Latest on Travis

Here are the latest pictures of Travis... this is the special blanket I made for him!!
Looking good Trav!

For those of you who are not on Facebook, I apologize for not keeping you in the loop with the updates on Travis. Whenever I get updates from my parents I usually post them on there and forget about my blog. Sorry!

Travis is now out of the hospital and is now residing in a rehab center in Burien, WA. He was put in a different rehab center a few weeks past, which turned out to be almost a horrible mistake. One night while his girlfriend was there he started throwing up all his "food" and medicine. His vitals were all over the place and he had to be rushed back to the emergency room at Harbor View again. Needless to say, we did not send him back to that place! Lack of attention to say the least.

So now he is settling into his new center. He is doing okay as far as healing is to be concerned. He is opening his eyes every day, but has yet to communicate or eat on his own. He will respond to commands by giving thumbs up, high fives, blinking once for yes, two for no, etc. He has even slapped a few hands away!! We think this is good progress, slow, but good. We are anxious for him to start talking again and come home. Thanks for all your thoughts, prayers, and fasting.

Visit Home

I was able to come home (via Buddy Pass... which is a WHOLE different story) with my older sister to visit family and of course, Travis. We flew in on Friday evening (almost a whole month ago...) after a whole day of waiting in the Salt Lake airport for a flight. My dad had a whole plan worked out to surprise my mom, but the plans fell through a little bit so we had to force her to stop off for ice cream at Red Robin to give us some time to catch up. We were able to catch her off guard and completely surprise her with our visit! She was filled with such joy that she balled! The visit was FULL of GIRL time, shopping, pedicures, eating out, more shopping and NO sleep. We couldn't sleep, there was no time to waste! My sister and I were so thankful for the quick trip and the time we were able to spend with the family and visit Travis numerous times. A big thanks to Matt and my friends who help make this trip possible by watching my well behaved children (snicker.).

Travis Updated

Here's the most recent picture of Travis. He is still unconscious, but having little improvements that give me lots of hope. He is now out of ICU and in Acute Care. The nurses say his road rash is healing very well. He is still moving around a bit. He now opens his eyes for brief times, yawns, coughs, and lots of rapid eye movement. Wish I could say he was awake now, but hopefully soon! Thanks for all your prayers. I will update when I have more!

Travis update

The latest update on Travis is that he is still in a coma, but he is now responding to touch and has moved both arms and legs!!! He is such a strong young man that I have complete faith that he will pull through. I was told that he they suspect a left heel fracture. His brain is not a "blooming" injury and has not spread. He will respond to talking by squeezing hands. I am very hopefully at this point, my only wish is that I could be up there with the rest of the family! Thanks for all the prayers, they are working!

Travis

This is my little brother Travis (with Macey, she's SO little). Please keep him in your prayers! He was in a bad accident tonight. Him and my sister were riding on the tailgate of a truck and the driver turned too quick and he fell off the truck. He hit his head really hard and he had to flighted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He had surgery to remove blood around his brain and now he is in a coma. Not sure what lies next... please keep your thoughts to him. Love to all.

Washington Family Trip

Visit with Grandma Julich and all the grandkids! I love Treyson and his cousin Blake in this picture, they are precious!
A little pizza and ice cream stop after Great Wolf Lodge.
My sister Ashley and me at Meeker Days. We did a booth and sold various baby items and watches. It was fun, but a lot of work! The weather in WA is so unpredictable and we didn't know what to except.
A little close up look at the booth.
Here it is! Somebody needs to put that laundry basket away... We did pretty good at putting it together in just a couple days. We were constantly asked if we had cupcakes for sale or if we sold aprons, they were a hit!
Macey is showing off some leg warmers and flower clips! Not too happy to take a picture though...
Macey and mom at Great Wolf Lodge.
Dad and Cru posing for the camera. Too bad it's so blurry... I guess I should have checked that!
Visit with Grandma Slaughter, always a fun visit to see all the fun things at her place.
Penguins were a hit! We had just finished watching Happy Feet so they were excited to see them.
The boys and Mr. Elephant
Our visit to Woodland Park Zoo sounded like a great idea in the morning when it was nice and sunny and then it turned to rain on our way there. We went anyways and it actually stopped just after we got there. So nice of them to stop the rain for us.
We couldn't leave without a baseball game! I was lucky to find a great deal on 4 tickets off of Craigslist and we were able to go. We took my dad for his Father's Day outing. We had pretty good seats and it was even a nice day for the game.
Cru, Treyson, Camden, Riley, Noah, and Macey. These are one of good friend's kids from WA. We went and visited them one night and enjoyed some outside fun and pizza. Macey got way too much pizza sauce on her so she enjoyed one of the boy's shirts.
Macey giving Camden a big smooch! MMMMwah! So cute.
Me and Nicole with the little kiddies. So nice to see you guys.

Matt's first TRI

Matt competed in his first sprint triathalon on June 14, 2009. He tried really hard to squeeze in his workouts without being gone too much from us, such a sweet dad. But for being his first race he did excellent! He finished 7th in his age group!!! We were so proud of him. He raced with his sister, Jamie and her husband John. Jamie finished 3rd in her age group and was the winner of the three of them. Nice work guys!

Here's Matt on his finish!

John, Jamie, and Matt after the race.

The family congratulating dad

on his awesome job!

Camp Out with Dad

The boys were in for a nice surprise when Matt offered to camp out in the backyard with them! It was so fun for them. We didn't get any pictures of Father and Son's camp out for church (dad forgot the camera... or didn't think about it, either one) so we needed to recreate it. Or something like that. They talked dad into a late night movie too so they didn't fall asleep until after 11PM. I wished I caught Cru still snoozing away still at 9:30AM! Matt put away most everything in the tent and he didn't move a muscle. It was a fun time for the boys!

Cru Happenings

Cru has become a BIG boy overnight! He decided to wear underwear, talk A LOT faster and more, a few boy tumbles and falls, and he's driving (okay, maybe not)!

Potty training was akward for the first couple days, but he figured it out pretty quick. He's been doing awesome during the day, but night time still requires some pull-ups. He fights us tooth and nail, but we tell him when he wakes up with a dry pull-up he can wear just underwear. On May 1st, while getting ready for cousin Kole's first birthday, Cru was playing on our exercise ball and rolled himself right into the corner of the fireplace. Ahhhhh! Matt ran and caught him before blood got all over everywhere. Matt called in a favor to an oral surgeon friend and got him into his office on a Friday afternoon to get him all stitched up... 6 stitches later! And just a week before that he fell on the granite countertops and cut his chin open, but we opted not to get stitches for that. He probably should have, but it healed okay.

Cru is definitely growing up fast and tells most people that he's THREE already, holding up five fingers. Just today Matt told him that he's so cute and he told him, "I'm not cute, dad!" Okay, but you are such an awesome boy to have around!

Macey is WALKING

Macey just decided one night (14 months old) that she was ready to take off all by herself... with the phone, of course. I guess she needed something to "hold onto" and the phone was perfect for her. I hope it's not because she sees mom on it too much! Way to go, Macey!

First Word

Well, it's official, Macey's first word is SHOES ("shoooosh," as she says it)!!!!  It couldn't be more appropriate since she IS a girl and she has tons of them already.  It was meant to be.  Or it could be because she hears me yelling on a daily basis... "Get your shoes on!" or "Go find your shoes." or even "Go put your shoes on if you are going outside."  Yeah, it's probably because of that.  But I think it's a pretty fun first word.

JAM, jam, everywhere!

I went to WalMart after my Monday workout and stumbled on a great SALE of strawberries!  They were only 75 cents for a 1 pound package!!!  So off I went to make freezer JAM...  I did four batched of it.  For those of you who haven't made it, it is soooo easy.  All I did was fill up my blender with strawberries, blend, add the pectin and sugar and it is all done in less than 10 minutes.  Our family loves freezer jam and I've been trying to find different ways so I can eat it. I even tried blackberry/strawberry combo as well, so yummy.

Kid-isms

I really want to get better at writing down all the funny and clever things the kids say because, let's face it, kids say the darndest things!  They just so happend to say TWO funnies today and I jumped to write them down so I would not forget this time (Because I most likely always do!). Enjoy...

Treyson was sick today so I was snuggling with him on the couch while Grandpa was watching golf and I had briefly mentioned "Co-Leader" (there were two guys tied for first place at the time) and Treyson says, "Is his name really 'Co'?"

While talking to Cru today I decided that it was time for him to learn to spell out his name... it's really simple so I figured he could handle it.  I started to tell him C-R-U.  He says, "C-R-Me!"  I got a great laugh out of that!

The other morning the boys were joining Matt in the bathroom while he got ready for work. He had just hopped out of the shower and they thought it was pretty funny to give dad some good swats on the behind.  Matt responded by saying, "Be careful you might hurt your hand...it's rock solid."  And Treyson said, "Then why is it jigglin'????" 

Macey's ONE year photo shoot

I found this awesome photographer here in St. George (www.tamiartphotography.blogspot)that I think does a great job!  It's sometimes hard to find photographers that are a reasonable price and it just so happen that right now was her "Spring Special" --5 pictures for $25 (color & b/w)!!  I think they turned out wonderfully.  She is too cute!!

Soccer Time

Treyson, they are going to throw it UP toward the goal....move that way!

This is Treyson's FIRST ever soccer league!!  He is loving it and having tons of fun.  They have had two games already, the first one was a bit rough... we got creamed (could have guessed that by seeing them warm up ---they were ALL Hispanic) and they lost the second game too, BUT Treyson scored his first goal, hooray!  We are so proud of Treyson!  Can't wait for the rest, they are so fun to watch!

Miss Piggy Birthday Celebrations

Macey enjoying her cake and willing to share some with mommy! Again, not sure WHY it is not turning these pictures because they are turned on my computer. So frustrating.

Treyson and Macey

Happy Birthday present time!

Our piggy cupcakes, so easy to do...just some marshmallows and M&Ms!

This little piggy likes to dance.

This little piggy wears pink pants.

This little piggy wiggles her toes.

This little piggy wrinkles her nose.

This little piggy is turning ONE!

This little piggy had lots of birthday FUN!

We had such a fun time with Miss Piggy's birthday party. We kept it very low key and only had Grandpa Hammons, Aunt Jamie and her cousins Koda, Kallie, Kaden, and Kole. Treyson had a soccer game that night and kindergarten open house so it was a crazy night to squeeze a party in, but we did! We started off with dinner before the soccer game, complete with "Pigs in a Blanket", salad, strawberries, chips and pink lemonade. Then we headed over to the soccer game, where we got our little bums kicked (no pun intended) and Treyson and made it to the open house with 15 minutes to spare! Next we headed home for presents and our piggy cupcakes. We all sang to Macey, which she loved, and she dove into her pig! She loved it all! Happy 1st Birthday to Macey, we LOVE this girl!

Miss Piggy turned ONE!

Macey

Red hair/Brown eyes

16 lbs. 14 oz. (2%)

28 1/2 in. (28%)

This month you...

• Can now say 2 words --Da da & Uh uh
• "Walking" with help
• Socially laugh with everyone
• Done with "mommy milk"
• Starting to climb up and down stairs GREAT (mommy isn't so worried about you)
• Drink your milk in a sippy
• Had your first photo shoot! (Mommy will share that later.)
• Mommy still carries you in our Baby Bjorn and sometimes even your infant carseat (crazy, I know)
• Talk and jabber really loud!
• Still a HUGE momma's girl
• Your big brothers nickname for you is "Squirt"

Happy Birthday Macey!!