Kairi gets her Tonsil out!

When I took Kairi in for her 5 year doctor appointment he was concerned with the way she breathed and pronounced her words. After having x-rays, seeing a specialist and trying antibiotics the specialist, Dr. Hill, thought it would be best to get her tonsils and adnoids out. We scheduled the appointment as soon as we could so as not to interfere with her dance competition and soccer in April. We were scheduled to be at Primary Children's Hospital on Mar 23rd at 11:45 am. Alan and I both took the day off to be with her. She was so excited to have her tonsils out! We took her shopping for ice cream, pudding, yogurt, etc so she was really excited for the food she got to eat afterwords. She had no idea what was about to happen.

Primary Children's is a great hospital. There are all about the kids. The have fun murals on the walls and ceilings, toys, and lots of activities to take kids minds off what is happening to them. The doctor said Kairi was happy right until she went to sleep from the gas. The surgery only took 30 minutes. Dr. Hill said Kairi did great! We had to wait at the hospital for about an hour and a half to make sure she was doing well enough to leave. After she woke up from surgery, she was a little grouchy and didn't want the nurses to touch her. After the anesthesia wore off a little more she calmed down. We were leaving the hospital about 3:30. When we got home she ate a chocolate pudding and had some liquid. She did so well. Yesterday she was is a little more pain, but she is doing great. We can't wait for her to be back to normal... and to hear what she will sound like now!






Kairi on the train waiting to get registered.


Sporting her hospital pajamas.




They gave her a cloth doll to color that had a hospital gown just like her.


Watching some TV after she took her medicine.


The drive home.

Brian Regan

For christmas, Dustin got Alan and I tickets to Brian Regan and offered to babysit for us the night of the show! The tickets were for his 7 o'clock show on Saturday Mar 13th at Abravanal Hall. We looked forward to it since Christmas. We have heard a lot of his comedy and he is hilarious in a clean way. If you ever have a chance to see him you should. Thanks for the gift Dustin!

Reagan Spring PTC

Alan and I went to Reagan's spring parent teacher conference on March 17th at 4:00. She is doing great! She loves going to school and learning. I love that she gets so excited to tell me what she has learned at school. She has been doing challenge (2nd grade) spelling words since January and she has not missed any words on her spelling tests! She hates that we make her write each word she misses five times during our nightly practice, but she is always so excited to see that she spelled all her words correctly. She is still doing great in reading. She has gone up 3 reading levels since our last ptc, she is a level K. She is also doing well in math (good thing or what would people say! :-)). She received all 4's in all other areas. We are so happy that she is liking school and doing so well. Keep up the good work Reagan!

Kairi's 5th Birthday

I can't believe Kairi is 5! She is so excited to be going to kindergarten in the fall. She loves to learn. She loves to write and color. She loves to "read" books to Camden and Tahlia... she is a pretty good story teller! She also loves to learn at church. She is always telling me things she learned at church and telling me how important it is to live "good". I love her sweet personality. She is always thinking of others. She goes about life with such a positive attitude.

Kairi is the only girl her age that we know so, we decided to go to Idaho and celebrate her birthday with Kahler. They are about 8 days apart on a non leap year. Her birthday was on aTuesday and we wouldn't be going to Idaho for the party for a couple of weeks, so we decided to do a little celebration at home Tuesday night. We went to the grocery store and she picked out donuts to eat for desert. She opened a few presents. She got some new pajamas, a pink Snuggie (she really wanted one), a book and some money. We saved a few more things for the party in Idaho.











The week before we went to Idaho for the birthday party, Kahler was in the hospital with RSV. Mary and I had planned to go bowling and play in a bounce house in Rexburg, but when Kahler got sick we decided to just stay in Idaho Falls. It ended up to be just as much fun! We brought up Disney Bingo and the kids loved playing that. After bingo we broke a pinata that Mary had brought. She put some great candy and prizes in it! We were really lucky that the weather was nice enough to go outside and break it. After the pinata we had homemade pizza. This was a great idea! I love homemade pizza. After pizza we opened presents, sang happy birthday and had cake. Leslie made Kairi the cutest cake ever! Leslie called me about a month before Kairi's birthday and wanted to make the cake. I showed Kairi the cake and after a few minutes of thinking she said yes. Thanks Leslie for helping make her birthday extra special. Kahler had a cute little dump truck full of cake. He really didn't want to much to do with it. Eventually he had some and made a mess. Thanks to everyone who helped with the party! It was great.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day came and went quickly at our house. Alan arranged for a babysitter and we went to each at a Brazilian restaurant the Friday night before valentine's day. We really enjoy eating there. It was nice to go out with Alan and spend time together. When we got home there was an edible arrangement waiting for me. I have always secretly wanted one of these! I think they are so neat. This one had lots of strawberries... I love strawberries. It was a very nice surprise. I love Alan so much. I don't know what I would do without him! We were too full from dinner to eat any of the arrangement, so we had it Saturday night at dinner and shared with the whole family. Saturday night after dinner we decorated valentine's day cookies. The kids love decorating cookies. It's a fun tradition.











Reagan was off track for valentine's day, but they had their party the following week when they went back on track. She was suppose to make her valentine box and boy did she get creative. She had a great time being creative and Kairi had fun being her assistant.

Mom and Kairi Time

February was Kairi's month to take me and do something together. She wanted to go see Alvin and the Chipmunks; the Sqeakquel. After work on Monday Feb 1st, I pick the kids up from the babysitter and dropped everyone but Kairi at home and then we left. We had to get popcorn and drinks, it was our dinner! Kairi loved the movie and we have fun talking before and after the movie. Kairi has such a positive attitude about life, it is good to be around her because she reminds me to be happier. I love that we are spending time individually with each of our kids. It will be nice when it's warmer so we can do some things out side. Love you Kairi!