Blessing Beckham Coby

Beckham Coby was given a name and a blessing today by his dad.  It was such a neat/surreal experience to have your own child get a blessing.  I'm so grateful that we are sealed together and are an eternal family.  I had a lot of family in town for my Grandpa's 88th birthday 2 days before too.  We are so grateful for all those who came and helped bless our little Beckham boy.  He did great and didn't make a peep (his favorite way to be calmed is to be held out and bounced... perfect).  I'm very grateful for a worthy husband who could bless our little boy.  Coby did a great job.

Everyone who was in the circle
Tom Barratt, Trent Madsen, Jeff Jeppsen, Coby, Lynn Madsen, Brandt Madsen, Scott Alexander, Brian Madsen

Madsen Family

Alexander Family

4 Generations

Congrats to Coby

Coby did an early application process for school this year.  You can only apply to one school and they will let you know by the end of September if you get accepted.  If you aren't you can still apply to other schools before their deadlines.  The catch is that if you get accepted you are in contract with that school and cannot choose a different school.

So grateful when he received this email!!!  He got accepted into the Physical Therapy program at a school that is 3 miles from us.  He is thrilled, proud, and relieved.  We are so grateful for this blessing.  School applications are so stressful and we can't wait to get his graduate program under way.  I'm so proud and thankful for all the work he has put into getting into this program.

More from the hospital~

Naming baby boy was HARD!!!  We sent the birth certificate lady out about 5 times... until it was 30 minutes past our time to be discharged.  We got it down to 2 pretty quick.  One I was really used to because I had been calling him that name in my head almost the whole pregnancy (well, that is not his name).  Coby said he really liked the other name, but he really loved Beckham.  I was having a hard time making a final decision.  It was something so permanent it was seriously causing me anxiety.  Finally I just told Coby to write it down and to pick Beckham.  Then the birth certificate lady came in and asked what names we were choosing between.  She follows it up with "Oh, Beckham is such a cute name for a baby GIRL!"  What?!  Well we had a boy!  So then every nurse that walked in I had to ask their opinion that I didn't just give my little boy a girl name.  It took me a little bit to get used to it, but I love my Beckham boy.  

California Randoms

Botox

What happens when your father-in-law has left over botox from work and needs it to be used so it doesn't get wasted and thrown away, mother-in-law doesn't want it, and you open your mouth and joke about how you'll take it?!

You get botox in your forehead!  Don't let the half smile fool you.  He was hurtin.

BEFORE   ---   AFTER (yes he is trying to wrinkle his forehead in the after picture.  haha)

Shoulder Surgery

Remember in September when Coby dislocated his shoulder during family softball?  Well Coby tore his Labrum (the muscle that holds your shoulder in place) about 85% of the way and has needed surgery ever since.  He has been putting it off as long as possible, but I'm not having a newborn and a one-armed husband so instead I'm 8 months pregnant with a one-armed husband.  Hopefully by the time this baby comes he will have some movement with his arm with physical therapy.  It will be tight for a while since they had to put 4 anchors in.  He will be very limited for about 6 months and hopefully close to a full recovery in a year.

After surgery I went in and he kept telling me he was just so tired, but then he kept trying to take the sling off and roll over.  Other than that he said nothing funny besides asking a few of the same questions over and over since he forgot he asked them.  We both handle our anesthesia well and don't do anything crazy.  Boring right?!

Pre-Surgery and the next day before taking his bandage off.
(I was nice and didn't take a picture after surgery when he was super out of it)

ps. When it comes to pain and limitations... there is a reason the men don't get pregnant.  Just sayin.

Varsity Triathlon

This past weekend Coby went to Pima to do the scout's sprint triathlon.  Three boys from our ward went.  They camped over night on Friday and raced early Saturday.  Coby says he wasn't prepared for how noisy it would be sleeping on a football field with a bunch of 14 and 15 year olds.  (he must be getting older)  He was the only leader that participated; the others watched and took pictures for me.  

He said he had fun, but his shoulder, that still needs surgery, didn't do so well in the swim.  He had to favor one side and it slowed him down.  Maybe one day we'll finally get that fixed for him.

Christmas Eve

Heather's family came down for Christmas this year (whoo hoo!!!) which was a big deal since they usually come after Christmas and Christmas morning is so much more fun with little kids around.

Christmas Eve we had dinner with our family, Grandma and Grandpa Alexander, the Barratts, and Uncle Mark, followed by a little program. It's always fun to get together with everyone.

My cousin's daughter Elle LOVES Chase. She followed him around, had him carry her everywhere, and sat on his lap during the program. It was so cute.

Then of course we opened up our Christmas pj's. Coby was thrilled. proof:

--Glad Heather took lots of pics so I can post more about the

holidays because sometimes I didn't take any!!!

MOVIE NIGHT!!

Last weekend Coby and I went with the Hyatt's for a fun movie night. We had found free tickets to the new Studio Movie Grill that just opened in Scottsdale and they were expiring. It is one of those theaters where you sit in big comfy chairs and can order food throughout the movie. It was so fun.

The boys were talking about movies at work and Jacob said, "I don't care what we see, but no twilight!" We were planning to see Tower Heist, but it was sold out when we got there and no other movie was showing for over an hour except twilight. Sunny and Jacob had to get their babysitter home by a certain time so Twilight it was... and guess what.... the boys didn't think it was half bad.

We ordered dinner, Coby thought the free re-fills throughout the whole movie was the best thing ever; all you had to do was push a button on your seat and they brought it right out. About mid way through the movie we ordered desert... chocolate cake and ice cream mid movie... I thought that was the best thing ever.

Loved it! We had so much fun and are ready to do it again!

September=Softball Fail

I figure the only way I'm going to get back into this is to go one step at a time. I hate that! I hate getting so behind that you are too overwhelmed to blog anything because you know how long it will take to catch up. Is it really that big of a deal to cause stress? No sir, but you know it's bad when your husband keeps telling you that you really need to get the blog updated.

Ok, September. Coby was playing softball (his family's city softball league), was trying to impress me with his skills by diving for a ball (ok, so maybe not exactly that), hit the ground wrong, his elbow caught and threw his shoulder out of joint. He is screaming on the ground while his dad tries to put his shoulder back in place (after seeing my dad do it before to Coby's little brother).

Poor guy.

(side note: I was on lots of meds for fertility and had acquired the ability to cry at anything. I acted like his shoulder was no big deal and that he was fine... truth was I was trying to hold back bawling on the bleachers)

Little Rockie was kind enough to let sweaty Uncle Coby use her blanket as a sling since we didn't have anything else.

We went to Urgent Care that night to make sure it was back in place. They didn't have anyone who could do an x-ray and said to come back in the morning. In the morning we went to a different urgent care and the dr said, "you're lucky you got me and not some PA. Chances are you will get an x-ray and 50% of the time the person won't know how to read it. We are told to get as much money out of you as possible so then we could draw your blood for no reason too, but I'd suggest just going to the hospital and not wasting your time here." Awesome. Luckily Coby's brother Jaron has had every injury in the book and has had knee and shoulder surgery so we knew who to go to to get some help in the mean time. He let us use a very nice sling and his ice machine that he had from his knee surgery. We just rigged it for Coby's shoulder.

So we waited until we got approved for an MRI (a few weeks later), and found out that the ligament that keeps his shoulder in is torn 85% of the way, his socket is bruised and the bone is chipped. Surgery is a must. Problem is that Coby switched jobs, and our new insurance hasn't kicked in yet so come December we will be getting that scheduled.

Coby was so upset that he was out for the season that he would get grumpy and trash talk the other team... more than usual. Injuries are not fun!