First day of Preschool

Every Tuesday at 2:00 pm Kortney goes to Preschool and is there for not long at all. Ever since Kortney was sick with the bacterial spinal menigitus the doctors said that the medication that she had to use would either effect her sight, hearing, speach. So far it has only effected her speach and she has been getting help with that. she is in the Jordan Valley Development Center program and i am so happy with the program because she is trying harder and wanting to do more words we are still not caught up yet but we are sure close to it. She has homework (i have homework) every week coloring, reading, word sounds to do every week and she loves it.

mean face

this is kortney's mean face or so she thinks it is! her cousin conner has a mean and it is alot meaner but she tries her hardest to be mean.
this is her after face after trying to be mean and trying not to laugh... she has a very big personality you all are missing out....

*poseing*

this is her always pose when she gets her picture taken by me. and when she is wanting to take your picture she makes you do the pose as well or your tongue out but the hand is ALWAYS by the face...

2008 fair

This year at the fair was really warm and fun. This year it was Brooks, Brianne, Conner, Me, Kortney, Colby, Camie, Carlie at the fair it was so much fun. Kortney loves when Nana and Papa take her down the street to see the goats that someone has. at the fair she loves that she gets to be up close to them, pet them and hear the sounds they make are just so fun!. I love the fact that if she could pick a animal she would want a goat maybe thats what she should really be for halloween this year is a goat but yet again there is no face painting!. This year the "Grandparents" could not make it with all the kids because Nana was sick and Papa had to work really late but they were oh so very missed...

Kortney's Tonsils out

Does this picture just not make you want to cry. On September 4, 2008 at 1:30p.m Kortney got her tonsils taken out at Primary Children's Hospital because she always was sick with strep throat, her tonsils and adenoids were so big. We got to Primaries at 11:00 am to check in and it took until 1:30 to get her back. I have to say it is so hard to let your child go with a complete stranger with a panic look in her face of fear that you will not come back. my mom and i went and got some lunch because the doctor and everyone said they would be 45min- 1 hour so we thought we were safe to go grab some lunch. we were gone maybe 25 mins and hurried back upstairs to wait and they said they have been looking for us for 10 mins and that Kortney was done and i can go back. as i was walking back to where she was with the nurse i could just hear the cry of my little baby in pain, as i rounded the corner i saw her and i just wanted to cry for her she looked in pain and they were giving her medication. my first words were can i hold her please? her nurse helped my into a chair because at this time i was still on crutches so i was not very movable! after everything was calm and she saw that i was there she was still crying but she was more worried i was going to touch her IV then the pain in her throat. but with in 15 mins she was out of recovery and in the ICU and was not crying until she heard the sweet voice of her Nana. she sat right up and was looking for her then once they locked eyes she started to cry again like "Nana can you believe what they did to me!" so when cartoons were on we could not get much juice in her but we did get 3 popsicles in her that was good i had to bite them off but one right after another. This whole time she would not sleep because of the fear someone was going to come in and do something to her. so we didn't get to leave until 3:00 and once we hit the car she was out, we didn't get home until 4:30 so it was a very long day. Once we got home she was ready to just sleep would not eat just sleep! everyone came over to see her but she was not much company until her uncle Colby came over and she knows that Colby=play. but it was not a long play she didn't have much in her. On September 11, 2008 we had to make a trip back up to Primary ER because Kortney was having a fever, not peeing, not eating, not drinking, nothing she just wanted to sleep. So me being a worrying mother i called and they said we need to see her please. so her we go at 6 pm up to Primaries to be check and everyone knows that a ER visit is not a in out thing its you come and stay for many hours. we didn't leave until 1 am. HOWEVER i am a very nice daughter and i thought oh since it is raining i will go get the car for my mother and sick child. i am walking out with everything and was doing really good until i fell. yes my feet swept from underneath me bent my bad knee all the way back and then a nice twist, not fun at all. so two really nice men helped me into the wheel chair i had put my mother in and she walked me out to the car and we didn't get home until 2am. WHAT A GREAT NIGHT, ONE TO REMEMBER!

(waiting to check in for surgery) (after check in, waiting to go back to room)

( in ICU recovering, nana gave her a soft zebra she would not let him go his name is strips)