Friday, December 20, 2013

Back to UNM for more Cystic Fibrosis visits and testing

 Kimber had two days and a nights worth of appointments at UNM hospital in Albuquerque.  Sadly, the soonest appointment they could schedule her for (A few months ago) was Dec 18-19.  We took them because she needed the tests and the next slot wasn't until March.  ANYWAY, as time drew near little Kimber became more sad and upset that she was going to have to miss two days of school when her Kindergarten class was making Gingerbread houses and having a Pajama Party day with a movie!
It was so sad to see her so disappointed.  Who wants to miss parties for two days at the Dr's! :(  
The night before, she was in tears and did NOT want to go to the Dr's.  So, we made some changes and decided to make it a family trip.  We stayed in a hotel close to the hospital with an indoor pool.
Kimber and Holdyn were in heaven!  They swam every chance they got between appointments.

 Having Holdyn with her helped keep her mind off the appointments.  Holdyn questioned having to miss her own school parties.  But, after we explained that Kimber really wanted her to come, she said she didn't mind missing her school Christmas party.

 Kimber had a very intense sleep study as you can see from the pictures.  Luckily she was exhausted from swimming and was able to sleep with all of the wires hooked up to her!  She was such a champ!






 Poor gal, it breaks my heart to look at her like this.  She is such a champ!  (So is her big sister)  Holdyn sacrifices a lot to be with her sister during vest treatments and dr's appts. Kimber needs and gets a lot of extra attention and Holdyn is the perfect big sister for her!  I'm so glad they are such good friends! 


 The Morning after the study she had a few hours to have breakfast and swim, then head back to UNM hospital for her Cystic Fibrosis Clinic visit.
One of the highlights for her is to add beads to her "Beads of Courage" necklace.  Thank you to the Child Life Program for doing this.  She gets a bead for every procedure and appointment she has.  It is the one thing she looks forward to...adding beads to her necklace.  It is a great program!

Being at the children's hospital has it's perks.  It was Holdyn's first time coming to a clinic visit with Kimber.  The staff spoiled her too.  They each got a set of press on nails and a new little purse...they even brought by Capri Sun drinks for them while we were waiting.  I think Holdyn may want to try to come to the next appts :)   We made it home late last night and were thankful it went so well.  We will get results from the sleep study in a couple of weeks...we also had to add a new medication to Kimber's personal pharmacy...but overall, she is still doing great in her fight with Cystic Fibrosis!

Monday, December 16, 2013

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

 The stockings are hung, our gingerbread house is made and we
have some super happy and excited children!
Christmas is in the air and we are loving every minute!


 Cody cracking us up!

We are so excited to count down the last week and a half until Christmas!
We hope you are all enjoying this wonderful season too!!

Our first snow in Silver City

 We couldn't wait to get outside to play in the snow!!
The kids were all in heaven!





 Selfie!




 We all took turns sledding down our steep driveway...it worked perfectly!



 The girls each went a zillion times! It was so funny to watch them.
It was the perfect few inches....by the next afternoon it was all melted and we are back in the 50's.
This is the perfect snow for us :)

Veteran's Day

 We are so thankful for this Holiday and the chance we have to recognize the many men and women who serve our country. 
 I am also thankful that my kids go to an amazing school where they spent 2 hours doing a performance and honoring the veterans in our town.  It was very well done and I bawled each time one of the men and women were recognized. 

 Holdyn had a speaking part that talked about the POW's.
 THANK YOU VETERANS!

I also found some pictures of our dad's and Grandpa Carr in Uniform that I thought I would share.
 This is my dad during some training.



 Above is Ben's father when he Retired from being a Navy Chaplain.
Here is Grandpa Carr.

So thankful for the service of all of our Armed Forces and their families!

Grandma and Grumpa Baker's mission call!

Here we are waiting anxiously for Grandma and Grandpa to open their mission call!  You can see everyone on the video chat across the bottom :)  I have the video but it is having trouble uploading.
They were called to serve in the Rapid City, South Dakota Mission.  They will be working primarily at the Historic Site of Martin's Cove.  We are sure hoping we can make it up to visit them while they are there!!  Congrats and we are so happy for them to Serve!

Horse Crazy

 We have truly been blessed with some AMAZING friends here in Silver City!
One in particular family that we have adopted as our own is the Rocko's.
Bonnie and her husband Mike both have amazing Rodeo skills (And buckles to prove it)
Bonnie is a Champion Barrel Racer and Mike team ropes with his son.
They have adopted our girls and have been teaching them all about horses.  
 The girls ask morning and night when they can go ride the horses with Sister Rocko.
Holdyn loves Big John while Kimber rides Seven up.
 Bonnie is so very patient and teaches them so much.  They each jump on a horse and go around the arena.  Holdyn has even started trotting the barrel pattern.  She wants to be a racer like Bonnie :)


 Kimber's confidence has shot through the roof!
 Bonnie plays riding games and they just enjoy every minute in their horse heaven :)
 Cody loves the "hosses" too!


Meeting the Rocko's has been one of the many huge blessings that we have noticed since moving to Silver City!