The big game night!

Last night we took the kids up to our favorite restaurant in SLC, the Skybox. It's a sports bar so we thought it would be the perfect place to watch the big game Utes vs BYU. Luke was so excited about the big game he was completely worn out just driving up to SLC.

This is the whole Family at the Skybox. The place was packed!! And mostly all Utes fans. We were nervous when we got there and they asked us if we made a reservation. We told them no, but put our names of the waiting list anyways. We waited the first quarter in their game room and watched the game from in there, then to our surprise they told us they had a booth ready for us. Thankfully someone didn't show up for their reservation and we got their table. It was so much fun!! Great food and very loud screaming fans, I came home with a very sore throat from screaming so much! We did have to cover Cody's eyes from time to time though. We had some pretty drunk fans in front of us and every time the Utes did something good the girls would rub their boobs in the guys faces they were with. Of course the place was so packed I don't think Cody would of even seen it, but Clay and I didn't want him to get the chance! Luke loved it when the crowd would start singing chants like, "Way to go Utah, way to go". He would stand up on his bench and sing it right along with them. Of course, when ever I went to take his picture he would get mad at me, so I didn't get one.

By the end of the game, with the Utes killing BYU, the place was so loud you couldn't talk to anyone because they couldn't hear you! It was such a great night, so much fun watching the game with the kids and cheering for our Utes! Now off to the bowl game!!!! BTW, did you notice Cody's shirt? He finally came around and it made me cry tears of joy!!

My broken family

Today was Rival Day at the boys school. Cody went as a Cougar and Luke stayed true to the family and dressed like a Ute.

The school will pick the best dressed Ute and cougar. It's possible that we could take both.

Cody did promise me that he will dress like a Ute next year, just to make me feel better, I guess.

Funny Sayings!

My Luke is so funny sometimes that I need to write everything down so when he is older he will be able to read about the crazy things he said as a child. Luke has always loved to cook with me when ever and what ever I have to be making. His favorite is of course my chocolate chip cookies. I swear he knows the recipe by heart and he helps me mix all the ingredients. He actually is good at cracking eggs and putting the ingredients in the Kitchen Aide. Last night he came into my room and begged me to make some cookies for him, so of course I couldn't refuse. He got all the ingredients out for me and helped me mix it all together. While we were making the cookies Luke told me "mom when I get to be a teenager I want to become a chef". I told him that I thought he would make a wonderful chef. He then went on to say "And when I become a chef I want to work.......at McDonald's, maybe Subway".

This is of course Luke's favorite part of cooking, the taste testing!After the cookies were done I got out a few clothes I had bought the boys yesterday while I was shopping with my mother and Melinda. I found this sweater vest and thought it would be cute for Luke to wear for Church around Christmas time. Luke loved it and had to put it on imediately. He did have a shirt on but he took it off, not knowing that it is supposed to be worn with a shirt underneath it. He went around the house dressed like this, with his vest and boxers on only. It made me laugh so hard I had to take a picture with him like this.

Dinner with the Family

Last night my parents and brother came up from Cedar City so we all met up for dinner together. We went to Texas Road house, which is one of my favorite restaurants. They have the best food and even better entertainment. They play Keith Urban and Rascal Flatt's the whole time!!:)

It was a fun night being able to catch up with everyone, hearing what's new and making fun of David's mustache!
My parents will be in town all week and on Weds. I get to meet up with my mom and sister Mel again, to do some shopping all day, no kids!

Super Saturday

Today was our Super Saturday for my ward and all I can say is, what a great way to spend a Saturday! While I was gone for five hours making my fun projects, Clay was at home with the kids cleaning out the basement! By the time I got home it was all clean and organized and I didn't have to do any of it!! Here are the pictures of the things I made...

The last one says Christ-the reason for the season, just in case you can't read it.

I just wanted to update Cody real fast for everyone- he is doing fine and even went back to school on Friday with no problems. He was really nervous about standing up on his own because the last time he did that he did a face plant on the floor. So a few days after the seizure I took him out grocery shopping with me and forced him to walk around so that he could get his confidence back. He did just fine and the next next day was back in school. Thanks to text messaging everyone at school knew what had happened and I think Cody really enjoyed all the extra attention he got from everyone.

Now I'm going to go enjoy the rest of my Saturday with my husband. We are going to see the new James Bond movie today. Clay and I are both really excited to see this one!

Scary Moment

This morning started out just like every other school morning. I got all the kids off to school, except Cody who is still home with Strep throat. I decided not to shower right off because I wanted to clean the house and I knew I would get all sweaty from that, so I put it off. A few hours later Brittany called from school asking me to come pick her up because she wasn't feeling good either. I got back from picking Brittany up and Cody asked if he could make himself a cup of hot chocolate. I told him sure and then went back to vacuuming the house. I heard a loud crashing noise and yelled out to Cody "what happened". I thought he might of dropped his cup of hot chocolate. He didn't respond. I yelled at Brittany to see if she knew what was going on and she didn't respond either. She was up in her room and didn't hear me. I turned off the vacuum and went into the kitchen to see what was up. I found Cody lying face down on the floor of the kitchen. I ran over to him, turned him over and noticed he was hard as a rock. His arm was up above him head and I tried to pull it down and couldn't. His eyes were open but they were rolled back into his head. I started screaming at him but he didn't respond to me. I ran for the phone and started screaming for Brittany to come downstairs. I called 911 and had Brittany call Clay and tell him that something was wrong with Cody. By then, Cody came around and was screaming in pain. I carried him to the couch and tried to get him to talk to me. The 911 operator kept me on the phone until help arrived. When the paramedics got there they checked out Cody and reassured me he was going to be alright. They told me that they were pretty sure he had had a seizure but they didn't know why. His blood pressure was pretty low when they checked him out, but besides that he was fine. They told me to call me doctor and ask him what he wanted me to do. He told me to bring Cody in as soon as possible. So we took off for the Dr. office, where Clay meet up with us. The Doctor told us it's most likely he had a seizure due to his strep. When kids get sick there blood pressure can drop quickly and that is probably what caused Cody to have his seizure. He still will be tested to make sure this isn't anything more serious. But he is home now, resting and enjoying all the attention he is getting from everyone!
You can't see it really well in this picture but Cody has a pretty sweet goose egg on his forehead where he hit his head when he feel down. It's spreading to his eye now, so by tomorrow he should have a nice black eye to go along with his goose egg!

Brittany just sent me this picture she took on her cell phone right after we got back from the Doctors office. You can see his goose egg really well in this picture! I don't kow why he looks so crazy in it. The fall must of done some brain damage! :)

Well I can't say I'm sad this last week is over and done with. Clay hardly travels for his work, so I really shouldn't complain to much, but he was gone all last week in Canada. I was sick with a cold that I thought was the flu, since I was all achy and really weak, but my doctor told me that those are all the signs of just a cold. I had to go back to the doctors because my ulcer isn't healing like I thought it would. I found out that my ulcer was caused because I take Excedrin for my migraines, a lot of Excedrin. When she told me I couldn't take it any more I had to go around and find all of the places I keep it so that I could throw it all out. Here is where I found it all...my car, my purse, my night stand, my medicine cabinet and my bathroom cabinet.
Towards the end of the week Cody started getting a cold and a terrible cough. I kept him home for only one day because he seemed to be getting better. On Saturday he started to feel warm so we gave him some Motrin and thought that would be good enough. But on Sunday he was really bad and Clay decided to call a neighbor to help him give Cody a blessing. Thankfully this neighbor is also a doctor so when he came over he examined Cody and told us he had a pretty nasty case of Strep. He called in a prescription and we were able to start Cody on Antibiotics that night.
Thankfully no one else is sick, yet, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I got a call from Jessica's boyfriends mother on Friday afternoon. It seems that the two love birds left school early and went back to Tyler's home. No one was there at the time. When his mother got home she saw the car in the drive way so she took off her shoes, so that she could walk around the house quietly, to see where the kids were. Now we have rules that they are not allowed in either house when no one is there, we also have rules that they are not allowed in each others bedroom at any time. So Debra (Tyler's mom) wanted to see if the kids were breaking any rules. Now she didn't know if Jessica was there or not. She tip toed around the house and went downstairs to Tyler's room to find Jessica and Tyler lying on his bed making out!!! She freaked out and yelled at the two of them for some time, I hear. She called me and told me what happened and I got Jessica home and told her to kiss her life goodbye for a few weeks because she was grounded. I had to call Clay while he was in Canada and tell him what happened. It's always so fun to be the only parent around when you have to punish your children. Clay sent Jess a text message telling her she was grounded and how disappointed he was in her. But I still had to be the bad guy in person, and had to deal with all the drama! I have to admit she wasn't to bad about the whole thing. She was really pleasant to be with this weekend and it was nice to do stuff with just the family on Saturday instead of always having Tyler taking her attention away from us.
We took the kids to see Madagascar 2 on Saturday. It's really funny for the first part of the movie then it dies down at bit. Clay leaned over during the movie and asked me if this movie had any kind of story line to it. I told him it really didn't, it just kind of goes with the flow. But it made me laugh a few times, so I don't call it a complete failure.
I can't wait for two more weeks because that is when Twilight comes out. If you couldn't guess, I'm really excited about this movie!
Clay and I decided were going to Cedar City for Thanksgiving. Well actually we are going to stay with my sister and her family in St. George, but will be spending Thanksgiving day with my parents in Cedar. This should be really fun since all my brothers and sisters will be there that weekend. Hopefully the weather will be nice and maybe we can do some fun stuff outdoors while we are there. We have a lot of grandchildren and it gets pretty crazy when we all get stuck inside all day! But we already have it planned out for all the adult girls to go out one night to see Australia, the movie with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman (I love this guy). If you haven't seen the trailers for this movie yet, it looks really good!!

Sweet Sixteen!

Happy Sweet Sixteen Jessica!

Today my oldest child turns 16 years old! It seem like just a few years ago I found out I was pregnant with her. I don't think mine or Clay's family were too excited when we told them we were expecting Jess. Clay and I had only known each other two months when we got married, then I was pregnant a month after that. So you can see why our families didn't think this was the greatest news! But a few months before she was born Clay's little brother Cody died, and I think Jessica was a nice distraction for his family. Jessica was born the day Bill Clinton was elected president (the first time). I remember waking up the next morning after she was born(I had been heavily sedated after her birth), and hearing the TV in the room next door to me saying "president elect Clinton" and thinking "Wow, these drugs are really making me crazy". I never thought for a moment that he would be our next president, but I wasn't crazy, he really was!

Jessica was born very mature for her age. My dad has a favorite story about Jessica that he loves to tell anyone who will listen. When Jess was only three years old she got a scratch on her finger. She went to my dad and he asked her if she needed a band aid. Her reply to him was "No Papa, I need Neosporin on it first".
Even now she is more mature for her age. Clay and I wouldn't be surprised if after her first year of college she came home engaged to a 24 year old guy.
But that maturity came in handy for us many times. When Jess was ten I had just given birth to Luke. Jessica would wake up with the baby every morning, change his diaper, give him his bottle, and keep him happy for me so that I could sleep in. She knew I had been up a few times at night with him and she was so sweet to let me get a few more hours of sleep in the morning.

This is a picture of what Jessica wore to school this morning. Tyler gave her the shirt!

Happy Sweet 16 Jessica- we love you!!!

Yesterday, without notice, my brother Tom dropped by for a visit. Of course because I didn't know he was coming I wasn't home to see him. But the kids enjoyed spending a hour with him and I guess they kept him busy. Next time please call and let us know you will be coming!!

I have no idea what they are doing in these pictures, because the kids took them, but they wanted me to post them.

A whole lot of catch up- and we are the champions!

This week went by so quickley I hardly know where to start. The week started with the carnival at the school. Being a room mom automaticaly makes you in charge of the game at the carnival, so that is what I did. Thankfully all the kindergarten classes came together and we just did a nail painting station. And since I have two very willing teenage girls, I put them in charge of running it for me. Britt and Savannah spent the evening painting about 100 little girls and boys nails. I'm so thankful they were willing to do this for me. I was able to walk around with Luke and spend the evening with my boys!


On Wed. evening Cody had his first play off game. We played the one team we lost too this season, it was nice to be given the chance to play them again. We won, 46-6!


At the end of the week I had to put together the Halloween party for Luke's class. It turned out really fun for the kids. We were able to decorate pumkin cookies, make spider pencils, play halloween bingo, and read spooky halloween books. Yes, that is Mrs. Potts behind Luke. His student teacher dressed up as the disney character, while his teacher was Raggy Ann.



For dinner on Halloween night I made orange scones. We had Navajo Tacos- they were really yummy!

Here are the kids right before they went out trick-or-treating. Luke was Indiana Jones, or Dr. Jones as he liked to be called. Cody was a dead hippie, Savannah was a doll, and Britt was a football player, wearing the good old Vacaville #44, yea!

We had to make it an early evening on Halloween night so Cody could home and go to bed because he had his big Championship game the next day.

Here is Cody and his coach, dad, showing off there "super bowl" championship medals (they really say that). We beat the other Lone Peak Knights team, 14-0

Here's the family after the big win! I'm going to miss going to the games every Sat. I love football!!

I love Lukes "Rocky" pose in this picture!




Cody and Clay were so excited after the game was over. Clay told me he was more excited and nervous about this game then he ever was about any of his high school games.

This is Cody receiving his medal

I bet you didn't know I had six kids! Tyler is over so much he basically is like my sixth child!

I loved this talk the coach gave the boys after their big win!

After the big game we celebrated Jess's sweet 16th birthday. Clay is leaving for Canada tomorrow on business so we had to have the big party today, even though her real birthday isn't until Monday.

This was Jess's favorite gift, the zebra stripped boots!

Jess got this awesome purple jacket from Chelsea. It went perfect with her boots!

Jess giving her thumbs up, letting us know she liked her party and presents!

This is Clay during Jess's party, talking about his first born daughter.
He is so much like his dad!