave was able to get off work and come to that appointment with me! They ended up having to do a chest x-ray and I couldn't be in the room. They had to strap him in a contraption with his arms above his head and I could hear him crying from the hall. It would've broke my heart even more if Dave wouldn't have been with him! They also had to put a bunch of saline solution down his nose and he was freaking out while they were sucking out the mucus to put in a tube for testing. It was not fun! Luckily, the antibiotic worked and he got better!