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)