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Shiloh's celebrities

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The Rich Ones who look like Me.

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Casts 2-5...

Cast No. 2: True Blue for BYU!!!

Cast No. 3 : Formal Black for Family pictures!

This past month has been busy as you can tell! With Shiloh in school full-time at the UofU me and the kids are settling into a groove of a schedule. Ezra has been getting weekly casts and so we go to SLC each Friday. That is now over and we are gearing up for surgery next Thursday Oct. 11th! Wish us luck! We are hoping it will end up just being outpatient and he won't have to stay over night, however, they are scheduling him to be admitted just in case his pain levels are too high to go home right away. I plan to stay with him there on those "comfy" hospital chairs. Sigh. I am hoping they have something more comfortable than what I have seen in other hospitals--it is Primary Children's Medical Center, they should be used to this, right???

Cast No. 4: Bright orange just in time for hunting season.

I hope that this one isn't too risque for the blog! He's too young to be embarrassed. This is the way that we have had to bath him ever since he got his cast--sponge bathes. I usually do it near the sink, but Shiloh was in charge this time so he did it in the living room with a big pot of water. He happened to be watching football at the time. Go figure.

Cast No. 5: Bright Green to go with his jolly personality.

Gimpie, but you'd never know it.

Here he is everyone: Our latest gimpie and as happy as ever!! For those of you who don't know, Ezra was born with a "vertical talis" bone (meaning his foot was in the wrong position in the womb and so it came out "crooked"). Yesterday marks the beginning of his treatment plan to get it fixed. We will be going to Salt Lake weekly to get new casts like this one (of varying colors--we thought we'd start at the beginning of the rainbow). After about 8 weeks on October 16th we are scheduled to have minor surgery on his foot and then he'll get his final cast for 12 weeks. All should be said and done by mid January 2008. I am so proud of my little boy though. He just smiled and flirted with the nurses through his x-rays and casting. He really is the happiest and easiest baby I know! I am so lucky!!! (The cast is fiberglass bytheway and hard as a rock! He can barely lift his leg... Awe...)

Media Phone

Okay, so I just got a new phone. I was up for an upgrade and a new contract so I figured, why not? Of course with the constant pressure of an ever-increasingly technological world, my old cell phone looks like a grandma compared to what is currently offered. I mean who has a cell phone anymore where all it can do is call someone??

My first cell phone was a Nokia and it was like a mini brick--no color face or screen. No pictures or graphics, just an address book, a clock and a talk button. Remember those??? My new phone is a camera, a video player, a music player, an FM stereo for the car, and as a side thought: a phone. It is amazing. I am having a lot of fun with it. But, in the 8 short years that I have carried a cell phone, and the amazing metamorphosis I have seen occur with the technology. I just have to wonder:

"What's next???"

Here are some pics I just took with my phone.

The new face of CHIP

We were recently approved to be on the CHIP program (state funded health insurance for kids). I got a call a couple days ago from their public relations department asking me and our little family to come be a "face" for their press conference kick-off. We stood up there with the deputy governor and they told me before hand that I wouldn't have to say anything. Of course as soon as we stood there next to him he asked me to say a few words introducing myself and our family and how CHIP fits into our life right now. :) Several news stations were there, but I doubt we'll get much exposure. However, Shiloh & Ezra were spotted in the video clip for KSL 5. Click on the link to see their brief moment of glory!

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=1600512#