Happy 4th!

So, it's the 4th of July weekend again. Wow! I can't believe it's already July. I think when I made my new year's resolution this year, that keeping up on my blog was something I was going to try to do but not completely stress over. Which is good since I haven't AT ALL and we are now 7 months into the year. Here is a quick update on what has been going on with us this year.

January 2011; Moved from Hurricane, UT to Sigurd, UT

Why? Well, I've been asked that a lot in 7 months. We were tired of the small town that wanted to be a big city. We needed a quieter street with less traffic for the kids to play, and smaller schools. We also have our Auto Body repair company which most of our customers are up this way, anyways. So, we packed up and moved our little family to a tiny town outside of Richfield, Utah called Sigurd. So far, we are really enjoying this little community. We live on a dead end street in a small subdivision right on the outskirts of the town. The kids have a few friends their age here in the neighborhood and we can just let them run. We never could have done that in Hurricane.

February 2011; Black ice and rear wheel drive don't mix.

Okay, straight to the point.... On my way from Sigurd to Richfield on Highway 118, it had snowed during the night after a warm rain (bad thing), I hit a patch of black ice which covered both lanes of traffic in my 1997 Lincoln Town Car. I was fortunate enough to have the pesence of mind to know what was around me so I could avoid an oncoming car, who also hit the ice by the way, and a large wooden power pole. However, what I failed to notice was the metal ground cable which connected to the power pole at a 45 degree angle to the ground. That is what stopped my car from sliding across the adjacent hay feild. It pushed my trunk lid into the drivers' side rear quarter panel and shattered my drivers' side tail light. All in all... no injuries, no property damage (to anything other than my car) and a story to tell.

March 2011; Almost all together again.

The kids and I moved in January. But, Justin stayed behind in Hurricane for two months to get some projects at the shop finished, and to get things there in order so it could be moved. He managed to make it up here to Sigurd in March. I still joke that the whole town pretty much thought he was a figment of my imagination for the longest time. Because even after he moved up here, he wasn't truly living with the family. He immediately started on a job in Angle. He lived at a friends' house there pretty much from then until June. He came home once or twice a week to shower, shave, and get clean clothes.

April 2011; Easter trip to Hurricane.

Well, the truck Justin was working on didn't make it to the Hurricane Easter Car Show, but we went anyway. We visited Justin's family and the Easter Bunny found the kids at Kelle's so they had a pretty good Easter.

May 2011; 10 years!

Justin and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary in May. We have been together for 13 years and married for 10. Justin was still in Angle working on the truck and wasn't able to make it home until around 11:00 pm. We were able to celebrate later, but missed the big day. Justin was really dissapointed, but I managed to convince him it really is just a date on the calendar and we can celebrate it any day (or everyday).

June 2011; Warning, Deer crossing.

Well, you remember the black ice incident from February, right? Well, I managed to have a deer RUN RIGHT INTO ME four months later. I was driving on Highway 118 on my way home from work on a Saturday night. I had picked the babies up from daycare (the other two were with Justin), and was less than a mile from my house when a car traveling the opposite way who had refused to turn their brights off for the previous 2 miles FINALLY shut them off. It was just in time for me to see 8 deer running right at me. One of them hit my passenger side view mirror and ripped it right off. I was so mad, I didn't even stop! I drove the rest of the way home, and found that it was still attached, but was just hanging there by the wires (it was a power mirror). Also, Justin brought the bed of the truck he was working on in Angle to the house and started working on it here so he could be here with the family. He has started watching the kids while I am at work and I have taken them out of daycare for a while. I think he would get more done on the truck bed if he weren't having to stop and fix the kids' bikes every 10 minutes.

July 2011; Blog update.

Here we are, July 2nd, 2011. I have not updated anything on this blog since September 2009? That's insaine. To all of those who actually want to know what has been going on with my family, I apologize. I really will try to keep it somewhat updated in the future.

By the way... for those who want to know... Here is the running total for repairs to my Lincoln.

New tail light $45 from wrecking yard
New trunk lid $100 from Wrecking yard
New side view mirror $80 plus shipping (minimum, this is an expensive and hard to find part)
straighten passenger side rear quarter panel $0 Hubby won't charge me labor for that :)
Repaint whole car to make the same color since the new parts won't match $ don't wanna know.

So, the car cost us less than $300 to get, rebuild, license and insure. So, we were ahead to start with, but now we are looking at hundreds of dollars more to fix it. Not so far ahead now, are we?

There you have it... The long and the short of it. 7 months into the year 2011 and you now know all of the important things that have happened with our family far far this year.

Summer 2009

Check out some pictures of what we did this summer.

The highlight of the summer, was Justin, April and I going to Salt Lake to see Nickelback, Hinder, Saving Abel, and Papa Roach at the USANA Ampitheatre. We took a leasurely lunch break with Dee, Crystal, Ryan and Meg at Applebees in Layton. Sorry the pictures aren't very good, but Ryan took them with my new Samsung Instinct, and I'm not sure the camera in that phone is quite up to par.

We took my friend Sara, her man Kendall, and her neighbor to the concert with us. It was Sara's birthday, and I hadn't seen her in about 10 years, so I figured it was probably a pretty good way to make up for 10 years of no birthday presents. Anyway, we all had fun, and the kids got to have sleep overs at Grammy's house in the middle of the week, which they never get to do, so they were pretty psyched too.

Well, that's about it. I hope you enjoyed watching our summer go by about as much as we enjoyed doing it.

Good news! (Finally)

Okay, so I have been too busy (and I'll admit it, lazy) to update my blog for the past few months. However, I didn't have anything I was very interested in talking about. Well, now I do.

My last post was about how sick Nicholas has been and how we couldn't figure out exactly what it was. The most likely thing we could think of, was lactose intolerance. Well, we were WRONG.

I finally managed to get in to see the Pediatric Gastroenterologist about his "issues". The doctor was certain after listening to only a few seconds worth of his history that he knew exactly what was wrong with him. I was flabbergasted! The doctor asked me a few key questions like, what time of day does he usually start acting sick? How long does it last? How high of a fever, if any, does he typically get? How often does this occur?

After a brief discussion regarding all of these points, he printed off some information from the internet and gave me a diagnosis.

CYCLIC VOMITTING SYNDROME

He told me that it is so common that 1 in 50 kids from age 7+ have it, or have had it. The most common ages are children 7 and up, but it has been seen in infants, young adults, adults, and seniors! Most people just assume that it is a stomach flu or something and just don't stress about it. They assume that they are just over stressed or maybe ate something bad. The key is the fact that it occurs on a regular basis, lasts for 1 to 4 days and the main symptoms are vomiting and a lack of energy. It can be accompanied by a low grade fever and diarhea. Such as was the case with Nicholas.

He put Nicholas on Cyproheptadine to control the vomitting reflex while he is sleeping. (besides it is a really strong antihistimine, so it knocks him out all night) He also prescribed a medicine to stop the vomitting if he has another episode. With these two medications, he should not have any more bad episodes, if he has any at all, they should be much less dramatic.

Well, for any of you who might like to read more about cyclic vomitting syndrome, please click on the link below.

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/cvs/index.htm