A Year in Review 2014

March:

We got ourselves a second vehicle to fit us all in! (Once the third kid comes)

Our Durango

April:

We found out that baby #3 was going to be A GIRL! We were beyond excited to finally get a girl :)

Yay! Another girl in the family :)

July:

This month brought the 1 year birthday of Lucas and my brother in law David getting married to Joy!

I was a bridesmaid and Josh played in a quartet.

Lucas enjoying his cake!

Jon wanted a picture of me and my pregnant sister and decided to join too!

August:

This month brought about Lucas starting to walk (@13 months...sooner than Aidan did), Aidan starting his first full year of preschool, and the birth of our daughter Melody!

August 14 we had our baby!

second day August 15

We are at home!

Sept:

This month I turned 32. We also had Lucas go in for a tear duct surgery. So glad that was done because now we no longer have to worry about goopy eyes from him!

Nov:

This month brought us Melody's surgery to correct her skull (which had been growing front to back, but not side to side. Josh's cousin Emily's baby Kendra had her heart surgery the day before Melody's head surgery.

It also brought me my third nephew, Aaron, who is Mindee's second child.

Waiting to go into surgery. Josh took her in at 7:45 and we didn't get into surgery until about 11:30.

Just after surgery....pretty drugged out, but so adorable!

Scars from the surgery

Sweet Kendra recovering from her heart surgery. I couldn't hold her, but I got to see her!

This month I also was rear ended in our Durango with all 3 kids in the car. Since it was the other person's fault, we got our car fixed and paid for by her insurance.

Dec:

We had received a very generous anonymous Christmas present on our doorstep the last week of November. This helped us get some additional Christmas gifts that we wouldn't have been able to get without.

Emily's daughter Kendra returned back to heaven this month. What a sweet spirit that was with us for a short 5 1/2 months! I only got  to meet her twice (they live in Idaho) but I loved her. She was so sweet! We will miss her!

 May you keep watch over your family and be wrapped in your Heavenly Father's arms!

Just a few happenings...

After my crash, we were spoiled with this for a week and a half while the Durango was getting repaired.

Got the Durango back today:

They repaired the back bumper and the rubber part below the trunk.

Melody got her helmet last Thursday and now has to wear it 23 hours a day with one hour off to take a bath/wash hair.

She had her 4 month checkup today. She is 13.8 lbs in the 50%. Her head has gone down a bit since the surgery, she's down to the 90%.

While waiting for our turn with the doctor, I put her down on her tummy. Right before the doctor came in, she rolled over for the first time ever to her back! I wish I had taken video, but I did get a picture of tummy time:

Look at that awesome head hold!

Also, because of the generous Christmas surprise we received, we were able to buy ourselves a little something (besides helping out with Christmas gift purchases) was this set. We needed a new soup pot but these extras are awesome! (plus it was half off which was an awesome deal!) 

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Car Crash

I don't really want to remember this day so I'll make it short. Wednesday afternoon, I was on the way to take Melody to an appt to get measurements for her helmet that she will need to wear. I was turning into a parking lot and was rear ended by a 20 year old girl.

Dealing with both insurance companies the next morning, giving my statements to both insurances, and all that "fun" stuff. Around noon, I get a call from the other girl's insurance company saying that they are taking full responsibility and paying to get my car repaired and also paying for a rental for the time until I get my vehicle back.

Here are the photos of the damage my car sustained.