Canyon de CHELLY

Alright so heres the story.. These pics are all from Chinle, Az in the Canyon de Chelly.  This Canyon has numerous overlooks to ruins all throughout the canyon.. it truly is beautiful scenery. You can 4x4 the bottom which we heard was a much better route to take.. but with the rain and the newborn.. not really an option.  okay.. so this whole trip all came about the night before.. We thought that we could scoot up there in under a couple hours tops.. lol.. took us about 3.5hrs to get there over 2hrs to tour just the south rim and 3.5hrs back.. it was a    l  o   n    g    haul.   The Fry bread made it all worth while.. well at least it helped.. lol...  It rained all the way down to the first overlook then stopped.. we got out and hiked down to Spider rock.. the pic with the four of us and the Huge rock spire below.  This stop was actually the best actually due to the Echo.. yes the echo.  you could climb out just shy of where our pic was taken and shout out whatever and seconds later hear it echo through the canyon walls.. best echo spot I've heard yet.  I have to say that each and everytime we got out of the car for an overlook with out fail it would downpour on us trying to get back to the vehicle.. we bout froze to death.. well lil Ellashay was purple and shivering.. lol.  We had a good time.  

Semanees Graduation

So.. this was Semanees Preschool Graduation.. It was a really big Ta-Doo...  Mrs. Holly's and Mrs. Evys class was around 10kids.  They had a video presentation with coin phrases that the kids had let out during the whole school year.. Some of em were pretty funny.. I will post it to our blog later so you guys can enjoy it as well.  

G-MA B-DAY

                                                          Happy Birthday Grandma!!!

                                                          RED ROBIN...... YUMMMM!

BFF Dance by Semanee

Okay so you know how your kids say and do 

the darndist things.. well we had some Disney 

cheerleading show on tv and it inspired Semanee 

into dance.. actual 6 dances.. but we'll only post a 

couple for your enjoyment..

okay.. if ya'll want more of Sem I'll post em.. but

here's two to get you going.

poor ella shay

Okay.. so once again you get to be entertained by my version of the story ;).. got a frantic call on the way out of Elders Quorum meeting from the wife that (and this is what I heard) Ella had fallen off the couch and had a big bleeding gouge on her head and Chrisitine didn't know if she was going to need stitches .. please get home.. NOW.  .. okay.. so I fly home burst open the door.. 

theres the wife on the edge of the couch breastfeeding.. semanee on the other end watching a show and Ella shay just smiling up at me from the couch.. and I was like "HUH"?  to which the wife told me to walk around and look at the other side of ella shays mouth..

HUGE gash through her entire upper lip.. it was split apart to the point where it looked like it may never get back together.. well.. first things first.. call Koshar.. ;)  took a few pics.. there was question of worry as to whether this consittuted an emergency room visit or just a painful natural heal.. after showing her to Debbie , we got the bad (but good) news that this was indeed an emergency room worthy injury.. because the cut had breached the vermillion (sp?) border.. that ridge between your upper lip and the actual skin.  Which if it didn't get fixed could adversly affect her smile.  So off we went.. just me and ella to the er.. at mayo.. 

we get there and its just happy smiley ella.. except for her constant picking at her mouth making it bleed... 

we go in to start the admittance process and she starts freaking.. from the nurse trying to listen to her heart, to the temperature to weighing in.. EVErything.  and from her perspective I can understand .. she had been to the Doctor and it usually ended in shots.. which hurt.!

well we get into a room an hour later.. and then wait in the room for another hour.. (by the way.. emergency room was EMPTY)... and you can imagine.. tired little 22month old.. going stir crazy and I'[m running out of entertainment Ideas.. sleep out of the question... lol.. 

finally the doc comes and tells me the process for what they have to do to repair it.. 

and they bring in a baby back board with Straps.. and im thinking to myself.. great.. she's gonna remember this night for the rest of her life.. how her dad took her out for a drive and she ended up in pain in the hospital... 

she did well though.. she freaked out.. top of the lungs.. sting me to the soul screaming.. tearing up.. the doctor jabbin in the local anithestic with a needle.. and then ella just went calm.. didn't squirm.. didn't move and just let the doctor do her thing.. two black stitches to the skin above the lip and a few dissolvable ones to the lip itself and she was unstrapped... I put my arms out to her half expecting her to hate me for the trauma and she jumped right into my arms and snuggled up to me.. tears again.. grateful ones.. and we were released. on the way out she was thanking everyone and blowing kisses.   Her lip is healing well.. I just keep hoping the doc got it straight.. her smile that is.... but since then she won't leave those lil itchy stiches alone I tell you what.. Sunday or monday they come out.. yeah.. 

wow we are behind

So heres the short of it... WAter broke at 230am march 19th.  Christine didn't wake me for a bit.. I think she was letting the Benadryl wear off a bit so that I would be able to coherently drive her to the hospital.. Anyway after showering for the long haul ahead and packing up the kids we made our way down to parents to drop off the kiddies then off to the hospital.. (assuming like previously.. we were in for the long haul).. got to the hospital around 4:30am.  the minute we walked in we expressed desire for an epidural which the nodded and moved us around filling out paperwork.. verifying her water had broke etc.. kept reminding em of the epidural.  Christine is fairly silent so as she progressed through the contractions all you would hear were little grunts and grimmaces of pain.. ( i knew the extent by the fingernail gouges in my hand.. j/k) so by 6am we were finally in a delivery room nurses running around.. got the IV up and the antibiotics flowing.. (still no epidural) said the Iv had to get in first.. the Nurse tending to us hadn't had much time to check the baby.. by 630 you could see the head.. (can I just say at this point that this was awkward for me that I was the one pointing it out.. lol)  so the nurse keeps trying to calm christine down.. with her soft passive motherly voice.. then I would chime in.. and christine told me to shut up ... lol.. that it wasn't relaxing when I did it.. (how rude.. but funny) anyhow.. the nurse kept tryint to get her to stop pushing cause.. there was no doctor there to deliver and as the nurse exclaimed many times she did not want to be the one to deliver this baby... Christine kept telling her she couldn't help it.. it was her body doing it.. well in walked Dr. Mckernan just in time .. he encouraged Christine to push.. as the head crowned we were worried cause the cord was around the neck..  He was able to get it off fairly easily and asked for one more push with which he yelled to Christine to "grab your baby"... frantically christine tried to get her hands down there and he lifted the baby up to her.. scared the bajeeebies outta me.. but lil Sada Shade was born..  okay... so Sada came from Semanee.. as so many name ideas did.. from Star wars to snow white.. but sada had a nice ring to it.. which I attached May to for a middle name.. but Christine wasn't feeling the southern influence of the may.. so from ella she took shay, and from sem she took jade and made shade.. lil sada shade beazer.  oh.. 8.9lbs 21.5" and Au NAturale.. (against her will).