Aug flew by

August went by really fast actually! It was great, to be honest

The kids started school back up!! I love my kids dearly, but we all do better when we have a break from each other! And the schools they attend are amazing!

We met up with Ayden's bio siblings and their families! It was so fun! Definitely should do it more.

Celebrated my birthday!! Jared was awesome and made it so I had time off from my duties. My mom came down to help! We dropped "baby" off for a visit, then Jared and I got dinner ... ALONE!... then went shopping for a bit. We went home to get the other 2 ready for bed, visited with my mom for a bit and then went to our hotel!

The morning of my birthday, we got up, helped get the kids up and had breakfast, went to the temple, and then my mom, my sis, and I went shopping, and to get lunch. We went home to have donuts, ... they left while my little family rested... we went to pick up "baby", got kids to bed, then Jared and i had dinner and movie in home date night. It was a great birthday!!

Moving on :o) We went up north and spent time with the Payne side of our family

Papa Payne spent a couple days with us!! He's so fun!!

Dad is amazingly fun too!!

Ayden took swim lessons at the city center. He did good! Had a hard time focusing, but I wasn't surprised when I got that report. Ayden absolutely loves the water.

We did a camp out in the back yard. Had a hot dog dinner

Then Jared and the older two slept in hammocks outside while I slept inside with "Baby"

Breeann's preschool had a chance to be in a city parade! Consequently, Jared and the kids were in it

They had fun! Jared said kids were done even before the parade started Bwhaha

We spent some time with Jared's aunt and her family. We did a whip cream game

Jared's trying to get Ayden more excited about scouts... even though Ayden's 3 years away. Never too early

So yeah, that was our Aug.  ... It was a blast. Good way to end the summer, to be honest!! Hope you all had an amazing end of the summer too!! Love to all!!

July was BLAH

July was a roller coaster! And just like June's post... these pictures are not chronological and description is brief :oP

Bree went in the hospital again... another just freak 24 hour thing.

Ayden contracted HSP ... holy cow!! WORSE. THING.EVER!!! for a kid with ADHD/SPD. it was a horrible 2 weeks!!! for him

Just because... trying to teach the kids to get along.

Another just because... fell asleep taking "baby" to a visit.

Ayden BEGGED for this costume and has absolutely LOVES it. He's captain Rex :o)

Jared on his way home from his week long, scout camp, river run trip!!!

Me so excited to have my husband back!!

To celebrate Jared's birthday, he wanted to go down the river with his brother! So that's what we did.

My younger sis came into town... this was right before she left to go back to Las Vegas.

Jared left me again, for another campout ... this time it was only overnight. He took our nephew on scout camp and this overnight campout.

The kids creation in playing one day

We did celebrate 4th of July and Pioneer day (a Utah holiday to be honest lol) with Jared's brother! They moved at the beginning of Aug. and we miss them terribly!!

Yeah... another kind of blah month. Not bad, not great... just was lol Best thing was celebrating my Jared's birthday! So dang blessed to have him!! I think I'll keep him forever

June was fun

So this isn't going to be in order, necessarily BUT we did have a pretty fun June overall. And sorry, but this will be pretty run down. With being behind in posting, I want to get it out there. On top of, some details I can't remember now. :o/

We celebrated Breeann's 3rd "Payne Day"! Seems like so long, yet like it was yesterday.We are definitely blessed to have her in our forever family!

We went to Seven Peaks a couple times with Jared's bro, sis, and their families.

We went up to my parent's property to celebrate my dad's birthday! Bree was too tired

Just hung out and played at home

We went to the Pleasant Grove Strawberry Day's rodeo!! We went with my nephew and Ayden's bio mom, her boyfriend, aunt, cousin, and my nephew. Ayden participated in "Cash Cow!" "Cash Cow" is where they tap dollar bills on baby calves, kids (i think 10 yrs and younger) can go in the arena and chase the cow to get the money.

Ayden did awesome! He did not catch a cow, but there was a really nice kid that gave Ayden the dollar he had gotten. A staff member gave Ayden candy too.

Fathers day!! Hopefully Jared felt loved, appreciated, and how much he means to us! With it being so close to his birthday (more on that in another post!) I can't remember exactly what gifts we gave him.

We went to the Children's museum with a really good friend of mine and her son.

We went down to Las Vegas, had all my siblings there. It was so much fun! And of course, Jared's the fun uncle/dad

We had a reunion with my aunts, uncles, and cousins in St George too! Here is most of the cousins

While in St. George, we got Panda Express and Bree just chowed down on the noodles!! I'm still beaming with pride!

June ended on a not so fun note... Bree got admitted for a couple days. Turned out to be nothing though.

Worse part of her getting admitted... Jared was at scout camp! There was no way to get a hold of him either because they were serious middle of nowhere, no cell reception.

Anyway, that's our June in a nut shell! It was fun!! Hope you all had a great June too!!

Won't miss you either, May!!!

Turns out May was NOT our month either. Bare with me as I am a story teller... or like to pretend, try to be :oP And I'll warn you now, I remember weird details. If you haven't caught that already. I'll throw in pics. to help break things up. Also, I definitely not looking for sympathy or anything... just informing of what can happen wtih our sweet princess Breeann.

On May 10th, Breeann woke up (about 7:30 am) just fine. We did our normal routine, for being a school day. About 8, she just started throwing attitude and made herself throw up (or at least I think :oP and yes, our daughter can make herself throw up). Jared asked if we should keep her home from school, but by that time I had just had it and needed space from her. Sent them out the door, and not even 5 mins. later Jared calls me to say Bree threw up again in the back of his car, he's bringing her back. I can't explain it really, but because of that whole car situation, I knew we weren't dealing with just attitude. Which, amazingly, I was able to go from furiously mad to compassionate and nuturing by the time they made it back. Anyway~ all she wanted to do was "soak" (in quotations because let's be honest, girl can't really have a good soak in the tub, poor thing!) and watch t.v. shows in her bed. By 10:30 she had thrown up a total of 4 times and spiked a 101 fever. Now you guys get a better idea how fast this chick can turn on ya?!? Anyway, so by this point I made arrangements for Jared to get Ayden off the bus and my in-laws to take "baby". Yes, thankfully Jareds parents were in town!!! and one of Jared's bros lives on the way to Primary Children's too. thanks again mom,dad, josh, and jill!!! So with those two taken care of, I got Bree to the ER by noon.

They do their assessments, blood work, etc... and decided to start her on a IV antibiotic... everything was pointing towards line infection. It was actually kind of sudden, and this is why we start antibiotics at the hospital, but anyway, about 2 p.m. Bree went septic (clink on the link if you're not sure what that is). 

Once again, girl changes fast... and likes to give her mom heart attacks. ER staff could not get her blood pressure to come up, despite loading her with a lot of fluids (even for an adult!) so they started her on a medication (epinephrine) that can only be given in the ICU. So at 5 p.m. (Jared got to the ER just in the nick of time) we got her to the ICU. It was about 7 p.m. on the 11th when they were able to transfer her to a regular floor.

On the 13th, since Breeann was acting better and her blood work was not showing an IV infection, they sent us home! Just in time to party with the Payne's like all weekend. We celebrated Mom and Dad's 40th wedding anniversary, Bree's bio aunt's baby shower,

and our niece getting blessed!! Mon., the 16th, we have Mom and Dad over for dinner, then jared and I snuck in a little date. When we get back, Mom tells us Bree gave attitude and threw up a tiny bit when putting her to bed. We chalk it up to she was overly tired, not wanting to go to bed. 9 p.m. that night, I got get her up to go to the bathroom, start a feeding and Bree has a 101 fever (102 by the time we got to the hospital) and throws up once or twice. Yes, she was just straight admit to the hospital again. The next morning, the 17th, drs tell me that blood work they did showed bacteria in her line!!! Not that I want her to have a line infection, but by this time I was just so dang happy to have answers so we can get our princess back!!! She was discharged the 20th. So yeah, basically 2 weeks at that hospital!!

Starting about the time Bree originally got sick, "baby" did too. Jared took "baby" to the dr., on the 20th, and yeah... poor thing had bronchiolitis and ear infection!

So after all that, and doing about week and a half of round the clocks atibiotic for both girls... I survived!! Onry, sleep deprived... but we all surived.

Luckily there was some fun in May! lol That fun weekend I mentioned between Bree's hospital visits... as well as Jared and I celebrated our enagement anniversary,

Ayden and I went to a baby shower for his Mom Stasha (aka bio mom).

His bio bro and his mom were there too. We have started calling ourselves the "sister mama's" lol

kids started playing with water in the backyard, that type of stuff. 

After finding the line infection, right antibiotics, Bree started feeling better and had fun painting nails (including her dads!), making a mask, and playing with legos to keep her busy while still inpatient.

  Unfortunately Ayden wasn't as entertained

Just kidding! He actually loves going to the hospital too. THey have lots of fun toys and crafts for kids do to. Unfortunately I didn't get a pic. Ayden also got to go on a fun hike with his school friend.

So yeah, another month I will try to mentally block out. Thankfully June is off to a better start, so far. Love to all!!