Promise... We are all still alive!!

Everyone has been asking me if everything is okay because I haven't update my blog since November!!

YES!! Everything is okay. Life has been so busy that I haven't been able to update my blog. After spending all day in front of a computer at work the last thing I want to do is set down at a computer at home.

I have some pictures of Christmas and Lindsey's birthday that I will have up soon!!

The Cold Bug!!

Our family has been hit by the cold bug. Megan had a fever and a bad cough so I kept her home from school on Friday. She was so upset about not going to school. You would have thought I told her she wasn't getting any presents for Christmas. I can only hope that she keeps that desire to go to school. I know... it is wishful thinking.

Today she isn't doing much better. She has started to loss her voice. She said she doesn't like having a "boy" voice. Lindsey now has a fever and a cough. Ryan said that he has a headache and I am getting a sore throat.

I really hope that the colds don't last too long!!

Pic Tag

Here are the rules:
1. Go to your pictures
2. Upload the fourth picture from the fourth file
3. Post
4. Tag four friends


This is the 4th picture in my 4th folder. Ryan took this picture from Nebo Loop looking down on Utah County. I love this picture!! He got some awesome pictures that day.

I've tagged Amber, Amanda, Andrea and Audrey!!

Week in Review

Monday was mine and Ryan's 7th anniversary. Whoo Hoo!! We made it 7 years. It amazing how fast it has gone. We were able to celebrate by going to dinner. It was great to finally be able to go out on a date. It been too long since we have gone anywhere without our kids.

Wednesday Megan and Lindsey was playing outside in the leaves. I was kitchen and had the kitchen windows open so I could hear them. It wasn't long before I heard a horrible "THUD", followed by Lindsey screaming. I ran outside to see Lindsey had blood running down her face. She had fallen off our back porch. Once I got her cleaned up it wasn't as bad as it first looked. She does have a good scrap on her head. Ryan thinks I am a little morbid that 1 I took pictures after I got her cleaned up and bathed. 2 because I'm posting the pictures for everyone to see.

Thursday I went to a gastroenterologist (I'm not sure I spelled that right.) about the pain in my stomach. He is the same doctor that did my scope. After reviewing all my lab work, CT scans and talking to me, he says he is about 70% sure that I have a stone that got left behind when they took out my gallbladder. Other possibilities is I have scar tissue from the gallbladder surgery that has become inflamed (There is nothing they can do about that, except medication.) or I have an infection in the area where my gallbladder used to be. He did reassure me that I don't have cancer!! Yeah!! And my gallbladder didn't grow back. I have to have a MRI done on Wednesday to look for any stones.

Friday while I was doing laundry Megan put Lindsey into one of my clothes hampers. I didn't realize Lindsey was in the hamper until I noticed the her hand opening up the lid. I thought I was funny that I had to grab the camera.


Today, Sunday was bitter-sweet. I have been the Primary Secretary for 2 years and today our presidency was released. Part of me was so happy. It was very stressful trying to do my calling while I have been sick and the president has been doing a lot of my work. I will miss the children as well as the presidency I was in.
It was also our wards primary program. Since I was in the Presidency I sat on the front pew so I could help the music leader. Megan did an awesome job with her part. I was very proud of her. She was on the front row and was setting by one of her friends. About half way into Sacrament meeting they started talking. Most of the ward thought they were funny when they started comparing their height. Lindsey was a normal 2 year old and reminded me why I always set in a side pew. Our Home teacher and his family where setting near us, they have a little girl about Lindsey's age. I saw Lindsey walk over and hand the little girl a pencil, I watched as her parents cracked up laughing. Lindsey comes back over to me as happy as pie carrying a baggie of Cheerios. She had traded her pencil for Cheerios. It took all I had to not laugh out loud.

Halloween!!

On Halloween my company has trickier treating for all the kids of employees. I have brought my girls the last 3 years. We came again this year. Megan and Lindsey always do really well. My company has 2 buildings are are 3 stories each. Every year the departments decorate for kids and hands out candy. My department did Willy Wonka.

Megan was a ballerina, again! I was so happy that we could reuse her costume from last year. Lindsey was a witch.

After the bags of candy we got from my work, we went to our wards Truck or Treat. They have enough candy to last for a couple of months. Unless Ryan and I eat it for them!!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Hazard's of Children ... No book with tell you!!

Today Lindsey was throwing a Tatum because she is a toddler. That is what they do best. She was laying by me in my bed. When she got upset and threw herself backwards and hit her head on my head. She hit me right above my eyebrow. She hit hard enough that I could see stars. Now I have a large knot on my head with a little bit of a black eye.

Both my girls were really bad at throwing their heads backwards when they were upset. I got a couple of fat lips. But this is my first black eye.

I Voted!!

Ryan and I went and voted early!! We don't have to fight the rush on Nov. 4th. This election was the hardest to vote for. There were several candidates and issues that I wasn't sure on. Luckily I'm married to a man who is prepared... We discussed our options and made our decisions. Now we wait to see how everyone else votes.

My BIG CIRCLE

Friday afternoon we took a drive out to Cedar Fort. Ryan found some land out there that was really cheap!! We drove out see it. It is a really nice area but too far to commute everyday for work.

I was driving as we headed home. Minutes after we got on I-15 in Lehi, we came to a complete standstill. It was about 9:30pm when we got on the freeway. By 10:30 we had gone about 2 miles. I was in the middle lane and stuck. I hate driving in heavy traffic!! Ryan kept telling me to change lanes but I am a chicken. So we inched our way forward with everyone else. By 11:30pm we got to the Lindon/Pleasant Grove exit (about 6 miles from Lehi) we saw a hazard vehicle that we directing everyone off the freeway. Stating there was an accident. So I "carefully" cut a crossed 3 lanes of traffic to exit.

Just as we got on the off ramp, they opened the freeway up and let cars through without exiting. I thought that is just my luck. I was thinking I'll just get back on the freeway. I didn't think fast enough. I ended up in the turn lane and couldn't go straight. Again I was thinking no problem. I was go into Lindon and get on State Street and take that to Provo and take the back way home. Ryan by this time was getting grumpy. (He doesn't do well when he is tired and hungry.) He just wanted to get home... He was a little annoyed that I wouldn't cut people off and just go straight to the freeway.

I really don't know Lindon or Pleasant Grove very well. I was really excited when I found state street. I turned left on State street. Ryan asked if I was going the right way. I said yes, of course I was. I know where I was going. As we drove I kept looking for something familiar so I knew were we close to Orem. About 5 minutes later, we drove by a sign pointing to the American Fork Hospital. It dawned on me that I was heading North when I should be going South. I felt really dumb. I had just driven in a BIG CIRCLE!!

I wanted to laugh. But because Ryan was getting grumpy I didn't think he would find any humor in it. I got back on I-15 in American Fork, not saying a word, completing my circle. I was wondering if anyone would notice. Megan did. If Ryan did he didn't say anything. We were very grateful when we finally got home. Even if it was 2 1/2 hours later.

PS I-15 was shut down for several hours on Friday because there was a fatal accident. A woman driving a small car ran into a Semi, crashing the car. According to the News, the driver was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The passenger of the car was killed. My thoughts and prayers are with the families of these women.

Megan's Fall Carnical

This is a little old. I just pulled the pictures off my camera.
In September Megan's school had their Fall carnival.

They had about 8 or 9 big blow up slides and rides. The kids could go on the rides and play some games to win little toys. You could pay tickets for the rides or buy an unlimited bracelet. I was really glad that I bought the unlimited bracelet. Megan when on every ride at least 3 time. Except the large slide. She went down it about 10.

Lindsey was happy to watch her big sister. She would get upset if she couldn't see Megan and start calling for her.

Mater and the Ghost Light

Since I'm working from home this week I've let the girls watch movies to keep them busy so I can actually work. Lindsey favorite movie is Cars. She asked to watch Lightning McQueen several times a day. I am not kinding they have watched Cars 50 times. I know what Lindsey is getting for Christmas this year.
My favorite part of Cars is the short film called "Mater and the Ghost Light". Enjoy!!

Problem 10 years from Now!!

Yesterday I realized that I am going to have a BIG problem on my hands in 10 years.

Ryan had a doctor appointment yesterday. (He had to have minor surgery on his foot to have a wart removed. He is doing great!! His foot is still a little numb this morning so he hasn't been in any pain.)

While he was in the back with the doctor the girls and I waited in the waiting room. Megan and Lindsey were looking a magazines, until some young men came in. There was a young missionary that Lindsey instantly gravitated to. She said hi. Then gave him a magazine. Started talking to him. He said something back to her and she giggled and run away.
I was thinking... OH GREAT!! My 21 month old is a flirt.

Then I watched Megan. She was setting by a young man (around 20) and she was talking to him. She also gave him a magazine and told him she liked that magazine. Then to my embarrassment she asked if he was married. Thank heavens the nurse called this young man back before he could answer. Lindsey is a giggly flirt and Megan asked men if they are married.

Heaven Help Me when they are Teenagers!!

Amy's Health

Update on my health. Not exciting news but everyone wants to know how I'm doing so I'll adding this to my blog. It seem that as soon as I get feeling better, I will be good for about a month than I'm sick again.

Last week I had a stomach ache that over a few days grew into pains in my right side. I tried really hard to ignore the pain. Hoping that if I ignored it I would go away. Ignoring it was not easy for me to do because I have a very low tolerance for pain. Finally on Friday I stayed home from work and Ryan took me to the emergency room. We were afraid it might be an appendicitis. ( Thanks again to Shad and Audrey for watching Megan and Lindsey!! The girls had a blast at your house!!)

After several hours in the emergency room and many test including a CT scan. They said it wasn't my appendix. I was sent home and told to see my normal doctor on Monday. So Yesterday I went to my doctor and he said that it could be my lymph nodes in my stomach are swell or I have an ulcer. My mom has a history of ulcers there is a good chance that is what it is.
He put me on a bunch of prescriptions to see if pain goes away in a couple of days. If there pain is still there on Thursday, they are going to schedule a scope.

I'll post an updates!! Thanks everyone for your thoughts and concerns!!

Mickey Mouse for President '08

I have made my choice for President!!

VOTE MICKEY MOUSE!!

Lindsey knows Chinese

Lindsey has become our little talker. She will copy anything that is said. We have to be very careful about what we stay. She makes us laugh all the time because she likes to sing along with the radio or movies.

Megan has a new show on Nick jr she likes to watch. It is Ni hao Kai-lan. They teach kids words in Chinese. They say Ni hao (hello) several times during the show. Now Lindsey will walk around the house saying Ni hao. (It sounds more like me-ow.)

It's Ni hao when I get home from work. Ni hao in the car. Ni hao to people in the store.

I'm a proud mommy that my 20 month old can speak Chinese!!

Oh... Politics

I don't know who I am voting for in the upcoming election. So I've been watching everything I can to learn more about each candidate. This is one of the best videos I've seen yet!!

I just had to share!!

Playing in the Rain

It rained all weekend!! Saturday I let the girls go outside to play in the rain. They had a blast.

Lindsey collected walnuts and putting them under the rain gutter to clean them off. It was really funny. Lindsey loves the mud. When I brought her in she was covered in head to toe with mud. I wish I would have taken a picture.

Megan had an umbrella and was dancing and singing in the rain. And she's never seen the movie "Singing in the Rain." She didn't keep the umbrella long before she was just playing in the water. She played outside for over an hour.

On my way Home....

On my way home on Wednesday I was setting at a red light flipping through the radio stations look for something good to listen. When I wasn't paying attention because I was at red light. Then I hear a police siren. Curious, I looked up to see who was in trouble. I looked in my rear-view mirror and there was the police car. My heart dropped. My first thought was what did I do. I had just been setting there. Maybe I was speeding before I stopped. I looked for a place to pull off. But I didn't know where I was going to pull off because I was stuck in rush hour traffic. I looked up again to see if the cop was getting anxious for me to pull over. I noticed that his lights weren't on. That was weird. So I looked again and noticed that not only were his lights not on but he was talking on a cellphone. I figured that he didn't want me to pull over. Or maybe he did so I would move out of his way.

When the light turned green I kept watching to see if he was going to turn on his lights. He rode my bumper for several block but did not turn on his lights. As we approached the next light it turned yellow so I went through. I figured it would give him a reason to pull me over or "hopefully" get him off my bumper. My stomach felt better when I looked back and saw that he stopped at the light.

I will never know why he turned his siren on. I am grateful I didn't get pulled over.

Side Note: Megan did turn in her picture form. Yeah!! But she forgot to turn in her homework.

School Pictures

Megan is getting her school pictures done today. And I'm a nervous wreck. She looked cute when I dropped her off at school this morning. I just hope she stays that way. I'm so nervous that she will forget it's picture day and mess up her hair or her dress. Or that she will forget to give her teacher her picture order form. She forgots to turn in her homework, so I'm really nervous she will forgot the order form.

I am appalled that school pictures are so expensive. Delevoping pictures isn't that expensive so I don't know why they have to charge so much. I was only going to buy the class picture but I decided that I wanted Megan's picture. So I bought the cheapest package they had. I figured that we can scan the pictures and email them to anyone who wants one can I can post them on my blog.

I really would like pictures of my girls to give to everyone. I guess will have to take them to Sears or beg Ryan to take some. I don't know why getting pictures done is so stressful!!

Sickness Strikes Again

Our family is sick again. It started on our way home from Idaho. Megan was sick. She was so sick that she didn't go to school all last week. Saturday she started to feel better. Ryan complained of a stomachache but that only lasted a day. Lindsey was sick for about 2 days and now it is my turn. I went to work on Tuesday but only worked for about 2 hours. This is one of the worst flus that we have ever had. It makes your stomach feel like it is in knots. You can't eat anything because nothing will stay down. It is just not fun. I've lost track of how many bottles of gatorade and sprite we have gone through in the last 2 weeks. I don't like gatorade that much...but is the only thing that will stay down. I've learned the best way to drink it is mixed half and half with sprite.

I know that several people in Ryan's family also were sick!! I hope they all get feeling better soon. Someday there will be a world free of sickness....That day can't come soon enough!!