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april 4-april 12

My brother Jon and his wife Sam finally had their baby~! YAY~! They named him Andrew. He was born 3 weeks early but he is doing great. He has awesome parents and is very loved by all of the family that he has... Jr is loving having a new little cousin to look out for and love...

After we left the hospital visiting the newest addition to Jon's family, we went to Gmas house because it was the Priesthood session of Conference that night. Another Hastings tradition is that all the guys meet over at Gmas house for pizza after the meeting and so it has been fun for the younger boys that are just old enough to start going to the meeting to finally be able to go with their dads and see what all the fuss is about.

Grandpa, Uncles, Cousins

My sister and her kids came and hung out with me and my mom this time which was fun. These are some of my favorite pics I took of her kids when I was tending them when she went out for her anniversary in Feb...

Katie
Carter
Ben Syd

After dinner, my uncle brought out a little parachute that my dad had sent him when he was in Vietnam that he had tried to use by jumping off the roof of his house when he was little (even though my dad says in his letter when he sent it to him, he is pretty sure he told him NOT to do that lol). They used these parachutes during the war to drop mini bits of supplies to the soldiers. He gave it back to my dad to keep and Jr was seeing how big it opened so of course, out came my camera.... (I think it looks like a jellyfish...)

April 10

Jr won a lift pass at Brighton at the State Science Fair, so off we went to take him snowboarding... Luckily, this was the same place that he went for his first time last year. He had a blast. We got there at 930 in the morning and he finally tired out around 300 in the afternoon. The snow was actually perfect and there wasn't any avalanches when we were there, which was my main concern. Oh yeah, always get your kids to wear helmets when they are skiing and snowboarding, no matter what~! If you start them in them, there is never an issue on it... I'm jus sayin... I saw too many little kids without them, and it was making me crazy...

Where'd we park again? Oh yeah, look for the blue SUV... right, right....

April 12
On Easter, my mom was giving a talk in church and she asked us to go listen to her talk. She did a great job. I wish I could talk in front of people like she and my dad can. After church, we had a delicious Easter lunch and sat around visiting and watching basketball. My parents had been cleaning out their attic earlier in the week and found some of my dads clothes from when he was a medic in Vietnam. My mom was so surprised at how skinny my dad's medic whites were and wanted Jr to try them on... (my dad is insisting that they aren't his, maybe my mom shrunk them in the wash, but I can totally see my dad that thin in the military)... Then we just had to hide some Easter eggs in the front yard even though Jr is getting a little old for that, he played along like the good son that he is... It actually has been too long since the Easter bunny has hidden any eggs outside at our house because of the weather, so this was fun for me too lol

Now, consider yourselves all caught up~! *Whew*

catchup2...

march 11-march 26

Jr did an cooking project for french class and had fun learning how to make quiche lorraine. He doubled the receipe and made an extra one for my parents and my dad asked me later if we had bought it (because it was so good?)... Jr has always liked to cook and it was fun to take pictures of him doing this...

As you can tell from these ingredients, this is NOT fat free....


Hey, my little bro suddenly grew Jr's afro~! =)

Finished product......

If you insist on taking any more pics of me, this is what you are gonna get =P



On March 21, Real Salt Lake had a free game at their new arena and so my brother Jon took Jr and his brother in law to the game. They got some new shirts which was perfect since Jr's old one was getting a little small on him...

After they got back, Samantha was still working so I had decided to make dinner... It is fun to cook for other people. I made some parmesean chicken, twice baked potatoes, salad and it turned out pretty good. The only bad thing that happened was when Jon was cutting up avocados for the salad, he tried to cut off his finger... Luckily Sam was there to kiss it better...
It is tradition to play pingpong at the Hastings (Gpa Hastings and Jon Hastings too lol) so Jr rep'd the Hines' fam while Sam and I watched the boys duke it out...

Before we left Jr showed off all the features on his new itouch while I took a pic of us all together...

catchup...

I am a blogger slacker~!! Here is my catchup for the last two months...

march 3
Junior has been getting treatments up at Primary Children's Hospital and University of Utah Hospital for his EE. He has a thing with his esophagus where he can get food caught in it randomly and then he can't swallow anything at all; sometimes for up to 8 hours. He will end up having to spit into a cup for that whole time and it is very uncomfortable and can be painful and scary for him... This has been an ongoing problem for him for the past 4 years and we are hopeful that this treatment will be something that will prove to be an improvement for him. So anyway, he gets iv treatments every month and bloodwork done and also egd's done every 4 months. Here he is getting his iv treatments:

Here he is getting ready for his last egd on March 3rd which was also the same day as the district science fair. Tyler had to go set up the project since Jr was still trying to recover that day...

The next day, they went to pick up their project and found out they had got blue ribbons and had advanced on to the state science fair. Way to go boys~!
You can see Jr's blue bandages on his wrist from his being in the hospital the day before...
I had to post this pic cuz I am obviously too proud of my son...2nd year in a row~!