Its about time.

So its about time.....time to do things I want to do times to do things I don't want to do, time to put on the big girl pants and take charge of what is happening around me. So here we go its about dang time to update the blog I have had time to do it but I just didn't want to I know that sounds stupid but I just got over whelmed with how much I needed to catch up so I just kept procrastinating. Yes I admit I like to over whelm myself with the small things. So as a forewarning this is going to be long. maybe painful for somebody to read but heck its the best I can to do to keep a running journal on our life since I am bad at actually writing in a journal.

So here we go trying to remember the best I can. November...My surgery went great, I only stayed over night then went home the next day, things were going well then on day 3 post op I woke up in the middle of the night with an awful fever so I made a trip to the ER and found out I had gotten strep so a shot of antibiotics and I was home in bed again. Three days after that things still just weren't normal so I made a trip to the doctors office and they thought I had mono but the test was negative so I got another shot and 10 days worth of antibiotics. The next day was Thanksgiving so we spent the day with family and ate way to much food. The next day we did our annual Black Friday shopping (a little modified due to my lack of energy still) and got way to much stuff but totally worth it. I started back to work the next week as part time yay!!
December' the next few weeks were busy with Christmas parties for work and school programs. We did take the time to make a Saturday trip with the kids to temple square to see the lights. As Christmas got closer I started dreading it a little bit more each day, not looking forward to the fact that I was going to be working for the majority of the holiday. We spent the first half of Christmas eve with my family then we went home and Danny and the kids went to bed and I went to work. The next morning I got home and we had our little family Christmas together which was so wonderful, I love to see the joy on the faces of my babies. Then I slept for a little while and we went to the George family Christmas dinner and spent some time with them. Then another little nap and back to work I went. The holidays just aren't as joyous when you have to work...baa hum bug!! The next week went by pretty fast and New years came and went with me at work.
So on to January I had high hopes for this year I was thinking it would be a fresh start and hopefully not so many medical bills and problems I had figured we met at least a two year quota with how much we spent between Ct's, broken collar bones, tmj problems, braces, surgery and doctors visits in 2010 well we made it to the 4th. Danny was playing basket ball and ended up tearing his acl in his left knee so we are starting the year out right with getting our deductible almost met in the first week due to the MRI and doctors visits and the knee brace that has to be ordered. we did luck out some what I guess, he doesn't need surgery yet, they tear is only partial and they don't know the percentage. The rest of the knee looks healthy so we are doing a wait and see plan, if it gets worse then we will do the surgery if not we will wait until we run our relay in June then reevaluate. So for now its rehab the heck out of it and wear a brace to help prevent any further damage. We celebrated our ninth anniversary on the 5th its crazy how fast time flies. I am looking forward to next year, because I told Danny that we were going to go on a cruise for our tenth.
Now for my kids...Kylee is absolutely loving kindergarten and getting stronger with her reading skills by the day. She also started taking piano lessons from Kaylynn this month and she loves it. She is always tinkering around playing melodies of songs she hears by ear she has some amazing talent now if we can keep her focused it will be great.
Alex has started preschool again and she wants to go every day, it is amazing how much she wants to be just as big as her sister and be able to do everything she does. Lex is my big helper, she loves to learn how to fold laundry with me and help do the dusting and empty out the dish washer. She is my tender heart and I hope and pray I can help her hone this into something great and not get damaged on the way by the little things.
Colt is my little tank (as grandma calls him) he is turning into quite the comedian. He tries to make us laugh all the time and he loves to laugh him self. He is definitely a mommas boy but i don't mind I love to snuggle with him.
Danny is an wonderful husband he is still helping me out immensely while I am at work by doing the laundry and keeping up on the dishes. He is staying busy at work and getting more so each day, but it is a good thing.
As for me I am still trying to adjust to having more time. I am so happy to be back to part time and being able to be home with my family more. I just need to get a routine down again, I am trying to get into exercising more and am slowly getting back into shape. I am looking forward to the weather getting warmer so I can get outside to run I definitely have a love hate relationship with the treadmill.
We are still waiting to sale our house and are hoping it will happen for us this year. But in the mean time we will do what the lord has planned for us willingly even if it means we keep waiting, because all we have is time. (I will try and post pictures soon.)

Life is busy!

I have had issues.... I had really great intentions of keeping up on the blog but it seems like my life has gotten in the way. School started work is always there house duties and three kids don't leave me with much energy. I know excuses excuses. We did finally get our family pictures done yesterday so I figured I would at least get on and post the new family picture. I am hoping in the next few weeks I will have a little more time to do things. I go in for surgery on Wednesday and I will have 2 and a half weeks off of work and when I go back I will be part time again, WHOO HOO! I am expecting that I will have a little more time to do things out of want instead of necessity. So until then I hope everyone is well and looking forward to a great holiday season.

The summer has flown by.

I am amazed at how fast time leaves you in the dust. I had full intentions of being better at this blog thing and keeping up on all the fun things we did this summer but time has just past me by. In the end of July we had the BI-annual George Reunion and had lots of fun swimming and hanging out near Preston, Id. Danny did an amazing tribute to Jeremy Knuz and highlighting our Wasatch Back Journey. I am going to post the video if I can if you have a few min it is totally worth the watch.(It is not letting me upload the video right now I will have to try again soon.)

Here are a few pictures from the reunion. Danny and a few of the guys had a belly flop contest.





Danny his parents and I went to the Island Park Rodeo in the first part of August and Danny had a great time taking hundreds of pictures of the action and just practicing his photography skills. I just couldn't pick a few so I opted out of posting any.
Kylee had her first day of Kindergarten on the 24th of August.




Idaho Steel had their summer picnic on the 27th of August and the kids had a blast riding the toys at the park.








That night after the picnic we drove up to meadow lake and spent the weekend with the George family. The weather was pretty cold and windy and it rained off and on. We even woke up to snow on Sunday morning. We evidently had lots of fun because we were to busy to take very many pictures.





This last weekend was the kick off to the EISF and all the George Cousins were here for that. As for the rest of Labor Day weekend I spent it working and Danny and the kids spent time with his family. We are going to take the kids to the fair tomorrow night and we are looking forward to our last camping trip of the season next weekend we are going to try our luck at meadow lake again hopefully the snow will hold off.

Amazing!!!

It's amazing how fast life gets away from you. Its been over a month now and we have had tons of fun but I have been bad on reporting back and keeping track. The wasatch back relay was crazy but so much fun..... I am addicted to it now. I have been a little lacking in the exercise department since we got back but my goal is to start anew on Monday with my focus on strength train stuff for a while before I get back to the running hard core.

The kids and I had a fun day at Jensen's grove with some of my high school friends. Danny turned the big 28. Leslie moved back to Blackfoot. I have been attempting to do a new schedule of escentualy one week on one off... its been a little crazy but I think it might work. My amazing example of a Great Grandma passed away, she was 97!! And we had one crazily busy fourth of July weekend. I wish I could post all of the fun pics that we have been taking with the new camera but there is no way possible to do that so it will just have to be a few random tastes here and there.

We still have plenty of stuff to do this summer... we actually have Danny's 10 year class reunion tomorrow it is hard to believe that we have been out of school that long already. Boy how time flies. We are still waiting to sale or house it will have been on the market for a year next month.... I just hope it sales before my kids are all grown. Oh well I just keep telling my self it will happen when it is supposed to happen. Well enough rambling.... hope you enjoy some of the fun moments we captured.

Spring fun and memorial day camping trip.

Well as you can tell I have been a little lacking in the blog department. We are still chugging along. The girls finished preschool, Danny is staying busy with work and his primary calling and I am barely floating above the surface with work, young womens, running and trying to keep the house functioning with Danny's help. The house is still on the market with no buyer in sight yet. Hopefully this summer will bring us some good news. The big race is just 3 weeks away and I am starting to get a little freaked out, it will be fun, but I feel totally out of my element. We had a fun time camping over memorial weekend and we are looking toward some more fun trips this summer. Here are a few pics from this spring and this last weekend. Danny bought me a new camera for mothers day so hopefully I will get better about posting pictures.

A few random pics from Feb.

This past month has been going by pretty fast. The house has been showing about once a week, I hope something comes from it soon. Colton's first birthday is tomorrow I will try and post some pics after his party Sunday. I had my 27th birthday yesterday, and it doesn't seem like I am getting that old but I am way closer to 30 now than 20 which is kind of scary. We went and registered Kylee for kindergarten today which was an emotional roller coaster in its self. She is so excited she doesn't want to have to wait all summer long. It is amazing to me how fast time flies the older you get the faster it goes. All the kids are doing good Colt is on the verge of walking but hasn't quite gotten there.

Most of these pictures are from when Keira was born... (Heidi and Sams baby)

The one of Danny is from when we went to Las Vegas.

Quick update.

Well it has been two weeks and nothing to crazy has happened, Ky got bronchitis and is on the mend. The girls are still loving preschool which is over in two weeks for a month, Colts new favorite thing to do is to crawl into the bathroom and stand up to the tub and holler at it and pull the shower curtain back and forth. Oh the joys of moving babies. Danny has been busy at work and and playing basket ball with the ward, their record isn't the greatest but he is having fun. I am still plugging away with the full time hours and trying to get into a semi normal routine. I have convinced Danny to get serious with his running and we are doing good so far. I am looking forward to this next weekend and our trip to las vegas, I will miss my babies but it will be a long need break for the two of us. We actually showed our house this week which is a first since November, I hope this means that maybe we will get a little more interest as the spring comes around. I better not get my hopes up to high, I have come to the realization that it will sale when it is ment to be. I already came to the rude awakening that things happen on their on schedule and not when I plan they should. Oh well tests and trials make us stronger and help us grow right.