The Honey Family

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

A trip to SLC

The weekend that school got out we decided to get out of town for a couple of days and take the kids to do some fun things. We went to Salt Lake and went to the Hogle Zoo, the Living Planet Aquarium, and also Discovery Gateway with our friends Troy and Wendi and there two kids Trey and Aubrie. It was so much fun and the kids didn't want to come home. Here is a little look at what we did....

Ellie and Aubrie where so cute together. They were always holding hands and now Ellie says that Aubrie is her best friend, even though Aubrie is 7!

Cole and Trey, Ellie and Aubrie.

These pictures are from Discovery Gateway. It was so cool, the kids got to play with all kinds of things and nothing was off limits.

Ellie playing in the little house

Cole was putting balls down this water thing.

Cole's favorite part!

Cowgirl Ellie

They got to sit and play in a real helicopter

and even be on TV!

These pictures are of the Aquarium

Ellie wouldn't touch the starfish

A cute little alligator halfway in the water

Cole and Trey touching the sting rays

Monday, June 1, 2009

Graduation 2009

I can't believe Cole is done with kindergarten and on to first grade! This year just flew by. He did such a good job at his graduation. He walked out with his class, looked at me and smiled and waved and then went and sat down. I was in shock! He then proceeded to sing every song and do exactly what he was so supposed to do. He even stood up when they called his name to get his certificate! There were no tears or refusing to be up there, I was so proud of him and how far he has come! It made me want to cry just seeing him participate. What a big boy he is.

His face is so cute in this picture:)

Our family

Cole and Savana

Cole and Mia

Cole and Garrett

Cole and his teacher Mrs. Kaeding

Ellie also graduated from preschool but they didn't have an official graduation just a party, so I got a picture of her with her teacher Miss Amber.

Camping Trip

I had my first camping trip with Ayzie (while not being pregnant). It was a lot of fun but let me just say, sleeping in a tent in the same sleeping bag with a baby who refuses to take a binky is just not fun! I was pretty much awake for two nights in a row feeding Ayz because the only thing that would make her go back to sleep was her bottle! Besides the night time drama it was fun getting out of town and away from everything. The kids love to camp and I'm sure as soon as Ayzie can walk she will too.

Cute baby girls. Ayzie is making a silly face but she is just trying to bite the side.

look how cute she is holding onto my face!

Ellie belly in her helmet

I promise we don't let Cole just walk around with a gun! He loves to shoot 22's with his dad, it is one of his favorite things.

Ayzie absolutely loved the four wheeler. This was her first time on one and she loved every minute of it.

Daddy and his girls!

I love this picture. They were looking at a stream.

My cute kids.

Fishing

This year Cole really wanted to do fishing lessons so we signed him up. He has never had more fun I swear! He looked forward to those lessons every week. He did really well too. One day he caught 8 fish! It was just really fun watching him do something that he actually enjoyed and we didn't have to force him to do it.

After his fishing lessons were over they had a fishing derby. Cole had just got home from the doctor with having strep throat but he was not about to miss the fishing derby so off we went! There were so many kids that it was hard to catch a fish but finally at the very end just before they blew the whistle he caught one! What a proud boy he was! He won some fishing hooks and bobs, and a few other things. Cole can't wait to do fishing lessons again next year!

Cole at fishing lessons

He caught a little one (it's kind of hard to see :)

There's a bigger one! What a proud kid!

Ellie even got to catch her first fish!

she was kind of grossed out and wouldn't even touch the line!

Fishing Derby. Dad and Uncle Sam helping him out.

My sweet Cole boy!

Easter 2009

We had Easter in Fredonia this year with my mom and Leah. The kids love being there and having their cousins to play with. They had so much fun finding the eggs and their baskets that the Easter Bunny had left.

Coloring Easter Eggs

Cole and Ellie with their Easter baskets

Ayzie with her Easter basket (look at those eyes!)

my sweet baby girl!

cousins!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

My Big Boy

My cute Cole Boy turned 6 on March 26th! I can't believe how fast time has gone by. He wanted a cowboy birthday party (because he is going to be a cowboy when he grows up and he is going to have 10 horses and he already knows some of their names! :) We just invited family this year so it was cousins and aunts & uncles and grandmas. It was a lot of fun, and after wards we went swimming at the Washington City Rec. center. Cole loved every minute of his party this year. He is growing up so fast and he is such a sweet and caring boy. He always says to me, "hello beautiful mom!" He is such a big help with the baby, but not always with Ellie, he is only six what do I expect right!? Happy Birthday Cole! We love you!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Same Day Surgery

So, ever since Ayzie was born she has had problems with reflux and constipation. She has never been able to eat more than 4 ounces in about an hours time, so slow!!! She has been really bad lately about puking all the time, I feel like most of her bottle comes up (an hour of feeding for nothing!) She also had bloody poop (sorry, a lot of gross info) a couple of times, so my doctor sent her to Dr. Kaddu, that is a pediatric gastroenterologist. Anyway, she had an upper GI done where she had to drink a dye and as she was drinking it they took x-rays of it going down from different angles and positions. What they found wasn't even what they were looking for. Besides the fact that she has bad reflux which we already knew, she also had a stricture in her esophagus. It's like a little shelf thing that pokes out into her esophagus that she was born with and it causes her to eat very slowly and as she eats more solid foods she will have a really hard time eating. So the doctor gave me the picture of the stricture in her esophagus and sure enough there it was. The next step was to put her under :( I have had to put all three of my babies under and it is a horrible feeling!) and do an endoscopy where they go down her esophagus with a scope and try to spread open the stricture. So, we went in bright and early on Feb. 25 to have the procedure done. When the doctor came out to talk to us after it was all done guess what, it was no longer freaking there! What is with this girl!!! He said he doesn't know what to say but we must of been praying hard for her! He also took three biopsies of her esophagus, stomach, and small intestine. I was kind of mad that there was nothing there because that meant we couldn't just take care of the problem then and there. Now we just have to wait and see what happens when she starts eating chunkier foods because it could be something else that I don't need to go into now because I'm praying we won't have to worry about that. The biopsy report came back that she had reflux, and also her small intestine was a little inflamed and she had these allergy protein things in her stomach which means she probably has a milk protein allergy, which is something Cole had also, but it wasn't such a big deal being on the expensive formula because we had wic with him and now we don't, so Ayzie's formula is going to cost us somewhere around an extra $200 a month more than what we have been paying. Also Dr. Kaddu doubled her dose of prilosec so that cost goes up too! Oh the joys of having kids!! She is doing pretty good as of now besides all the vomiting so now it's just a waiting game! Considering what we were supposed to be going through with all the surgeries from the cleft this is nothing, I just have to remember that!