Picnics, Sunshine, and lots of pictures

Yesterday we went on a picnic to a park that we hadn't been to before.

We love exploring new parks! 

Micah has been doing some of the worst teething of his life

and then add to that all the ER craziness that went down on Sunday 

and you have a very messed up schedule for this little guy.

I was trying so hard to get him back on track yesterday, but he has hardly been sleeping

at night and even though he had a good nap I guess the car ride was just too 

much for him.. I thought for sure taking him out of his carseat would wake him

up, but nope! 

We have this joke that whenever Micah is asleep whatever we are doing turns into a date.

And here is my handsome date :)

We had a finger food picnic

These little taco bites were super easy to make and so fun! 

Micah woke up after a little (probably due to us taking selfies with him haha)

And once he woke up and we finished eating the evening turned into a Micah photo shoot

I mean how could it not?? 

look it how cute he is! 

his auntie Sarah got him this outfit

and I love it so much!

This park was so cool! 

There was this really steep dirt trail that went off the side 

of this trail and Micah was determined to go down it

crazy kid, no wonder he has stitches haha

This park happens to be right across from the Temple which I kinda planned

because I have been dying to take Micah to see all the flowers by the Temple

This kid loves flowers. As soon as he could see them he got 

all excited and ran over 

Then he walked around and pointed all the flowers out to us

Then he decided maybe he should just get in with the flowers

(luckily he didn't quite make it)

I think he is having a conversation with the flowers here.. 

Happy Thursday! 

A Weekend of Firsts

This weekend had a couple of firsts for Micah and for us

Micah had his FIRST train ride! 

Matt's aunt and uncle had some extra tickets to this train ride they 

were going on and they invited us! 

Poor Micah was teething really bad 

But this wasn't just any train ride..

This was a princess train!!

Ona and Elsa came and sang to us

Micah's first picture with a princess haha

He could care less, but I really wanted a picture.

I think this is also my fist picture with a princess (at least that I can remember)

They served us cupcakes and lemonade 

Micah chugged the lemonade haha

nice photo bomb, dude in the hat ^^ haha

Micah's favorite was looking out the window

Especially when we could see animals

First train ride:  Check! 

The next first was no fun..

We went back up to Heber on Sunday afternoon for a big family

get together cause one of Matt's cousins is leaving on a mission..

It was super fun to be with everyone!

Micah was just running across the room and he tripped and fell down 

I'm pretty sure he smacked his face on the sippy cup 

he was holding and bit his lip.

Micah falls and hurts himself all the time, and I didn't really think anything of it

I just picked him up and snuggled him on my shoulder and started walking around..

After a while he still hadn't calmed down so I pulled him off my shoulder to 

try and distract him with some food and to my surprise there was 

blood EVERYWHERE! 

All down my arm and all over his face and cloths. 

I was shocked and didn't really know what to do.

Luckily there were lots of moms there who helped me try and clean 

him up (but the bleeding wasn't going to stop any time soon)

and told me that I should probably take him to the hospital.

So we searched for the nearest hospital (thank goodness for smart phones) 

and took off.. Worst car ride ever.

Micah wasn't the only one crying 

We got to the ER and answered question and got into a room 

all the while Micah was still screaming and bleeding

Once we were in a room the nurse came in and tried to get vital signs

but Micah wasn't having it. 

Then the doctor came in and said he would need some stitches. 

between people coming in Matt gave Micah a blessing.

Not too long after the blessing Micah finally calmed down and 

started reading a book.
He kept saying apple! haha it was so cute 

I'm so grateful for blessings!

I really couldn't handle all the sadness for much longer.

The anesthesiologist came in and told us about the shot they wanted to 

give him that would relax him so that he wouldn't 

be going crazy while they stitched him up.

Anything to do with medicine and my baby FREAKS me out and I really 

didn't want it, but it was really the best way cause I don't think 

we could have held him still enough for the stitches to be right..

Anyways this story is getting really long so I'll try and cut it short haha

The medicine worked great, but it was really freaky to watch 

They got him all stitched up

I asked how many stitches (I mean you have to know how many right??)

and the doctor said aw man I never count! haha

They thought it was 5 or 6 on the outside and then 1 on the inside.

Poor Micah 

We stayed in the hospital till the medicine wore off

Micah was confused and in pain as it wore off and it was sad.

(at least he didn't have a breathing tube this time..  I'm pretty sure that was

the worst part of the surgery he had last year)

We went back up to the family party afterwards and got some dinner

Micah wouldn't eat anything but chocolate cake haha

I was just happy he felt good enough for anything

Micah wanted to walk around and play with the other kids, but he was super

wobbly! haha he could barely walk around and I was scared he would fall down again

So we went home pretty fast and had a family sleep over on the couch haha

lots of tv, cuddles, painkiller, and soft food and we made it through the night. 

Our next first was technically not on the weekend, but it was a much needed 

relief to all the craziness on Sunday.

We got to go to the Payson Temple open house.

It's pretty much my new favorite temple 

(but nothing beats Rexburg since we were married there..)

Micah just wanted to walk around haha

It was so cool to get to walk through the temple and see it all

The best part was watching Micah's reaction.

He could tell that it was a special place.. He was really calm (which hardly

ever happens for Micah)  and he would wow, wow! the whole time

It was so cute. 

I'm so grateful for Temples!! 

I'm also grateful that things have calmed down a little bit

On top of all his lip troubles Micah has also been teething SO bad 

So there hasn't been a lot of sleeping going on around here..

Hopefully we can get things back to normal soon!