Watch Out First Grade, Here I Come!!!

Ashlie started the first grade today. We have a few traditions that we have started around our house. The first one we started last year. Each year the night before the first day of school we read the book "The Kissing Hand." It is a cute book about a raccoon that doesn't want to go to school, and his mom gives him a kissing hand. It almost makes me cry each time a read it. The first day of school I pack a hand shaped sugar cookie in her lunch with a Hershey kiss in the middle of it to remind her of the book and that I love her. This year we also started a new tradition. The night before school pedicure. She picked out new nail polish, and got to be pampered. She needed to look glamorous for her first day. She got to have the WHOLE family take her to school and walk her to her classroom. Neither Dan or I wanted to miss out on dropping her off, so we all went. We ended the day off with a special first day of school treat. Cream puffs. They were yummy!!!

Pedicures, don't I look relaxed, and don't you love my short hair?

The Kissing Hand Cookie

First day of School

Cream Puffs, YUMMY

24 Hours in the car, 2 Family Reunions, a Wedding and a Hospital Stay

Yes, all these things happened to us in the last 2 weeks. First we took the family to Star Valley Wyoming to my family reunion. It was awesome to be with family and to see family that we hadn't seen in a LONG time.
We got home Sunday and on Tuesday noticed bruising all over little Isaac's body. I took him to the doctor and the blood tests showed he had a blood disease called ITP. His platelet count was so low, that we took him to the hospital to receive 2 IVIG treatments. We stayed over night and most of the next day, but by Wed. night we were given the clearance to come home and even given the clearance to leave the next day for the Jones Family Reunion and Wedding of the year.

We got back in the car drove to the wedding and had sooooooooooo much fun spending time with the Joneses. Heather (Dan's sister) looked so beautiful in her wedding dress, and we ARE SO excited to have Jared as part of the family. Ashlie also loved getting a new dress, and had to make sure we took pictures of just her in her new red ruffle dress. The wedding ended way to fast and we then drove to Smithfield to spend some time there and let Dan go golfing. We got back in the car to finish out the 24 hours in the car and drove home. What an eventful couple of weeks, but so much fun. Just an update on Issac. It looks like he is going to be fine. His blood platelet level is back well above normal, but now we just hope the IVIG lasts longer than the disease.