Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The Incredible Mr. Fox

Tara came out to Utah for a little visit and we were able to finally meet our nephew Fox!!! He is the only other grandchild on the Marshall side. Fox is Tara and Bryce's boy.Curtis and Bryce must have similar voices, because as soon as Curtis talked, Fox wanted to be with him.
He is so dang cute. He is such a chill little boy.
Ocean was especially excited to meet Fox. She kept saying, "oh my gosh mom, Fox is so cute. He should stay here"
Fox isn't a year old yet, but he already looks bigger than Nali bugs. I think he probably weighs more too.
First time all of the cousins were together. Hopefully they can be together again soon.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

birthdays

Curtis was really sick on his birthday and eneded up at the hospital. He had to get some tests done and they didn't want him to eat. So he went hungry for his birdthday. Sad kid, these are the only pictures I got of him on his birthday.
Ocean's Birthday on the other hand was really fun. The day before her birthday we had a tea party. She invited some porcelain dolls, Marley, and Grandma.
If you want to invite someone who is super fun to a tea party, I would highly reccommend Grandma Penney. She brings cupcakes, baloons, and she wears a pink wig.
Ocean's birthday breakfast. She wanted to have chocolate chip pankcakes on the deck. Curtis woke her up and we had it all ready, she was so excited!!
Ocean's birthday party was super fun. Thanks to everyone who came. She loved having the kids come over and play. Her favorite part was being able to give her birthday baloons to the angels.
I think Nali ate to many birthday cupcakes.
Ocean loved her presents. Whenever she plays with one she comes and tells me who gave it to her.

Hawaii 2010

Tobler Family Vacation this year. 10 adults, 8 kids under 7, and one on the way! We went to Kona Village on the Big Island and it was a blast.
Walking out of our hut.
We went to the temple on Monday and had Family Home Evening on the grass.
Ocean told us that she wants to be married here. Start saving your pennies sweetheart.
Ocean loved waking up in the morning and getting her swimsuit on. She was always ready to swim.
Nali loved the beach and playing in the sand.
Dinner at sunset everynight. Beacuse of the time change there was only one or two dinners that Nali actually came to. Most of the time she would fall asleep.
After sunset there was a mantaray that would come out right here. Ocean liked watching him come out.
The turtles loved this beach. There were three or four on the beach most of the time. While we were learning to windsurf, they would come and swim around our legs. The kids loved finding all the turtles and naming them.
This is the pool that we took over for the week. It was mostly old retired people there, and they didn't want to be around kids. So, we took this pool and old mean people went to the other one. It was great to have the whole place to ourselves.
Curtis and Ocean hanging out at the beach.
I got buried by Curtis and all the kids, and than one by one all the kids got buried. I couldn't find a picture of all of us. My favorite part was when Curtis buried his head and did a headstand. The kids were freaking out the Curtis' head fell off.
Daddy and Nali out the resort.
My brother the super dad. He has three kids sleeping on him on the plane ride home. What a fun trip we had!!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Dentistry From the Heart 2010

On the first Saturday of every May, Stonehaven Dental opens its doors and does FREE dentistry. Dentists, Hygentists, assistants, and volunteers all donate their talents and time and come and help us put on this great event. Companies from across the valley also help out to make this an awesome day. We were able to see 176 patients and gave away thousands and thousands of dollars worth of dentistry. What a great day!
The original Stonehaven Dental team. Not in the picture Ashley and Brooke.
This is Dr. Dave (he works at Stonehaven) and Ron (He almost works at Stonehaven). They both were super busy all day. It was fun to have them both there.
The best part about having Ema there was that it was a super crazy day and there were people everywhere. But, no matter where Ema was I could here her laugh and I was quickly able to find her. Nate has a new amazing camera that he hid behind the whole day.
This is Dr Eric asking Dr. Nate how many patients he had seen. I still don't know the final count.
Curtis put this whole thing together and I am super proud of everything that he was able to do. This is a great way that our entire family is able to serve our community. This is a weekend that we all look forward to. I love being able to serve right along side my husband and family.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

April Showers

So I downloaded my pics in starting with the end of the month.
Here is the end result. After 4 surgeries, 2 hospital stays for a week, 1 failed skin graft, 1 skin graft taken from her stomach, and all Nali got was this scar on her hand. It doesn't look like much, but we are glad that the graft finally took. It is nice to not have to do dressing changes and have her hooked up to machines anymore.
This is Ema. She is super excited to be hanging out at my birthday party.
We went to Pirate Island for my birthday party and Curtis took the girls to play games so that I could just sit at the booth. Best birthday present ever. I went to go and see what everyone was up to and there was a crowd gathered. I figured I would go and check it out, and when I went over there I realized Curtis was the one everyone was watching. He was playing some car game and doing well...I guess. He was the envy of every thirteen year old boy there. One kid said "dude this guy is good, and he has kids!!"
Everyone thinks that crazy parties involve Vegas. I think that parties get super crazy when you have ten kids under the age of 6 having a good time and running wild. That's a crazy party.
One of the week hospital stays. Nali is hooked up to a machine that kept her hand insolated. So exhausting keeping her happy in the hospital. All of the nurses knew her and would play peek-a-boo and hide and seek with her.
Ocean was able to come up and play with Nali. They loved going for wagon rides and playing in the playroom.
When Nali wakes up from sedation, she is a banshee. She screams and throws tantrums. Who can blame her. Here grandma is trying to calm her down and she has just thrown her crackers.
Favorite thing at the hospital. Wagon rides. We confiscated a wagon for the week and kept her blankets and stuff in it.
This is her hand after the last debridment. They had taken the skin, fat, and some muscle out. It was getting really close to the tendons and the doctor was worried about her hand movement. Luckily it wasn't in the tendon, and with hand therapy she should have 100% movement of her hand again.
Yay!!!! I love this picture. This was my birthday present to my friend Tara. I have been working on it since Novemeber. Her birthday was the 28th of April but I was to excited to wait so I gave it to her a couple of weeks early.
Hundreds of hours working on the quilt. So fun. This is Nali helping me handstich the quilt.
Curtis and Dad took the Aspen tree out that was in front of our house. I think it looks much better without the tree.
We drove the 4-wheeler to the neighborhood easter egg hunt. Now we just need to move into a double wide and we will be set.
Ocean at the easter egg hunt. Curtis and let her practice at our house and she was so funny. She wouldn't stop and just pick up all the eggs around her. She had to keep running.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

March Madness

Trying to keep a 14 month old entertained at a hospital for five days is tough! We did a lot of wagon rides. I would pull her all over the floor and she would wave at everyone with her bandaged hand as we passed them. I was going to put a picture of her hand on here, but it is pretty graphic. She has several more surgeries to go.
Now I don't care who you are, this is just cute.
We thought that they would have to take Nali's skin graft from her thigh or bum, so I thought "what the heck, I guess I should potty train her". Guess what? It's working!! HA. Funny thing is they are going to take the graft from her head, so there really was no need to potty train her. No sense it quitting the training now.
So many captions for this picture, so little time.
Trouble with a capital T.
Ocean wanted to hold Nali and they would both laugh and laugh.
This is Ocean's new favorite outfit that she wears whenever she is outside. She call is her "beautiful jacket".
Sadly, we weren't able to snowboard again this year, but we did get to go up to Sundance and get our stuff.
Ocean kicking it. I think she has had the hardest time this past moth. She is such a trooper.
Denali is happy that she is not in the hospital, getting surgery, taking medicine, or having anyone change her bandages. She is a sweet angel and we love her so much!!!
What a CRAZY month.