School Pics in 2 Weeks :((

So here is Makenzie after losing her teeth at school. We have been waiting about a month for these suckers to come out hoping that it would be after school pictures. Oh well we have it for her history. She lost them at school while biting into a rope (don't know where or why she had it) needless to say when she opened her mouth the teeth stayed with the rope. she couldn't find them but she knows that the tooth fairy went back and looked (not) so she could get her gold dollars.

Kids do Care

I just had to quickly write this before I forgot. I got home yesterday (Wednesday, Sept, 17th) and had dinner with the kids as Megan was at a baby shower. I was helping Makenzie say the prayer (which she doesn't need my help) but I was trying to get her to finish after she had blessed the food and I tried to get her to say, in the name of...and she stopped and looked at me and shook her head no, like she wasn't finished. Sure enough she wasn't and she said on her own, "and please bless Dad that he will feel better". THANKS Makenzie. Kids are really sweet. Colton then goes into the bathroom and gets me the throwup bucket and says, "Dad I am sorry you are feeling sick and here is the throwup bucket if you need it". THANKS Colton for caring too. I would aslo like to say THANKS Megan for taken care of me!

Appendix any one?

Tuesday was an ordinary day until about three o’clock. I was at my desk at work when I started getting a stomachache. I thought it was just gas and went to the rest room with no avail. The pain started hurting worse as time went on. I was getting a ride home with a co-worker at 5:30 but ended up calling Megan to come and pick me up at 5. I lost my lunch on the way home and I thought that might relieve some of the pain but it didn’t. We got home and I went and laid down to see if that would help. Nope. The pain just kept getting worse and slowly the pain was moving down into where you appendix was.

I had a feeling that I should go into the doctors. We headed to instant care because it is cheaper than the emergency room and was still open. I was sweating bullets when we got there but I felt cold. They took me in and took x-rays and blood samples. They came back and said that my white blood cell count was around 18000 when normal is around 11000 and the x-ray show inflammation around my appendix. The doctor came back and said you better get yourself to the ER. Megan ambulanced me over to the ER and was very nice to have her with me. In the ER they hooked me up to and IV and fed me some pain medication. This was a nice relieve from the pain. Then I had more x-rays and a CT scan to make sure the Doctors knew where they needed to go I guess. They had another patient in the ER that was more critical than myself so we had to wait until that surgery was done. We got to the ER about 8:30 and my surgery started at about 12:30 that night. I was done by 2 am and I don’t remember much around that time except that I was talked to for a little bit while I was wheeled to my room. I remember Megan there at the room and then I was left a lone to sleep. The surgery went really well and the surgeon said that it was a good thing that we got it out because it was pretty grey looking. I guess that means it was bad. They did it laparoscopy, which is really nice because I just have three holes in my stomach area and the recovery time is a lot faster. I was able to eat and drink with out having it come out again and I haven’t had to have any pain medication since the surgery. I thank all of those who thought of me during this time and I am sure that is why I didn’t feel to worried about the surgery.

I had a lot of tags on me and here is a picture of all the things I had. I had a bracelet from the ER, another one for the Hospital and a third one for, well I don’t know what that one was for but I had three. I also have a bandage where my IV was.

Party anyone?

Hey all!!

I have a neighbor who does Lia Sophia and I told her I would host a party to help get the word out. I know that budgets are tight but if you are interested in either going to a party or ordering jewelery go to this website at site . The special is buy two items at regular price (they can be the cheapest ones) and get 4 items at half price (these can be the expensive ones). If you want to give me your emails and I will give you my address through email. The party is tomorrow at 7pm at my house, open house style. Hope to hear from you.

Fall Update!

So I have really slacked on the blog this month. We had the Olympics and seasons 1-3 of The Office that took up our late nights and then we had the start of school and with that a new routine that gets the kids to bed early. I have been cooking in the kitchen (I know shocking huh) and cleaning out clothes in the closet. I also have put in some more hours at work to cover vacations. All I can say is that our household has been super busy so the blog went out the window.

The most important change is Makenzie going to 1st grade!! We were so excited for her to meet some more friends and eat lunch in the cafeteria. She gets to walk home with the neighbor kids. We are so proud of her and love hearing about her day. Recess is the fav because she gets to be a jaguar. That's our Makenzie :)

Trent ended his summer softball and started fall softball. Hopefully they will come out better this season ;) His work also started up their annual flag football season which I think they are really going to do great in this year! Does anyone else who reads this blog hate Fantasy Football like me? Trent is on two teams and I think that is self explanatory!

Colton is doing preschool at his babysitters and loves it. His days at home are a little boring to him especially if Tait is napping. He misses Makenzie and the neighbor kids and watches out the window for our neighbor Jordan to come home from Kindergarten.

Tait is learning to walk and cope with new molars. He is such a happy kid and will drive cars all over the house. He is also learning animal sounds, his favorite being a dog. Especially when he can hear the neighbors dog barking in the morning.

We were able to go down to Richfield for Labor Day weekend. We shucked corn and Trent went dove hunting and fishing with the boys. We also started the Biggest Loser Rowley version so wish us luck to win the pot!!