STRESSFUL FEW DAYS/CAN ANTHING ELSE GO WRONG?

The title does not give much away, cause yeah my life is always full of stress. But I need to vent some here, so read at your own risk:)

First it all started with the weekend. It began on Friday. I went to the bank to deposit a check, and I was at the window. The lady gives me my receipt and pushes the button to pull the drawer back in, so I drive off, BUT, the drawer did not go in, and as I pulled away it tore up my car, BAD! It looks real bad, but I drove off without talking to the, cause by this time I am in a hurry. So my car is beat up (I would show pictures, but it would just make me cry). Luckily my husband is so used to me doing stuff like this, he is upset, but is not mean about it. I actually got the weekend off of work, I have been working ALOT, well a normal amount of hours(40), but I am supposed to be part time, so I can spend time with my kids. But after working a full week, I got Saturday and Sunday off, WAHOO!!! But Saturday started with our Scout Day Camp. That sucked, LOL, no it did really, but I can not pin point anything in particular. It was just a waste of time and money. But me and Thom ended up taking only 4 of the boys (the Webelos). But anyways blah, blah, I will not go into the sucky particulars of that. But we left there and returned to the church to drop off the boys, and while we were waiting for boys to be picked up (took about an hour to get rid of them all, AN HOUR!!) Anyways Thom waited at the church with the boys and I went to pick up my kids from Misty's house(again, thanks so much, you are the best!). But I had to drive home and drop off my Explorer and pick up the van because Thom has filled the back of my car up so much that my kids will not fit in it! So I get the van, and begin my drive to Misty's. And my van begins to have problems, I think it may die, leaving me stranded on the side of the street (or the middle of it). But I make it to Misty's get the kids, freaking out and praying I make it the whole way. I get back to the church to pick up Thom and Kaiden and we head home, again barely making it home. Apparently it needs a new fuel pump, which is going to run us about $600. So it is parked in our drive way where it will stay till we get it fixed, which at Christmas time, could be a few months. So now I have a broken down van and a broken Explorer:( but at least my Explorer runs, it is just not pretty anymore. Then we headed up to Snow Canyon, my parents were camping up there, and we decided to go up there hiking and have dinner with them. We did not stay too long, cause we were all soo tired(I did not get home from work till after 11:30 the night before, at which time I told Thom's friend to go home so my kids could go to sleep, LOL, so we were all up till after midnight the night before and up early for Scout Camp.), and the girls were not feeling real well. I suspected Rylie of having a bladder infection. So we ended up heading down back into St. Goerge, and going to Insta Care. Where the doctor saw both girls. Rylie has a really bad urinary tact infection, which is beginning to make its way up to her kidneys. And Makayla has a yeast infection(due to the antibiotics she just came off of). Poor girls! So they are both on antibiotics. Sunday was my bum around day. I sluffed church and meetings and did NOTHING but clean my house and rest. My house was a DISASTER! I have been so busy, I have not had a chance to clean, so it was pretty bad! I had to work a few hours on Monday but then I have all week off, WAHHOOOO!!!! Monday Thom went out of town to Salt Lake, and he will be home Thursday. Last night I was up all night with Nic with an ear ache. So this morning I took him to Instacare. Sure enough he has another ear infection. That sucks! But then the doctor looks at me and says has anybody ever told you he has a heart murmur? This does not register with me, and I say "What? No" and he says yes, he has a heart murmur. Which apparently is no big deal, but still is freaking me out. I called his regular pediatrician, and he has an appointment with him on Thursday, I am looking forward to that, to have some questions answered. I am scared for him.

So there is my sucky few days in a nut shell.

MIA

Well this post is a couple days over due, but I have been so busy, this is the first chance I got. Apparently the story is: Nic was playing outside, opened the back door, let Belle out and then proceeded to 'play' with her in the backyard, and chased her off. This was two weeks ago, (well two weeks on Sunday) So she was gone, we could not find her, we searched the neighborhood and the pound. She was not to be found. But cause of the area we live in, I just assumed a coyote or the like got her. I was very sad, but after two weeks, we had completely written her off as ever coming back. But I returned home from work on Saturday evening and walked across the street to Kat's house (she had agreed to watch the kids for the last hour of my shift while Thom went and finished the last evening of the rodeo.) I got the kids and we started talking. We talked for about half an hour, then I started to head home, and we stopped in the driveway to talk some more. We eventually ended up sitting down in the middle of her drive way, and talking for another 30-45 minutes or so. During this time my kids were running back and forth across the street, and her two dogs, Tia and Kami, were playing with the kids. Tia eventually ran off down the street, which is normal, but she always comes back. But the kids chase after her any ways. Apparently Tia went further this time then she normally goes, and the kids came back to tell us that she was in hot pursuit of a white cat, and were headed down the other side of the block. So I think hmm.... I tell Kaiden, Kayla and Ry(it is now way past dark, so I made the little boys stay with me), to go take a walk around the block to find the white cat, they argued with me, and I said listen that could be YOUR cat, go find the cat Tia was chasing. About 5 minutes later they come screaming around the corner, BELLE, BELLE!!! So apparently it was Belle, and they bring her home. She was filthy, and starving! But she is home and content now, we sure did miss her!

RANDOM CUTENESS

These are just some pictures that I had on my camera, they were taken within the last two weeks. Thom did the ceremonies at the rodeo this year as per normal. And he was getting his battle armor cleaned up and ready to go, Kaiden put on his uniform and looked so cute!


KAIDEN WITH HIS BATTLE FACE ON:-)

JUST BEING CUTE!
NIC AND WILL WRESTLING

COME GET ME...... OKAY..THEN I WILL GET YOU!

MY CUTE BOYS, LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEAR MR. OBAMA

PLEASE GO AND WATCH VIDEO


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL VIDEO, AND WHAT IS MORE BEAUTIFUL. IS THIS WAS NOT PAID FOR BY EITHER OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING CANDIDIATES, IT WAS PERSONALLY PAID FOR BY THE MAN IN THE VIDEO. BEAUTIFUL!

SICKIES AND MY BUSY LIFE

Well we have had a house full of sickies for the past two weeks. Everyone is on antibiotics now, so I am hoping we are on the downward swing of things. Will and Nic have ear infections(which is the secondary infection to their viral infections), poor babies. The older three have the same viral infection that the two little boys have, but they have a different secondary bacterial infection. Me and Thom have sinus infections, and Thom's kidneys are acting up again, AUGH!!! So it has been interesting here for the past few weeks. The kids are back to school today, wahoo for mom!:-) A much needed break.

And I have been extremely busy. I have taken on more jobs than I should have, but I enjoy staying busy for the most part. I have my family, I am still babysitting, but am down to 6 kids, and they are never all here at the same time, I am the church clerk(kinda like a secretary, but more of the legalities of the church), I am the cubmaster for Kaiden's scout pack, as well as the Webelos leader(I was supposed to be the assistant, but somehow ended up being the main leader, thanks Thom), I am the hospitality chair for our church, which should be easy, since I have a group under me to do things, but well, honestly, I LOVE them all, but they are not very reliable(well all but one of them, but she has had family in town), and I have ended up having to do most everything. Which has amounted to at least one main event each week, and cause their is nobody else to do it, I have ended up having to clean the church every week also(somehow, that falls under hospitality, I see it, but don't like it) and i have a big project coming up in that area, which is our annual church in the park, which I ma hoping to get some of my girls' help with, but one of Thom's friends is going to be helping me, and I am SOO EXTREMELY grateful for his help. Also I am working part time at a little po-dunk ma and pop store here in Hurricane. Well it was the .99 Family Store. But due to the rise in cost of everything, it is no longer the .99 store, it is now just the Family Store. She is looking for a new name. And reliable employees, and until she finds reliable employees, I am working MUCH more than I wanted to. Also she has turned over all the inventory, ordering and stocking to me. Which puts me at about full time hours. So I have been SOOO extremely busy with everything that I have put on my plate. I am trying to be a good mom and wife in the midst of all this work I am doing, but it is hard!

So that is why I have not been posting much lately, just WAY too busy.

SEPTMBER 11, 2001 WE WILL NEVER FOGET.

PLEASE GO LOOK AT THIS VIDEO (STILL TOO DUMB TO KNOW HOW TO PUT ON HERE:-) )


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWxcewFjjJs

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY & MY LITTLE BOY

Yesterday was Thom's birthday. he is quickly creeping into his mid 30's, AUGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is now 34. We did not do much, he took this whole week off work. I took him to dinner at Applebees, and then we came home and had some of his friends over for ice cream cake. He was very blessed, and got some good presents:-). He had a wonderful time, and is enjoying the remiander of his week off, though he cannot stay away for long, adn has been glued to his phone,and I think tomorrow he is going to go down to HHS. But oh well.

Also Pooh went for his 18 month check up this afternoon. He is SO TINY!!!!!!!!! He weighs in at 20 pounds 14 ounces. What a cute little man. But he is tall for his age, so the doctor says he should start to feel out soon:) He is doing great, he is slow on the speech (which I already knew), but the doctor says that is normal for boys. So we will be working on his vocabulary more. And he was so lucky, he did not need any shots this time, WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!

And well that about sums up my day:-) I know boring!