Yes, we are still here!

Okay, so it has been a really long time since we have updated. I don't have any excuses, just crazy normal life. So here I am actually writing on the blog in order to appease Rob. We have had a crazy summer. Rob is still working on classes with Utah State and spent most of the summer in the school working on assignments. Then we did some traveling and had some fun. So we have stayed busy.

Our biggest news is that our little Belle got her appendix out this past week. It was kind of scary. She threw up all night long and when I took her to the medical center because she had a fever, too. They pressed her tummy and she flinched and they sent us to the hospital. Everyone was so nice to her. They gave her a pink bear with an orange bow, and she named it "Bow." She got to take it into surgery and take it home. The surgery went well, late in the evening, though. The surgeon said she had had appendicitis for two days! because her appendix was big and "juicy." They took her to her room and Rob and I spent the night with her, and she kept begging to go home. The next day she felt a tiny bit better but was still in a lot of pain. The doctor said he could keep her an extra day for some extra antibiotics. That afternoon they changed her pain medication and she got to sleep. By evening she was feeling lots better and was showing off for the nurses. She wanted me to spend the night, and she told Rob she wanted him to spend the night only if he didn't snore. He went to stay with my parents, who were watching the boys.

Belle is glad to be home but is not enjoying the restrictions on activity and having to take the medicine. We feel like we were really blessed. Things could have been worse, but everything went so smoothly and Rob's and my parents were so helpful and supportive. The boys really missed their sister and she missed them. Robbie made her a get-well card and they came to visit her in the hospital and were sure excited to see her again.

Anyway, life is good. Things are hopefully settling down a little. Rob starts baseball practice today (he is the assistant), so the summer is over for us. Hopefully the school year is less eventful.

Surfacing once again...

I keep telling Melissa that she should write on this blog more often, since she's never done it, and I'm not home that often to do it, but here I go again. Things have been okay the last little bit. Melissa and I both got sick, she's over it, but I'm still coming out of it. We went over to the "other side of the county" for Valentine's Day and the in-laws watched the kids so Melissa and I could go out to lunch in Price, then go to Wal-Mart. It's a very different experience when you don't live close enough that you could go any day you wanted. We, well Melissa, decided we should get the kids bikes and so I let her. They won't be coming to Green River until this weekend when the in-laws come down, since we don't even have anywhere enough room to get them down. Belle's birthday is this week and she is so excited that she is going to have a princess party. Which means I'm going to try and do something with the boys so I don't have to be involved. Since my objection to all things girly is widely known. Basketball just got through an extremely long week, and the season is almost over. The boys have done great and I'm pretty pleased on the whole with how they've done. I'm back to doing my behind the wheel portion of Driver's Ed, and as always, it is an interesting experience. My main problem is getting the students over the "But this is Emery County" mentality. This means that they think they should be able to do whatever because we live out in the middle of nowhere. Peter has begun talking a vast amount more and is almost getting to putting multiple words together. Very exciting.