BRING IT ON BABY !!! BRING IT ON !!! WARNING LONG POST !!!!

Well life has been ... at the very least to say a tornado/natural disaster. Our new family moto is: "Bring it on baby, Bring it on". It all started last month, I got a cold that turned into a sinus infection. I talked to the Doctor, he gave me a Z - pac antibiotic that helped then all signs and symptoms of everything came back but much more in my chest. Then EVERYBODY else got it too. It ended up with Abbey and Rusty in the ER then Abbey being admitted to the hospital for 4 days. During that 4 days Mike ended up on his 2nd round of antibiotics and a round of steriods, and I was told I had Pertussis ... WHAT!!! I was in the hospital with very sick kids including our 1month old roommate that had been there for 1 week. The good thing was I think he was wrong, we went to our regular PCP and we think I ended up with pneumonia and bronchitis. I got yet another antibiotic and that time it seemed to clean everything out. Max and Michaella we sick but not as sick. Abbey was released to home on oxygen and Michaella is still having to have breathing treatments of albuterol 3 times a day. Mike in the mean time has been so sick and not getting better. This is SO not Mike, so yesterday he was rolling in pain and couldn't stand up. So I took him to the ER too. His Diagnosis: Mono and on this Friday he'll be going into surgery to have his Gallbladder removed.
In the meantime we had our 20 week OB appointment and ultrasound where we found out we are having a BOY !!! Now I am just as confused about a name as we were before. Most likely he'll be named Robert Collins, but sometimes I am just not sure. I'm still having a hard time thinking that this one could be our last. I'll just have to wait and see once the baby is here. At the ultrasound he weighed 12 oz. and they changed my due date to July 28th. THat really doesn't matter much, but we'll just see when the baby decided he's ready to come.
Now jumping back since Abbey was discharged from the hospital we've been making trips to the Dr.'s every 3 days to check her oxygen intake and breathing. Michaella has been coming as well to have her lungs checked out. With everything that's been going on and all the work we want to do on the house and outside to top everything off, I am thinking about getting a part time job in the evenings to help cover all the hospital and Doctor's bills and then to help with a little extra money for the backyard.
Well there is our life in the last few weeks in a short, yet long story. We just hope that after Mike recovers from surgery this will be the end of all the sickness and we can move on with life.
We pray that the Lord is blessing everyody with health and happiness, we all have our trials I just hope this is the end of our health trials for a little while.

Whirl Wind Wynders

Well a lot has happened in the last month. We moved into the house January 16th, we are mostly settled in I think... well for now until we find out what this baby will be. The I'll start painting the kids rooms and decorating. For now we are continuing to get out of boxs and putting everything in it's place. We've also mad a new addition to our family (other than baby 5). We have a new baby black lab puppy !!! Sadie is now 10 weeks old and she has done remarkably well in potty training. Everybody thinks we are crazy for getting a puppy I know my life isn't busy enough. But she's here! She is amazing with the kids and loves to play, as soon as we can get the backyard manicured we can go outside and play. We've tried it once but she had a hard time jumping through all the snow and it was too cold for the babies.
I think we are almost ready to take pictures of the house. We've had a hard time trying to get things done lately, every body's been sick and this round was a killer that's for sure. But I think we are all on the mend and ready to start getting back to work again.
Max is back in school and LOVING IT !!! He is doing so well his teachers are amazing and he's grown and really accomplished a lot lately, I think he likes being challenged and overcoming those challenges.
Michaella is such a cutie pie. She loves dancing and singing and you will ALWAYS hear her doing both. She is growing into such a little lady already. I'm not sure how ready I am for that.
Abbey is walking all over the house and mommy's BIGGEST helper. She loves folding laundry, throwing garbage away and is always keeping the other kids in check. She's not one of them she's ... a little mommy what can I say. She loves to put the kids into place and keep the peace and make sure everybody is obeying.
Rusty is walking EVERYWHERE and when he's not walking he's running. He is our little cupid, he is so loving. He loves to give hugs and kisses and loves to wrestle with Max. His favorite I think is to give squish hugs, he loves to lay on everybody and give hugs and kisses. Our little affectionate man.
Mike and I are both growing much more impatient, we are wanting the warm weather to hurry up and get here so we can start working in the backyard and start playing! I want to do something out there before this baby comes, but I am having to remind myself that I can't do to much or I deffinately pay for it!!! I just need to go slow and steady and we all know that's not very easy for me to do.
Hopefully now that things are a little more in place and life is put back together I can update more than once a month.

WYNDER WEEK !!!

This week has been an interesting one for us, we had the inspection and appraisal. That was a new experiance for us but once step closer to getting our house. We are hoping the sign this Thursday (the 17th) and move in this comming weekend. We are so excited about owning our own home, being able to paint the walls how we want and doing what ever we want. The kids are excited about helping decorate their rooms and that just makes us more excited.

Today Rusty took his first steps walking. Not by himself but still this is a big deal for him and us. Abbey has been ddoing this for a little while but totally out of the blue Rusty is catching up and just might pass up Abbey.

New news but not suprisingly ..... We are HAVING A BABY !!! We are due July 29th ish. Through a lot of difficult and long disscussions we've come to an agreement that this will be our last and we'll get a dog next summer. This was VERY hard for me to do because I have ALWAYS wanted 6 kids : 3 boys, 3 girls and twins in the middle. I have said this exact saying since I was very young. Mike has always had the number of 5 children in mind. So through lots of prayer we have decided that this will be our last. Afterall we are incredible blessed that we have so many children and how easy it has been for us to get and carry the pregnancy's ( 5 for 5 : wanted yet not expected) We are very blessed to have our rapid fire, surprise timing family.
I am 11.5 weeks along and today, it sounds crazy but I felt the baby move 3 seperate times. I had the gas bubble feeling ... yet no feeling or gases excaping. So, I thought I was just thinking I was hoping or being stupid. But nope, I have felt it 2 more times since. In the exact same place.
I am hoping for a girl, but I'm not sure Mike wants the drama. If we are having a girl she will be named Hannah Ruby. If we are having a boy ... Not a clue and we will be in long discussion to try and figure that one out.

TO ALL OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS !!!!!!!

Since it has been SO long since I was blogging regularly I am in need of help. I have noticed that Many families have gone private and I want to keep updated - so PLEASE LET ME IN !!! Our email is wynderfamily@gmail.com I'd really like to keep intouch, please add us.

Better Late Than Not At All

Well I am SOOOOOOO sorry for not posting for so long, life has just been to busy. As a fast recap :
We are in the process of buying our first home YEAH !!!!!! What an experiance that has been. Very nerve racking in deed.
Christmas has been wonderful, I love our growing family. I love how big the kids are getting and how they are grasping onto every concept. I am truely in the happiest time of my life so far, I love watching Mike and the kids playing and teaching the kids new things - lately he's been teaching M1 and M2 the proper way of packing their toys. So that's their new trick is packing every toy they have.

In October we had a VERY bad experiance. Rusty stood up and supported his weight on the glass of the fireplace. He burned both of his hands very very badly. He had 3rd degree burns on 90% of his right hand palms and fingers. His left hand wasn't as much but still badly burned. I rushed him to Primary Childrens, I was very blessed that my mom was working at that time because she was able to have somebody take her shift and come down to help us. Mike met us at the hospital and gave Rusty a blessing. After the Dr. looked at his hands they sent us to the U of U burn unit, they had the head honcho director came and looked at Rusty, cut the blisters that had formed to see the severity while I was having to hold Rusty down. This was SOOO hard for me, not only this day but after this I had to change Rusty's bandages 3x's daily and stratch his hands which was extremely painful for the little man. It was a really hard experiance for us all emotional as well as a wonderful teaching oppertunity for the other kids. The teaching began with the blessing. Rusty's burns were bad enough that we went in to have his pre- op appointment to have both hands have skin grafts. When we went in to the appt. the Dr. said that the burns were "looking like they might be thinking about turning a cornor" and they wanted to wait for a few days. When we went back the Head Honcho came in again and said " this isn't right" WHAT you can't say that are you kidding me, I bet you could only imagine what was going through my mind. "His burns are healed !!!" Huh ?????? Rusty's burns were totally healed - BLESSINGS WORK THE GOSPEL IS AMAZING !!!!!!! Now he has a pressure glove for his right hand to help control the scaring and I stretch his hands about 3-5 times a day for about 10 minutes each hand. He is doing wonderfully.
We are so grateful for the gospel and the power of healing and love.
The babies are now 16 months old and I don't know how that happened. They are crawling all over.
As we are buying our home we are going to have a shift in jobs. Obviously I am not doing a sufficient job in keeping up our blog. Mike will be doing weekly updates ( while on his way to work) while I will be doing some as well the main responsibility will be his :) Well we'll see he might just help me and remind me to do it more often !!
We are very blessed to have friends and family like you who support us and THAT is my New Years Resolution to keep up our blog better so we may keep in touch. Because I love to read yours.

oh by the way pictures and more surprises to come !!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTDAY ABBEY AND RUSTY !!!!!!!!!!

Well, it's not even 5am and I am awake and can't sleep, so I thought I'd make an update. I feel silly saying the over used excuse that life is just to busy to make post more often, but with an almost 4 kids the oldest not even four and 1 year old twins being the youngest. ..... it is just to busy to spend time to blog - maybe I can try to get in a weekly post on sundays. If you don't believe me come spend a day with us - YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!!

This past month has been good, we are starting to actually settle into a routine in our weird little set-up, but as right now things are ok.

Max starts preschool today, I am really excited for him hw going to have a great time and maybe, just maybe he'll start to take naps again on the days he goes to school. He's pretty much grown out of the nap stage and it's been really hard for me to realize that this is normal and just part of growing up.


Michaellla is still our little mommy more than ever. I wish I was able to have her help more but now with Max back in school I think it might be a little easier. She has been potty training lately and is doing a really good job! We are having the occassional accidents still but she is doing really well.


ABBEY AND RUSTY ARE 1 HOW DID THIS HAPPEN??????


1 year ago today Mike and I we just getting back to out room after recovering from surgery and spending time with our little babies together. For the full story please read http://wynderfamily.blogspot.com/2008/09/its-about-time.html . As I just re read this I am bawling like a baby. My babies are so healthy and strong, and I was SO tired while writing that. My life has never been busier or better. The babies are crawling now and they go EVERYWHERE!!! I am So glad they are crwling and growing and developing, but I really think the fun is about to begin. This last year has been really easy everything I do, I do twice. But now I think things are going to get even busier. it will be much harder to get anything done because I will be taking care of and trying to wrangle my kiddios and making sure they aren't getting into trouble. I am SO blessed for my little family and can't believe we are here today. I am so greatful to my Heavenly Father for my healthy family. Expecially my healthy babies. I just can't believe how big they are and how everything is so wonderful right now. I'll post some pictures of the party (tomorrow ) and a few throughout the last year - that's a blog entirely of it's own.
Here's to the Past , Present and the Future !!!

STILL HERE !!!!! WE ARE ALIVE !!!!!

Ok so first let me explaine why I am updating our blog at 3:30 am. I'm sick and can't sleep weird I know but what ever. I wish I were asleep but I'm here instead.

So in the past 3 months that I haven't bolgged we've moved to Saratoga Springs. We are almost totally unpacked just some things we usually don't use to unpack and someday that will be done, someday.

Abbey and Rusty are sitting up by themselves and almost crawling. They are to the point that you have to deal with in twins where they are taking wach other's toys away, and bottles and anything and everything the other one has. I can't believe they are almost 1 already, it makes me so sad how fast time flies by.

Max and Michaella are doing well they love playing outside in our "big backyard" as Max always says. It's a little hard because our neighborhood has somewhat of a community backyard and everybodies kids go from one house to the next so going from a fully fenced in backyard to this is different and they really like to push their limits - considering there aren't any fences and very few tree lines there are only "invisable limits"

A month back we went to visit our good friends Natalie and Jeremy Andrews and their kids in Cedar City. That was such a fun trip except Max got a bit of the stomach flu on the way down - not to fun there but it we had such a great time. Everyday Max and Michaella are asking when we get to see Dax and Riley

This is the day we were moving. I have a double jogging stroller as well, but this one is for quick trips and the babies do really well in it like this. When ever we go out using this stroller we surprise SO many people. They don't realize at first there's 2 in there.

This is the picture I took for an update of my hair cut fix. From the one Max gave me. It's a little grown out now. We took this at our ward party.

My other pictures are still on the camera which just happens to be in the car and I'm not about to get dressed and go outside to get it, so I will be posting them soon. This time I promise it will be soon. We are finally on a schedule again so nap time will be my posting time.

I feel bad it took me so long to post but we are finally settled in ..... I hope

Oh yeah, Mike and I spoke in church sunday so now the ward can actually remember who we are :)

DRUM ROLL PLEASE .........

Well it has been quite the month with SO much going on. The most important being

MIKE GRADUATED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday May 8th, 2009

He is such a champ. He's been told over and over again that he needs to change his degree, that with working full time and having 4 kids and with everything else that he does he won't succeed and he needs to not go to Medical School and get his degree in something else. Well he is proving all those DEAD WRONG. He has always wanted to be a Doctor and we are doing WHATEVER it takes for him to acheive his dream. I am SO proud of him and he thinks nothing of it ( sillyMike ) he says "well I am done for summer" and "this is only a stepping stone " but what a stepping stone!!! CONGRADULATIONS!!!!!

On Memorial Day weekend we are moving. We are going to Saratoga Springs. We have some friends from CEU that just bought a house there and a few months ago told us that they are moving back here from North Dakota and were wondering if we wanted to live in their basement. See our friends husband ( who we also knew at CEU ) still works in ND on the oil rigs and is gone anywhere from 50 - 70 days at a time and she is all alone and hates that fact. So we are moving in at a great rate for rent. I know it may sound wierd but it is a great situation for us as well as them, it's a great way for us to serve our friends. It's a bit of a commute for Mike but there is a charter bus that goes down there directly to the Church Office Bld. because there are so many employee's that live down there.

Max's 1st year in school is comming to an end. He has really grown and gained SO much by going to preschool this year. His teacher Miss Teresa is a wonderful teacher and helped him grow and learn this year.

Rusty and Abbey are starting to sit up together. It's so cute to watch, they will sit there together lokking at each other, playing with each other until they tumble each other over.

This past month Rusty had to go to PCMC ( Primary Childrens ) and have a sedated MRI on his hips. The Dr. noticed at his last visit that he had asymetrical gluteal folds. For those of you that don't understand that, it means his little bum crack isn't perfectly straight. So they wanted to check for hip dysplasia. He was SUCH a CHAMP!!!!! When they put the Iv in he didn't even cry! He only wimpered a little and then he gave a huge grin to the nurse. The results came back and he is totally fine. WHAT A RELIEF !!!

Our next post will be all the pictures we've been needing to post. Graduation, my hair cut, and a few others oh and the new house!

So keep checking back, hopefully it will be soon !!!!!!!