July 2nd 2009

Alright I know it isn't July 2nd anymore, but it was a good day so I decided to blog about it some more. It was Jennifer's Birthday (see previous post). It was my cousin Michael's birthday, Happy Birthday Michael! We love you! It was also my niece, Ember's birthday. The actual one. She was born sometime around 9:00am (I can't remember exactly) weighing in at a whopping 9 lbs 13 oz, 22 1/2 inches. She is my sister BethAnne's baby. Congratulations BethAnne! She is so adorable too, she looks exactly like her mom complete with strawberry blonde hair and all. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of her when we went to the hospital. I just totally forgot.

Not so fortunately I got another chance to get a picture of her in the hospital. This time in the Children's hospital with a nasty infection called MRSA. Its a really bad staff infection she got when she was only 10 days old and no one knows how. So the poor thing had a full blown operation done to drain the wound and then spent the next 6 days in the hospital on antibiotics. She is doing really well now; eating well, gaining weight, infection is all cleared up, Thank goodness. I know there were a lot of prayers going out for them. We love you guys!
BethAnne and Ember in the hospital
Isn't she adorable?
All bandaged up
This one is actually the day before the surgery. She is so sweet. And a good baby to.

Happy Birthday Jennifer

Nate's cousin (and mine!) had a birthday on July 2nd. Happy birthday Jennifer! We love you!!! She invited us to her birthday party and it was a lot of fun. Jennifer is so great. Nate and I just love her. We have grown really close to her and her sister Kayla and they actually want to get together with us which is cool since they are both single and we are old, married and have a kid. Of course they adore Max (and what's not to adore), and most of our time together is spent watching "the Max Show". I just want to say to Jennifer, Happy Birthday! We really love hanging out with you guys, thanks for letting us tag along!
Sitting around talking.
Kayla "flying" Max, He LOVED it!
Snuggling with Aunt Darla, good times.

Sweet Outfit

I bet you can't guess who insisted on his outfit. It was one of those times when it is just better to go with it then fight about it, so he wore this all day. When you add his Spider man sunglasses to the mix it is a pretty rockin' ensemble.

Hiking Adams Canyon

The other day I gave Max the option of going swimming or hiking and he chose hiking. So we packed up and drove to Adams Canyon, a great little hike not to far from our house. On the way there, Max kept telling me how excited he was. The conversation went something like this;

Max: "I'm so excited to go hiking mom! Are you excited to go hiking mom?"

Mom: "I am excited to go hiking Max! I love hiking! Do you love hiking?"

Max: "I love (nub) hiking mom!"

He was giggling and dancing in his seat. Of course when we actually started hiking he wasn't to interested. We had only walked about 100 yeards when he started asking me for the elevator "alligator". I tried to explain to him that there are no elevators on the mountain. He had it in his head that he was getting a ride up and he is one stubborn boy, so of course I ended up carrying him.
The trail starts off with maybe 1/2 mile of switchbacks. They are west facing so its hot and sandy and hot. Once we got to the top of the switchbacks Max wanted to walk so we hiked and hiked. He was a champ. We made it about half way up the trail and he loved it. He just held my hand and walked, climbed, jumped and ran. We had a great time! We played in the river, looked for deer, saw lizards and hornets, spiders and ladybugs. It was a great hike!
I love this picture
Playing on this rock
Cute
Relaxing
Snack Time
Mom and Max

The Dark Ages

So, I don't know if you've noticed but I haven't really posted anything since the end of April. I think that was a while ago. I swear I have a good reason. May was really busy. June was ridiculous, let me just say that Nate spent a total of 4 nights at our house in June. July was the recovery from June and then my computer died. And I mean dead, it wouldn't turn on. I figured that wasn't going to be an easy fix. I put off taking it in for a while because I didn't want to know how bad it was. It was bad. Apparently there is a reason for those power strips. My computer had a power surge and fried the whole thing, the power source, the motherboard and the hard drive. I basically had to get a whole new computer. Which is fine because it was under warranty until the end of August. That was really close. Its not fine because I, like an idiot, didn't back up any of my pictures. They are all on the fried hard drive. Fortunately the guy that fixed the computer thinks the data is recoverable, unfortunately it is going to cost a lot of money. So the moral of the story is A): back up all of your important information. B): Put your computer and other essential electronic devices on a power strip. I've definitely learned my lesson.

Anyway, I'm back from the dark ages of no computer and hopefully soon I will have some pictures to post. :) Luckily, I had never taken the time to delete pictures off my camera so I still have all of the pictures from the first of June until now ( roughly 1000 pics) on my camera.