13.1 miles + NO walking = AWESOME

Salt Lake City 1/2 marathon

We may have been really slow, but we accomplished our goal of not walking a SINGLE STEP! Wow, I still can't believe we did it (except that my legs are still feeling it.)

Lame.

Sometimes I am a lame parent. I know Caydence is our first child so we should be really excited about the holidays, and making them extra special for her, but I've been feeling absolutely no need to spend money on things she won't remember. Today is Easter. The "Easter Bunny" brought her $1 peeps and a $1 sucker, that's it. She hasn't even seen them yet. For her birthday we got her a soccer ball. That's it. We've never spent much on her for any holiday/birthday. I just don't feel like she needs a lot of money spent on her. After all, that's not what Easter is about anyways. And she's never going to remember. And she has everything she needs. She had fun at the Easter egg hunt with my fam, and that's really all the candy she needs.

Am I lame for not wanting to spend money on her? I just think I'd rather save our money. She doesn't know the difference, right?

We like to party!

All of the birthdays in our family seem to turn into a week-long event. Caydence's 2nd birthday was no exception.

We started with a combined party for Caydence and her great grandma (they share a birthday). We did it the week before their birthday because we had a bunch of family in town from California who wanted to join in the fun.

Caydence was pretty cute this year because she actually blew out the candles all by herself.

The birthday girls!

The ONE day a year I'm ok with Caydence being messy.

Dress up shoes from my mom.

The second party was with Danny's family. This was her cute cupcake.

She started out pretty clean.

Her cousin, Analyssa, gave her this purse and necklaces and she wouldn't take them off the whole time she was opening presents. Made for some pretty funny moments.

Party 3 was on her actual birthday. We had dinner with my family, and a couple more presents.

And more cupcakes, of course!

And more messes!
I still can't believe our little girl is 2! I feel like she was just born yesterday, but at the same time it feels like we've always had her. She is the joy of our lives. We love our Caydence!!

A SIDE NOTE (but still extremely exciting)

Danny got a new job! He'll be starting Monday for Goldman Sach's in SLC. We're really excited, especially for the better hours, better pay, and shorter commute!

This is how we celebrated. WINGER'S!!

Where has the time gone?!?!

I still can't believe it, but last night Danny and I celebrated our FOURTH anniversary! Crazy.

I surprised Danny with the entire night. He had NO idea what we were doing. I just told him to take the day off work because I had a lot planned.

We started the day at the Salt Lake temple. I LOVE that they still do live sessions. We even got to be the witness couple which made it even better!

We then had reservations at Donovan's- an amazing steak place in SLC. It was really good, and I just love the high-class atmosphere.
And we finished off the night with the funniest man ever. This is the 2nd time we've gotten to see him. I could watch him every day!

Pretty much the best night ever.

My poor baby girl...

I've really wished that Caydence could talk this last month. I'd really like her to tell me what's wrong.

Four weeks ago Caydence randomly threw up. She had issues with throwing up this summer (you may remember my rant/post about it) and after throwing up 3 times in about a month she stopped and everything seemed fine. But this time it has been way worse. She has thrown up 7 times in the last 4 weeks- 6 of those being in the last 3 weeks. We first thought it was a milk allergy because it always seemed to follow milk, so we took her off milk for a week and she stopped throwing up. YEA! But then we re-introduced it and she started throwing up again, so we thought we had it solved. Took her back off milk, and she continued to throw up. I finally took her into the doctor after 3 weeks and 6 throw ups, one week of diarrhea, and a completely unrelated fever/cough/runny nose on the side. Poor thing was miserable. The doctor sent me to the hospital so they could draw her blood and test it for milk allergy, celiac's, etc. I was hoping the tests would come back positive, but at the same time really hoping they wouldn't.
This is after they drew her blood. She was totally over it because she had a sucker and this slap bracelet :)

So the doctor called today with the results: no allergies. Great. Now where do we go. I'm so tired of throw up, but most of all I feel so bad for Caydence. So they called in a prescription for antacid in case it's reflux, which I also hope is not the case because it was EXPENSIVE and it was only a 1 month dose! And he also referred me to the GI department at Primary Children's, but they are WAY booked, so it'll probably be a while before I can get in to see them. Hopefully we can get this solved. It's the worst to see your baby suffer. But the weird thing is that once she throws up she's totally fine. Not sick, not whiny, nothing.

Just a side note: The doctor was also concerned that she had not gained any weight since her appointment 5 months ago. All I can say is I wish that would rub off on me...

My kind of figure skater:

This costume says it all.

Kevin van der Perren

Belgium

Since Danny never reads our blog...

...I can post about his funny/embarrassing mistakes and he'll never know :)

So last night Danny and I took out our 4 garbage cans (2 each). I looked in mine to make sure they were full before I took them to the curb because we don't always fill all of them. I told him to check his too - he didn't. This morning he went to throw something in them, and the one he opened was empty, so he brought them all back in. I told him I was really surprised because the garbage man usually doesn't come that early, so he said he'd check them on his way out to work - he didn't. Turns out that since he didn't look last night he ended up putting an empty one at the curb, and he just so happened to pick that one to throw garbage in this morning, and so he assumed the garbage man had already come - but he hadn't.

Point of this story: the garbage didn't get dumped, even though we took out all the cans and brought them back in, ha ha.

To our neighbors who read this: Sorry!! We tried! I guess we'll have to go light on the trash this week - or maybe we can go across the parking lot and fill the neighbors' cans without them knowing :)