Leap Day

Since it only comes around once every four years, thought I'd say Happy Leap Day...

We spent most of our day enjoying the warming weather...

Hey Sista

Happy Birthday Jessica!!

Jessica ~ I hope this day is a special one, filled with all the delicious things that you wanted to included in this day of yours...art, mexican food, family and yummy cake.

I love that you are stubborn and speak your mind. I love that you are independent, but don't like being alone. I love that you don't care how the "outside" world has ever seen you. I love that you have taken on a career that benefits the community and makes for great stories. I love how you love your family. I love your sense of humor and how quick you can crack a joke and always keep Tim on his toes. I love how much you love my children and think of them all the time...and even though it makes me pull my hair out, I love how Griffin is so similar to you in that he is independent and has to do things his way and that is the end of the story. And I love how I get to call you my Sister!

Happy Birthday

too much fun

My mom and I took the kiddos to this museum to see all the glory of Jim Henson. Too much fun...Griffin got to see many puppets up close, Ernie, Bert, Kermit, and one of my childhood favorites, The Fraggles. They had a puppet show section at the end of the exhibit and kids got to put on their own puppet shows...too good. McKenna loved it too...

Griffin kept peeking over as he was working the puppets. It was an awesome day, we played for a few hours, had some lunch and on our way home we ran into my dad accidentally at work, so we stopped and said hi and the kids crashed in the car on the way home...

on these days

On these days I am glad that I stay home and we enjoy a rainy day...

poor baby

So I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine Day. We spent ours back in the hospital. Griffin had a runny nose on Wednesday and I took him to the Doctor Thursday morning because he was having a hard time breathing. So we got there and we were sent to the ER, I decided to take him to Phoenix Children this time because we had a bad experience at the last hospital we were at for this same issue. Poor guy, usually they can hear where the wheezing in his lungs is but it was so bad that they couldn't hear any air moving in his lungs at all. So after 4 straight hours of breathing treatments and 12 hours in the ER they admitted us and we found our way to a room at 1 in the morning. Luckily he recovered much quicker than last time, the last time was 7 days and this was only 2 days, but there are still so many frustrations that I am working through. They want Griffin to take some different meds that he has taken before that greatly affected him in terms of his appetite and personality so we took him off those, and we were told we were wrong that they don't have that affect even though there is research that we found to back up how Griffin reacted to it. I will be taking that up with his doctor at his follow up and looking for alternatives other than pouring endless amounts of medicines in his little body. We also get the answer of his problems are what they are instead of why this happens to him and what is going on in his body to react this way. So we will see. Thankfully, Grandma and Papa helped out with McKenna since she wasn't allowed in the hospital with the RSV restrictions, and because they bring cool presents everytime he is in the hospital...so hopefully he will work his way back up the healthy ladder.

XOXO

Go Cart Races...

Carroll Family Style

On Your Mark ...

Get Set...

Go!!!