Grace's 5th Birthday

Birthday Girl with Balloon hat at Wacky Tacky with cousins.
We went to The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner then headed to Wacky Tacky to surprise the kids with a fun night with their cousins. We are so lucky to have family around to celebrate these special times with!

For those of you are are excellent at your blogging jobs, my hat is tipped to you. I think I have learned that the computer means work, banking, and other things that don't bring up happy feelings. I am going to try to do better.
Our Summer has been crazy already. First week I was at Twilight Camp for the cub scouts with my friend Debbie representing our pack as Station leaders. Second week was Girls camp so Grandma was out here watching the cousins so we played all week long with them.
Third week I took off with the kids, Elizabeth and Caitlyn Elzea and Grandma for Utah. On the way there the kids were awesome never even asked for one treat. We only stopped twice for food and we were making excellent time when this little warning light popped up and said 1 tire low pressure. This was about 20 miles before Wendover. My mother in law and I looked at each other and said let's just get to Wendover and we'll be fine. About five minutes later major blow out on my passenger rear tire. Immediately we were off the road and jumping into gear on what the next step is. Call the husband locate spare tire, which by the way on our Town and country is is underneath where the center console is. Get jack out of back and "T" tool to lower spare. Call husband again he's finding someone to sell us a tire in Wendover, of course they're not answering because it's about 9 pm and well it's past closing. Of course we're stopped so that means the kids need to go potty all at once. I take my handy dandy little go potty out and we're off to find some privacy for Grace and bushes for the boys. Meanwhile Grandma is on the ground putting the jack in place. Well I have to tell you how tough this mother in law is. Not a second went by that she wasn't trying to change the tire. Caitlyn and Elizabeth watched the kids while we tried to get the last lug nut off. Of course the only thing that would get it off is by jumping on top of the crank to loosen it. A funny sight I know! Finally get that last one loosened after about 15 minutes of all four of us trying to pull on the crank together. This so called jack that came with the car is the cheapest looking thing I have ever seen. The handle is all of like 12 inches long so putting under the car and trying to turn the crank to lift the car that is loaded was impossible. We finally had someone that from the other side of the freeway came across the divider and asked if we needed help. Um Yes! They were a couple of firefighters from Wendover. And their names wee Zach and Cody. Don't think that my kids didn't take the time they had to interview these guys. So they continued to put the spare on for us and load up the nasty old tire. Off to wendover to Many's garage. To make a long story somewhat shorter. We arrived in Utah after a15 hours on the road. The Elzea's had their first trip out of state and boy was it memorable. Andrew still asks when his girls are coming over. Any babysitter we've ever had he calls his girls. So cute! Since getting home from Utah we've swam a lot at Nana's, my dad, Trev and a couple of friends of ours all ran in a 5K on the 4Th. It's been busy but a fun summer so far. I'll try to up date more regularly so to avoid this huge post again! Happy Summer everyone!

Our late bloomer

My little boy is now a full fledged kid. He's 6 going on 7 and just lost his first tooth today. You can only imagine how anxious I have been with my Dental Assisting background to "assist" in getting a tooth out of there. After examining his tooth on Friday I found that his permanent tooth couldn't wait any longer and was coming in behind the baby tooth. Yeah I stressed. We then went into the whole "T you have to keep wiggling your tooth, if you don't pull it out then we'll have to take you to the Dentist and she'll use tools and you won't like it as much!" He gets stressed very easily and last night when I went in to check on him before I went to bed I walk in to him stirring and say " No, it's gonna hurt, don't touch it anymore!". Yes we gave our child a nightmare, don't judge us. Tonight after dinner we decided to pull out the tooth as our activity. After 15-20 minutes of bleeding, pulling, flossing, restraining, mom got a hold of the tiniest tooth I have ever seen and pulled as tears came down his face and was telling me to stop because he thought I was going to pull out the other one too! I had already got it out and he didn't even notice. He was crying and said mom stop it's going to hurt, I held up his tooth and said well I guess it didn't because I already have it out. Then we went into crazy happiness cheers from the other two onlookers who I am sure are going to never let us touch their mouths again. Following the extraction was immediate bleeding with paper towels and then the Popsicle reward to help stop the bleeding and calm the stressed out kid. He was really excited and proceeded to call Nana and Papa to tell them and ask what his reward is. Hey they trained him to think that way! He also had gotten 100% on his spelling and math tests so we were really proud of him today. He has become such an awesome reader and loves to read everything now. He has been way into the Magic Tree house books. We're on #13 this week and I love reading them with him. In case you were wondering that's why I haven't put anything on Good reads for a while. We are loving this age with Tyler, he is so smart and truly an amazing kid. Between his surgery and how much he has going on he is a really good kid and still runs to me everyday after school and gives me and Andrew a hug. O.k. I know a mom rant! Love ya Ty!

Thinking about Your Mothers Day

So many of you have been to one of my Demarle Rendez-Vous and have fell in love. Well mothers day is coming up and I encourage you to go through your catalog, and if you don't have one go online, and make a wish list in order of what you want first. Simply show your husband and say this is what I want for mothers day or do as I do sometimes for Holidays and say this is what you bought me for ______ day! My husband always loves it because less work for him and I get what I want. So please have your husbands or children call me and I will help them out. I take check, visa, mastercard and cash. Here is a link to look online but call me and I can help you through the process. It usually takes about a week and a half to get your order so you have to plan two weeks ahead, we also have a mothers day kit that I am considering buying for my own mother in law. Always a better deal to get a kit than sperately! O.k. sorry about the sales pitch but it was on my mind so feel free to call me.

8 Years of Marriage!

On September 9th 2000 I meet Trev on a blind date. 2 1/2 months later we were engaged and five months after that we were married on April 14th. I thought that went by fast. Now we've been married 8 years and I don't know how it went by so fast. We have 3 gorgeous children and a fun, happy family that we have created. I love him so much. He is the hardest working person I know. He can do it all. Hard labor, or hard fun, he succeeds and at least appreciates it all. I'm so grateful for him and his love for me. He is always serving others and I have a lot to learn from him. We have our moments but they're so worth it. Happy Anniversary Trev!

Wow!

I can't believe how long it's been since I blogged. It's been a whirlwind couple of months. I became a rep for a company as many of you know and have been volunteering for a lot of stuff. Between church, work, school breaks, holidays, surgery for Tyler, it has been crazy. I will be posting pictures soon because the weather has changed out here and I am loving it. Everything is green and bright. I loved conference last weekend. It really did me some good, as always, renewed my dedication to some aspects of my life that might have been deglected. I am more commited to being a missionary to all that I encounter and having more love for my fellow man by serving with a charitable heart. I just thought I would check in before tomorrow becasue I hope to have Easter pictures and more to tell about. Hope you all have a wonderful Easter!

Dermarle At Home

I have decided to start pitching in a little financially around here and I am now a rep for Demarle At Home. This stuff is so cool. It's bake ware and cookware that gives your food an aesthetic appearance to your already tasty food. I am so excited about his stuff. My wonderful cousin has been a rep for a couple of months now and has done a wonderful job of getting me hooked on this stuff. I was mainly interested in Hostessing a Rendez-Vous so I could get free stuff but now I am a rep and will be selling it as well. So you are all invited to my Launch parties. I'm having two. One on the 26th@ 7 pm and on the 28th at 10:30 am both are at my house so call if you're coming. I am so excited to show you how wonderful and marvelous this stuff is. Nothing sticks to it! I made meringue cookies this year for Christmas and they slid right off and I didn't have to scrub anything! OK I'll stop now but check out this website if you can't wait to see what it is. www.demarleathome.com