Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween Halloween Trick or Treat!

Halloween this year was SO much fun! We took Jaden trick or treating for his first time and he had a blast! The festivities lasted all week long and boy was he tired tonight! Here are some fun pictures!

This is Jaden at Gardner Village in his costume! He was a lion,,,,but I can't tell you how many people this week came up to us and said "Oh what a cute little tiger"...really? Come on people...
Also..as you will notice throughout all these pictures....every time Jaden has his costume on...he has a sucker in his mouth, let me tell you why.... It is the only way I could get him to keep his mane on and well lets be honest you do what you have to do! Isn't he SO cute though!?!?

With the pumpkin


He's a Clegg...Here he is kissing his friend Kate


Wednesday night was the Buck Family Halloween party! We don't do costumes, but we do Halloween shirts, Pumpkin patches, pumpkin decorating and soup bowls! It is always so much fun! Especially since all the cousins are around the same age! This year Rachela nd Lee couldn't make it but they were greatly missed!

Here are all the kids together (minus Meg)

Miss Libby Lou
Jaden and Libby


Cute little Haylie

Jaden with his pumpkin


Jaden's serious face with his pumpkin


Oh there's that smile! He lived tearing the eyes off his pumpkin after mom glued them!
My sisters always do such a great job coming up with ways for the kids to decorate, this year we tried pipe cleaners!


Another attempted family photo...we really don't have the best luck with these!

Friday night was the Clegg Halloween Party! We went trunk or treating with the cousins! It was SO cold but Jaden had a great time! Since he is too young to say "trick or treat", he tried to say "Peese" and "tatu" at every car!

With McKell, she takes such great care of him!


Jaden and Nathan


The little lion ready to go!


Daddy was a great help...Jaden has been very attatched to him lately! Shawn doesn't seem to mind though!
Since we had such a busy week we tried to keep today pretty low key,(sorry no pics) we went out to breakfast, helped put up the boat cover and played with cousins...came home for a failed attempt at a nap and then headed to hang out with friends! Trunk or treating was enough for us so we didn''t make Jaden treck the cold again! All in all it was a great Halloween! Hope yours was just as fun!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Scarecrow Festival!

I love fall! It is deffinately my favorite time of year! Winter is too cold, summer gets too hot, when spring comes you are so sick of winter that you just want it to be hot, so you spend the whole season wishing it was summer, but fall I feel like you really get to enjoy. If you are like me you are not ready for the cold yet, but so thankful for the break from the heat! The trees change colors and everything is beautiful! I love it! I also love all fall festivities!
Well, since Jaden's surgery, he has been going crazy staying inside! He has just wanted to get out of the house and go play! So today we headed to the Scarecrow Festival @ Thanksgiving Point! This is one of my favorite fall festivities and I was SO excited! (PS I hope you are all VERY impressed! 3 posts in less than 2 weeks...ya) Unfortunately before we left Jaden was in some pain so by the time we got there he was on lortab and quite wabbly...but he still had fun, here are some pictures of our day!

Dad and Jaden

Jaden is a soccer aholic here is "popping" the ball

and dribbling

and stopping to say "cheeee"
I took him on one of the huge slides....not such a fan...maybe next year
He wanted to climb up himself and did not want mom to carry him

We went fishing with Nemo and daddy!

One of many failed attempts at a family photo!

I think Jaden's 2 favorite things were the train (longest line ever) and his balloon! Suprisingly we only lost one to the clouds!
Shawn was such a trooper and missed the first 30 minutes of the BYU game so we could go...
We had such a wonderful time with great food and family! I love being able to make family memories like this and can't wait for Halloween! I love fall!

Jaden was done by the time we left but we thought we would try one more family picture...
Again....maybe next year!


Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Jaden's Big Day

So today was the day. We got to Primary's at 7:45 They checked Jaden in and told us his surgery wasnt until 930. Since he hadn't eaten or drank anything since the night before we had to keep him busy or we would have trouble! They dressed him in his little hospital jammies and we went to wait in the toy room. The time actually went by quite fast, thank goodness and before we knew it, it was time.

Mom getting Jaden dressed

Jaden thought the socks would be more fun in his mouth than on his feet.

A really cute thing the nurses did was tag jaden's special frog's foot (this is the stuffed animal we got him at Primary's in March when he had rsv) just like they tagged his foot... they're so good!


Jaden loved the toy room...he had no idea what was coming!


At about 930 things got not so fun, I handed Jaden off to the anesthesiologist and had to go out one set of doors while he was sitting there crying and reaching for me... then i cried. It was so hard to let him go and know that he had to be put out. Even though it was a minor out patient surgery I was a wreck. I'm so grateful Shawn had the day off, I couldn't have done it without him.

Then we waited...his surgery lasted about 45 minutes, and then the dr came to talk to us. He said everything went well and that Jaden was in the recovery room but that only one of us could go back to see him until they transfered hiim to post op. Luckily my husband is the sweetest and let me go back. When i got back there he was sitting with a cute little recovery nurse drinking some apple juice. What a relief! We headed into post op and shawn met us there. Jaden drank and drank and drank until he threw up...so unfortunately we had to stay a little bit longer than expected so we could get him some nausea medicine! Well after all that he crashed!


We finally got discharged around 130 and headed home! Jaden thought riding in the wagon to the car was pretty cool...but he was also kinda drugged!


Daddy and Jaden
I was amazed at what a good mood he was in...he's such a trooper!


It was so nice to get home and all in all turned out a lot better than we expected! He was so brave and we are so proud of him! He hit on all the nurses and they just loved him! We couldn't have asked for a better team of dr and nurses taking care of him and just can't say enough about how great Primary Children's is!

When we got home we gave Jaden some pain medicine and just planned on a low key afternoon... I thought for sure he would just want to snuggle like at the hospital! I was SO wrong! Apparently lortab doesn't effect my child like that. he was SO wired and so funny! It's like he's drunk! He has been hilarious all afternoon, walking crooked, jumping all around, what a riot! We are so thankful this was such a smooth experience, I know tomorrow is a new day and I don't know exactly how that will go, but i feel so blessed he was watched over and all went well...

Here is a pic of Jaden wired! I really should have videoed him...

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Fall Festivities

We have been up to so many fun things...unfortunately blogging has not been one of them...sorry I really am working on it though! Anyways here is a fun picture update of some of the things we have been doing...enjoy!

Jaden and Miss Elizabeth!


Jaden Libby Dylan and Haylie


Give the boy a balloon and he's happy!



Or a sucker...

I LOVE this boy!!!!
He is enjoying this time of year SO much! I love being able to watch him explore
and discover and really get into things! I can't imagine
life without him!

Elephant Parade

This year we actually made it to the Elephate parade at the Gateway and I am SO glad we did! It was so fun and only like 5 minutes long (which was perfect for a toddler) and a big hit with Jaden...he growled at them the entire time! (for those of you who don't know Jaden believes that EVERY animal says GRRRRR)

Mom and Little J

See those teeth....love it!

Some family and friends that came to check out the parade with us
thanks guys!

I love the Mountains

A couple weeks ago we took the kids up to Silver Lake! They loved it and we really should have started doing things like this before it turned ya know...FREEZING! Oh well.

I love him!

Libby Danica, and Jaden
Just checking things out.

Jaden loves being outside and we really just couldn't get enough

Haylie and Jaden...
I can only imagine the trouble these two will make together when
they get a little bigger!

We LOVE Thanksgiving Point!

Enjoying time with the cousins


Dino Museum


Brynlee and Jaden...