January Randoms

I feel like the only time I can blog is on the weekends. Well its true. Life is so busy lately, its insane.

Here are a couple things keeping us busy:

*Bob started school 2 weeks ago and things have been crazy, our lives on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday are a little out of control. Bob has class Monday and Thursday, but is in school full time and has to do homework every other day. This will all be worth it in 3 years when he is done. He will graduate with a Bachelors in technical science. I'm super proud of him.

*Next consuming our life is Basketball. We have practices on Wednesday, so I go while Bob does homework. We normally have to get dinner on the go or do something quick. Saturdays are games. Todays was early at 8am. Talk about not getting to sleep.

*Next....kids homework. I'm sure anyone with kids knows what I am talking about. I feel like I spend so much time on homework. The other night I spent 3 hrs with Jax re-doing a paper he didn't do well on. Ashton has started math at school too, so we are spending more time with him.

*The best thing in the last two weeks is that we bought a WII. Bob wanted it for Netflix, but the boys talked us into Just Dance 3 and we have been doing that all week.

*The bad thing about this past week. Lex hasn't been doing to good. She has complained about an owie in her tummy for quite a while now. I kind of blew it off thinking she was just being a two year old kid. On Thursday night things took a turn for the worse. She was up all night, screaming that she was in pain. She wasn't running a fever, puking or anything else, so I assumed she just had an upset tummy. I rubbed her tummy until she crashed in my bed (my kids have NEVER slept in my bed) and we got an hour of sleep. All these things raced through my head....heart, hernia or something bad. Friday I tossed up taking her in, she complained off and on. She really wasn't her self, wouldn't eat, wouldn't rest...NOTHING. At 6pm I took her to Instacare, they ran tests, did x-rays and found that she has excessive gas bubbles in her tummy. It could mean a number of things. Blockage, infection and if she got worse to take her to the ER. So we go home, she gets some milk (her favorite drink in the whole world) and immediately following is in pain again. It didn't click until I started thinking back to her getting the pains and complaining. Yesterday, she had milk with her breakfast and was in pain. Lunch she ate 5 bites of Mac N' Cheese and was in pain. Yesterday evening she ate yogurt and was in pain. DUH!!!! She is lactose intolerant. So we are testing her ourselves, we doing 48 hrs of NO DAIRY. This is going to be a struggle, but we have got to figure it out. So far today, she has been great. She is exhausted, but great. We bought her SILK, some oatmeal for breakfast, apple juice and lots of fruit cups. She loves cheese though, so its going to be hard. I feel extremely bad for her and wish I would've caught it sooner.

So this is what we have been up to, nothing much at all. We are preparing for our vacation at the end of March to Texas, we have 67 days and I can hardly wait. Trying to explain to our kids that we need to save money for our vacation is a little hard, they don't get it.

Can you believe this crazy weather? Rain all day and now we are having a blizzard.

Sunday Fun

We got up early this morning, got ready and hit the road to Salt Lake for the Car show. Not sure if I have mentioned this or not, but the Car Show was where Bob and I went on our VERY FIRST date, that was nine years ago and we have gone every year since. Its something will do FOREVER.

The car show improves every year, this year they did free Jeep rides for the BIG KIDS and the LITTLE KIDS. So Bob and Jaxon rode in the BIG Jeep and Lex and Ash rode in the small Jeep. I watched both of them.

After the car show we headed to Hooters. I love Hooters. Bob loves the wings, I just love going. While walking in, Jax said "This is where the girls who don't wear clothes work!" Not sure where he pulled that out of, because they do wear clothes, I've seen worse just walking in the mall. LOL

Bob ordered the hottest wings and Ashton inhaled them. Jax wanted wings, but not that hot and ended up eating Lexi's sandwich. I just ordered a chicken sandwich.

We had a blast, I love days like this one. And its been a 4-day weekend for me, I still have a whole day to go.

Basketball game #2

Jax did a ton better at this game, but still has a lot of learning to do. I challenged him to get 5 rebounds and I would pay him 5 bucks and he didn't get one, but thats okay. I love watching him play so much, its so much fun.

Saturday FUN

The kids all got new things from Grandma and Granpda on Saturday. Jax got a basketball, but ended up grounded, Ashton got a soccer ball and Lexi got a bouncy toy thing. So they played outside for hours on them.

Lexi Moments

This little girl keeps us busy. She is into everything and has a sassy attitude. But we love her to death.

Just somethings about here that I don't want to forget.

*On the car ride home, I asked her what she had for lunch and she said "I had a shamshit Mommy!" I said "you mean a sandwich?" She said "NO, A SHAMSHIT!!!"

*She has officially gone 2 weeks with no accidents at night and over a month with no accidents at all. I am an all or NOTHING Mom, I don't like pull-ups, I think they're a waste of money and if I'm not buying diapers for all the time, why buy them part of the time? So she is definately potty trained and WE ARE BUYING NO MORE DIAPERS.

*She loves to talk about her poop, its quite hilarious actually. She tells us the color and everything.

*She loves her hair done. She came to me this past week and said "Mommy, you do my hair pretty...please?"

And this is what we came up with. She has beautiful hair, I am quite jealous of it actually. Its perfectly straight, but will curl and crimp with no problems.

*Another funny story while I was doing her hair, she laughed and said "I'm such a princess Mommy!"

Even though this little girl can test my patience to the max, she also lights up our lives. She is very smart and I can't wait to see what she does in this world.

A hero

On Wednesday I got the honor to go and hand out flags to all the people lining the streets for the procession for Fallen Officer Jared Francom. I am amazed at the outpouring of support that I seen, it was truly unbelievable. I did take pictures with my phone, but so wish I would've brought my camera.

The best picture by far was the fire trucks with the flag draped. This will be a day I never forget. All the Police Officers, Fireman and many, many people that were there. People who shedded tears, simply because this guy did what he was suppose to do and died doing it. My heart aches for the ones left behind, but I know he is in a better place watching down over his family and friends. RIP Jared Francom, thanks for all you did and have done.

1st Basketball game

Its crazy to watch my Son play basketball, it brings back so many memories of being a kid. I miss it! Basketball is my favorite sport to play by far and comes close to being my favorite sport to watch with Football. I love football, I am 100% a football girl.

So Jaxon started basketball a couple of weeks ago. He doesn't quite get the game yet, but he did amazing. He did almost score for the other team and felt embarassed about it. But he is 7 and this is his first game.

Practicing before the game. He is #24 and of course the tallest on the team.

Since he was the tallest on the team he got to jump the ball at the start of the game. I remember always having to do this also, because I was always the tallest.

He wasn't sure which direction to go or anything. He hasn't ever played a real game, so I didn't expect him to get it right from the start.

After about 10 mins, he took a break. They play two 20 minute halfs.

But he didn't get much rest before he was back in.

I was trying to explain to him that he needs to go after the ball. I don't know why he is afraid, but he would sometimes just stand there and watch it and do nothing. But he is only 7 and this is totally a learning thing.

I had so much fun watching them. They definately entertaining at this age. Jax did great for his first game and I have no doubt that by the end of the season he will be ready for next year.

I also think we took up half the bleachers with all his supporters. My parents, his Nanny, his Aunt Joy, his Aunt Autumn, my best friend Misty and her family. It was great having all of them there.