Thursday, December 31, 2009

Santa

We had another visit from Santa this year. It was a lot of fun. It was great that I actually got to participate this year, and that everyone could get their picture taken with him.









Thursday, December 17, 2009

Not prepared

How can Christmas be in only 7 days 1 hour and 40 minutes? I am not prepared at all. I still have so many things to get done and I know I'm going to run out of time. How can you make Christmas less stressful and actually enjoy the season? You're probably going to tell me that I need to start getting ready in July. The problem with that is I just don't think that far ahead. I guess I'm forever doomed.



This is my first post from my new laptop. I am so in love!

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Happy Birthday to my beetle


5 reasons why I love Eadie...

I love you for being so sensitive and caring.
I love you for being Daddy's little girl.
I love you for being my late night owl.
I love you for being "our" first baby.
I love you for always wanting
to read together.


Happy Birthday!

Friday, December 11, 2009

The water boy

After observing Alton I decided that he may be ready to potty train. I asked him if he wanted me to go get the little potty out of the basement so he could use it, he did. I brought it up and took him in the bathroom to sit on it. He started saying "water". I wasn't sure what he was saying at first and then I realized that he wanted me to put water in the potty. He wouldn't sit on it until I had put some water in it. He wanted it to be like the potty that everyone else use's. It was really cute!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Thanksgiving


Five things I'm thankful for...

A wonderful husband who treats me much better than I deserve.
Beautiful, healthy children who make me laugh and teach me so many new things.
The gospel.
Knowing my Dad's in a better place.
A warm home to live in and food to eat.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Farewell

I'm so glad that we had two weeks in the summer to spend with my Dad before he passed away. We had a wonderful time! I hope my kids will remember the time we had and the memory of him. We'll miss you Dad!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

I jinxed us

When I said we were on a roll with the surgeries I guess I was right. After going to see my OB/GYN he informed me last week that I needed to go back in and have another surgery. I have a cyst on my ovary and he thinks that I have adhesions. So lucky me, I get to go back in on Tuesday. I really hope this will take care of it. I'm tired of dealing with pelvic pain!

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Reading

Eadie was so cute and sat down with the boys and read to them.
They all seemed to be having a great time!



Friday, November 6, 2009

Halloween 2009


Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Haircut

Eadie told me a few weeks ago that she wanted to get her hair cut. I haven't had enough strength in my shoulder since my surgery to do it. She asked me again on Thursday if she could get it cut to her shoulders. So we cut it! It turned out really cute and it will be easier to take care of, but I seem to be emotionally attached to her hair for some reason. I can do anything to mine and not care one bit so what's the deal?





Sunday, October 25, 2009

Happy Birthday to my preschooler




5 reasons why I love Orin...

I love you for always wanting to give me kisses.
I love you for being so kind & loving to Alton.
I love you for wanting to spend time with me.
I love you for being so smart.
I love you for finally being potty trained.

Happy Birthday!


Saturday, October 24, 2009

Happy Birthday to my young woman!


5 reasons why I love Teya...

I love you for still wanting to hold my hand.

I love you for being silly with me.
I love you for being so talented at so many things.
I love you for never being embarrassed by me.
I love you for being willing to help with the other kids.


Happy Birthday!


Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I do believe your clothes are on the wrong way....

I asked Orin to get dressed. He comes back looking like this. What a goon!


Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Who's next? (Hopefully no one)

I took Alton into the ENT doctor today. The pediatrician said we needed to go in after we found out on Thursday that he has another ear infection. He just barely finished antibiotics for the last ear infection and he already has another. The doctor is going to do surgery again to put tubes in and he is also going to take out his adenoids. The surgery is scheduled for November 4th.
This makes 3 surgeries in a four month time span. I think we're on a roll.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Happy Birthday to my hubby!


5 reasons why I love Justin...

I love you for always making me laugh.
I love you for being the bestest best friend I've ever had.
I love you for being such a great Dad.
I love you for teaching me so much.
I love you for not thinking I'm a total nut with all the experiments I conduct on my hair.


Happy Birthday!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

We all have a bit of spy in us.

On our way to stake conference today Eadie asked if everyone had to go. I told her that we have our free agency and we choose if we go or not. She said "like a spy agency?"

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Sleepy

Alton came and got Justin the other day because he wanted to show him Orin, who was asleep on the stairs. I wish all my kids slept like him. When he's tired, he knows he's tired and he wants to sleep.


Monday, September 28, 2009

So strange

Teya sleep walks. I don't know how many of you know that. Last night she came into my room carrying her pillow and blanket. She walked over to my dresser with her pillow and tried to open my drawer. I asked her what she was doing and she said she was trying to put the blanket away. I told her that she was holding a pillow and that neither the blanket or pillow belonged in my drawer. She got a little agitated, but continued to try and open the drawer. I kept telling her it didn't go in there and she just kept getting mad. Then she layed down at the end of my bed. I told her to go get in bed. She made some whining noises and then got up. She started to walk out without her stuff and I told her to grab her pillow and blanket. She walked back over to my dresser and grabbed a piece of paper off of it and started to leave. Justin and I burst out laughing. I tried to tell her that wasn't her pillow and she just started to get more agitated. Finally she did get her stuff and go back to bed.

The next day she never remembers what she did. Whenever she sleep walks she's difficult to deal with. She gets mad easily and won't listen. Whenever we tell her the next day about what she did she laughs about it and can't belive how strange she acted.

It's so weird how our brains work!

Saturday, September 26, 2009

I'm getting older...


Happy Birthday to me!

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Recovery

I was surprised when five days after my surgery I got to take off the bandage and found this underneath (with stitches still in it of course). I was not expecting the incision to be so big. I was also not expecting it to be located where it is. I'm really hoping that it won't leave a big nasty scar. The tendons are still really tight and I can't open my hand all the way. I work on it everyday but it's going to take some time. I'm hoping that sometime in the next six years I will actually feel back to normal again.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

For Miranda...

Meadow asked me to put up a post to let you all know (especially Miranda) that she made it through the surgery and all went well (though she feels like she is barely alive). She will post more as soon as she is feeling up to it.
Thank you all for your love, prayers, and support!
Justin

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Tick, tick, tick

Time flies by so fast.
As I walked up to preschool to pick up Orin yesterday and he came running towards me I thought, how can this be? I remember so vividly as if it were yesterday Eadie being in his same place. Eadie was the one running towards me and telling me all about her day at preschool.
Sitting here now, I just want to cry thinking of how fast my babies are growing up. How can Teya possibly be going into young women's this year? How can Eadie possibly be in first grade and growing more and more independent? How can Orin already be in preschool? And how can my baby not be a baby anymore, but a toddler?
I am reminded over and over again that you just have to cherish every moment.
Time flies by so fast!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Orin's first day of preschool

Today is Orin's first day of preschool. I don't think I've ever seen him as excited for something his whole life as he was to start school. We went on Monday to the open house and his teacher gave him a school bag that has his name on it. He was so happy to have a bag for school like the girls do.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

First day of school





Monday, August 24, 2009

7 years


Miss you Mike, miss you everyday!


Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The excitment of my life

Things just seem to get better and better. I went to see my OB/GYN today and I'm going to have a hysterectomy and a vestibulectomy at the same time as my shoulder and hand surgery. I'm REALLY not looking forward to it. I'm going to be a complete mess.
I'm having a hysterectomy for my pelvic congestion syndrome. I had felt better for several months being on the progesterone but for the last five or six months it has gotten really bad again and I have pelvic pain almost all the time. I really didn't want to have a hysterectomy when I was first diagnosed with pelvic congestion but after praying about it and doing some research I feel like it's the right thing.
I don't want to go into too much detail about the vestibulectomy but basically I have been having pain for about the last four months from the episiotomy that I had when I had Teya. I tried a Rx he prescribed for two months and it didn't help so he is going to cut part of it out. Fun huh?
I think the surgery is still going to be on the same day but we're getting it all worked out. I was having it at a surgical center but now I have to have it at a hospital because I have to stay over night. The doctor's have to coordinate everything and get it all worked out. I should know by tomorrow what's going on.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Afghan

I started working on this afghan at the end of last year and I just finished it Sunday night. I didn't know what to do with all the yarn I had left over from making stuff so I decided to make them into squares and make them into an afghan. I think it turned out really good!




Monday, August 17, 2009

Emotions

On Saturday I was watching a video that a friend made me about my pregnancy with Alton and his birth. Eadie and Orin were with me. There were some receipts sitting next to my computer and I heard what sounded like water hitting one of the receipts. I pulled back Eadie's hair to see her face and she had big tears streaming down her cheeks. I asked her why she was crying and she said it was so sad.
This is the first time that I know of her crying not because she was mad, or hurt, or upset with someone but just crying because she was emotional about something.
If you want to watch the video here is the link.


Saturday, August 8, 2009

Happy Birthday blog

Today it's been two years since I started my blog. (I must have a thing about starting blogs in August.)


Happy Birthday to you blog!

Friday, August 7, 2009

Will it ever end

After dealing with my shoulder for the last 8 months I'm finally going to have surgery on it. I've had three different cortisone shots, done physical therapy and taken medication, but all to no avail. It will feel better for a little bit and then start to hurt again. I had decided that I would get it fixed during the summer so that Teya would be here to help. But my Dad was here visiting and then Justin needed his knee done, so I am waiting.
I saw the doctor Wednesday and my surgery is scheduled for September 8th. I have a cyst on my left hand at the base of my ring finger that he is going to remove at the same time. I also discovered that the middle finger on my right hand is a trigger finger (it started hurting a week ago) and he wants to inject it with cortisone at the same time. So I'm going to be a bit of a mess for a few days.
I'm really not looking forward to the surgery. He said that it's extremely painful. It will be about two hours, and he has to shave the bone down. It is supposed to be straight and instead it curves down and rubs on my rotator cuff. If it doesn't get fixed than it will eventually tear my rotator cuff. What sucks is that sometime I will have to get the other shoulder fixed too.
I feel like I'm falling apart and I shouldn't be since I'm not very old. Wish me luck!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

New blog

I decided to start a new blog. It's going to be about my hair and all the crazy stuff I do to it. So come and check it out.



Enjoy!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Justin's surgery

Justin's surgery was yesterday. Things went well. It wasn't his meniscus after all it was the cartilage, so the doctor shaved some of it off. He said that down the road he may have more problems with it, but we'll hope not. Hopefully he will feel much better now that it's all fixed up.

Monday, August 3, 2009

A tooth

After having her front teeth knocked out almost a year ago Eadie finally has a tooth growing in on the top. I enjoyed her not having any teeth on the top for so long. It was cute and this time will only come once. All good things must come to an end!


Saturday, August 1, 2009

Annoying doctor's

The doctor's office called the other day to inform us that the doctor had a meeting and couldn't do Justin's surgery on the 7th. So now it's scheduled for the 4th. Which is really annoying because it was on a Friday and he was only going to miss two days of work. Now it's scheduled for a Tuesday and he'll have to take off four days. I hate the way doctor's schedules are always more important than your own.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Potty training update

Orin has been wearing underwear for three days straight now (after a relapse of a few weeks) and has only had one accident. I'm very proud of him! I hope he keeps it up and that the end is finally in sight.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Poor little staple head

We were getting ready to take Teya to gymnastics today and Alton fell and hit his head on the television stand in his room. He started to cry so I picked him up. He was holding the front of his head (where I assumed he had hit it) while I rocked him. After a few minutes he seemed fine and wanted to get up. So I put him down. Then I noticed that my arm felt wet, I looked at it and it was covered in blood. As was the back of Alton's shirt and all his hair in the back. I quickly took him to get him cleaned up and see how bad it was. He had a pretty deep cut on the back of his head. I called the doctor's office and they said we could come in. So we drove to our pediatricians where they decided that he would need staples in his head. This was my first (but probably not my last, since I have boys) experience with staples. Not too pleasant for Alton. We'll go back in 10 days to get them out.


Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Justin's knee

A few weeks ago Justin hurt his knee while we were working in the yard. After a few days we went to instacare and they said they thought he had torn his meniscus and that he needed to see an orthopedic surgeon. He was hoping it would get better and waited several weeks before going. He finally went in last Thursday and he has to have surgery. It's scheduled for August 7th. I hope things go well and that he heals quickly.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Alton's Birthday







Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Fremont


Highlights of the trip

Spending time with my Dad.
My kids getting to know their Grandpa.
Being with my sister and her family.
Very little fighting amongst my kids.
Celebrating Alton's 2nd birthday.
Watching Alton in his birthday suit on his birthday.
Enjoying the beautiful weather.
Cooling off in the water.
Seeing the beauties of Capital Reef.
Eating smores and roasting marshmallows.
















Low points of the trip

Loosing my balance while jumping from rock to rock, falling and hurting my leg. Watching it swell up to twice it's normal size. (Justin and I thought it might be broken so we went directly to instacare after returning home.)
Eadie breaking my new windshield while "fishing".
Listening to Alton scream in the car.
Our windy fishing day.
Alton falling on his head while walking down a hill and scrapping it open.
Finding out my 17 year old niece is pregnant.

All in all we had a great time!