Pure Infuriation

Just when I think all incompetence has all but left the building. I have a day like today. LOUSY!

So I take Eva to the Dr today to have a normal checkup and get caught up on her shots. While there the Dr is taking a little longer than she normally would listening to Eva's Chest. quickly followed by Oh yeah you can really hear that Murmur.

"WHAT?!?!?!"

What Murmur are you talking about.
The Dr replying oh you know the one they found when she had all of her scopes done and stuff.
I don't know anything about what you are talking about
Well sure.....well you should the reports sent to me said that Eva is being treated with medicine and routine checks.
ME.........Well If I don't know about it she isn't being treated and I can say she isn't being treated.

Can you believe this nonsense

They have known since April that she has needed treatment and I had no idea. So the Dr says well you need to go right a way for an ECO and we will go from there.

Placing call...........................................................................................................................................

scheduler on the phone

oh....you mean your daughter is under 5!?!? Well we can't do that unless she SEES a cardiologist first.
What?!?! So needless to say of course you can't get in all the easily. So Eva will not be seen until January and then they will schedule the ECO.

Seriously WHAT THE CRAP!
If it is not one thing it soooooooo another. Especially with the health of the kids. They get over one thing or they are at least being treated for it and then you find another t hing.....
Am I just paranoid so I ask the DR about every little thing and that's why we know about all the health problems. I don't think so, my kids are genuinely under the weather. Nothing exaggerated there.

New Blog

Well ladies I just wanted to let you all know I have started a new blog!
www.nogreaterhonor.blogspot.com
It's all about trying to look past the monotony of the daily grind and finding joy in the small accomplishments. I'm making it private as to not have my mommy moments all over the internet, but I would love to have you all as readers. Leave me a comment with your email or facebook me a message.

Love to all my Bestie's

One Loooonggg Update!

Well, on my last post Morgan had just celebrated his 3rd birthday and I had just celebrated my 4th Mothers Day! Can you believe I have been a mother that long. Some don't know this but Morgan was born exactly 10 months to the day that Jake and I were married. The Lord had a higher calling for us and a much better plan than we did, and blessed us to get pregnant on Birth Control. Yes you read that one right. Morgan is .01% and I'm Fertile Myrtle. Anyway, Morgan was born 4 days before Mother's day, 13 days before his Papa's birthday, 22 days before my 21st birthday, and last but not least exactly 2 months before our 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! It's been a Wild Ride but it's been fantastic with every single twist, turn or bump in the road we wouldn't have it any other way. The Lord truly knows best and in this case better than we did.

Memorial Day weekend we took a day trip to Moab to Celebrate my Dad's birthday. Moab is a little more than half way for us all to meet and have fun in between our big trips to and from Arizona. It was a blast. Papa was not expecting a birthday surprise, but he got it. We went to a new Restaurant instead of our usual ZAK'S. It was absolutely amazing and they had the biggest variety of food. Then off to the park to play with the Dog(my parents caboose baby) and the surprise cake.

Morgan chose a hunter shooting a deer with the inscription " Happy Birthday Mr Po-Dunk
" It's kind of an inside joke. Every year we put something other than Dad. This past year we had been making fun of my dad saying he was po-dunk and a red neck. "Not that there's anything wrong with that" as to quote Seinfeld.

J Man of course went back to Arizona with my parents for his vacay and had a blast.

June found itself eventful! The Toronto Family was spontaneous. Jake called in and took a last minute PTO day and we drove to Evanston, Wyoming. The four us had an absolute blast. Unfortunately, Jake and I found ourselves teaching "life lessons" on the side of the road when some cows decided to get frisky. Jake and I haven't ever taken a day trip just cuz it would be fun, the whole time we have been together. We always use our vacation to see grandparents.
So if you want to know where to go we'll tell you. There is an awesome Ice Cream shop in down town that does gourmet pretzels and sandwiches. The pretzels are topped with meats,sauces anything you can think of, and the whole shop is decorated vintage. Best of all it wasn't over priced, especially for being in a po dunk little town. There is a gorgeous Oriental garden, Train museum, and drive through park where they keep elk and the like for you to see from the car. On the way home we drove the long way and came home through the Uintah Mountains. It was amazing! We are hoping to plan a group camp out for next summer. The campgrounds were almost completely empty and seconds from lakes and streams. BEAUTIFUL!

THEN........ DUN DUN DUN

Jake caught SWINE FLU at work. The Toronto's were put on QUARANTINE! The kids and I didn't get it, but we all had to take Tamiflu anyway. I think it's because the kids and I get a Flu shot every year,but 135 dollars later the only one to have it was Jake.

Thankfully Jake was all better in time for us to go Camping 4th of July weekend with My parents in Arizona. It was the kids' first camp out. Morgan was in Heaven. We hiked everyday and went fishing. We played baseball, gathered firewood, went four-wheeling and played with the dog. Unlike Utah, Arizona has poison oak. So we spent a great deal of time telling the kids to stay away. When we got home guess who had poison oak. Nope it wasn't me. EVA! She never went near the stuff. All I can figure is Eva was sleeping with the dog and she had been running in it, and so she got it.

So home we came with one itchy Eva.

When we got back Jake and I celebrated our 4th wedding Anniversary!
This is Jake and I July 9th, 2005 in front of the Snowflake, Arizona Temple.

Our sealing was standing room only and this is a picture of everyone in our sealing.

We were so happy to FINALLY be married. We were married 1 year and a day from when we started dating. Luckily Jake was out of the state, but our 7 month engagement was rough. I'm so happy we made it and were married in the Temple. I'm also so happy we took the time to know everything about each other. Jake and I spent 9 of our 12 months in different states I'm so thankful that the Lord was still able to make us come together and be close with free nights and weekends. Yes the spirit works long distance!

Our yummy Cake! It was 6 layers of chocolate cake and fresh strawberry filling. My Favorite, and not traditional white cake or trendy.That's why I liked it so much.

As for August, I got a Blackberry! Jake has truly come to spoil me! I love it, Jake love's it. Seriously you can do anything with this phone. The best way to break in a new phone is go on yet another road trip. Can you tell we don't fly anywhere. hahah
So Jake's family had a reunion as well this summer. Every year the family picks a place to go to together. This year was Estes Park Colorado. Needless to say the bottom of Wyoming is a GOD FORSAKEN LAND! But it has cell service so I was able to Facebook, youtube, googlemap....surf the web listen to Pandora. It was amazing and it kept the Kids busy.

So here's a little preview of our trip to Colorado, and ill post more later.
Just before leaving town Jake had checked the fluids, but was going to put washer fluid in and just lightly closed the hood. The gas station was out of fluid so we decided to leave, no one remembering the hood.So as we are leaving town to drive through Provo Canyon  we're driving down 800 North in Orem when all of a sudden..........



Our hood FLEW OPEN!!!!

I seriously just about peed my pants. I was laughing so hard! So we couldn't get it to close, and yours truly SAT on the hood. I still can't keep from laughing every time it comes up....haha no pun intended. Mind you this is all happening right in the middle of the road. We decide hey we should try to open it again to see if we can. Just in case we have an emergency. THE HOOD WON'T OPEN! That's right. Jake is just staring at the car and I'm bent over laughing hysterically trying not to pee myself, and Morgan yells from the car "Not good Dad.....(shaking his head) Nope, NO BUENO." So I start to laugh harder. Jake just looks at me and says well let's go.Then on our happy way we went with no functioning hood. It stayed closed though!


The only excitement in driving across Wyoming is the thrill you get in seeing just how far you can drive on EMPTY and... Windmills. There is nothing for miles and miles and just as your car starts to chug from the lack of life juice it so desperately craves an exit comes into view. A safe haven of truck stops, "showers", and the call of a super sized Dr. Pepper with a side of Hostess.



Our little rendezvous was at a YMCA Camp. Have you ever heard of such a thing. Well it exists. Jake's parents rented cabins for us all to stay in. We were lucky enough to be the only family with a private cabin. We had quite the adventure. NO BATHTUB! Good thing I'm innovative. I made a Bathtub, and the kids thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread! It was a pain to fill and dump out but it was worth every giggle that came from the bathroom.
As you can see in the bathroom the water heater is exposed. Morgan went on and on about this for days, he kept telling me that we needed to find Papa and build a door.Ill post that video later. Hopefully we are just about caught up. Check in again this week to see if I have posted another Looonnnggg upadate

Proud Momma

I guess I will start with Morgan....

Morgan has been going to school and absolutely loves it. He's only been going for a little over a month and he is graduating with his class next week and then he will start summer school. Last week they did evaluations, and Morgan did better than several kids in his class. One of whom has been in the same pre-school level for 2 years.

Morgan knows and recognizes all but 5 letters, he knows all of his shapes and colors. It makes me really happy because, that means he learned all of that from being home with Momma. Before graduating they are having a big field trip, which Morgan is so looking forward to.

My baby is now 3! Can you believe it?!? I certainly can't. He's a sunbeam. I feel like I just had him and now he's 3. Which means 2 things. My birthday is in 2 weeks and 2 months til Jake and I celebrate 5 years together and 4 that we have been married.

The second he woke up he ran to the kitchen grabbed his cake, candles and matches. He made me light the whole thing up.I mean the WHOLE thing. Morgan put 23 candles on his cake. I couldn't hardly get my hand in there to light them all. The best part was most of them were trick candles. You should have seen his face when they wouldn't blow out. It was definitely hilarious.

He also did his Momma proud, when he at 10 pm the night of his birthday quoted his very first movie line.

"Take my body back, Harry"

This has to be one of the most quoted Harry Potter lines in our house. I was BEAMING!

J-Man as we like to call him, woke the other day and was telling me all about a dream he had, had. When he's done he leans up on one hand, fake laughs and says " It was so Crazy Mom"

OH MY GOSH!

He is stinkin' hilarious.

The other day he told me I needed to take him to Grammy's house so that she could take him to see Rachel. Rachel is my sister and will be moving back to Utah next week. However, the best part is that he wanted me to drive him to AZ to my mom's house so she could take him the last 2 hours to see his Aunt. So I of course say no and informs me that it's just a ride. Another thing i've said coming back to haunt me.

Last but not least on J-Man..... Jake has been in Vegas for 3 days now. Friday night I moved our mattress off of our bed and moved it to the living room floor for us to camp out. He has had an absolute blast camping out with me. He keeps telling me every night before bed "Daddy'll be back soon" Anyway, he had so much fun helping hold up the back end of the mattress while we hauled to and from my room. We laughed so hard.

Miss Evita, has quite the vocabulary now.

Mamo = Momo for morgan
nuna = Luna for moon
dinoso = dinosaur
bye
hi and hello
baby
daddy
LET"S GO
what's this
NO
I didn't
baba = bottle
choo choo
wow
whoa
dog
woof
wee = slide

She ceases to amaze me with how dramatic she can be about EVERYTHING! All girl! She loves her babies, and loves to hug and kiss them and to have me do the same. She so loves her brother and has finally reached a stage where she can kind of keep up with him on the playground. They love climbing the stairs and going down the slide on their stomachs.

Eva has no fear when it comes to the slide. Neither does Morgan. HE has started climbing the poles and shimmying across the equipment. Thank goodness for helath insurance. Im afraid this summer may be the summer that Morgan finally breaks an arm or a leg. I'm surprised we have made it this far without a cast.

As for me well I'm surviving. Jake has been gone for 3 days now and won't be back until late Tuesday night. I hate sleeping without him. Morgan doesn't take up enough of the bed.haha

I really don't I wake up a lot and I'm tired the next day. It's just blah. He to is ready to come home. Unfortunately he has to go to work on Wednesday, but at least it's a 3 day weekend.

So that's it my babies are growing up so fast, and are more and more fun everyday.

Look Mommy: Moroni, Star Wars!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jake and I have had a very busy month. Morgan spent two whole weeks in Arizona while Eva was busy with her tests. We've had some pretty rough spots since Morgan has been back. He has been very busy testing Mom's line of Defense. After three weeks he has found out the hard way that yes indeed the rules did not change while he was away, and he must behave.

He's also started back at school. Despite his age the teacher felt he should be in the older class. Morgan gets along great with everyone and his teacher Miss Whitney said "Mr. Popularity."

Morgan's been missing his Grandpa's, and asks everyday if we can "Go for a ride," that's what I tell him when we are going to be in the car for a while. He's also been obsessed with camping lately and is trying with all his might to get Jake to sleep in the Cabelas parking lot. The kids love Cabelas. It's one of Morgan's favorite places to have lunch with Daddy. Eva squeals every time we walk in the door. She loves the animals, and absolutely flips out when we walk through the fish tunnel.


Eva is definitely our Drama Queen. Half of the time you don't know how bad she is actually hurt, if at all. She just cries and cries and cries. But she is most definitely mine. She loves to shop. She loves clothes and shoes, the pretzel at the mall. Momma is in pure heaven with her little shopping baby.

We have been focusing a lot on Temples this month, just like last month. Eva for the first time this week said Temple as plain as day. We were so excited as we always are when she learns a new word. Morgan's been very concerned about not knowing what comes out of Moroni's trumpet.

OOOOPPPPSSS!!!!

I may have inadvertently started fake trumpeting the Star Wars theme song, and when he asked me the name of the song Moroni plays I said "Star Wars"

DUH!

So now Morgan tells people every chance he gets about Moroni and his Star wars playing trumpet. One day he will laugh about it I'm sure. Just goes to show how careful you have to be.

We have made progress with Eva. The Blessing of being stern with the Idiot Resident is that I get a personal phone call from the ENT every time a new result comes in.

Eva has Sleep Apnea. Which is good and bad. At least we have a starting point. When her scopes were done, structurally everything was fine. So it's odd that she has Apnea. However, this means that whatever is causing this is also causing the noise she makes during the day.

Right now we are waiting to discuss all of this with a pulmonologist where he will of course run more tests, but we will also decide whether or not surgery or an oxygen mask is the right treatment for the apnea. Unfortunately the ENT thinks that Surgery may be the way to go, since during her sleep study she had forced oxygen on her and her oxygen saturation was still really low.

SO the Toronot's are now LOST!!!!

I don't know who's crazy idea it was for us to start watching LOST, especially when we've never seen an episode. I'm sure it was mine,but Jake and I have seriously watched 2 SEASONS this week. No, you read that one right. We just started the 4th season last night at 11:30 and we have already seen 3 episodes.

Seriously, I think my obsession is getting to be sick. I can't stop with just one. I recommend it though. It never ceases to amaze me. So I guess it's official, we have broken the cycle and Jake and I now have an ABC show that we watch.

When we lived in Married housing we had all of these retarded stations between FOX and ABC that I would forget that anything decent was on past channel 13. Funny I know, but if you have ever experienced BYU cable you know exactly what it is I'm saying. We had something like 8 BYU TV stations. Two in English and the others were random languages. There was a station that played Japanese Soaps, which was funny cuz they aren't modern in any way, it's all very crouching Tiger. I think my favorite retarded stations were the LIVE FEED NASA channels, and a little thing I like to call the RAINBOW stations.

Yep more BYU TV in MORE LANGUAGES, except when there isn't anything they need to broadcast on ie. Conference then it becomes a Rainbow station, which is the beautifully colored striped screen playing BYU RADIO. Are we getting a theme here?

Anyway, the point is Jake and I are huge FOX people. I have watched Prison Break since the beginning I'm a diehard and I'm so sad it's ending in 4 more episodes. American Idol, HOUSE, Bones, Lie to Me, Hell's Kitchen, Prison Break. You name it and it's FOX we probably watch it, At least I do, well except that new retarded show DOLLHOUSE. BLAH, retarded, the commercials for that one from day one has said " I'm a guy show, skanky girls run around with no real purpose except for BOOBS to flop about"

Lucky for me Jake has no interest in watching other girls, run around. HAHAHAH I know Right!

Anyway, that's been our stress reliever around here, wish us luck on Finishing Season 4, I'm sure we will be watching Season 5 by the end of the weekend. Good thing Church isn't until 11.

The Positive Side

As many know, Eva had several procedures done today. We still won't know the results of her biopsies until at best the end of next week if not the end of April.

All day Eva has had a tube down her nose and into her tummy. They are limiting her eating which is also causing her to be both pissy and uncomfortable. Oh and on the way here our car broke down.

When it rains it POURS!

On the POSITIVE side. Eva has had her moments of chipperness, is sleeping fairly well for being checked every 30 minutes and was soothed to sleep tonight when we found a Grand Piano that you are allowed to play. Jake was rocking out Beauty and the Beast, and Jazzed up some hymns.

Eva will be having a Cystic Fibrosis test done in the morning and that's all we have for now.

Thanks to everyone who prayed for our Family

Love the Toronto's

I'm Not Touching You

Does anyone remember those Sunny D commercials where the brother and sister are picking on each other. The brother would hold his hand up or point his finger at his sister but be just far enough from not touching and he would say " Im not touching you"

Well Eva does this to Morgan. It's kind of funny. She holds her hand up in front of Morgan's face and he yells "don't" slaps her hand away. Eva starts laughing and just does it all over again. The whole time she's never actually touched him.

Another thing they've started doing is yelling at each other. Morgan we'll say "No it's mine" followed by Eva grabbing said item and yelling "NO" they'll go backandforth like that for one or two minutes before they both just burst out laughing.

These two seriously are out of control.

Surgery

A week from Thursday, Eva will be having surgery. I have no idea what I'm going to do. It seemed like April was forever away and now a week is going to just fly by.

Neither of our Moms is going to make it....so Jake is going to work from the Hospital, and Morgan will be playing with his Ipod touch.

I'm so nervous about the whole thing because, Eva is so little she has an extremely high chance of having her throat close off. All in all I just want to know what's going on. To finally have an answer,whatever it is will be so wonderful. It's so much worse not knowing.

All Grown Up

My baby is really not a baby anymore. Momma's Little Drama queen is getting bigger everyday. Eva Started saying Mama on Valentine's Day, which was a wonderful gift. She is now calling me "Mama" more and more.

Her conversations now consists of "ball," "Go," "NO," "Mo(morgan)"Ta-Da" and she also does this little attitude swagger with her head. I'll say to her,"Tell your Daddy" and she bobs her head back and forth (ie mmmmhhhmnnn) I'll post a video later if I ever catch her. The second you get the camera out she won't perform.

Her "Ta-Da" is Hilarious as well. That I know I can catch, because she gets so into it she doesn't even know your filming her.

Can we say Independent?!?!?!?!

Holy Cow she doesn't like with ANYTHING! If you pick her up. . .screaming and kicking. . . You tell her she can't do something. . . SCREAMING AND KICKING. . . then she BITES the closest person to her. Not just "ow she just bit me" NO we're talking the skin breaks and you bleed. She takes after her momma in that aspect. I was a huge Bitter.

My Baby Face is gone.....
The baby face is all gone. Just like Morgan she went to bed one night, and woke up looking like a toddler. She really is BEAUTIFUL. She is adorable on Sundays, she'll tilt her head to one side and give you this coy little smile. I don't know how we lucked out with suck cute kids.

Only two more months and both kiddos will be in Nursery. Can you believe it?!?! I can't! I think maybe part of my disbelief stems from the fact that when Morgan started Nursery I was a few months shy of having Eva. So, for the first time ever I'm not pregnant in the group of pregnant women. You know what I mean Right?!?! There's Always groups of pregnant people.

Also, we have friends and family that I seem to always be pregnant and due at the same time or shortly after, and everyone in the family and my friends have all just had babies. While two more have announced they are pregnant. Last but not least. I have now been NOT PREGNANT the longest amount of time since we have been married.

Funny, I know.

O Holy Sickness......

Is anyone else feeling the blows of seasons changing? We sure are. I feel like we start to get better and then it gets cold outside.....WE GET SICK......we start to get and then it's warm outside.........WE GET SICK

Now Eva has the most disgusting nose I have ever seen, thank goodness for vicks! seriously we bought this tiny little vapors fan that blows cherry menthol on Eva while she sleeps and it does wonders. She doesn't cough all night and she doesn't wake up all nasty crusty nose either.

I love the snow and winter, but as of late with all this dorky on again off again relationship we have been having with the cold front, warm front, highs and low pressures I could absolutely scream.

It needs to be spring. I'm ready for trips to the baseball field, Frisbee, ice cream shops and late night visits to the dollar theater.

"Momma, I Tink"

Alright, so I don't know if it's just my kid or any of you have experienced this stage, but Morgan is totally into giving his opinion. However it's never when he should give an opinion. For instance  the other night Jake warms up some frozen mixed vegetables for Miss Eva to eat. Don't worry we don't actually eat those, they are purely for Eva to snack on. Anyway, Morgan sees the green beans in the mix and says, so mater of factly, " Momma, I tink it's gross."

At this point I'm laughing hysterically, and so I say, " Really Morgan" Followed by Morgan,"Yes.......yes....... I tink it's gross Momma!"

With long pauses and head nodding. So now Morgan just walks around the house saying "I tink" about absolutely everything.

Our exciting news is not that I am pregnant but that I have now been not pregnant for the longest time since we have been married. Funny huh?!?!?! Also, Morgan so graciously taught his sister to raise her hands high in the air and say "Ta-Da" It's so cute.

Morgan is quickly moving past the train stage and tumbling head first into GI-JOES, yes they still make them. This week Morgan has added a GI-JOE helicopter to his Rambo collection. He is all boy that's for sure.

Speaking of pure happiness, the days are starting to get long and warm. In anticipation of spring Morgan has a new Green Kickball.

After church on Sunday, the kids played for hours on the patio with their chalk, trucks and folding chairs. The bummer is we are expecting a snow storm by the end of the week. Hopefully that comes and goes quickly.

So the Bad day continues.....

Let's just start with I don't think there is a clean sleeper in the house for Eva. Yesterday, Eva started pooping out of everything. Which with her is kind of an event that takes place on a usual basis. Often enough that you wouldn't relate it to her being sick.

Anyway, this morning at about 6:30 She wakes up because she pooped all over her bed, so daddy who gets up with her in the morning, cleans her up and puts her back to sleep. So Jake gets in the shower, and when he gets out she is screaming again, so he checks on her and she had puked all over herself.

So there it is. Two sick kids! All of Eva's sheets and blankets are nasty, and Morgan's car-seat from yesterday still needs to be taken apart and cleaned. BLAH! I am not a Vomit mommy. Seriously, most moms I think can clean up after there kids, when they are sick. I just can't I have the hardest time ever. I actually think part of that stems from my pregnancies.

I was always so sick while I was pregnant that I am just so sick of VOMIT. Then When I was pregnant with Eva, Morgan was still little enough that he couldn't tell you he was going to be sick and so he would just walk around vomiting. So add that to an already sick mommy and voilà, you have a mommy who absolutely  cannot clean up vomit without gagging big time.

SO pray for me, as I begin the enormous task of cleaning all of the puke covered clothes.YUCK!

Tag I'm it.....

 

1. When is your "engagement" anniversary: December 28, 2004

2.When is your "marriage" anniversary: July 9, 2005
3. How long have you known your spouse: 4 years 7 months 1 week and 4 days
4. How long did you date/court before you were engaged: well we met in July and we knew by September that we wanted to go in that direction. Then Jake came home for Christmas, we had our first kiss and we were engaged 3 days later. Yes, I'm that good of a kisser!
5. Where did you meet your spouse for the first time: Well it's the usual nothing to fancy. We met at summer institute. We both were home for the summer from school. My parents had moved to a new town so I didn't know anyone. Anyway, both us had gone back and forth about whether or not to even go that night. In fact I turned around like 3 times before finally going to Institute. Where Jake found me with a basket full of cookies, and well he was hooked.
6. What is your spouse's full name: I don't want to put his full name for security purposes
7. Do you have any children yet: Yes
8. How many: 2 one of each to be exact.
9. Do you have any house pets: nope unless you count Morgan the monkey. Who actually refers to himself in the third person as the monkey.
10. Do you own a house or rent: We rent a condo
11. Do you live in the country or town/city: a city but it feels more small town
12. What is one of your favorite activities together: Well we of course watch all of our tv shows together but our favorite is when the kids go to be and we can be in the quiet, we google chat across the house. Just like when we were dating 2 states away from each other.

13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot: well we would love to go to Dublin, Italy,jakes side is from there, Greece and mine is from there.
14. How many siblings (including in-laws): 8 total, Jake has 4 siblings, 3 are married, and I have a younger sister who is also single. so one sister and one brother still available!

15. What church do you attend: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
16. Is this the church you were married in: YES! We were married in the Snowflake ,Arizona Temple
17. What town is your current address: PG, Utah

18. Do you work or stay at home: Well it depends at how you look at it. I'm in school because everyday I am learning something new being a mom, and I work because I have a family to take care of in every way. I love being a MOM!
19. Where did you honeymoon: Albuquerque, NM  I know, But we had a blast. 
20: Leave a piece of marriage advice: Well, Just that the Prophets are right. Always,  Keep the Lord center, say your sorry, never go to bed angry, communicate, and be willing to consider feelings and opinions.

 

Now your supposed to tag 14 people so lets see

Justina, Ashley, Tiana, Amanda, Tiffany, Jenna, Liz, Sarah, tish, Melinda, kim, and anyone else I know it 's not 14 but its hard to think of everyone. hahah

Today, was not a good day....

 

Many of you know that my poor baby Eva, has had some throat problems since she was born. Well she has been seeing a specialist at Primary Children's for a couple of months now. Several tests have been and yet no Diagnosis.

So today, we make our weekly trek to the hospital to see her ENT. Pretty much all of you know how far that is. It's way up on the East Bench next to UoU. It takes at least an hour to get there speeding, another 20-30 minutes to park.

Anyway, we are like two whole lights from the Hospital and all of a sudden Morgan starts puking his guts out all over the place in the back seat. Meanwhile, I am trying to hold a bag up so he can be sick in the bag. No such luck I walked away with a puke covered hand.

Now for decision time. Do I a. call the Dr and try to reschedule, which is like next to impossible, or b. wipe as much puke off of Morgan and go inside. Well I chose the latter. And I guess it was the thing to do.

Back to the appointment. We finally get in the Hospital. I'm at the wrong clinic. Today, the Dr was working the clinic at University Hospital not Primary's. So off we trek the 20 minutes it takes to get through 2 Hospitals with 2 kids. Now it's finally time for the visit.

Last weeks test for striders came up inconclusive. So today we were going to discuss the next steps to take. So here it is.....

Eva has to spend 2 days at Primary's having 5 different tests run..... Here's the one that makes me want to cry. Eva is being tested for Cystic Fibrosis. Yes you read that right. I was like WHAT! But I guess it could be a real possibility.

So trekking through the Hospital with a puke smellin' kid was worth it. But then by the end of the day, and the ride home I felt so alone about the whole thing. No friends close by to cry with, no moms either. Jake at work. Just by myself with my poor pukey kid and my baby. So Jake will be taking the day or two off to help me at the hospital, and me, I am absolutely beside myself. I will for sure be staying with Eva in the Hospital. As for now it's just more worrying. Hoping for an answer.

I Know Right!?!?!?!

 

No, no one has died, but I'm sure you were all thinking the worst. So back by popular demand, the Toronto's will be blogging again. Thanks to all the nagging of my closest and dearest friends and Family.

All we need to do now is catch up on what... 5 months of our life. It's no small feat, but I think in time I will be able to single handedly remember everything that has gone on.

October....

The kids and I went to Arizona right after General Conference. It was a lot of fun, and my first trip driving the kids by myself. I would like to take the time and brag. I made it in 9 1/2 hours to my parents place. Which is what the ride should be, but in trips past it takes more like 12 or 13 hours with the kids and that's with Jake and I both going. So I was really proud of myself.

We were there for 2 weeks and had a blast. Time was filled with DIRT, fishing, playing with Papa's dog Bailey, visits with Great-Grandparents, playing in Grandpa Rogers garden, good food and lots and lots of helping hands. Jake drove down with my sister at the end of our trip to drive back with me. Morgan, of course rode back with his Aunt, where they danced the trip away, listening to my sisters favorite RAP music. We'll just say that Morgan loves to "Get Down."

Seriously, My sister has taught Morgan how to throw peace signs (cool) he does the whole "sup" thing, gangster walk and now he can "drop it like it's HOT"

Halloween was of course a Blast. Morgan went as a Football player complete with black eye and bloody nose. Eva was a Skunk, I went as a witch and Jake wore tattoo sleeves. First we trick or treated at Jake's work and then of course we hit a good ole fashion TRUNK or TREAT. The kids seriously made out which means Jake and I made out with about a ton of candy.

Last but not least Morgan completely potty trained in like 2 weeks time. Once it clicked it just clicked. Honestly, though the best thing was just sticking him in "panties" that's what Morgan calls them. Pull ups just gave him the excuse to be lazy about going in the toilet. So if he didn't "feel like it" he would just pee on himself and then bring me a new one and say "change please."

November....

I love the fall and November was definitely Fall. It started getting nice and wintry around these parts.The weeks passed quickly and  we had a huge Thanksgiving with our friend Tiana. Tiana's Husband works out of the country a lot and so Thanksgiving it was just her and the kids. So we crashed the party so to speak. It was so fun. We of course played Guitar Hero World Tour, and ate until the button on our pants would pop.

December....

Eva had the first of many appointments to come with a specialist for a throat problem she has had since birth. The Doctor thought she would grow out of it, but it just hasn't gone away. So we now have to drive to Primary Children's, here's to this years tax write off's.

Then My mom came to town. She helped with preparing for Christmas and Eva's Birthday. We had a ton of snow and it even snowed on Christmas! Morgan was so excited, this year was the one where "Santa" finally clicks. There was total awe and excitement over Santa wrapped presents, bows, and lights. Morgan just loved everything and of course wanted everything put together and batteries put in right away. I think his favorites were new "panties" that bike you hook up to the tv and it's like a video game, and his huge Fire truck. Eva loved and still loves all of her new dolls and she is such a girly girl. She doesn't like being dirty and she loves to be dressed up.

The Day followed with Christmas Ham, potatoes, sweet potatoes, lots and lots of GRAVY ,squash , rolls, corn, green beans and about million pies.

The 26th....

More Ham.........

Conveniently the day you want to shop the sales and return things my sister had her wisdom teeth removed. Making the next few days a lot of fun. We immediately took everything Christmas down. So as not to run the Holiday into Eva's Birthday. We want her birthday to still feel like a birthday and not like it get's lumped in with Christmas. So everything came down and it was time to prepare for the BIRTHDAY!

27th....

Eva turned 1! Holy Cow I know! My most Recent baby has already been a blessing in our home more than a year now. I feel like I just had her and its still 2 Christmas' ago. So Eva turned 1 and took her first steps on her big day.

Jake and I then packed the kids up and drove to Arizona to spend New Years with his Mom and Dad, His sister and her family were also in town from Manhattan. It was total chaos and of course a total blast.

Kids were everywhere and in to everything at all times. It's never a vacation when we go home because both sides live in the same little town. So time is split and it's hard to split. We went Sledding with both sides, did family name sealings at the the Snowflake Temple. Which is the Temple Jake and I were married in. Worked on the computers. Everyone always has a computer question when we go home and so much more. We seem to just be running around the whole time like chickens with our heads cut off and then the trip is finally over and we drive home exhausted.

January....

The First week we were still in Arizona. The best part was when we got back Jake had a 3-day weekend right a way.  So we were able to catch up a little. Eva started completely walking on her 13 month birthday, and  Morgan taught Eva how to GROWL. That's right, growl. The best part is when we are the store and they are sitting in the back of the cart together and they start growling back and forth. OMG it's frackin' hilarious.

February....

Has gone off with a bang! I had Red peek-a-boos put in my hair, Eva started drinking from a straw and on Valentines Day Eva said " mum" for the first time.

Valentines was so much fun, we had a blast together without the kids. Lots of truffles!

And so today we had Sunday dinner at Jake's Aunt's house, where another one Jake's siblings was in Town to ski. So we all got together. Again chaos, but fun!

One of Jake's cousins is a Song writer. Really she is. A lot of famous singers have paid for her songs. Anyway, she was telling us tonight about a really heartfelt and emotional story about one of her newest songs.

After Heath Ledger died, she really felt impressed to write a song for his daughter and it is absolutley beautiful, and the best part is she was actually able to present the song to Michelle Williams. SO I wanted you all to see and hear the video that she made and put on Youtube. Enjoy and I promise you'll stay updated!