And she's off....

Averien officially started crawling September 19th, 2011. She for over a month and a half has been getting up on all fours and would rock back and forth. A week before she started crawling she went a foot or two but then would lay on her belly. On the 19th, she crawled 5 feet and after that she really took off. She is so happy to be crawling. She loves to follow everybody around the house and crawl to her toys and play with them.

I really love these pictures of Averien and Rachel playing at the stairs together. Averien kept smiling and laughing. Averien would put her face right up to Rachel's through the banister.

Averien has just gotten so much cuter since she started crawling around. She loves to roam the house but at all times needs to know where you are. She is also our human vacuum since starting to crawl. We have to make sure the entire house is vacuumed all the time and the kitchen floor is swept. She puts everything in her mouth. It makes us have to watch her all the time now.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Rachel had a doctor's appointment at Shriner's hospital on May 5th. It was in the middle of the week and Enoch wasn't able to come so Grandpa Fisher (who was staying with us for a couple of weeks) came with Averien, Rachel and I. We had to leave at 5:30 in the morning to make it in time for Rachel's appointment. The drive down to Utah went really well and the appointments went good. After her appointment we ate and then at the last minute decided to go and visit the church museum. Rachel had never been before and she really loved it. We had a lot of fun. The kids section was so much fun. They had dancing and other fun interactive sites. I want to go back with the rest of the family. Kaelen and Jacob would love it. Rachel really loved looking at all the church history items. She loved seeing things that the pioneers brought with them but also things from when the church was first organized. She also loved looking and learning about all of our prophets. We were able to see a replica of the pulpit at the conference center. The museum also had a quilting exhibit going on. They had quilts from the early pioneers to quilts made out of the tags from the back of shirts. It was so amazing. They had on display dresses from the 1800's as well that were all sewn by hand and worn as wedding dresses and for church. It was really cool. We had so much fun all of us together. Averien was really good as well. We always go to Utah at least 2 times a year and we never look at church sites. We need to next time with the whole family stop and visit temple square and other church sites near by. Heck we have never even seen the conference center. We need to all see that for sure and maybe even go to conference in it.

Funny Kaelen

Kaelen is always making us laugh. He will put on the funniest things but also do the funniest things. He will put on random things and run around the house in it. He will dance around and act crazy when he doesn't think we are watching. It is fun to just watch him and see what he does. He found my shower cap and put it on his head and danced around with it on like it was a hat. He also put on my rain boots while wearing nothing but his pajama shirt and diapers. It was so funny.
Kaelen loves grapes and strawberries. He is always in the fridge grabbing them out and then eating them where ever. He will take the entire grape bag with him to different rooms to the house to eat. When we have strawberries we will always find the carton of strawberries on the kitchen floor with half of the strawberry eaten and the rest back in the plastic carton. It is annoying that he does that but also so cute and funny at the same time. I am glad he at least does it with fruit instead of chocolate or other candy.

Broken Elbow

Rachel broke her elbow on Monday April 17th. It was in the evening while we were getting everybody ready for bed. I was in the kitchen doing dishes and Enoch was going outside to put something in the mail box. We heard a few thud. I thought that one of the boys had fallen but they were both in the kitchen near me. When I went around the corner Rachel was in the middle of the living room floor laying down holding her elbow. She said that she missed the couch and fell on the ground. We thought that she had just hit her funny bone. I even laughed. After a while though she started crying and holding it more. We kept trying to figure out what happened too because we didn't quite understand what happened. She went to fall back on the couch and missed it completely and fell and hit her elbow. She hit it just perfectly that she broke it.

Enoch kept saying that he didn't think it was broken because she could move it. Well we looked on the Internet and the only time you can't move it when you break something is if there is nerve damage. Enoch after that took her to urgent care. When they left the house she was really crying.

They came home an hour and a half later with a broken elbow in a sling not even a splint, pain pills and then told us to call in the morning with a orthopedic surgeon to call. They didn't even splint it so she was so miserable all night.



When we called the next day for them to call an orthopedic surgeon to have it casted they took hours to call and when they got us an appointment the soonest was the next day on Wednesday. I was so mad. I told Enoch that there was no way she would make it till Wednesday. Well he took things into his own hands and called a bunch of doctors. When we called a Dr. West they said that they were booked for the day. When Enoch told them he would call somebody else they immediately said that they would have the xrays sent over and would call back. Well within 5 minutes they called and asked if we could come in right away.

When we went in Rachel was in so much pain and the pain was making her sick. She started throwing up. She was miserable. They talked to us and told us that she needed surgery on her elbow and would do it tomorrow. Wow what a shock for us. We had no idea that she would need surgery we just thought we were going in to have it casted. They said they would have to put wires and pins in her arm that would stay in 4 months. The cast would stay on for a few weeks but the pins would come out later. What a shock for us.

We were so glad that we got in to the doctor when we did. He does surgery on Wednesdays so he wanted to see her so he could do it. We were so impressed by him too. He sat down and explained everything to us and even drew pictures. They splinted her arm and instantly she felt better. She should of had it splinted the night before. Poor Rachel.

Wednesday April 20th we went to Mountain View Hospital at 8 AM for surgery. We registered her and waited and then they took her back. She had to get in her gown and surgical hat. They took her vitals and gave her an IV. The doctor was running behind so we sat and watched TV. She laid in bed but Enoch and I sat in comfy chairs in the room and watched TV, Enoch slept with Averien. We met all the nurses and anesthesiologist. Rachel was given a really nice blessing before that talked about everything would go well, that she wouldn't be nervous and that she would heal well. She would be taken care of and in good hands. I asked her a couple of times before surgery if she was nervous and she said she wasn't at all. She said she felt fine.


Surgery was an hour and then after she was awake and well enough we went back to see her. We saw Dr. West first and he said that surgery went really well and that she should heal fine without problems. When we saw Rachel she was sleeping but soon woke up and really soon was able to drink. It was 2 hours after surgery that we took her home. She slept the whole day. She actually slept for 2 days. She was so out of it. She really thought that it was the drugs knocking her out so after 2 days she wasn't on any pain killers and then seemed to get back to normal. She had a nice surprise too. On Thursday evening after her surgery Rachael Adams her best friend who moved away came and stayed for a few days. It helped Rachel feel better too. Rachel still was out of it at times and Rachael would hang out and play the wii with Jacob while Rachel was sleeping. I did feel bad for Rachael Adams at times but she didn't seem to mind. The doctor too said that she couldn't go to school till Monday so it worked out great having Rachael be here.

She was not put into a cast yet. She was splinted on both sides. They want the swelling to go down before they cast her. They wanted to see her back in a week before they casted it.

We went back April 26th for it to be casted. Her arm looked so crazy when they took the splint off. She was swollen at the elbow and had some long sutures coming out of her arm. They stitched her up internally but had a few long pieces sticking out. They removed those and then casted her arm. She got to pick what ever she wanted for her cast. She picked glow in the dark material and then a light blue to go around it. It looked so awesome. I was so impressed with the office doing her cast as cool as they did. It was the PA and med student that put her cast on for her. She has to keep her cast on for 4 weeks and then they will take it off and see how it is. If they keep the cast on too long then she won't be able to straighten her arm after a while. The pins will help it fully heal. She will have to have surgery in September to have the pins take out too. We thought that she would just get them out at the office but they have to go in and surgically remove them. So nice. That means that in one year she will have had 4 surgeries. Wow.


She is so much happier with her cast and loves everybody signing it. The cast totally glows in the dark too. It is pretty awesome. It is a pain though for showering and doing her hair. She can shower herself for the most part but I have to do her hair. She also can't play the piano and really do anything. Luckily it was her left hand that broke because if it was her right she would have been in trouble.

Trip to Provo

At the end of April we had the chance to go to Salt Lake City, Utah for some appointments and then to Provo and Orem to spend the weekend with Grandpa Fisher. We had a lot of fun. The hotel we stayed in while in Provo was really nice. The room was nice and a good size with a fantastic breakfast and an awesome pool. We took Averien swimming for the first time. The hot tub wasn't too hot so she spent her time in there. She was so happy and was going crazy in the water. Rachel didn't like swimming very much because she could only sit in the hot tub and watch everybody else play and get wet. Enoch and Kaelen had so much fun in the water. Kaelen went crazy. He loved swimming with his Dad.

On Saturday we went to Grandpa Fisher's work at UVU. The kids loved seeing where Grandpa worked. He has a pretty fun workplace. They loved seeing the firetrucks and the helicopter on the tower. They were a little afraid of the burned out buildings but were troopers and went inside of them for me. We really loved seeing where Grandpa goes each day for work.

Averien and Claire

Averien and her new cousin Claire are 5 weeks apart and the same size. They are cute together. They of course have no concept of each other but they soon will and will love having a friend to play with. Claire being five weeks younger still can't do as much as Averien but because she is as big as her it is hard to forget. Like Averien can hold her head up and you still need to support Claire's head. We will hold Claire and forget she can't do what Averien does yet because she is still smaller. Soon though they will be doing the same things. It will be fun to see them in a few years.

Rachael Adams visits

Rachel Adams came to visit right after Rachel's surgery. She came April 21st and stayed till Sunday April 24th. We didn't know that she was coming but her family called and said they were coming and wanted to know if she could stay with us. Heck yah. We love Rachael. Rachel and Rachael have so much fun together. They get together after not seeing each other for months and they act as if they have never been apart. They get a long so well and they seem to be laughing all the time. Kaelen and Jacob love Rachel Adams too. She is like an adopted child when she comes. It is fun too to yell "Rachel's" when I need them both. Rachael Adams recently got braces too. They look so much a like now. Rachael even stayed for Easter and all of our Easter activities.

Averien 2 1/2 months old

Averien is getting to be so much more active and fun every day. She loves to take baths. We put her bath mat in on the width of the tub instead of length so when Averien lays on it she can put her feet on the side of the tub. She loves it. We will take her off of it and hold her head up and she goes crazy kicking and splashing. She smiles, giggles and babbles all the time. She'll start screaming while babbling. It is so funny. She has also started to blow raspberries. Averien loves to suck on her hands too. She doesn't suck on any specific finger but loves just the whole fist. She has awesome head control and can totally hold it up now.

She has slept through the night a few times now 6-8 hrs and we have figured out how to get her to sleep for hours at a time for naps. She loves her belly and we finally decided to let her just sleep on it. She is swaddled and then laid on her tummy. She will sleep 2-4 hours hours 3-4 times a day. It is so awesome. She always loves to lay against us when we are holding her asleep so it is no surprise that she loves to sleep on her tummy. We will also put on white noise in the room she is sleeping in and is so happy. She is such a homebody too. She does not sleep good anywhere but her own bed. She cries because she is tired and will sleep for a bit if we are somewhere else. She already knows what she likes and doesn't like for sleeping.

She is still our best baby. She is so happy all the time and is so easy as long as she gets what she needs.

Kaelen outside

Kaelen loves to play outside. He always wants his coat on and when it is cold he wants his hat. He will grab everything and will have you put it on sometimes for him. Other times he will do it. He will spend hours walking around the yard and playing with Bernie. When I saw him outside in what he was wearing I had to grab the camera and take pictures. He had put his hat on himself. It was so cute. He also got some awesome monkey rubber boots that he loves and put's on himself. They were on his right feet this time

Kaelen turns 3

Kaelen turned 3 today. We still can't believe how quickly time has flown. His birthday was on Sunday this year and during General conference. I spent the morning and afternoon making his cake and dinner for everybody. This was acutally his second cake because the first cake he found on the counter and decided to take a very large piece out of the center of it. I was not too pleased.

Kaelen loves the movie Cars, so we decided to make him a race track cake. He loved it. We also for dinner made Grandma Fishers amazing "mom's chicken". Everybody loved it. Kaelen doens't have a favorite meal just favorite foods so I picked dinner for him.

Grandpa and Grandma Heileson came over as well as Rachael, Joseph, Carter and Collin. Kaelen had no idea that it was his birthday. We would tell him he was turning 3 but he didn't even know he was 2. Anytime you ask him how old he is turning he says "good".

When we opened presents he at first had no idea what to think of it. He was giving them to everybody else but after a bit he understood the concept and was excited to open the presents.

Kaelen loves cake and candles as well. If he says any cake he calls it a birthday cake. He loves to blow out candles too. If there are candles on cake he will blow them out even if it isn't for him.

For Kaelen's birthday he got some battery operated trains for his train track. He got two that are from the movies Cars. The train set was originally Jacob's but he never played with it. Kaelen plays with his all the time. He got a cool portable car launcher from his Grandpa and Grandma Fisher and Grandpa and Grandma Heileson got him some much needed clothes. He also got some books. He was given a book when he was a baby about dogs. He loved it so much that it was destroyed very quickly. Well we bought him a new one. He was so excited. He also got the books 5 little monkeys. He loves the stories of the 5 crazy little monkeys. He also got a Boise State bat and ball. He loves Boise State and baseball.

Here are some things that Kaelen can do or does. I could write for hours but here are a few.

-Kaelen's favorite foods are carrots, lettuce, apples, strawberries, oranges and anything chocolate.
-He loves Boise State. He will see the Boise State logo and right a way yell Boise State.
-He loves to watch Dora, Diego, Backyardagins, Cars, Toy Story, Lion King, Dogs (101 Dalmations)
-He talks all the time and says everything. Our favorites are:
Avring (Averien)
Pick he up (for picking Averien up)
he too heavy (when he doesn't want to Averien anymore)
hey Guys (he will yell down stairs for Rachel and Jacob and calls them guys)
Boisa State (Boise State)
puter (computer)

-he loves to count to 13 and counts everything
-loves to chase the dog around the house
-loves to play outside. Will spend hours outside
-loves to play with trains and cars
-he doesn't drink from anything but a cup and then when we go places like church he takes his water thermos. Only water goes in it too, everything is in a cup.
-loves to throw things
-really good at beating up Jacob
-pretends to talk on the phone to everybody but never wants to talk on the real phone
-everything is his pretend computer

Grandpa Heileson and Averien

Grandpa Heileson doesn't like holding new babies very much or so he says. He says he doesn't want to hurt them and doesn't like it when they cry. I always try to get him to hold my babies. He loves kids but babies not as much. Well with Averien he seems to want to hold her a lot more. She loves him. These pictures are so awesome because you can see how happy she is and how happy Grandpa is. I have always said that Grandpa has these blinking lights around his head that only kids and babies can see because as much as he says he doesn't want to hold the babies they all love him. All the kids seem to love him. They all fight over Grandpa at times too. These pictures are just so awesome.

Averien is 2 months old

Averien is 2 months old now. Time seems to fly by so fast. She is getting so big. She is getting so big that she gained 3 pounds in a month. Wow. She definitely doesn't like to eat. She now weighs 11lbs, 9 oz and is 22 inches long. Averien smiles all the time and loves attention. She sleeps pretty good. She will sleep 4 hours at a time at night. She still never cries. Her cry has gotten louder but only cries when tired or hungry. She has started to babble a little too. It is really fun. She is such a fun addition to have in our family. Everybody loves her and loves holding her. Kaelen asks to hold her all the time and then after a couple of seconds says she's too heavy and doesn't want to hold her anymore. Kaelen will acutally call her a he. Everybody is a he. It is pretty funny.