Our Summer so far!!

(loooong post, get a drink and a piece of pie, you are gonna be here for awhile!)
Is going way toooooo fast!!! I love having the kids home! They are big helpers and I love that we can just pick up and go do whatever we want, whenever we want and not have to be home if we don't want! (Hows that for good English. Maybe I need to go back to school!) We have had a lot happen so here goes....

First Ty came down one Sunday night right after I put him to bed telling me that he needed a band-aid for his foot. He has 100 excuses for getting out of bed before he finally goes to sleep each night so I just thought it was one of those. I was telling him he didnt need a band-aid unless he was bleeding as I was taking off his sock. I looked down and about fell out of my chair when I saw this...



At first I thought he was bit by a spider so I went up to his room and looked all through the covers. Didnt see anything and thought, if it is bad in the morning Ill take him in to the doctor. The next morning I totally forgot about it til about 11 am. I told him to come and show it to me and it was even worse. So I took him into the doctor. He said he thought it was probably a spider too. He thought probably a hobo spider because if it would have been a black widow he would have had seizures. (oh nice!) He marked it with a pen so we could tell if the swelling was going down with the antibiotic he gave him. That night he got even worse. And started going past the markings and up his leg. So I called after hours. The doctor that was on call said that what I was explaining didnt sound like a spider bite but sounded like MRSA. I about wet my pants. Ive watched Oprah and I know this isnt good!! ;-) So I freaked a little and started a google quest while Scott went and got another drug for him. Of course I see all the worst case's online. But it did say it was commonly mistaken for spider bites because it looks just like it. Luckily the combinations of meds worked and we got it under control. So I bleached the house and hopefully thats the last of that!! We are very very blessed that it wasnt as bad as it could have been!!!



My cousin (BFF), Mandy found out she is PREGNANT WITH TWINS!!! I am so excited! I get to have a baby and not be pregnant! Wahoo!! We are due December 26th but Im sure our twins will come sooner! I dont know how her husband feels about me taking one of these babies, but he will get over it... This makes baby three and four for her! I cant believe when we get together we will have EIGHT kids between the two of us. We are in for some fun times!!

Scotts brother Ben also got married this summer to a cute cute girl named Nicole. She's my competition you know. Shes the only other sister in law. But he couldnt have picked anyone better! They got married in the Salt Lake Temple



and Nicole looked beautiful!





I tried to get a cute picture of all the kids...but well...they werent co-operating. So after 100 pictures of them, this is the best I got. Nice.



But this one isnt so bad.



We took a trip to Yuba. Jentry went to fifth grade camp. (neither I have pictures of! Sorry!)



We went to Strawberry Days because my brother Todd was in the milking a cow part. I cant remember what it was called. He did it with his friend Ruger and my other cousin Chad. They did pretty good but still lost! ;-) We got drenched! It rained pretty good for awhile there. This is about the first week in the last few weeks that we havent had a down pour every night/day! It was starting to get very annoying!! I dont mind rain...but not EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!

We have been having swimming pool withdrawls so yesterday we decided to go to the pool even though it wasnt warm enough for it! We shivered a little but had a good time! I was so impressed that I didnt even wear sun screen and I couldnt see a sunburn on me! Well that soon changed...by the time I got in the car I could feel my whole body was burnt. Ive been waddling around all day because I can barely walk. My legs kill! Next time I wont forget the sun screen for myself!!!

Well thats our summer so far! We have many more adventures to go on, I hope!

RIP Snicks

Snickers Scott passed away peacefully, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at the age of 11. She was my brothers dog and a part of the family. The kids loved her and she didnt seem to mind them either. Last year she went in for some surgery and they found out it was cancer. They said she wouldnt last another year. And she didnt. Today I went with Todd to have her put down. It didnt quite go like I thought it would. I didnt know it happened so fast. We will miss her whenever we go to my parents house.

'Rockin' Taylor Swift Concert!

Well the big night finally arrived!!! Jentry has been (im)patiently waiting since she announced her 'Fearless Tour'. Right after school Jamie came and picked us up and off we went. We picked up Lexi in Bountiful. Boy Jamie and I are not good at navigating Salt Lake Streets. But we made it, after a few turn arounds. We then went to Crown Burger for dinner. Its right by the Energy Solutions and if you buy $14 in food there you get 'free parking'. Well it isnt hard to buy $14 in food there...a cheese burger meal is over $7. While we were there we heard that Kelli Pickler had canceled because she was sick. But rumors were that she had the same agent as Garth Brooks so he might come. We could only be so lucky. We ate and then walked over to the Arena. We found her tour bus and took a few pictures in front of it. The girls wanted a shirt so we stood in crazy lines to get one. It was so hot. A 14 or so year old girl was next to me and I heard her say something about who was going to be filling in for Kelly. She said it was Gloriana. I said.. Who is she? She gives me this "you are so old" look and says its not a she, its a band. Well excuse me. LOL Anyway we got their cute shirts and went and found our seats. Lucky us got to sit 3 rows from the very back. Jentry was freaking out because of the heights. When the girls in front of us stood up I told Jentry she could stand up too. She stood up but she was holding on for dear life to her seat. I told her she would be ok and that she wouldnt fall but she didnt believe me til about 3/4 of the way through the concert. I just love this picture of Shelbey! The girls were so excited when Taylor Swift finally came out. They sang all of her songs right a long with her and loved every minute of it. I think T.S. had 8 costume changes so the girls thought that was pretty cool. It was a little bit more rock and rollish then I thought it would be but it was still a GREAT concert. One thing that I thought was pretty funny is she likes to flip her hair around. Every song she was head banging too and flipping her hair. So when we got out of the concert I started flipping my hair around and I got in big trouble by Jentry, "DONT MAKE FUN OF HER!!!" Whoops. She ended the concert by "rain" falling on her. Jentry thought that was great. I think the girls had a great time and Im glad we were able to do this with just them! (while she will still do something with her old mom). Heres the old moms.