Monday, February 3, 2014

What the New Year it has been.

Well, for an update, and ease of informing people what happened this year already. The middle of January, all 4 of the batty clan came down with something, which knocked us all out for a few days. while the 3 boys bounced back, and started feeling better, Meagan didnt. She was taken to the Clinic, where she was diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia. after 2 days of treatments, the 3rd day she made a serious turn for the worse. She was taken to the ER in Vernal, where in about 20 minutes, the ER doctor made the call to have her Life Flighted to University of Utah hospital. She left sometime around 6:30 PM on Friday the 17th, and was a very sick lady. The flight team that responded was a Medical/Ob team, one of 4 in the nation. They landed in Salt Lake around 7:30 that night, and she was admitted into ICU. She was kept stable, with little improvment until Saturday, about 5:30, when the resident OB doctor decided that the baby needed to come then. They brought Ivan Dade Batty into the world at 6:26 on 1-18-2014, weighing in at 4lb 1oz, and 16.5 inches long, at an age of 31 weeks. He was put on a ventilator until the sedatives he had recieved while being in mom had worn off, and then was taken off the ventilator not much more than 12 hrs later, and started to breathe on his own without the assistance of oxygen. Meagan immediately started to improve in the oxygen saturation levels in her blood. She was taken back into ICU and kept under sedation until Wednesday the week after, and for several days went back and forth from under sedation to awake. On friday, after getting her pain in check, they cut all sedation, and woke her up. she past a breathing test, which meant she could have the breathing tube and ventilator removed. They removed it, and she started the road to getting out of ICU, she took 2 days of improvments, and she was taken from ICU down to a normal Internal Medicine recovery room. Mind you, she hadnt been awake or able to see Ivan. It took almost another full day before she was given clearance to go and see her brand new baby. She was discharged from University Hospital on Wednesday, 29 of January. Since then, she has proven how driven, and strong she is by making a quick recovery. Her little one, continues to grow, and do all the things that doctors hope all early babies would do. he has grown awesome and started to show interest in a bottle.
            I must take a moment, and thank the Batty Family, the Rushton Family, the friends and other relatives, as well as the ward family that we have enjoyed. We are especially thankful for the prayer and fasts that were done for Meagan and the Baby to make a quick and full recovery, and we assure you, that the power of those have been both seen and felt. for all those who have helped, and those who offered help, may I express our deepest graditude for that.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Ill get to it

I've come to the realization that I love the idea of blogging but following through is not one of my strong points, obviously.  So I guess its about time to get this updated. However, this is not the case tonight. Im hoping that by doing this I will be annoyed at the thought of a incomplete blog post and do an actual, worth while update. Until then, perhaps tomorrow, good night world.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Pictures...yep i got some...

Summer Fun
Jayden being awesome!

The Many Faces of Korwin



Oh Geez..

So here goes a basic run down in my attempt of catching up.  Information over load and picture overload in 3...2...1...


May ::  If i remember correctly i left off with Korwin just starting to walk, wow that seems like such a long time ago and so much has happened since then.  Korwin turned 1 on May 18 and sadly i don't have any pictures of his birthday since our cameras battery some how got lost. I did recently find it which is why i'm trying to update this.  Besides the point his birthday came and went and i still can't believe he's now 16 months old and almost ready to embark on his adventure in Nursery. We also were able to finally buy Hubby his jeep, we found a deal and we just couldn't let this jeep go needless to say hubby is very very happy!

June ::  My birthday came and went and nothing too exciting happened expect hubby was awesome and let me buy lots and lots of yarn for my crochet blankets i truly intend to finish one day :). However, The second week in June we left the boys at gma and gpa batty's and me and hubby took a few day trip to Baton Rouge, Louisiana with my whole family for a bowling trip (sans my older brother and his wife that were unable to come). they only bowled for a total of like 6 hours the whole time so we had lots of time to play as well.  It was hot and humid to say the least and rained like no bodies business but it was a fun.  We saw some cool tourist sights like a huge battle ship, an awesome Plantation and even went on a Alligator swamp tour.  Where we not only saw huge gators which we got to hold and then later that night we ate some gator as well.  Gotta tell ya gator is pretty tasty.

July ::  For once we got to stay and watch the entire firework show! We made sure Jayden at Ear muffs on and Korwin slept through them!  Wahoo! Jayden has been deathly afraid of frireworks the previous 2 years so it was nice to see him enjoy them this year. We didn't do any of our own since there was a city wide firework restriction due to the fire danger and such.  But it was awesome to go and watch the big show!  Then of course July is Rodeo Month! We were able to go all three nights which was awesome and we took the boys one night with us.  Jayden seemed to enjoy it but Korwin was bored from the moment we sat down.  OH well, they sure looked cute in their cowboy gear! Then the last weekend of July we took a trip to Provo and we came home with our new (to us) Tahoe.  Our old blue was starting to run on its last dream and we needed bigger so we finally took the plunge and got us our new car.

August::  For my dads birthday we got him tickets to a bees game and so we left the boys again for a quick weekend get away and the whole family went to the game. (we missed two of our favorites who live in Virginia! We thought of ya!)   It was a pretty close game but the best part was the fireworks at the end.  Salt lake knows how to do fireworks, made ours look so puny!

And here we are in September.  First weekend my mom was brave and took me and the two boys out to the swiss days in midway this year.  Hubs had to work sadly but we are so going next year!  Swiss days was awesome.  Just the amount of talented people in crazy. Soo many booths, food and just crazy people.  The boys did pretty awesome given the fact they had to drive two hours and wander around a boring to them craft fair!  It was so worth going though! Then just last weekend we went out to the zoo and state fair and it was pretty good. The boys loved the zoo and the new exhibits are awesome.  but then again i just love zoos! at the state fair hubs took the boys down the huge yellow slide, needless to say they LOVED it. Its going to have to be our tradition of going down the slide every year!

Also my brother and wife finally had their baby boy last week!  He is such a doll and i'm so glad to be an aunt again.  Welcome to the family Gavin and hopefully one of the days we can make it to Virginia and visit and meet him properly!

Then on Saturday me and hubby get to head to vegas for nearly a week for  "work" deal for the Mine Expo and i'm so excited.!  We leave Saturday and we'll be back the following Thursday!  I'm not excited about leaving the boys again but excited to get away and be able to squeeze in a few shows while we are down there.  Blue man Group  and Penn & Teller here we come!
















Thursday, May 10, 2012

Walking all over

So Korwin  just decided a few days ago that he was done with just walking between mom and dad and is now a true walker. Granted he is still pretty wobbly but he walks everywhere. Im not ready for him to grow out of this baby phase. Then im relieved he's growing out of the baby phase it means he's getting funner and funnier.  He is living up to his red hair, he is fiesty, and stubborn and then he has his super cuddly moments which I love since jayden never was and still isn't. But jayden loves playing with his little brother even if Korwin has already figured out how to get him in trouble.  Im in for a wild ride that is for sure


Friday, April 20, 2012

Potty Training

So potty training had been a very steep uphill battle for the past year, I would get lucky sometimes and have him pee on the potty but that was very very far and in between.  It was frustrating when  people try to convince you that your child should be trained my 2!  You wouldn't believe the stares and comments i would get at the thought of a 3 year wearing diapers, and him not even interested in the potty.  I had one lady ask me if he was autistic or had some learning disability, this was at church even, can't some people just mind their own business.  Trust me we tried several times to get him to go on the potty but for the longest time he was Terrified! of the toilet, wanted absolutely nothing to do with it, very frustrating.  Then about a month ago we were getting the boys out of the bath and Jayden started to panic at the thought of almost peeing on the floor so we rushed him to the potty and he made it! Still really no luck on consistency, we told him they don't have diapers his size and bought the pull ups and said that you can't stinky in them and if you go on the potty you get a prize and  blah blah blah.  Still really no luck, until one day i caught him pulling the 'face' and was able to get him to the toilet and he finally pooped on the potty! So like we promised we loaded up and he went and chose his cool remote control toy.  It has been all downhill since then, he had one accident since then just because i wasn't quick enough but now i can proudly say my  3 1/2 year old is POTTY TRAINED and only needs to wear pull ups during nap and bed time for the just in case moments. We had a sticker chart that he filled up with all of his potty trips and when he filled one up he wanted to go bowling so we went and got our bowl on!  It really is amazing how just one day he woke and seem to decide that yup, i think i'll start using the big boy potty now!  It is soo nice only having to change one boys diaper a day now!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

boys-2012


He loves the Yogurt puff bites


Glow in the Dark!

So i saw this idea on Pinterest and I thought it was such a neat idea.

Glow Sticks+Bath+lights out= 2 very happy boys!

They love glow stick bath nights!

So i only got pics of Jayden but trust me Korwin loves it too!

National Finals Rodeo 2011!

This year for our 5 year wedding anniversary we spoiled ourselves big time!  We went to the NFR in Las Vegas for 3 nights! We found a package deal online and we got our motel room and the tickets for the first three opening nights of the NFR and can I just say it was a blast!!  It was sure hard being away from the boys for that long but it was sooo much fun.  We figured since we haven't really had a chance to truly get a way for any anniversary that it was worth the money and time apart from the boys!  We wish we could go every year but we for sure want to try and make it an every 5 year deal!

We of course did a little gambling and walked away with...ya no winnings :) but we walked up and down the strip several times which we felt the next day.  Saw a lot of crazy people and overall just enjoyed the whole experience.  We saw the awesome chocolate fountain and seasonal garden in the belagio, we went in the coca cola and m&m factory.  They had a huge convention area for the NFR and anything cowboy/western type of stuff was there!  The building was HUGE and we basically had to run through in order to see it all .  I would highly recommend everyone should go to the NFR at least once.  That is if you enjoy rodeos that is.


That is a lot of cowboys/girls

Thanksgiving/Christmas 2011

So November was a pretty eventful month. For one my awesome sister-in-law decided to go on a mission and was called to the Calgary, Canada for 18 months!  Crazy exciting.  So about a week before thanksgiving we drove out and said our goodbyes as she left to enter the MTC.  Poor Jayden was so torn up about it and still asks frequently for aunt kayla and for horse rides :).  I'm kicking myself for not getting any pictures, but it was awesome and overwhelming to see hundreds of elders and sisters entering the MTC  so earger to learn to help spread the word of the Gospel to people all over the world.  I know our little family is so greatful and proud of our sister kayla batty!


Well Christmas this year was a lot funner than last year for sure. Jayden was way more into this year and for weeks after kept asking if santa was coming back. I think he enjoyed it!  I'm rather bummed and the fact that i didn't taken hardly any pictures. We were all just so caught up in enjoying jayden's excitement it just didn't happen. He was rather spoiled this year and he got a paintball gun which he absolutely loved and loves to shoot it even more. Korwin more or less just stared at us and the christmas lights.  Next year will be way funner for the both of them!

We of course were spoiled by all of our familys and we got a chance to talk to sister batty that afternoon.  It was neat to hear how much she already loved the people and her companion.  Couldn't be prouder.

Jayden with Santa at the Ward Christmas Party


Thursday, November 10, 2011

curses

curse you pinterest!


that is all....

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Jayden turns 3!

November 7, 2011 Jayden turned 3....say what!!  I couldn't believe how fast it snuck up on me this year. One minute Korwin was born next my little boy turned 3! Wow.   He loved having his special day and loved that daddy came home from work with awesome birthday balloons and made his cake again this year.  I thought the cake turned out way cute and Jayden LOVED it!











typical Jayden Cheesers

One of Jaydens favorite people, uncle Tyler!

Korwin and his typical tongue pose

Jayden is superman!  So he says
Assuming the weather is going to corporate we are taking Jayden to the city and have a special mommy daddy day with him this weekend. We are leaving Korwin with Grandma and Grandpa and gonna let Jayden choose what he wants to do and spend his birthday money and let him choose a special toy.  Gonna try and take him to a cool movie in the awesome theaters out there and hopefully he had a blast.  I'll try to remember to take pictures or at least post something about the awesome weekend.  

Until then, that is all...

Halloween 2011

This year Halloween was actually pretty fun, Jayden understood the concept of saying trick or treat and hey look at that i get candy!  We just did the Ward Trunk or treat and hit the grandparents but it was still super fun.  Jayden chose to be a horse this year and we had Korwin be a puppy, well he only wore his costume for like 10 minutes, long enough for pictures.  Ya see we bought his costume three weeks prior and it was a tad big but we figured perfect, then 2 weeks later we tried it on again and it fit perfect, Halloween night it was too small, we literally had to squeeze him into it.  It made me actually see how much he's grown the past month. Being home all the time i don't 'really see it, but that ill fitting costume sure did.


Ready and Waiting to go Trick or Treating

Typical Korwin picture with his tongue hanging out.

cute boys!

Happy boy, mostly :)
Not a clue what this face is all about but it is Jayden after all....crazy kid

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Wowzers

I just have to say that is absolutely blows my mind that Jayden will be 3 years old tomorrow... seriously when did that happen!

also just have to say 25 more days until NFR!!! Las Vegas here we come! The count down is On!!!!

I'll post halloween and birthday stuff later this week.

That is all... :)

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Cranky

Well we've been rather busy and not busy all at the same time.  Hubby is still on swing shifts and now he had another weekend added.  Positive part it is that he will actually have all of Halloween off, first time in the 3 years he's worked at Simplot.  Pretty excited, its jayden's first real time to dress up and go trick or treating and korwins first in general.  That night i'll for sure take pictures to show off how stinking cute my boys are.. (just a bit biased remember).

Well Korwin was doing so good the past couple of weeks on his sleeping...i got 7 hours in a row one night. I had forgotten how it felt to get a decent nights sleep.  It took a bit of sleep training but we did it!  Well then yesterday he had to get his 4 months shots and then was prescribed to have to drink 1 oz of prune juice twice a day, gotta tell ya he is NOT a fan of the prune juice taste but anyways ( i know he's five months old but we somehow got a month behind, did the same thing with jayden, maybe we just like to be fashionable late or something).  well his shots actually made him a bit sick this time, nothing major just a bit of a fever and just uncomfortable type pains.  Then to top it all of he's getting 2 more teeth on the bottom which will give him 4 teeth.  I sorta wish he could of been like other babies and waiting till 9 months or something. I guess on the other side he'll be done a lot quicker.
Well his 5 month stats came at no surprise of being in the 90th percentile.  He weighed a whopping 18 lbs 14 oz and 27 inches long.  We just grow big kids I guess.

I'm a scatterbrain and haven't the slightest clue where my camera is so yet again no pictures since its a pain in my butt to get them off my phone and im just lazy.  Well i guess other super exciting news is that my sister-in-law the sneaky little devil surprised everyone and dropped the bomb that she is going on a mission!!! I haven't a clue how she kept it a secret but I'm so proud of her and excited for her. She's going to the Calgary Canada mission...i know eh!!  lol  Well she leaves in just a few short weeks to the MTC and its crazy to think we won't see her for 18 months but i think i can speak for the family and say we are so very very proud of her decision to go on a mission.  as the hubby says it truly is the most challenging, rewarding, exciting, scary best 2 years (18 months for her) of your life. It'll be sad to see her go, i know Jayden will miss her and Korwin just thinks she's still the crazy aunt that talks funny to him, but when she gets back he'll be almost 2!  Crazy!

Another Crazy is we are about to have a 3 year in the house, in just a few short weeks Jayden turns 3 and its so weird to think its snuck up on us so fast this year.  I'm excited for him to go into sunbeams in January, i hope his teacher can handle all the crazy kids moving up this year they'll will have their hands full for sure!

Well this was suppose to be a quick update, but i guess it really is since i just scraped the surface of our crazy lives!  Well TTFN!!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

One Down

::Have I mentioned how much I HATE Swing-shifts!!! However, we have one weekend down and only three more to go.
::Pretty sure its rougher on the boys than me, they get use to having daddy home at nights and then all the sudden he's home during the day and gone at nights, completely throws them for a loop for several weekends.  then they get use it and then its back to days....its a rough month and 1/2 of weird schedule changes.
::At least this time i have Netflix to comfort me at night and a guaranteed at least one night of late night 7-11 nachos.  I Always crave 7-11 nachos, besides the hubby loves them as much as I do.
:: I need to find a new tv show to watch, ive caught up Grey's and Bones but i need a new one since they don't have House on Streaming yet.
::It hit me the other day that in just over a month i'm going to have a 3 year-old which means come January i have a Sunbeam!!! I already feel bad for his teacher, gonna be some crazy ones going through next year.  Pray for them!
::We found ourselves pretty clever with our Halloween Decorations this year. Once all set up pictures will be shown.  Its a Ironically awesomeness.  Won't be hard to guess if you think about it.  The hubby Loves that he has a cool project and ideas for Halloween though so its all good.
::Jayden is growing like crazy and the past few months is back to putting EVERYTHING in his mouth.  Its nasty enough i have one drooling kid but i really didn't want two.
:: Korwin is just over 4 months and still only has two teethe, but anything near them teeth he tries for all his worth to take a chunk out of; from blankets, noses and his own fingers he bites.  Yes, he has bitten himself and cried about it and then does it again, he's starting to understand that if i bite myself it indeed does hurt, pretty funny to watch though.
::I'm a bit sad these past few weeks.  One of my older brothers is moving.  Not just a little bits a way but to Fredicksburg, Virginia. Wife, 4 kids and him will be leaving good ole hot n sunny st. george this weekend and making the long trek to Virginia.  I was able to see them last weekend but its still sad, gonna be a long while before we get to see them again.  Unless we become rich very quickly....alas i am excited for them to start a new adventure, just wish it wasn't so far away.
:: Down to only 67 days till NFR!! I'm sooooooooooooo very excited.  Won't know what to do without the kids for 4 days...oh wait i know!! sleep, sleep and have a blast!!!


Monday, September 19, 2011

Teething

::Saturday Korwin broke through his first two bottom teeth. Makes sense now why he was so grumpy. I really wish he didn't have to be like his brother and start at four months...oh well, hopefully they'll all come fast and we can have a happy baby again soon.
::Hubby left this morning for Mississippi for some more training.  Not excited at all, he'll be gone till late Friday night. :( I hate being home alone.  I guess my parents will see a lot of me this week!  they shouldn't complain i mean they get to see two of the cutest grandkids.
::Jayden is starting to talk alllllllll the time now.  Have to be super careful what we let him hear since he repeats EVERYTHING!  He loves going to nursery and basically begs all through sacrament to go. A little nervous when he starts as a sunbeam in January and doesn't go to nursery anymore, it'll be interesting..bless those sunbeam teachers because Look out there is some little devils coming your way next year.
::I really should post some pictures but i don't feel like digging out my camera since i'm just that lazy and tired. I shouldn't complain but Korwin still gets up 2 times a night.  Like clockwork its every 4 hours, its exhausting.  I don't 'remember what its like to have more than 4 hours of sleep at a time. Such is the life i wanted so i shall complain no more!
:: have i mentioned that i love love love having internet at home and being able to have netflix, its been a lifesaver lately.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Brothers?

They Couldn't be related could they?   

Just a little bit

I finally got all the pictures downloaded and after I saw all the pictures i needed to go through i got a bit overwhelmed, so I'm must gonna do a little bit at a time as i go through the pictures.  The most current ones i see are of Korwin in his blessing tux. He was blessed the first part of August- he was almost 3 months old- but most of our families were able to come so it was worth the wait.  Anyways, here he is in all his red headed glory!

Just love the outfit, makes his red hair stand out....oh dear

fun at the summer simplot party with uncle ty
So i gotta give a shout-out to my awesome little brother.  He took jayden down this huge blow up slide thing with a broken leg mind you.  Just a week prior my brother was in an ATV accident -well it was one of the bigger Rhino type ones- and he ended up snapping his leg right below the knee.  Strange they didn't cast it and even told him to walk on it...either way, he was a rockstar for climbing up the stair things and taking my little boy down so i could get a picture.  You rock little bro!

Cheesing it up.

He wants to drive the big haul trucks when he grows up...uh-oh is right.

Taking it easy on the 4-wheeler ride....strange kid

I'm going to add a video in which you turn off the volume since its just us making noise but to explain  when Korwin gets in any type of shade it makes his eyes go huge.  I'm talking you walk from room to room and his eyes will momentarily go huge with the slight light change.  Anyway, we think its funny so just enjoy a tid bit.




Thursday, September 1, 2011

Very Odd

::Well no pictures today, haven't gotten to the point of putting all our pictures on this computer...maybe this weekend.
::its very odd thinking we have internet, having it on our phones i thought was enough and now i can't believe we didn't take the leap and get actual dsl at home before now.
:: i am LOVING having netflix.  Already i have watched 4 episodes of Grey's Anatomy. I love that show, not sure why but i do.
:: Jayden loves having netflix since that means endless amounts of Backyardigans and such....we'll be fighting over who gets to watch what i'm afraid
::We recently spoiled ourselves and bought us our early early Christmas presents.  We splurged and bought ourselves some tablets, no offense but no stinking Ipad...way cooler Android one...LOVE IT!
::feel a litte guilty buying them but we've been married going on 5 years and this is our first true gifts to ourselves/eachother
::Getting way excited to go to the NFR in december.  This will be the Honeymoon we didn't get to have!  Stoked.  A little nervous/sad leaving the boys with grandparents for 4 days (Jayden is a handful) but it'll be sooo worth the break!
::In a Few weeks the hubby is heading to Mississippi for some more training...not very excited, its a Monday morning to a late Friday night type of week.  I'm already overwhelmed at the thought.
:: i really shouldn't  complain, i'm rather spoiled be able to have my hubby home every night (execpt scout nights) and for the most part every weekend...but i'm blessed to be spoiled.
:: its 9:30 both boys are asleep so i'm about to do the same....zzzzz night blogland