I'm not crazy....right?

I haven't posted in a bit. Mainly out of laziness and lack of topic.

This last week and half has been crazy! And I need to write this down for memories sake.

It all started at the end of February. Paul was going to be out of town to go visit his brother in Houston that was blessing his baby. Paul left at 5am. Riley woke up with pink eye. Great! Hunter woke up with the nastiest cough known to man. Great! Later that night I noticed I had a pain in my side that bothered me when I sat. Great! So Saturday Night I tackled all 3 kids and put eye drops in their eyes to avoid the spread of pink eye at the Nelson home!

Sunday morning we got up. I didn't plan on going to church because of the whole pink eye situation, which I'm sure all of the Primary appreciated. Taylor got up around 10:30am and was crying and pulling at her ear! GREAT! So after listening to her cry for 45 minutes I decided to head to the Urgent Care. So off we go, to the Urgent Care to wait. The wait wasn't too bad, and Hunter and Riley behaved themselves so well, all things considered. Taylor of course would be fine for a few minutes and then cry for another bit....and again.

So after getting diagnosed with an ear infection, we headed to Wal-Mart to get her prescription filled. It was 1:32 pm when I pulled up to the pharmacy. They close for a 30 minute lunch at 1:30! COME ON! So we walk around Wal-Mart. I figure I'm already there and I got the kids some popcorn chicken so they would be content to walk around for 30 minutes while we wait for the pharmacy to open. Well the pharmacist left 10 minutes late for lunch, so he opened at 2:10. I dropped off my prescription and was told 45 minutes. Ok great! So now we keep walking wal-mart. We walked the toy section, which was dumb on my part, and had to keep telling the kids, 'sorry we're not getting anything today.'

We paid for the few groceries I had gotten and went and put them in the car to kill time. I moved my car to the other side where the pharmacy is. I walked back in and was there right as my 45 minutes were up. "Sorry, it will be 10 more minutes!" WHAT!!! I sat on the bench with my 3 kids and nearly cried! Of course this would happen the weekend that Paul is out of town, Paul is never out of town! I am so grateful that I am not a single parent!!! Even though Paul has a busy season at work, I know that at the end of the day he will come home! And I am grateful for that!

**As a side note...Edna is out of town, Griscel is at church, and my mom is with her mom at the hospital, and Paul's parents are in Houston with him!**

So they finally called my name, we got Taylor's antibiotic, and went home. Ate a quick lunch and took a nap!!!! It is now 3:30pm

What a Sunday! Taylor was immediately better after one dosage! Gotta love medicine!

So Monday and Tuesday were back to normal. I tackled the kids just a few more days to keep putting eye drops so that the pink eye wouldn't spread and luckily it didn't!

All the while I notice that I still have that pain in my side, that has now reached my back.

On Wednesday I went and visited my grandma at the hospital. Edna went too. While there I mentioned to them that I had been having a pain in my side since Saturday. They immediately "overreacted" (something my family NEVER does) and told me to head to the Urgent Care to make sure it wasn't anything serious. (My dad had his appendix burst several years ago, and was told if he had waited one more day, he could have died.)

So Edna came to my house and watched my kids and I headed to the Urgent Care. Second time in 4 days! Come to find out I had a kidney infection! Which we thought was weird. So I started my antibiotics. The doctor told me that if I still had pain after two days on the antibiotic to head to the ER because it could be something worst that he couldn't see.

So on for the next two days it was 20 questions from my family about whether or not I was hurting. The pain had now spread to the other side of my back. So on Saturday morning Paul and I decided that I should go to the ER. GREAT!

As I was leaving for the ER, I decided to grab a book so that I would have something to read while I waited. I grabbed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, book 7. BIG MISTAKE!!!!

I couldn't put it down and stayed up until 3am this morning finishing the book! I LOVE HARRY POTTER! and now, of course, I feel the need to read the ENTIRE series...again!

Ok but I'm sure you're wondering about my trip to the ER. The wait wasn't too bad, no matter what you read in the Letter's to the Editor. They did some bloodwork, CT scan of my abdomen, urine test....and

NOTHING! There was absolutely NOTHING wrong with me! My kidney's are working properly. No kidney infection showed. My appendix, gall bladder, and kidney's all looked normal in the CT Scan. So the doctor diagnosed me with back pain. WHATEVER!

I AM NOT CRAZY! I know I was having pain on my kidneys! But the good news is that the antibiotic did it's job because I no longer had an infection. So the weird thing is that I had that pain for a few more days. For all I know I still have the pain, but I did some exercises the other day and am completely sore, so I can't distinguish the differences in pain.

Ok....maybe I am crazy....

ok pues!

Pay it Forward

Thanks to Linsey for passing along "Pay It Forward." I am now sharing the love with you!

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Now on to "PAY IT FORWARD!"


Thanks Linsey!!!

Confessions....and more

My friend Linsey told me about this lady, The Pioneer Woman, and her blog and her Marlboro Man. I'm hooked. I'm addicted. I find myself turning Paul into my own Marlboro Man. If you have time, go check out her website www.thepioneerwoman.com and read the story Black Heels to Tractor Wheels about how she met the Marlboro Man. Read about her Lodge Remodel. Read about her Homeschooling tips. Read all kinds of stuff! It's way cool. I feel like she's my friend! I know, I'm weird!


Paul and I got to go see Lion King on Saturday in PHX. It was AWESOME! I cried about three times...and that was just in the first 15 minutes. The costuming, the dancing, the singing, the percussionists....all AWESOME! Next up WICKED? Anyone want to go? Let's do a big group deal!


And Taylor has officially learned how to say "NO" correctly. Right now it's still cute, but we'll see how much longer. But she also says Peekaboo, which is way cute, so then I just have her say that after and I smile.

And I will also be watching Confessions of a Shopaholic this weekend. Can't wait! With my big tub of popcorn! That's right, I said it!

Disneyland Withdrawals!!

We had a great time!!!

It was wonderful to spend three great days at Disneyland. And as much as you think I'm crazy, I'm ready to go back! The kids were great! It was fun to have almost the whole family there, and I'm grateful my parents were there to help me out!

Steph - I missed you taking pictures! So I didn't do a very good job, but I did get a few!

And just a tip to you all: if you can, it's totally worth it to take your kids out of school and go at the end of January!!! Tuesday and Wednesday were so empty! The park wasn't even handing out fastpasses becuase there were no lines! It was awesome to run up Space Mountain and get on right away!

2009.....

Well I hadn't posted in a month, and was chastised for it. So tonight I got in a blogging mood, and posted a ton of stuff!

Another thing I noticed was that I had some drafts saved and so when I deleted them, it turns out that I did NOT have 100 posts! So I did a premature "100th post" post. So I apologize for misleading you in my posting numbers. But now I have passed my 100th post, so if you're that weird about it, you can go back and read it!

I am ready for 2009. I went back and read my goals for 2008. Yeah....basically I have the same goals for 2009. Basically...just be better. At A LOT of different things. This Monday for FHE we are going to set our goals as a family. I have been thinking more about my goals this week as well, so maybe on Monday I will post a more definite list of goals.


Here's to a sublime 2009....uhkay!!!!

Happy Birthday Ryan and Reagan!

Edna's girls had their Birthdays On December 20 and January 9!

This is a video of Ryan quoting "Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas" Absolutely hilarious. And if you don't get it...you need to netflix that movie! And then you will KNOW it's hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8dzWJtME3Q - check this out...just the first few seconds to compare Ryan to the actual character...which right now I of course can't remember his name!

Happy Birthday Girls!

Random

I have rediscovered how good these are:

And how much my kids love these for breakfast:

And Chris reminded me that she looks like Steve from Blue's Clues:

Baby.....

Linsey and Dean were over at our house this last week. Taylor loves to see the baby. Well they left behind a pacifier which Riley and Taylor found. Taylor immediately pointed to it and said "baby" and put it in her mouth. Of course when I wanted her to take it at 3 months old she wouldn't, but now at 20 months she wants to have it. I let her have it long enough for me to take this picture and then put it up. Although this last week she had an ear infection and wouldn't take her medicine, so I got the "baby" and let her suck on it while I put medicine in her mouth so she would swallow it! Most of me is annoyed by this, but a small, small part of me thinks its cute, mainly because it means she's still my little baby!

Craft Project

Before Linsey had her baby, she and I picked something we wanted to get done. She wanted to do a Car Seat Cover and I wanted to do a topiary tree. So I made her car seat cover and she made my topiary tree. We brought all of our supplies and got to work! Linsey punched all of the circles out and individually glued and tacked each circle onto that styrofoam ball with a brad. I know there are over 100 circles on there, but don't have an exact account. At a much later date, I painted the pot and the dowel black and added a ribbon. For the pot I used some floral styrofoam to hold the dowel in place with some glue and then used white and black river rock to hold it in place. I need to mix up the river rock a little more. And then tied a white ribbon around it. I feel like it needs something else, so any suggestions are welcome!

I was super happy with the paper! I used a damask, a circle, a black with gray pinstrip, and a flower paper for my project. I think it was a good mix and I love it! Thanks Linsey for your help! You'll have to check out her blog sometime for pictures of the car seat cover. I'm sure she'll be posting them.

Merry Christmas!

Christmas was busy, crazy and fun! Just like all of our family activities. Paul's family was all here, and most of mine was in Yuma as well. Which makes ALL of our holidays quite hectic! So we started Christmas Eve at the Nelson's House. We did our own re-enactment of the Nativity Story, complete with Samuel the Lamanite (thanks to President Eyring, I'm sure there were a lot of families who were throwing aluminun foil rocks at their Samuels!) Riley was Mary and then Hunter played a dual role with Joseph. Our baby Jesus didn't have a manger, but he did have a shoe box! That works!

Taylor was just excited to jingle a jingle bell! She's a natural!

Then Santa took some time out of his busy schedule of delivering presents and stopped by. It took Hunter some time to want to get on Santa's Lap, but refused to tell him what he wanted. He just kept saying that we had mailed him a letter. Riley had a death grip on Grandma and wanted nothing to do with Santa AT ALL! And you can see how Taylor felt about it! She wasn't the only grandchild who felt this way!

After Santa left, we headed up to my mom's house and Santa was just leaving there. Poor Chris missed the whole thing because he had to run to the store.

Here is a picture of the grandkids, Taylor and Kyle are missing. Taylor didn't want to sit on anyone's lap, and Kyle wasn't in Yuma yet. We enjoyed some tamales! Yum! Then headed home! I of course was the one that woke up at 4am wanting to wake up the kids. Paul told me to go back to sleep. Then I got up at 6am and Paul told me to go back to sleep. Then at 7:30 he said I could go get them ! Yay! I was much more antsy then they were!

Here is what Santa brought the girls! Taylor sat in the car and just watched us open presents! She wouldn't get out! She loves it!

Hunter got all the things he asked for! Including his Nintendo DS and the Nerf Gun that shoots 3 darts per second and has a 25 dart ammo belt! (He recites the commercials for everything he wanted!) Riley got some more princess stuff and was happy!And this is what I got! I have been wanting a gemstone ring for some time now. I think they are just so cool! Paul totally surprised me and got me the one I wanted! Yay! I just have to get it sized now. Thanks Paul! Don't worry, Paul didn't do so bad himself!

Edna and Chris got us this picture of the temple that I have been wanting for over a year! I LOVE it so much. If you aren't familiar with his work, check it out! His name is John Raymond and I just love his work.

And to the rest of our families and friends that got us gifts....Thank you So much!

Christmas was fun! And I'm sad that it's all done. Riley literally cried when we took the tree down. And cried even more when we took the outside lights down. She wanted to know why Christmas had to be over. I wondered the same thing! Merry Christmas!