Welcome to my blissfully insane life! I have Ben who sustains me and infuses my craziness with calm and peace. He's the most sane of the whole bunch. I have 4 little squirts Princess, G-man, Ikey and Mase that make me laugh, cry, and humbly thank my Heavenly Father on a daily basis for the opportunity. What more could a girl ask for?
WELCOME to my happy place!
My sweet little Princess shared with us her serious thoughts while we were driving home from Ben's parents house last night.
Princess: "Mom, Dad...I know how to stop the stealers and bad people. What we need is no money. When I am president of the world, there will be no hungry people."
Dad: "How do you plan to do this?
Princess: "Easy, we'll take away money! Who needs money anyway??" If there was no money people wouldn't be tempted to steal it and no one would go without food"
Mom: "So, no money, and all the grocery stores will be full of food and everyone will just share nicely?"
Princess: "We could live like, you know share everything that we have?"
WOW Princess. That sounds a lot like the law of consecration. Good thinkin'!
Then G-man pipes in...no vote for me! I'll be the bestest president because I will let everyone have a big vatation every day!!
Seriously though...why do people like camping?? Don't get me wrong, it was nice to be out in "nature". Friendly animals, rain off and on the whole day. Pounding rain all night. A dripping wet tent all night where the top of all our stuff including my pillow were soaked. Ah the joys!! :)
All that being said, we really had a great time! We went up Hobble Creek canyon (Springville, Utah; our old stomping ground). The kids LOVED it! We were all good sports (except for my cranky intolerance in the middle of the night) and chalked it up to a good, character building experience. The kids had a great time playing with cousins (Ben's brother Mike and his lovely wife Jenny and 5 kidlets joined in the rain fest). Grandma and Grandpa "S" and Ben's youngest brother Jon and sweet wife Alyson came up for a fire roasted BBQ dinner and peach cobbler that evening. It really was fun...
We had to tether Ikey! He is so active and busy. I was worried about his safety!
Here's some pictures!
On Saturday we went up to Midway Utah for Swiss Days and it was great fun! What a cute little town! They had the cutest booths set up and we enjoyed scones and homemade brautwurst hot dogs (Ben had them, I did NOT :) There is a special spirit in that town. It's amazing to be walking around with General Authorities and their families.
On tap for this week: a couple soccer games, dental appointment, Mutual for Ben and G-man's back to preschool tomorrow, YEAH! He's been bored without Princess to boss him around. :)
Hope everyone else had a great (and less wet than me) Labor day weekend!
Sometimes Mommies just need a night out. Yesterday was one of those days. I met up with a bunch of my really good girlfriends and we spent the night laughing and goofing around. The waiter was probably annoyed because we stayed there for about 2 1/2 hours. OH WELL! We needed it!
Thanks to my hubby who fed the children and put them to bed AND the house looked great when I got home! I couldn't ask for more....love ya!
Princess was excited to get back to school today. She is going into 2nd grade and growing up so fast.
I love to look at my children's faces when they have so much hope, anticipation and wonder. New experiences just help their Spirits grow so fast. I didn't cry this year, which was an improvement. Next year when G-man goes into Kindergarten I will make up for it :)
It's 11 am and I've already scrubbed the bathrooms, mopped the kitchen, and started dinner in the crockpot..
G-man is breathing easy this evening. His tonsils and adnoids are LONG GONE! He was diagnosed with sleep apnea about a month ago. I always thought that he was just a really tired boy. He plays hard but whenever we would get in the car or sit to watch a movie, he was out!!
He went in for surgery this morning at 9:30 am. He was so brave!
He took his stuffed wolf to comfort him and didn't even cry when they wheeled him away. He did have a blood pressure scare during the surgery. It went really low...once he came out of anesthesia, it regulated. He was not a happy camper in the recovery room but then got something special in his IV and then he was so LOOPY (but not in pain).
Tonight he is acting like his normal self (with Tylenol w/ codeine) and I'm just going to keep that up every 4 hours...he is such a trooper. His tonsils on a scale of 1 - 5 (1 being smallest, 5 biggest) were a 4+ so I am SO grateful that we decided to get them out. Thanks for all the well wishes.
I have the best family and friends in the world! I am thankful.
After reading my pitiful blog entry about loving us from afar because of our sickies, my good friend Heidi braved the sickness and ignored my "oh, you don't need to" requests" and showed up on my door step with a pot of delicious homemade soup with veggies from her garden and really yummy sourdough bread and a sandwich. WOW.
Some people just serve and don't care anything for themselves. She had, I'm sure, a million other things she could/should've been doing. But she decided to drive 20 minutes and feed our sad little selves.
Heidi, you are the best and I'm thankful to associate with you and learn from your example. I only hope I can be as gracious and pass on the favor when I'm needed.
WE ARE CONTAGIOUS!! Ben woke up this morning after a restless night looking like he had been mauled by a truck. He doesn't miss work often so I know he feels rotten. He has the classic white spots on the throat, swollen glands and tonsils, and chills and fever. Strep throat. YUCK! He started antibiotics this afternoon.
Ikey has been really cranky the last 2 days with a fever. I thought for sure he had an ear infection brewing. I hauled him over to the doctor's office today. Dr. K says, "Looks like we have a pretty bad case of Hand, foot and mouth disease"...I looked at him like an idiot. I've never heard of it. (Apparently, it's bad ulcer sores at the back of the throat, fever and rash prevalent in toddlers). It is a virus so no cure, just pain meds and lots more cranky. Ikey didn't like the diagnosis either. Dr. K put the throat stick way too far down his throat and Ikey threw up on him. Good fun being a children's doctor!
Here's the clincher. G-man is going to have surgery in 2 days, which means that he CAN NOT get sick :( He was already exposed before any symptoms were present. Let's hope he doesn't come down with symptoms before Thursday or else the surgery is a no go. The worst thing in the world would be recovering from surgery and fighting other illnesses. Poor baby!
So, we are a pretty sorry bunch! Love us from afar!
