Eight is GREAT!

I can not believe it but Adelaide Joy is now eight! I can not believe it was 8 years ago that I seriously quit going to BYU a million times because I couldn't handle the pressure of my Economics midterms and having a baby that would projectile vomit after every feeding. But how she has changed my life for the better!

It is hard to put my feelings into words. (where are you Kathryn when I need you to write something sweet and sentimental?!) But I will try to express my love for this beautiful girl!

She has been so good from day one! All I would have to do is say her name in a scolding way and she would stop in her tracks and come back to me. She wants to be good. Literally, has a desire to do the right thing. She is always happy and well mannered. She is obedient. She loves to help others. And she wants to make others happy, even if that means she doesn't get what she wants. She is my song bird. She is constantly singing and actually has a good voice. She has guts to sing a solo at her great-grandma's funeral when she was only 5 1/2! And she did a great job, always in tune. But that is how she has lived her first 8 years. Always in tune with the right things: church, family, school, activities, friends. I am amazed at how much she teaches me. I will catch her praying in her closet, after I have had a serious mommy temper tantrum, asking forgiveness for making me so upset. She loves to learn, both secularly and spiritually. As long as there is singing involved, church could last 8 hours for all she cares, she loves it. She wants to do what is right. She has definitely lived up to her name: JOY! She is just a joy to be around. And she wants others to be joyful as well.

I am excited to see what the next 8 years will entail. Hopefully I will be able to be worthy of such a wonderful daughter because I know she is wonderful inspite of all of my imperfections as a mother.

I LOVE YOU ADDIE AND I AM SO PROUD TO BE THE ONE YOU CALL MOTHER!

IT'S A ...........

First of all, I am feeling 100% better. Yes, I am still on Zofran but I have been off of IVs for quite some time now, maybe over a month. I am able to shower, clean, cook, do laundry and run errands. But even though I can do those things, doesn't mean I actually do them......ha ha ha ha. But no seriously, this is my happy stage. I am 21 weeks and doing good. The best way to start my 'happy stage' before I go into my 'preterm labor stage' is finding out the sex of the baby. So here "it" is:

Yes indeedy! We are having a BOY!!!!!!! Can I tell you how happy I am! I honestly thought we were going to have a girl just because this pregnancy has been so hard. And I stressed over it. Not about having a girl but just about finding out. I have had nightmares that this baby was hiding and we wouldn't be able to find out. I had nightmares I missed my doctors appointment. I had nightmares that I went to a hospital in AZ on accident for the ultrasound. I have had nightmares for two weeks now. But now HE is real. We can start thinking of names. And getting the kids excited! This works out great because now the girls can share a room and the boys can share a room.

And boy oh boy was this little guy active. He was constantly moving.

This sucks!

So apparently I was a lot sicker than I thought. My worst day was actually on my birthday at the end of August. I couldn't stop throwing up. It seemed like my zofran just stopped working that week. So I had to swallow my pride, call the dr, and say it is time for me to be on an IV. And I called the RS President and said we need meals. So my birthday present came a day later and I was hooked up to the homecare IV.

And I guess it was alot worse than I thought. The nurse said that I was so dehydrated that my heart rate was slow and blood pressure low. (didn't know that could really happen) My mother in law said that I would just stare at the wall and not respond to anything. I remember just being sleepy. (ps I owe Chloe Ann a million dollars for coming over, spending the nights when Mike was out of town, cleaning, doing laundry and putting up with my out of control kids. And yes....they have been completely out of control, somehow they knew they could get away with everything since I was hooked up and couldn't chase them around the house)

So it's almost a month later and the nurses called me today to tell me that I am going to have my 'file' closed. Which means I am ok.HOORAY!!!!!! I had a melt down on Saturday because I did too much on Friday and was throwing up again. During heaves, I am bawling, telling Mike "I don't want to be put of the IV again! The nurses said if I threw up again, they would hook me up!!!" Saturday was not a good day.

So this is the purpose of my post: In 3 years from now when I think, "wouldn't it be nice to have a cute little baby" this will remind me. I AM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN!!!!!!!! I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH IVs, NEEDLES, FLUSHING IVs, CATHETERS IN MY ARM, AND PUKING!!!! NEVER, NEVER, NEVER AGAIN!!!!! (the rest of my kids can go to that lady on TLC who is pregnant with her 20th kid)

(The 'lemonade' which Spencer calls it is actually vitamins in the IV bag, not urine. It had the worst after-taste. That alone made me sick.)

NEWS!

A couple of weeks ago, Mike came home and read the following ad in the classifieds:

WANTED:

Father of FOUR!!!!! Loving, kind , handsome, and able to scold kids at times.  And also patient, willing to pay for cleaning ladies and a lot of fast food. (Even if she throws it up right after.) And don't forget, willing to clean up urine because wife is throwing up so hard, she peed her pants.  Services needed until March.  And then baby duties will be involved.  Preferably a husband that goes by the name of Mike or Miguel.  Call Angie for more information.

SCHOOL'S OUT... FINALLY!!!!!!

We have started summer, officially on July 2.  That was Addie's last day of First grade!  But I do have to admit that I don't think I even had senioritis this bad when I was a senior in high school.  I took Addie out of school a couple of days here and there the last few weeks.  Why?  Why Not?!  So this is how we celebrated the last couple of weeks of school: 

we went to This is the Place park with our friends, the Witts

we celebrated the formation of a new school district(first time in 100 years) by going on a bus ride

and then we had all of the end of the year field trips.

 Not to mention Bear Lake for Father's Day weekend.  (more pics coming)

And we had the BEST 4th of July I have ever had.   Bike parade, food, shaved ice, more food, ambush of water balloons from the Witts, and even more food and then fireworks!  It was a blast!  LITERALLY! 

Thanks to the Carn's for making it such a fun day.  They were so organized with everything!  And the food was yummy!  I can't wait for round two!

Things my kids have said this week!

I have heard a lot of people writing down the funny things their kids say.  Well, here is my 'journal' moments I have had this week.

SPENCER:

We are at the mall getting on the elevator.  Another quite wholesome-looking family was in the elevator with us.  And then the elevator started to move and Spencer yells, "Mommy, I love this thing....it tickles my pee pee!!!"  

What do you say when Molly Mormon is standing next to you in the elevator?  I just giggled and said, "Spencer, please don't yell."

JAYNE:

We were having one of those wonderful, relaxing Sunday mornings.  A lot of times the family turns into a bunch of tickle monsters.  So as Jayne was being the tickle monster, she says, "Mom, don't worry.  I promise I won't tickle you anymore.  I promise!!! I am just going to put my fingers on your feet and wiggle my fingers."  Which she then continued to tickle me!

ADDIE:

Addie is in that wonderful stage of life where she thinks I don't know anything.  Like I have never gone to elementary school.  So she comes up to me and says, "Mom?!  Can I please give you an Indian burn?"  I started laughing and said, "NO!  I know what an Indian Burn is and you can't give ANYONE in the family one!"  Then she replies, "Mom, I know how to make you say 'how'."  And I totally fell for it and replied, " How???"  She started giggling.  And then I realized what just happened.  "Sucker!!!" was what I told myself.

New Moon

If you have not seen the New Moon trailer yet....boy have you been missing out. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!! It looks awesome!  

I just hope this new director puts Edward in more 'classic' of clothes. I thought he kind of looked like a slob in Twilight.  

Like Edward was wearing Rob Pattinsons' clothes. I always thought Edward was a classic, sharp dresser.  

Kind of like Matt Lauer. So we will see in the movie, huh!

I have seen this video a million times and I can't wait for November 20!!!!!!!!!

(I must be really stupid because I can't dowload the video.  

Just go to www.stepheniemeyer.com to see it.)