Zac survived his first surgery!

Zac had his surgery on Friday to remove the tumor on his neck. I've been meaning to update everyone, sorry it took a few days, but HE'S DOING GREAT!!! I forgot to bring my camera to the hospital so I took these a couple days ago at home. He's been so tuff and not complaining about the incision.

He was so sweet at the hospital, all the nurses couldn't believe how brave he was. We were lucky to have the same nurse that helped us when he had his MRI and she lets him play with her name badge, and if you know Zac you know he loves work badges almost as much as he loves keys!

WE'RE HOME!!!

Now back to the real world!
(On the way to the airport to go back to Dallas) I felt the same way at the end of our vacation.

Family Photos

My little brother came in from Detroit just a couple days before we went back to Dallas and since it was the first time all four of my mom's kids were together in like 6 years, she wanted us to take a family picture. (She had her neighbor take some more "professional" ones these are just some snap shots from my camera.) I decided to try to get a cute family photo of me and Jamie and the kids while we were at it, but Zac was not wanting to cooperate! (I hope her neighbor got some better ones than we did!)

This picture (above) totally gave me a flashback of this picture(below) ohhh, Zac...

$2 Tuesdays at Thanksgiving Point

For August Thanksgiving point did $2 tuesdays. So the first Tuesday we were in town we went to the Dinosaur museum

The second Tuesday we went to the farm. The kids seemed to enjoy the farm a lot more especially the pony rides!

Kids enjoying my mom's waterfall

The next week we stayed at my mom's house and of course the kids favorite thing was the waterfall in the backyard! (what is it with Utah people and waterfalls in their yards?)

Landon LOVED his cousin Ella's house

Landon, still playing the game Nate taught him at the river by the campfire!!! (this time we were in Kristen's backyard though!)

Landon's favorite toy of Ella's was definately her Dora powerwheels!

Campfire night with Jamie's fam

The first weekend we were in Utah, we stayed at Jamie's sister Kristen's house. Kristen planned a fun night up in the canyon with their other sis Melanie.

First we had to stop and get marshmellows, hotdogs, Cheetos, etc. all the campfire food essentials. Zac and Ella got to drive the shopping cart! (looks like Zacs taken over both steering wheels- sorry Ella)

Eating yummy food at the campfire. There's nothin better than smores and hotdogs!

gorgeous ladies!
Mel and Nate taught the kids a fun game by the river- throwing pebbles. Landon decided to pick up a rock almost as big as he is!!! Wow Landon, take it easy!

Of course everyone needed baths before bedtime cuz campfire nights are DIRTY!

This video is just toooo cute! I love how these two interact and teach each other things and make each other laugh! I already miss you guys!

On our way to Utah!

On our way to Utah we had a layover in Denver and the boys were so excited to run around upstairs and kept wanting to go on the moving walk way. I guess all the running around got Zac tired, he fell asleep on the plane as soon as we took off! Landon was still full of energy cuz he slept on the 1st flight from Dallas to Denver.

A FEW PICS FROM GRANDMA'S HOUSE IN UTAH...more to come when we get home

We've been in Utah for a week visiting family and friends and don't come home till next week. So I haven't been blogging cuz although I've taken a lot of pictures, I didn't bring my chord to connect my camera to my mom's computer. So today I decided to take pictures with my mom's camera so I could upload them!

My sister is in town from Reno with her kids and Zac has been having a blast playing with her 4 year old Will. (They are both OBSESSED with cars!)

Zac LOVES Grandmas whirlpool tub. He gets sooo excited when we turn on the bubbles and he was even more excited to have his cousin Will to play with.

(he's more fun than Landon cuz he doesn't cry when Zac splashes him!)

Landon descovered a fun game at lunch today... stick the hotdogs inside the plastic flute. But then he was upset that he couldn't get them out!

Memory Tag

Here's the fun tag everyone is doing. Don't leave me hangin'! (Even if you don't have a blog or don't ever comment or if this is an old entry, I always love comments.)

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.

It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you, if you have one. If not, play anyway!

Spray Park

The Lakehighlands Rec Center has a free spray park. That's right, FREE! We don't belong to the rec center either, it's just a public park and the kids love it! (plus there's a couple playgrounds and swingsets and picnic tables, etc. all right there!) Dallas is sooo hot and this is better than taking the kids swimming, cuz there's less risk of drowning. :) Jamie too cool to get in a get wet with the kiddos (even though he did have a swim suit on)

Zac kept sticking his head in this one and laughing!!

He was a little scared to go through this one,

but he finally went through with me, holding my hand.

Landon pretty much stayed by the little baby fountains

Not often that we get a picture of them together

He's gonna be OK

BENIGN

The word of the day is "Benign" yeah!!! Zac's MRI results came in and he has what's called lipoma. It's a non-cancerous (benign) tumor made up of fatty tissue. It won't ever go away though, and it could slowly get bigger over time. So unless if we want Zac to pick up the nick name Quasimodo we better have it removed. We're getting a refferal from our pediatrician tomorrow for a surgeon to do that hopefully soon!

Man we wanted the kid to gain a little fat, but this isn't exactly what we had in mind!
http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/tc/lipoma-topic-overview

ZAC'S MRI

ZAC HAS A LUMP ON HIS NECK!
We just noticed it Fourth of July weekend when Debbie pointed it out. We saw our pediatrician the next week and

needless to say, he was concerned.

1st we did blood work and an ultra sound.
The results: cell count good, and thyroid levels good (from blood work) and we know it's not protruding deeper than surface into muscle or esophagus (ultra sound) But they still didn't know what it was.
It feels soft which is a good sign (hard lumps are more indication of cancer) and doesn't seem to cause him any pain.
So we got an MRI today and we'll hopefully know later today or tomorrow what the heck is going on!!!




Zac had so much fun in the pediatric waiting area. It totally kept his mind off the fact that he wasn't allowed to eat any breakfast!

They gave him a mask to play with to practice and be comfortable with the idea of the doctor using it to sedate him for the MRI. But all Zac kept wanting to do was put it in the play mailbox.

Kids in action @ the playground!

Landon is cracking me up more and more as he gets older and learns to keep up with Zac.

Fourth of July

The night before the Fourth of July, Landon had 103.1 temp and was up most of the night. The next day his fever was gone, but he still was not a happy camper! Sooooo tired but wouldn't nap. The only time he was happy all day was watching Grandpa set off fireworks!

Zac and Grandpa swimmin' in the (cold) hot tub

It still wasn't quite dark but Grandpa Jim started giving the boys a firework show and they both really liked it!