Nikol update!

Along with all the changes that have been going on with the leaves changing and our lifestyle changing, my body continues to do things that totally CONFUSE ME!!!  I went to the specialty doctor last Wednesday to find that I confused yet another doctor, which is getting really old and I really want to find out what is going on with my stomach. So he put me on some medicine that will hopefully help me out and in 6 weeks I get to go back for a little procedure to see if it is doing something to help out.  So far, I feel the same and nothing has changed and its been a week.  Maybe there is something they are not seeing and hopefully will be able to find it in 6 weeks.

Family life update!

On Thursday Sept 30, 2010 I got a text from Mat.  Something that happens everyday, right, but this was a different text.  It said, "As of Dec 24th I will no longer have a job!"  I thought that it was a joke or something, but it's true.  Mat is being let go and now we are making choices for our family that will take us else where. He will be getting a severance of 2wks per year he has worked for Ziplocal, which is 2 years so all of January we get paid and after that we will have to see.

Mat is thinking of going back to school at USU in Business Marketing! So our family might be moving to LOGAN, UT!!!  Back up to Logan after 5 years of being away, almost 6 years!  Can't believe it!  It will definitely be a change of pace for our family. We actually having been thinking of going back to school and the Sunday before Mat found out from work (which they could have done ON Christmas Eve) about going to school at USU.  Funny how the Lord works sometimes.  This was the needed push, almost, to get us going.  We are a little scared for the change of pace, and being students again and being away from family, but this is where the Lord needs us and He will provide as long as we do all that we can.

OCTOBER!!!!

I love OCTOBER!!!  Not only is Halloween on the way, but it's officially fall and the color of the leaves is splendid, the temperatures are some what cooler and its time for wonderful fall, harvesting activities.  Not only is canning pretty much done, but I get to enjoy more time with the boys outside having fun.  Oh, and I can't forget that it's also time for CONFERENCE!!!  The last few weeks have been really crazy, but fun!

First off, I was able to go to the Relief Society Meeting AT the Conference Center.  Our Stake was given so many tickets per ward and I grabbed 4.  One for me, my mom, my sister Apryl and my dear sister-in-law Leslie.  It was AMAZING!!!  We started off the evening picking up everybody so we could go to dinner before the meeting rather than after.  We ate at the Olive Garden which was in walking distance from the Conference Center and then we walked on up for the meeting.

It was an amazing meeting!!!  Very powerful on how to be better women in the church and better women in general! Awesome to spend it with 3 amazing women in my life.  Wish I could have spent it with all amazing women in my life, but only so many tickets.

Second, FALL COLORS!!!!!  I love living so close to a beautiful, scenic canyon.  The Mount Nebo Loop is in my backyard, (well, technically in my front yard but you know what I mean)!  We went up a couple weeks ago and saw the colors and then stopped off in Santaquin Canyon and roasted hot dogs and had fun playing in the dirt.  That's what boys do best right?!? The next day Mat and I were able to go up the Canyon and hike the Mount Loafer trail and although we got onto the wrong trail at one point and never made up on top of Mount Loafer, it was still a great time to spend with my husband and in nature.  LOVED IT!!!
Here are some of the pictures we took:

This is the stream in Santaquin Canyon and I had fun taking the picture and playing with the camera!

 Finishing the hike!

 Mount Loafer Trail

 Top of Payson Canyon towards Camp KoHoLoWo

Me and my best friend!

Third, playing outside with the boys harvest style!!! We were able to go to the Rowley Farm in Santaquin, which we do every year, to take the hayride to the pumpkin patch and take lots of cute pictures!!!  It was great this year!  The boys look forward to every year!

The 6 boys! Too cute!

Cute lil Andrew Durrant!

My most recent family photo until this Saturday!

Finally, CONFERENCE!!! With our Stake getting tickets this year, our bishop let us all know in the ward that there were tickets for the Saturday Afternoon session and Mat and I took the opportunity to go!!  It was awesome.  Mat's mom watched the boys and took them to their cousin's birthday party. And Mat and I went to conference!  It was amazing to say the least!  It's amazing how you feel in the presence of the prophet and apostles. There were so many answers to our many questions that are happening in our life right now, but that will have to be in a later post.  :)  We were able to eat a sack lunch on Temple Square before the session started and then walk around Temple Square for a little bit.  It was amazing to feel the unity of everyone wanting to listen to the prophet.

 Temple Shot with the American Flag!

 Outside of the Conference Center, it was nice and hot and VERY bright!

Us in the Conference Center

Quick Update

So I forgot to update about my ultrasound and all came back good and no problems. Soooo... they still want me to see the specialty doctor on Wednesday.  There is good and bad with this.  Good I have no problems picturewise, and BAD because I almost wanted something there just so I KNOW what it is.  I have been feeling better, but I do get an episode of sharp pain every once in awhile.  Hopefully this specialty doctor can help me out!

Baptism!!!

My cute nephew Trev was baptized over Labor Day weekend.  I felt bad that Mat and the boys were not able to go with me.  Money's pretty tight and we need to save ever penny we can for Disneyland in October.  So I was able to hitch a ride with my mom and dad and my brother Josh came too, without his family as well.  It was nice trip without the kids, to say the least, but I still missed them and talked to them as often as I could.  We left Friday the 3rd and made it into Blackfoot, ID late that night to my aunt's house.  The next day, the 4th, was Trev's baptism.  I was soooo excited for him.  He turned 8 back in June, but my brother and sister-in-law wanted him to be ready and have it be his choice to be baptized or not and he was definitely ready.  You could just see it on his face and feel it from him that he was READY!!  It was really cool to see and 8yr old look so mature.  He was actually the tallest one being baptized.  There were 5 in his stake being baptized that day as well.  The program was wonderful and the baptism amazing.  He was only dunked once, which is amazing because his 2 older sisters were dunked 2-3 times before it was right.   It was a great day to be with family, and I was able to get some great shots.  Enjoy!!

All the men who confirmed him!

Jared's family

(L to R) Daycia, Madilyn, Jared, Heidi, Sharylee with Korryn

Trevon, and Dalton 

Mama and Trevon

Sharylee and Trev

Mama Lou and my mom

Mama Lou with Andrew and Apryl

My dad and his mom taking a nap! Too cute!

Sharylee and Heidi, their foreign exchange student from Korea.

Times flying by....

So I don't know have any excuses of why I haven't posted lately.... other than running around crazy....!!!:)  August went by tooo quickly.  We had a lot of family come to visit that month and I'm glad to have family around.  The one thing, well two, most eventful things happened in the month of August.  First,  Hayden sprained his foot by jumping off a 1 ft table in their bedroom.  We didn't find out that it was a sprain until after 2 visits to the doctor and my 2 uncles looking at him.  The story is that Hayden was trying to "go swimming" with his brothers in the bedroom and jumping off the table to land on the blue rug, "the water."  Well, he had been doing this for sometime, and then we heard him jump, then cry, and so Mat went in to find him on the floor on his side.  I thought that he had bunked his head, until the next morning and he was complaining his leg hurt.  Didn't think much of it until I put him down to help Corbin go potty and he wouldn't stand on his legs and collapsed on the floor.  That really worried me, especially since my parents were out of town with my brother and his family in San Diego.  I called my mom and talked with her. She said if there is any bruising or swelling then take him in.  There was nothing!!!  So I called my lil sis to come and look at him and his hips moved fine and he was not giving us any indication of what was really going on and where he was hurting.  FRUSTRATING!!!  So I called and made an appointment to see the doctor and my doctor was not in so I saw the on call doctor there.  They did x-rays and still couldn't find anything.  They said if by a week he was still not walking to come back in.  So I did.  One week later we were back in the office with yet another doctor and took different x-rays but still couldn't find anything, so they put a splint on his foot and wrapped him up good.  A few days later he was starting to crawl and by one week after his splint was put on he was walking again!!! and I took off the splint.  My back hurt so bad to be carrying around a 30 lb toddler.  He's pretty hefty!!!

Well during this time my Aunt Darla came back from her mission from Samoa.  It was great to see her and my cousin Karma, her daughter.  We had a great time and I was able to get my own lava lava to wear.  :)

 

Here's Apryl & Dave Durrant, Mat and Hayden Larsen, and my cousin Karma Tucker

 Aunt Darla

                       My sweet Grandpa Anderson                  My mom, myself and Apryl in our lava lavas!

We were also able to see good friends too and it is just so nice to visit!!!

The next big thing that happened was DAXTON IS IN KINDERGARTEN!!!!  I felt bad that I wasn't able to post about this sooner, but as you can see my life has been kind of crazy.  So.... here is my big Kindergartener!!!

 

 Isn't he just handsome and ready for school?!?!  I can't believe he's already in Kindergarten.  And no I didn't cry when we took him to school, I was actually excited for him to be at school.  Not like he's a bad kid and I want him away, but it is nice to focus a little bit of time on the other 2 kids.  His teacher is Mrs. Thomas who was also my little sister's teacher too.  So she knows my family and it's nice to know a familiar face.  It is kind of weird to think that he is going to the same school that I went to and even some of the same teachers are there.  CrAZy!!!

During the whole month of August my body has been shutting down and having problems.  I won't go into all the details because they are kind of embarrassing, but for the most part my stomach has been cramping up and it doesn't matter what I do it hurts!!  I have been passing out a lot lately and been really shaky and just plain hurt.  I have been to the doctor a couple of times and they have tried me on fiber pills and that makes it almost worse.  I did just go yesterday and had some blood drawn and my results came back this morning as everything is normal.  No probs with the thyroid, kidney, liver, diabetes, not pregnant, etc.  So that's great, but not sure what is still wrong with me.  I've even fooled the doctor and he is a little scared.  So on Friday I get to go in to get an ultrasound on my tummy to see what's going on with my stomach.  Then I have an appointment with a specialty doctor later in the month.  So pray for me and the doctors so that we can find out what's going on.  I'm a little scared, but just unnerved mostly.  I hate not knowing.