Sick Baby

Things around here have been pretty normal lately. Except for poor Aiden caught croup from one of his little friends, so it's been a rough few days. He has had a fever constantly unless he's on Tylenol, coughing up a lung, and generally whiny and miserable. :( He hasn't really slept at night for days, and poor Adam was up all night with him last night. Hopefully he will start to get better soon, but until then we just have to keep on trucking!
Adam is now halfway through his second block of classes! This one has about done him in, but he's still going strong. I am so proud of him and all that he is endeavoring towards!
We are hoping to take a trip to Florida in April, for our 5th anniversary and we are so excited! We're going to take Aiden with us and just hang out and spend time with Adam's brothers that live there. It will be super cute for Aiden to play with and get to know his cousins down there, and it doesn't hurt that Florida is pretty much the best place ever =)

Busy Busy Busy!

Things have gotten busy around here! Last week Adam, Aiden and I spent the week in Los Angeles for the Neurofeedback training. It was so fun! I was so incredibly glad that they were there! Every single day I came back and told Adam probably seven times that I was so happy they came. 

Sunday our plane got in about 10 am, so we decided to splurge and hit Disneyland for a one day deal with just the three of us. We have never gone on a family vacation without Brandon, so that was the best feeling ever to just be a family with the three of us. Aiden LOVED it! He thought it was the best thing ever to hear all the music and watch the parade and ride the rides. He loved every ride except for Pirates of the Caribbean, which scared him and made him cry. But everything else he thought was awesome!

We rented a Town & Country while we were there because they couldn't find our reserved rental car. We absolutely loved it! Ever since we got back and I've been back in my car I've been thinking about that van! Which is so funny because I'm so not a van person! But this van is the luxury of all vans. Loads of space, loads of storage, DVD player, captain seats, etc etc etc. It was legit. : ) So, needless to say, that will be our next vehicle as soon as we break down and buy it. 

Updates!

Updates!

Holy cow, it's been forever since I've blogged! I knew it would be hard to keep up, but I didn't think it would be this bad! So, that being said, there have been a few things that have happened this year, that are really awesome!

First and foremost, Aiden turned 1 in October! He is now 15 1/2 months and is so incredible! He walks/runs and will talk your ear off! He knows so many words, like please, cracker, eat (sign and talk!), shoe, and signs "I love you," which is so stinking cute! He knows pretty much all of his body parts and when he gets hurt will bring you the part that hurts to kiss it better : )  He is so incredibly wonderful and brings so much joy to our lives every day! 

I finally finished my practicum in October, and since then haven't had to work very much, only about 12-15 hours a week, so I get to spend lots of time with my little boy and I LOVE it!! Last year was so incredibly hard being gone from him so much and missing so many new little things he would do. I was  super lucky that he was at least either with Adam or with my cousin MaryAnn, who is now his second mom thank goodness! I would have had a much harder time if it would've been a stranger for sure! 

I also finished my master's degree finally! This was such a huge accomplishment for me, and the last semester was the hardest because I was so completely DONE with all of it! I felt like I was squeezing out a tiny  hole to get out of there! But it was all worth it, and now I get to go to a Neurofeedback training in LA next week with Adam and Aiden and do some great things with that, which will be really cool. Basically I get to learn how to hook people's brains up to electrodes and their brains train themselves to be higher functioning. Super cool stuff : )

January has been an awesome month for Adam! He started a different master's program in HR at USU and loves it! He is so excited about what he can do with it, and already has huge plans! I'm so proud of him! The other great thing is he got a job! When I had Aiden and we got our foster kid and I was pregnant with Aiden, we decided that he would quit work and be a stay at home dad. Well, that didn't really work so well for him, he's much too much of a doer, so sitting around all day wasn't the best : ) He got a job at Dixon that was from November to May of last year when school ended, and then the job was not there anymore. Then in September he got a job at UVU in their athletics dept, but only worked a few hours here and there, and that went away in December when he got done with the semester. But now he's working at Property Solutions with his brother McKay and loving it already! He has so many awesome plans and ideas, and again I'm so proud of him! 

We also went on a really really really AWESOME trip in December, but that'll be a different post, cuz this one's already way long! : ) Thanks for reading! 

But in the meantime, a couple pictures