Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Virginia... here we come!


We can't wait for Christmas in Virginia! We got really excited and set up all our Christmas decorations super early! I justify it by saying if we waited until after Thanksgiving, we would have only had 20 days of decorations since we're leaving to Virginia on the 18th and I love Christmas to much to miss out on decorating! One small problems I've run into though, Tanner keeps asking when we are going to get presents under the tree!

We got to babysit Elijah!


Brooklyn and I were so lucky! Today we got to have Baby Elijah come play with us while Laura and Tony took a little trip to Park City. I know your all a little Jealous so I'm posting pictures for you to see how cute he is! I guess being the closest aunt gives you the lucky gift of babysitting!

Let it Snow!



Well Winter hit Utah late last night! Tanner was so excited we had to get our snow clothes on and go outside as soon as we woke up. Brooklyn of course did not want clothes on, but after some pursuading, she finally got dressed and came outside.

Tanner taught Brooklyn how to eat snow and he also showed her how to throw snow balls. Mostly he just threw them at her but she thought it was funny!


The snow was really coming down all day as you can see from the video!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Crazy Brooklyn



Brooklyn really misses her dad today!

Monday, November 3, 2008



HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONAS!!

We went to Jonas's 7th birthday party at Classic Skating. He picked the DJ Party room. The kids had a blast with the black light and mixing the music. They all had a blast running around like maniacs and not having a care in the world. Jonas wants everyone to know that we are all invited to his next birthday party... in EGYPT!!



Brooklyn was Miss Sassy as usual. She had just woke up from a nap. Don't you just love the hair!







Tanner thought he looked really cool wearing both his regular glasses and the glasses from the party.






Tanner and Grandpa had a blast being "DJ's" for tTanner and Grandpa had a blast being "DJ's" for the night.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Pumpkin Walk at West Jordan Park

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Reader beware....

So Monday morning at 6:30 am I went in to Jordan Valley Hospital for out patient surgery. I had Nasal Septum Reconstruction and Submucous Reduction of Inferior Turbinates. I still am not sure what that means, but it is supposed to get rid of all the headaches I've been having. I had my mom drop me off at the hospital so Mike could stay home with the kids until I was done. We all know how wonderful Tanner and Brooklyn would have been in the waitting room for 4 hours. I went back to the OR around 7:30. I was chit chatting with the nurses when suddenly, "OOWW! That really burns. Is it supposed to be burning?" I asked the anesthesiologist. "Oh yeah it will burn a little" he said. "Oh no.. it burns a lot" I laughed. So the nurses said, "well that's the first time I've had someone laugh about it hurting". The I told them, I could taste it in my mouth, then I felt it hit me, and I was out!!!
I woke up around 9:00-ish so tired! The nurses were really nice and told me just to rest. Soon I was in the recovery area and I was able to get a drink which was much needed. They called Mike and told him to bring the kids up because I was actually the only patient there! It was so nice and quite. The nurse took out my IV and wouldn't you know it, that is when the nausea hit. I drank some sprite and it helped a little. Mike ended up taking me home about 10:15 so I was home by 10:30. It went really quick and I wasn't in to much pain.

When we got home the nurse had suggested I try to eat right away. I did try.. but it didn't help. The nausea was back. I ended up throwing up lots and lots of blood. It must have been in my stomach for quite a while because it was black. Yuck! Well... Mike got back with my drugs and I took some pain pills which helped me get to sleep. I was only able to sleep about an hour because my mouth was so dry. I've had to sleep with my mouth open because I'm not able to breath AT ALL through my nose. The worst part to is.. I can't blow my nose. I can't blow it for a week! Its so horribly annoying. Well... all afternoon Monday it was mostly a cycle of drinking lots of water because I was so thirsty, then throwing up lots of blood, then trying to eat a little so I could take a pain pill to help me sleep, then waking up again super thirsty.


I feel much better today. I am still just super stuffy and its really hard to breath. My nose is tender and a little swollen but other than that I'm doing great. I am just waiting for Brooklyn or Tanner to jump on me and hit my nose and then I'll burst into tears. Well... lets all keep our fingers crossed that this will do the trick to get rid of my headaches!

The X-ray

Well... This is my x-ray that shows my septum. The row shows my crooked septum. the 2nd row shows more of why I was getting so many headaches. You can see the doctor put a little X on the picture. That is the back of my septum. There was a bone spur that was pushing on my turbinate. He said it causes headaches for a lot of people.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Is it just me?

So Tanner has only been in school for 2 weeks now. His kindergarten teacher was only there the first 3 days. She's had a DIFFERENT substitute every single day. This has gone on for 7 school days straight. The office tells me she is out with strep throwt. Who is sick for 7 school days (that 11 if you count weekends) with strep? Well Tanner went to school yesterday and saw he had another sub. He burst into tears crying that he didn't want to go. He didn't know the lady who was teaching and he just wanted his real teacher back. I can't say I blame him. I almost started crying when I saw her too. She looked so mean! Just like that mean sub from "Miss NeilsoThn is missing" only this wasn't the same teacher in disquise. She did have painted on eye brows though. Well when I came to pick him up he I asked how his day went. He said it was horrible and their teacher yelled and them and told them they had to put their heads on their desk. Then he tried to convince me that she made them do it the whole day. I didn't buy into that, but he really was upset about her. I talked to the office and they said his regular teacher would be out the rest of this week too and that the sub with painted eye brows would be here all week. Oh what a relief. A crazy mean looking lady who yells at my sweet little tanner. Well.. I didn't make him go to school today. I'm on strike. You can't start a kindgerten class off for the year with out some kind of stability. I'm not ok with him going to be taught by different teachers every day and then having people who can walk in off the street be his subsitute. The only requirement that you need to be qualified to be a sub is to have a high school diploma. If you are working with 5 year old kids - you need to be on your way to saint hood. You can't just be any average Joe. I'd kill a room full of 25 kids that were 5 and 6. That's why I don't teach! But, I do expect the people who are teaching my little baby to be good to him and for him. Is it just me or would you feel the same way?

Monday, September 15, 2008

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School Fair

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New Baby!


Baby Elijah Koens
7 lbs 2 oz
20 inch.
8:20 pm

September 14th 2008

The newest addition to the Rowlett Family is here! He is just so cute too! Luckily we called Jenny to see where Lauara was yesterday. Tanner and Brooklyn had made cupcakes to bring to her for her birthday and we couldn't get a hold of her all day. Finally we figured we'd call Jen and see if she knew where she was. Wouldn't you know.... She was in LABOR!! Well I drove up to the Hospital in such a panic of excitment, calling everyone I could think of to tell, that I took the wrong exit(s) and was suddenly driving to Park City. Then I get a call from Debbie saying, "She's going to start pushing! She's already to a 10 and she's going to start pushing! Get up there!!"


When I finally pulled into the hospital parking garage (which I also couldn't find), I ran the whole way there. Sure enough, as soon as I walked into the room the Dr. was getting her preped to push and telling her what she needed to do. I got to say Hi really quick and wish her luck.

Then the waitting game started!!

Ok.. after an hour of sitting I was beginnning to wonder what was going on. Tony had said he'd come out to get me as soon as the baby came. So I figured I'd be the nosy Amber that I am and decided to go back and get the scoop from the nurses. The nurse told me to go on back and Laura would explain what was going on. What was going on? What did that mean? I walked in to the room and there was Laura, no belly, and no Tony. "What's going on Laura?" I asked. Laura said, "well we had the baby abut 20 minutes ago, and he was having a hard time breathing, so the rushed him to the nursery. Tony is with him to see what is going on." We talked with the Nurse and she said he was just fine, they just wanted to be sure he got all the water out of his lungs so he could breath better on his own. I sat with Laura for a little bit so she wasn't left all alone jittering like a jackhammer after the drugs wore off. Then she said, "Hummm... I haven't heard from Tony. I wonder how the baby is doing?" So I went down to the Nursery to see how he was. Tony was beaming in the nursery! He looked like such a proud dad! He was WONDERFUL! Just the cutest thing I've ever see! So super soft and perfect little cute fingers, toes and nose. He is just so cute! I'm already in Love with my new little nephew!








Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Mama Mia

PIZZA!!
We decided to make home made pizza for dinner. The kids thought it was so much fun to do.

We were covered in flour by the time we were finished. They kept trying to eat the dough thinking each time that it would some how taste good all of the sudden. I had to keep reminding them it was cookie dough. Tanner was a very careful about how he placed the cheese. He didn't want to have to much. Brooklyn just took a huge handful and plopped it on! They loved putting all the toppings on, and then of course took it all off when it came out of the oven. It ended up taking a lot longer to cook than we planned. It was about 30 minutes and we had two batches of pizza's to cook. In the end, the evening turned out a success! The Pizza was delicious and everyone had fun eating their own personal pizza!

Tanner's 1st day of school

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Camping in Ferron




We went on our annual camping trip to Ferron, Utah in July. It was so much fun. Brooklyn and Tanner loved the fishing. We were able to stay for 5 days which I thought would seem like eternity, but surprisingly it went really quick. I was the chef extraordinaire for the week! I love to plan so it was lots of fun. I got to do lots of dutch oven cooking which I don't get to do very often. Tanner and Brooklyn loved throwing rocks into the lake. We caught lots of fish and only got hit with a rain storm once. The best part about camping is always the stars at night. I've never seen as many stars as you do when your far up the mountain. It was absolutely beautiful! Camping is a lot of work, but its all worth it for the views!







The Wedding


The wedding was a great success! I had so much fun planning and decorating everything. I have to toot my own horn a little and say I thought the set up of the food was great. It looked really cute, and it tasted pretty good too. Laura looked so pretty! Mary and I even got a chance to start planning for a future wedding for her one day! Watch out Julie, you will be next!

Its finally here!!


I've finally caved and started a BLOG!! Hopefuly we can keep in touch better now. I don't know how often I'll keep it up, but hopefully once a week.