Beautiful @*!

This was a conversation between my boys the other night and all Joey and I could do was hide our faces and laugh. Background-Noah for his birthday a several years ago got a bunch of animals that look real including a Donkey. Logan thinks it funny to call the donkey by it's other name. So here goes the conversation. Logan (picking up the donkey)-Look at this ass? Noah-That's a nice ass Logan-Do you like my ass? Noah (Taking the donkey for Logan)-This is a beautiful ass. I'm going to take a picture of this beautiful ass. Logan-That is a beautiful ass. After Noah took a picture of the donkey with his cell phone he sent the picture to Joey and asked... Noah-Dad do you like my beautiful ass? I love my boys and I can't tell you the tears that I was crying over the conversation.

This Little Piggy!!!

***WARNING GRAPHIC PICTURE**** We spent the night in the ER with our daughter Hadley, she was playing outside with her brothers and while Logan was hammering a tree she started to climb the tree and he got her middle toe on the left foot. She came in and was crying but when I washed it off I could tell she need to go the hospital. Her little piggy was split and hanging there. After 6 hours and a visit with the plastic surgeon her little piggy is back on. It has a 50/50 chance of surviving. If the blood vessels reattach it may survive if not the will have to shave down the bone and then she will have a short toe. They put her in a boot and told me to try and keep her off of it and keep it elevated. Good Luck to us!!!

Out of the Cast and Into Ponseti!!!!

Emmett has graduated from the cast to the shoes. He is on his first day of the special shoes that he will wear all the time for 3 months and then wear at night until he is 3 years old. I was not real good at making Logan wear the shoes but Emmett's shoes are a little different and seem to be better shoes. I will be stronger and make sure that he wears them he has done so well through his treatment, he is a great baby and really snuggly, I know he will do good with the new shoes too!! The shoes are called Ponseti's and are kinda cute.

Emmett's Pictures!!!!

My friend Aubrey got me the pictures she took of Emmett when he was 4 days old and they turned out so cute. I love them all. Thanks so much Aubrey your the best!!!!

Lemonade 4 Sale

Joey made the boys a lemonade stand and we had our Grand Opening yesterday!!! They sold 22 glasses of Fresh Squeezed Lemonade and made $5.50 each. They are going to sell the Lemonade Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's this summer from 3:00-until 5:45pm because at that time Noah has to go to Fencing Class. They looked so cute out there with there Lemonade. I will post pictures soon.

Emmett's Feet

We are on week 4 for Emmett's casts and everything is going really well. Other than that first week where they put the one cast on to tight things have gone good. We go back in next week for one more set of casts and on week 6 he gets surgery and then they stay on for 3 weeks and then it''s on to the shoes!!!

Emmett Benjamin Hoecherl

Emmett has arrived at last!!! He came out on April 22nd at 1:21 pm. He was 8 lbs 6 oz. and 20 inches. He is my biggest baby yet !!! Everything went great only 5 hours of labor from start to finish. 3 big pushes and out he came. He is absolutely adorable and I think that he is going to get plenty of love in this family. I'm so blessed as a mom to have such a sweet, healthy baby. I love the sweet spirit he has already brought into our home.

Uncle Jay

My uncle Jay passed away on Friday morning.  It was unexpected and I was shocked to hear about it.  He was a really nice and gentle man, and although I have very few memories of him, I do know that he was a gentle giant and had a great love for jokes and laughter.  I also know that he went to a better place where he was reunited with his first love Janyne who was my mom's sister who passed away a long time ago.  My heart goes out to my cousin Kristin and her family<>

JOHN MADDOX III

John Crowe Maddox III "Jay" 7/13/1949 ~ 4/16/2010 Our beloved husband, father, and grandfather left this world unexpectedly on Friday, April 16th at 7:32 a.m. He is survived by his wife Shawna Rae Groendyke Maddox, seven children, 17 grandchildren and his sister. He was preceded in death by his wife the late Janyne Rigby Maddox in 1976. Jay was a graduate of Granite High School and the University of Utah. He loved the outdoors, dogs, singing and playing his guitar. Most importantly he loved spending time with his family. For more details about his life or to share online memories and tributes with the family please go to:www.holbrookmortuary.com Please join us in celebrating his life at an open house on Tuesday, April 20th from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Alta View Chapel - 1970 Viscounti Drive (about 8600 South) in Sandy, Utah. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 21st at 11:00 a.m. at the same location. In lieu of flowers please send donations to the LDS Humanitarian Emergency Response Fund (www.lds philanthropies.org/humanitarian-services/funds/emergency-response.html) 

Fencing Update!!

Noah had his last individual fencing tournament today and got another GOLD MEDAL!!! That makes 3 golds, and 1 bronze. This also puts him in first place in the rankings and he should get the big trophy at the end of the year!!! Yay Noah, way to go!! We are so proud of you and all of the hard work that you put into fencing. It sure has paid off this year. Next week is the team competition and it should be fun!!! Good Luck Noah, Perry and Audrey!!!

New Seat

After Becky's baby shower on Saturday, the girls hung out and goofed off. Hannah took this picture of Hadley sitting on my belly. My belly is so big that it's the perfect seat for her. I can't get the picture to post on here so I will have to post it later or you can check it out on facebook.

Look at me Go...

Another post for me, I totally on a roll.  I just thought I would post a little update on Noah's fencing.  Today he took 1st place in his fencing tourny!  That make 2 gold medals for the year and 1 bronze medal.  It seems like it's between him and another boy from a different fencing league and they  seem go back and forth, but today it was Noah's day!!! (Last time they met in the semi's and he got the best of Noah.)  Noah did such a great job and came from behind in the semi-finals to win the bout (Fencing another kid from our league which I hate.) and then took the best 2 out of 3 to win the gold medal in the finals.  He sent 2 kids home crying because they lost. (It's so hard for these little guys/girls to keep it together when they lose.)  One more tourny to go and then the team tourny and we are done for the Utah Fencing Cup.  His coach told him if he gets 1 more gold medal he can switch to saber, which means a little different rules then the foil that he currently uses.  I will post pictures as soon as I get them off my camera and phone.  Great job Noah!!!!!

My Little Klutz

We took another trip to the Insta Care last night for the king of mishaps.  Logan jumped on his Aunt Melanie's bean bag and caught the edge of the window seat and split his eye.  I should say that Logan has had more stitches than any other kid in our house, he is a walking disaster.  He is a little tornado waiting to strike.  Joey says he is just like he was.  I have a feeling we will be making many more trips to the doctor to stitch him up in the future.  6 stitches later (with 2 deep stitches) and he was a good as new, and back to enjoy a sleepover with his cousins.  His poor little eye was so swollen, I'm sure he will have a shiner.

And the Winner is...

Joey and I went to the doctor yesterday again for his diabetes.  We were thinking that we would get a for sure answer on if he is type 1 or type 2 and now we are still not clear.  His doctor says that he is still producing quite a bit of insulin and so he thinks that he is type 2 and we are proceeding with type 2 treatment.  However you can go through what they call a honeymoon faze where your pancreas still produces insulin but then stops, and if this is the case then he could end up being type 1.  Right now the goal is to get his blood sugar level down from what it is, which it starts out in the mid 300's and by the end of the day he sometimes is so high his meter doesn't even register a number which means he is over 500.  If you want to know how he is feeling he says he feels like crap, but he has been feeling like crap for about a month now and so he says he getting pretty use to it.  Some of his issues are he has a lot of joint pain, he still is peeing every hour, his muscles ache and he gets pretty tired fast, he also drinks all day and it never quenches his thirst. We go back next week to meet with the nutritionist, to see how to change our diet and learn how to carb count.  

2nd Fencing Tournament of the Year!!!

Noah had a tournament yesterday up at Weber State and he did so good.  How it works is that they get put into pools and have to fence everyone in their pool, and then depending on how many points are awarded they then go into brackets.  Noah happened to meet up with the kid that he fenced in the finals last tournament in the semi finals and this time he was beaten.  Therefore was awarded the Bronze Medal.  He did such a good job and we are so proud of him, it was up at Weber State and so we had to leave the house at 7:00 am to get there in time, I think that he was feeling a little sluggish from having to get up so early.  I also made Noah fence in the Y10 group and he didn't really like it.  The kids are a lot taller and bigger and older and plus we had to be there all day which Noah was really mad about.  I told him that I will not make him do it again but that he needed to have the experience of fencing the older kids every once in a while.  Mom's are so mean.

Diabetes

This week Joey went to the doctor and found out he has diabetes.  They are not sure if it is Type 1 or Type 2 yet, but think that it probably will be Type 1.  It's the same type that his dad had when he was diagnosed at the age of 24.  We went to see an Endocrinologist today and he gave us some information about the long road we are going to face with this.  I really liked the doctor that we are seeing and feel that we are in good hands, it will take weeks before we know how to manage this and get Joey on the right dose of insulin, find out just how to carb count and how to change our eating habits as a family.  We are in for a big change but I know that we can make it through this transition. The doctor said they have made some big strides in how they treat diabetes in the resent years, then what they used to do in the past, and although I'm nervous and scared about the road ahead of us we will take it one day at a time.  So heres to lots of doctors visits and information overload. 

ACN Convention at San Jose

We just got back from another awesome convention for ACN, and had a lot of fun with all our friends.  Every time we go we have so much fun laughing and enjoying the training along with meeting and making new friends.  This picture is Joey and the Hunns , Joey made it to ETL which is the next position in the company.  I'm very proud of this accomplishment he has made, now it's on our way to TC!!!

Happy Birthday Logan!!!

I can't believe that my little guy is 5 today!!! Logan came to us as a big surprise and he has been none stop surprises ever since. I honestly have thought at times he would not make it to his next birthday but he has made it to the rightful age of 5. He definitely keeps me on my toes daily. I think that all of the small holes in the wall are from Logan. He is very mischievous and has started to teach this to his little sister. He is really cleaver with the things he says. Right before Christmas I was telling him to be good because Santa was watching, and he informed me that Santa still give naughty kids presents. (I thought he's right I have never heard of a kid not getting presents from Santa on Christmas, it just an empty promise that parents threaten their kids with.) Through all the naughty things Logan does and has done I wouldn't change a thing. We hope you had an awesome birthday!!! Happy Birthday Logan!!!!

Ringing in 2010!!!

Our new year has been a bit of a disaster.  I hope that things only get better from here.  Joey got the flu on the 1st of January.  I slept in the basement for 3 nights until my back could not take it anymore.  He recovered fast and is feeling better it only took 3 days straight in bed for him to start feeling better.  Now on to my little Hadley.  Hadley went to the ER with me on monday night, we were there from 10:00pm-2:00am.  her right hand was swollen along with her legs and she had these weird bumps all over her legs.  While we were there we found out that she has Strep.  I asked about her leg and the ER doctor told me he was not worried about them that it would go away on it's own.  We went home and the next day she was feeling OK but the spots on her legs got worse and darker, I didn't want to take her back to the ER, I wasn't impressed with the doctor so I decided to try and make her comfortable and call in the morning to see our Peds doctor.  Mean while at 10:30 when Hadley went to go pee, we noticed that she was now peeing blood!! (Freaked out mom and dad.)  Next day went to my doctors office with Hadley and she has HSP (Henoch-Schonlein Purura)  Say what??  I googled it and this is what it is... Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) is a form of blood vessel inflammation or vasculitis. There are many different conditions that feature vasculitis. Each of the forms of vasculitis tends to involve certain characteristic blood vessels. HSP affects the small vessels called capillaries in the skin and frequently the kidneys. HSP results in skin rash (most prominent over the buttocks and behind the lower extremities) associated with joint inflammation (arthritis) and sometimes cramping pain in the abdomen. Henoch-Schonlein purpura is also referred to as anaphylactoid purpura.    So this is why my daughter is in pain and why she is swelling up and why she is peeing blood, Thanks ER doctor for your great concern!!!  It's usually triggered by another infection (Like Strep) and it goes away on it's own in about 4 weeks, however will more than likely reoccur in 4 months (happy for us we get to do all over again.)  It's not contagious though which is good.  I will post pictures of her poor legs when I get a chance, you will be shocked at how horrible it looks.  Happy New Year to Us!!!