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Wagon's Ho!

Here is the picture we promised from Avery's adventure at Primary Children's Hospital.  You may notice an arrow over her left eye...her doctor marked it so he would fix the correct eye!

As for Avery's progress this week:  She is doing great!  We thought for a couple of days that her eye looked like it was filled with yellow Jell-O, but apparently that is normal.  That has now cleared up and her eye is even less red today.  She seems to be using both eyes together and the left one actually does look straighter!  Hurray!

Lazy Eye No More...We Hope!

Friday, June 6th, 2008 Avery Jane went to Primary Children's Hospital to have her lazy eye fixed.  It was an out-patient surgery and we were only there about 4 hours.  The surgery itself took just a little over an hour.  She has a wonderful doctor, Scott A. Larsen.  He is a pediatric ophthalmologist with the Moran Eye Center and Primary Children's Hospital.  He has been great to work with. 

Avery was a trooper.  She was very brave and her usual bubbly self before the surgery.  She chose to have her "air medicine" (anesthesia) smell like cotton candy, and even got the anesthesiologist, Dr. Anderton,  to give her a ride in a wagon and walk/dance like a monkey all the way to the operating room.  After the surgery however, she was not so happy.  The stitches in her eye made her want to rub and scratch at her eye and she got pretty mad when we wouldn't let her.  Tonight she is asleep on the couch and hopefully healing well.  We will keep you posted on her progress.

As soon as I can get the picture off my  phone, I will get it posted too.

Chloe Kate is Here!

At 12:00 PM on October 29th, Chloe Kate Schaff was born!  She is doing great and is now at home.

Here is a movie I put together staring Chloe Kate:

Here are a few more pictures:

Mommy and Chloe Kate

 

Daddy and Chloe Kate

Grandpa and Grandma Schaff and Chloe Kate

 

Grandpa Jensen and Chloe Kate

Family Halloween Party

The pictures are in for the annual Family Halloween Party.  The party was Great!  There were a lot of great costumes there.  Some others took more pictures than I did.  If I can get them I will add them to here.

This year we went with a Peter Pan theme.  I was Captain Hook, Hallie was Mr. Smee and Avery was Tinkerbell.

One of the big events of the Halloween party is the Piñata.  Avery had fun going after it and even got in a few really good hits.

Carving Pumpkins

We carved pumpkins tonight.  Avery enjoyed it, though she is still a little young for the details of cutting out pumpkin faces.

While we were cleaning out he pumpkins Avery bravely tried grabbing some of the innards of the pumpkin.  She decided that she did NOT like that.  It was "wet" (said in a very distressed voice).  We were proud of her for giving it a go though.

Avery picked the design for her pumpkin face and helped mom pull out some of the pieces and do some of the cutting.

Here is a picture of her with her finished pumpkin.

Hallie and I carved three other pumpkins.  One for me and her and one for Chloe Kate.  We now have a family of pumpkins.  Here is a picture of them all lit up.

The Pumpkin Patch

Avery went to Pack's Pumpkin Patch with her friends last week.  She had a lot of fun and got to pick out a pumpkin for "Mommy, Daddy, Avery Jane and Chloe Kate".

Mom told Avery to "go get lost" so she did.  She had a lot of fun in the hay maze.

 

Avery got to play with a bunch of old straw hats.  This is a picture of her in front of some sunflowers.

 

Hallie was pulling Avery and and our pumpkins in this wagon.  Hallie's friends were teasing her that it would send her in to labor.  Avery just kept saying "Mommy, this is a Bumpy ride!"

This is Avery posing on a bail of hay.

State Fair 9/19/07

Last week we went to the Utah State Fair.  We had a lot of fun, but I think Avery enjoyed it the most.  She was very excited to see cows, pigs, bunnies and "sheeps".  She (and her dad) also enjoyed the cotton candy very much.

Here are a few pictures from our visit.

One of the highlights of the fair for Avery was the pony ride.

Avery was also very happy to be able to pet the calf that was at the fair.

Avery's 3rd Birthday 8/25/07

Today was Avery's birthday party.  She had 7 of her friends over for a Backyardagains  party.  (The Backyardagains is a children's cartoon that Avery really likes.)  She had a great time with all the games and got  a lot of presents that she is really looking forward to playing with.

Here are two pictures from the party. (You can click on them to get a bigger version)

 

We also got together with Hallie's family later than night to celebrate both Avery's and Hallie's birthdays.  Here is a picture of Avery getting ready to blow out her candles.

Avery tried to blow out the candles SO HARD.  But the cake was too tall!

After I lifted her up she was able to get them one at a time.  (I think we need to work on here blowing skills.)

Homestead 8/19/07

This weekend we went to the Homestead in Midway Utah.  We all  had a great time.  We got to relax, swim and have fun.  I only have one picture of this, but I thought I would post it for all to see.  (I will be posting pictures with Hallie and I in them, I just happen to have not taken any recently.)

Trip to the Zoo 8/13/07

To get the web page party started I am going to post two pictures from a recent visit to the Zoo.  The company I work for (ARUP) had their company summer party at Utah's Hoggle Zoo.  Hallie and I took Avery Jane and her two cousins (Hallie's brothers children).  They had a great time.

One of the best parts was the there was free face painting.  Below are the pictures we took of them just after they got their faces painted.

This one is of Avery, Lauren and Ella Together