Zade and Daisy's Birthday Party

So we had a 3 kid birthday party, Zade, Daisy, and Audrey (Zade's cousin on april's side)
We had it at classic and it was ton's of fun. Crazy but fun. We had some awesome faundant cakes made by my sister in law joanna. Zade loved riding his scooter around the track. It's all he wanted to do the whole night. we had to drag him away to have him open presents. Thanks to everyone that came.
Zade-
here are some things about Zade.
He loves driving his little hummer truck everyday till the battery goes dead.
He loves batman and lightning mcqueen toys most.
He loves his grandma.
He is VERY competitive.
He loves helping me with anything.
He loves teasing his sister.
He calls yesterday "last day"
He loves running
He loves to read Mamma knows about fences
He love gymnastics
He loves eating chicken nuggets with ranch mustard and ketchup. (all the colors)
He loves talking to heavenly father with prayers.
He is a very special boy i love him so much.

Daisy,
She is our little princess.
She only wears dresses everyday.
she only wears dress night gowns to bed.
she is very picky about what she wears.
she loves to get snuggy in her blanky.
she loves to read books.
She always gets excited when i walk into the room.
she loves to say "i love you so much" as she touches my cheeks.
she LOVES our iphones.
She loves her grandma.
she loves her mamma.
she loves ellie,
she loves to ride with zade in his truck.
she loves to dance when music comes on.
she loves our dog cocoa
she loves being my special helper.
she loves chocolate
She loves to sing do as i'm doing in nursery.
I love her so much, she is my sunshine baby.
Has a smile that reaches from ear to ear.


Here are a few pix from the party.

30th Birthday Party Video

This is the Awesome video that Doug put together of my birthday Party.

Davey's 30th Birthday Party from Doug Larson on Vimeo.

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The Lasik Experience

So i got lasik today. I wanted to write down my experience cause i'll probably forget how it all went.
My appointment was at 11:45am at the Lasik Vision Institute. April dropped me off cause I wouldn't be able to drive myself home after. I was to wear clothing that wasn't fuzzy and no hairspray or cologne. First the painful part. The payment. They ran my card, $1,500 per eye. Which comes with a lifetime guarantee that if my vision ever changes they will fix it for free. They then ran a few more tests to make sure everything was ok. They also plugged my tear ducts which will last for 2 months then dissolve. Then I was put in the dark waiting room. They gave me a kit with sunglasses, 2 different eye drops and some sleeping eye covers. I'm in line behind one guy and 2 other ladies come in behind me. We are all given a hair net thing and booties to go over our shoes. The guys goes in first. While he's in there the lady next to me starts getting real nervous and asking for a valium. She ends up not getting one because she would have to walk to a pharmacy and then it would take another 40 minutes to kick in. I update my status on facebook and notice april's status that says that she just watched a video on youtube of lazik and said it was the most disturbing thing she'd ever seen. With that in mind it was my turn. One final eye check and they lay me down under the laser. I have opted to do the flap open the cornea way as opposed to the scratch off the cornea way. The doctor tells me to look at the orange light and hold still. He puts some numbing drops on my eye then proceeds to pry open my right eye which was a bit painful. Then he gets the round suction cup thing and keeps suctioning my eye trying to get it just right. He tells me I might want to consider the scratch off the cornea way cause I am at hi risk for a bad flap, because of my eyes being kind of small or something and i can't hold still. He says if i get a bad flap i will have to wait 3 months for the flap to heal and come back then for my surgery. Quick decision and I tell him to just try it again, so he numbs me again, pry's open my eyes a little bit more and after 3 suction cup tries he cuts open my cornea and everything goes black for a few seconds and then comes back. He says the cut went good and to hold real still and look at the orange light. So i'm holding real still and can feel my arms start to shake and I hear some one else count backwards 6-5-4-3-2-1. And thats it. 6 seconds for the actual lasik. He puts my flap back down and kind of paintbrush glues it shut and thats that. So for the left eye i'm praying that I can hold still again and that i will get a good flap. Second flap went well. 6 seconds later. 20/20 vision. it's great. i have to use eye drops a lot over the next few weeks, but even by the end of the day my eyes are hurting less and less. They were totally bloodshot at first but they are looking better and best of all feeling better. No more contacts for me. Ever. Sorry so long. But that's the lasik experience.
and hear is a photo of me an hour or so after surger.
I don't look happy but really I am.

Moments Like This

Moments like this is why I love being a Dad. This video is recorded in the dark so there is no video just audio. Over the last few months Zade who is 3, his I love you's have been growing longer and longer. It started out with colors of the rainbow, then sparkles and now it has evolved into shapes. I finally recorded it tonight.
I love him so much.

Christmas 2009

So here is a little video of santa's visit to our family.
Christmas eve is for sure my favorite part of Christmas.
I get so nervous when I'm ready to play santa. There is so
much pressure to not mess it up. To keep the tradition going.
Zade was so excited for Christmas. He loves seeing Santa, he gets
to see him once at our house christmas eve and another time
at my moms house the next day.
We did our family Christmas eve thing then woke up and had a Christmas
Breakfast with April's extended family. I learned one thing from
the breakfast. It's a bad idea to put 5 dozen eggshells down the
garbage disposal. Lets just say we had a bit of a mess to clean up.
Later that day we went to my moms house where we exchanged gifts and
just had a great time. We did the dance off again. It will probably
be the last time we do it with the adults. I think from now on we will
teach a little dance to the kids. Jimmy Joe and I played chess until about
4:30 in the morning. He is getting better but I am clearly the dominant player.
The next morning we went paintballing up near the bountiful temple with
doug, jimmy joe, joanna, johnny, april and myself. There was a lot of complaining
cause it took so long to get going and it was a bit of a hike to get to
the place that we played, but we had a great time.
here are some pictures and video of the weekend.

I love this one this is zade pooring milk for Santa.

Daisy's a Star

Just when I think she can't get any
cuter . . . . she does.
She probably watches a little bit too
much tv. Here she is saying the secret
word to bring out the micky mouse
club house. I love the arm raise at
the end when the sparkly music is on.