Derek is eating like a horse!

So we have had many people inquire on how Derek is doing and I'm proud and elated to say that Derek seems to be cured. Ever since Derek had his blessing and testing done he has eaten like we always thought he would. So whether it was the testing where he was scared for life by being strapped down or what I believe the true power of a priesthood blessing he has completely started eating. It is almost scary for me now I have to figure out what to feed him every day. He loves his whole milk, he now loves strawberries, grapes, goldfish crackers, bread, turkey lunch meat, eggs, etc. Most of these items we have been trying to get him to eat for months now and he just wasn't interested and most of the time he would just through it up. Not NOW!!!!! We have a doctor's appointment on march 2nd so hopefully we will continue to hear good news. I know without a doubt that the Lord has answer our sincere prayers. I love this little boy so much and it just makes me so happy to see him eat. He has been doing this for a little over a week now and well I'm still in awe and almost afraid that it will go away. The Lord knows our hearts and our sincere desires and well Corey may still not have a job but our son is doing better and that is worth a millions of dollars. Thank you all of you who fasted and prayed for our sweet little boy because we know your prayers were also instrumental in his change. We may be getting close where he might even weigh enough that he will be able to fit in a front facing car seat, that would make for much happier car rides.

Derek's Birthday Party

On Sunday night we had Derek's Birthday Party we had so much fun. We had cupcakes and Derek loved it. He just dove right in as apparent by these pictures.

Derek has all of the sudden decided that he was going to be my big eater. We have always struggled with getting him to eat a good portion of food or even eating period. He tried meat from spaghetti, grapes, strawberries, and broccoli and loved it. and kept eating quite a bit. Derek's cute shirt says Happy 1st Birthday to ME! My old roommate Jenn sent this and a cute Book. Thanks Jenn! Derek got lots of fun toys and gifts and had lots of fun.


This was the afermath he had a lot of fun.

Derek's favorite food is Cheerios but here is what he looks like when he gets one stuck to his nose and doesn't even know it.

Derek loves to through the Cheerios on the floor and leave them there for afterwards. He will crawl and climb through anything to get them even if it means that he is going to get stuck. Yes that is my son High Centered. Needless to say this weekend was a lot of fun. It was good to have Carol and Joe here, we got my Mom and Dad pretty much moved into their new place and Derek had lots of fun. Thank you everyone for all your thoughts and prayers we truly have felt the support of so many loved ones and you will never know how much that means to us during these difficult times in our lives. How lucky we are to have such awesome friends and families.

An Update on Derek

So on Wednesday we took Derek to Primary Children's Medical Center to have some testing done. They did a test called an Upper GI (Gastrointestinal) which is suppose to check to see if he had any blockages or if something was abnormal in his GI track. The testing was hard to watch as they have to squirt barium into his mouth and have his legs tied up. He hated every minute of it and made sure that we knew it. I think he took out his anger on us for a couple of days because he didn't sleep for the next 2 days. I guess that was his way of getting back at us. Well luckily everything came back normal which is great but also frustrating because we have no reason as to why things are going the way they are. He hasn't thrown up for about a week and we just keep hoping that it stays that way. We still have an appointment to see the pediatric GI specialist we are just hoping that he has been cured and we don't even have to keep it. I think that he was so scarred for life that he is not going to let himself through up again for fear of having to go through that kind of stuff again. Tonight we are going to have his 1st Birthday part. We moved the date because my parents are still moving and Sunday would be an easier day. Don't worry the 15th will be a good day because well that was my due date so see there is significance in the date.

Carol and Joe came down this weekend for his Birthday party and they were so sweet to keep Derek this afternoon so that Corey and I could actually go on a Valentine's date. Believe it or not Corey and i went on a date without Derek. We actually we out to dinner and used our birthday gift certificates that we have had forever and went to a movie all by ourselves. It was so much fun to be out by ourselves. We were a little "weirded out" by not having Derek with us and yes we even went to a sit-down restaurant. We don't do that anymore.

Corey still doesn't have a job but is still hard at work. He has worked so hard to make sure he has all his paperwork right and has been moving my parents non stop. To all you parents out there who have been in your house for a long time you should never move. I still can't believe how much stuff my parents have. Or you need to start packing and weeding stuff out (throw away a lot of stuff, more than likely your kids don't want it). Corey is still waiting to hear from Loomis and hopefully we will get a call from the union to get an electrician job soon. Well I guess that is it from us I will post pictures of Derek's Birthday party

Happy Birthday Derek!

Holy cow I can't believe that my little Derek is now 1 year old. I now have a toddler. This really is something that I have a hard time comprehending. It seems like those nine months is took to get him here was so long, this last year might have been the fastest year of my life. Life has changed so much this year. We have moved, Carol and Joe moved to Wyoming, my parents sold my childhood home, Derek was born, my sister got married, and Corey has lost his job and that is just a brief summary. My little Derek is just that little. He has lately been having problems keeping his food down so now tomorrow we are going to Primary Children's Hospital to have some testing done to see if we can figure out exactly what is going on. I'm very nervous about this and yet I'm OK. Thank heavens for a husband who is worth to give me a priesthood blessing that can give sweat comfort and peace in a very difficult time. Anyways I really don't have pictures yet because we aren't doing his birthday party for him until Friday night when grandma Carol and Grandpa Joe can come. So I will post those later. Love you all and thank-you for all the love and support.

An Update

These last couple of weeks have quite a roller coaster. Corey was laid off from his job with Rydalch Electric. I honestly can't say that I was shocked but I wasn't expecting it quite yet. So the picture below is of Corey trying very hard to make me laugh with his incredibly long hair. Luckily Cedar has since remedied this problem (Thanks Ceds). Corey has had such a good attitude about all of this and of course working hard to keep my spirits up. In case you didn't know I'm the pessimist most of the time and Corey is the optimist, at there is one of each right. Corey has found part-time work with his old company Loomis, this is the company that he worked at before he worked for Rydalch. The economy is playing a horrible game with us but I know that we can overcome all of these challenges. On Sunday Corey and I had quite the spiritual experience. We fasted with many members of our family, paid our tithing, and just prayed. Even with all the commotion with the Superbowl we somehow found peace. Corey was called and asked to work his job at Pizza Hut and although he didn't not really want to work on Sunday we have to take any opportunities that we can.

Derek has gotten so many teeth lately and his favorite thing to do is to show them off. Every time Derek sees the camera come out these are the smiles that we get and honestly I just can't help but laugh. He is always my best medicine for a bad day. Some of these pictures were taken when we went to go see Carol and Joe in Wyoming after Joe's accident. Derek is quite the entertainer. and one of our favorite past times is to make him laugh and giggle so hard that he gets the Hiccups. Unfortunately for him lately his problem of weight gain is still here. Derek supposedly suffers from Acid Reflux. He has been put on an antacid and that different work so now they have added another medicine to his regiment. The medicine makes all of us have to be on a very strict schedule but as long as he gets better I don't really care. Needless to say we are going to be okay and everything will work out (don't worry I still have to tell myself this everyday, but honestly I do believe it.) How grateful I am for such wonderful family