dO YoU tHiNk my TrAcTors SeXy??

Okay, so the post title is a little crazy, but I had to title this post that because my dear husband was driving this tractor all day and he was singing Kenny Chesney's "Do you think my tractor is sexy?" song the whole time at the top of his lungs.

So, that title is for you Jas, you hottie tractor driver! :)

Okay so forth, so we finished our sprinkler system, raked 10 tons of rocks, leveled the ground and then it was time to put top soil down. Well, at first we were shoveling the dirt by hand into wheel barrows and then we woke up and realized, "What the freak are we doing this by hand for!!" So we rented a tractor for the day and oh my goodness it was so nice to have. So, we hauled & leveled all the dirt for the front and back yard and now we are ready for grass! YAhOo! I can not explain how excited I am to get grass, tears are coming to my eyes just thinking about it. The sod will be here Monday morning!! It has already been so much work to get our yard in and we still have a lot to do, but it will be worth it in the end. Well, that is what I keep telling myself. :)

Thanks to my Dad for letting us use your truck and trailer and many thanks to my brother Ryan for all his hard work, he helped out so much and there is no way me and Jas could have done all we did on Saturday with out him.

Driving the sexy tractor!
DIRT DIRT DIRT

Dad instructing Jas where to level the dirt
Carter absolutely loved the tractor, he kept calling it "Big Truck."

Him and Hanny loved pretending to drive and did NOT want to

get off of it.

Stay tuned for more updated pics of our yard.
Hopefully the next post will have pictures of grass!

CuRLy HanNy!

Hanny has recently decided that she highly dislikes her hair. It is thin and wispy and has massive static electricity to it. So, I really can't blame her when she says, "My hair crazy." Every time I try to curl it with the curling iron, it results in her yelling at me that I am burning her, (which of course I am not), I then put it in a pony tail, which she proceeds to pull out ten minutes after I finish. I am going nuts and she is turning into a handful regarding her hair. So I have resulted to putting her "crazy" hair in sponge rollers each morning. She actually doesn't mind me doing this, thank goodness. She loves that it is out of her face & when the rollers finally come out, the curls are tight and stay as far away as possible from her neck, ears, eyes, mouth, pretty much they stick to her head, which I am very grateful for. Because nothing is worse than a screaming two year old. So, thank you to the person who invented sponge rollers, you are making this moms life a little easier. :)

Lovin' the rollers!
Beauty Queen! Her new nicknames (courtesy of the kids in the neighborhood) are:
Curly Hanny
Poodle
Curls
Princess Curly
Curly Locks
She is eating up all the attention she is getting.

We think she is lookin' pretty cute!

Our Sunday Morning Scare

This past week has been a LONG one to say the least. I am finally getting over pneumonia, but Sunday morning we woke to a scare. Hannah had a seizure at about 9 a.m. Jason and Parker found her on her bed. She was shaking and foam was coming out of her mouth. I called 911 and of course I was not calm, I was the exact opposite, hysterical. We carried her downstairs to the front room, so the paramedics could get to her quicker. When we got downstairs, she turned completely purple and bit down on her tongue and stopped breathing. This is when Jason had to talk to the 911 operator, because I lost it. Jas had to shove his finger in her mouth to open her lock jaw and when he finally did, she threw up all this saliva/foam and finally started breathing again. The seizure stopped after two minutes, but her eyes were still rolled back in her head and she was twitching and making this moaning sound for another 3-5 minutes. The paramedics finally arrived and they rushed her to Utah Valley Hospital. When we arrived, she was coming to and hysterically screaming (she cried for 1 hour straight) they tried six times to get an IV into her. When she finally calmed down, she was completely unaware of where she was and who any of us were. At this point, I was panicking because she kept asking for me and I was holding her and she didn't even know who I was. She finally calmed down and slept for a while and after three hours she finally started acting like herself again. She was still shaky and couldn't talk very well, but after a bit, she was back to her normal feisty, silly self. They came to the conclusion that she spiked a really high fever sometime in the morning and then had a seizure. The crazy thing is that she barely had a cold and I honestly didn't think she was sick, but I guess I was wrong. The doctor said that fever seizures are common with children and they usually grow out of them when they are around five.
Hannah went in for a follow up checkup this afternoon and everything looks good. We just have to watch her close and make sure if she does get any kind of fever, keep her on Tylenol and ibuprofen all the time. She was so brave at the hospital. She kept showing everyone her owies and her band aids and the new "big cat" they gave her. She told me today, that she doesn't ever want to go to the doctors and she doesn't like shots. I don't blame her.
We are so happy that she is doing well and back to being our little spunky Hanny. It makes you realize how grateful you are for your little ones. I couldn't stop holding her last night and telling her and Parker how much I loved them. This was very traumatic for Parker as well and he was so brave through it all. I am just thankful everything turned out well and she is doing better, now we just need to pray and keep our fingers crossed that nothing like this happens again, because I don't think our hearts could handle it.

Hanny with her orange "Francis" cat and her new "big cat" the nurses gave her. She kept calling her IV the big red owie.
Here she is showing everyone her bugs bunny band aid on her finger.

The Spanish Fork Paramedics were wonderful and so caring. They each hugged me when they left the hospital. All the nurses and doctors at Utah Valley were great too, we were in good hands and for that we were and are very thankful.

p.s. Thanks Aunt Linny for always having your camera and taking these pics of Hanny.

Hanny says goodbye...

This past week has been a rough one for our little Hannah. Mean Daddy and Mommy (that is what she is calling us) took her binki away. It was a hard and easy decision for Mom. Hard being the fact that I would have to listen to her scream, be difficult in the car, not sleep well, cry for it every minute. Easy because she was obsessed with it and it was moving her teeth, I was sick of looking for one every time she went into hysterics, I felt like the binki was controlling our lives.
So, the other night Jas and I went through the house and found all the binkis and threw them away. We found 14 total and yesterday I found two more. I know what you are all thinking, why did you have so many binkis?? Honestly, I have no idea. Hannah was storing them for the winter.
The first few nights were evil. Seriously, that is the only word for it. She was kicking, screaming, crying, then she kept saying, "You took a part of me away." I am not joking either, she really said that. Then she got sick and she was so upset she didn't have "bink." She is a trooper though and it has been six days without "bink" and she is doing so good. I love not being controlled by the binki!
We are so proud of you Hanny, even though you slapped mommy, kicked her and had screaming fits every night, you are on the road to recovery!!!

ATA BITES!

So, today I get a call from my sister-in-law Lisa and she informs me that the airline (ATA) that we booked our tickets to Hawaii with decided to announce today that they are filing bankruptcy and canceling all their flights. THANKS, I am so excited that I have to deal with getting my extremely large amount of money back from you and then search for more tickets. I really appreciate this. So, Lisa calls the customer service line and says, "How do we get our money back?" and they inform us we have to call the CC company and have the company do a charge back. So, Jas calls the CC company and they say, "We can't do a charge back until June, since that is when the tickets were going to be used." Um, I don't think so. Jason of course handled it a lot better than I would. Since, I lost my nice voice after I gave birth twice. So, to make a long story short, the CC company is doing the charge back asap and hopefully we will be able to get our tickets for Hawaii without breaking the bank. I guess I will learn going with an airline I have never heard of. Still though, ATA bites.