Vacation Update

Well we had an exciting weekend. We went to Wisconsin this past weekend/Week and let me tell you we had a BLAST!!! We had so much fun it was great, another awesome thing was the kids were wonderful they were both very well behaved and good the entire trip. There were only a few hiccups but for the majority of the time they were sooooo good!

We left Wednesday night from daycare. Tait’s parents were nice enough to let us use their van and that was really nice. We had entertainment for Lehna the entire journey back and forth, they have a VCR and monitor in their car so we watched Wiggles, Little Einstein’s, Veggie Tales, and Dora. Well I should say we listened to those shows we didn’t really watch them since they were facing the back seats, but it was great b/c Lehna was so entertained by them.

We arrived in a few short 5 hours up, which was good. We only ran into a little weather at the very tail end of our journey which we hit in Wisconsin just north of Milwaukee which we only had like 2 hours left and it was just rainy nothing serious just annoying. We found out later that the van only had one headlight so it made it a bit more difficult to see through the rain but we survived. Once we got there Mom had made us some pizza bread and they played with their grandkids. Lehna warmed up to mom and Terry after about an hour and she played with them all weekend!

On Thursday we hung around the house. Which was very relaxing. Lehna and Terry went to the park in the afternoon and Lehna LOVED that she loves playing and swinging at the part so Terry was willing to take her so she got VERY BUDDY BUDDY with her b/c of that. Here are some pictures of us playing around the house and stuff.

Lehna Riding the Motorcycle

Lehna riding the Motorcycle

Maya on the Motocycle

The next morning we headed off to the Children’s museum, which is in Milwaukee, which was only about 2 hours away. The museum was pretty cool over all it was a bit crowed I’m used to the very large children’s museum in Indianapolis and this was about a ¼ of the size. It basically had one floor but all the exhibits where so kid focused that there were actually things to do. Tait made the comment that at the Indianapolis children’s museum there are things for the kids to do but most of them are broken or missing so it doesn’t make it very fun for kids. This was a lot of fun b/c all of the toys were directed at Lehna’s age and above so she made things and played in the different exhibits. Her favorite spot was a windy slide in the music area of museum that she went to visit twice. We brought the stroller for Maya but we carried her for the majority of the journey, note to self-next time bring the baby pocket swing for the baby instead of the stroller. My favorite part of the museum was this section for the “artistic child.” They had this really cool machine that made you look like you were a conductor of an orchestra. Well you waved your baton and that controlled the speed of the music so I had a lot of fun with that. Lehna didn’t quite understand what we were doing so I kept taking it from her showing her how to do it, hehehe okay so I just liked to play with it. But it was pretty cool, below are some pictures of that part of the museum I’ll try to write underneath what is going on but they are pretty self-explanatories.

Lehna the Train Conductor

Lehna Milking the Cow

Lehna Riding the Dragon

Lehna Creating Art with her Mommy

Lehna working on her masterpiece

Lehna's Masterpiece

Lehna Making Music with her Daddy

Lehna's Favorite part of the Museum

Mommy's Favorite part of the Museum

Maya at the Museum

When we got back to the house we had an awesome steak dinner that mom prepared for us. Terry’s friends came over Judy and Paul they were traveling through on their way to Indianapolis to visit their son so they wanted to go and visit them. They don’t see Terry and mom very often so they stopped by. They were nice people so I was okay sharing my time with parents with them.

On Saturday we were off to two new places to Ella’s Deli and also to the Henry Vila’s Zoo, these places are in Madison and they were about an hour southwest from them. It was a nice drive to the zoo we only got lost once going there. The zoo was a bit difficult to park at but the zoo was really nice. It was free which was really strange and they zoo seemed cleaned and well taken care of. The zoo was pretty small it was about the size of the Fort Wayne zoo so not too large but big enough that it spread out people so we weren’t right on top of each other. They had all different types of animals there everything from Pythons to Polar Bears I mean not too shabby for a place that was literally in the middle of a housing addition. It reminded me lot like the Colombian Zoo you know just kind of in the middle of the street not really where you expect to see a zoo but that’s where it was located at. It was a pretty cute zoo overall. I am posting some pictures of the zoo.

Lehna with her Nanna

Lehna with her Papaul Terry

Feeding the Goats

Maya with Papaul Terry

We also went to this little deli after we went to the zoo called Ella’s Deli. It was a crazy little deli there were so many things that were hanging from the ceiling that moved and twisted around. There were pretty cool things like in the glass like our table had origami displays, which were like a big shadow box, but you ate on top of the shadow box, it was pretty fun. The food was good as well. Well after we ate the deli happened to have a carousal that you could ride on with some tokens. That was a lot of fun. The carni running the ride after out time was over asked us if we wanted to switch horses. Tait told him no that one time was plenty for us and then he went on about how they guy didn’t have any tokens b/c the people inside took them from him. We just kind of smiled and said oh okay. We had no idea what he was talking about but once on the horse was enough for us.

Lehna was great the entire time. She played with Terry and that was quite a huge step for her she went right up to him and asked him to take her to the park and also where we was when he left the room. This is so great for her she is usually so nervous or shy around him. Also she warmed up to mom really well too so that was very encouraging.

We had a great time in Wisconsin with Tait’s parents moving up there really soon Tait and I are really debating moving up there as well. I don’t think it’s something we are going to do right away or anything like that but something we maybe looking to do in the future. We just had such a great time. We decided we would go back in February mom has been talking about going to Dell’s in Wisconsin every since they moved there and I think next time we will make that a reality. We just had so much fun there so that will be fun going to the indoor water parks in wintertime.

Maya has learned how to roll over. She was really close when we were in Wisconsin so when we came home the first thing we did is put her on the bed and she rolled over like she had been doing it all her life. So that was exciting. Another funny game that Maya is doing is she takes blankets or diapers and puts them over her face. She puts them so they are placed right over her face then once she gets it there she starts to wave her hands and kick her legs. Then once we pull the blanket it off of her head she just smiles and puts the blanket back over her head. It’s the silliest thing ever. I am putting pictures of that b/c it’s pretty funny.

Maya Blanket On

Maya Blanket Off

Well that was our weekend. We did have a good time there. It was something that I can’t wait to go back to do it was a nice vacation. I think Tait really had a good item and I know the girls had a great time. I love being able to see mom it’s just really nice.

My Family

2 Week Update!

So much to update… so I will try to keep it as SHORT as possible but I do have a tendency to ramble on and on AND I haven’t updated in 2 weeks so let’s just so MUCH has happened.

Let’s start with the simple stuff first. Tait turned 30!! This past week! He had been counting down like the dooms day clock every since January and now that it’s come and pass he can say that he survived it, with very little injury. We had a nice celebration. Helen and Tim had taken our children from Sunday-Wednesday of last week so on Tait’s birthday we got our children back. All I have to say is THANK YOU HELEN AND TIM! It was such a nice break. Lehna was on my very last nerve. Recently she’s going through this two year old “stage” and let me tell you it’s been AWFUL! She won’t listen she refuses to sit quietly for ANY length of time and her behavior can go from ‘good girl to ROTTEN child’ in seconds. It’s so unpredictable she gets mad at silly things and becomes frustrated VERY easily and when that comes there is NO reasoning with the child. So when Helen and Tim offered to take our children it was SOOOOO wonderful! I was all over the idea because I NEEDED a break. So after a refreshing 3 days of NO children I was ready to be able to handle Lehna once again. She still is having her Mood swings but at least I’m not ready to kill her when the evil Lehna appears. So Tait’s parents took us out for dinner for Tait’s birthday, then the next day I made Tait’s favorite meal and we had ice cream cake. It was just a small thing for his birthday. I feel bad b/c I know Tait was really expecting something grand since he’s been talking about his birthday sine January and I feel bad disappointing him he says he’s not but it still makes me feel bad.

Lehna Looking Pretty Cute!

Why do the make kids clothes in WHITE?

Some Lehna health news while Lehna was at Tait’s parents she was playing outside with Tanna and Landyn when she fell to the ground and her eyes rolled back into her head again. She did not shake she just kind of acted out of it just really spacey for about 2-5 seconds. Tanna said they brought her inside and she had a retired Sheriff help her but they said she wasn’t hot or anything she was literally playing and fell just out of the blue. Well I called the doctor when she got back and the doctor got me in touch with the neurologist (the one she’s seeing at he end of this month) and he wanted more details of what happened. He asked me if this has ever happened before I told him that the “episode” where she just falls and her eyes roll back and she gets really out of it has happened before. The doctor informed me that this is actually a form of seizure that she is having. So he sent us Friday to a children’s cardiologist to rule out any problems with her heart. We were pretty nervous about this appointment b/c the doctor said that if she has something with her heart then it’s going to be some serious things. Well Lehna went and all of her tests came back as perfectly normal. The doctor said that as far as her heart is concerned she is a perfectly normal healthy little girl. So we were VERY relieved to hear that. He said to just keep our appointment with the neurologist. The neurologist did give me his on call number that he wants us to call if this happens again. So we will be on the look out for more of that.

While we were in Indianapolis on Friday for the tests we were also there for Tait’s cousin Travis’ Wedding. Travis and Sheri Lee have been dating for about 4 years so it was exciting to see them get married. I have a few pictures from the wedding. I didn’t take too many only b/c I really wasn’t in a good spot for pictures. Lehna sat on my lap for the entire wedding just pointing and asking questions. Maya sat in her car seat for the wedding just sleeping and then work up when they started to sing, but she laid their the entire length of the wedding, just happy as a clam. Maya is so easy compared to Lehna I hope she continues this trend when she gets mobile… I’m sure she won’t but it sure would be nice.

Bride & Groom Dancing

The Happy Couple, Look at those frowns :)

Lehna & Landyn Dancing

Landyn & Lehna doing the "One Leg Shake"

After the wedding (which was on Friday) we went to Tait’s aunt and uncles pretty much all day on Saturday. It was pretty fun we just talked and watched the kids play. It was a nice relaxing day. It was nice b/c we still had one more day left for the weekend before we have to return to work. So I recommend Friday weddings they are nice, sure you take the day off of work but that’s never a bad thing and it doesn’t take your entire Saturday you still have time left in the weekend.

Deklyn Swinging

Lehna Playing with the Cork Screw!

So great news. Tait’s dad got a job in Wisconsin! Can you believe it? They are actually on their way up now b/c he has to fill out some pre-employment papers/screenings. Helen will also be moving up with him, you can tell that she isn’t too excited about it. I think she’s keeping an open mind but I think she wants to stay close to her grand children. Where they will be living from my parents is about 70 miles south from Hartford they will be living in Kenosha, which is literally just over the boarder in Wisconsin. Tait and I are now tossing around the idea of moving up to Wisconsin now actually. Tait said with his job he can pretty much go to any state b/c he has the necessary 2 years down and well my job isn’t really “transferable” but I’m sure I could find something up there that would be wonderful. So I don’t know. I mean I kind of want to wait and see what happens with the Wagner’s first to make sure they are going to “stay” up there and kind of go from there. We don’t have to pack up any time soon and quite frankly our home needs some work. I LOVE the idea of being able to be near of both sets of grandparents so when we go to Wisconsin this coming week it will be something we will investigate a little further. I think I have the support form my mom but I kind of just want to feel it out. Maybe in a year or so we will make the move we’ll just have to see.

I have talked a lot about everyone in my family except baby Maya. Let me tell you what a GREAT baby she is. She takes over her daddy’s personality 100% she is so happy and patient. She doesn’t have a problem just waiting until you have a chance to pick her up if she’s laying in her swing, jumperoo, or car seat. As long as you talk to her periodically she will lay there forever. She is also so happy. She just lights up when she hears voices and gets REALLY excited when she sees her big sister. Lehna adores her she loves to bring her toys and say things like “that’s my sister Maya” and make her laugh. It’s really quite fun for all of us to watch them interact. Maya really hasn’t shown any interested in getting mobile at all. She can “almost” flip over but hasn’t quite mastered it yet, probably in about 2 more weeks before she gets all the way for the full rotation, but even just holding her she doesn’t really have any desire to stand on her own feet or anything like that. She has started to stand more her just putting her in her jumperoo has really improved that but as far as wanting to get mobile she has NO desire. It’s so fun, I LOVE that she wants to stay a baby longer. I love just snuggling her and rocking her to sleep she’s just in no rush and it’s wonderful.

Maya's Tummy Time

So we still have Molly we had a lady come by and meet her last weekend but she decided that she wanted a puppy instead. I mean I don’t really blame her if I had a choice between and older dog and a puppy it would be pretty easy to determine what I wanted NEITHER! So we still have her she still listed on Craig’s list but we have only had two inquires about her so far. I don’t know. Daisy is the dog that’s been annoying not Molly so we’ll have to see what happens. Trent is going to come dog sit when we go to Wisconsin so that will be nice not to have to worry about what kind of disaster the house will be in when we come home. WE are going for like 5 days I’m so excited.

Well that’s my update for now… it’s brief but there’s so much to say and hard to summarize it… at least for me it is. So until I update again have a GREAT week for me it’s going to be VERY short!

Girls Tummy Time!

Another Update after Lehna's appointment

Well I wanted to write to update you on Lehna. Basically after her appointment Monday the doctor feels that she did have a febrile seizure. They think that it was brought on by the heat that was going on outside on Friday. They said that it can happen again but most children if they have had one then there is only a 30% chance of the group of children that have one will have another one. They said to watch her when she’s outside watch for signs of her getting dehydrated.
The concerning factor with Lehna is the fact that when the EMT’s got there and at the hospital Lehna didn’t register a fever and that’s the problem b/c if she had a fever induced seizure then with her not having a fever is concerning. The doctor is fairly certain that it was a febrile seizure they are recommending that I see a neurologist just to rule out epilepsy, which it’s just a precautionary thing. So the appointment isn’t going to happen until August 31 which is a MONTH away. I wish that it would be this week but they won’t be able to do anything until then.

They do say that it can happen again so we need to make sure that Lehna is drinking water and staying cool. Of course this week it’s hotter than hot. We sent a water bottle with her for daycare so she can drink out if all day. They said at daycare today she was outside for just a few minutes and she came up to Shari and they said she had a rash all over her body like little bumps. It sounded like heat rash to me but I told them that I would talk to the doctor to investigate further, but in the meantime to keep in inside for the rest of the day. They said that even though she’s been out of the heat for the last couple of hours she still appears to have the rash. I will know later on today what they are talking about when I see her, if she still has the bumps, and go from there. I called my doctor but they are of course overbooked and are too busy to return my phone call so I’ll give them a couple more hours and then try back. I mean now that they are going to keep her out of the heat that will help but it still makes me crazy. I don’t think I will feel better until the summer is over and it’s freezing outside. It’s all very scary.

So until then I’ll keep posting on how she’s doing. If you would just look at her you wouldn’t have known that she scared the living daylights out of us. I am still not sleeping very well. I am up constantly checking on her making sure that she is okay. It’s awful.


I just wanted to give another update to you since it’s been another day. Yesterday was Lehna’s first day back to daycare. Lehna’s teachers all were giving her love with big hugs and telling her to stop scaring them so badly. They said that they took her outside for just a little bit when she came up to Suzie her teacher and Suzie noticed that she had a rash all over her arms and her legs. They said that the immediately brought her in and gave her some water and pulled up her hair and even gave her a cold wash rage to cool off with and the rash still stayed. Even several hours after she was inside for awhile the rash was still apparent. When I talked to Debbie it sounded a lot like heat rash so I told them I would check with the doctor but it sounded like heat rash. Well after speaking to the doctor the doctor said it sounds like Roseola which is a rash children develop after having several days of a high fever. It’s contagious and can be spread to other children. So my concern was all of the other children Lehna was around over the weekend. B/c she is past the contagious stage it’s only contagious when they have a high fever so that would be: Deklyn, Maya, and Landyn. Well Maya and Deklyn are too young for it so that shouldn’t be a problem but Landyn is in the “danger zone” so they said to watch him for a high fever. Well the doctor also said that it will go away in a couple of days. Well by the time Lehna got home from daycare the “rash” was gone. So I am not back to my original thought that it was in fact heat rash rather then Roseola I mean if it was Roseola it would still is visible when she got home from daycare. I told daycare this morning to keep her in the rest of the week since it’s supposed to be so very hot this week just to be sure.

I was thinking this morning that either way whether Lehna had a Febrile Seizure or an eplitoic seizure neither is very good. I mean Epolitic seizures means there’s something wrong with her brain which is no good and febrile seizures can be caused by heat and fever, I mean its Indiana we have HOT DRY summers. I mean either way they are too unpredictable and way too scary. I wish I could choose neither I mean they both are pretty sucky. But anyways I’ll keep you posted on her condition and her health status.

Update on Lehna

For those of you who don’t know this is to kind of be information on Lehna. On Friday night Tait and I had just arrived in Peru when absolute terror struck our family. Tait dropped me off at the hair salon and he took Lehna and Maya to Grandma & Grandpa’s house. Well after 30 minutes of me talking with Kelly and us discussing what’s new in each other’s life and hair color and all of that girl stuff I get a call from a neighbor stating that I had an emergency phone call. Thinking that was a little strange I picked up the phone and a girl on the phone asked if this was Stephanie and said that they were taking Lehna to the hospital and that it was an emergency. I was like “what” in my mind I was thinking “oh my gosh Tait was in a car accident and they are taking Lehna for precautionary measures.” Well I starting asking “what happened” and the girl said “I don’t know what happened all I know is they were giving her CPR and they were putting her in the ambulance” My mind totally flipped out. I was like CPR that means she’s not breathing what the hell happened… what is going on. Well the girl didn’t know any other information. She just said to get to the hospital. I looked at Kelly and I said Kelly I can’t go like this you have to get this stuff out of my hair. I repeated the information to Kelly what I just heard and she was like asking me questions and I didn’t know I didn’t know what was happening… and then panic started to take over. In my head I was thinking that there wouldn’t have been enough time for them to have been swimming I mean they would have had to have gotten her dressed and then put in the pool and there just was no time for that they had just gotten there 20 mins ago. So I was begging Kelly to hurry and she kept telling me that she was and she said, “say a prayer” so I did and I just was panicking… I didn’t know anything about my little girl besides she was n the way to the hospital and she wasn’t breathing.

Kelly had to take me to the hospital b/c I didn’t have a car since Tait just dropped me off and she said she would stay with me until someone came. When we got to the hospital I started pounding the glass on the windows giving them my name and asking where was Lehna. And the girl said ‘I don’t know but I’ll find out’ and she started to make calls. She said that the ambulance was on its way. I had beaten the ambulance. Well I kept saying “I need to call someone I need to find out what happened” So I look frantically in my purse for my phone and I couldn’t find it… so I told the lady that I needed to make a phone call and she handed me the phone and it didn’t work so I threw the phone back saying this phone isn’t work it’s just beeping… and the lady tried again and this time it worked and Tanna answered. I asked Tanna what was happening and she said she didn’t know and I was like Tell me what happened.

Tanna Said that Lehna was outside and she was playing and all of a sudden she said she was hot and so they said okay and she was walking in front of Tanna and they walked into the kitchen and she just fell down and Tanna kind of took a double take and noticed that Lehna didn’t try to catch herself she just fell. Well Tanna and Tait were around her and Tait said was just lying there and then she started to shake. Helen said her arms her legs everything was shaking and her eyes were rolling back into her head. So they dialed 911 actually all 4 of them were calling 911. Tait said he noticed that her chest wasn’t raising and falling and so he cleared her tongue and started giving her breaths and chest compressions. Trent in the meantime ran across the street to their neighbor’s house for Kayla. Kayla was recently certified in CPR. Helen also ran down the street to get another neighbor who was a nurse. Kayla came in and took over with CPR and the nurse shortly followed. Tait said by the time the nurse came that Lehna was breathing on her own but it was very shallow breaths and she just asked totally out of it and really tired.

In the meantime Sam, Tanna’s boyfriend, who is a Peru cop, was on his way in. He said he was right behind the ambulance and he said he wanted to run over the ambulance b/c they were going slow but they were looking for the house number. When the EMT’s got there they basically put her on a board and put her in a neck brace and took her out of the house. Sam then got on his phone and started making calls. He called the Peru cops to tell them they were on their way and he had arranged it so they got through town with no problem b/c they had blocked the streets. Tait said that once the got into the ambulance they sat there for awhile trying to get her stabilized. Then they were off.

When the finally arrived I had found out from Tanna that Lehna was crying and breathing on her own so I was really excited to hear her cry when she got to the hospital. The nurse came out and said that she’s here she’s crying but I needed to really control myself b/c I needed to help calm her down and if I was upset then Lehna would be upset. So I told her I would calm down. I went back into the room and I ran over to her and told her I was here. Lehna was in such a state of panic she was reaching for anyone near her the nurse anyone to hold her but she still was stabilized on the board and didn’t let her up. Well finally the doctor came in and did the initial check and was asking me questions that I didn’t have answers to b/c I wasn’t there and then Tait came into the room and he answered all the questions. The concern was her fall if she had hit her head when she fell or anything like that. After it was established that she didn’t just fall down that she had had a seizure.

While we were there they took her immediately back to CAT scan. This was the strangest part. Lehna was so upset and panicky that the nurses said that they were going to need more nurses to help constrain her in the scanner. Well they put the Lead mat down and wrapped Lehna in these warm blankets Lehna literally fell right to sleep. This of course had me nervous b/c I didn’t want the baby to sleep b/c I knew if she as crying she was at least alive. Well the nurse said this is fine she’s breathing she had her hand on her chest so she could feel that her chest was raising and falling and I kept my eyes strapped to her chest to ensure that she was okay. After the scan they moved Lehna back the gurney and she then started to cry again. She was such a brave little girl I mean she really had someone whispering in her ear to calm down b/c that couldn’t have been down by anything by me b/c she was so out of it she was so scary. Well they moved her back into the room and they came in and had to do a catheter to do a pee test and that was bad but it wasn’t as bad when they had to change her IV. Her catheter chinked so they had to restick her and since Lehna has such little round arms they struggled finding a vein, it was so awful to watch her cry and scream when we couldn’t do anything about it.

The doctor finally came back with good news. Her CAT scan came back completely normal she didn’t have brain damage or anything like that. All of her tests came back normal nothing out of the order like blood sugar or infection. The only thing that was a little concerning was her liver enzymes were raised. The doctor explained that it could have been from a Tylenol overdose. Tait and I both looked at each other and said she didn’t have any when she was with us and usually at daycare they call and ask if she has a fever. And they didn’t say anything about her acting out of the norm for her or having to give her Tylenol. One theory was that maybe another child at daycare had pills on them and maybe she picked them up and ate them. Well I had talked to the daycare director to see if anything out of the norm happened on Friday and she said that Lehna had a great day there was no Tylenol given or anything like that. Debbie (daycare director) said she would talk to the girls on Monday just to make sure that everything was normal and did they notice anything.

Well after 4 ½ hours they decided that Lehna did have a seizure they said that it looked like it was a fembrous fever (I think that’s the right word) which means a seizure brought on by a high fever. Which of course was total news to Tait and I b/c we didn’t even know she had a fever? The doctor told us to watch her this weekend. Keep her out of the heat totally; keep her in a diaper and tee shirt, rotated Motrin and Tylenol every 4-6 hours and to keep tabs on her temp. If she starts to have any problems like her fever won’t go down or another seizure to bring her back immediately but we were to see out doctor on Monday for further testing. They said they want to do an EKG on her to see if they can find out exactly what caused the seizure.

All weekend all of us watched her like a hawk she didn’t leave the room more then 10 seconds without one of the adults checking on her. I checked her temp OFTEN (thank goodness Lehna likes to check her temp) and we kept giving her Motrin or Tylenol.

On Friday night at 3 Am. Lehna woke up throwing up. It was awful she was so upset it was in her hair and on the blankets and pillows just everywhere. So we gave her a bath. We checked her temp when she first woke up and it was 100.3. After her bath it was like 30 minutes I checked her again and it was then at 101.3 I was like “oh my gosh here we go” and I called doctor Patel. I feel bad now calling but it was for a good reason. Doctor Patel said to continue to watch her and monitor her and give her Tylenol she said that there is a stomach virus going around that is spiking children’s fevers really high and that maybe what is causing her high fever and what caused the seizure. She said to get her to drink as much as possible and to eat if she’s willing. Well by the time we work up the next morning Lehna’s temp was 98.1 her fever broke, by the end of the day she was at a 97.7 average. I was so thankful. Lehna acted liked herself the rest of thew weekend was fine playing and laughing and enjoying the extra attention. We are still keeping tabs on her temp and giving her medicine to help keep a fever away. I will go to the doctor first thing tomorrow morning to see what the next step is.

That was probably one of scariest things I have ever had to experience. Kelly had called the church and arranged for two priesthood holders to come and give Lehna a blessing. I can’t describe the relief that I felt once Lehna had her blessing. I knew moments after the blessing that Lehna was going to be fine I actually felt the release after the blessing. I can’t say that I have ever felt that kind of relief before. It was so scary and I am so thankful for all the family members and friends that were with us that evening. You really showed your care and support and Tait and I will be forever grateful. We owe a lot of our thanks to Kayla how administered CPR to her and thank her to help save our baby girl. For those of you that couldn’t make it on Friday thank you for your support of calls and prayers we felt everyone’s love and support so thank you.

I will keep all of you as updated as I can. Right now to look at Lehna you would have never have known that she had a seizure not more then 48 hours ago she is acting totally normal. I hope that tomorrow we will have some answers to our questions but the reality of it is we may never know why this happened but I hope in some sense we won’t ever have to experience this event again. It was so horrible and I know that there were enough angels that were watching us that night that helped save our little girl.

What a weekend!

This is another busy weekend for the Wagner Family! This weekend we traveled to Peru to go th Grand CIRCUS CITY DAYS! Tait and I try to get there every year and so far we have been able to get there. Every once and awhile we don't get there.

This is was also a weekend of Firsts! So without further delay let me get into the meat of my update!

Tait took our children early to Peru on Friday since he had the day off and he has a new football game that he wanted to share with Trent. So I came after work. When I got there Tait was on the golf course with Trent so I got to see my girls and everyone else there at the Wagner homestead. Tait's Aunt and Uncle were also visiting from Williamsport so we got to see them as well. When Tait got back from golfing we took Lehna up to the carnival it was already 8 something so taking Maya would have been more trouble than anything. So we had some volunteers to watch Maya we went up town.

There are some people in this town that this is why they live in Peru is for this carnival every year and you can always kind of tell those people. They are the one's that are usually staked out sitting on the benches for HOURS at a time not budging or moving for anyone regardless of how long they have been there. The carnival this year was a little concerning this year they have added a BUNCH more rides this year and have taken away some of the food booths, which you know how many elephant ear booths do you really need but I was not impressed by the 'junkness' of the rides. It seemed to attract a ton of teenagers. The also set up the rides up a bit differently this year usually all of the rides and games are down behind the courthouse and by the jail this year they spread the rides out quite a bit more. Instead of being able to avoid the rides and all the chaos involved with the rides they put them on the end of Broadway so there was no way to avoid them at all. Which I don't have a problem with the rides overall I mean I think it's fine but I just like the opportunity of avoiding the whole scene although and we definitely couldn't do that this year there simply couldn't avoid it. It just made it harder to get around w/ a child in a stroller b/c of all the power cords and lines to walk through.

Lehna's First Ride on a Merry-Go-Round

The food booth selection just wasn't that there normally is it just was every different this year with the addition of the rides. We did run into a few people that we knew which was kind of fun but overall it was kind of a disappointment.

On Saturday we went down to the parade to check things out there. We went down to my grandma's house but there was no one there. We thought my grandma knew we were coming we arrived about an hour early before the parade. We found out later that they had already gone down to the parade and had actually scooped us out a spot. I decided instead of going down to our normal spot that we would just go to sit with Tait's family since we knew where they were at. We sat in the sun the entire length of the parade. I had put sun block on the girl’s b/c I figured they would need it, but Tait and I decided not to put sun block on, this was a mistake.

When's the Parade is going start?

The parade was pretty good overall it was a bit on the long side but other than that it was good. Maya slept the entire length of the parade. Lehna wasn’t so fond of the clowns; every time a clown came over to us she would get close to an adult and start to cry. All the little kids didn't like them Camryn actually ran behind the stroller and said that the doodle bops were going to get her. So the kids got their slue of candy, hats, and necklaces it was pretty fun overall. It was just a long parade. At the end of it as we walked back to our car we ran into my grandma & Aunt Annette and they informed us they had a nice shady spot for us by the library apparently we missed them. There were a number of tigers, lions, and goats in the parade. Lehna really enjoyed watching the horses going by.

'That's not a clown is it?'

After the parade we went back to Helen & Tim's and got ready to go swimming. I put sun block on the girls again put some on my face (but didn't put any where else, another mistake) and we took Maya & Lehna to Vicki's to swim. Vicki is a friend of Helen, we had our rehearsal dinner at their home and they have a heated pool. The pool was an awesome 84 degrees and Vicki kept apologizing to us for the coolness of the pool. We kept telling her that we are used to a cook 46 degrees at our home pool that we got for the girls this summer so anything was an improvement. It was a lot of fun I think Lehna really had a good time. She played on inter tubes and noodles and that type of thing and seemed to have a good time. We put Maya in the pool after she woke up from her nap. She just stared at the water and didn't cry she did a good job. It was really nice for them both. We got home and I knew it was going to be a problem with the lack of sun block for Tait and I b/c by 5 p.m. we were already starting to show DARK PINK! It was pretty sad. By the time the sun went down we were nice and red. Even the girls with two applications of sun block were pinkish. Lehna and Maya the next morning were nice and tan.

Tait & Lehna at the Pool

Maya is in the Pool!

That was our weekend it was pretty exciting overall. We spend a LOT of time outside playing and eating Freezie Pops! As you can tell from the pictures below!

Big Smile!

I Look Like My Daddy in this Picture!

I love this Rollercoaster!

A few days later…

I always start a blog update but I simply can’t finish an update in one sitting. Well I got the new Harry Potter book and I have started reading it. It’s pretty good so far it has it’s raises and falls when there is lots of things going on it’s a real page turner then there are just spells of just under nothingness and that’s when I am ready to put the book down for awhile. They are opening lots of questions but answering nothing so far. But I am enjoying it even though it just seems to be taking a LONG time to draw out everything…

This week at work the new client that I was supposed to have new orders from cancelled on Friday of last week, so all my hard work was basically for nothing, which was kind of sad. I wasn’t so sad that the job was cancelled b/c of the work I put into it I was just sad b/c now I couldn’t get 16 people to work. It’s kind of sad, but so far I have been able to place some of my people at other positions and that has really seemed to help.

I also had my review this week. It went well I guess, I don’t know really what I was expecting but it didn’t quite meet my expectations not that it was bad it just wasn’t what I expected. I got a good review overall I have some areas that I need to work on so at least I have some goals to work towards. I did get a raise so that was nice. Tait was excited to hear that. It wasn’t huge but again I don’t know really what to expect this being my first year with this company. So we’ll see what happens in the future.

This is going to be another busy weekend. We have an annual golf tournament that we play in this weekend so we will be off for that. I’m looking forward to it. It’s a little strange this is a BIG drinking tournament and I have always enjoyed it just for the drinking element but this year we have kind of shifted our “realms of things that are important” so we are going to focus on winning this year verse getting hammered. I’m SURE it will be a tough temptation but I really want to shift things in my life to better myself so this is just one of those things.

On Sunday Tait’s family is having a family reunion so we will be attending that. I’m looking forward to it. Last year Tait and I we actually at the hospital since Tait had his appendix removed the weekend it was last year so it will be nice to be able to join the family in some good fun. Tait’s cousin Travis is going to be married in a few short weeks so there will also be a wedding shower at the same time. It should be a nice occasion I’m looking forward to it. We are also planning on seeing Tait’s grandparents I know they really enjoy it when we bring the girls to visit with them. So that’s what’s going on it’s just one busy run after another. You’d think with all the running we do I would be like a size 0 unfortunately it doesn’t work that way… darn it!

Okay well have a great rest of the week and weekend!

Bye Bye!

Pictures for everyone to enjoy

Here's just a few pictures for everyone to enjoy! This is from the infamous photoshoot. Lehna was horrible but the babies were GREAT!

Guess who? Can you tell which one is Deklyn and which one is Maya?

That's RIGHT Maya is on the Left and Deklyn is on the Right!
All four cousins working together
Which babies didn't perform?

Nana and her babies

Maya's 3 month pictures




Maya has really changed in the last few months. She has really started to respond to voices. She watches Lehna with great delight and smiles and laughes as Lehna starts to entertain her.

Maya is starting cereal very slowly we are giving it to her in her morning and evening bottles only. She seems to enjoy it she eats it up with a vengence. I can't believe in about a month she will be eating food more regularly.

Maya has recently started to try to set up on her own. She of course can't do it yet but she curles her little belly and you can her grunt as she tried to pick herself up. She is all eyes as things come in and out of the room.

Enjoy your children for they don't stay little for long.

A Sunday afternoon update!

Lehna & Maya Together!

Well a few things have happened around our home that I wanted to update.

The first little bit of news is sad but still news. Tait and I have decided that it’s time we find a new home for Molly. We have talked to an animal shelter about her and since she has a past of attacking smaller dogs they said that she wouldn’t be able for adoption. So we didn’t want to have her immediately put to sleep we wanted to see if we could find a home for her first. We have listed her on Craig’s list and we put an ad in the Crawfordsville paper about her. We are hoping to find her a new home in a month’s time period. Part of the problem with Molly is she doesn’t do well with smaller dogs. Daisy has been attacked several times and I am fearful of the girls. Usually you can see what the motivation is as far as why they “get into it” and it’s usually food motivated however this last week Molly out of the blue attacked Daisy when she was coming outside. I just don’t want to risk that type of behavior with Lehna or Maya personally I don’t think she would attack them but I just want to make sure. Hopefully we will find a home for her but if we don’t in a month’s time then we will take her to the pound to be put to sleep. It’s a hard decision but I just don’t feel like we have any other choice. Daisy is probably only going to be around for another year or so before she will need to be put to sleep so I don’t want Molly to take her aggression out on the children. So if you know of someone who is looking for a dog that doesn’t have small dogs or children let me know.

Maya in the Jump-A-Roo!

The second bit of news is College football 2008 comes out on Tuesday at 12:01! For those of you that know Tait you know this is VERY IMPORTANT to him. He will now be able to spend hours of his time devoted to adding new players and “sorting” exciting hua!!! I tease Tait b/c he knows I love him so much! Hehehehe that’s for you baby!

Maya Sitting by herself

At work I have been assigned a new ‘potential’ client. I must admit I am a little nervous about it. We don’t have the account yet but I have a lot of pressure on me to do a good job and to get them some REALLY OUTSTANDING PEOPLE! The reason why there is pressure is we had this client before and they were HUGE to us well there was a management change at the plant and they decided to go totally away from staffing companies and have recently come back. I’m very nervous about it. What is insane is my review and the call for the 16 people are all within the same week. So my Review is going to be totally awesome or it’s going to totally suck! (sigh)

Life away from work has been pretty busy. Tait and I have become more involved with our church and have accepted new callings. I was recently called to serve as the young woman’s personal progress coordinator. Basically what the means is I make sure that the girls are staying on track with their personal progress goals and get their goals accomplished by the time they graduate high school. I love being called to work with the young woman’s it’s the group I was hoping to get assigned to work with. The ward is very small so there are only a total of 12 girls that are involved with the program and out of those just over half are active members. Tait was recently called to serve as the Sunday school president for our ward. He is responsible for 5 classes and he is to make sure that each class has teachers, subs, and etc. Both callings involve time away from the family but they aren’t too bad they could be much worse. They definitely make time fly by during the week.

This coming weekend it Circus City Days. I would like to attend and take both girls to the parade and go downtown and stuff. I think it will be really fun for Lehna since went to the Strawberry festival Lehna really had a good time riding the ponies and I know that they have small rides for the children so Lehna should have a good time. Hopefully we’ll be able to go to swim while we are there b/c that would be fun too. Lehna has really started to enjoy playing in the water this summer so I know she would really enjoy it.

It’s hard to believe that his month is already half over. I just can’t believe how time is just flying by. Christmas is only 6 months away. (For those of you out there that are an early shopper) I am not an early shopper I can safely say that I’m a last minute shopper.

I would like to see the new Harry Potter Movie eventually it’s not something that I feel like I have to rush out and see like the previous movies. I am planning on getting a copy of the new book this weekend but that’s as far as my “HARRY POTTER MANIA” goes.

Big Smiles for the Week!

Well that’s my update and I hope you all have a great week!

Week Update

Well I wanted to take a moment to update my blog. I had a few minutes to spare and I didn’t what I had to say to get age on it… b/c I hate that.

Okay so last Friday I go out to my car at lunch to put my check in the bank and I try to start the car and the darn thing won’t turn over. So I’m like GREAT! So I called Tait to let him know the good news about the stupid car and to try to figure out how I was going to get home. The last time my car broke my coworker suggested a car place here in Lafayette to take it to she said they do a great job and they have never had any problems with them. So I called the car place to see if they would tow it to them and they did. So I waited for Tait to come pick me up and he brought our girls into the office since he was a little early. When they got here Tait suggested that I take Lehna to the potty b/c she mentioned about having to go in the car. So I took her back to the bathroom and of course she states that she doesn’t need to go. So I didn’t want to push the issue I know that they are VERY sensitive at this point when it comes to going to potty and I don’t want to ‘damage’ any progress we have been making. So I didn’t make her go. Well that was my first mistake. I was getting my purse and Tait goes “well I guess Lehna did have to go to the potty” and I walk around the counter and Lehna has pottied on the floor and she was then standing in a big puddle starting to cry. I told her that it was okay and I told her to just stand there for a second and Lehna states that ‘she has to go potty’ I was like Lehna you just WENT potty. So I got some cleaner (of course it wasn’t quite 5 yet so EVERYONE was still in my office) and I start to clean up after my daughter and then here comes the SECOND mistake. Well we used to have diapers for Lehna in the car but apparently we have used them all up. B/c we went to get one and there were NO diapers… nor did have panties nor did I have a clean pair of shorts for her.

So we do what any crazy parents would do. We laid her down and put Maya’s diaper on her… of course they didn’t fit so we had to TAPE the diaper to her so it would stay shut. After we did that I then put a blanket around her so no one could see how I had to make adjustments… Tait jokingly suggested we go out to eat at Logan’s I just rolled my eyes and told him I thought it wasn’t such a good idea!

Once we got home I was going to take Lehna’s diaper off and put her in panties she wanted to wear them. This was my THIRD MISTAKE. We were standing in the living room and I took her diaper off and the little rotten rat starts to pee right there in the middle of the floor like she was a dog. So I raised my voice to her asking her why she did that. Tait then told me not to yell at her. So I told her I was sorry for yelling at her and I took her to the potty and we cleaned up her mess then put her in a diaper.

I have to tell you potty training I thought was going to be tough but this isn’t what I expected it to be. She is really doing well with the whole potting trying I mean we could have a lot more problems and she really seems to be getting the idea of it we just keep having accidents. She wants to wear the panties out places like church and the store and stuff and I keep putting diapers on her. I just don’t think I can trust her quite yet to make sure she doesn’t pee everywhere especially with the little display she did on Friday! She does really well at home though she wants to sit on the potty and will do it and ask and it’s great but sometimes she just gets too busy to stop to go. At daycare it’s kind of touch and go last week she had lots of accidents at the beginning of the week and then she had nothing until Friday then like yesterday she had problems at daycare but the night she did fine… so I don’t know it’s kind of touch and go. I just don’t know how to be consistent with her. If anyone has some suggestions I am open to hear them. I am truly afraid to take the child out in public since she has had a solid week in underwear yet so I won’t be doing that.

On Sunday Tait and I went to church and Maya has really been trying to talk she cooes and squeals all the time and it is the cutest thing I have ever seen. She really practices talking all the time we have tried to record it and she normally stops once the camera comes out. But I’m sure we will get it eventually. Well on Sunday Tait was sitting next to her and we were singing the song and all of a sudden Maya starts to ‘talk’ it was like she was trying to sing the song with Tait. It was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. She is really getting big FAST! I can’t believe just how much she has developed in her short little three months.

One thing I didn’t mention until now is we got all four kid’s pictures taken on Saturday at JCPenny. Tanna brought her children and we wanted to get all four together, the two girls together, then the babies separate. I have to say that getting the four all together was difficult but it wasn’t too bad we did end up with 2 pictures that we are going to use. They aren’t like the BEST PICTURES EVER but you know they are little and young so I was happy with what we got. Then we took both Deklyn and Maya and put them together… they were sooooo cute! They both pretty much cooperated for their pictures. I can’t wait to be able to scan the pictures when we get them back it will be next week so that will be fun!

On Monday night Tait and I got to have a date. We haven’t had a date in A LONG TIME. I haven’t seen a movie since the last star wars came out almost 2 years ago. So I was so excited to be able to go out to a movie. We went to see Evan Almighty and it was really FUNNY! I really enjoyed it. It was a little churchy but not too bad it wasn’t enough to totally put me off. Afterwards we had dinner it was really nice. My boss had given all of us movie cards and gift cards to a restaurant for Christmas so we basically had dinner out on my boss last night. It was really nice. It was nice not to have to fight Lehna for things and make her sit down and not to worry if Maya would break out crying at any point b/c she wanted a bottle. It was really nice. My bosses actually watched these girls. Kaity was feeling pretty bad for us since we hadn’t had a date in a while and we had to cancel the date we had originally had planned b/c Maya got sick so Kaity volunteered to watch the girls. Kaity was watching them at Chuck and Kathy’s house so I was just hoping that they were going to be good. I can’t think of anything worse then to have my two children act like monsters to my boss. But my kids did me proud Lehna was great she barely cried when we left and that was it and Maya was of course great too. They took both girls to the Columbia Zoo and the park. Lehna had such a great time. She talked about it all the way home she kept saying that she wanted to swing. Lehna really liked the petting zoo at Columbia Park she would follow the little mini horses around and would chase the chickens. So I’m glad they had such a great time.

On Wednesday of this week Tait and I took the girls to the park in Crawfordsville. Lehna loved swinging on the swings and going down the slide. This park was right next to an ice cream stand so we had some ice cream as well. Lehna wanted to dress herself so she choose for herself a very pretty long sleeved pink, red, and green sweater with her yellow cotton shorts. It was very nice. I kept explaining to people that she dressed herself when they looked at her. I had brought another shirt b/c I knew she would get REALLY hot in her sweater so as we played I asked her if she wanted to take her sweater off and put on a tee shirt and she said yes so I changed her into a shirt that actually matched her shorts and she was much cooler after that. Her little curls were getting wet b/c her head was sweating so much. After the park we went home and everyone took a short nap which was nice. We did put the girls to bed early. We decided not to get fireworks b/c all day it looked like it was going to storm and the weather said it was going to storm in the evening so we decided to pass on the fireworks. We got to hear all of the neighbor’s fireworks though they were really loud but I was able to sleep through them and so were the girls.

Lehna is in this stage of “I Do It” I mean she’s been in this stage quite a long time and since we have started potty training she has really got it BAD. She doesn’t want us to help her with anything when it’s time to potty which is kind of annoying but I’m working on my patients so that has really helped. She is kind off funny she will want you to walk down the hall with her then once she gets there she tells you to “go way” so usually I just pop into Maya’s room while I wait and then poke my head around on occasion just to make sure she’s not playing. Then I get her after she’s done so she can wash her hands and all of that stuff. It’s quite exciting I assure you. She wants to do everything herself so brushing her hair putting on her clothes EVERYTHING she wants to do herself.

Well that’s the update so far for this week. This is like a living document it always takes me a couple of days to get it finished so I always cover a few days in like a long update. So enjoy. I hope to add pictures this weekend.

Update!!!!

Welcome to another performance of the Wagner Circus. It has been one heck of a whoorling weekend! We decided Friday afternoon about 3 p.m that we were going to go to Peru for the weekend sooooo it was kind of chaotic getting things ready for that.

I hadn’t planned on going to Peru on the weekend so my home wasn’t “ready to leave” condition if that makes sense. I have a ton of laundry scattered all over our bedroom floor and the laundry room was piled as well so I did what most people do and I took “essentials” to my mother-in-laws and she did our laundry J Thank you Helen! She actually did the girl’s laundry, Tait and I have enough clothing that we didn’t have the “need” right away but the girls their clothes are kind of limited especially Lehna’s wardrobe so I had to bring all of hers and I grabbed Maya’s as well b/c I didn’t want her to mold b/c of the nasty formula that gets on her clothing. So Helen was very kind and did the girl’s laundry and she also did the stuff we wore all weekend.

So after work I got home to get the house picked up b/c we had the missionaries scheduled to come over and to start packing. By the time Tait got home I had gotten the house picked up and the girls packed. Then Tait and I packed at the same time to get things ready. We had planning on barricading the dogs in the kitchen again so we got things ready for that as well and by the time the missionaries got there we were ready to go. So after they left we left shortly after them.

Lehna was so excited to go to Peru to visit her Nana and Papa. Lehna and Maya were both good for the most part when we visited them. Tait got to go to the race track on Saturday night and we played golf on Saturday morning. We didn’t go to church and I felt a little guilty for that but other than that we had a good time.

When we got home Lehna wanted to wear big girl panties. Landyn is currently wearing underwear so she saw him wearing them all weekend and asked to wear them. So I promptly put them on her. I mean if she’s willing to wear them then I’m willing to put them on her. And she didn’t have an accident all evening. Then the next day Lehna asked to wear them to daycare. Again wasn’t going to deny. On Monday she had 3 accidents so that wasn’t very successful. But so far the rest of this week she has had NO MORE ACCIDENTS at daycare. She did have an accident last night but that was it. They said at daycare she’s asking to go potty so I’m VERY proud of my Lehna.

Maya is really growing like a weed she has moved into 6 month clothing already. I put away her smaller clothes not b/c she can’t fit into them anymore but b/c I have some many summer clothes that I’m ready for her to wear. This morning I caught the little rat trying to sit up on her own. She’s such a happy baby she really reacts when you talk to her. She just smiles and kicks her little legs it’s just amazing how happy she is. I don’t want her to grow up very quickly though b/c I don’t know if Tait and I will have any more children. She’s just a pumpkin baby I know that sounds odd but she’s small and round. I just can’t believe how content she is just sitting in her baby seat or swing just observing what’s going on. She’s a good baby very easy, of course this probably means she’s going to be a hard teenager but right now I enjoy her. Oh the idea of having teenagers… YIKES and teenage girls on top of that DOUBLE YIKES! I’m glad I have a few more years before I have to worry about that. I’m just glad that they don’t come out as teenagers at least I have a few years to prepare.

This weekend sounds like it might be busy as well. Tanna and I have decided to take all four munchkins to get their pictures taken together… Tanna will probably agree that when we took just Lehna and Landyn to get their pictures taken that it was QUITE A CHORE I can safely say it was awful. So I don’t know why we think that we can manage two MORE children and get them cooperate all at the same time. I guess we are just gluten for punishment. I know that when we took Lehna to get her two year pictures she was horrible. So I don’t know if she will cooperate or not… I hope for the better but I’ll prepare for the worst if we can’t get them altogether then oh well. I just want Maya’s picture to be cute. We are also going to have Maya and Decklyn’s picture taken together so that will be cute. Then we were invited for a family get together in Williamsport this weekend as well so we will be attending that if all goes well.

I don’t think we have anything going on for Sunday yet… but it’s only Thursday.

Well that’s all that life is right now. Busy and not busy all at the same time. I enjoy busy though helps keep me out of trouble!

Another Two Week Update

Okay so I haven’t been really good on keeping this blog update but I have been trying to do it in like two week intervals… so this maybe a bit longer then normal b/c I have so much to say so much has happened.

The first weekend in June we had a lot of family over. The reason why is b/c Tait was baptized on Saturday and we had Maya’s blessing on Sunday at church so we had family that came to participate in the craziness.

Tait was baptized on Saturday and it was a very nice ceremony. He did have to go twice b/c the missionary messed up the prayer and when they dunked him his entire body didn’t get under he was missing his upper hand. Then the second time they did it everything went off without a hitch. The only true problem was is the baptismal font is new to this church so the time filling the water it was supposed to be a like an hour and a half so it was only like ½ full so the missionary struggled a little bit with Tait and helping him back up. The floor is really slippery anyways and when the tank is only ½ full makes it a bit more difficult. After the baptism we went back to our home where my grandmother provided quite a spread of sandwiches and chips for us all to enjoy.

On Sunday we then all went to church for Tait’s confirmation and also for Maya’s blessing. The bishop said that it was definitely a Wagner Show and he was right. After church we then went to the park for a BBQ and some family fun. I don’t have pictures of the events b/c I was just too busy I did bring my camera I just didn’t take any pictures.

Lehna & Maya

So this past weekend we went to the Strawberry festival which is in Crawfordsville. WE have lived her for the past four years and we had yet to attend the festival but we figured now that Lehna was a bit older and we had Maya that it would be a good opportunity for us to enjoy the tradition.

Lehna & the Duck Pond

Maya slept

Lehna playing Plinko

Lehna had a blast I think we played some games. Some we cheated at b/c she was so young but she got some jewelry and candy. I tried to interest her into getting into one of those inflatable castles but she wouldn’t really hear of it. She didn’t want anything to do with it. But we put her on the pony rides and at first I took her and she was so scared she clung to me as we walked around in the circle but by the time the ride was over she was sitting by herself and holding onto the saddle. She said she had a good time.

Lehna & Pony

After we took her to the children’s part we went to go get something to eat. I was really hoping to get some strawberry shortcake since it was the strawberry festivle but we had a heck of a time finding it. So we tired strawberry tacos instead and they were pretty tasty. There was a band that played so we watched that for a little bit and I tired to convince Lehna to dance but she really didn’t want to so I didn’t push the issue. After we got done eating a quick lunch we went to the Colt’s Caravan which they had a few things on display and that was kind of fun looking at that stuff. They had this thing where you could guess the different referee signals and I didn’t do to well. I thought I knew the signs but I was wrong on so many of them and some of them I didn’t even know what they were signaling.

Lehna, Me, And Pony

Lehna enjoying her Tiger Ear

We then went to go back on the horses again b/c Lehna kept asking to go back on them so we did that after the stop at the Colt’s Caravan. Lehna was so excited to get on the ponies and was just jumping with excitement.

Colt's Caravan

The strawberry festival was about like Circus City Days except it was smaller. I did enjoy that all the food places were in one location and the kids section was also in it’s own section that made it nice. So I definitely want to take Lehna to circus city days come July so she can have fun at that carnival as well.

Tait & Lehna

That was pretty much our weekend. It was busy but it was fun. Next weekend is Father’s Day and we have convinced Julie, Jackie’s Sister, to watch our rugrats so we can go out to dinner and watch a movie. It’s been a while since we have seen a movie so it will be nice to have date.

Maya in an Express Shirt

Maya and her hands

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!!!

Two week update!

Well it’s been about two weeks since my last update and it’s time for an update. Last weekend we were in Peru sooooo I wasn’t able to update then so here it is.

I started back to work two weeks ago and things have been pretty busy at work. Which it’s kind of an odd horse I mean we are busy but our hours, which affects our bonuses is low so I don’t know. My boss reassures us that we are going to rebound and we are in GREAT shape and it’s all up to marketing. UNFORTNATLY for me I AM A HORRIBLE at sales calls. I know it’s partly b/c I don’t do them enough so I don’t practice but at the same time it’s another thing that I just don’t like them. I mean I HATE calling ANYONE and asking them for anything and it’s even harder when you have to try to get people to listen to what you have to say… especially in a world of people HATTING telemarketing… which is kind f what I do in a not so fancy way… I mean I am not given a script which most teleamarketers do get that… and I think there are scripts but I just don’t think that is the solution either… I just have to suck it up and get it over with then…. It WILL be easier, but other than that little part work is great. It’s wonderful to get back into a routine and establish myself back in my position. I really like being able to place people at jobs it’s really a great feeling and we have really gotten some deserving people in our system and it’s nice to be able to help them. So work is GREAT!

Maya is doing great as well she is now 2 months old she has her check up next Monday so we’ll be able to see how big she is. Everyone that sees her says she’s petite, which I don’t think I would describe my chunky monkey as petite, but I guess everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. She really is responding to people. Her smiles are so grand and inviting it just makes me want to just nibble on her she’s just so sweet. She is just a doll I mean she’s patient (for the most part) and doesn’t ask for much in return. Her personality is just already so different then Lehna’s which I can’t wait until she gets older just to see how she changes and grows in her own personality. I don’t have very many people tell me she looks like Tait or Lehna which to me she looks exactly like Lehna when she was this age but everyone says no… nor do they say she looks like me which when people say that I kind of raise a questioning brow b/c she definitely looks related to me I mean her eyes are exact copies of mine but what the heck do I know anywise.

Lehna is still doing great with her she still likes her mommies time but she also let’s me love on her sister at times. She really is very protective of her sister though she doesn’t like it when other little kids touch her or get near her so that just makes me really proud when she is protective of her sister. Lehna is just a mimic of us so much this afternoon I was simply calling Maya’s name and then kissed her on the hands and Lehna would imitated me the entire sequence of things I was doing to her which was so sweet. It’s scary just how observant she is though, and makes you really stop to think what you can and cant’ do in front of her. Take for example potty training.

Lehna this last weekend went with us to Peru and her cousin Landyn has been learning potty training… well Landyn is a little boy and he has MASTERED peeing outside in the yard to a science… and inside peeing well they haven’t been as successful with, but Lehna has been watching Landyn standing up with he is peeing well Lehna has been trying to mimic this very stunt. When we came home on Sunday Lehna announced she needed to go pee and she ran back into the restroom and pulled down her pull up and promptly standed in front of the toilet pretending to “hold” herself and tried to pee… (Sigh) when I asked her what she was doing she said “I go potty” (sigh) I then tried to explain to a two year old why she didn’t need to hold herself (b/c there is NOTHING to hold) and how being a girl means she has to sit down to pee. She simply stared at me and like a very obedient little girl turned around and sat on the potty and said “I pee in the potty” and go up and ran down the hall way with a complete naked butt. (Sigh) Over the course of the week I have seen her attempt peeing standing up again but quickly tell her that she needs to sit down to potty b/c she is a little girl. It’s amazing just how much this little girl mimics. So everyone around her needs to realize that b/c let me tell you when you “think” she’s not listening that is when she’s tuned in the most so you have to be careful what you say around her.

Some more exciting news for our family is Tait has decided to become a member of my church and he is going to be baptized next weekend. We are going to make it quite an event b/c we decided that we would also have Maya blessed on the same weekend so we could have a GIANT bbq and celebration. I am so excited for Tait and my family b/c we are now one more step closer to being an eternal family. A goal I have always wanted for my family and myself. We are very excited and I know that Tait is making a good decision and I hope his faith continues to grow and we learn more about the gospel and of our Heavenly Father.

Some more good news is most of my family probably remembers my best friend Sarah. Well Sarah was incredibly important to me and she was like my sister I shared so much of my youth with her and my dreams with her and she meant so much to me. Well about 10 years ago I was not a very good friend to Sarah and I betrayed her and our friendship was completely and utterly dissolved and I was left with a completely empty space in my heart. I never thought I would ever get to speak to Sarah again b/c I know how much she hated me and rightly so. Well last weekend I went to church in Peru and Sarah was there. I kept glancing over to her trying not to look over in her direction b/c I didn’t want to draw attention to her or anyone else that I was looking over there. Well I was so frightened when I saw her b/c I knew that she was going to ignore me and possibly even say horrible things to me again rightly deserved. Well I only stayed for part of church and left right after sacrament. Well my grandmother told me that she talked to Sarah and she told me to call her. I was so frighten what she was going OT happen and later on Sunday afternoon I decided to face my fears and called her. Sarah was so happy to hear form me and we talked for awhile. Over the next couple of days Sarah and I have gotten a chance to say all of those things that we wanted to say to one another that we didn’t get to say over 10 years ago. Part of me is so sad that Sarah couldn’t be in so many things in my life and I told her just that. I missed not being able to talk to her about plans for after prom or which college we were going to attend or even having her in my wedding. I mean so many things we didn’t get to share in and it just makes me so sad. I am so glad that we are starting to talk again to kind of restart a friendship that I thought was completely gone. I can’t wait to hear more about what has happened to Sarah in the last 10 years and hope soon we can catch up even more b/c I miss her as my sister.

It’s amazing how many things that have changed for the better since I have starting going back to church. I mean not to get sappy or anything but I am truly blessed. Tait has asked me to speak at his baptism and at first I was kind of upset that I had to do it but now I’m glad that I was asked. It’s something that really is important to me and I just didn’t realize how important until now.

I PROMISE I WILL ADD PICTURES SOON!

A Short RANT!

I just wanted to write a little rant about how much I HATE the post office here in my freaking town. Besides the whole fact we don't have mail delivery to our home really is CRAZY in this day and age but the other side that the people hate us makes it even WORSE! Since I have been home for the past six weeks I have been able to check the mail on a pretty regular basis... Well today I went to go check the mail and there was only like two little things in our box and Tait and I have both been expecting things in the mail and we haven't recieved them yet so I figured that I would check to see if they had ANYTHING for us back on the shelf... Well I have both girls with me today so I park in the non parking spot b/c I am going to "run" in there and I wanted to be able to watch the girls from the window (it's not even 12 feet in the post office from the curb) so I go in and there is this lady that is seriously mailing like 12 billion packages so I stand behind her thinking that since she has so many packages surely the counter lady will spare a glance my way since I was obviously waiting to be waited on. Well the two are just talking back and forth and she doesn't even acknowledge that I was standing there... so I popped back outside since I didn't want to leave the girls for so long alone in the car but I figured that since I could still see the window from the car I would pop back in there once they were done. Well as I'm standing there feeding Maya a bottle there was another lady that came in and she walked over to her box then walked over to window and got her package... the lady acknowledged her and even gave her her stuff totally ignoring me when I was in there. So I got pissed and was muttering under my breath b/c I didn't want to leave Maya again since she wanted to finish her bottle, but this entire time I am watching the billion packages being processed and trying to be as patiently as I can but in my mind I'm thinking... I just want to go home... but I figured since I waited that long... why not wait a little longer. So the lady was moving the final packages off the counter and I went back in. The two ladies still talked like I wasn't there and the lady with the packages turned around and goes "oh sorry about all of this" and I just kind of nodded and smiled. The lady finally left and the lady at the counter goes "can I help you" really crappy and I go "do you have ANYTHIING for box 2 since we haven't gotten anything besides just a few things?" and she goes "I have a TON of stuff for box 2" and I go "Really? I have NEVER recieved a slip stating that I had stuff" and she just ignored me and came back with a TON AND A HALF OF MAIL and THREE BOXES! I was more then pissed and I go "why didn't I get a slip" and she goes "I'm sure you have gotten one in the past" like this was supposed to be the explaination I was pissed.

So the reason for the rant is I wanted to apologize to all of those that sent us gifts for Maya's birth that we haven't sent Thank you cards for the reason why is b/c of the people at the post office. So they are in the mail right now and you should be getting them by the end of next week. I am so sorry.