Surprise, Surprise!

It has been eon's since I posted last. My excuse was Landon's on a mission.
I had to write him a weekly letter so I used that as "my family journal". Isn't that good enough? I have a 2 year history. Well that is now over and I ran out of excuses. Our family has gone through many changes. Landon leaving now home. Macie graduating and moving to Utah, then coming home, than moving up there again, and now coming home again to get ready to go to the Valley in a few months after she saves up some Denero. Brayden has out grown me and is shooting up so tall. He is going to be huge if you look at his feet. They look like a rats foot, very long and skinny. I will have to post a picture, if I can catch him when he's not looking. Jaxten is the little one and drives us all to a point we feel insane. (yes we do love him) most the time.
We have enjoyed having Landon home. It is kind of weird having all our children under one roof again. It's also strange to not pray for Landon's missionary efforts but now have change to praying for all missionaries again. I can't tell you how much his mission has helped our family. We all loved it so much. It really did bless us. I know this because the first week he was home the dryer broke, I was overdrawn in my bank account and the t.v. when on the fritz! I had friends warn me that this would happen. I guess we were blessed that our junk would keep working while he was out. I guess we can look forward to Brayden going in a few years.
I would post lots of pictures of his arrival at the airport if I had any. My camera was turned on by accident for a day and when I pulled it out the battery light was flashing. Maybe some of those that were there will share with me.
We waited for Landon to open our Christmas presents on the 31st of Dec. It was the best Christmas ever! It was weird waiting. I thought maybe it wouldn't feel real but it was even better. I am kind of lazy right now so I will post pictures soon.
All I wanted to really say is "I'm back to the posting world" and I need to work on this so I can created a "fabulous" book for our generations to come will be impressed with there great-great grandmother's
family history skills. Maybe I can fool them!!

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Macie goes to Prom ~ Jaxten and Rachel go to the Zoo, not in it!

It has been forever since I posted anything. We haven't fallen off of the face of the Earth, I promise. This past week has been a fun and exciting week. Jaxten and I went to Albuquerque and stayed at my cousin, Donna's house. We had such a good time with her, Louis and Tanner. I was able to spend two weeks in a row seeing her. She came up here and I went to dinner with her and then we stayed with her and visited. We just don't see enough of family in the winter time. I'm glad summer's almost here. People start to get out more. Jaxten and I went to the Natural History and Science Museum with his 2ND grade class. I'm glad we drove in our own car. It was a little crazy with 40 2ND graders running around. The Museum was great. Jaxten had been there before but was to little to remember. I took lots of pictures but on one of those little disposable cameras because I forgot mine. I payed big bucks for it at the Gift shop, I guess I'll learn to bring mine the next time.

Jaxten was impressed with the HUGE DINOSAUR, I was too. I can't believe those things roamed the Earth. WOW, I'm sure glad their gone....or we would be goners!! :o)

We then grabbed some lunch and headed to the Zoo. It was a cold and drizzly day but we were still able to have a good time. Albuquerque really has a nice little Zoo. Jaxten's favorite was the Polar Bears, and I loved the Sea Lions. We enjoyed all of the animals, although we didn't get to see the Gorillas or Orangutans. It was cold and they were all hiding out. It was a nice trip just being able to have some one on one time with each other.

Macie was asked to her Senior Prom. She has this friend, Collin Burnham that asked her a year or so ago. He told her after he turned 16 he wanted to ask her to Prom and he did. He is so sweet. She prepared weeks ago, you know how girls are. She went with her friend Jennifer to the Valley and they found the perfected dresses. It took them all weekend I was just glad Jennifer's mom was the one that did all the shopping. She said it wore her out! The girl's (Macie's friends) all went to Show low and had their nails done. Then it was eyebrows waxed and all the other stuff; hair, make-up. Boy it's a lot of work and money for one night but it sure was worth it. They looked like Princesses. So beautiful. All the Mom's helped the Girl's get ready at Jen's house. It was fun to help get our Girl's all dolled up . Then the time had come, the arrival of the boys. They looked sharp!! What a bunch of good looking kids. I just wanted to stare at them. Plus all that money....WOW! I told them I could have gone on a Cruise with as much as they spent. I guess Prom is once in a lifetime so it's worth it. They all had a wonderful time.



Landon is doing so good. He has 8 more months and the time is quickly winding down. I can't believe it. He said he might get to go back to one of his area's he was first in. I hope so.



Bunny our dog got into the Porcupines again. She will never learn!! I took her to the Vet this time and he sedated her. He also gave her a couple of shots and by the time I got out it was $175.00. I couldn't believe it. I think I'm gona put some fruit out and started baiting and killin' me some porcupines...(Say it like a REDNECK Rancher) I's bout had it with them SKUNKS and PINES. Somethin's gona die round her pruty quick like! Dog or Varmints...it's between the twos of them!!



Jaxten is starting little league baseball. UGH! He has practice 3 times a week and I have to just sit and wait. That's the hard part about living away from town. Brayden was into Track, well for about 2 weeks and then he was done with it. I was just fine with that! School will soon be out. I just can't WAIT for Summer break...if ya know what I mean. (I'm being Sarcastic)

So that's the grand up date. I feel a lot better, I'm a believer in Vitamins and Iron...it does a body good. I don't want to be old before I'm old. So take you VITAMINS ya all.....

It's Alarming

Don't you just hate mornings? I was laying in bed and couldn't sleep. I try but I just can't. I'm thinking of all the things that need to get done and all the things that aren't done. Soon, all too soon, the Alarms will start going off. First Bart's at 5:00, then Macie's at 5:10. She has to be to School at 6:30 and has to leave the house by 6:00. Then my Alarm at 5:45 to wake me up enough to wake the boys up. Then Brayden's goes off at 6:00 and it takes him and Jaxten about 10 minutes to roll out of bed with my pleading or errr, yelling. Then the phone rings, it's the bus driver to check and see if the boys will be on the bus at 6:38. I tell you it's enough to keep someone awake in the middle of the night, oh yeah, that's me. Now what time do I need to get started again..??? 5, 6, oh heck I think I'll just stay in bed.

I need some get-up and GO!

I think I had people thinking I'm the most laziest person in the world, well at least my kids. Then I started thinking it myself. I just couldn't get anything done...you know the dreaded house cleaning and all the mom stuff my life entails. I couldn't ever vacuum my floors with out stopping and resting. That's when the light bulb or more like a flood light hit me between the eyes. I thought "Something is not right in my body." I feel like a 40 year old in a 70 year old body and my brain is more like an 80 year old. I just couldn't shake this worn out feeling. I finally get my lazy bones to the Dr. and they run all the fun test and come back that I am extremely anemic. The Dr. asked me how I'm even getting out of bed. I admitted that I usually don't until afternoon. She said that she was surprised I'm even getting out at all. The Dr. says that I'm losing blood some where in my body and they have to find out where. I really am not to worried and I'm a huge worrier. Maybe I'm too tired to worry. No really, I feel like they will find what's going on and it will be corrected. It's just a matter of the right test.
I guess I don't have enough blood pumpin' in this body of mine. I have to do a few more test before I can start taking the Iron my body needs. I can't wait to take it so I can start to feel alive again. I was talking to a friend and she said "If your kids were sick and feeling run down wouldn't you get them to the Dr.?" and I know I would first thing, then she said "Then why won't you get yourself there?" and she's right. Why do mom's wait until an anvil drops on us? I could have started feeling better a while ago. So what I'm saying is...Us Mom's are important too. I can see what my job is in this family and when I'm down...everyone is OUT! I have also learned empathy for people who have chronic illness and don't feel good all the time. Health is a blessing not just something we pray about in our prayers. It truly is something to be thankful for...I know I will be when I start to feel better again.