Alexa Had to Get Stitches

On Sunday night, Alexa was playing with a family member's dog and we realized too late that he doesn't like little ones down close to his face. Alexa got the brunt of it and he bit her. She got scratches and bruises, but one cut that was wide enough that we felt we needed to see if we needed to take her in. We took her to my inlaw's neighbor first, who is a nurse and she tried to close it with a butterfly bandage, but we just couldnt get it to close. So we decided to take her to the InstaCare.

It was so sad because we had to hold her down while they irrigated it and numbed it, and she is so strong...that even with Brandon, a nurse, and myself holding her down, she wiggled free a few times. The worst part was that they had to give her two shots into her wound and it was hard to see. She only ended up needing one stitch because with dog bites, the risk of infection is very high, so they didnt want to completely close it up. Part of her cheek fat was coming out of the cut and so they had to atleast stitch that up so it could heal properly.

She goes in on Friday to get it checked out and the stitch removed! She was so brave and we are so thankful that it wasn't worse! We just hope it heals up nicely with no infection and little to no scarring!

This is before it got cleaned and stitched up at InstaCare

This was later that night.

Chayse's PreSchool Graduation

Last night Chayse graduated from his first year of preschool! I am so proud of all he has learned and how far he has come this past year! He found his love for singing and getting up and doing it in front of his class or a big crowd. His love for drawing jumped leaps and bounds and he is actually very good for his age. He is spelling small words and sounding them out, and loves writing! His teachers, Jen and her mom Linda...are absolutely amazing. I couldn't have asked for a better preschool for Chayse to go to.

Here are the pics from his Graduation Dinner at Pizza Plus and his actual Graduation. The quality of the pictures is very low and I am not too impressed with my Nikon point and shoot. Thats for another post though..so sorry..you have to deal with bad pics haha! We were sad because Brandon had to work at the hospital last night, so he missed the dinner, but luckily he was able to slip away and see Chayse graduate! :)

Chayse loves taking pictures, and he insisted on taking some of me. He just may be following in my footsteps! The best part about it is that he takes the pic, looks at it on the camera with a big smile and says "Cute, that's really cute."

Thanks to Grandma & Grandpa Leavitt, and Stacy and Jamie for coming to help support Chayse! We missed the rest of you and wish you could have come!

Chasye with his teacher Jen, who is amazingly fabulous at what she does and a good friend!

I am so so so proud of you little buddy! Now I just have to figure out what we are going to do all summer without preschool! Haha! His life revolved around preschool and what was coming next, and what letter they would learn, and what he could bring for sharing, etc. He truely loves school and I love that about him!

Some new pictures of My Little Ones!

I finally got Alexa's 2 yr pics done. I still have to do some outdoor ones, but got these done for now! She is such a ham! I love it. I was pretty sure it would be a fiasco..but she suprised me! Chayse wanted to get in on the picture action and wanted to do all his own poses. It was cute!

Just a few pics

Here are just a few little pics for a random post.

After dinner the other day, Alexa decided she hadn't had enough fries. Next thing we know she had piled every last fry that was left on the pan, and sat down to enjoy them while watching TV. (No she didn't end up eating them all). She is our little eater..our CONSTANT eater. I swear that girl is the bottomless pit. As stated before, Alexa loves food. This shows her excitement over a little baggie of Marshmallows.

What's a post without a picture of My Littlest Main Man! He has his moments that are getting further and further between, that he will be a poser and smile for pics. I will take what I can get because I love the result! :) Love you buddy!

Happy Birthday Jonas!

My sweet little nephew turns 3 today! I hate that I cant celebrate it with him, but we love you buddy! We hope your birthday is fabulous and your mommy and daddy spoil you rotten! We are excited to see you in a few weeks! Love you!!!

Brand new Baby Jonas!
Happy 1st Birthday!
Happy 2nd Birthday!Love his cute little wink!
(almost 3..don't have a pic of him today!)

So exciting!!!

I am so excited! My new camera got delivered today! Yes I know I just got another one less than a year ago, but I wanted to get the Canon 7D for a few reasons, one of them being that it shoots HD Video! I am excited about that especially for weddings. Now I can put video clips on the bride & grooms picture DVD along with their images!

So exciting! I am also waiting for this bad boy to arrive! It's on back order but should be here in a week or so!

Spring Dress Giveaway on my Photography Site!

Hey friends! Go check out the awesome giveaway I am hosting on my photography website! Go to Nicole Leavitt Photography and make sure to enter! The dresses are so darling, great for spring and summer and well made! The drawing will be closed on Friday!

A Few of My Favorite Girls

A few weeks ago, we had a fun girls night out! As always it was a blast with these ladies! As stated in the post title, these are some of my favorite girls! We always laugh so hard and have a great time, and even act a little dorky too! Haha! We went to eat at Beehive Grill and its a very yummy place I might add! Then after that, we went to "Bounty Hunter" and yes it was good and yes we all drooled over our Gerry.

Anyway, there are a few pics from dinner. Ya..I know..we are dorks!

Clean Babes & Muscles

Onto my third post of the day! Haha gotta get caught up! Anyway, Chayse wanted me to take pictures of his muscles. He has been working out with his Dad and is pretty proud of himself.
The others are just a couple of other cute randoms!