Yellowstone

Right after our stay at the hospital with Max. Chris and I went on a little weekend trip to Yellowstone. Here are some photos. Enjoy.

Max again.

I didn't notice Max was blurry so here is another one not blurry. Maybe I just wanted to see what he looked like before the seizures he has all kinds of scrapes and bumps from falling all the time. Poor guy. WE sure love him.

Easter Sunday

Ok I know it is really late since Easter was in April but we've been busy latley. Here are the photos from our Easter. My kids are so cute.

The letter of announcement!

I sent this email out to lots of my friends this morning. Spreading our news. But for all of you who don't live close and can't come help. I thought you'd like to hear the news too. Here is the email. Enjoy.

Hello everyone,

We need help. Well, really we want help. I'll just spit it out. I'm expecting again.
We are really excited to add one more little angel to our family. We have also decided
that it will be hard for us to add this little joy to our small house. We've thought
of all the options of putting different kids into different rooms and shuffling things around.
We decided that with Max's new seizure disorder and the demands babies bring, we
would rather not have Max and the baby share a room. So we've decided to put our house up for sale.
It will be heartbreaking to leave our ward and all of our dear friends here. But we've decided
this is the best thing for our family right now. With all of that said, I'm calling for recruits.
Since we spent most of May in and out of the hospital with Max we haven't really got
too much done on our house. Everything got put on hold. We really would like to list our
house as soon as possible. We can't list the house until it is ready, we have a lot of
work to do first before we can list it. This Saturday we're hoping we can have a bunch of people
come help us prep the house. We have some painting, lots of cleaning, packing, and yard
work to do. It will only be a couple of hours from 8 am until noon when we can all enjoy pizza
together. Many hands make light work. I'm hoping with a little extra help we can get a lot
accomplished. I have a bridal shower in the middle of the day on Saturday so that is why we are only
working in the morning. I still feel like we can get a lot done though. Let me know if you can come
help us with this big project. Cleaning up after 5 kids can be pretty messy. We don't know if, when, or where we might be moving to, selling is the first step so we just need the house ready to sell. Hopefully Heavenly Father will bless us to sell the house before the baby is born. We love you. Thank you so much for your support all of these years.

Miriam, Chris, Audrey, Hailey, Kate, Max, Ruth and baby :)

Happy Anniversary!

Nine years today. I can't believe Chris and I have been married this long. It just seems like yesterday that I was seeing him for the first time on the soccer field and thinking he looked like LeRoyne's boyfriend Eric. What a silly fun sweet guy. I'm so in love with him. Here we are 5 kids old and nine years later. Audrey and Hailey will be baptized soon, Kate will start kindergarten, and Max and Ruth will be starting preschool. Chris is really happy with his job. I've been able to stay home and take care of our children and not have to work. How blessed we are. Happy Anniversary honey, I love you.

We're still alive.

I haven't posted in a million years. I've had a lot on my mind lately. Let's see if I can update you on all that has happened since Max's surgery. We had his 2 week check up from the surgery. Doc says, "looks good, see you in six months." But it didn't stop the seizures. He had one last week (wednesday the 23rd) and one today. Last week, with no fever and no symptoms the ER found fluid in his lungs. So they put him on a good antibiotic and sent us on our way. Today we don't know what it was. Still no fever and no symptoms. Chris just called me from Primary Childrens ER, they still hadn't gotten them in and Max was doing fine. Talking, jumping around and asking to go home. So we decided to have Chris just bring him home and I'd take him to the doctor tomorrow morning and see if he has a new virus/bacterial infection. That may have caused the "fever" that caused the seizure. Each seizure seems to be a little easier for him to recover from. Today he was looking at me and wanted me to hold him right after, before he fell asleep. I don't know what to do or think. I just want to have my healthy happy boy back.

Audrey's ear drum ruptured it caused her quite a bit of pain. We got her on an antibiotic and it healed up nicely. She's all better now.

Other than the health news. We've been working hard on spring cleaning and major dejunking. There is a dumpster that is coming around in a couple of weeks so we've got a stack coming along in the garage. Chris also tiled the floor in the upstairs bathroom. It looks really nice. It doesn't however, match the paint so we went and got paint to match and we'll get to that soon. Ruth found a permanent marker today and drew on her walls and the walls in the hallway. So it looks like we'll be painting the hall and her room in the same paint as the bathroom. It's going to be nice to have clean walls again.

I'll post Easter pictures soon. Sorry no updates in a while.

Max is great.

Max had his surgery today. He got new tubes in his ears and his adenoids removed. He's acting just fine. Hopefully he's not too fussy this evening because he's tired. I love that little boy. Now I just need to get him out of the habit of hitting people. Anyone have any ideas?

Bair Family Update.

Well there is not that much to report. I've been busy so I haven't been blogging lately. We did have a scare with Max two weeks ago. Chris posted it on his facebook page. Max had another febrile(fever induced)seizure so I called 911. They took him to Primary Childrens Medical Center where he was watched for a couple of hours. He is fine now. It was caused by and ear infection. So I took him to a ENT (ear, nose, and throat doctor) who wants to replace the one tube in his ear that has fallen out. Also they will be removing his adenoids. That will be this Wednesday. Sounds like lots of fun to me. But if it makes him better then that is great!

The other thing that has really been keeping me busy (other than my children), is our new budget. We've been needing to do it for years. I've been looking at it every day hoping that we can make it work. It would be really wonderful if we could pay off our credit card and save up a rainy day fund. We're going in the right direction. We also decided that we don't want to go on vacation until we have paid off the credit card and have cash saved up to go. We already have reservations for a hotel for our anniversary trip so we'll have to really work hard these next two months to get the credit card paid off. Wish us luck. I hope Heavenly Father is pleased that we are trying to do what the prophets have counseled.

Game night!

On Fridays we like to go out to dinner on a date, then a lot of the time we'll invite friends over to play killer bunnies. While we play bunnies the kids get to stay up and watch movies in their pj's with their friends and eat snacks and have a fun time. But since we don't spend any time with them on Friday night, I decided we should play games with them on Satruday. I told the girls that if we got the living room and dining room picked up we'd play Monopoly. So we did. We just got to the part of the game where people get hotels and the real math begins, mortgaging and un-mortgaging. It was fun, but Chris and Hailey soon pulled out, then Kate, and Audrey and I were left to play it out. She likes games. We played just the two of us for a while when Kate and Hailey decided they needed help with puzzles. So we went to help them intending to come back to Monopoly. We ended up forgetting about it and playing almost every puzzle we have. It was great fun.

Getting ready for Church.

For at least 5 minutes of my kids lives their hair looks nice. Right after I do it before we leave for church. It is always great to see these dirty playful kids get all bathed and dressed up nice for church. It makes me feel good. I love these silly kids.

No more swollen eye.

Hailey is as you can see all better now. She's been going to school. Just yesterday she caught up with all of her homework. We'll still see an eye doctor just to make sure she hasn't had any permanent vision damage from the infection. I'm just so glad we're back to normal.

A couple more layouts.

Here is the layout I did for Angie's exchange. I put photos from Grammys tea party on it. The other layout is Holly's. I think they turned out well.

Count your many blessings.

Hailey went to school today. She is looking fine, and acting perfectly happy. To see her you wouldn't have ever had any idea she was in the hospital a couple of days ago. I'm so happy! It is so nice to get back home, eat dinner as a family, and fold laundry. Through this little scary experience, I have had a lot of quiet time to reflect. How blessed we are. We are really healthy, we have a house, clothes, two vehicles. We are so spoiled with temporal things. We have the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. I would be so lost without our faith. We went to a church meeting while we were at the hospital. I was so touched by the spirit that day. I was amazed looking around that room seeing the parents hang on to the Lord. A lot of people were crying, including me. I was so impressed that there was a branch there for the families, who so needed the Lords love at that time.

We're home!

We were able to leave the hospital yesterday morning. We arrived home at lunch time. Hailey still has a good day of sleeping to do to catch up on the sleep she lost. She'll be going back to school tomorrow. I'll post a photo as soon as I get one.

Hailey update.

Today Hailey can open her eye almost completely. She is bouncing off the walls like a happy 7 year old. She is really enjoying her royal treatment. She enjoys the slushies, room service and nurses care. She has just switched over to oral antibiotics instead of iv antibiotics. Hopefully we'll be headed home tomorrow. I'm not sue when she will be able to go back to school though. Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers. I'll post a photo when we get home.

Hailey in the Hospital

Hailey had what we thought was pink eye on Thursday. Chris took her to the after hours clinic and they prescribed some eye drops and told us to keep her home from school.


This is what she looked like on Friday - we were giving her the eye drops and didn't think much more of it. On Saturday it had started swelling shut. Chris had to go help some people move and when he got back I needed to go to a baby shower. I took Audrey with me and Chris took Hailey and the rest of the kids to the after hours clinic. After waiting 1 1/2 - 2 hours the doctor came in looked at Hailey and said "whoah - um, you need to take her to the emergency room. Without even needing to really test anything I'd say she has Orbital Cellulitis. You should take her to Primary Children's." So... Chris called me (I was on my way back from the shower) and took the rest of the kids home and I took Hailey to the ER. Chris took the other kids to the park and they had pizza (it was a really warm "sunshiney" day) then they went home and Holly & Steve came over and helped him clean the house.


Meanwhile "back at the ranch" Hailey and I went to the ER, and waited for a while. Chris had given me his laptop so we watched some movies. Eventually they gave Hailey a CT scan and hooked her up to an IV so they could give her antibiotics. It looks like she has PERIorbital Cellulitis which is an infection in the areas in front of the socket and ir much better! The CT scan was to make sure the infection wasn't back behind the eye and going down the optic nerve to the brain - that can cause menengitis.

Tawnya and LeRoyne came and brought me some food and books plus Hailey's Teddy Bear. Chris and Steve came and brought me some essentials, plus my MP3 player and a fresh laptop with more movies.

As of this morning Hailey's eye is a bit better and we went to church at the hospital.

He's a strong handsome boy.

I got this shirt and tie set at walmart for $7 a few weeks ago. I can't find little boy ties. Do boys not wear ties. The only ties I've been able to find that fit him are the ones that come with the shirts. So if anyone finds boys ties anywhere please let me know. I think Max needs to start looking better at church. Not just a polo shirt and dark pants. Also a funny thing about this photo, he is crazy about flexing his muscles. He walks around all day saying he is strong and flexing for us. It is hilarious. Love ya Max.