Carl, Sherri and Joshua Dutton

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2010-06-24T10:32:00.001-07:00

2010-04-03T23:19:00.000-07:00

Easter!!! Here are some Easter baskets I made for Carl, Joshua and I. It is a tradition in my family to have baskets. My mom made each of us kids a basket when we were growing up. I am excited to be able to carry on the tradition.

Thank you Sandy for this cute idea for cupcakes.

This week has been crazy. I thought that because it was Spring Break that I would be able to relax and enjoy my time with Joshua. Nope, didn't happen quite that way. At the beginning of the week all of us got sick. This time it wasn't a simple cough, cough and a sneeze. Nope, we all had a full blown virus. Luckily though, it didn't last really long. After the initial "death warmed over" day of sleeping, we all started to feel better. Which was a good thing because Wednesday we took Joshua in to have tubes put in his ears. He was a trooper, and did great. Within a few hours he was back to his active, adorable self.

It always amazes me how happy my little guy is. Especially, since he has had several rough patches of sickness. Just two weeks ago he went through a round of Pink EYE, the flu, and a cold. It was so sad to see him looking so sick and yet everytime I would come home from work he was always smiling and giggly. I am sooo glad that he is finally better. With the tubes in his ears, the doctors say he will be a lot healthier now. Most of what he has suffered from is ear aches. Here is what he looked like with the PINK Eye.

Joshua is rapidly learning how to feed himself. Unfortunately, he had not completely figured out how to get it all in his mounth.

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2010-02-28T18:14:00.000-08:00

It has been a while since I posted. Joshua has been sick...a lot. He just finished a bout with RSV and before that everyone in the house had the flue. We were excited when we were able to go hang out at the temple with my sister and brother-in-law + kids. They were sealed in the temple recently.

Joshua likes to wear his food more than he likes to eat it. He thinks its funny to see how messy he can get. Mom, doesn't think its so funny when she has to bathe him after every meal. Although, I will admit. He looks really adorable with food on his face.

Carl, Joshua and Steve are on the lookout for those hiding in the mountains for search and rescue. Two people go out and hide in separate grids, then two teams of people and dogs go out looking for them.

Joshua is so silly sometimes. He makes the funniest faces, and cutest smiles.

Here is a picture from when Carl, Joshua and I went up with the Parsons into the mountains for search and rescue. I had so much fun. Tyson and I were the ones to go up and hide from the dogs. We were all over the mountain, acting like lost victims. The dogs were practicing searching for actual missing persons. Carl and I do this most every Saturday. This was my first time, but I will definately be going again.

I took this picture this morning just after I had gotten Joshua ready for church. I love spiking his hair. I think he looks so cute!

2009-12-07T17:45:00.000-08:00

Carl and my brother in-law Steve went down to California for training. Carl is going to be working with the search and rescue in Salt Lake City.

This is Carl and Ryan at the dog trials. Carl is hoping to train dobermans.

2009-12-06T18:26:00.000-08:00

So Carl and I had this idea, that since Joshua was growing out of all his clothes so fast, we would just buy him one size too big. As you can see, it is working out only partially well, because all his legs and arms are too long. He doesn't mind it too much though, it just gives him extra material to try and eat.

2009-12-06T18:22:00.000-08:00

Carl, Darrel, Scott, My dad, Steve, Tyson and Joseph all went paint balling over Thanksgiving break. They had a blast, and have the large, red, welts to prove it.

2009-12-06T18:19:00.000-08:00

Joshua is growing like a weed. We just bought him a new car seat, because he grew out of his infant seat. We decided this time to get a car seat that fits up to 100 pounds....he should be there in about a month (LOL).

I'm Back

2009-11-23T11:34:00.000-08:00

It's been a crazy year. Joshua is growing like a week. He is now in size 24 month clothes, and weighs 20 pounds 2 ounces. He is loooong too! When I hold him, he reaches from my shoulder all the way to my waiste. He rolled over earlier this week, and has taken to rolling all around the room.

Carl is loving his new job. He delivers ice cream (YUMMY) for Farr's icecream. It is neat because he gets to travel all over Utah. In fact, small world, he ran into Kathy and Steve and had lunch with them down in Payson.

Carl and I are house hunting right now (crosses fingers) and hoping to find something soon. We are tired of renting, and are ready to settle down in Tooele (for a while at least).

I am enjoying my new job at Excelsior Academy. I miss George Washington Academy, and all my friends down there, but am thoroughly enjoying my new adventures up here.

So for craziness, Carl and I have decided to take up a hobby. We are going to train a doberman to help with search and rescue. My brother inlaw Steve Parsons, is heading up a team, and we have decided it would be a great activity for us to do together. Carl has had a little (one day) expirience, where Steve's dogs attacked him and he was able to do some training with them (see pics below), and he loved it. We are really excited to see how this goes.

I am so excited for Joshua's first Christmas. I am trying to think of ways to make it extra special. We want to start some traditions as a family. We aren't sure what exactly, but we plan on having a lot of fun.

Welcome Joshua!

2009-06-19T20:27:00.000-07:00

Carl and I are both so excited to welcome Joshua into our family. He was born June 17, 2009 and weighed 9 pounds 2 ounces. I delivered him C-Section at 10:28 am. From the moment he was born all the nurses and staff were smitten with him, he is already quite the charmer. Everywhere we went we kept hearing, wow what a long baby. He is 22 inches long. Unfortunately, the excitement of coming into this world was too much for the little guy and he took a huge gulp of fluid on his way out. This sent him directly to the NICU. I barely got a glance of him (wish I had been wearing my glasses), before they rushed him away. Luckily, Carl was able to accompany the nurses and went with him to the NICU. I was left alone to recover. Other than Joshua having respiratory problems, both him and I came out of the surgery doing pretty ok.

I wasn't able to see Joshua for about six hours after he was born. He was really struggling and they had to keep him under careful watch in the NICU. I camped out in my room with Carl, my mother in-law and my mom. I should have slept, but couldn't help but stay awake in anticipation for finally getting to see my little boy.

Finally, at about 5 oclock I was able to go see Joshua and it was sooo sad. He had so many tubes and needles poking out of him. He was such a good boy, hardly complained at all. He would wimper a little, but for the most part he just layed still while they did all their tests.

One of the hardest things about having Joshua in the NICU was not being able to feed him. I tried pumping the first day, but it was very difficult with little result.

On day two I was able to visit Joshua more, and by about noon I tried feeding him. They were able to back off the oxygen he was recieving and remove a few of the tubes. He was still pretty sick though. He was able to eat a little, but the poor guy was so tired he would take a few sucks then tucker out and sleep. We tried twice that day, and on the third try I told them I just wanted to hold him and make him feel better. So I stayed for an hour and held Joshua while he slept.

That night I told the nurse, if at any time he acted fussy like he wanted to eat, they should call me down. At 1 oclock they did just that. I came down and was so happy to find a hungry little boy. He was able to nurse for a full half hour, and since then has done regular nursing.

After his one oclock nursing with me, Joshua started to get better. They slowly backed off more and more from the oxygen and by morning after two middle of the night feedings he was really starting to show improvement. I continued to nurse him and cuddle him every two hours up until 3 oclock when they declared him well and allowed us to bring him up to my hospital room.

Mom and son are doing so much better. We are so blessed to have daddy here to take care of us. Carl has been such a good nurse. We look foreward to the possiblility of going home tomorrow (Saturday). The bandages have been taken off and are looking good, and I am able to get up and walk around. Joshua is sleeping right now peacefully, and it looks like everything has turned out better than we could have hoped for.

The Baby is COMING...LATE!

2009-06-08T08:05:00.001-07:00

So the baby isn't coming on Wednesday like planned. Evidently, he had another agenda. His lungs aren't developed and so the doctor has post-poned me one week. So now Joshua will be delivered on June 17th.

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2009-03-19T20:43:00.000-07:00

So it has been really crazy as usual. I spent two weeks ago in and out of the hospital. It all started when I got an infection under my tongue totally out of the blue. I didn't think much of it, but went in to have it checked out. The doctor agreed that it was not a big deal, and that it would go away. Little did we both realize...that night I was so sick, I have never been so ill as long as I can remember. I was throwing up about every minute. This lasted about 7 hours. The next morning I was admitted to the hospital with dehydration. We never did figure out what caused me to be so sick.
So here I am in the hospital, barely able to sit up because of how weak I was. Luckily, after just 8 hours of IV's they said I was ready to go home. That night however, my chest started to hurt. By the next morning I was coughing and my chest was wheezy and strained. I figured I would be ok, that it was just because I'd been so tired....nope. That night I had to go once more to the emergency room, and there I found out I had bronchial pneumonia. It took me 7 days of medicine, but I finally recovered. I was out of school for one week recovering. The baby is fine, and I am doing much better.

It's a BOY!!!

2009-02-12T17:54:00.001-08:00

We are very excited to be having a boy!

Crazy Stuff

2008-12-21T20:13:00.000-08:00

WOW! So lately Carl and I have had some crazy luck. Some has been good, some not so good. Unfortunately, we have recently found out that Carl has a Chiary Malformation . It is a malformation of the brain, so he will likely be having surgery soon. We find out more at the end of January when he goes up to Salt Lake for another appointment with his doctor. I will update as we find out more.

Some better news, however, Carl has finally found another job. Although, it is not the most glamorous, we are very grateful for anything right now. He is such a hard worker I have no doubt he will be able to find something better soon.

Some more great news, I am now three months pregnant and we are both excited to be starting our new family. We hope to be able to move to an apartment soon. Although, life has been difficult lately, we have no doubt that God has a plan for us, and we are thankful for our many blessings. We are thankful for our families, friends and for each other.

Crazy!!!

2008-11-03T20:56:00.000-08:00

I guess it is about time that I actually blogged, so here it goes. Well, school has been crazy. It will be nice having some days off this month since I am already feeling partially nauseous. I still can't believe I am pregnant. Carl and I are very excited.

Some things happening with us, in a few weeks I head out for Anaheim where I will attend a conference for Core Knowledge.

For those of you who don't know, I had the misfortune of damaging both of my Achilles tendons, and am currently wearing two huge, black, knee-high boots to try and help them heal. I have worn them for about a month now, and hope that the doctor will let me take them off tomorrow (I doubt it).

I am excited to be able to get back to bike riding. I had so much fun biking the 80 miles for the MS race this summer. That has been one of the hardest parts about wearing the boots has been the challenge it has made working out. I can't run, bike, walk or anything that involves my feet. It is sooooo annoying.

Well that's all for now, I will post more later.

YAY~~

2008-11-03T19:47:00.001-08:00

I AM PREGNANT!!!

My how time flies

2008-03-07T10:13:00.000-08:00

I guess I never did get much done to my blog. I am really going to try now.