5 Years of Bliss!!!

In the 5 years we have been married we have produced a 2 year old monster and a whole lot of happiness. You can see how happy I am because I am smiling my face off in our family picture (that uncle Shane took). I can't help it, these 2 boys make me so happy!!!

Halloween!

Here is some cute pictures of our little bank robber! He had chocolate gold coins in his bag that he handed out to people. Sometimes he got tired of giving them away and said "No! Ari's!" very fervently. His favorite part of Halloween was probably stalking any little boy dressed up as Buzz Lightyear.

She is hard to get a picture of because she wants to sit on the lap of whoever is paying attention to her.

We got her for Ari, but really she is mine. Now that Ari is too busy to cuddle me she is always ready to snuggle. I love her, she is the sweetest doggie ever :) 

He is so handsome and funny, just like his daddy.

My Honey is HOT!

I am loving this self portrait Mikey did. I think we should make t-shirts out of it and have some text say, "I'm busy" under it (sorry, an inside joke, but hilarious to me). It would also be awesome with, "You can have it" which is kinda his catch phrase.
It is sorta big so we weren't sure where to put it. We asked Ari if he thought it was scary, and of course he shook his head and said, "No, Dada". So it is up in his room now and every time we go in there during the day he says, "Dada. . . work".
p.s. Mikey did say he was liberal with the amount of hair he gave himself in the stencil :)

He is 2 and Too Cute!

He loves to help me cook!

His hair gets crazy sometimes! Thank goodness it is growing-out cute after mommy ruined it with a homespun haircut.

Two things he loves: his best buddy Owen, and picking on kids that are smaller than him.

His first picture of mommy. He was pointing the camera (that I shouldn't let him play with) at me so I pushed the button for him.

Photo Booth Photo Shoot

my hairstylist

He loves to play with my hair. I usually don't like people playing with it, (not even Mikey) but with this little guy it is okay :)

He is still crazy adorable, but I can't believe I cut his beautiful hair.

Blanky from Grandma Hill

"Don't worry about details on a galloping horse."

My mom said that to me when I mentioned the spots I missed when I cut Ari's hair for the first time. He looks adorable, but I wish I hadn't done it, he looks so much older all the sudden.

Starting from Scratch

Thanks to the yucky RSV that has been going around the valley Ari is back on the bottle 24/7. It saved him from having an IV, because he will drink out of it anytime because it is such a comfort to him. When he was really sick I could put anything in it and we would drink it, now he examines it and if it isn't milk he throws it.
If I haven't already told you about our little adventure this week here it is. He got sick Thursday the 10th of February and just seemed to get a little worse each day. He was still playful and acting himself, just slept a lot more. The following Tuesday I called his doctor because he wasn't getting better. They had me take him in because they wanted to check his breathing. They did a RSV test, but it came out negative (they can be false negatives I guess). Then they sent me straight up the ER at Primary's because his oxygen level was only borderline okay. I had Mikey leave work and jump in the car on the way up. We then spent 6 hours sitting around trying to keep Ari from touching every single thing in the room we were in. They let us decide if we wanted to stay the night so he could be monitored, and we decided not too. I then dropped Mikey off and spent the night at my parents with Ari because our furnace was broken. Ari played for a while and I slept with him in the guest bed so I could keep a close eye on him.
The next day I went to do a follow-up with his doctor. She looked at him and said, "That's not good." I was shocked because I thought he was fine. They put a monitor on him and his blood/oxygen level was 87%, which means they had to put him on oxygen and call an ambulance so he could stay on it to go back up to Primary's. That's when I lost it. His doctor was really nice and tried to comfort me a bit, but I could barely talk to tell Mikey over the phone. They tried to improve his level by doing a mucus sucking thing, but it made them go down to 79%. So off we went.
Ari didn't mind the ride in the ambulance (which is good because it is probably the only trip we will be taking for awhile $$$). He actually liked looking out the window at the cars going past and would point and say "car" almost every time he saw one, so that kept him busy.
Mikey met us up there and we sat and they did more mucus sucking and another RSV test which was positive. We were then admitted and the next 24 hours were spent in a bed holding Ari and talking to doctors and watching his monitor. I got to sleep in bed with him because he wouldn't let me leave his side. The other moms I saw had to sleep in the awful cots and put their little ones in a crib.
We got to leave Thursday evening at 9:00pm and we were so glad to go and that Ari was on the mend. We only went to the respiratory clinic 3 times since and I think we can stop torturing Ari with the mucus suction thing now.
He is a little old to have had such a hard time with the virus. It seems to only really get bad with really young infants. I will talk to his doctor about that on Tuesday at his follow-up. Blah, we are really done with the hospital, but she will probably send us to some tests or something. It is really hard on a mom when you little one is so sick. I hope to get on a regular schedule soon and Ari used to his crib again (j/k, he has never been used to his crib). I have been too stressed to even think about taking the bottle away again. I will probably be packing one in his school lunches.

The thing is... he loves to wear them for me.

I know he will be mad that I put them on him (and took pictures of it) when he is older, but it is too cute. I can't help myself!

First night without a bottle

I know, I know, you can't believe he is still taking a bottle. I threw his last bottle away last night so that I couldn't give into his adorable plea for his "Baba" It was rough and I even went through some storage at 2:00 a.m. thinking I might have saved some of his little ones from my b-pump. That was after offering each kind of possible drinking cup that we have. Eventually he fell to sleep and only woke up once with another round of whining and pleading. Good thing he is so cute!

Mr. and Mrs. Hill

Rae sent me some pictures of the the happy couple, and then I remembered Mikey did some bridals for them. I thought I would post some of my favorites by way of bragging about how great a photographer my awesome husband is. These two are so cute and fun, we are all so happy for them.

Shane and MarLyn's wedding day

I don't have any pictures of the cute couple, but I do have some from Aunt Rae of my cute little boy! (Notice the fancy feathers in my hair. Mikey's mom gave them to me, I was glad to have something fancy to wear to the reception!)

Molly loves it when I kiss her right!? This picture confuses me. She is too cute! It was her 1st birthday and she was a sport to share it with Shane and MarLyn.

He was good all day long. I was afraid he would get grumpy because of the hectic scheduled, but he napped through the luncheon and was all smiles the whole day.