Keep Calm and Love Brooke

Leslie has done it again!!!  AND I for one...just can't take it!! She make look cute and innocent...SHE IS NOT!! Why am I kind of upset with her...well that's because she is guilty..guilty guilty of having ANOTHER BIRTHDAY.  Yup you read it right....she just had to turn 10. She didn't like being 9 anymore..who can blame her really...I mean she gets to move up into the older group for Activity Days.. she gets to be in 5th grade and have one of the best teachers around. Why not turn 10. It seems like a good age to be. For her birthday...since its 3 weeks after school gets out...this year she decided to go to the Art-itoruim. It's a pretty cool place...and if there were more kids there the day we went it would have been super fun. But it was just our little family and although she had fun I bet she would have had more fun with more kids.  I thought I took some pictures but I guess I didn't.  BUMMER!! They had lots of fun things to do, for example there was a...

 It has been way to long...but I have just been trying to stay a float. Who knew balancing work and kids and home could be hard!  This blog post will be about the kiddos! At their school they have assemblies that honor those kids who excel in academics and who also show HAWK behavior. You already know that we have been struggling with Sam's behavior all year long...I just don't know how to through to the BOY!! He has his good days and his bad. Finally, we had to put him on a behavior chart at school and at home just to ensure better behavior and for a while it seemed to be working. Anyways, the school had an assembly and parents were sent home notifications about up coming awards....  This is Mr. Stocking, the principal. Why is he duct-taped to the wall, you ask? Well, it was for a fund raiser and I joke all the time about duct taping Sam to the wall when he misbehaves...it seems the office staff thought it would make a GREAT fundraiser...and it did! So...

4 months....it's been 4 months since I have had TIME to write a blog!! It has been a CRAZY year!! I started working as a substitute teacher for District #91 here at home and I thought that this would be a perfect fit for our family as well as add some pocket change to our savings account which is always a good thing.  I thought that for sure I wouldn't be working every day since I was a sub...I would just work every once in a while...folks...I can assure you that this was not the case!! I have worked every day Mon-Fri 8 am-3:30 pm at the latest...which isn't bad physically. I think it has really drained me emotionally. And I'm not really sure why...maybe because I hear " That's not how our teacher does it". I mean you can only hear it for so long then I start to second guess myself...for that split second. Maybe this is TOO much for me...Maybe I should just look into something in the field that I went to school for.. Yes, I do feel guilty for not us...

This post is long over due!  And it will be mainly pictures from September 2015 as our family was blessed to be able to attend the SLC Comic-Con. It was amazing!! As you will see from all the fun pictures it was something that I will never forget! Leslie's goal was to have her pic taken with a Harley Quinn. Kylie's favorite character is Hawk Girl. Who doesn't love Harry Potter ? K This guy is SO COOL!! He's the lead singer from Kerby Krackle. They play nerd rock...and its awesome. He knew Ken by name from his Twitter handle...just cool. Check out their music...and he loved Sam...cuz ...well....who doesn't? I'm a big WW fan...of course Sam just had to get in the action. We rode in the train one day instead of driving...it was fun! Sam LOVED curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat. Storm Trooper playing fetch with a member from How to Train Your Dragon. For a minute...I thought that this guy was Hugh Jackman...but it...

So the last time I left off I had just finished the July 4th Firecracker run, which was held on a Saturday. The following Tuesday outta nowhere Kylie and I were doing 21 Day Fix Lower Fix...(which is AMAZING BTW) when I had 10 min left of the workout I had to stop because the pain was so bad an intense and it was in the same spot..in my lower left quadrant. I had to stop for about 10 minutes...there was just no way I could finish...then it left again. Kylie was worried and she said, " You better tell Dad."  So I sent Ken a txt telling him it happened again. He shot me one back saying that we have no idea what is going on...and that I better go into the Dr. This is what I was doing on the  inside!! I really didn't want to go..I thought that I had it all figured out. Reluctantly....I made the call and was into to see my Dr. on 14th of July. (NO.. I didn't push it back until then..they are just a super busy clinic...and I did NOT want to go to the stupid ER.) ...

So last blog...I left off at Leslie's birthday...so it's time to fill you all in on what has happened since.  We had family come home from Tennessee.Which was great!! I have missed them so much. They come home once a year usually around my Aunt's Birthday..and this year they came home because their youngest had recently turned the ripe old age of 8. She wanted to be baptized here where all her other siblings were.. which I totally understand.  Teddy and Uncle Nate, after baptism Tina,and Tian  taking the above picture. I am not sure where Thannon and Maddie went...  I lead the opening song, and I felt fine...totally normal. When we got up to change rooms so that we could all witness the baptism..something shifted and my stomach ( well I thought it was my stomach) started to hurt...no I am not talking about a belly ache. It felt as though someone took a knife and was stabbing my in my lower left quadrant over and over again.** Earlier during the wee...

Sorry my friends it has been TOO long, and I will try my best to remember everything that has happened since June.    Well....Summer has happened and with that being said....when the little's are out of school, my schedule tends to get thrown out the window. And they are all at that age where they all want to be on the computer so I don't get much blog time during the summer.. So once school let out...before I knew it it was Leslie's Birthday, she turned the big 9!! Can you believe it...*sigh* So for a while I saw her on her bike and she loved riding it but it got to the point where she would ride it then the next day, or sometimes the very same day, her back tire would go flat and no matter how many times we would replace the inner tube it would just get flat. So for her b-day we bought her a new bike!! I was so excited I could hardly contain myself...we hid it in Ken's mom's garage so that she wouldn't see it and know that the bike was for her. She reque...