Feburary: Lyiah, Valentines Day, Surgery, Crawling, and Fun

In January the Payne family welcomed a new baby to the family. My husbands brother and his wife and a beautiful baby girl on January 15, 6 lbs 1 0z. Her name is Lyiah Misa Payne, and on February 2 I was able to go with my family and meet her for the first time. She is such a sweet tiny little girl and we look forward to watching her grow and for our kids to get to know their cousin!
Here are a couple other random pictures we took while we were up in Idaho Falls.

Rylan with Uncle Dustin
Kiera with Aunt Jessica. She didn't want to come back inside.

Well the Monday before I went to Idaho Falls, I woke up with a very severe pain in my upper stomach area. Jason stayed home because he feared the kids well being with my curled up on the floor in pain. We went to the doctor and got bloods tests and waited. By the time I got home, the pain was gone. I went on with my day, did laundry, cleaned, and took care of kids. I got the blood test results on Wednesday and was told everything looked okay except for some extra white bloods cells. So we went to Idaho Falls and had a great weekend. Monday morning though I woke up with pain again. I tried to ignore it so I went to the Chiropractor, and then was at Target with my mom when the pain hit its peak. My mom drove me home and I called the doctor again. This time I was sent to the hospital to have an ultrasound, and sure enough I had Gallstones and would need to get my Gallbladder taken out. So Friday, Feb 12 I went into surgery and then spent the next 8 days or so with my parents so my mom could take care of me. Rylan stayed with me and Kiera stayed with her Dad and Aunt, unless both were working and then she came over to my Mom's house as well. So Valentines Day this year was pretty blah, I think I saw Jason for about three hours on the day itself. Jason had gotten me flowers a few weeks ago though, and I still got flowers from my loving Dad. The pictures are taken a few days after I got them, so they are started to look kind of bad, but you get the idea. I had six roses, not sure where the sixth went.... and Kiera got a rose again from her Grandfather. She was very excited to get it. As far as recovery of the surgery goes, things are back to normal and I'm feeling pretty good. Very happy to know I won't have to go through that pain anymore!

Kiera's Rose


My Roses

Well, Rylan also turned 8 months in February, and is now crawling and getting in to everything. We are excited for this believe it or not, because now is more likely to be happy and isn't quite as clingy. I can tolerate a little extra mess. ( though well talk again in a couple of months :0) ) He is also pulling himself up and standing and walking along things. He actually loves to be standing up next to something.

Kiera playing with Rylan, not sure how much he likes it though...

Here are some pictures of Kiera as well. The video is her singing Popcorn Popping.

January: Mice, Sledding, and Kids

Well, I am way behind in my blogging, and though I have my reasons, there is no excuse. So here is a quick catch up. First since we have moved to our new place we have been dealing with the wonderful world of Mice. I believed we have caught and killed like 10 and have many different stories to tell about the process. Here are a few:

1. One morning I was eating breakfast with the kids when a mouse decided to poke his head out from under our stove. He seemed so see us and went back under the stove, just to come out a second later and head under the refrigerator. Before I knew it he was trying to leave the kitchen, which would bring him right by me. He would venture forward see that I was still there and run and hide again. So, I hid behind the wall with a box lid and waited for him to come into the open. He came around the corner and slammed the lid on top of him...then the thought of crap what next popped into my head, so my husband got a phone call with from a frantic wife wondering what in the world she should do with a mouse she caught. After discussing it with him I got a plastic bag, lifted one side of the box so that the only place the mouse could go was into the bag.. it worked. I then proceeded to put the plastic bag inside another plastic bag, into another, into another. Then I took him to the garbage can. Then on second thought I decided I better make sure he was dead now, instead of waiting for him to possibly suffocate, so I went out and hit a couple times with our shovel..It was an experience.

2. Jason sister has recently moved in with us and she started to complain about the sound of mice in her walls. Turns out there was a mouse stuck and all night all she heard was him jumping around trying to get out. So Jason took the opportunity to cut it out of the wall. Below is our pet mouse we had for a day. Kiera enjoyed it. The cage is all wet because she had gotten hold of it and had played with it, poor mouse. He ended up being taken outside and killed as well. I'm sorry, but Mice just don't belong in my house.

Sledding: It is January in Utah, so of course we had to make sure we went sledding at least once with Kiera. Surprisingly we haven't gotten That much snow. I have been expecting a lot more. But here are a few pictures of Kiera's outing with her Dad and a couple of her Aunts.

Other than January was pretty slow. Here are a couple of pictures and videos of my kids. In the video's we have Kiera making Rylan laugh. It is so entertaining to watch, she barely has to do anything and he totally busts out laughing. The other video is Kiera dancing and singing along to Poker Face. No it is not the best thing the world, but her aunts listen to it and she has come to love Lady Gaga....right now I know its mainly just because of the dance beat and she gets so excited and its so cute to watch her dance....I know totally rationalizing. But I'm sharing anyway.

The pictures are Rylan enjoying his bath time.

This picture is Kiera trying not to fall asleep and failing.