About 2 weeks ago we were lucky enough to have the Latter-day Celebration Choir from UVU institute come down and perform here in Green River. We are quite out of the way, so it was really neat. I was nervous about how the kids would do, so we tried to hide in the back, but the director invited us up to the front row and then got on the mike and asked other kids to fill in the front rows. I was nervous, but I ended up being amazed! Robbie was absolutely enthralled! The singers winked and waved and smiled at the kids and during one song they put a hat on Robbie's head. Needless to say, we had to buy a cd and it is Robbie's new favorite. He wants to listen all the time. Belle and Peter seemed to enjoy it although Belle was having an "I need to be the baby and sit on mom's lap" day and Peter got jealous, so between the two of them I got quite a workout. It was an amazing performance, and I was so glad we went! Even Rob ended up appreciating it although he didn't want to go out--he is a homebody. This singers were amazing and their testimonies and the spirit were so strong.

In other news, I got a new calling about a month ago. I am the new primary chorister. I am enjoying it, but it is way out of my comfort zone. The kids are all really good, but for some reason my two don't want to sing very often.

Also, we are starting potty training. We got Peter a Lightning McQueen toilet of his own and he is actually showing more interest in potty training. Before he said, I don't want to wear underwear, mom. Now he likes to go and sit on his new seat! Hopefully this boy doesn't take two years to get trained!

I am trying to be better at blogging once in a while. Here's what's new.

Peter is loving life at home alone with Mom. His favorite thing to do is play video games.

Belle loves school. She loves to be there and play and her favorite thing is recess.

Robbie's new thing is his glasses. He absolutely loves them! Now we are trying to get him to leave them the way they are supposed to be instead of wearing the earpieces around his chin and other fun inventive ways to wear them.

Rob is still incredibly busy. Golf state is this week and he has 6 players going. He is pretty excited. School is keeping him really busy.

As for me, I guess it is also new that we have discovered I have Meniere's disease. This is an imbalance in the fluid in my inner ear. So once in a while I get vertigo and then motion sickness. It's kind of a pain. We found out a couple of months ago and have been trying to get things worked out and as of right now things are going pretty good. I have a new medicine that helps the pressure in my ear and I have my motion sickness pill. I'm also learning a little better when I have to lay down and rest. Rob is not appreciating the extra work that this brings him, but he is being really good about it anyway. It's nice to not be sick all the time, either.

We are all looking forward to the end of school. It will be nice to have a break for a little while, although there is always plenty to keep us busy. That's it for now. I'm making progress, at least it hasn't been months since I wrote last!

Well, it has been forever. It is now April and our last post was last July. Life is good. We now have another child with glasses. Robbie just got some because he is severely near sighted. He is thrilled. Life continues as always. Rob is always busy and my kids keep me running. That's all for now. I will try to check in more than every nine months or so.

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.

It's been forever...

I know that it's been forever since we last posted anything, so here's the update. I've started basketball season and the boys are doing well. My JV has been playing very well, and we've won more games than last year. The Varsity is also playing extremely well. They're 4-3 on the young season going into the Winter Break. There is a whole lot of drama between the town and the team, just like last year, but it's all stupid. Anyway, we're going to be home for Christmas morning, then going on a long road trip to Castle Dale for a couple of hours then up to Provo to be with my parents for a couple of days, with the ability to go to the Maughan Family Christmas party for the first time in several years. Then we'll head back down to Castle Dale for a couple of days, then back home, hopefully for a couple days rest before school starts again. The kids are excited for Christmas and we can't keep Pete from trying to eat all the Christmas goodies that we have around the house. It's funny that he's always hungry for snacks but he never wants to eat his meals... Pete has also started getting a greater vocabulary than just "Uh oh", "Uh huh" and "Ball", he just started saying "No" which is not so good, but he is also saying "Mom" or "Momma", "Dahy", and he tries to say "Belle" and "Look". It looks to be a very busy holiday season for us. Merry Christmas to all who read!

Halloween

Halloween has again come and gone. As usual, I didn't want to dress up. I know, I'm such a party pooper. Anyway, Melissa made me dress up for the Halloween carnival at the elementary school. Although it was only my "This IS my Halloween costume" T-shirt. I would just like to mention that in the picture, the person wearing the Utah shirt is not affiliated with me. Basketball practice is nearing. We start on November 10th. It has been weird the past couple weeks not having practice after school and going home at 3:30 PM. Pete has begun talking more and more, well, kind of talking. Using limited words, very limited, but he is making lots more meaningful noise than he used to. It's very interesting how he just started one day. He was very quiet and one day he just started getting things out.