Prayers for the Uhl Family

I hate to do posts that are such a bummer, but my heart is so heavy today. My old childhood friend, Jodie, and his wife have a baby named Jasmine. She is the same age as Jax (two months older to be exact). At her 6 month check up they found that her head circ. had jumped from the 50th percentile to the 95th. So they ordered an MRI. Before they could get that done. She began throwing up and becoming lethargic. After taking her to the hospital and finding cancerous brain tumors, they removed them, and they kept growing back. Then the docters recommended doing a hemispherictomy (removing half of the brain). After doing that she seemed to be doing well. They just did another scan and there are very big tumors on the good side of her brain now and on her spine. It is a very aggresive kind of cancer and there isn't anything left to do. They are putting her in hospice. This poor baby girl has been through round after round of chemo and surgeries. It just breaks my heart. I can not even imagine having to go through that with Jax. Sweet baby Jasmine has touched so many lives. Please Please keep the Jodie, Stephanie, and Jasmine Uhl in your prayers. They are going through a very difficult time right now. I posted a couple pics of Jasmine.

We went to the spray park last week with our friends Cassie and Malachi. The kids had a lot of fun!! It's nice to be able to be around water without the concerns of a pool. We haven't been to a pool yet, am going to have to wait until I have an extra person to help with the kids! Life has been busy though. This week Jayden is attending his first Vacation Bible School. He likes it. He says he is "going to school at Jesus' house" : ) It's kind of funny. As soon as we get in the car or home, Jax runs to any toys that Jayden usually doesn't let him play with. lol Tonight we get to go to the circus!! I'm taking the boys and grandma is watching Aliana...should be good times!! I hope everyone is having a great week! : )

What a Beautiful City we Live in!

Garden of the Gods always takes your breath away!! To see those beatiful red rocks in the middle of the city is just amazing!! That and we have beautiful Pikes Peak to look at all of the time! We are blessed! Pikes Peak is still getting snow on it, amazing when you think that it is the end of May!!!!

Fun night at the park!

We headed to America the Beautiful park last night. I hadn't gone to the park with all three of the kids by myself in quite a while. My little Jax likes to run off. I decided to go to that park because it's kind of surrounded by hills, and I figured it would be harder for him to run off. That and it is just a cool park. The kids had a lot of fun, and Jax did pretty well. : )

Daddy turns 5-0!!!

A special Happy Birthday to my dad!! He turned the big 5-0 recently!! : ) : )

Welcome Back Jed!

We got to attend a very special Welcome Home Party for our friend Jed. He just got back from a six month tour in Afghanistan with Special Forces. We are happy he is home safe and sound! And so very thankful for men like him that protect our freedom. It does not come without cost!Also a thank you to Sarah who went without her Jed for all of those months and before hand for training! : )

I Think the Sicky's are gone!

Well, it's been an interesting couple of weeks! Poor Jax was very sick on Mother's Day. We had plans of going to church and then going to Norman's moms house for lunch with family, but that all got changed. Jax started a bad cough on Saturday. Wheezing almost and a couple of my friends said that their kids had croup. So I thought he must have that. By Sunday morning he had a fever and was very lathargic. He wouldn't really drink anything and it as quite sad to see him lay on the couch all day not even smiling. If you know Jax, you know he had to be really sick to not move all day! LOL So Monday we went to the doctor and he had an ear infection and croup. They can't really do anything for croup unless his breathing gets really labored. Which his wasn't too bad. She did prescribe him a short period of steriods to help with the cough and then an anitibiotic for the ear infection. Poor kid, I hate having to give him antibiotics, but with his ear infections, I don't think there is a way around it. I don't know if Jayden has every been on an antibiotic, but Jax has several times for his ears. So we got him taken care of and then Jayden started the cough a couple of days later. This week Aliana had the cough. Poor girl, she made herself throw up one morning from coughing so much. And how do you stop a baby from coughing??! She had a couple of days where you could just tell that she didn't feel good. But she is mostly back to herself by now. So hopefully we are done with the Sicky's now!!! : ) Also, Jayden and I got to attend a special Princess/Prince Tea Party for Addison. She turned 4 years old!!! : ) Happy Birthday to her!! : )

Wonderful Easter Weekend!!

We had a wonderful Easter weekend last weekend! What a reason to celebrate....a sacrifice made for us! He is alive!!!!

Last Saturday my dad, Cathy, Granny, and K came over and we ate dinner and dyed Easter eggs! It was a lot of fun. Then Norm had to show off his dance moves on the Wii! ; )

Then Sunday we all went to church at our church, Rocky Mountain Calvary, and then had about 15 peWell here are just a couple pics to share...oh, but the way, the day after Easter Aliana had her four month check up and she was 18lbs 12oz and 26.5 inches long! BIG girl!! : ) Her Easter dress was 12 months!! : )
ople over for lunch. My grandparents were in town for the week from New Mexico, and it was nice to have them here!! My mom and Keven and Norm's parents were included in the 15 people. It was a good time together. After lunch we relaxed and watched the movie "Tangled"....Aliana got it in her Easter basket! : ) We were so busy, we forgot to do the Easter egg hunt! lol Jayden will know to ask next year, so we won't get away with that!! The kids are all spoiled, Easter stuff from us, Auntie K, Dad and Cathy, Grandma and Grandpa A., Lita and PopPops, and PopPops and Gramma Mernie. What can I say.....we are very loved! : )

Busy weekend!

Time seems to fly by faster and faster! The kids had fun with daddy while I worked this weekend. Then we went to church on Saturday night. The Sunday School teacher asked me if Jayden was tired since he was so calm that night! Maybe it's better we go to church at night.....his energy is mostly worn out! lol She said he listened really well and was really calm. Afterwards we decided to go to Fargo's Pizza. It was the first time we have gone to a restaurant with all 3. And honestly, I can't remember the last time we went to a restaurant with even just Jayden and Jax. They did really good. Fargo's is a good place to go since it's pretty noisy and lots of action going on all around. The boys had a lot of fun playing in the arcade. By the time we got home it was 10pm. So needless to say, everyone was ready for bed. I worked for awhile on Sunday and then the boys went to Lita and PopPops while we went to our Small Group. There were some new couples that just joined, and we are excited to get to know them. One of the couples has a little boy named Malachi and he will be three this summer. Guess when his birthday is.....yep, July 12, same as our boys! Kind of funny. After our small group we went to eat at BJ's Brewery. We had heard that they have really good pizza. It was pretty good. We picked the boys up after we ate. They always have fun at Lita and Pop Pops. My brother, Josh, had made a big picture of a dinosaur when he was little. My mom has our artwork, from when we were kids, hung on the wall of the laundry room. Jayden happened to see it and fell in love with it. So Lita let him take it home and it's now hung on our wall at home. Little did Uncle Josh know, his nephew would be very impressed with his artwork someday! : ) We got home late last night, so everyone slept well last night! Jayden and I were the only ones awake at 9:30am!! Everyone must have been tired! Well, I hope everyone is having a great week!

Fun Week Already!!

Well, we have had a fun week already!! Yesterday we got to visit with some cousins. They are here for a week and stopped by for a couple hours. They have two little girls, Rayna who is two and a half and Aireka who is 6 months old. Jayden and Jax are both bigger than Rayna and Aliana is bigger than Aireka, who is double her age! lol They are cute and petite! Then today Nic and Addison came over to play! The boys have a blast with Nic. He is 3 months older than Jayden. And Addison is 4 weeks younger than Aliana....so they will have so much fun together when they get a little bigger. Then this afternoon we skyped with my dad and Cathy. That was fun for the boys to see Grandma and Pop Pops and for them to be able to see the kids too! Here are a couple pics! Have a great week! : )

Our Baby Girl is 3 Months Old Today!

Aliana Kristina is 3 months old today.....how time flies!! She is such a joy in our lives!! Such a smiley little baby!! Well, I probably shouldn't say "little"! I'm guessing she is close to 17 pounds now. We are so thankful for her and she is so precious!!

Fun Week So Far

Well we have had a fun week! Saturday we got our green on and went to the parade. That's what our main picture is from. While we were driving to the parade, Jayden says, "Mommy, your hair is beautiful!" It was the sweetest thing I had heard, even if I did have my green wig on! :) The boys weren't too interested in the parade, which surprised me. But I think it was due to the fact that we didn't get to sit too close. So maybe next year. That night we had friends over and ate and played some dance games on the Wii. We have the Just Dance games and the Michael Jackson Dance game. Lots of fun. We got to see my mom and Keven on Sunday. The boys always like seeing them. It has been so warm the past couple of days. The past two days the boys have played outside. They had sidewalk chalk today and had loads of fun with that. Needless to say, the bath water tonight wasn't crystal clear! ; ) Well I'll have more pics soon. St. Patty's Day is tomorrow! : )

Happy For Nice Weather!!

The boys were thrilled to get outside today!! They went and played in the backyard. Jayden gets really scared when he hears the dog next door through the fence. He didn't want to stay out there unless he could see me. In fact, Jayden came inside while Jax played outside awhile by himself. I finally had to make him come inside so we could eat lunch. Of course he found a little pile of snow in the corner of the yard and his pants were soaked! LOL That boy LOVES water!! He will have a blast this summer! Hope everyone is having a great week!! : )

Wordless Monday : )