Arizona Or Bust ( I guess you could also call it Arizona AND Bust-ed as in broke busted)

Well I did it, I finally got everything ready for our cross country treck to AZ. I called my mom tonight and told her how much more sympathy and admiration I have for her all those years ago when she was planning all the trips from Utah to visit her mother and sisters in Washington and down to California and Arizona. There are 8 kids in all but the older couple siblings werent on most of the trips that I remember because they are older and I am the second to youngest. I feel like a chicken with no head and I only have 3 kids, I cant even imagine what my mom felt like having do this times 6! Multiple hotel rooms, gas calculations, food planning or prep, entertainment prep, PACKING, and if we were lucky enough to fly all the airplane prep work! Makes me tired just thinking about it. Anyways Good Job Mom (even though you dont read my blog)you are amazing for doing that more than once! This picture is all of us girls (mom and my sisters that were on the trip) at Disneyland about 15 years ago. Hands down my familys all time favorite Disneyland trip ever! I was probably 10-ish I think in the picture. It rained so hard and we were SOAKING wet and I had to wear my moms sweatshirt on the plane home then my dad when to get the van and it had a flat so we sat in the airport with our luggage FOREVER but it was still fun!

Anyways, we are off as of 4 AM so I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I will try to take as many pictures as I can but since my *lovely* puppy Rosie who found a new home as of today chewed up my charger for my camera and they are +30.00 so I dont guarentee anything!
Abby-you tell lil buddy hes not allowed to come out until January 5! :0) Love and Miss you already and thanks for coming over today, it was nice to sit and chat with ya face to face!

Our Early Christmas

We did Christmas early this year since we are leaving for Arizona this week. The girls had such a good time it was awesome! Chels almost went into a coma when she opened her Dora Pegasus and even snuck into the kitchen when Sol opened it for her and played with it until it was time to go to church. Kylee fell in love with her Tinkerbell head that you can do her hair up and earings and all that fun stuff, she even got a code with it for pixiehollow.com so she thinks shes so totally awesome because she got a code. Emma started screaming and started to frantically rip the paper off her Rocket. She had to take the kids that came with it to church with us even. As for the Jammie Pants, ya cute tradition. I think I like the idea of it but making them was retarded. I didnt have enough fabric to do some for Sol and I so that was kinda a bummer. But I think most of it was the pattern I had for it SUCKED! So next year I am going to buy a different pattern and see if it helps at all. I asked all the girls what thier favorite presents were and was kinda suprised at thier answers!

Mad Props to Adam!

Ok so everyone has pretty much heard of Hannah Montana aka Miley Cyrus. So our brother-in-law, (Sols sister Rachel married Adam) Adam Tefteller has been working so hard out here in Nashville writing songs and singing and all that good stuff. Well it finally paid off! He helped write this song and Hannah Montana is using it for Season 3 of her show in Disney Channel! Good Job and Congrats Adam we love you and are so proud of you and all the hard you have been doing! Keep up the good, hard work!

Awww

So I every morning and night Emma needs a breathing treatment of Respricort. I got her set up in my bed and turned it on and put it on her face and this is what I walked back into.

How heartbreaking is that?

Scentsy

For those who dont know I am a consultant for an AWESOME candle company called Scentsy. They are better than Yankee or Salt City because they are WICKLESS so no soot on your walls or dangerous flame for our kids to burn themselves on! Just a 25 WATT lightbulb in the warmer! And the wax gets just above body temp so you can literally put your finger in the wax at full melted point and you wont get burned-or your kids. NOT TO MENTION A TON CHEAPER TOO! I just made Lead consultant and soo excited for that! The newest product to come out is the plug in. THEY ARE AWESOME! I have 2-one in each bathroom!
For more info or for a free catalog, just let me know or go to my website:
www.scentsy.com/cwilliams

I also have the Montly Specials on there too for those interested at saving 10%

New Tradition

So Just to let everyone know first off that Emma is doing SOO much better, thanks to everyone for thier kind words, well wishing and prayers-they really worked. Last night she slept thru the night for the first time in a week and did not wake up coughing or weezing so thank good-ness for that!

Anyways, I was soaking in the bath the other night thinking about how I wanted to start a cute fun family tradition. I always buy my girls some cute new matching-ish jammies so it will be cute for pictures. But I always try to get into the spirit and find something that is like thiers for pictures (in the off chance that I am not the one taking the pics)

So I thought why not make everyone matching Christmas Jammie Pants? So I found a pattern online that had sizes for the whole family for a couple bucks and then found this fabric on ebay for crazy cheap!


Sol requested to do something "not lame like Frosty the Snowman" so this is what I found that wasnt too expensive but a guy could still wear and the girls and I could still wear too. Plus put a red or white top on and it will be totally cute for pictures! :)

So we will see how it goes, could be a tradition or a what was I thinking that one year type of thing, Who knows but I will keep yall posted!

Motherhood

This past couple months for me as a Mother have been very challenging. In September Emma was diagnosed with Reactive Airway Disease or RAD. Its basically Asthma that they hope she will grow out of. They cant diagnose her properly until shes 5 or 6 so for now in order to treat her they say she as RAD-Totally Lame and Dumb, I know.

She has always had breathing issues, she got her first round of pnemonia when she was only 4 months old and every winter since has been rough. Croupe and pnemonia are a constant thing with her as well as E.R. visits during the middle of the night.

This past weekend (Saturday, Sunday, and Today) Emma has been to the dr twice and the E.R. once. She also has to go back on Wednesday AM. Why? My poor baby has Pnemonia, Pink eye, and an ear infection at the same time. They decided to go ahead and put her on an every day nebulizer medication called Respricort, an everyday allergy medication called Singular that should help with allergies and hope that it will help stop her severe flare-ups. On top of Albuterol treatments every 4-6 hours as needed. So as of this mintute every day she needs an Oral steroid, eye drops, strong antibiotics, and 2 different kinds of inhlaation meds for the nebulizer.
( me and emma. She was about 10 minutes old and I has in such a deep love already that she came out in only 2 pushes so my drugs hadnt worn off yet and I was falling asleep but didnt want to let her go so we just fell alseep together)
Thats just Emma.


Chelsea this past couple weeks has had this nasty cough that wont go away no matter what I do. So into the dr and you know it, Bronchittis. So steroids and breathing treatments for her as well! And Halloween weekend she had what everyone thought was appendix issues so we take her in and its a viral infection of almost everything in her abdomin.

(all of us at Chelseas birth. I felt everything and started going into labor at 11 PM and got to the hospital at 3:30 AM and she was born at 9:11 AM so I look like a mack truck had hit me and I sure felt like it too!)

And WHILE Chelsea was sick, Kylee had Strep and was out of school for almost a week! (Me with Kylee right after Kylee was born, I was starving, she was born at 11:29 at night and I hadnt eaten ANYTHING since 9 AM)

Well, What doesnt kill you makes you stronger, Right? So this is what I have learned thru this:

1. I am a LOT tougher than I ever knew or gave myself credit for. Only a tough mama could sit there and watch your babies get IVs misplaced and stuck 50 times with different testing sticks and getting x-rays and cat scans and shots the dr still have no idea what is wrong not come completly unglued at the seams. Not to mention the whole walking into your kids room at night and hear your youngest baby literally gasping for air and almost turning blue and driving to the E.R. hoping and praying that your baby will be ok. Did I mention that having her oxygen level that is supposed to be 100 be in the 60s? Ya not so fun!

2. If it is this hard being a parent of 3 kids and having to watch them go thru all this I can only imagine what Heavenly Father feels as he watches us here on earth making all the mistakes that we do.

3. I am so grateful for good drs (and even the not-so-good drs) who have helped all my babies during thier troubles and continue to work to find out whats wrong with them and how to help them.

4. Great friends and family are absolutely PRICELESS! I have had to call different friends and family to help watch kids and do various things for us and they have all agreed and I know I couldnt have done all this so far without you!

5. Prayers are answered every day! This I know for sure!

6. As bad as these issues are(to me anyways) I am so greatful to have these issues and not some worse ones that we could have.

I am so greatful for my babies even though we have had issues with them. I know that compared to some that these issues are a walk in the park and I truly admire them for surving.

Anyways, sorry for this kinda lame post but I just felt like I needed to get some things off my chest and decompress a bit