Never a Dull Moment Here!

This past week has been an exciting one! On Tuesday we finished up summer school and Courtney left for girls camp(not willingly I might add). Once she returned on Friday she was glad she had gone. Funny how that always seems to work. Saturday was Colby's birthday and started off quite crazy. First we decided to have a yard sale. I don't think we will be able to have anymore for a while or we will have to start selling the kids..LOL.j/k. Anyway, later we celebrated with cake. No ice cream because the cake was an ice cream cake. That same night(or I guess Sunday morning) Caden's friends came up at 1 and said he was having a seizure and they couldn't get him up. Blaine went down to get him and ended up coming back to get me to come down to see if he would respond to my voice. I talked to him and he got up and came home. Well, around 4 he started to have another seizure. Nothing like he has had before. He was shaking and his body was completely stiff. Scared me to death! I picked up the phone and called 911. The police were here quick and were asking us about his history with seizures. Shortly after, the EMT's arrived and tried to get him to respond just like Blaine had earlier. They weren't satisfied with his responses so he was transported to the hospital. After two hours of being there, they sent us home with a medicine that would stop his seizures and make him sleep and they also upped his dose of his regular medicine. So... as of today(Tuesday) all is going good. I am having a hard time letting him go too far. Scares me that it will happen again. Hopefully this week will be better! Lots planned with family and friends.
I have become a blog junky! I love all the ideas I am finding from browsing through blogs that friends have suggested. Maybe I will become motivated to do more projects.
Still pondering this fact... Do I want to take the cake decorating class or not? Hmmm. Not sure!

Yup.. Second Day in a Row.

Happy Father's Day Blaine! Today I wanted to make it special by spending sometime together as a family and going hiking. We prepared hobo dinners on Saturday so that when we got out of church on Sunday we could head up Middle Canyon and begin our hike. Well, we woke up to the wind blowing.. YUCK! Blaine decided that he didn't want to take the chance of building a fire and burning down the mountain.. So, he built a fire in the backyard on a little fireplace and cooked our hobo dinners. They were delicious!!! Kind of the redneck way of doing it but.. it worked. Not sure that's Blaine's idea of spending Father's Day but what else could we do?

A few weeks ago, Colby had his appendix removed. On Sunday night as we were going to bed, he came in my room and told me that his stomach hurt. I said.. "I'm sure it's because of all the crap you have been eating." Knowing that he eats nonstop anymore.. I said.. Go to bed.. you will be fine. Shortly after, he was in the bathroom throwing up. My thoughts were.. Great, we have been out of school for 2 days and he has the flu. I continued to hear him off and on through out the night as he ran to the bathroom to throw up. The next morning as I was leaving for my first day of teaching summer school, he asked if he could get in my shower. I told him it was fine but that he better not expect to go and play video games since he was sick. He assured me that it would not be happening. To make a long story short.. 2 hours later, Blaine came to get the key to the car because he was taking Colby to see Dr. Abarca. At that visit, Dr. Abarca told Blaine to get in the car and take Colby to Primary Children's Hospital. He was sure that's what was wrong.. appendicitis! Sure enough, he went in for surgery around 6:00 on Monday night. Gosh, I felt horrible.. He kept telling the doctors... " I told my mom that I was sick and she wouldn't believe me!" I guess I get the horrible mother award for that day! Here is a picture just before going in to surgery.. You can tell the poor little guy doesn't feel well.. Darn it!

Really?

As I look through other blogs I started to wonder how long it had been since adding to my own. Really? I haven't done anything since October. 8 months.. that is really sad. So my goal is to be a little more diligent in posting. If I have to write it on my computer to help me remember then I will. Summer is here and we only have 4 months left until Colton is home! YAY! However, by him coming home, that means that Cameron will be leaving shortly after. Kind of a bitter sweet feeling. Cameron should be putting his papers in somewhere around the end of August-first of September. As for the rest of the family, we still continue to plow through the regular daily activities. Caden, Courtney and Colby are all in summer school. I like the routine that it keeps in our house except for the fact that I am teaching at the high school level and have to be there by 8 each morning. I keep telling myself.. only two more days, only two more days.
Courtney will be a senior this next year (so weird.. she can't be that old already), Caden a sophmore, and Colby will be in 6th grade. One more year and I won't have any kids in elementary school..ever! As for Blaine and I... I am going on my 9th year of teaching. Can't believe it has been that long already. I love teaching and learning new things from my students each day. Blaine is still unemployed. He has worked 2 months with a month here and there but hasn't worked a full time job for over a year.. YIKES! It's been a struggle but we try to get by with the bare minimum. I try to be positive (on most days) and think that things could be worse. I need to be thankful for all that I am blessed with not the things I should be blessed with...HA HA!