Posey Lake

The week before the 24th of July my kids spent a few days at the Cabin with my Mom and then we headed over to Posey Lake near Escalante. My kids had a blast exploring the campground and fishing with their Grandpa. 

Ellie quickly caught a fish with some help and Cooper was busy catching seaweed and throwing rocks.

We also went on a little drive and were able to see where my Dad once herded sheep and hear a few stories. 

Emergency Appendicitis

Wednesday afternoon, May 23rd, we had been over at the downtown water park celebrating the end of school and the beginning of summer. Cooper was running around like a crazy boy and having a ton of fun. Later that day we was kind of being lazy and attributed it to being tired from the sun and water. The Heine's invited us to swim and after a lot of persuading Cooper decided to come. Once there he swam and swam and swam. 
The next day Cooper woke up warm, tired and not really feeling well. I knew a few kids in the neighborhood had the flu and just thought that was all it was. About 8 at night we was getting warmer and had absolutely no energy...here he is all sad and zonked on the floor. 

That night he slept with me and had a fitful few hours, he woke up and sighed a few times. Once he headed back to his room and i fell back asleep. Then he woke up screaming and complaining. I thought maybe he was hungry or thirsty, but he couldn't keep a thing down and threw up the bite of cracker he had. I went down and got Brady up and after much thought and prayer we decided to take him. His heart rate was pretty high and I was just worried. A few phone calls later, a neighbor sleeping on our couch and we were off to the ER.

Once we checked in and moved to our room. Cooper got an IV with fluids and pain medicine. They came to take some blood for test and decide to do an ultrasound to check on his appendix. The ultrasound was fine, but the blood level was high so they decide to do a CATscan. It also didn't show everything, but by 9 am Cooper was headed into surgery for an emergency appendicitis. After the surgery we found out that it had in fact burst and that Cooper was doing fine. I am just glad that Cooper is built bigger and that they were able to do it with just 3 small incisions. We then got an ambulance ride over to the older hospital to the peds wing. I wished Coop felt better at the time, because he would have loved it, but he just wanted out of there and the stretcher. 

Once in the peds wing, we settled into a quite large and private room. Grandma & Grandpa Haycock were able to visit. Cooper got plenty of rest and enjoyed watching Cars over and over. Once Ellie was able to visit we explored the floor and found the toy room. Cooper and Ellie rode wiggle cars around and played for hours there. Everyonce in awhile Cooper would wear himself out and get pretty grouchy but for the most part he was a pretty awesome patient. 

Saturday afternoon my Mom and niece Chelcie came to visit. Cooper just kept saying, "I hate chelcie, I want Chelcie to go away, I don't like her!" over and over. It was kind of funny, but I felt bad he was so grumpy. Eventually he let her in, but boy was he mad at first. 

He had a pretty quick recovery and we were able to check out Sunday morning and go home. He still walked like a little old man all hunched over and hobbling like his Uncle Shane did, but he managed. We are just so thankful for all the neighbors that helped us with Ellie and took care of our family. HE sure love the little guy and are glad that he was fully recovered and may have more energy now than he did before!!!

Coop's Actual B-day

On Coop's birthday we had a lot of fun with the Mohler Crew. Cooper enjoyed the morning playing with his new toys and taking silly pictures of Alyson!!!

We first headed to the dinosaur museum, I can't believe that we have lived here for 8 years and had never been. The kids loved every minute of being there and we learned a lot. We saw all sorts of teeth, bones, and footprints. We tried to take a bunch of group shots, but a kid would not be looking or turned around in each one. After that we headed to McDonalds for a kids dinner. They loved playing and wore themselves right out. Each time we drive past the museum the kids beg to go inside. 

Cooper Turns 3!!!

Cooper's birthday was a little hectic this year. I was planning on having a big H2O bash, but due to a little appendicitis things changed and we went with a Cars party. He invited a bunch of cousins and friends over to play, eat cake and ice cream, and open presents. They had a blast and he loved it. The highlight was the cake from Harmon's he had to show everyone as they arrived how awesome his cake was.  

Weekend in Orem

We spent a few days in Orem in June, Brady had a few meetings and we also had to drop off Ellie for her week long adventure. 

Friday we explored a new park

Found Menchie as we waited to have lunch with Mace

played Grandma's piano

ate the BEST chocolate cake from Magelby's

and had an early Birthday party for Ellie Chase

My week with Coop

Ellie is lucky enough each summer to spend a week with her Aunt Tami. This year she went in the middle of June which meant me and Coop had a fun week of playing. 

We took some fun trips to Target

We took up some girls and a trailer to Girls Camp. Coop was kind of shy to start with, but then warmed right up to the girls. 

We tasted and LOVEd his first Brad's taquito and of course a tasty twin twirl!!!

We picked a bunch of stuff from the garden!!

and Coop taste tested each item:)

and we got lots of snuggles from our Daddy!!!

Saturday we had a big yard sale and Cooper was very helpful pricing all the items.