I know I posted this last year, but it's just so powerful and means so much. We truly owe so much to the soldiers fighting for our freedom. I got a forward from my Mom today and it had this at the bottom of it, "A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'"
There's no way we can ever thank the American soldiers enough for the sacrifices they've made or the things they do for our country. All we can do is support them and pray each and every day for them to fight with courage and that they'll all be home safely soon!
To Mitchell: I love you so much and will miss you so much this Holiday season. There's not an ounce of me that doesn't wish and pray everyday that you could be home with us right now. Only a couple more weeks, I know! Thank you so much for doing what you do! Stay safe and we'll see you in a couple weeks!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Meyer Family Xmas
This past weekend was the annual Meyer Family Xmas celebration. This year was way more mellow...mellower...most mellow...huh not sure what the correct English is, but you get the point. I think everyone was in bed by midnight and the last one up was little 7 year old Lauren. It was still fun to see everyone and catch up on the happenings in every ones lives. Here are a few pictures from the night.
Auntie Sherri and the Bear. Thanks Sherri for coming with and helping to watch the boys! I really appreciate it!
Auntie Kelly and the Mouse.
The girls trying to fix the Jukebox.
Jovie...no wait...Jaylee...yeah Jaylee....or is it Jovie....crap...as you can tell I suck at this...
Wow! That's a lot of people on one stair case!
Look at this cool ball that I'm NOT suppose to be playing with! How long do you think I have before someone takes it away from?
Uncle Mikey with the little boys.
Oh and I wanted to let everyone know that if Tank chews one more pair of my shoes he will be promptly put up for sale...so if you're looking for a chocolate lab and don't mind wearing chewed up shoes I recommend you tempt him with one more pair of my shoes. He's already chewed up 4 pairs...4 pairs! AAAAAARRRRRR
Auntie Sherri and the Bear. Thanks Sherri for coming with and helping to watch the boys! I really appreciate it!
Auntie Kelly and the Mouse.
The girls trying to fix the Jukebox.
Jovie...no wait...Jaylee...yeah Jaylee....or is it Jovie....crap...as you can tell I suck at this...
Wow! That's a lot of people on one stair case!
Look at this cool ball that I'm NOT suppose to be playing with! How long do you think I have before someone takes it away from?
Uncle Mikey with the little boys.
Oh and I wanted to let everyone know that if Tank chews one more pair of my shoes he will be promptly put up for sale...so if you're looking for a chocolate lab and don't mind wearing chewed up shoes I recommend you tempt him with one more pair of my shoes. He's already chewed up 4 pairs...4 pairs! AAAAAARRRRRR
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Cody Mouse - 3 Months
'Sup Foos!
It's Cody Mouse here. I'm 3 Months old now and let me tell you I'm one tough cookie! I have to be to put up with my brother...always trying to hug me and give me kisses. His version of hugs result in more of a bear hug or tight squeeze and usually involves sitting directly on me or accidentally falling on top of me. He also thinks it's fun to burp me; however, his burping again is more of a slap or general back pounding instead of a gentle pat on the back. It's OK though, some day soon I will be as big as him and be able to return some of this "gentle" loving behavior. I'm 14 lbs now and tall! I'm growing like a weed and have almost out grown my 0 - 3 month clothes. I'm just starting to discover my hands and feet. I love to kick my legs up and know that any day now I'll be attempting to roll over. I LOVE to smile for anyone that changes my diaper. As soon as my diapers off I'm smiling; it feels so good to get rid of those messy things! I'm a real good eater and sleeper. I'm not sleeping in my crib yet...not sure why Mom and Dad haven't put me up there yet. For now I'm camped out in their walk-in closet. It's not bad there, it's warm...but still...I'm sleeping in a closet...I mean really....the closet? Come on.
Here's a picture of me and my brother...note the size difference because it won't be like this for long!
I've just recently discovered my jumper. Man is this thing interesting. It's fun to jump up and down in, but there's all these things around it that I just haven't figured out yet. I'm trying but there's so many lights and sounds that go off each time I jump, it's hard to concentrate on any one for too long.
Yeah I guess that's all I've got to say for today. Checkout the pics of our Christmas tree below. Rumor has it this years tree is way better than last years tree. Last years tree I guess was a little Grinchy...personally I like this tree. It has a lot of pretty lights to look at. :-)
Peace and Chicken Grease!
Cody
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Breast Cancer Video!
My sister-in-law Carey sent this video to me and it brightened my day! I hope it does the same for you!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Cookies, Cookies, and more Cookies
I love this time of year! One of my favorite things is all the great food! This weekend my cousin Kim came over and we made all different kinds of Christmas cookies. We had planned on making about 7 different kinds, but ended up making about 9 different kinds. It was a ton of fun listening to Christmas music and baking cookies. Of course Logan helped :-) He loved dumping the ingredients into the mixer and then turning it on. Only once I think did he turn it on when he wasn't suppose to. Here are some pictures and a short video.
Logan in his place next to the mixer!
Helping to fill the flour!
We started with the press-out sugar cookies. Logan's favorite part...the dough. He'd take a little piece off, hand it to me and say, "Thank You" and then take another little piece off and eat it. :-) He did like to push the cookie cutters down though too.
He had flour all over...so cute!
Cody even got in on the action!
For one of the cookies you have to melt Andes mints, so we had to unwrap about a bag and a half of mints. Logan unwrapped almost all of them for us. He loved standing on his stool and unwrapping them. Only about every 10th one ended up in his mouth.
Kim and I rolling the balls.
Cody taking a quick snooze from the action...he's so stinkin' cute!
This last picture is my favorite! We were dipping these pretzel rings in chocolate and two of them got stuck together. I couldn't resist...the look on his face is priceless!
Thanks for all your help this weekend Kim! It was a ton of fun!
Logan in his place next to the mixer!
Helping to fill the flour!
We started with the press-out sugar cookies. Logan's favorite part...the dough. He'd take a little piece off, hand it to me and say, "Thank You" and then take another little piece off and eat it. :-) He did like to push the cookie cutters down though too.
He had flour all over...so cute!
Cody even got in on the action!
For one of the cookies you have to melt Andes mints, so we had to unwrap about a bag and a half of mints. Logan unwrapped almost all of them for us. He loved standing on his stool and unwrapping them. Only about every 10th one ended up in his mouth.
Kim and I rolling the balls.
Cody taking a quick snooze from the action...he's so stinkin' cute!
This last picture is my favorite! We were dipping these pretzel rings in chocolate and two of them got stuck together. I couldn't resist...the look on his face is priceless!
Thanks for all your help this weekend Kim! It was a ton of fun!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Sleeping on the couch
No No, Brian didn't do anything wrong. He's not even the one sleeping on the couch, Logan is. Sunday night at like 5 he had a temp, about 101, so we gave him some Tylenol and he seemed to be feeling better. He woke up that night at 4 am with a fever again, I didn't take his temp, just gave him some more Tylenol and put him back to bed. In the morning he wasn't running a temp and was acting fine so we sent him to daycare thinking maybe it was just his teeth.
Julie called me at work at about 9:30 and said he was running a fever again and asked that I come get him. When I got there he was feeling better cause Julie had given him some more Tylenol, so we went home and hung out on the chair watching Disney channel. At about 1:15 I wanted to check his temp again and give him some more Tylenol. His temp was 104.8 and as soon as I got done taking his temp he started throwing up. He was very lethargic and his eyes were half shut and almost rolled back into his head. I was so scared. I put him in the shower right away to try to get the fever down. He had thrown up the Tylenol so I knew that wouldn't be kicking in to help with the fever. I was so worried I called the clinic just to see what they had to say and the nurse said to bring him into the ER. I think mainly because they didn't have any openings in the clinic and the ER and urgent care are basically the same thing. So into the hospital we go. Brian met us there. By this time Logan was looking a little better his temp was down to 102. He really HATES the doctors and nurses though and gave them a hard time when they wanted to take his pulse and check his breathing. The also drew blood to run some blood tests and they had to do it from the vein in his arm. That was a joy let me tell you. It breaks my heart just thinking about him laying there crying his eyes out and you're holding him down so that he doesn't squirm and get hurt more. :-(
After all the tests came back negative, they said it was a viral infection and just gave us a prescription for an anti-nausea suppository. Awesome, I don't think I could give him that. Luckily once we got home last night he was feeling a ton better and we didn't have to even consider that. He started eating and drinking and was acting more like himself. He still had a fever and still does so we're still rotating the Motrin and Tylenol every three hours, but I'm just so glad that he's up and moving around and playing like normal. We let him sleep on the couch last night so that we could hear him if he got up or threw up. I remember as a kid my Mom and Dad would always let us sleep on the couch if we weren't feeling well. Looks like we might do the same thing...
I was so scared yesterday. I had no idea that if a child's fever got too high they could have a seizure. Obviously I knew a really high fever is not good, but a seizure. If he started having a seizure I think I would have literally peed my pants. Thank you Lord for watching over my children! It gives me such joy to watch him run around the house right now playing with his balls! :-)
My boys sleeping yesterday afternoon. Logan pretty much didn't move from the chair all afternoon. That's VERY much not like him.
Mom and the boys before bed last night...well before bed for Mom...they were out cold.
Julie called me at work at about 9:30 and said he was running a fever again and asked that I come get him. When I got there he was feeling better cause Julie had given him some more Tylenol, so we went home and hung out on the chair watching Disney channel. At about 1:15 I wanted to check his temp again and give him some more Tylenol. His temp was 104.8 and as soon as I got done taking his temp he started throwing up. He was very lethargic and his eyes were half shut and almost rolled back into his head. I was so scared. I put him in the shower right away to try to get the fever down. He had thrown up the Tylenol so I knew that wouldn't be kicking in to help with the fever. I was so worried I called the clinic just to see what they had to say and the nurse said to bring him into the ER. I think mainly because they didn't have any openings in the clinic and the ER and urgent care are basically the same thing. So into the hospital we go. Brian met us there. By this time Logan was looking a little better his temp was down to 102. He really HATES the doctors and nurses though and gave them a hard time when they wanted to take his pulse and check his breathing. The also drew blood to run some blood tests and they had to do it from the vein in his arm. That was a joy let me tell you. It breaks my heart just thinking about him laying there crying his eyes out and you're holding him down so that he doesn't squirm and get hurt more. :-(
After all the tests came back negative, they said it was a viral infection and just gave us a prescription for an anti-nausea suppository. Awesome, I don't think I could give him that. Luckily once we got home last night he was feeling a ton better and we didn't have to even consider that. He started eating and drinking and was acting more like himself. He still had a fever and still does so we're still rotating the Motrin and Tylenol every three hours, but I'm just so glad that he's up and moving around and playing like normal. We let him sleep on the couch last night so that we could hear him if he got up or threw up. I remember as a kid my Mom and Dad would always let us sleep on the couch if we weren't feeling well. Looks like we might do the same thing...
I was so scared yesterday. I had no idea that if a child's fever got too high they could have a seizure. Obviously I knew a really high fever is not good, but a seizure. If he started having a seizure I think I would have literally peed my pants. Thank you Lord for watching over my children! It gives me such joy to watch him run around the house right now playing with his balls! :-)
My boys sleeping yesterday afternoon. Logan pretty much didn't move from the chair all afternoon. That's VERY much not like him.
Mom and the boys before bed last night...well before bed for Mom...they were out cold.
Happy Thanksgiving!
So I'm sensing a theme here where I post the holiday cheers about a week after the actual holiday...what can I say it's been busy around here.
Thanksgiving was great, very relaxing. We really missed my sister Christie and brother Mitchell, and wished they could have been with us, but know it's only a couple more weeks for both of them and they'll be home. Christie is coming home Dec. 18th for a week and as far as I know right now Mitchell is scheduled to be in the states Jan. 11 or Jan. 16 time frame...of course it's the army and that could all change on a whim, but we're keeping our fingers crossed for the best!
We went to my Mom and Dad's for Thanksgiving, like we've done for the last 3 years or so. The boys watched the football game and the girls cooked...I'm guessing that's pretty much the same story across all of America on Thanksgiving day...but hey why mess with tradition right? Here are a few pictures from the day.
Uncle Steven and Cody
Grandma and Cody
Logan made this cute Turkey hat at daycare. It's so cute!
Logan shared his Turkey feathers with Cody. Cody's first Thanksgiving!
Mom and the boys
:-)
Then Friday we did venture out to the stores. We did NOT get up at 4 am or anything crazy like that. We left my house at about 9 and the stores were still of course crazy busy at that time. I did get some good deals though and about half of my Christmas shopping done. The other half I did on-line...the thought of going to another store is scary. I've only got about three people to buy for yet and then I'm done. I'm so ahead of the game this year. It's early December and I'm almost done Christmas shopping, I've got all our Christmas cards filled out, addressed and everything, and this weekend we're making Christmas cookies! I have no idea what's going on, but I'm actually organized! :-)
Have a great week!
Thanksgiving was great, very relaxing. We really missed my sister Christie and brother Mitchell, and wished they could have been with us, but know it's only a couple more weeks for both of them and they'll be home. Christie is coming home Dec. 18th for a week and as far as I know right now Mitchell is scheduled to be in the states Jan. 11 or Jan. 16 time frame...of course it's the army and that could all change on a whim, but we're keeping our fingers crossed for the best!
We went to my Mom and Dad's for Thanksgiving, like we've done for the last 3 years or so. The boys watched the football game and the girls cooked...I'm guessing that's pretty much the same story across all of America on Thanksgiving day...but hey why mess with tradition right? Here are a few pictures from the day.
Uncle Steven and Cody
Grandma and Cody
Logan made this cute Turkey hat at daycare. It's so cute!
Logan shared his Turkey feathers with Cody. Cody's first Thanksgiving!
Mom and the boys
:-)
Then Friday we did venture out to the stores. We did NOT get up at 4 am or anything crazy like that. We left my house at about 9 and the stores were still of course crazy busy at that time. I did get some good deals though and about half of my Christmas shopping done. The other half I did on-line...the thought of going to another store is scary. I've only got about three people to buy for yet and then I'm done. I'm so ahead of the game this year. It's early December and I'm almost done Christmas shopping, I've got all our Christmas cards filled out, addressed and everything, and this weekend we're making Christmas cookies! I have no idea what's going on, but I'm actually organized! :-)
Have a great week!
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