Christmas Break 2009

Today is the first day of the girls' Christmas break and I am going insane! They don't go back until January 7th or something like that. At first I thought it was going to be great - not having to get them ready in the morning, and being able to play with Joey all day. However after only one day I'm rethinking the long break...can't they take a shorter break and have a longer summer?

I of course am blaming the short temper, lack of patience, and filthy house on being pregnant. Monty, can we please hire a maid?

Kayla Cuts Her Hair Again!

As you all know I work from home. My computer sits in my kitchen so I'm right in the middle of everything and can keep an eye on the kids and still work. However, as I'm sure you've all experienced, we get engrossed in our work and forget to look around for a few minutes. Well this morning after quite a few minutes of not looking at the kids watching a cartoon I turn around to see hair all over the floor. Kayla was sitting in the rocking chair, staring at the tv and cutting away at her hair!

I know I completely over reacted because really, what's done is done. Monty comes rushing out of the bedroom from being woken up by my yelling and we send Kayla to her room. Seriously! Why do kids like to cut their hair? As I ask that question I'm sure I did the same thing when I was little - or at least I know that Tara and Suzanne did. Hahaha!

Kayla's Lost Tooth

Friday the 4th I took Kayla to preschool. Two and a half hours later I pick her up and she says, "Mom, I have loose tooth!" I'm like, "WHAT?!" She just turned five in October - she is way too little to be loosing teeth. Her teacher said she didn't bump it on anything and when Kayla told her it was loose she said, "Don't tell my mom."

Her teacher assured her and the other kids that getting a loose tooth was normal, and also that it was bleeding was okay.

I get Kayla home, fix her a sandwich and five minutes later her tooth falls out. Pretty crazy I thought.

Rocky The Blind Dog

Our poor, old dog Rocky just got lost in our backyard today. I saw him out there walking around and I thought he was just having some fun in the snow. Probably 20 minutes later I told Kayla to go see if Rocky was at the door yet. Nope. So I put on some shoes and go out there and he's still just wandering around. I start calling his name and he turns and starts running towards the house. It took a couple minutes of me calling, and clapping my hands to get him to come over to me. Then I had to lift him up and PUT him on the stairs.

This may sound ridiculous, but I swear that after he got into the house he was pouting. He just had this look of "...stupid, I got lost in the backyard!"

Halloween 2009

Jaida the ghost

Kayla the Unicorn

Joey the frog

We went to Jaida's school carnival on Friday. The kids had blast! In fact Kayla had so much fun that she took off her costume, laid down on the school lunch bench and threw up. Both Monty and I were sitting on the other side of the table and were completely oblivious - we couldn't see a thing. A couple of parents came over to let us know what was going on and offer help. Kayla didn't cry or tell us she'd thrown up or anything, she just laid there like it was nothing new.

One of our neighbors was one to come over and help out. She held Joey - who was asleep, while I took Kayla to the bathroom to clean up. About 10 minutes later Kayla went over to play the "cake walk" game. She was the only one playing and WON! She was celebrating like it was Christmas. The two guys running the game were just cracking up laughing thinking she was so hilarious.

Primary Halloween Party '09

Hopefully I'll get some pictures to post. I didn't even think of bringing my camera this time. For Halloween this year, Jaida is a ghost, Kayla is a unicorn, Joey is a frog, I am an overweight baseball player, and Monty is an mma fighter.

Kayla was going to be a bat so we were driving around looking for all the stuff to make her costume and at the DI we found the perfect unicorn costume for only $8! Less than we were spending on her bat costume. She was so excited and has worn it everyday since we got it.

Our awesome old navy costume - the frog costume is being used once again by the kids.

Okay, so back to the party. The primary decided to do a Pumpkin theme for all our games. Pumpkin Bowling, Pumpkin Golf, Pumpkin Ring Toss, and a Pumpkin Toss. Of course the Relief Society, Young Women, Young Men, Missionaries and Scouts all had games too. We had a great turn out and everyone seemed to have a great time.

The missionaries were doing a game where everyone would tie a balloon to their ankle and then on the count of three everyone would try popping everyone else's balloon. So I didn't think about it at the time, but maybe that's not the best game where little girls are involved.

I overheard a lady telling her husband that a little girl was running down the sidewalk crying trying to run home and that she was going after her. Of course I thought nothing of it.

Come to find out it was Kayla the Unicorn running down the sidewalk as fast as she could go - she saw the lady coming to get her and sped up.

When I finally got to her, Monty had gotten her back safely and she was in the primary room under a chair crying. I kept asking her all sorts of questions and finally found out what had happened. Sobbing she said, "I was laughing and playing around with my balloon and all of a sudden someone stepped on it and POPPED it!"

I of course said, "Kayla that was the point of the game."

"NO IT WASN'T!"

Who am I to reason with a five year old who's balloon was viciously stepped on and popped? So I went and got her a new balloon and instantly recieved a smile - all was better. Kayla was happy the rest of the night and even the next day told me that "the party last night was the funnest ever!"

The other funny thing was the only games Kayla played were pumpkin bowling and the balloon game. She just ran around the rest of the time watching everyone else. Joey had all the girls in the primary taking turns playing with him and walking him around. Jaida ran around with all her friends playing all the games and having fun. That's one thing I love about our Halloween party - for the most part I can just let my kids run around and I don't have to worry about them.

Happy Birthday Kayla!

Happy 5th Birthday Kayla!

Kayla has been wanting to be 5 for at least two months now. She wanted a Rainbows & Unicorns birthday party. I got lucky and found a pattern for her cake and she LOVED it! She got a bunch of unicorns for her birthday and make-up (which only takes her a couple days to use). After eating we took the kids to Funtime Inflatibles and were there for about two hours. The kids all had a blast! Thanks for coming Nathan, Ethan and Jenna!

Crazy Hair Day 2009

Red Ribbon Week at Jaida's School! They always have fun activities for the kids every day of the week. I think that crazy hair day is my favorite. "Just Say No!" (to drugs - in case you didn't know what red ribbon week was)

Happy Birthday Monty

Wow, whoever thought you would be 37! Yikes - I'll be there in a couple years. We made Monty a caterpiller cake and he got some awesome curtains. Ha ha ha.... He always loves my birthday presents. Hey, I'm just thinking of how much more sleep you'll get on grave yards with a darker room. Love ya!

Fielding No. 4 - It's A Boy

Yep, we're having another baby! Due date is February 17, 2010, and we have no names picked out. This is the first time we were able to get 3d pics with any of our kids and it turned out pretty cool! So now we'll have two girls and two boys. We're all excited!

Joey's First ER Visit

It was a nice cool evening and we were all outside enjoying the refreshing air. Kayla was riding around on her bike, Joey was following Jaida around and I was reading book. Pretty soon Kayla came riding up to her favorite spot where she gets one tire on the grass and one tire on the sidewalk. Her back tire is off the ground so she can pedal and pedal to her hearts content and not go anywhere.

Joey saw her "stuck" and came over to see what was going on. He sat down by the back of the bike and was completely engulfed in curiosity. Monty came out and kept telling Kayla, "Stop pedaling, Joey's going to stick his finger in your bike." Well, if you know Kayla, she likes to do the very opposite of what you say.

A couple drove up and were asking directions so Monty was distracted from Kayla and she began to pedal away. Pretty soon I hear Joey start crying, look up from my book and he's definitely got his finger stuck somewhere in Kayla's bike. Monty and I run over and Monty grabs Kayla off her bike and I grab Joey. He has already started bleeding all over. I take him into the house to wash off his finger and it was just a nasty, nasty cut. I told Monty that we need to take him to the hospital.

I'm getting my purse and Monty takes the girls to Mendenhall's and we head to the ER. We of course had to wait out in the lobby for a bit before someone came to get us while Joey is crying and bleeding all over. The waiting for something to be done is the WORST part. How can you let a little baby cry for so long! The ER doctor was already stitching someone up so we had to wait for him.

They had to take Joey back for x-ray's and since I was pregnant I couldn't go. So Monty took him out and Joey is just reaching for me and crying, "Mom". I couldn't help it then, and had to cry a little.

They had to put him in a straight jacket (literally), gave him some lortab, numbed up his finger, and began to stitch him up. I think he got about seven stitches and the end bone was also broken. After stitching him up they gave him some medicine and told us to wait for 15 minutes before we could go. In about five minutes Joey fell asleep.

We put Joey in the car where he woke up and drove to the pharmacy. Joey started saying, "Whoahhhh." I think it was about the stop lights? He seemed to be in a good mood now, and his finger wasn't bothering him at all. The lortab had kicked in.

We got home where we found that Misty had come and got the girls and had cleaned the WHOLE house. Great surprise! The girls were really happy to see that Joey was okay. So then Joey started getting hyper. He would run down the hall, come back, climb onto the couch, jump off and take off down the hall again. He kept doing this and other crazy things. At one point I had him in the chair with me and we were watching a cartoon. All of a sudden he would bust out in a laugh, or point at the tv and say, "Whoahhh."

It was pretty hilarious and I'm sad we didn't get any video. He did that for a couple of hours and the only way we finally settled him down was to turn out all the lights and lay him down by me.

Joey is doing great now and refuses to keep a band-aid on. We didn't get any good pics of his finger but hopefully he won't stick his finger in any more bikes to give us another chance at it.

Monty's Graduation

Monty was gone each week for about three months while he went through the police academy. He would just come home on weekends and boy was it a LONG week.

We are all glad that he is done and he even got the sharp shooter award (although that's probably wrong and I'll need to come and edit this post)!

Jaida in the 2nd Grade

I forgot to post about Jaida's first day of school! Okay well, I've forgot to post quite a few things.

We had a fight on her first day of school over CLOTHES! She wanted to wear her East Elementary t-shirt - great, no problem. I wanted her to wear some jeans and her new tenny's. She wanted to wear some ugly cutoff cotton brown shorts with some light blue crock shoes that have a fuzzy inside - no way!

So I think she wore her jeans and I have no idea what shoes she wore. As you can see in the picture she luckily went to school happy. She got an over the shoulder bag and a new lunch bag.

She LOVES her teacher, Mrs. Bentley, and is doing GREAT! Mrs. Bentley is very impressed with her reading level (5th grade), and says she has great potential for writing. Jaida get's 100% on almost all of her spelling and math tests. All around she loves school and is a really good student.

(just in case anyone was wondering the shorts are in the trash)

'The Unit' CANCELED!

I hate it when they cancel shows I like to watch! I'm just posting small clips I read from an article...

"There’s another casualty on network TV. CBS’ military drama, The Unit, has been cancelled after four seasons on the air."

"Like most of the networks’ actions these days, the decision to renew or cancel came down to finances. CBS had asked for all of its shows to reduce their budgets. The Unit is actually already cheaper to produce than it looks. Shot primarily in Southern California, it costs less than $3 million per episode to produce. That’s about half as expensive as other primetime dramas."

"Like most of the networks’ actions these days, the decision to renew or cancel came down to finances. CBS had asked for all of its shows to reduce their budgets. The Unit is actually already cheaper to produce than it looks. Shot primarily in Southern California, it costs less than $3 million per episode to produce. That’s about half as expensive as other primetime dramas."

http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/the-unit-cancelled-season-five/

Caitlyn Somchai Disparte

There's a new grandbaby in the family! Caitlyn was born August 10. Suzanne and Quinn are definitely loving this little cutie!!

Sammo's Dog Fight

Sammo is about 11 years old and he just received his first major dog fight wound.

Sammo is always trying to get out the front door as soon as it's opened. Yesterday he got out with Jaida and Joey. He was never brought back in, but after only a few minutes I heard some dog scuffle noises. I ran out the door thinking he'd gone after some kids walking by and he comes trotting up to the door from behind the cars. He looked a little scared but I thought it was just because he knew I was mad.

As he started up the front porch I could see that he had some hair missing. Looking a little closer I could see that there was a lot of hair missing.

To make a long story short I got him into the vet first thing the next morning. They shaved the hair around the cut (which made it look even bigger than before) and cleaned it out. Then Kelly (our neighbor is our vet) stapled it up.

While all this was happening Sammo's anal glands started acting up. I seriously thought I was going to throw up right there in the vet room.

Sammo has now stunk up our car and the house because the smell is not going away...solutions anyone? Besides taking him back to the vet.

Darn dog - why do the little dogs always think they are the toughest?!

Joey and Cashews

About two weeks ago Monty came home with a big can of cashews. The girls love them, Monty loves them, and now Joey loves them. He would grab a big handful and stuff them all into this mouth, picking up the pieces that fell on the ground and also stuffing those in his mouth.

We couldn't believe how many he was eating, he just kept coming and getting more handfuls.

Well the next morning Joey was smelling mighty stinky so I opened up his diaper to find a brilliant green mess of WHOLE CASHEWS! It was so disgusting.

I immediately texted Monty saying that "Joey is no longer allowed cashews because he doesn't chew them he just swallows them whole - and I bet you can figure out how I found that out".

Memorial Day 2009

We had lots of fun at Three Peaks on the 4-wheeler. We thought it would be packed but there was hardly anyone there and the weather was just right.

That's Just Gross

So I decided that I'm going to totally embarass my girls. Well actually, for those of you that know my girls they won't be embarrased.

A couple weeks ago I made Jaida and Kayla clean out 10 pairs of POOPY underwear! Can you believe that?! Instead of throwing it away I made them take it outside, and spray 'em clean with the hose. Yes, this was very disgusting as a bystander. I told Kayla that she was my hero because thanks to her they got clean - she was scrubbing them on the sidewalk (oh believe me I'm leaving out some details).

So that was a few weeks ago and just yesterday Jaida had to clean three more pairs. Her friend Hannah even HELPED! Wow, now that's what I call a TRUE friend!!

Sorry no pictures this time. However if someone complains I'm sure I'll have future photo opportunities.

Som's Wedding Day

I just took this picture from Mew's facebook photos - thanks for posting Mew! She said that there is more to come. CONGRATULATIONS TO SOM!

Kayla Close-Ups

Kayla LOVES taking pictures. She takes a lot of closeups, so I thought I would put them in a collage and post them.

Operation Talent Show

The girls got to perform at East Elementary in their "Operation Talent Show". They did a cute little dance to Lollipop, Lollipop. As soon as I get a digital version of the dance I'll post it. Kayla and Jenna weren't actually in the dance, but we couldn't leave them out of the picture. Actually Kayla did go backstage and was ready to go on until I spoiled her fun and asked Bobbie to grab her.

You Were Supposed To Record The Dance

While I was filming the Talent Show with my camcorder, I gave Kayla my digital camera to record the talent show. Going through my camera, I found this awesome picture of Kayla and also figured out what she was doing when she was supposed to be filming. So obviously she did not record the dance. I also found other pictures of the nice wood floor and more Kayla Closeups.

Jim Stovall - Inspiration & Motivation

I just watched this video clip for some GREAT inspiration/motivation and wanted to share.

"No matter what the dream is inside of you the answer is always, 'Yes You Can,' because that big dream would not have been put inside of you if you did not have the capacity to acheive it." Jim Stovall

Joey The Brave

I came out back onto the deck and of course didn't want to go on the grass, but then I saw Joey climbing up the swing set. So I run to get shoes on and as I'm running back out the door Joey has climbed all the way to the top and is headed for the slide. So I'm yelling to Kayla to help Joey as I tear down the stairs. Joey is completely oblivious to my panic attack, he turns around on top of the slide and goes down backwards on his belly - Kayla catching him at the bottom. So everything was fine, but I really cannot believe I don't have gray hair yet.

Joey thought he was pretty cool and kept climbing and sliding over and over. Occasionally he'd take a break by going over to the sand box and eating a fist full of sand...yummmm!

Hee, hee, hee...I just noticed at the beginning of the video - look closely at Kayla in the background. She's showing off her "penguin egg".

Our Oscar Winning Dress

...and yet another crazy, funny Kayla! Kayla really did this dress all by herself. Wanna know what it really is? It's Harry Potter's invisible cloak. Their Aunt Sheila gave it to Jaida when she was three years old. Amazing the things it's turned into.

Kayla The Mermaid

Another crazy, funny Kayla. Using our hot pads she made herself into a mermaid. It kept her busy for quite awhile to. :)

Kayla The Grape

Kayla is always coming up with funny stuff!

Jaida is SEVEN!

Wow, how time flies! Jaida's birthday wish this year was for her two front teeth. She had a fun party and Monty thinks she's ready for friend sleep overs. I'm thinking in another 5 years...

Joey's First Birthday

Well, I can't find any pictures and nothing in my journal so I'm a little bummed about that...

This picture that I do have posted was taken in January 2009, so we'll just say that I took this on his birthday.

We had cupcakes and he opened presents. I must have video camera footage that I'll have to get.