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.

QUESTION?!?!?!

I have been thinking about this for quite some time and would like my friends input.  I have been deciding to go back to school and would like to do online classes, but not sure what I want to go into.  What do you think?  What are your views of online classes? Do you like them?  Are they easier?  Or harder?  It's been a struggle for me.  I really want to go back to school, but haven't found what exactly I want to go into.  Nothing has really clicked saying, "Yep, that's it!!!"  I hate it!  Is it easy going to school with a family and a husband who might be going back to school, too?  UGGGHHH!!  I don't know what to do!  I feel so stagnant and don't know what to think or do!  Please help!

Here are the photos of our busy, but wonderful day on Pioneer Day!  That morning we went over to the Spanish Fork Fiesta Days parade with my brother and his family.  It was a pretty good parade and it was nice to be with my brother and just talk with him.  The boys were pretty good with the parade and were done when it was done.  We didn't get too much candy which was fine by me, but we headed up to Mat's mom and dad's place in Draper and spent a few hours up there before we headed up to Layton to Mat's sister's home to have water games and dinner with them.  The boys were EXCITED!!!!  We hadn't seen our cousins since we went camping with them in June.  It had been a month and they were excited to play in the water again with them.  They played hard for 3 hours or so.... which meant at the end of the day they were out before we got on the freeway.  We had a really good time... THANK YOU EMILY AND KYLE!!!!!  Thanks Mom Miller for getting it all together.  We love getting with our family!!!  Enjoy the pictures!

Blessings come big and small!

So I feel like I need to let you know how much we were blessed in July!  We were able to be with our family a lot the last few months and we are so grateful that we are close enough to do that.  But this is not entirely about family. Mat and I were able to go to the Manti temple with our ward for ward temple day.  Since Provo was closed at the time the next available temple was Manti!!!  Which was awesome for us since we were married there 6 years ago.  Anyway, we were getting really excited and hoping the boys wouldn't get sick or have any injuries preventing us from going to the temple.  All was well and Mat and I took the boys over to my sisters to spend the night since we needed to leave by 7 am the next day.  So off we were to spend some time with ourselves.  YEAH!!!!  The next morning we got up bright and early and met the ward at the church and followed down.  We had a really good turn out about 20 people came!!  AWESOME!  We didn't carpool with anyone else because we wanted to go and walk around Snow College's campus and visit Mat's grandma in Fountain Green.  So we took a nice quiet drive down to Manti, got to the temple and hour before the next session started, which gave us ample time to think and ponder.  While we were pondering we noticed a girl that was receiving her own endowment and realized that we knew her.  It was our good friend's little sister and she was with her parents and grandpa along with her fiancé and his parents.  It was really cool. We were hoping that we would see our friends, but they weren't there, although our session was really full and it was amazing.  We were able to talk with the parents afterwards and it was just good to see them.  After that I was in the dressing room waiting to get into my locker and another lady saw me, recognized me and it was my little sister's friends from growing up.  She had just gotten married in the temple a month ago and was at her brother-in-law and sister-in-law's sealing.  It was soo cool!!!!  So we talked for a little bit and it was just awesome.  We then waited outside for all our ward members and followed each other over to a near by park to have lunch.  After lunch, and while our ward members were leaving I found some really good friends of ours from Logan which we hadn't seen for 5 years!!!!  We talked for awhile and found out they were living in Orangeville and some of Mat's family is from there and were actually there in Manti at the park.  So Mat ran over and talked with his Uncle Gordon and Aunt Carol. What a GREAT REUNION!!!  It truly felt like heaven that day where we were able to meet and be with old friends and family again!  I was on cloud 9 the whole day!  Mat and I were suppose to be there that day to see so many old friends that some have been over 5 years since we have seen them.

We then walked around Snow College's campus and it was great!  They have a new library there that looks like the Noyes Building!  BEAUTIFUL!!!!  Good memories were shared there at that dear college!

          I loved my roomies!!!  They were the best both years!  I was hoping to find some other pictures and I need to fix some around and get them a little bit better, but here are some of the memories of room 218!  Let the good times roll!