8 Months Old

Gage is 8 months old!!  He rolls from his back to his tummy and back to his back.  He loves to stand and have you help him walk around the house, he pulls himself up to furniture and every now and then he just stands up on his own.  he cries when his mom leaves the room, he passes toys back and forth from hand to hand, chews on everything!, he can go from being on his tummy to sitting, starting to pull himself forward, he rocks back and forth when music is playing, and 1 week before he was 8 months he started to crawl!  He army crawls mostly.  He weighs 16 pounds 1 ounce.  He still doesn't eat a lot and has started boycotting formula. He is trying new foods daily.  I have a great babysitter who helps give him new foods to try.  He really likes the banana flavored puffs.

He has had his 3rd hair cut and each time he looks like a little man more and more.  He has so much personality!  He is always happy, very curious, loves his dogs, loves his mom and dad, and goes to strangers pretty well.  Right now it isn't a big deal to me but hopefully he will get the stranger danger sense =)  He loves his babysitters kids and they adore him too.  His eyes are now more hazel and are either a dark blue or a greenish color.  His hair has lightened up a lot but has stayed brown.  He is going to be a handsome little devil =)

Grandma Bleazard

Anna Viola Mitchell Bleazard, age 103, of Bridgeland, passed away Dec. 24, 2013, at the Uintah Basin Rehabilitation and Sr. Villa.
Viola was born March 12, 1910, in Peoa, Utah, to Ernest Jerome and Amelia Roslund Mitchell. She married Stephen Jack Bleazard March 13, 1934, in Salt Lake City. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Jack passed away Oct. 23, 1998.Viola grew up in Peoa, Wanship, and Mountain Home, Utah. She later graduated from the Holy Cross Hospital nursing program. She married Jack and together they had four children, Lois, Carol, Janice, and Mike. They lived in Mountain Home on their ranch, and later moved to Bridgeland. She was active in the LDS church, serving in many callings in her Ward and Stake.

She enjoyed crocheting and many of her handiworks are being enjoyed by her posterity. Viola loved flowers, gardening, decorating her yard and home with plants and growing a large garden. She enjoyed camping with her family and fishing in the Uintah Mountains. She was fun loving and happy, enjoying life and especially loving her family. We will miss her fun personality and giggle.

She is survived by her children: Lois (Jae) Rogers, Roy; Carol (Cecil) Hanberg, Bridgeland; Janice (Robert) Steinhorst, West Valley City; Mike (Jean) Bleazard, Bridgeland; 28 grandchildren, 77 great grandchildren, and 56 great-great-grandchildren, with four more on the way.

She was preceded in death by her parents, 10 siblings, her husband, one grandson, and one great-grandson.


Grandma Bleazard was an amazing lady.  I absolutely loved living next to her and my grandpa and was usually found over there.  She made the best chocolate chip cookies, rice pudding and of course had many other treats.  I always teased with her that I wanted her to stick around to meet my kids and she did get to meet Gage.  She was fascinated by him.  Always playing with his feet because they were cold, telling me she wished she could babysit him, and just simply smiling at him.  I will miss her but I'm sure she is so happy to be with her family and Grandpa.  I'm sure it was an amazing reunion and Christmas for her.  Love you Grandma!!!

Grandpa and Grandma Bleazard in front of their first vehicle.

Grandma Bleazard in her younger days =)

Grandma with her sister May (I think)

Grandpa Bleazard with his friends.

Christmas 2013

We stayed home for Christmas this year and spent it with Kyle's family.  We went over to his sister's house for dinner.  We had a great time being with family. Gage was spoiled by everyone. His big sister Bayli gave him some really cute onsies and a binky with a mustache on it.  Kyle's sister and brother in law gave Gage a toy cell phone which will come in handy since Gage loves to chew on mine.  After we had dinner we all went to the cemetery to visit Kyle's dad.  Gage and I stayed in the car cuz Gage was eating but everyone else went out and lit candles.  When we got home we hurried and let Gage "open" his one gift for Christmas Eve.  It was PJ's and a new blanket.  Boy was he excited =)  Afterwards we put Gage in his PJ's and took a family picture in front of the tree.

 

Our 3 kids

 

CHRISTMAS DAY!!!!

Gage let us sleep in till 7:30 and he slept through the night which was so nice!  We woke him up and got right to opening presents.

The Loot

 

 

Gage did pretty good opening presents.  He was pretty interested in his gifts more than I thought he would be.  He didn't even seem to care about the wrapping paper or the boxes.  He loved all the gifts.

 

 Kyle liked his gifts and even smiled for the camera.  Gage was pretty excited for the bead maze and plays with the ring stacker a lot.  The dogs even got gifts.  They got a box of greenies and new rope bones.  I got some slippers, baking dishes, and a blanket.

After we opened gifts and had breakfast we got ready to go to Kyle's mom's house for lunch. Everyone comes over to hangout.  Of course Gage was spoiled once again.  Kyle's mom gave Gage a ball that rolls around and lights up, a dancing monkey toy, and a dog that plays music and teaches kids about hands, feet, ears, and tummy.

 

Gage got to wear his "My First Christmas" outfit and his reindeer slippers.  He looked so cute.  We had a great time with family and had a great 1st Christmas as a family.

7 Months Old

Gage is 7 months old.  He loves to click his tongue and smiles a lot when you do it back to him.  If you put him in his crib to play he pulls himself up and throws his toys onto the floor.  He sits up by himself and from there he tries to crawl.  He will get in the position and pushes himself around or goes backward.  Sometimes he holds his bottles by himself.  He loves to takes naps and goes to bed at night really well. He likes to roll around in his crib and sometimes sleeps on his stomach.  He loves to eat fruit and you have to mix applesauce with his veggies to get him to eat veggies.  He does not like adult food.  I've tried to give him mashed bananas, banana bread, mashed potatoes, and French fries and he just spits them out and makes a sour looking face.  He does however LOVE chocolate icecream.  We went out to eat at Sonny Boy's and there were giving free icecream cones and I got chocolate and let Gage have a lick and he loved it.   I would put the icecream in front of him and he would lean in and take a taste.  He must be my child =)

On our way out to dinner.

 Standing up

Bed Head

Kyles Back Surgery

Dec 10 we headed up to Riverton for Kyle to have a nerve stimulator implanted into his spine.  He has been having back pain and didn't want to have another fusion.  So we are hoping this will help buy him some time before he needs to have a fusion on levels L3-L4.  Kyle, Gage, and I all went and we stayed the night in a hotel the night before.  We got up the next morning and went to Riverton Hospital for Kyles surgery at 9.  He finally went in around 1030 and was in there for 2 hours.  Kyles Same day nurse Mary was awesome.  She was so nice and took very good care of Kyle.  She loved Gage.  He was in a good mood and was flirting with all the nurses.  Gage and I had to wait in the waiting room and there was a volunteer who was really nice to us.  He made sure everyone had a snack and a drink and would check to see how our loved ones were doing.  Gage did so well waiting for Kyle to be done with his surgery.

Kyle before with a smile.

Kyle after.  Not really smiling but he was doing pretty well.

The nurses on med surg were amazing.  They took such great care of Kyle and were trying really hard to get on top of his pain.  When we were in Vegas the nurses didn't care much if Kyle was doing good or not.  Riverton Hospital has amazing nurses.  They checked on him constantly, made sure Gage and I were doing good, and encouraged Kyle to keep going for walks. There was one CNA who made sure Kyle had all the treats and diet coke he wanted.

There was a nice lady who was making a hat while she waited for her loved one to get out of surgery.  She came over and put the hat on  Gage and asked if she could hold him.  I said of course and Gage really liked her.  When she gave Gage back I gave her the hat back and she went and got this blue one for him.  I wasn't sure if she was just testing the hat out or she was giving it to Gage.  I have to admit this hat was so much better.  Gage just looks adorable in it.

Kyle is recovering well and we are hoping the stimulator works for him.  He gets it turned on next week after all the swelling has gone down.

Gage and I went to the movie Frozen and we had to go without Kyle because he didn't think he could sit there since he was still recovering from surgery.  My work rented the theater and we had a great time.  This was Gage's first movie and I was excited for him to see Frozen.  He did really good but didn't really care to watch the movie.  I never had to get up with him but he ate twice, took a nap, and stared at the guy we were sitting by.  I'm sure the guy wasn't too thrilled that we were sitting next to him but by the end of the movie Gage  had won him over.  We missed having Kyle with us but the next time we take Gage to the movie all 3 of us will be there.

Gage's babysitter Jessica sent me this picture of him in the exersaucer.  He sure loves being there.  Jessica is amazing and her husband and kids just love Gage.  Every time I go to pick Gage up her son Max gives Gage a kiss goodbye.  He is so sweet.

For Christmas Jason and Tracy gave Gage a toy that I had given their kids years ago.  He is loud and obnoxious but Gage loves it and so far it doesn't bug us.  Gage puts it in his mouth like he is going to play the saxophone.  He is a smart kid =)