Not such a fun holiday

Unfortunately our Memorial Day weekend was not the greatest. We went to our cabin on Saturday which was nice and relaxing but Gavin has been sick all weekend. He started having flu symptoms on Thursday and hasn't really seemed to feel better since then.

All weekend we laid around and didn't do much. I enjoyed having a cuddly baby for a few days but he wasn't eating or drinking much so on Monday we decided to call the doctor. Since it was a holiday he advised us to head to the hospital so they could check him for dehydration.

While I'm glad we went to the hospital it was not fun. We sat in the waiting room for two hours and then we were there an additional five hours while multiple nurses, doctors, med students, etc. came in to check on Baby G. We decided to stay and give him an I.V. since he was dehydrated.

We were there a total of seven hours; not a great way to spend a holiday. Unfortunately Gavin is still not feeling great but hopefully he will start to recover in the next few days. NO FUN!

Scum Dog

My family took Hendrix to Scum Dog for the first time this weekend. She absolutely loved swimming!

Unfortunately I was the victim of her getting too excited and jumping up with muddy paws.

She is a really sweet dog. She is a little crazy and out of control at times but she is definitely entertaining.

Gavin loves all dogs but he especially loves Hendrix. They are best buds which is appropriate since they both joined the Russon family during the same week last June.

For those of you wondering, yes Apache is still alive. He is very old and slow to move around but he is still with us. He was not too thrilled when Hendrix joined the family but he has learned to tolerate her. :)

Weekend in St. George

We were lucky enough to spend the weekend in St. George. It was so nice and relaxing and I can't wait to go back in a couple weeks!

Gavin absolutely loved the pool. He is a little fish.

I feel so lucky to be the mom of this little boy and I don't need a special holiday to remind me of that. Gavin is so blessed to be surrounded by so many awesome women in his life. Thank you to his wonderful great-grandmothers, amazing grandmothers, and spectacular aunts!

Springtime

Don't you love Springtime?

Upset - to say the least!

I need to vent and since this blog is sort of like a journal of our lives I'm going to do it here. I can't believe that horrible people are able to get away with doing horrible things. The world feels very unfair right now and there is nothing we can do about it.

A little bit of background: after the Sugar Bowl the cheer coach at the U of U quit and the woman who coaches the dance team took over. She was only supposed to be a temporary fix but she ended up coaching the cheerleaders through the remainder of basketball season. This woman was always very rude and critical of the cheerleaders. She told them they were fat, they were not good enough and they had bad attitudes. All of that coming from a woman who has never been a cheerleader and doesn't know how hard it is to tumble and be thrown in the air.

A few weeks ago tryouts were held for the new cheer team. Only three girls from this years team decided to tryout: Elise, her roommate and one more girl. I watched all three days of tryouts because I wanted to see how all the girls looked. The three returning girls of course stood out because they have been doing this all year long and they knew the routines. To make a long story short this woman cut Elise and her roommate from the team. She also put girls on the team who didn't fulfill all the requirements and who fell multiple times during their tryout.

Needless to say we are livid. This woman did not base the tryout on talent; for whatever reason she has never liked these girls so she removed them from the team. The only returning girl who made the team is married to the assistant coach; doesn't that seem strange? We have gone through every avenue to fight this but no one in the athletics department will listen, or seems to care. It doesn't look there is anything we can do to get these girls back on the team and I can't believe this woman is going to get away with what she has done.

I can't believe this has happened. These girls have dedicated their lives to the university for the past year and now they have been treated like garbage. They are beautiful and talented and they have every right to be on that team. I never thought I would be ashamed and embarassed by the university I love, but that's exactly how I feel. The thought of cheering for the University of Utah right now is very hard and I never thought I would say that.