Stay at home MOM!!!!!

I was supossed to be done with work on the 23 of September, but Christie told me that I had another week of vacation that I can use. So she let me stay home a week early! It is great with Jeff being home this week that I can spend it with him!! I'm so so excited to spend time with my boys!

Jeff really like his job, he says it is really really easy and he loves it. I also think Jeff loves the travel. Last week he did nights and he said that was not bad at all. When he goes back on Monday he will be on days.

Today is Tripps Birthday I can't believe he is 2 years old!!! Where did the time go? He is getting so so big. The only thing is that I wish he was caught up on his speech. But he is getting a little better each day!! For his Birthday we are going to see the Lion King in 3d with Brandon and Shelly and there kids.

On Friday I go and see Dr Noorda I'm kinda nerves to see what he has to say. I had the "clean out surgery" in January. It has been nine months and still not prego. So hopefully he can help us out. I really want to get pregnant before all my pain comes back. I think right now would be a good time. For a couple of reasons #1 I'm on my mom's insurance!! I can have a baby for 50-100 dollars that is it!!!! #2 I'm a stay at home mom now so I don't have to have my grandparents raise my kids!! #3 Jeff and I can afford another baby now with his new job!!

But I'm a ferm believer that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ has a plan for us and when it is meant to be I will get pregnant!! So I know I just have to be patient and it will all work out at the end.

On Saturday will be Brackston Garage Sale!! Thank you Whitney Hale for letting us use your yard to have it. The perfect location right on the highway. Brackston has been wanting this garage sale all summer long. He is trying to get enough money for a dirt bike. And he is the one that set this whole garage sale up. I hope we make enough money for him!!

I need to but more pictures up!!

1 week down!

Well Jeff has been gone for 1 week, 2 more to go! :( Jeff says he really likes his job and he thinks it will be a good change. He says these 3 weeks will be the hardest because it is all classroom work. Long hours just sitting in a classroom. He has met some really good guys that he has been hanging out with and car pooling with. He will come home around the first part of September for a week then he will go back for 15 days and off 6 days. I still feel like this was a really good move on our little family even though it will be hard to get use to. Tripp goes around the house at night saying dad dad dad in every room, he is so a daddy boy that he does not understand where his dad is. Brackston understands that his dad is at work and he will be back after 3 church days. He is planning a welcome home party for his dad. He has been so cutie about the whole thing.

Events that have happened sense Jeff left Sunday at 5:30pm

Sunday night notice a red spot on Tripps Leg about a 50¢ piece hot and red. So I marked it with a pen and went to bed thinking it was a spider bite.

Monday Morning the red spot was a little bigger and Tripp would not let you touch it. I took him to my parents house where my dad was watching him. By 2pm my mom calls and says I think we need to get him in to a doctor. YIKES NO INSURANCE DO TO CANTWELLS! oh well what do you do other than just take them. Got him into Dr. Horkley his pediatrician at 5:30pm where Dr Horley looked at it and says it needs to be lanced. So he put liodicane cream on it and we went and ate at the cafeteria at the hospital. Then we went back and the put a 20 gauge needle in his leg and drained all the Brown stinky puss out. We got out probably like 2 tablespoons full of puss. GROSS! This whole time I holding down my screaming child so the doctor could get all the puss out. SAD! The Doctor told me he doesn't think it is a spider bite he thinks it is a infection call MRSA. He also believes that is what his so called diaper rash is to. NOT GOOD AT ALL! so he gave us an antibiotic thank goodness it is one that you can get a Walmart for 5 dollars!

Tuesday morning I woke up and his leg was WORSE YES WORSE! so I called the doctor and they would not get back to me until about 2:00 pm and the doctor want to see him again at 4:30. During that day he would not even walk on his leg he would hold on furniture and walk along the furniture. So I stayed home with him instead of going to work and I was taking out the garbage and he followed me out there and he fell getting off the steps and scraped up his chin really bad. About 2ish I notice another red spot on his other leg. and his butt was getting worse also. So when we went in the numb up his leg again and drained it again. This time we got about 2 more tablespoons out! and he said about the other leg and butt that the antibiotic should be kicking in within 48 hours so he thinks that they should clear up on there own.

Wednesday His leg is looking a little better lease not worse! but the other spot is getting a little bigger so were keeping an eye on it. My grandma Peggy watch the boys. So she just snuggled Tripp. Brackston fell and hit a chair and cut himself by his eye. Thank goodness no stitches but it sure does look sore.

Thursday the big sore on Tripps leg is looking a lot better but it still has a hard spot in it. But the other one on his other leg was getting more red and hard so I was brave and I just popped it like a big zit puss went all over. Thank goodness I was prepared knowing that this infection is contagious. So that night I put ban-aids with medicine on both legs hoping that the infection would go down.

Friday morning they were both looking better but I have not looked at them without the ban-aids on them so when I get home from work I will look at them. But the hard spots where going down. So lets keep are fingers cross that we have beat this infection. and the no one else gets it.

Saturday I have to be on call from 7-5 without a hubby home to take care of the boys if I get called out. So thank you to my in-laws that are willing to be on call for this period of time. Sitting by a phone just waiting for the phone call saying I'm leaving come and get the boys. Thank you Alan and Ileen for your help!!

Sunday will hopefully be an easy day! Go to church and relax rest of the day! We will see if that happens.

This is my First week without my husband. Lets hope next week goes a little better. I just can't wait to be a stay at home mom and do this!

NEW JOB!

My husband got a new job with Schlumberger. Make a long story short Cantwells laid him off August 9th but canceled all of our Insurance on July 31, 2011. Which sucks because we had Dr. Appointments first part of August. So now I have doctor bills that I have to pay without insurance. THANK YOU CANTWELLS!! Jeff was planning on leaving Cantwells to take this job with Schlumberger and give his two weeks to Cantwells but we where going to first get the kids on chip and get things settled before we did it. Jeff will be working out of town, most likely he will be in North Dakota, but we are not for sure yet. He will be working 15 days on 6 off. I will be a stay at home mom soon!!! I can't wait, my goal is the first part of October! I feel that this is a really great move for our family. I have a lot of family doubting Jeff that he will be able to do this, but I know for a fact Jeff will do great!!! This 6 days off we will have a lot of fun together and a lot of quality time together! Schlumberger has great benefits, 401k plan, profit sharing, bonus, vacation and much more! They pay for all travel and housing! We are ready for a new start and better life for our boys!

Month of June & July

-2nd of June going out to eat with Lacy, She has been such an amazing friend she just knows when I'm to my last strings and she comes and rescues my family! Thank you so so much Lacy, I can't express it enough how much she has helped out!

- 23rd of June Jeff's Surgery LDS Hospital, I will be honest I was way nerves for this surgery saying that we just got done with detox off of narcs. But Jeff did really really well! I took control of his meds the first month or so and no he does not even have narcs in the house and he has been just fine. His shoulder is still healing but doing good, he feel down the stairs and caught himself with that arm, so the doc does not want him to do therapy for couple of weeks. But he does not complain about it always hurting.

- 25 of June Aunt Jerri Baptism, Congrats to my Aunt, she has been struggling with a few things and she has been doing great! She got baptised by my little brother Tim! This was such a special day for my whole family. I can see in the next year or so she will go through the temple! I'm so happy for my AUNT I love her so so much!

- ALL month of June Getting Ready of Girls Camp, Getting ready for girls camp has been a lot of work but on the same hand it has all came together so easily. I know for a fact the lord has helped me in everything. All the little hand outs, crafts, bedtime stories, games, ext..

-4th of July... On the 1st we went to the Logan fireworks we just sat on the outside of the stadium on the hill, Tripp and Brackston loved the fireworks! Then on the 4th of July we went to the Lewiston Parade, then their little booth fair thing they do. My boys loved all the blow up air bouncy rides. This is ONE of the FOUR holiday's that I get off!!! I enjoyed being with my family on my day off!

-Tripp's IFSP... What this is, is a little conference on how to help Tripp with is speech and tantrums. He is with the Up to 3 program and I hope it makes a difference with him. We just started it. In August more people will come! Tripp only says like 3 words on a daily basses. Ball, Boo, Dad. So hopefully we can get him up to speed.

-Kizzi Birthday, Well it came and gone! I was not going to do anything for my birthday because no money at all. But Brackston had a different idea. So I went to fire drill like normal on Wednesdays and we get a phone call wondering when we would be done because Brackston invited my brother Bro and his wife Melissa to my parents house for a surprise party for his mom. So Jeff and I left drill early and went up to my mom's and dad's to have cake and a surprise party. It was way cute to see Brackston so excited to have a birthday party for me. I love my boys to death!!

- Girls Camp, Started on Monday the 18th and went through Friday the 22nd. I hoped and prayed that it all would go as planned. I think all the girls had a blast everything went so well and so smoothed. I did not have much complaining or drama. These girls are the BEST! I really enjoyed being the camp director and I'm ready to do it next year!! I loved every minute of it. I hope all the girls had a blast!

-Family Camping Trip, On Friday the 22nd I unpacked the girls camp stuff about noon and repacked for our family camping trip with the Murray's at High Creek. We stayed until Sunday because of course I had to work on Monday! We had a great time, we went skeet shooting, rock chuck shooting, floated the narrows, found a swing tied to a tree.. Watch the video of my cousin Melissa swinging on the swing. Just remember this is her second attempt she already killed herself the first time. We thought that she would of learned! Timmy got 4 stitches on his wrist because of some sharp rocks. They kids loved to play in this little pond that was next to the creek. Thank you to everyone that made this happen!

Tripp and Tubes

Tripp had tubes put in his ears after 5 ear infections on May 31, 2011. I was a little scarred about the whole putting him under. But he did GREAT!!! He did not come out screaming or nothing, he was an angel! We arrived at the hospital at 7:30am and we were back home and 9:00am.

Tripp is 21 months and he still does not speak, he does not even say mama or Dada so that is hard. Sometimes you get a ball or boo out of him. For the most part he just does not say anything. So I have put him in the up to 3 program. They came out on Monday and did the evaluation. Tripp was right on or ahead on everything but speech and he was at 10 months with it. :( I hope he catches up on speaking soon. Because he gets frustrated with us because we don't know what he want and then he throws a huge and I mean HUGE fits.

They think most of it is because of all the negative pressure in his ears before his tube that he could not hear well. But we will be getting a hearing test done on June 30th :) Hopefully that comes out good if not we will go down a different path to help Tripp!

Brackston and the Cow Story!!

My in-laws took Brackston and Tripp to a farm a month or so ago. They seen baby cows, chickens, ducks, sheep's, horses. You name it they seen it. Brackston and Grandma went off on a little walk by themselves, they were looking at ma ma cows. Brackston speaks up with confusion on his face and says Grandma those cows have a lot of penises. Ya he was looking at the over in-large utters! Grandma had to explain that one to him.

CRAZY

I don't even know where to start, this last few weeks have been awful!! Jeff has been in the hospital. He went in on April 16th and did not get released until the 22nd. He is still week and slow. Yesterday he tried to have the boys all day and he feel a sleep by 9pm last night. I hope he is getting his rest that he needs. Then Melissa R. boyfriend KC got told he would only have a week or two left of his life, because he is dieing of colon cancer. I feel really bad for Kc and Melissa you can tell Melissa loves Kc to death. Its sad that a kid so young has to go through hell and back. Last night KC was not doing good at all, we will be lucky if he makes it to the weekend. And my dad is still not doing well himself and he has been a big help with my boys while I was in the hospital with Jeff. Hopefully in a couple more weeks my dad will start feeling better.

On with so good news! Easter was on the 24th. Brackston could not wait for the Easter bunny to come. He started Friday asking me if the Easter Bunny was coming. He was so excited to have Saturday to come, he woke up and said let go to grandma Peggy's house to get eggs. The Easter egg hunt was not until 2:30 so he had a long Saturday waiting on the Easter Egg hunt. Our Friend Garret came with us with his daughter Autumn I believe they had fun. Garret does not have much family, so we invited him up to it.

I have to thanks Garret and Steve for all they have done for Jeff. They have been so good to him. There willingness to care for him and let him know that they are there for him.

Well I'm probably missing stuff right now but I can always wright more.

MY BOYS

My boys are the light of my life. I Love them so much, I can't be more greatful that I have my two boys and Husband. I just wish I could be a stay at home mom with them, I just keep hoping and praying some day before they get to old I can stay home with them. I have to be greatful right now that I don't have to take them to a "day care" I have wonderful family that watches them everyday for me. My dad watches them 1-2 day aweek. My Grandma West watches them 1 day aweek. Grandma Peggy watches them 1-2 days a week. My in-law watches them 1 day aweek. I just love all there help. If I had to pay for a day care I would not work because my whole pay check would go to day care.

Also today my friend Joclyn is having a baby boy. It makes me want another baby, but at the same time I would have to stay home if I had another little one because I believe it would be to hard on my family to take 3 kids. So I just keep on praying that Jeff can get a better job that will support us, and I can get like a little day care going or something to bring in some income. So if anyone reads this and know of anyone that is looking for a cheaper day care, I would love to take them.

April

Well it was Brackston Birthday on the 5th. We had our family celebrate it on the 3rd because, Jeff's family was up for Ileen's Birthday. Her Birthday is on March 30th, but we had a surprise party on the 1st of April. She turned 60! We did Brackston's party at the Fire Station so we had enough room to have everyone. Brackston is so into Dinosaurs and Diego. So when we started to sing happy birthday we replaced his name for Diego. Then on his actual birthday one of my friends made him a cake and it was a dinosaur cake he loved it. Brackston would not let us cut the cake when we got ready to cut it. It was not until the next day we would let us eat it. My dad has had kidney stone and kidney problems for the last 3 weeks, he has been in and out of the hospital with complications on it. Hopefully they can figure out what to do with him. On top of that Jeff has had Crohns problems and in out of the hospital and Dr offices I hope we can get that under control. Tripp has started off with a cold the last couple of nights and that has not been fun. Tripp is just my little handful but love him to death. He still won't talk. Once in awhile I can get him to say mom or dad but not that often. I'm figuring out if he does not start to talk by end of this month I am going to get him into the under 3 program, so he won't be behind in his speech. He is such a big kid, he is in 2T clothing already! He is also a solid kid he don't look fat but he is heavy I bet you he weighs around 30 pounds. Also some GREAT news is the Timmy came home from his mission this weekend (4/9). That is a surprise but a good one! I can't believe he is home already! I love it. Also I passed my pack test for the forestry that is good to have that done. Also Happy Birthday to my dad today! Poor man still is so sick! I will Try and post some pictures tomorrow of the birthday's that we have had and of Timmy!

I'm Back!

Well I said I would get better at this, I still have not done what I said in my last post! Right now I'm in a part of my life I think the Lord wants me to know how far I can go before breaking. It 8:30am and I have all ready had a crying moment. I am struggling with alot of stuff, from my dad and husband, to money, job, life....

My boys are doing great! Tripp is 18 months old and Brackston will be 4 in less than a month.

Tripp is a handful he is full of life. You have to keep the bathroom do shut or you'll have stuff flush down the toilet that you did not want flushed. He loves to bite, hit, pull hair. But he is to cute that you still have to love him to death. Thank you family that watches him everyday! Tripp loves animals. He is starting to like coloring, reading. He loves to follow his big brother around and do whatever he is doing. He can't wait to be outside, Yesterday he kept hitting at the door and crying to go outside and it was only 50 outside with snow still on the ground he did not care at all he just wants to be outside!.

Brackston right now is so into dinosaurs he knows all of there names and what they eat, if they are warm blooded or cold blooded. He watches a show that is called Dino Dan. It is a boy who studies dinosaurs in his back yard. I think I will put on a Dino Dan Birthday Party for him. He mostly knows all of him letter when he sees them, and sounds of them all. He loves to read! Grandma Bird took him to the library and she went upstairs to check her book back in and Brackston stayed down stairs where all of the kids books where. He had a pile like of 30 books. Grandma told him he could pick out five of them. Yes 3 out of the 5 where dinosaurs books.

Jeff and I are doing great. Right know I can say we are closes than we have been in years. We have started to read the BOM together and Pray as a family and couples. I don't want to have this stop, because I think it has helped our family a lot! I believe that is what is helping our family to be closer.

I promise I will post more updated photo's!

Ok NEED to get better

It's been 8 months and I have not got on and wrote anything! I need to update this bad with pictures and all.

Tripp is walking all over, brackston is getting so big he is picking up his letters and sounds. Jeff and I are doing good. We Started to read the book of mormon together. That has been nice!.

I will get back on and post pictures and update more!