July so far...

Hi family and friends!

July has been good to us so far! Here's what we've been up to!

Technically our 1st yard sale fundraiser was at the end of June, but it turned out pretty good! We had a generous turn out and we are hoping to have another good one on July 13th. If anyone has anything to donate to it we welcome it! Let us know as soon as possible so we can get things ready next week. HUGE thank you to one of my best friends and her husband and in-laws! They helped out a ton by making headbands and bows and home made suckers. Also a huge thank you to ALL those who donated items/money. And another HUGE thank you to my in-laws for being there helping the whole time with Maximus and our yard and clean up. I'm truly blessed to have such great in-laws, I couldn't ask for better ones and I hope they know how much they are appreciated! Here are a few photo's I took about half way through the yard sale. 

Maximus also turned 18 months on June 22! Holy cow! Where does time go? He is getting so big. I can't believe it. He is walking pretty much everywhere now, still with a limp but we are working on it. I am so proud of him and I can't believe how far he has come. I still need to get some video of him walking and playing in his pool. We put him in nursery for the first time last Sunday. He did pretty good until we checked on him and then I had to stay with him the last 45 min. Here are some pics I took.

We also took him in to get his brace for his foot. We are still waiting on it to be made. The Dr has to do it himself because Maximus's foot is so unique. Usually they just use a pretty generic one and shape it to each persons foot, but in Maximus's case that wont work so the Dr just said he is going to take time to make one specially for him! Awesome huh? We really like the Hanger Institute! It's the same place we got his helmet done at. 

Here's a video of them cutting the casting off after molding it to his foot. He was laughing the whole time! 

Our 4th of July was pretty low key. We just hung out at home all day and then went to Tony's parents for the evening for good food, fireworks and games! I was horrible at getting pictures. Oh well! 

Last but not least last night we were sick of sitting at home with NO AC! So we went for a drive for a few hours. We stopped and got Ice Cream and I snapped a couple of cute pics of my cute little gangsta!

We are so thankful to all those that have and are helping us to get to the research conference. I'm counting down the days now! 14! I cannot wait! We were finally able to buy our plane tickets. We also decided to take both grandma's with us to the conference as well and I am so glad and lucky to have them both come and help out with Maximus. We are still raising money for a few more medical bills and for other expenses for the trip, so if your interested in helping you still can and we appreciate it. 

Post Surgery

Maximus did pretty well getting his tonsils out. His recovery has been up and down. The biggest problem is that he is getting more teeth! I think 2 more, I can feel one for sure just not sure if there is another, so that will make 7-8 teeth! So he doesn't want to eat because his throat and his teeth hurt. I don't blame him, but it's soooooo frustrating at times. I don't want to end up back in the hospital with feeding tubes and IV's. So I'm praying he heels quickly in his throat so all we have to worry about are his teeth, which I think I can handle. Anyways, he has been quite the trooper. Once we got home he seemed to be doing better but the next day (yesterday) he seemed to be going up and down again. We spent almost 4 nights in the hospital. They let us go home Thursday at about 4pm. I was so excited to see my own bed. You have no idea!!! Well unless you've slept in those stupid pull out chairs that make into a 2 foot wide by 5 foot long bed. Plus we shared a room the last two nights with a week old baby who was really high maintenance and by that I mean the poor little guy was hooked up to everything you could imagine so Dr's and nurses were in literally like every 15 min. 

As for me and Tony, we are doing good. Just going day by day right now. Real Estate for Tony is picking up pretty good so thats exciting. I'm still selling Paparazzi Jewelry and it's pretty fun! I need more people to do parties though so if you would be interested please let me know! Christmas is coming and the jewelry is affordable and cute! At the end of this month sometime we will be going hunting. I am pretty excited to go, I always liked going with my dad when I was little and I've missed it. I had so much fun with Tony the first year we were married and went, we didn't get a deer that year so here's to hoping this year we do. It should be fun and maybe we will see some snow! It will be different going with a munchkin this time. Well he's up from his nap now so I better go get him! Until next post, enjoy these pictures and videos!

Playing in the waiting room waiting to be taken back to get ready!

Pre-Surgery

Post surgery. Not fun. He was screaming when I got to him. Poor guy.

A few minutes after I got to him

Getting wheeled to his room

This was his favorite! Going for a ride in the stroller. We did this multiple times a day. 

After a ride in the stroller

Sleeping on Grandma

Playing with mom

Chillin' in his hammock, he loves it!

At Target yesterday we found these and put them on him! He looks so dang cute! 

At home in his jumper one of his favorite things

Motherhood Mishap and More!

Hello friends! It's been too long. A lot has happened since July 7 (my last post date) So bare with me on this LOOOOOOOONG post! Where to start? Yesterday I suppose...

Found this saying on Pinterest last night, and all though I only have one child who's only 7 months I can attest to you that it's true (and I look forward to have more little distractions)!

We got home from a long weekend trip on Tuesday, two family reunions in one. And I desperately needed to unpack and get my house cleaned and laundry done. I was going crazy Tuesday night with the mess but I was too tired and sunburnt to do anything so instead I took a bath and went to bed! So yesterday the unpacking and cleaning began. It was one of those days where my previous job as a police secretary was missed! Anyways by 1pm I was sweating and was about half way done and I finally got junior down for a nap so I decided it was lunch time and sat down to eat and watch a show for a half hour. I got my lunch fixed and junior decided a half hour nap was good enough. The rest of the afternoon he was whiney, wanted to be held, and would NOT take another nap. I did however manage to get my cleaning and unpacking done by about 4:45pm. But spent about an hour tearing my vaccume apart because it (no fault on me) decided to eat my sons butterfly toy that he loves. Don't worry, I saved the butterflies! Just minor cuts and bruises! And luckily my son is not old enough to be upset by it yet! One of many motherhood mishaps I'm sure.

Anyways, because Maximus refused a nap, this is what we encountered at about 8pm last night. (I should not be posting this video because I look my worst and don't mind the double chin I've got going on, it's hard to get rid of) I was laughing so hard I was crying! He was so cute, and sooooooo tired. I had to put it into 3 videos because it was too long.

What else. Let see, we spent a weekend in Lava, ID at Tony's uncles house. We enjoyed tubing down the river, a car show, and seriously the best parade we've ever been to! The kids had more candy than you could get trick or treating on Halloween and it went down main street and turned around and came back! It was awesome. I highly recommend this parade at least once in your lifetime. (photos and video will have to come in another post)

The next weekend (this past weekend) we went to Tony's family reunion up mayfield canyon at 12 mile campground. We enjoyed good food, fourwheeling, lots of rain on Friday, and family time! Maximus was a real trooper having to be on oxygen the entire time because the elevation is at 10,000 feet. He was such a good little camper. (again photos and video in another post)

Then on Saturday we left there after breakfast and headed to Bear Lake for my family reunion. We had a blast! We swam at the pool several times, played games, and then Monday my parents rented a water trampoline and a jet ski and we played for 8 hours on that thing! It was so much fun with everyone there. The little kiddos didn't care for the trampoline too much and my mom doesn't like water so even though we felt bad leaving her with the four grandkids, she insisted and made us adults go play. It was nice! Thanks mom! She did get a good ride on the jet ski with my dad though. We also went into town to get the famous raspberry shakes. They were pretty delicious even Maximus loved it! (photos and video in another post also, waiting on the hubs to edit them first)

I never updated about Maximus sleep study that was done up at Primary's. I don't have the results yet but the poor little guy endured a lot! But pretty much thought it was the funniest thing ever until he had to go to bed. I have a ton of pictures so I'll try and pick just a few to share. And as soon as we have the results I'll let you know what's next.

Having a bath in the sink at the hospital, he loved it!

Eating the cords, another favorite thing to do

Getting hooked up

Tons of monitors

Ninja hat

Superman belt

Trying to get it off my head!

Caterpillar wrapped

Night night!

We went to the Hanger Institute today for his 2nd helmet evaluation. We are pretty sure we are going to go ahead and put it on him. He will only have to wear it for 10 weeks. I just feel like if we have to shave his head because his hair won't grow in then I want his head shape to be good. We will get the helmet next week.

Last but not least, Maximus is 7 months old now! I can't believe it. Time flies now days. He is getting 2 more teeth which will make 3 total, 2 on bottom and 1 on top! We just found the 1 on top and the 2nd on bottom this weekend. He is sitting up by himself now and is almost saying mama! He has only rolled over by himself once from belly to back, but I'm not sure he will ever really care for it. He still doesn't eat well, but I don't know if that's because of his teeth or what. Im not sure what he weighs right now, my guess is about 13 lbs. he is still wearing size 1 diapers and 3 month clothes. He is such a good baby! I can't complain about anything! He's so happy MOST of the time. I just love him to pieces!

New way of sucking his binki - with his bottom lip underneath it! 

Sleeping today on Mommy

New favorite toy - a milk jug!

Went to dinner the other night and Maximus had a major blow out all over his clothes! So I changed him in the truck and put a new diaper on him but didn't have ANY extra clothes because he had a blowout on the way home from Bear Lake this same day and I hadn't repacked the diaper bag. We had a few more stops to make and didn't want to take our naked baby inside the stores so Tony ran into Burlington and found him this gangster Jordan outfit! Needless to say Tony was pretty excited about finding it for him and now he wants matching Jordan shoes to go with it. We may have to find some on the internet.

Tony is still working two jobs. His real estate is doing pretty good. He has 4 potential buyers and is still working on getting some houses listed. If you or anyone you know is interested in buying or selling send them his way!

I have just recently become a Paparazzi Jewelry consultant and I'm really enjoying it! It's so fun! Please host a party with me if you have time and can! It's a lot of fun and you can earn free jewelry.

Well I think that's a long enough post to bore you, most probably didn't even read it this far. But if you did thank you! And hopefully I'll learn to post more often so as not to make it such a long post!

Ta ta for now!

-B