HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

It's official!! I no longer have a baby!! My baby had her 1 year birthday August 20!! I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT!!

We celebrated her birthday at my mom's house August 23. It was a lot of fun! She got lots of good and fun gifts!! The people that came were Abby and her family, Carla and Sarah, Ann, my Mom and Dad, and Chris and Brindy. From Tyler she got a shirt that when you move it lights up!! It's really cute. When I first put it on her she watched the light for like 20 min. It was really cute. My mom got her twin babies, and a pinkie pie pony. It's a My Little Pony but it talks and dances. She really likes it. She will dance and push the buttons and listen to her sing. In fact it's pretty annoying!! But oh well! Abby gave her a carebear. It's so soft, and she loves it. She will carry it around with her. Last night she even slept with it!! It was really cute!! Linsey gave her a Tinkerbell purse, books, and Tinkerbell keys. She loves them all. She would put the purse on her shoulder and just walk around with it. She thought she was the biggest girl!! My aunt Carla and cousin Sarah gave her an outfit. It's brown with different colored polka dots on it!! It was really cute!! Unfortunately my Aunt Ann gave her the same outfit so Carla is going to get her something else. Ann also gave her a dog that you can pull behind you. Then we gave her a stroller, a doll, a toy that lights up, and a bathtime book that you can take in the tub. She enjoyed all of her presents. Then it was time for cake. At first she would just grab little pieces and eat them, but then she got into it!

When it was all over we put her in her carseat and she just sat there and danced. There wasn't even any music on. She was just so happy that all she could do to express it was dance!!

Overall she had a really good birthday, and boy is she spoiled!!

All Boy, and Expensive!!

Let me tell you a story about a boy and a girl, how they fell in love, and what has happened because they fell in love. They met in an english class in college. She instantly was drawn to him the second he walked in the room. He looked like a jock, to her, and that she didn't stand a chance(his butt was exceptionally nice though). He was drawn to her as well because of a conversation he over heard about her with all of these guys in her group for one of her other classes. This news intrigued him, so he secretly pursued her. He got her email and they started writing messages to each other. Just like that they were friends.

The friendship eventually turned into love. So June 4, 2004 they made it official. They got married!! 7 months later she found out she was pregnant!! Oh the joy they felt!! Right off they both wanted to have a boy. They wanted a boy first because they wanted their other kids to have a big brother. Someone who would look after his siblings. Well, when the time came to find out what the baby was going to be, they were nervous!! Of course the nurse beat around the bush, but she eventually told them that they were blessed to have a little boy!! They were ecstatic!!! Then the catch......the babies kidney's had black spotting on them. It could be because he was holding his urine and that it would go away once he was born, nothing to worry about right? Wrong. 6 months after he was born the spotting was still there. They found out that he had Urinary Reflux. His Uritors were clogged and they needed to do surgery to fix the problem.

In the middle of December 2006 their son, Tyler, underwent surgery!! The worst thing ever!!! He was only 14 months old and he was having surgery! They fixed the problem and all was better! Little did they know that their son was a very active boy, and that he would probablly have frequent visits to the hospital.

When the little guy was about 18-20 months he was playing downstairs at her mothers house. He was running, he tripped over something, fell, and hit his head on the rocks around the wood burning stove. Abby, her sister, was carrying him upstairs running and freaking out!! Then Tyler's mother saw the blood! He cut his head open and had to have about 4 stiches in his head! It was sad!! Was that all, oh no!!

When he was 2 1/2 they were eating dinner at the table. He had a chair that attached to the table, and he was standing in it. He was holding his glass, which was glass, and he dropped it as he was going to sit down. He tried to catch the glass, lost his balance, and his hand landed on a piece of the glass!! He had to have about 7 stiches in his hand!

So all was quiet at the house of Stoker for maybe about 4 months. He was with his uncle Louis and Grandpa riding horses. Tyler got bucked off and the horse stepped on Tyler's shin and broke his leg!! So to sum it all up in about 2 1/2 years of their son, Tyler's, life he has had surgery, 2 sets of stiches, and a broken leg. Will the sega of hospitals go on? Only time will tell.

THE END

Pioneer Day at Newcastle??

So for the Pioneer weekend we went to my sister Linsey's house. It was lots of fun!! We stayed there for about 4 days. In Newcastle they have a parade, program, lunch, and water fun at the church! It was neat that a little town like Newcastle could have such a big shindig like that! The kids had lots of fun. Tyler would not go down the waterslide at all! Which totally surprised me cause he is like a daredevil!! Oh boy, not when it came to this waterslide! He was really cranky for some reason! Kyle on the other hand had a ball!! He just kept going down that slide smiling and laughing the whole time!! It was cute!! Rachel was anxious to get in her swimsuit and play in the water, but when it came down to it she wouldn't do it either! I guess they all needed naps! Oh well, we had lots of fun!! We made a lot of good memories that weekend!