Our Hectic Life

WARNING: This has the potential to be a very long post.

The last couple weeks have been busy at our house, very busy.

We took Drake out about 3 weeks ago to get some picture taken of him because he was turning 3! And the next weekend we went out for a little fishing.




He was scared that a train was ACTUALLY going to run him over. That kid watches too many Tom and Jerry cartoons.




Check out that smile! Drake was the only one who caught a fish and it was on an ice fishing pole, lol. For those of you who don't know, ice fishing poles are way short because when you ice fish you just drop the bait in the ice hole, there is no need to cast out. Anyway, It's a small fishing pole so Drake insists that it is his fishing pole just because it is smaller. (We got him his own fishing pole for his birthday)




CJ and I are really good parents and forgot Drake's coat. It got so cold as soon as the sun went down so Drake had CJ's sweatshirt on and thought it was pretty cool to be wearing daddy's stuff. Don't mind Drake's Cheetos smile and orange fingers.


My Grandma passed away a couple weeks ago, her funeral was beautiful, and it was so fun to see family that I had not seen in YEARS! Great day for a great lady. Well, She passed on a late Tuesday night and so her viewing was scheduled for that Sunday evening, with a funeral on Monday.

Saturday April 2nd, was my little sister Whitney's bridal shower.



It was a lot of fun and she got lots of great stuff, thanks family!

CJ and I took Drake to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point, the night before his Birthday, for part of his Birthday present and he LOVED IT!



After the museum we dropped Drake off with my mom. CJ and I went out for some sushi with Brody and Jen and Rusty and Jess. We ate, picked up Drake and got home in just enough time to give Drake a hair cut before bed and his big day.

Drake's 3rd birthday was Sunday April 3rd, the same day as my Grandma's viewing and we had planned on cake and ice cream with family around 5:00 p.m. but needed to re-schedule for the viewing. We changed the time to 12:30 p.m. cake, ice cream and pulled pork sandwiches. I had to work from 3 a.m. to 11 a.m. that morning and of coarse when I woke up to leave for work we had a 3 foot snow drift in front of our door. I should have known then what kind of a day it was going to be!!!! Sunday had brought a huge storm our way and the winds were howling! I shut the front door and just stood inside, kind of pouting to myself, then I heard Drake in his bedroom coughing. I thought nothing of it but wanted to make sure he was ok before I left for work (it was 2:00 a.m.). I walked over to his door to take a listen and as soon as I leaned into the door I could smell throw up. I opened the door and Drake was sitting up in his bed silently crying to him self, tears on his cheeks and throw up in his hair, in his ear, down his pj's and all over his pillow and stuffed animals, poor kid! I called for CJ's help and together we got Drake up and started the HAZMAT cleaning. We changed his bum because he had some diarrhea (sorry if this is too much for you to handle). He said he needed to go potty and while sitting on the toilet pooping, he just started CRYING, so I told CJ to get a bowl or something because I knew that meant his belly didn't feel good and he was going to throw up, sure enough, he did, while pooping on the toilet. I lost it. I was crying and Drake was crying and CJ was trying to hold us together (LOL, I laugh now but it was not funny then) Meanwhile, the winds were howling and the lights were flickering on and off and, in our place, if the power goes out, that means I can't get my car out of the garage in order to get to work. I know some of you are thinking "What the heck, it's your kid's b-day, he's sick at 2:00 a.m. and there is a storm, why don't you just call in sick!!!?" Please trust me when I tell you that I wanted to soo bad!!! But, I couldn't do it. My job, and the four main IHC hospital's in SLC county, cannot function without someone that does my job, I couldn't leave them hanging like that. So, we got him cleaned up and he kept begging to go back to bed, so we sent him to bed and I left for work. A couple hours later Drake went into our room and told CJ that he needed to throw up, but he had already done so. CJ got that cleaned up and this time CJ thought it might be better to let him sleep in bed with him, bad idea, he threw up in our bed a half hour later. CJ got that cleaned up and went out to the couch to watch movies and be veggies the rest of the morning. Drake could not hold anything down, not water, not sprite, not pop sickles, not food and not Gatorade. He was not running a temperature yet so I thought that he might have food poisoning ???? Anyway we called all our family and let them know that they could stop by if they'd like to but they did not need to because Drake wouldn't be very much fun. It was true, he was not much fun. I got home from work and tended to my little guy, wished him a happy birthday and couldn't even get a response from him, he was spent! Family came over and he held it together for about a half hour but while I was helping him open one of his gifts he threw up all over me and the carpet. It was back to the couch he went. We didn't put candles on his cake because we were going to serve it and I didn't want him to breath all over the cake.





We tried to sing happy birthday but he didn't like it and chose to lay on the couch and cover his head, he watched us cut the cake and asked for his dinosaurs that were on top of the cake and as soon as he got those in his hands he went to sleep. This is how he spent the rest of his 3rd Birthday.


Notice the dinosaur in his hand :)





He was sick like that and continued to throw up until that Thursday. O my gosh it was a bad week! He had a bad temperature and we quickly realized it was not food poisoning but rather the stomach flu.



My brother and his wife Traci had their third baby. Henry Kyle Zimmerman was born Wednesday April 6th and we still have not been over to see him because of Drake's flu and busy schedules. Sad.

CJ filled his Turkey tag, HURRAY! I'm very happy for him and we'll be enjoying his harvest this afternoon.



Wow, I can't believe I got through all of that, I hope I didn't overwhelm you :)