Wow, it has been a long time!

We have had a lot go on since the last time I posted. Aiden healed fairly quickly from his tonsilectomy. The Fox family lost someone so very dear to us. We love you and miss you Debbie Fox! While we were in Lodi for the funeral, (at the funeral, I might add), Wyatt broke his nose! He is all better now but man, I am just getting used to having 2 boys! The boys started school late because we wanted to go down for the funeral (it was on the first day). So they started on Wednesday and here are the pictures:




The sun was in thier eyes, so not very good pictures. Wyatt loves kindergarten and has a wonderful teacher. Aiden loves preschool and his teacher, "Teacher Ria (Maria)". Let's see, they both got to go the pumpkin patch out in Milford:




Next up was Wyatt's birthday on October 20, he turned 5 years old! We had a combined birthday party for both Wyatt and Aiden, who turned 3 on November 16. This is the awesome cake Auntie Laura made!




For Holloween, Wyatt dressed up as Darth Vader and Aiden as Black Spiderman.




At the beginning of November, Devin hit a deer on the way to work, the car is totalled and it is one less payment which is very nice. I am very, very thankful that he is ok, I was a little stressed at first (it was a very economical car, when Devin drives at least 40 miles each way for work) but in the end it is just stuff that can always be replaced. I didn't take very good pictures, mainly pictures for insurance but you can see most of the damage in this one.



Which brings us to the present. Wyatt was circumcised the day before Thanksgiving in Reno. Long story, but he was unable to be circumcised at birth and started getting adhesions and infections so the urologist said he needed tobe circumcised and soon. Well he is getting better. Sunday and Monday were by far the worst for pain (his bandage came off, open wound, etc.) but hopefully he will start to get better soon. I can't really take him anywhere by car because his seat belt his right in that "spot", which is not good since we need to go back to Reno on Thursday so Devin can have a root canal.

As for Thanksgiving, we are so blessed. We were able to spend time on Thanksgiving day with my sister in law Kim and her family, it was such a wonderful time. Thanks Amy and Tom for inviting us with you. I love you and your family very much, you are so much like my own! The next day we went out to the in-laws house to have Thanksgiving with my father in law and those of the Duerksen's who stayed in town. We are so blessed to have so much family around and I am thankful to all our friends and family. I wish everyone a blessed holiday season!

We are home!

Well the trip to Chico was quite an event. On our way out of town we found out that my sister in law (who was pregnant with twins) would be having a c-section in the morning, so we were way excited to know that the babies would be born soon. We love Hwy 32, it's so green but way to curvy, way too much for a baby in the back. Five miles outside of Chico, he had enough and threw up all over the back of the car. Way to break it in. We pulled over, cleaned up the mess and changed his clothes to be greeted with such a happy smiling child. We get to the hotel so happy that we had a clean nice room and even more thrilled that they had laundry services and free soap and dryer sheets. We decided to go to dinner first and then go back to the hotel and clean the car seat up. I forgot that I needed to go to Costco just about the time they closed. Oh well I could just go tomorrow, I thought. We went to bed early, but since I don't sleep well in strange places I fell asleep about 12:30-1:00am. My husbands weekly alarm on his phone went off at 3:30 and I was up for the day. Not good, because I am grumpy when tired. We leave for the surgery center at 6am. Aiden was actually in a good mood considering it was really early and that he could not eat or drink when he got up. We got to the surgery center and they did their thing of getting him prepped. He was starting to get antsy and nervous so they gave him medicine to call him down. We were laughing so hard, he was high as a kite. He was just laughing at everything and then when it can time for him to go back he went to the nurse and off he went. I went back to the hotel to check us out and to get breakfast. I was gone about 25 minutes and when I can back, Aiden was already out of surgery. Talk about fast! I went back to recovery and he was still sleeping. He eventually woke up and he kept saying "ouchy" over and over again so they gave him some Demerol. While I was holding him while he went back to sleep and Devin went to get his prescriptions. We were on the road by 9am, so no luck of going to Costco really quick. All I needed was chicken, oh well. He slept most of the way on Hwy 32 and that is saying something because Devin was going so slow, it took about an hour and a half to get to Hwy 36. Just before Chester, Aiden says that he wants fruit snacks. I tried to talk him out of it but he wouldn't have it. Everyone kept saying that he would let me know what he would want. Well he ate them and didn't have a problem. When we got home, I took Wyatt (who had stayed the night at Aunt Kim's the night before) out to lunch and to the store to get some soft foods and things to make chicken soup. When I got home, Devin tells me that Aiden had just ate a bowl of Cheerios. Nice. For dinner, he had chicken nuggets. He's actually doing pretty good. He even stayed with Aunt Misty while Devin and I went to see the new babies. They are so cute! He did start getting tired and whiney, so we left. He slept great last night and is already out for the evening. I think codine will do that to you. He was pretty ok today for not taking to much medicine. He won't drink a lot which is a big problem, he would rather eat. That's my boy, he LOVES food. But for not being on many drugs he's doing really good. He needs lots of cuddles but that is to be expected, my problem now is that I am sick. Not good. But thanks guys for those who have helped us and all your well wishes. We appreciate it.

Aiden's Tonsils

Ok, so Aiden is getting his tonsils out this Friday. I am a little scared because my two year old is having surgery but I think the think I am most afraid of is, what is the kid going to eat and what am I going to make while he is recovering. Any ideas? I hear that he can't consume dairy products so thier goes the ice cream dinners. Anyone?

New Car!

We were having too many problems with my old car (2003 Dodge Durango) so we traded it in and got a 2006 Jeep Liberty. I love it, it is cheaper on Insurance and the payment is lower.



Aiden loves his new car. He was hugging and kissing it and saying "My Car", but I missed it!

Food Storage

Yeah, we finally went to get some more food storage today in Reno, that was a big shopping trip and required renting a trailer from UHaul. We now have a year of all of the basics and we are going to the cannery at the end of the month to get more wheat and dry milk, because the dry milk is best there and way cheaper then Costco. The kids think it is funny and too noisy when I grind wheat but I love it. I love the smell of it. I am excited that we are doing really good with using it and replenishing it also. Now to make sure I can most of the garden this year. That's always fun and I need to make sure I make more jam this year and I think we will be set!

Boring Life!

I haven't had a whole lot of interesting things going on in my life right now. I just get up and take Wyatt to school, come home, hopefully exercise, shower and then go get Wyatt again. We have been getting together a lot with our families and let me just tell you how much I love being around so much family. I wish my family was around also but it's just as fun with Devin's family.

New Years Day

I would like to say I slept in but I didn't. Our family likes to prepare for disasters and things like that, like making sure we are on top of our food storage and knowing how to use food storage. We also like to make sure we know how to cook our food outside if there came a time where we would have to live without power. Now we have a generator but we don't own our home so we don't have a transfer switch so it's kind of hard to hook it up to our home to power it. So today we had a dutch over dinner. Man the food was good, I made chili. Alicia made a peach cobbler which was really good. Kim make ribs and beans and cornbread and Aaron made Chicken soup. All was good. We went around tasting everything. Man we have some good cooks in this family.
And of course the kids love to love on thier Auntie Laura!