My birthday post!!!!!

I believe this is when we were 5 or 6. Sorry the pictures are crappy. I had to take pictures of pictures because my scanner evidently is not working.




Well I have finally made it to the big day. Another year older! I think I would be just fine if my birthdays would just stop now.

This year has been filled with alot of adventure. We have had our house on the market and then pulled it off the market. We decided to do an addition and then changed our minds again to just add the garage and a back patio. We refinanced our house so we could add the garage. This took us over 3 months. I started insulin this year. Not something I am too excited about. My weight has gone up. Not something I am too excited about either. Deshawn was diagnosed PDD-NOS. Now I am dieting again. I am excited though because I have lowered my insulin dose 12 units a day so far.

It's been an interesting year to say the least but I am actually excited to get this next year rollin. We have construction coming up and I just can't wait until we are finished and enjoying it.





This was a picture of us in our blessing dresses. Could we be anymore different??

And the winner is........

Red Lob.ster--I ended up choosing them only because I couldn't find any nutritional info on the other places. Since I am being really serious about this DAMN diet I really needed to be able to know how many calories I will be partaking mmmmmmmm!! I will prob still go over in my calories but I will hopefully still keep it close.

It really is stupid to make such a big deal about dinner but we rarely go out and when we do I feel like I can't waste my choice. Silly I know but when you have kids the reality is you just don't get to get out like you want. Thanks everyone(the 4 of you) for voting even though I didn't end up going with any of your choices.


Only 2 more days till my birthday!!!! (I have no idea why I am still doing the countdown because my birthday will probably end up being just a normal day but it's fun to do a countdown none the less)

My Birthday Dinner

Okay people I need to know where I should go to dinner. I have narrowed it down to 3choices. These are all places I would love to go and they are close to the babysitter a.k.a Shanda(little sis). So please do my poll I need answers soon. I can't decide if my life depended on it. Seriously I have the hardest time deciding on things which drives my poor husband batty. But he knew this before he married me. I think he still loves me despite this.

In other news......I am on a quest to loose weight. I don't even really want to blog about it but I need to. I am going to Vegas in 5 weeks with Rick and some of our friends and let's just say the wives going are all size 2 and as much as I love them and they are the nicest people and they don't care what size I am I always feel slightly uncomfortable. In the last 4 months I have gained like 15lbs and I would like to try to get that much off at least. This still puts me no where close to them but it makes me feel a little better. I have already been able to lower my insulin dose which is nice. I would love to get off the insulin all together since it is the reason I have gained weight in the last 4 months but I know that is a long shot. I know 15lbs in 5 weeks can be a long shot too. But a girl can have goals right??


Anyhoo only 3 more days till my birthday:)

Another sloooooooooooooow week!!

Well this week has been exciting with the new arrival in our family. I got to go and spend some time with Elias yesterday and he is soooooooo tiny. I haven't held a baby that little since my niece that was only 3 or 4 pounds I can't remember for sure now how much she weighed but she was by far the tiniest little baby I have ever seen. He is precious. His forehead and eyebrow area looks alot like brian and he has marys lips and dimples(love it). They are undecided on the nose.

But with all that excitement there has been nothing else too great to report. I just really want this week to be over and the weekend to start. Plus Rick will be taking me out to a nice dinner this weekend for my birthday and on Sunday we will get to go out with my whole family to celebrate my sister and my birthday. Because I guess I have to share the spotlight with her too.

Funny story.....When my sister and her ex husband lived in Denver we had one birthday that we were not able to be together and to tell the truth I was a little excited to get all of the attention to myself. But after all these years of always spending our birthdays together that birthday ended up feeling really weird and we both hated it. So from then on out we made it a point to always spend our birthday together. So the next year I drove out to denver to be with her. And we also had a year we wanted to run away and we went to Arizona and spent our birthday out there. So we probably will always have to share the birthday spotlight but that is exactly how we want it.

Only 4 more days till my(our) birthday!!!!!

Congrats!!!!!

**UPDATE**
Here he is. I still haven't had a chance to meet him because I of course had to get a sicko child that stopped me from my plans and also a husband who thinks he has to work late everytime I really want to do something. But I will get over to see him tomorrow. Nothing will stop me!

His name is Elias
Weight was 5 lbs 11 oz
height was 17 1/2 inches

He was exactly a month early. Despite being early he is doing real good. He is the same height and weight as Adam when he was born. Crazy!








I am sending out a great big CONGRATULATIONS to my cousin Brian and his wife Mary. They just had their baby boy. I am not sure how to spell his name so I will get that info from his daddy and update my blog later. In the meantime I just have to say I am so excited for them. This is a great blessing in their lives and they are going to be great parents.

Oh yeah only 6 more days till my birthday!!!!

TGI...freekin...FRIDAY!!!!!

Yeah its finally friday. I figured while the boys were make a disaster of my kitchen with moon sand(oh the whreched stuff) I would hurry and post a TGIF blog. I am also doing the countdown to my 31st birthday. So let the countdown begin! I have 10 days until my birthday woohoo!!! I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Someone needs some help....

Hey everyone I am putting a plea out for one of our fellow bloggers. Her family has seriously had one of the hardest years. It truly amazes me how resilient they are. They are forced once again to move due to the fact her husband has injured his back and can't do anything right now. She has a little boy with down syndrome and her oldest son has aspergers syndrome. They really could use some help financially. You can go to her blog and read about her family and decide if you can do anything to help. She has a Donate buttom there. Even prayers on their behalf would be appreciated. Her name is Pam and her blog is www.rhettsjourney.blogspot.com.

If you want please post about her blog on your blogs so we can get the word out to our wonderful fellow bloggers.

15 minutes late..............

Okay after all of the hype about american idol I was actually 15 minutes late to watch it. It was all worth it because we took adam to a special junior jazz event. They were told that one of the Utah Jazz players would be there and did not tell them which one. So after about 20 minutes they finally introduced Paul Milsap. Adam was real excited because he knew Milsap. So I took some pics of Adam at the program.




This is a picture of Milsap when he first came out to meet the kids.





This is a picture of adam sitting and listening to Milsap teach them to throw free throws. He is the kid with the #13 jersey.





Here is Adam getting his chance to throw a free throw. If you look past the kid that decided to stand in my way, Milsap is under the basket. Adam was so nervous. It was real cute.


All in all I think it was something he will remember for a long time. My cousin Cody's kids were there too so I am sure the boys will talk about it next time they see each other. As for american idol, there was not a single person that actually stood out to me this time. We will see what tonight brings. I think I might be setting a blogger record for the most posts in a day. I think I am done for the day so I hope everyone has a great day!

I look like Carol Burnett????

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WOW who would have guessed? I really don't look like that anymore. The picture is from my senior year in high school.

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It's a love hate thing!

I found these two just lounging together yesterday afternoon and of course I had to snap a pic. It's not a very good pic but it gives you an idea anyway. I swear if I was bailey(thedog) I would run for the hills everytime I saw dee coming. He has been very mean to her but he totally loves her too. A little too much. As you can see the dog is wearing a tshirt thanks to dee of course. I truley think she loves dee too but he can definetly get on her nerves too.


Last but not least...... AMERICAN IDOL TONIGHT.....WOHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

another monday

I know I have said this before but I honestly hate mondays. I have been so busy today that my feet are actually aching. I don't know why I don't break up my chores for the week but I like to do all of my laundry and deep cleaning on mondays so I have an easier load the rest of the week. I guess it is worth it but man mondays SUCK!!

Only one more day till American Idol WOOHOO!!

American Idol baby!!!!

Okay so for some of you I am a total geek for saying this but I am a huge American Idol fan. I am a reality junkie and I love music so what better than american idol. I really think I am just naturally a curious person. I like to watch people and how they act. I do not ever judge people on their actions. I might laugh at some people but not judge them. Let's face it people can be really funny sometimes. I always like a good laugh.

So for all of you out there who luv it as much as I it is starting on tues night.YEAH! I hope it is a good season. The show is starting to fizzle a little for me but I still love to watch it. What do you all think of American Idol????

update on dee

Okay so on the day when Dee had is little ER visit I decided to give his doctor a call and see what we should do for his sleeping issues. He decided to add a new med to help stay asleep. So we have tried it for 2 nights now and both nights he slept through them. This is great considering he has only slept 2 whole night in 6 months. As much as I hate giving him meds I just feel like there is no option when it comes to his safety. It has been very wearing on me and Rick too. But I would deal with it no matter what if it was only effecting me but it is obviously a dangerous situation and I have to protect him.

I just hate having to medicate him but I have to remind myself that his mind and body works different that most people. To me his is just my son. I see him no different than any of my other sons. Each child is unique in their own ways and it is hard for me to accept that he has a true disability. I know I did not cause this in him but I feel guilty like I couldn't protect him from it. We truley took him into our family because we wanted our family to grow and we wanted to provide everything in the world for him. I just love him so much. I want everything for him.

Sorry I really like to ramble these days but these are the thoughts that go through my head. I have to get them out somewhere!!! Thanks for listening.

Got what I wanted and so much more!

Okay so I finally got the snow I wanted. I didn't even expect it either. The news said we would be getting 1-2 inched but we woke up to like 8 inches and it is still snowing. I drove Adam to school this morning and the snow on the road was taller than the undercarriage of my car. It was so much fun. I probably wouldn't have liked it but Rick put $600 worth of snowtires on my car this winter and they work great. I just watched everyone slipping and sliding and was very glad it was not me.

So my drama for the day of course involves Dee again. Seriously it has been like 4 day since I have had a shower (I know, GROSS). So Dee was totally into playing the playstation and Parker was in his room watching scooby-doo and I thought if I hurry I can take a 2 minute shower. What was I thinking. I just got out of the shower and was pretty proud of how fast I was able to get through the shower and I hear Parker screaming "DESHAWN STARTED THE HOUSE ON FIRE" DESHAWN STARTED THE HOUSE ON FIRE". I am totally naked mind you so I grab the first blanket I could find and wrapped it around me and run into our basement kitchen and sure enough smoke everywhere but no fire. Deshawn has been preoccupied with the microwave and as of yesterday has decided that he needs to cook everything. He completely fried a corndog yesterday. It stunk so bad. And today he decided a caramel chocolate needed to be fried. That actually smelled good but still.

So I have now unplugged that. I tell ya this little guy is frustrating me so bad right now. I can't seem to get anything to sink into his little brain. He won't leave our poor dog alone. He is totally obsessed with her. She is shedding everywhere because he is constantly pulling on her hair and carrying her around. I keep feeling like I should find a new home for her because it is not her fault that he won't leave her alone. I would totally die if I had to give her up but I just don't know what to do. It seems like we take a step forward and a little step back....WAIT NOW WHAT IS HE DOING.......

In about 2 minutes he managed to dump a whole bag of marshmallows and get a knife out and slice an orange for himself. UUUUUUUHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!! Seriously!

I tried to talk to my husband about this today but he seemed the least bit interested in how stressed I am right now so I decided I better blog or I might explode. Nuff said for now I better go see what he is into now.

I'm a bad mom!!! ***UPDATED***

****UPDATE****
This is a new pic that I took on my camera phone. This was taken while we were in the ER




Well my day started out just dandy! I was in bed and about 5:45 am I hear Rick telling Dee to go back to bed. This is normal for deshawn to get up in the night sometimes as early as 2:00 am . He likes to wander and get into things that he shouldn't. He also likes to get hurt. A couple of days ago he cut his finger trying to cut an apple when we were all asleep. His doctor told me that children like Dee have a hard time keeping their minds from racing in the night. We had just recently as of Dec 20th upped his dose of his meds to see if it will help because we don't want to add another med if we don't have to but I think I might have to have a talk with his doc again because.....We ended up in the ER at 6:00 am with a head contusion and fat lips.

So from what I can tell by the big crash and scream was that he was climbing on the countertops trying to get to the bandaids to put a bandaid on the finger he cut a couple of days ago and he must of slipped and hit his mouth and he had the hugest bump on his head. His eyes were rolling in his head and it scared the living hell out of me.

So I rushed him to the ER and they sent me home with a bunch of instructions of what to watch for and to keep him resting today.

So for all you peeps out there I need some advice. I don't know what to do about this little problem he has about waking up in the night. I feel like I should put a lock on his door but I don't know if that is safe either. Plus I don't know if that is considered child abuse or what. Anyone have any Ideas?????

Back to reality!!!!

Okay this is the first full week back to school and the normal grind and I am so very happy about this. I must be a terrible mother because I am the type that does not like it when the kids are out of school. I feel bad about that sometimes but it gets overwhelming sometimes to entertain them. I have Adam who thinks he is going to die of boredom and Deshawn who because of his autism does not do very well with change in schedule or playing with his brothers for long periods of time. He gets too frustrated.

So I am left trying to appease them all which is a complete joke and pretty much impossible. But I will admit this is the best break we have had. I really didn't get too overwhelmed. I think the meds we started Dee on has made things easier for him which in turn makes things easier for all of us. Adam was still bored but hey whats a mom to do about that. We were completely busy the whole christmas break so I don't have any clue why he was so bored but whatever. Then there is parker. He is just the kindof kid that goes with the flow. He was pretty much content doing whatever.


On another note I want to know why the whole damn state of utah gets tonz of snow and my town gets a little dusting. I am so mad about this. I have been dying since christmas to take the boys tubing because they got tubes from Santa and we haven't had any snow. Two towns away the were getting inches and inches and we got nnothing. I am very dissapointed in mother nature. It was supposed to snow today too but all I can see when I look out the window is a beautiful blue sky. Damn those beautiful blue skies:)

Enough of my rambling. I will go now!!!!!!!!!

The picture above is one of all my guys. Adam was 5, Dee was 16 months and Parker was 7 months old. I can't believe how old they are now.

kids say the darndest things......

Okay, I am sitting at my computer catching up on a few blogs and Adam and Parker are in the next room playing video games and I was listening to their conversation and I had to share what I heard.

Parker says to Adam "Do you love girls?"

Adam replied with the most disgusted voice "NO, Why do you?"

Parker replied with an equally disgusted voice "NOOOOOOOOOOOO.....EEEWWWEEE Yuck"


And that was the end of the conversation. I thought this was pretty funny and blogworthy. I really wonder what is going on in their pretty little heads sometimes.

Happy Freekin New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well our New Years has been interesting to say the least. We spent all night the night before new years eve with two very sick little guys. Dee and Parker decided to get the stomach flu. I was up to my ears in puke(gross). Between the two of them they were puking every 30 minutes(no exaggeration there). At one point I was holding buckets up to both of their mouths at the same time.

I felt so bad for them. They would just start crying because they were so tired and miserable. I finally went in at 6:00am to ask Rick to get up and let me get some sleep because I knew he would be leaving for work at 7:30am. I was surprised I didn't feel as horrible as I thought when I got up.

The boys started feeling better in the late afternoon and then Adam started. The poor kid was so miserable. It lasted until after midnight for him. I promised him if he went to sleep that when he woke up in the morning he would feel all better. He said "What if I am not...I might die". He is too funny.

So we barely managed to make it to the new year. We woke up this morning to all of our children well and bouncing off the walls.

Dee if you are reading this I hope our kids didn't get little Riley sick. I would feel so horrible. She was too cute at my mom's. I love her little giggles and squeals.