LOTS OF PICTURES :)

Last week in Parkers pre-school class they were learning about opposites. So everyone dressed in opposites for fun. For most kids this would be fun, for Parker however it took awhile for him to come around to the idea of leaving the house like this. When he saw himself in the mirror he almost died. He is one of those kids that likes his hair done a certain way and doesn't want anything messing it up, he also didn't like the idea of his clothes and shoes not matching! On Saturday it was warm enough for the boys to go for a ride. I was scared of the idea of letting Parker take Ryder for a ride, but since we control how fast he can go and we can kill the gas wherever they go, I let him do it. They both had lots of fun. So not only has Ryder learned how to climb out of his crib(this took him almost ten months longer to master then Parker, so that was nice)but he can get out of his buster and have a little fun on the table. We took the boys to The Living Plant Aquarium in Sandy a couple weekends ago, they didn't have as much fun as we had hoped but they both were pretty tired so we might try again on a better day. Of all the cool things to see and do, and even the sharks..the boys loved Nemo the best! Ryder Loved the the stingrays, you are able to touch them and Parker thought it was awesome! Just looking at this makes me sick! they have a cool boat "ride" and Ryder thought he was pretty cool. Not as cool as Parker though.

Parker was really excited to touch the snake!

Dillon is still fighting to live!!!

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Hey guys go checkout this website it is for my little brother Dillon, who is about to turn 24 and was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia on June 4Th, 2008.

Random

I was just going through some things around the house this week and found some pictures of Parker when he was 16 months old. Ryder turned 16 months on the 10Th of this month, just thought I'd compare the two of them...


Parker's hair was just as curly as Ryders, it just would go flat on top and stay curly on the bottom throughout the day. Skylar and I both have really curly hair, I think that it looks cute on most people, just not a fan of it on myself.

On Saturday I threw Skylar's sister, my sister in law, a baby shower. They had been trying for 3.5 years to get pregnant, and she is due at the end of March. She is having a boy and they are naming him Kayson Lance Parkinson.

there was a lot if people that came, and she got a lot of nice stuff!! Makes me so baby hungry...not for the baby, more for the baby stuff! ;)


Sometimes I get in these moods where I'm feeling crafty, so I made some diaper cakes for the shower, 60 diapers in each cake.

I had enough stuff to make two of them...so I did! this one has baby things all over it, like wash clothes an outfit, a bottle, and lots of other stuff.
I also made them a slideshow for the baby shower and put it on youtube..just for fun :)

LOTS GOING ON!!

So ever since spring semester started I have been running around like a chicken with its head cut off! I am only taking two classes and I feel so overwhelmed, it seems like on-line classes have so much more work then just going to campus. I am so glad my counselor talked me out of taking a third class!! I also watch a little girl three times a week and I'm planning a baby shower...doesn't seem to bad right?...wrong!! Parker continues to get in trouble at school, even the principle is at a loss with this kid. Ryder has been really sick for the past few weeks and whines at everything, his new favorite word is ow, so every time he starts to whine or cry or throw a fit all he says is ow over and over. I do believe I had more patience before I had children. Sky has been trying to pressure me to cut Ryders hair so he doesn't look like a baby so much, I think it's so cute and he is a baby he is only 16 months old! I did cut his bangs so they wouldn't be in his eyes anymore. So this past week I went to my uncles funeral and it was one of the coolest funerals I've ever been to (is that weird to say?) it was just our family and some very close friends, it wasn't a traditional LDS funeral, he was cremated and we just all got together in the funeral home and talked about growing up and we laughed the whole time. Then all of my dads brothers got up and said some really nice things about my uncle. I didn't know my uncle very well in fact I had only met him twice in my life, he was very private and liked being alone, he however decided to get close with the family just before he died, isn't that how is always is? none of my dads brothers are active member of the church so when my dad got up and bore his testimony to his brothers and their families is was so awesome, I cried like a little baby! At the grave side my uncle and his wife preformed a Navaho ceremony with a feather and smoke and we all got in line and were purified/cleansed. This uncle was adopted when he was a baby and is full Navaho, I thought it was awesome.


Ryder before

Ryder After

Skylars 24th birthday!

The Run For Dillon

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HOBBS FAMILY UPDATE

THANKSGIVING AND MORE....

Is it just me, or does everyone else get lazy when winter comes?! I can't even seem to update my blog..at first I thought I was to busy to update it, but no I was lying to myself, I'm just super lazy when it's cold.

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Tooele to spend it with my family. Lots of people and lots of food equals good times. My little brother Dillon wasn't able to make it, he had to assist in a couple surgeries that day, so that was a downer. Can’t believe he's already been home from his mission for six months..I'm thinking this is a hard time for him cause he should have been just getting home right now. He seems to be doing well for the most part, the leukemia has returned but I believe they have it under control again.

Skylar ended up walking off the roof a little over a week ago while putting up Christmas lights with his brother in law. He hurt his back pretty bad....but getting this kid to go to any kind of Dr. takes a miracle...well that or his mom :) She took him a few days after and he is doing much better now.

We are done Christmas shopping. I was one of the many who ventured out at 3 am on Black Friday to fight for a good deal. I love black Friday I think that shopping that day is so much fun...call me crazy! When I worked at Best Buy it was so awesome to see how long the line could get and watch all the people fight for what they had stood in the cold for all night. I must say Sam's Club with out a doubt is the best place to go shopping on black Friday. Not only to you get to wait inside for them to open but they serve a big ol breakfast. Not that anyone can really eat at 5 in the morning, the day after Thanksgiving. Crazy thing about this day is people literally KILL to get what they want. Mer told me about an employee getting trampled to death and someone pulling out a gun and killing someone else...Are you kidding me? well my venture was not even as crazy a few girls got mad at me for getting the pea coat they had been standing in line for. A few other girls wanted to make sure I was buying the coat while I was standing in line to check outt. Sad thing there was only four of them and they were all large but I bought one anyways and ended up selling it to Skys mom, who is much more well endowed then me so she fits into it great.

We went to Preston's Festival Of Lights tonight. It was fun for the boys to see fireworks and a Parade of light with Santa at the end. Parker thought it was great and Ryder loved it! We also went to Skys little sister dance recital today...only in Preston would they have a dance recital outside in the freezing cold, in the middle of main street, road closed and all. She did a really good job!


Skylar hard at work, the day after he hurt his back.


Our Christmas tree..We added black this year, Parker put the little ornament that says LOVE and he is so proud of it!


Me and Sky on our way to see Twilight opening night. The little teenage girls sitting next to us giggled the whole time cause they thought Sky looked like Edward...He was so out out it from being on pain pills he had no idea what was going on. I think he looks nothing like Edward!!(I didn't mean for that to sound bad!)


Skylars Grandparents' eleven year old weimaraner had puppies..only one survived and she is so cute!


Ryder fell in love right away..Parker can't slow down fast enough to care. There are bigger and better things at Great Grandmas, like basketballs and cousins!


My nephew Elijah six months old. First Thanksgiving, he even ate the plate!


I think I should have taken off Ryder's shirt for this meal!


Me, so excited to eat Thanksgiving dinner!!


Me and Sky's good friend Joey Bradshaw Died on November 20Th of a heart attack, 34 years old. We will miss him so much!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYDER!

One year ago on Oct 10th 2007 @ 10:02 a.m. Ryder Robert Hobbs was born. He came in at 6lbs 14 oz 21 inches long.
His Story...
on the 9th of oct. I wasn't feeling very good so I went to bed early. I woke up a few time during the night, but didn't think anything was wrong. Sky went to work at 7the morning of the 10th. I got up and cleaned the house some. Around 8 I started feeling contraction. not gradually but full on hard core right from the start, every two minutes. During each one I thought I was going to die, but in between them I thought to myself these are not even real. So I finally convinced myself to call my Dr. but I would need to wait till the women center opened at nine. finally nine came around and I called, told the nurse I thought I was in labor but I was not due for another month. She knew who I was because I had spotting throughout my whole pregnancy. She was trying to transfer me to labor and delivery...whom I should've just called to begin with but it wasn't going through. She ran over to the hospital to tell them what was going on and they said come in ASAP. I called Skylar and told him that I thought I was in labor and the hospital wanted me to come in..he took it lightly because he thought they would just stop the labor once again. He told me his mom would come in a little to get me. I wasn't having a contraction at this time so I said that would be fine. I ended up getting more house work done and I got in the tub with Parker. I was in so much pain at this point, Parker new something was wrong(p.s. the bath doesn't help) If you know Parker he is a fighter. He fights with everything I try to do. So I turned to him and told him he was not allowed to fight today. I knew this alone would not work so I said a little prayer that he would do what I told him. We washed up got out and I got Parker dressed, hair done, teeth brushed w/o a fight. I packed a few things in a bag and started doing my makeup (I didn't want to scare anyone) I called Skylar again and asked where is mom was, he said she was on her way. I could not do my make-up I was shaking so bad. Sandra came to get me around 9:20. When she came in I was not having a contraction so she thought that I was fine, we put in the car seat and off we went. I had a few contractions on the way to her house where we were meeting her mom(skys grandma) and Skylar to take Parker. when we got there I was crying a little the pain was so bad and sky went and got some towels in case my water broke. I still thought they would stop my labor and so did he. He said that he would finish up some work and come down. (Sky has to work, seven other people don't work if he doesn't) We left Parker and headed for Logan. I was having contractions one right after the other at this point and Sandra called the police to get an escort. They said that they do not do that and they are sending out police to pull us over if we are speeding. I called labor and delivery to tell them I am on my way but couldn't talk so Sandra told them they said they would be waiting in the parking lot. We stopped at every red light from Smithfield to the hospital in Logan. What we didn't know at this point is that Skylar had called his dad who he works for and told him that Sandra took me to the hospital, his dad told him to drop everything and leave..so he was just minutes behind us getting stopped at every light as well. I thought I was going to throw up so Sandra rolled down the window for me, but I didn’t. Which was a good thing, imagine seeing some lady throwing up out the window of a speeding car. We ended up passing three cops that were going the other way all together..we knew they were looking for us. so at about 9:40..good timing, we drove up and they were all waiting. They got me out of the car. They said since my water had not broken that we had plenty of time, one of the nurses said it was way to early for the baby since I was hardly showing. Sandra told her I carry my babies in the back but that it was still a month away from my due date. They wheeled me in and I got changed in the bathroom by myself, thank you I knew I could do it. Then they laid me down. Every person known to man was in the room and all I wanted was for someone to give me drugs!! Dr. fowers came in who is not my dr. but I knew him he had stopped my labor a few weeks before. He checked me and said you are an eight and he could feel the babies head coming way down. So he said let me check you again real fast and...yes with the same gloves he checked me and said you are a nine. So at this point I asked if I could still get an epidural..he looked at me and it was like everything went in slow motion, he said yes but I knew that he was lying so I wouldn't freak out. He said let me check you one more time..same gloves people that is how fast this was all going. He said you are a nine and a half. So in comes the nurse with the IV I know that she is speaking to me but I have no idea what she is saying ...until she gets to the part of "is it okay if a student nurse in training puts in your IV" The horror stories from my friend Merrilee made me scream no at her but he still came over and started to put one in. in-between my wrist and elbow on the inside of my arm..what kind of place is this first off. He put it in during a contraction and it blew the vain I looked at him and I said "missed!"..in this mean horrible voice. I'm sure he went home crying. All this only took less then a few seconds. I told them I wanted my epidural and the dr. was checking me again..once again same gloves..he did not have time to change them. He looked at me and said, "you are a ten and the baby is coming out right now. You can get your epidural and it won't even kick in before the baby is out, or if it does kick in baby might not be out for another hour. Just a few pushes and he is out and you are done. I know you can do this." What the Hell is he saying..is this him telling me I have to push out this baby with no drugs not even an IV in my arm...screw you sir I am taking the epidural. As I am trying to sign the paper which I cold not do the Dr. tells me he needs me to push. Once again sir you are not the one in pain here so say what you want but I am about to die! One of the nurses came over to my bed side and held my hand turned my head and told me to look her in the eyes and to concentrate on the color of her eyes and nothing else. She had green eyes, just thought I'd let you know. Then my water broke. I turned and Dr. McKenna was there(pediatrician)and he said just push him out. I started to push. All of these things were going threw my head that I had seen on tv Like the burning and pressure, that they talked about. His head was out, no time to suction I pushed again and then one more time and he was out. 10:02 a.m. everyone was over trying to get him to breathe..as horrible as this sounds I didn't care what they were doing I was still in so much pain I just wasn't prepared to be in just as much pain after as I was during. Then the dr. looks at me and says lets get the placenta out..if I would have had a knife he would have been dead! Sky came in just in time for Ryder to go to the NICU. He missed the whole thing! He thought that I had an epidural..he was so surprised that I did it w/o one. I do not recommend this, and it will not happen again. I have pre-ordered my epidural for next time. Ryder stayed three days at Logan Regional then was life flighted to Mckay Dee, where he spent about two weeks before he came home.


Ryder a few HOURS old


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