Heaven help me....

today I officially have a 7th grader! And if I do say so myself he's lookin' mighty handsome girls...watch out. This is one kid who is 100% girl crazy! Girls no longer have cooties in his mind.

Good luck Fischer on your adventure through middle school. Remember who you are and what you stand for. Always know we love you and are here for you! Go Fischer!

Life is exciting!

5 months old!

Where does time go? Really? I blink and a few months have already come and gone.

August 15th, 2008 was the day I found out I was pregnant with Crew. Thinking about it, I can still feel the shock I was in. I remember trying to decide when and how (and IF) I was even going to tell Curtis the news. I couldn't handle watching him go into cardiac arrest. Even though we all know it takes two to tango, I knew he would be in denial that he had anything to do with such an act that could possibly result in another "precious gift from God!" What in the world was I going to do?

Later that day Curtis came home from work early because his friend Dave had asked him to go riding. Curtis had gone riding the night before and so I asked him why he wanted to go again. He said that Dave had called him from work venting about what a bad day it had been and that he needed to go riding to "relieve some stress!" I told Curtis that yes he should go riding with Dave then because he too would need to "relieve some stress!" Since Curtis is not an individual that stresses very much or even at all, he looked at me with a puzzled expression. I then blurted out "I am pregnant!" It didn't take long for that stress to kick in!

Actually, deep deep (deep) down inside Curtis was happy and excited too. And now that we have our little "precious gift from God" we couldn't imagine our lives and family without him.

p.s. with 5 little lives to keep up with, there's not much time to tango these days

Life is surprising!

The camping trip from HELL!

FROM THIS TO THIS!

Yes I just swore! Wash my mouth out with soap! But honestly, that is the only word that can really describe our latest outdoor adventure. It all started Thursday morning when I decided to take Crew into the Dr. because I thought he must have an ear infection since he had not been sleeping very well for the last week. Sure enough, a double ear infection. Got the antibiotic and we headed out. Crew cried almost the entire way there. I'm sure the pressure and the altitude made his ears feel worse than they already did. He refused to suck on his binky which would have helped pop his ears.

Shortly after we were in the mountains we discovered that Curtis had left his wallet at home in his work car. So we had no money whatsoever with us. Great! We finally arrived after dark and it was raining. We couldn't really see much so we just found the best place possible and if we had to change spots in the morning we would. We hurried and made sandwiches and went to bed.

The next day we searched the truck high and low and found some old bank checks we had from our Allstate business account a few years ago. We weren't sure if and how much money we had in that account but decided to go and find out. We drove down into Heber and went to our bank and sure enough we had 97.00 (whew!) And luckily they let us get the money. More than enough to fill up the tank with gas. That was a tithing perk!

We had some family and friends meeting us that day so we headed back to camp only to have it start snowing like the 24th of December. Lesson learned: Just because it is August do not underestimate Utah weather. Pack winter clothes and more than a couple pair of socks. I have never been so cold in my life. It was frigid. Crew started getting worse and worse. So of course he cried ALL NIGHT LONG. Even if I held him he was crying. I'm sure his ears were killing him but the fact that he couldn't feel his hands and ears didn't help either. We were cooped up in the trailer for hours while watching it snow. It was a complete mud pit after the snow melted. My kids were out of clean dry socks. Our heater was not working. Crew was screaming. I was crying. It was not a pleasant experience. We did have great company however due to the freezing cold we were not able to hang out much together. I just wanted to go home, crawl into my warm bed and pretend it never happened. And that is exactly what we finally did. Our friends ended up going to Strawberry and had a great time. I'm sure someday, I repeat SOMEDAY, I will look back on this whole trip and laugh! But not for now!

Life is better!