Headlee Family Blog

Jeff and Rachelle

2010-07-18T13:03:00.000-07:00

Sam and Emily

2010-07-18T13:02:00.000-07:00

Mom and Dad

2010-07-18T13:00:00.000-07:00

Aspen Grove!

2009-06-27T12:13:00.001-07:00

My Little Cub Scout!

2008-05-29T16:42:00.000-07:00

He loved coming to day camp with me! He is so funny!

Black and Bangs

2008-04-18T13:37:00.000-07:00

Here I am Mom. Black, Bangs and still crazy! I love you! Katie Jean

A Happy Ending

2008-04-04T08:53:00.000-07:00

This saved us a trip to the hospital for more x-rays. And thank goodness I cleaned my bathroom this week!

No April Fools

2008-04-02T09:28:00.000-07:00

"Mom, I swallowed that thing."

"What thing?"
"That thing from the wall."
"You swallowed a nail?"

"Yeah."

So, first to American Fork hospital for an x-ray--sure enough, he swallowed a nail. The GI specialist referred us to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake. After another round of x-rays and a check with a metal detector, they sent us home.

Apparently if an object is less than 5 cm, the body can usually get rid of it on its own (2% chance of bowel perforation), including nails, open safety pins, stick pins, and more! Adam is on some laxatives, and we go for more x-rays in 2 days!

My little princess

2008-01-28T12:26:00.000-08:00

So this is a dress my friend Erin gave Jane. Isn't it so cute!!! I had to post! How much more girly can you get?

STRIKE!!!

2008-01-25T13:15:00.000-08:00

So this is a picture of mom with her ice headband after getting a strike the first round of bowling!

New Arrival

2008-01-10T21:43:00.000-08:00

So I finally caved, and we got a puppy. Adam is in love, and so is the puppy. All he (puppy) wants is attention and love. Adam is happy to give him more and more!

His name is Mozart (he came with the name, but it was a sign that he was the right dog for us), and he's half maltese, half chihuahua.

This photo is just to give you an idea of how small he is.

Our Adoption Profile (Blog)

2008-01-06T17:23:00.000-08:00

So we finally got this online. If you want to pass the word around, you can give out this address:

www.readytoadopt.blogspot.com

Em

happy birthday mom!

2007-12-11T16:44:00.000-08:00

6 weeks

2007-12-10T12:59:00.000-08:00

So I'm sorry I keep posting pictures. She just keeps changing. She's 6 weeks today and we've gotten a few smiles from her. It's fun to have her personality start to show! 15 days till Christmas...and just a few more till we come to visit...we're so excited!

Love you all...

Kim

Dance family happenings

2007-12-03T13:16:00.000-08:00

Well, since I am not so good at keeping in touch on the phone regularly I'm updating you guys the best way I can in between feedings and carpools and everything.

It's been quite an exciting week for us...first of all Tom bought me a minivan. I love it! it's so roomy and just so nice to have a car we fit well in and I can drive other kids in.

It snowed here! We got about 3 inches first, then 2 days later woke up to another 6. The boys play outside for hours. It's been great!

Another thing that happened this week is quite bittersweet. Tom's partner found out he has a bulging disk on his spine (by his neck) and has to have surgery this wednesday. He will be out for a full month and then coming back slowly in January. What does this mean for us? Tom is working all of December (with the exception of Christmas/New Years) and all of January. It's a slow time of year still, but he was originally scheduled to work only 4 days the whole month of December. We feel terrible for his partner, but just glad we are here so he didn't have to shut down the office for 2 months. Tom has to fly back new years evening now to work on the 2nd, but that is fine with us...after such a slow start here, we'll take all the work we can get!

So that's about it. We're counting down the days till Christmas!

3 weeks old...

2007-11-20T08:46:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures of our sweet baby Jane. I wish you could all see her and hold her right now! She is so cute! She is waking up a ton and she's so bright eyed. We can't wait for her to smile. She already does in her sleep or in that "sleep/wake" phase, and it is so adorable. She'll be so big by Christmas, but by then she'll be laughing at you all so that'll be fun too!

Christmas 2007

2007-11-15T12:14:00.000-08:00

So I got the camel head...basically I'm in charge this year. So this is how it is going to go...

* Everyone is going to be involved, including Mariana (I think...I haven't talked to her yet...anyone have her phone number so I can call and confirm?).
* We will do the gift exchange after christmas. Probably on the 28th or 29th of December when everyone is in town together.
* You will be giving a FAMILY gift. If you have someone with kids like my family, you can gear it towards the kids if you want, or just something nice for Tom and I, or something the whole family would like. Since it is after Christmas, let's not worry about "getting" more presents so don't do individual things (ie: a shirt for Tom, lotion for Kim, a game for Cameron, and a car for Braden). Let's keep it simple and thoughtful. This should not be a stressful time of year...so don't make it stressful! Last year Christian gave our family the Harry Potter series and we have enjoyed it a TON!!! It was a great idea! Thanks Chris!
* As far as price goes, let's keep it $40-$50.

I need everyone to email me with the following information:
Who did you give to the last 2 years. I know we were on a "schedule" a few years back but now we aren't and I want to make sure you aren't always giving to the same people. So rack your brain and get back to me. As soon as i hear from everyone, I'll juggle around names and give everyone an assignment. Also, if you have any "requests" (you have a GREAT idea for a certain person/family and you really want to give to them), let me know and i will TRY to accomodate. The key word is TRY!

I'm really excited for Christmas and more excited to see everyone after Christmas! Since I'm on the bandwagon right now I have a few other ideas about our get together. Since I'm the "guest" in Vegas this can get over-rided by you guys but what about if we all take a night to cook dinner (or pick-up dinner). Each "house" can take a night and the people there help out. We could do a Taco night, a pizza night, and a soup night for example. Then we can get babysitters one night and all go out to Cheescake Factory. Then people hosting don't feel like they have to cook every night.

Anyways, we are so excited! Oh, and don't forget the big event on December 31st...Tom's birthday!!! You guys have never been able to celebrate with us so I'm really excited to party harty! No gifts please, just white elephants. So between now and then, try to find (literally in your garage?) something you think tom would "treasure" and that we can all get a good laugh out of. You are all creative!

Swimming Hole

2007-11-05T10:48:00.000-08:00

For those of you who haven't been able to see it in person!

Jack-O-Lanterns

2007-11-02T09:55:00.001-07:00

Okay, so I finally got a new camera so that I can actually take and post pictures when I want to rather than just when my camera happens to work.
Here are the kids' jack-o-lanterns. I had to take pictures, otherwise we would have been the only ones to see them. (Since we have no neighbors or trick-or-treaters).

Baby Janie

2007-11-01T18:23:00.000-07:00

So here are a few more pictures of baby Jane. Pictures really don't do justice. But that is coming from a biased mom!

Halloween

2007-11-01T10:46:00.001-07:00

Big Party!!!

2007-11-01T07:41:00.000-07:00

This is the big party I threw for Jeff for passing the bar. Kate and Zelma came over and helped me with all the decorations, including the 150+ helium balloons. It was really great and we all had such a fun time. So glad that stress is over!

The First Day of School in Las Vegas

2007-11-01T07:40:00.000-07:00

Everyone at Chuck E Cheese for Simon's Birthday

2007-11-01T07:36:00.000-07:00

More A.G.

2007-11-01T07:35:00.000-07:00

2007-11-01T07:30:00.000-07:00

I'm just getting caught up on posting pictures. I finally downloaded all the pics from my camera, all 189 of them, and found some to post. I hope I'm doing this right. The first is right before we left NY and went to the Scacred Grove with Grandma Edie. The othes were from Aspen Grove. Don't worry, I'm not done yet!

Trunk or Treat

2007-11-01T07:27:00.000-07:00

Baby Sister

2007-10-31T13:45:00.000-07:00

the Carseat

2007-10-31T08:55:00.000-07:00

I know this isn't as exciting as pictures of the baby, but here's the carseat mom made. Cute, huh?

Jane Ashely Dance

2007-10-30T19:47:00.000-07:00

So our little angel was born last night at 9:59pm. She was 6 lbs 7 oz and 19 1/2 inches. I can't wait for you all to see her. Pictures don't ever do justice. She is so sweet!

less than 24 hours...

2007-10-28T15:03:00.001-07:00

So as you all know, tomorrow is the big day. I'm really excited/nervous/anxious. My doctor perscribed me some ambien to sleep. I went in on Friday and basically broke down and balled to the nurse and then to him. I was SO tired b/c every day this week I've woken up between 4:30-5:00am and can't get back to sleep...must be anxiety or something. Plus the worrying that she's moving, etc. I'm fine now, just tired (but that won't change, right!). Mom is here and we've been making me a new car seat cover. I'll post a picture later when we are done. When I'm done with it, I'm sending it to anyone who has a baby girl in need of an infant car seat cover! It's too much work to not be used again! Mom even re-created the canopy!
Pictures will be coming soon (of the baby that is!)!!!!

Post some news people.

2007-10-27T10:31:00.001-07:00

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

2007-10-19T18:22:00.001-07:00

Lincoln & Makenna's preschool went to a pumpkin patch. After a 1/2 mile hike we got to the south end of the pumpkin patch. All we could find were little yellow pumpkins, or bigger green pumpkins (they looked like zucchini)! Finally someone made it to the North end of the patch and found a bunch of good sized orange pumpkins. So we all walked to the complete other end of the patch and got our big pumpkins! Smart thinking! Now we had a bad pumpkin to adult ratio. At one point Whitney was carrying two big pumpkins, Bond and Marlyn were both carrying theirs, and Makenna and Lincoln were trading off carrying one in a backpack, while I was also carrying two. So I was carrying Reagan on my back and a pumpkin in each arm ( I am sure that I looked like a complete lunatic) and sure enough I tell Lincoln to hurry and catch up, and he trips and gashes his head open, and was bleeding like a blood donor! It was a mess. Reagan was having much sympathy for her brother and started crying as well. It was memorable to say the least! Thanks for your help Whitney! I probably would have started crying too if you hadn't been there to help.

P.S. Thanks to Rachelle, McKinley was hanging out at her house instead of crying on my hip too!

Spiderman Saves Baby!

2007-10-19T18:20:00.001-07:00

Lincoln is so good about always wanted to hold McKinley. He is so curious to see how much she has grown every single day!

Hanging In There!

2007-10-19T18:18:00.001-07:00

McKinley was a good little girl. She was pretty entertained with my keys most of the time.

Climbers!

2007-10-19T18:16:00.001-07:00

Even when they seemed a little freaked out at the height, they kept climbing. Reagan would pass Lincoln, then Lincoln would climb a little higher, then Reagan would climb a little higher, and on and on! Since I had McKinley in my sling, Megan had to be the kid chaser up the rocks.

Funny Kids!

2007-10-19T18:14:00.001-07:00

Something Strange In The Dirt.

2007-10-19T18:12:00.001-07:00

I just thought this was a cute picture.

Red Rock Canyon

2007-10-19T18:01:00.000-07:00

The kids had a great time hiking around Red Rock Canyon. They were real troopers.

3 Amigos

2007-10-08T13:49:00.001-07:00

Having a good time together! 15 pictures, not one has them all smiling together.

Friends At Last!

2007-10-08T13:47:00.001-07:00

They get into a lot of trouble together, but they also have a lot of fun!

For Kate...

2007-10-07T16:32:00.001-07:00

So Katie wanted me to post a "belly shot" and since i don't ever take any of those, I thought she was out of luck. Then, my friend lizzy threw me a shower and took this one. You can see the belly...getting HUGE now. But besides that, check out that cute dress. The picture doesn't do justice. It is so cute...a size 2T and I know she'll not ever want to take it off! I had about 8 girls come to my shower...small but nice. My friend Lizzy made dinner and we had a great time. I got some darling pink stuff...most of which I exchanged for bigger sizes since I'm okay in the 0-12 month department. But now I feel like I have a few cute things for her when she's one!

From Carmel to Chalk

2007-10-07T12:59:00.001-07:00

Seconds after rescuing my pretzel stuff.... I see McKinley crawling around with a piece of chalk in her mouth. She dropped it before I could take the picture, but you can see it in her hand. I decided it was probably non-toxic so I didn't have to call poison control.

What is that?

2007-10-07T12:50:00.001-07:00

Anyone have a guess? Yep, your right. It is a 1.2 lbs of Carmel. I had it on the counter with the half pound of white chocolate ready to make yummy pretzels. I went to change McKinley's diaper and came outside to check on my oh so quiet 2year old and found her sitting on Lincoln's skateboard like this. As soon as she saw me she said "Yummy Mommy" and offered me some. At first it didn't sink in, I didn't know what she was eating. I thought it was a loaf of bread, but then I realized I didn't HAVE a loaf of bread. Once I saw the white chocolate I realized she had heisted my ingredients. She is so crazy! By the time I got the camera she must have known that I was going to take both of her treats away, so she was desperately tearing at the white chocolate trying to open the package to get a chunk. But she wasn't fast enough!

Vanilla Sugar

2007-10-07T11:54:00.000-07:00

I bought a new sugar canister and I'm making the vanilla sugar. I guess it takes a couple of weeks, so I'll let you know how it turns out!

Our Adoption Profile

2007-10-04T23:24:00.001-07:00

Finally, we got this done! The original file was huge--80 megs. So we shrunk it, and you can't read everything. Probably better that way :)

Sloppy Joes

2007-10-04T19:51:00.000-07:00

So, I have a fantastic new recipe I got from my neighbor for sloppy joes. First time I have ever made a successful home-made sloppy joe. I'm too tired to post it right now but look for it in the near future.

Nothin New

2007-09-30T16:27:00.000-07:00

Hola Familia!

Nothing much is going on here, except it's getting colder and I can see I'm going to be a shut-in soon! With the weather in the 40s and 50s, it's hard to want to go out and play, which is all we've been doing lately. The boys have had school, and Cameron is playing soccer, and overall, they are doing great. As for me, I can't breath, sleep, and my back hurts. I'm pretty much ready to deliver if it were up to me! I've always said that pregnancy would be perfect if it was just 8 months instead of 9! We'll give her a few more weeks though. November 1st will be here in no time I'm sure.

You know how sometimes you look at your kids and just can't help but laugh and love them. Well, they were being so cute and so I got out my camera while I was having one of those moments. Aren't they just cute boys?

Pictures mom?

2007-09-26T13:18:00.000-07:00

Mom, Where are the pictures you took at Kate's house the other day? Update please.

Faux pas

2007-09-25T10:00:00.000-07:00

So it is not okay to get on the family blog, read it, and not either post something or comment on a posting. Just thought I'd let you know the blogging ettiquite. :)

Hulet Families, Differentiate!

2007-09-23T13:19:00.001-07:00

Okay Hulets, you're both called "hulet family" could you please be more specific? :)

Rachelle, where's the mirror shot?

2007-09-22T13:02:00.000-07:00

So I got a picture of the new hair cut on my phone...but it's about 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch on there! Post on the blog. I thougth it looked really cute! I cut my hair last week too. But I just cut about 3/4 inch off and got some long layers put in. I really like it and I can totally tell a difference, but I'm sure none of you could! I will take a picture of myself in the mirror just for kicks though...no wait, I won't. Whit...you still have long hair, right? I'm not giving into the pressure...not yet anyways. Let me have this baby and maybe when my self-esteem is lacking and I need a change I'll cut it.
Oh, and my trip to Boise was a blast. I highly recommend "Time Out for Women" for all of you if it ever comes anywhere close to you. It's all day on a Saturday and it's just really a great lift. Maybe we should all meet up for Womens Conference in May...if we could all work out babysitting and stuff. It would be a great sisters weekend!
Speaking of getting away...everyone up for CDA next summer? As soon as Southwest flights book through next summer, we need to solidify some dates so we can be checking for specials. I'm pretty sure our friends will have a new boat by then I'm sure they'll let us borrow.

Last thing...Me and my family have flights for New Years to Vegas. We're coming in the Thursday night the 27th (Tom will come in Friday night or Saturday morning) and we'll be there through New Years. So get ready to party harty in Vegas to welcome in 2008!!! Oh, and Tom's birthday is New Years Eve so let's throw a big party...Chuck E Cheese here we come! I don't know where we will be staying, but with so many sibblings in Vegas please don't make us be on the streets!!! Were we going to get family pictures then too? We'd better schedule something...I've got some JC Penny coupons. :)

Grandma Edie's Request

2007-09-22T12:09:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone--Grandma Edie emailed me because she really likes the myfamily site. She is willing to pay the renewal fee. So, do you want to continue with the blog format, or go back to MF?

Buddies

2007-09-20T09:52:00.001-07:00

Trouble makers! Just about every day Lincoln wants to write Simon a letter. Then he wants us to hand deliver it to his house. They had a sleepover the other night and Lincoln told Rachelle "I want to stay here for 3 days". It is really great having our cousins so close!

Friends

2007-09-20T08:53:00.001-07:00

What goes around......

2007-09-20T08:44:00.001-07:00

COMES AROUND! I am having flashbacks.... Laura Fluckiger, myself, and a jar of vaseline. I was on the phone yesterday trying to put out fires in primary, and the kids were upstairs playing with the gate locked at the top of the stairs. All of a sudden I hear Lincoln say "Mommy, Reagan has the bum medicine". So I run upstairs and Reagan has half a tube of Desitin on her head. The second she sees me, she squirts a little more on her hands, and quickly rubs it on her hair and says "Pretty Mommy. So Pretty!" She often sees me putting pomade in my hair in the morning and now thinks that anything white is something you rub in your hair. I should have known this was coming, b/c the other morning she asked for lotion, and almost put that in her hair. I guess she is a little young to differentiate the difference between bum, hair, and skin!

2007-09-18T20:25:00.000-07:00

Runaway Dog

2007-09-18T17:35:00.000-07:00

So it all started yesterday when we got back from being away all day. I noticed that Daisy was nowhere around. I had Max look in every bedroom twice. Gregs kids were over so I put them to work, searching as well. When she didn't turn up in any closets or under any beds, I had them all put there shoes on so we could go door to door.

We went up and down the street across from our house and made it down our street. We started to to up the next street, the kids going 2 by 2. Bond and Simon, Max and MaKenna, Marlyn and Marshall. While they were covering 3 houses at once, I went to the first house on the next street. I knocked and a woman said throught the door "who is it?" I replied, "I'm a neighbor from down the street who is looking for a lost dog." "What does the dog look like" she asked. I told here and she opened the door. When I saw Daisy I actually started crying, so happy that we had our dog back. She was so excited to see all the kids there to see her. I talked to the lady for a while and long story short, she found her in the morning and called an animal shelter they told her that the bark collar she was wearing was cruel and tortursome to the dog. To take it off at once, destroy it and to not let the dog go back to the owners, who were obviously mean and abbusive.

Keep in mind that the bark collar she was referring to was a mere $125. She said she gave it to her sister who was going to drop it off at a shelter where they would destroy it. I was really happy to have Daisy back but was starting to get very upset about the collar. First thing this morning I went to the shelter she alluded to. They knew nothing about it but the guy was really nice. I recorded my full conversation with the man just in case there was some incriminating evidence I could use. (Jeff's idea of course) After returning home I decided I would go down and confront the woman, recording that conversation as well. Listen to the conversation. In the end, I got the collar back and didn't have to take her to small claims court. What a wacko she is! I am now working on getting the girl fired from the shelter that she did call. More on that in the future.

Everybody's doing it!

2007-09-14T11:55:00.001-07:00

Here is mom's new hair cut and color. It's a little darker--I think it looks great!

A few things...

2007-09-13T12:30:00.000-07:00

So I am so ready for a weekend away. This weekend I'm going with some old dental school friends to Boise for "Time Out for Women". It will be a 6-7 hour drive, but with old friends, I think we'll have a blast. A few girls are flying in and meeting us there. I don't know why but my patience has run thin lately. I think it's just been too long since I've been away from my kids, and everyone needs that every once in a while.

In other news: I went into the doctor today and he's going to be gone the whole week of my due date. He suggested he induce me a week early...so probably November 1st this little girl will be here if she doesn't decide to come any earlier. I couldn't get myself to object to an induction since I've been seriously having nightmares for the last few weeks about going into labor and not making it to the hospital in time. Having a date would definately calm my nerves!

Anyone have any new good recipes I must try? I'm ready to cook again, it's finally cooling down a bit. Please post if you do! Thanks.

One more thing. The neighbor boy knocked on our door yesterday. I guess it only took a week for the whole thing to blow over. He can't play at our house, but he can ride bikes outside with the boys if a parent is out there. We've seriously just tried to be so nice and wave and smile since the last "incident" (if you don't know about the incident, refer to my blog...link at the bottom right of this page) and after a few days, they actually started waving back.
So it's a win/win situation for me...no more playing in my house, and my boys still get to bike with their friend next door!

What the heck?

2007-09-12T19:40:00.001-07:00

I was wondering why you guys were showing us your new cameras. I was just looking at the pictures scrolling up and down. Reagan had a gun, but Kate and Emily have their cameras. Then I realized the best way to take your own picture is in front of the mirror. The thing that gave it away was the mole on Emily's face which switched to her right cheek:) I like the blob, I mean blog. Speaking of which, do any of you remember Attack of the Blob? Might be a different generation. How about What About Bob? Now that was an instant classic. Speaking of classics, I am going through Napoleon Dynamite withdrawals. Anyone seen Blades of Glory? That's all I have to say for now. Maybe we will post pics of our new home if we ever close.

-Greg

Day Two

2007-09-12T11:02:00.001-07:00

So here's my first day styling my new hair.

Reagan the outdoors woman!

2007-09-11T15:01:00.000-07:00

I won't be long until she is out there with her Daddy. Reagan is obsessed with other people's shoes. And look... her hair is still in! That's because she hadn't taken a nap yet.

Buddies

2007-09-11T14:57:00.001-07:00

Cute kids! Reagan wouldn't drop the shotgun for the picture. Lincoln always wants to wear his Africa p.js.

Our little artist!

2007-09-11T14:49:00.001-07:00

This is a picture that Lincoln drew of the deer that Grandpa Les shot last week. Les shot the deer in the face with his
arrow and that is what you see here.
A deer with an arrow in the face.

Long Hair... Buh-Bye

2007-09-11T14:38:00.001-07:00

This is my hair that was cut 5 weeks ago! It is already growing so fast. It is so easy to do now... I LOVE IT.

New Hair

2007-09-10T23:46:00.001-07:00

Okay, bad self portrait since the light is low, this picture is taken in the mirror and I couldn't use a flash. But you get the picture.

2007-09-08T13:26:00.001-07:00

I thought this picture would be a good one to start the blog off.

Welcome Family!

2007-09-08T07:54:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone--this was Kim's idea, and I thought it was a good one! Instead of using the myfamily site, we can all post photos and updates here!