4th of July and AF Steele Days are the best!

 Emee of course refused to be cute for the camera....not ten seconds earlier in the car she was being darling but the minute we bust out the camera she decides if she will be happy or not...she decided NOT!

 Our big boy on his first 4th celebration

 Traverse Mountain does a big celebration every 4th that was so well planned and executed!

 Thank goodness for uncles that can go on carni rides and not get sick!!

 We ran into our cousins at the carni and these two play so well together!  We love Gavin!

 All Emee wanted to do was be with Ziggy...she could have cared less about the rides

 The big boys wanted in on some of the action too.

Colee made a friend and they decided to go on the Ferris Wheel together...thank goodness because I was not about to and she really wanted to.

Family pics 2011

 I can not get enough of this boy!

So it took us two different tries to get family pics and with A LOT of patience and mostly frustration with Emee, we were able to get a few good shots.  She was so grumpy both times it was unreal.  Thank you Candace for working with her/us.  We will miss you so much when you move :(

Memorial Day

For Memorial Day we went down to Wellington where Mike's dad is laid to rest.  It was so extremely windy we were not able to get out at the cemetary like we like to with the kids and talk about Grandpa Ben and daddy's memories with him but we were able to go and see the WWII monument with his name on it.  Colee loves to hear about her Grandpa Ben and i am grateful for her desire to know him and learn about eternal life.

Learning Dynamics

 I love that she now stays in the lines when coloring.

 I love how she draws her people and the rain clouds!  She has drawn them like that

from the time she first started to draw.

Mrs. Johnson and Colee

Colee loved pre-school this year.  She had a wonderful teacher that worked really well with her.  She is now wanting to know how to spell EVERYTHING and is one smart little girl.

Visit to the big house

 see that scowl...that is how she looked for three straight days!  She was MAD

Thanks for the lift guys!  They were really cute with her.

So last Sunday we were at my parents house visiting and Emee had been breathing very shallow and rapidly since she had woke up from her nap.  She had been sick and we went to the Dr. on Friday and had ruled out pneumonia with x-rays and we were given a few medications so I truly was not too worried about it.  After a few hours of her continued labored breathing I started to get a little concerned so I called the on call Dr. and was told to take her to the ER...hello, for a cold I thought that was a little extreme.

I have an aunt who is an ER nurse who just happens to have been through many situations with her own kids and I knew would keep it real for me so I called her to see if I could bring Emee up to get her opinion before I was the mom that took her child to the ER for a cold.  She was actually headed out and said she would stop by mom and dad's.  Turns out that we really did need to take her in.

After several back to back breathing treatments and oral steroids at AF hospital ER we were sent to Primary Childrens, or the Big House as we call it in our family, because she was not responding and all Dr.'s involved (primary care, ER and Primaries ER docs) felt that she needed to be up at the big house as a precaution where they are equipped to handle these things.

We really do not have many answers other than she was sick and had several asthma attacks and needed some oxygen and treatments for a few days.

She was so angry this time.  I am not sure if it was because she was in the hospital again or if it was the aggresive steroid treatments but she was MAD!!  Today is Friday and she is just now starting to be her sweet self again.  She has just been yelling at everyone and everything since Sunday.  She was a champ though and we are so happy and blessed to have great family who stepped in and helped out tremendously and for amazing medical care so close to us!