It's a miracle!

Hannah said to me tonight, "Mom, we can't go to bed yet, we havent read the scriptures!" I'm not sure if this was an evil plot to stay up late or if she sincerely wanted to read the Book Of Mormon Stories. I didn't mind staying up with her to read.

When Hannah went to nursery at church there was no looking back on her part. She saw the toys and all the friends to play with and went in without a hitch. Then it was time to move into the Sunbeam class. With her December 26th birthday she was literaly the "littlest sunbeam." This didn't go over very smooth, she was supposed to sit and listen to a lesson, sing primary songs and pay attention to talks that were being given. Well, to put it nicely, she's been a devil child for the past 3 years. When we are in the car I'll slip in the primary songs, once she figures out what is playing she yells, "NO CHURCH SONGS!" Our home teacher, who is so awesome at trying to keep the kids' attention, always asks Hannah questions and she responds, "NO CHURCH QUESTIONS!" If you think that is bad try saying family prayers with us. It is always a struggle with Hannah.

A few weeks ago Hannah said to me (on Friday night,) "Mom I don't feel good, I can't go to church tomorrow. I proceeded to tell her, "That's OK you don't have to go to church tomorrow." Her eyes were as big as silver dollars. She was so excited! Daniel and I started laughing so hard. I can't believe that at such a young age these little ones can try to decieve and manipulate as well as they know how.

I'm not sure why she has had a change of heart but I like it. Hannah has decided that she can say the prayers on Sundays and Wednesdays (short days at school,) and we have recently added Fridays into the mix. Our lesson for Family Home Evening was a breeze this week a quick thinking mom hurried and put together a FHE lesson on none other than PRAYER. My prayers have been answered, my sweet baby girl finally is enjoying church and the gospel.

Forget a Day for Doctors, Try a day for MEETINGS!!!

Today was a day for meetings for mom! Oh my what is a gal to do? I started my day off with a 7:30am Ward Council meeting, Scarament at 9:00am and of course the rest of the 3 hour block, 12:45 YW Pres. Meeting and finished off the day with a fireside of the descendants of Joseph Smith at 7:00pm. Which might I add was wonderful, (see journal entry)

What happened to Sunday being a day of rest? :) Yesterday I went to our Stake Enrichment Day at the Stake Center with the keynote speaker being Pamela Hansen, the author of Running With Angels, a great book about her triumph over obesity and the physical stress of raising children with major health challenges. Anyway, after her talk about how to deal with the stress, the Lords way, President Case talked about dealing and coping with the stress that comes with church callings. He said the it's OK once in a while to take a break and forget about a meeting you have scheduled. Don't beat yourself up if you missed it, there will be another one along soon to take it's place:) Cute words by our adorable Stake President, and on that note, Bishop Allen, whose wife just added a baby girl to their all boy family last Wednesday, said, "After this meeting (Ward Council at 7:30 this morning) I'm going home to fix breakfast for my lovely wife and kids and enjoy the day with them." I thought that was such a neat idea...so many times in our lives we find ourselves needing to fulfill everyone elses needs before our own and our families. In the next 50 years it won't matter who was the Bishop or Young Women's President, what matters most is what we are doing with our own families now that will affect them in the future. I need to remind myself that my little ones are only little once...and now I've got to go listen to my Hannah (6) and Hailey(6mo.) singing together! Ah..the life of motherhood!

A Day for Doctors

What a day! Our little family has been in the various Doctor offices around town. First, at 9am Dan went in for his 3 month AC1 blood test, then at 10am Jake was scheduled to have his stitches removed. After that Dan and Hannah went off to the eye doctors to fix her glasses.....AGAIN! A fun lunch for mom with Jessica at Don Pedros then to finish the afternoon up with the whole family to the dentist. Whew...thank goodness for insurance!

Dan has a chipped filling and the rest of us are great. No cavities. Which is truly amazing. I have a mouth full of fillings, crowns and a few root canals. Ever since I can remember, I've never gotten out of the dentists chair without another appointment to be scheduled to fill a cavity. I'm not sure why but it's been years since I have had a cavity. Between braces (twice) crowns, root canals, retainers, bleaching trays and the countless cavities, I would have to say I have at least a $10,000 smile...and to tell you the truth, it's really not that great! But for now I'll live with it!

More Pictures of Jake

Mr. Dancing Pants

Well it happenend....I said 10 little words that I wish I could take back. "Stop dancing in the shower! You'll crack your head open!"

Saturday night Jake was dancicng in the shower and then, of course, only because I said it, in the Emergency Room.

I called Dr. Doug to get the family special, surgery at the kitchen table, unfortunately he was out with Search & Rescue looking for a snowmobiler. One quick call to tho BEST babysitter in the world, Elisa, and we were off for a fun evening in the ER getting stitches on Jakes right eye.

Having had stitches last March on his toe,with 3 adults holding him down, I knew trying to get him to hold still while the doctor stitched his eye was not and option. Jake would need to be put out, and so the fun begins!

They gave him Ketamine, an anaesthetic used for concious sedation. It knocked him out right away and Dr. Haderlie went to work. 1 big stith inside and 3 on the outside and 5 minutes later he was finished. Ketamine or Special K as the drug addicts call it, causes hallucinations and no wonder why they like it. Jake came to quickly and handeled it well (they tell parents to expcet the worst, spitting, eyes rolling back into the head, shaking etc.)

After about 30 minutes of him being totally concious, Jake looked straight into my eyes with his big blue eyes and said in the sweetest little voice, "You have 4 eyes!" So, so funny!!!!

An hour and a half later we were ready to go home. I tried to pick Jake up and he pulled a Brighton..."the limp noodle." Augghhhh...I almost dropped his little 40 pound body on the hospital room floor, needless to say, Dan carried him to the car.

We had to stop at the store for some Tylenol. While I ran in to the store, Dan and Jake stayed in the car. Dan said that Jake had told him, "Daddy, there are 3 of you." My poor little 4 year old boy, all drugged up and no where to go.

The whole experience was quite entertaining, however, it's not something I would want to do again.

The Dr. gave instructions to wake Jake every hour through the night to check on him, mostly to sure he is breathing normal. Under normal circumstances this is one of the requirements as outlined in the "so you want to be a Mom handbook" and any other night waking every hour wouldn't be a problem, however this particular night it was.

You see, I was just called to be the Young Womens President of our ward and Sunday morning, with 9:00 church and well, with any other Sunday morning, having spent the previous night at the Er and being pretty much awake all night, I would have just skipped church and stayed home with Jake. Nope! I could't do it! I sure wished I could have but I could't! I had too many resposibiliteis on my plate. So sleepy eyed and stressed out off to church we went.

Speaking of Young Womens, my second counselor, Mardee, who I totally love, said last week, "Watch out! There is a curse that comes with big callings." Dang her!

Hailey

Ok here we go......well maybe!

Yahoo....blog time

Wow! What a fun idea! Can't wait to getting the blog on!