Happy Thanksgiving!

From the Huishs
Well Michael has stepped out for a minute to call his family and I took this opportunity to catch up and Blog before Michael and I begin the cooking for today.

I am so grateful for day set aside to just express gratitude. This year has been a year full of wonderful experiances, choice blessings, trials that have made me grow and tender mercies. I cannot express fully how grateful I am to My heavenly father for his wonderful gifts handpicked for me

What I am most grateful for is my wonderful family

Happy Holidays!

little helper

(This is the face he makes everytime I try to take his picture)

Michael Dunn has turned into one of the busiest and intense kids I have ever seen- I am sure he will follow in his mommas footsteps with some OCD tendencies. Here are some of the things he MUST accomplish, usually daily.

• Bring the trashcan into the bathroom ( He saw me do it a couple of times when I wanted him to stop digging in it) So now I guess he assumes that is where the trashcan is suppose to be
  
• Load the washer up with clothes (Or the dryer-once I was unloading the dryer just to come back and find dirty towels on to of all my clean clothes)
  
• Help me wash dishes-He stands at the sink and swirls a spoon in the water and tosses dirty dishes into the sink if I am not washing fast enough
• rotates my food storage. Despite all my best efforts he continues to get into my food storage-now he goes further, he moves the cans into the kitchen and puts them on an empty shelf next to the sink. He really is SO observant! He watches me when I get food out of storage and always head to the sink where I drain the cans
  
• cleans out my bathroom drawer-He constantly is digging my drawer trying to get out all of my q-tips. They started out in the box I bought them in, but now have been scattered all over the bathroom
• Helps Grandma at her desk. He sits faithfully beside her and moves things he can touch and tries to wedge cards into the printer

Everything he does he does it so seriously and deliberate-it is almost like a chore he must complete before he can go play! It cracks me up to watch him in action and to see him mimic me so much!

any recommendations

I have been trying to look online at 2009 upcoming half marathons in Texas, and have found a few but want to participate in one that is going to be something I can accomplish- I am not good with running up and down hills-at least not for long distances, and since I live in a town that is flat I dont really have a way to work on that. So i am looking for a first timer freindly, mostly flat half marathon in Texas-Any ideas?

my cowboys :)

We had fun with Uncle Ammons hat! some of the pictures are washed out-but here we are as the TRUE Texas Huish family


not a great picture of me-but one of the only ones of MD in the hat-he isnt in trouble, i was trying to keep him in my lap and just happened to grab his arms that way
I have some cute kids!!!

Angels to surround you

Wendsday I took Hyrum in for his circumcision and voiding cystogram. Neither was very serious but I was pretty nervous- I hated the idea of having my 5 month old go under anesthesia. last week I asked my dad to give Hyrum a blessing and in the blessing Hyrum was told that "Angels would Surround him" during this time. It was a huge comfort to me.

When I got to the hospital I found out that his nurse was my neighbor down the street and a member of our church! We also had as his anesthesiologist a member of the bishopric in the ward I attend. I felt overwhelm when I realized that quite literally the Lord had surrounded Hyrum with "angels" it was a sweet blessing and a wonderful comfort to me.

"I ask everyone within the sound of my voice to take heart, be filled with faith, and remember the Lord has said He “would fight [our] battles, [our] children’s battles, and [the battles of our] children’s children.”
"But when we speak of those who are instruments in the hand of God, we are reminded that not all angels are from the other side of the veil. Some of them we walk with and talk with—here, now, every day. Some of them reside in our own neighborhoods." Elder Jeffrey R. Holland October general Conference


I am so grateful for this sweet gift to our little family.

Twilight Spoof

OK my sister found this HILARIOUS website- I hope this isn't too offensive to the true twilight lovers out there, but since it is all in fun-I hope you enjoy!
twilight spoof
remember to click on more to read the full dialogue

Who would have thought?

Hmm sometimes it is funny to me when I look back at Michael and my pictures and think that we ended up together. I know I was not the type of girl he would have dated in high school-with my bleached hair and orange skin :) it was probably good I didn't marry anyone who knew me then. Funny thing is He swears he would have fallen for me in High school-Ha I DOUBT that!

I think I am 13 - my freshman year-YIKES!!!

getting older....

I believe this is him in His Senior, my Junior year. The basketball hunk, and the gimpy soccer player (I believe I was out this season due to a torn ACL)
And the year before we met-Him on his mission, and me in my Sophmore year of college


And we evolved into this :) I think this picture is funny- It looks like I am posing-which I wasnt :)

On the way

Michael left from Gardez today and is on his way home!!! He is actually still in Afghanistan but will be in Kuwait shortly. It will still take him the couple of weeks of travel and the week in Fort Bragg but he is on his way!

My Beanie Baby

The camera on my computer has sure come in handy since my camera broke! Here is my sweet little man in his cute hat :)

About halfway through the reunion Hyrum started getting sick- He was projectile vomiting, drinking only watered down apple juice, he was running a fever that reached 103.5 under the arm and was completely lethargic. I finally called my doctor in Texas to see what needed to be done (He was on Tylenol but it wasn't doing much-he still had a fever) Anyway I thought I would be told to keep him on medicine for awhile and keep him hydrated (That is usually the advice I get when MD is sick) however because Hyrum was so young, only 3 months at the time, they told me to take him to the emergency room. In we went and was told 4 1/2 hours later that he had a Urinary Tract Infection. Poor kid-but he did so well. I took this picture at the hospital with my phone so it is not the best quality.
Anyway since we have been home we have been going to doctors appointments trying to figure out what needs to be done-Wednesday Hyrum had an ultrasound (Where he completely charmed every person he passed-we had 4 women sit and coo at him before we were called back, an ultrasound tech who sat and laughed through the whole procedure and then called her friend in to see Hyrum and then we were ambushed as we left by the group of women asking about Hyrum and hoping for the best:) We had an appointment where we set up a time for Hyrum to be circumcised next Wednesday, and then after that the test where we find out if Hyrum has Kidney reflux. It will be nice when this is all over with :) Luckily Hyrum really is a trooper.

Well I have been side tracked by life and haven't finished the trip that I made to Utah. We had a Huish reunion that most of the family was able to make it for. Unfortunately I lost my camera about halfway through the Utah trip and only found it AFTER the reunion :) Here are some pictures that I pulled off of My sister in Laws Blog-Thanks Callie

Michael had SO MUCH FUN with all of his cousins. He loved waking up in the morning and seeing his cousins there first thing. He was happy ALL THE TIME and played so hard that he took 2 long naps a day. It was so nice to see him enjoying himself-Made me more excited for Hyrum to get older so they each have a playmate. I guess that is just one of the many blessings of having two children as close together as we did :) Anyway here the red wagon in the picture was a huge hit- The kids loved playing in it.
Sweet Hyrum-Was such a good boy-He was/is always so happy and mellow. Sometimes I feel bad for MD because he gets a bad reputation for being a grump because Hyrum is so stinkin happy it makes everyone look grumpy in comparison.

Here are some pictures I forgot to post earlier


Here are all the new Grandbabies on the Huish side-All within 2 months of each other
Michael has started getting into hats-I love that he will wear them- Couldn't get a good picture of his face though

Sorry

Ok Michael just got on and saw my blog and thinks I dress Hyrum too much like a girl (He is referring to me dressing him as a lamb for Halloween. A lamb with pink on it) so I want to publicly apologize if I have done anything that would make Hyrum look like a girl

Huish Happenings

There have been some fun things that I have watched going on in our family that I have failed to document. I love the idea of having this blog as a book for my children to go through and read growing up, and I have realized that I need to do better so here are some of the goings on in our house.

MD: The other day he once AGAIN got into the food storage (That is this kids FAVORITE place to be and toy to play with-probably because it is off-limits :) I saw him and said in a very stern voice:
"Michael Dunn get out of there NOW!" (We have gone through this WAY to many times)
His response was to look the other way, smile and close his eyes
I repeated "Get out of there NOW!!!!"
This time he looked at me, GIGGLED and then closed his eyes
It was then I realized he was acting out the "if I cant see you, you cant see ME" routine-It worked for a couple of seconds while I tried to control my laughter long enough to manually remove him.(Not a picture of him in my food storage, but a fun picture I found when I was packing to come back home :)

Also the other day I was on my computer recording MD singing his "oleoleole" song and at the end I said "Merry Christmas Daddy!" and he looked at the camera and said " Ti-tis Daeee!"

Hyrum is at such a FUN stage- he is so squirmy and grabby-Constantly grabs my hair (And of course he grabs the spot that is most sensitive on my head) and then lunges for my face-Forgot to mention that he is HEAVY into teething, so when he lunges at my face it is usually to attach himself to my chin (Or cheek, or nose, whatever happens to be in his line of lunging) and the suctions onto my face and gnaws happily until I pull away.

Both kids love getting into whatever I am using at the moment- but their favorite thing is my makeup- I give both of them something that I am not currently using and then try to apply my makeup in one minute increments-until it is time to give them a new item because they have gotten bored, and in MDs case he starts climbing all over me trying to grab what I am using.

I am good- Happy and staying busy-Only one month until Michael gets home!

Halloween

The first two pictures were taken right before the ward Halloween Party.

I had a leash on him and surprisingly he liked it! I think He figured if he was wearing a leash that meant we were going to go outside. These two kids fight like crazy but they have their moments- They have their arms around each other

Laurie had a Little Lamb......