Dawes Family

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Coalville for the day

Saturday we spent the day in Coalville
Mike spent time on the farm growing up while his grandparent served a mission, so Mike enjoys going up and showing our kids things he did growing up. And it's fun watching Mike be a kid again.

Katelyn hanging out on the big rock

Mike in heaven

McKayla helping mom get all the chairs out of the car

"Lunch"

Dave & Mike

Katelyn loves walking around the farm listening to her dad

My other two, Loved the fresh country air and slept for 3 hours

We also went up to see Grandma Dawes

If you look in the back, there is the family farm. I have to admit, it is pretty.
I'm not country girl but it is pretty.

Dave, Dallin, Mike, Katelyn, Kimberly & McKayla Dawes
July 2010

24th of July weekend

We drove up to Idaho with Mike family to spend the day at the water slide. The kids loved it.
The minute that Dallin would come down the slide he would find someone to take him up again. He had a blast.

Katelyn was always on the go, I could never get a close up with her for she was running around with her cousins that I never had the chance to get one of her.

Dallin pulling his daddy up the hill to go with him again

Whitney is great, I think she took McKayla and Alisa about 20 times.
They were so cute.

My Katiebug having a ball.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Carmen's Big Day

Today is the day that it all was coming off!
Wow what a day, it started out with my mom's hair falling out to a point that it was time for me to cut it.
While we were cutting it, we received a phone call from Kristina saying that she was just in a car accident and that she wouldn't make it on time to take my mom to chemo.
Thank goodness I had a babysitter set up so that I could go do a few things before my mom came home that afternoon. But instead I was able to take her to her second treatment of chemo.
So needless to say it turned out to be a very crazy morning.

After chemo her brother stopped by and I couldn't help not take a picture. . .
They look like twins. . .So cute

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Dallin's surgery

Dallin has had 7 ear infections since November, and since Disneyland he has been a nightmare. I have been trying to get him an ENT appointment, but didn't have much luck. They soonest I was able to get him in way February 9th.

Well by then he would have 2 more ear infections and a mom that would be "NUTS"

On Wednesday Katelyn had an appointment with an ENT and I thought that I would just ask the Doctor to take a peek in his ears. After Katelyn's was check he took a look in Dallin's ear. Told me that they were in bad shape, walked out of the room and with in 2 min. was back asking me if I would be able to come in on Thursday.

I WAS SO HAPPY! I didn't want to go another day with him in pain.

Poor kid didn't know what was coming. . .

Wednesday night after Mike and my dad gave him a blessing I put him to sleep around 10:30pm

I wasn't able to get to bed until midnight.

Well 12:36 started our fun. . . he was up from 12:36 - 1:00 am, and then again at 2:30.

But from 2:30 - 5:00 he did nothing but cry. I tried everything. I even took him for a ride at 4:00 in the morning. All he did was "SCREAM" after 50 min. of that I came home asked Mike to take him so I could get in the shower.

By the time I got out he was sound asleep in Mike arms.

Very cute but at the same time I was ticked!

I tryed EVERYTHING and Mike takes him and goes right to sleep, what up with that?

We had to be at the Riverton Hospital at 6:15am.
When we got there everyone was so nice, and Dallin was eating it up.
Plus he had the TV to him self. With 2 sisters that doesn't happen much.

Right about now they gave Dallin a "Happy Drug"
that is what the nurse called it. I asked her why, she told me it was to help him not remember what was to happen today. It would make him pretty loopy for 30-45 min

And that it did.
I was laughing so hard at him, it was so cute he just kept looking around didn't know what to expect. it was just so cute.
Nurse kept coming in just to watch him, he was just to funny.

This was taken right before they took him from me.

There goes my son with one of the Doctors. He was a champ!

He didn't even cry and I know it was because of the drugs but it helped me.
I remember when Katelyn had this done she screamed all the way down the hall and I was in tears.

This was much better.

No more then 10 min the Doctor came in and told me that everything went well and that he would be in with in 15 min.

He also told me that the left ear was pretty bad that every time he would lay down that the pressure would make the ear drum expand, and the pain would be unbearable.

Now I feel like the worse mother ever.

Thank goodness Mike came, he wasn't going to due to a test today and work but I had no sleep and Mike was worried I wouldn't be able to handle it. But I think I did really well!