What a Week!

What a week we had last week, Zak had my car all last week since he's was getting fixed, so I had to just stay home all last week, the only time I got to go out was to take Blyss to the doctors or the hospital. Blyss went into the doctors last tuesday for her 1 year old check up and shots (she did so well this time), she is still not gaining any weight so the doctor felt that we should run a few tests to see if something is wrong. So on Thursday we went to the Lab at the hospital to have a Celiacs Disease test ran and then have some blood work done. For the test she had a sweat chloride test done (she had stuff put on her skin then put electrical nodules on her that ran electrical currents to cause her skin to sweat, then after that they put another nodule thing on her to collect the sweat), after all that she had blood drawn to test. She was one tough little cookie for it all- she is such a good little girl. Blyss was poked 5 times by a needle last week. We were so relieved when the test results all came back within normal ranges-we just hope that she is a slow grower- we have decided not to run any more tests on her until we see how she is doing in 6 months.

Zak and I got to do a few things this weekend, on Friday we were invited to go bowling- which we hadn't done in forever- it was fun. On Saturday we were able to go to the temple- it was so nice to do that. Then on Sunday some friends from our ward invited us over for dinner- we really enjoyed that.

Today Zak got back his pickup, $3100 in damage- how crazy is that! It looks so good though- they washed it and cleaned the inside of it- it looks brand new. My car on the other hand is filthy!!! It is covered in cow manure and smells like manure- it needs a major cleaning!

The picture of Hallee is her super hero costume- she is upset becaue I told her she needed a cape and she thought I said cake- so she thought she was going to get some cake, instead she got a cape.

Bambi will go hungry

Last monday Zak was headed to the airport, he was going through Sardine Canyon, and he saw a deer on the road, he couldn't move over to the other lane because a car was passing him, so he slammed on his breaks and hit the deer, we can't believe how much damage a little deer can do. It complete took out his headlight, half of the grill, bent the fender, so you can't even open the passenger door. On the other side of the rode a car had flipped trying to avoid hitting a deer. So at least Zak made it out better than that car. Hopefully everyone else can stay safe on these roads this winter.

Craziness

This week our little girls have been busy busy. Like I said Blyss has found the drawers in the dresser and loves to get in them and throw everything out, Hallee has decided it is pretty fun too, so Hallee has joined in on the fun (which happens almost everyday). It's not an easy task cleaning up their dresser drawer mess, trying to figure out which socks are Blyss's and what ones are Hallee's, I'll kick them out of the room so I can clean up and they will go into the front room, where Hallee likes to tear all the cushions of the couchs so she can jump and Blyss joins the fun to, she can climb up on the couch when it doesn't have any cushions and she thinks she is pretty cool.

On Thursday Zak and I were watching Lost and Blyss walked to the back part of the house, I thought she was going to go play in Hallee's room, Hallee went back to see what Blyss was doing, a few minutes later Hallee comes back and said I put lotion on my hands, I asked her where she got the lotion and she said from Blyss, so I went back to investigate and Blyss had found my face cream (which I just opened last week), and had used it all on her self, it was in her hair, all over her face (I think she was trying to eat it), her pajams were all gressy, it was all over the rug, and there was nothing left in the container.

I'm sure more intersting messes are headed our way.

Hallee has been our crazy eater this week, I bought a package of cookies last Saturday, and they were all gone by Saturday night, Hallee probably ate 3/4 of the package, for lunch one day she wanted a can of peaches, she ate all the peaches, we went to Peppridge Farms and bought some cookies, that night she ate a whole package, and today while out for a walk, she decided dirty snow tasted pretty good. She is one intersting little girl, but we love her.

Our Family

KIDS!

Kids- don't they just make you laugh! Blyss has been walking around every where this week and it is just the cutest little site, she is just this tiny little 15 pound little girl walking around-actually kind of a waddle. I'll be in the front room and Zak will be working in the office and Blyss just walks back and forth keeping an eye on both of us, I think she just likes to walk around because she can. Also I went down stairs to vaccum and left both girls upstairs playing in the front room, I came out of the storage room and here is Blyss walking around downstairs, I about had a heart attack, wondering how she managed to get down the stairs by herself, but she can do it, I put her on the stairs and watched her go down all by herself- I was amazed, we had been working on stairs, but she would turn around, and it was just too scary, but she figured it out on her own.

I decided to make Hallee a princess dress because at her friend's Allee's house they like to play princess- so I thought Hallee should have her own princess dress. I made her a ballerina princess skirt, I showed it to her after I was done and she told me she didn't like it. So Zak put it on her and she cried and took it off and threw it. So I suggested we give it to the neighbor girl and she thought it was a great idea. I had extra material so I started making Blyss her own princess skirt, Hallee asked me what I was doing and I told her, all of the sudden she she went and got her princess skirt and put it on and has been wearing it since- she loves it- and she puts on her black shiny church shoes and she is a pretty princess. This week Hallee says, "Oh, heavens sake" to everything, it is so funny. Blyss has discovered the bottom drawers in their dresser, she loves getting in it and throwing everything out of it. We have had lots of laughs this week with our kids.

Looks Who is 1

Blyss is one year old today- Jan. 27, 2008. I can't believe she is a year old already, this year has gone by so fast. Blyss has definately lived up to her name so far, she is such a good little girl and we love having her in our family, she is such fun. She motors around the house (walking across the room now) entertaining herself and she is just content, she loves following Hallee around and watching her. This past week we went to Idaho to go through the Rexburg Temple open house, so while we were there she got to celebrate her birthday. At her Grandma and Grandpa Bazil's she got to open her present, a cute little dress. At her Grandma and Grandpa Miller's they had a party for her, with all her Great Grandmas and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. Her cousins helped her open her presents, she got a walker that turns into a wagon, a shopping cart (Hallee loves this one), a book and CD. Today our little Blyss is sick, she has a fever and just wants to be held, but we still are celebrating, we gave her a bounce and ride zebra and hopefully she will want to try her cupcake birthday cake. Hallee has definately loved all this, she helped me frost the cupcakes- actually I think she was mostly eating the frosting, and she was getting very impatient for Blyss to open her presents, she kept asking, "Can Blyss open her presents now?" So finally we gave in and opened them even though Blyss just wanted to sit and be held. And yesterday Zak and Hallee made a snow man, they are both very proud of it, and Zak wanted the picture to be included on the blog.

Sledding Days

On Saturday we were bored and the girls were getting restless, so we decided we needed to get out of the house and do something. I suggested we go sledding, Zak thought it would be fun too. We asked Hallee if she wanted to go sledding and she told us, "No, it is to cold, I don't want to get cold." Hallee is usually up to anything, except when it comes to being out in the snow and getting cold. But we still went and dressed her up in her snow clothes, while she cried the entire time that she was cold. We went to Utah State University (since the college is on a hill), there is a great sledding hill. The hills are so steep, it was a killer hiking up them with Hallee. Zak took Hallee down twice and I took her down once. But after hiking up the hill twice, both Zak and I decided that we were pretty tired. It was a great time, the hill was slick from all the other sledders that you just flew down the hill, catch air a few times from bumps, and had a good rush. Hallee thought it was fun and so I asked her do you want to go again and she said no. We pulled Blyss around in the sled a little bit and she seemed to like it.