Kendrick and Fasting

A couple of Sunday's ago Kendrick came to us and wanted to fast for the afternoon. He wasn't sure he wanted to tell us why he wanted to fast but after discussing the why's and how's for fasting he told us that he wanted to fast so that it would be easier on him and Dylan when it came time for him to go back.
We decided it would be appropriate for Brett, Kendrick and I to fast the following Sunday. And give a good honest effort... Fasting while really contemplating the reason and trying to have the spirit while we fasted.
Well now is the final moments. He, Brett, and Dylan are in the airport saying goodbye to yet another summer and rejoicing in even more memories. I asked Kendrick yesterday if he felt any different having fasted. He said firmly " I KNOW Heavenly Father has helped! Usually this last week is super hard and it hasn't been TOO bad."
I agreed. Yeah it has still been hard but personally I've been a little more patient and haven't been really emotional. As for Dylan and Kendrick. I would hate to see how it went without prayer and fasting.
Somethings are better left unknown. Overall, I too know that the Lord has answered the prayers of my little guy. I'm so thankful for prayer and teaching moments such as this.


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Bad MaNgO Bad

I had to take Dylan to the dr. today. I noticed yesterday that he had a rash covering his whole stomach an today he had it over his ENTIRE body! So I took him in. I thought that maybe it was just a heat rash because that happens too :D
Well you've probably guessed by now but yeah he might be allergic to MANGOS. Dr. Seamons asked if he had eaten strawberries, anything citrus, or mangos. Yeah he eats strawberries all the time but yesterday he tried Mango ice cream at Costco. It was gross ice cream... But sure enough he did eat.

Mangos make my mouth feel like cotton so I get a slight reaction to them too.


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1st shopping trip

K so I'm loving this iPhone blog app.
Tessa and I took a little shopping trip all by ourselves and here are the pix I took. Nothing awesome but the moment was captured.


This is when she decide to be happy. But the next pic came first.

FHE Activity

We went to T3 yesterday for FHE. Then afterward went to McDonald's for dinner. Scrumptious I know haha. But the kids had fun. They begged me to take this picture.


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iPhone Apps

I saw a post on my cousins facebook talking about uploading pix from your phone to your blog. Someone suggested BlogPress... Of course I had to try it. So this is me trying out BlogPress from my phone.


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Sick Kids

2 ear infections (1 being severe and the other not as bad), a runny nose, a flaming red throat, and cutting 4 molars... McCoy is miserable! Poor kid.

Tessa needs an RSV Culture. Poor baby girl, can hardly breath .

Year at a Glance

I know it has been forever since I've had a really post. Sorry, I've been more into Facebook then blogging. I wish I could go the other way around and have less of an

ADHD approach to life

but yeah not happenin. Haha

So lets start to catch up just from this year.

January
My birthday and anniversary are in January. Dang I turned 29! Almost 30... what to do?
For our Anniversary Brett bought me a GOWEAR FIT. It's a beautiful thing. Have you ever seen The Biggest Loser? It similar to the arm bands that they were. Same thing actually just a different brand. It helps to keep track of your burned calories during the day and also your sleep efficiency and then you input in the website the calories you've taken in. In hopes to better monitor your weight and hopefully lose. In my case, maintain, because I was pregnant this year. So I didn't want to lose weight. I couldn't afford to gain 50 lbs. either.
I managed to only gain 27 lbs. And I give all the credit to my GOWEAR FIT. :)

February
Coy turned 1!! Such a big boy now. I can't believe how time flies. He is so spunky and fun to be around and his smile is super contagious.

Dylan turned 4 yrs. this year. He attended preschool at Miss. Ann's preschool and he absolutely loved it. I think it was more for social life then anything but he did learn alot.

March - April
Well I can't think of much that happened these months. I was getting big with child but not huge. I worked out a ton and really got into Zumba & Spin. I went to these classes faithfully every week. In fact the week I delivered Tessa, I went to spin. (2 days before though)

May
Kendrick came for the summer! It is always nice to get him here. Everyone misses him so much when he is in Arizona, especially Dylan.

Dylan played on his first official soccer team, coached by Brett and his 3 brothers. He played in a league in Cedar Hills, not Orem, so he could play spring ball. But this allowed him to play with his cousins Hunter, Hendrix and Chase. It was awesome to see hi play. He's quite the little striker. He has a lot of natural talent.

My little Tessa Nicole was born on the 27th at 3:59 am. She weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and was 19 in long. We didn't get to bring her home from the hospital when I was released though. The morning of the 28th she was struggling to breath. My nurse came in early that morning to inform me that they would watch her carefully but no action would follow yet. Then 2 hours later they came in and said they would wait for her Dr. to make the final call but pretty sure they needed to send her to NICU.
At 6 am the Dr. came in and explained everything and said she would call for the team to move her from Orem Community Hospital to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center where she would be in the NICU mostly for evaluation. However, they would put her on an antibiotic that required her to stay for at least 3 days. Depending on how well she responded to that she could be there from 3-10 days.
After the Dr. left my room, I just broke down in tears. I sobbed. I felt everything would be fine but my baby was in need of serious help and of course that was scary.
So she went to the NICU and stayed for 3 days. We were fortunate to bring her home so soon. It was hard to be there knowing our baby was going to be just fine but babies all around you were hangin on for dear life. So it was nice to have her home.

June
Life was crazy in June. I was trying to figure out how to be a mom of so many little kids. I can honestly say it is so much easier to adjust to this time. Not because I wasn't overwhelmed but because I had soooo much help from family and friends. I feel truly loved.

Cooper has been the hardest of all my kids. If he doesn't end up in the hospital soon it will be a miracle. He climbs on the tallest thing in the room. He even scales his dad's shoulders at meal times so he can be on top and the tallest in the room. I've had neighbors bring him in from the street nearly everyday. Brett fixed the backyard fence so I could shut the kids in the backyard but no Cooper has to climb over the fence to get out. I've found him on top of my car (a GMC Yukon), climbing the refrigerator doors to reach the WII on top, oh yeah and he often lays down in the middle of the road to lick the yellow line. YUCK!
All I can ask is that if you see Cooper doing something dangerous or mischievous just bring him to safety and don't JUDGE me... I do that enough for one person.

July
This brings us to date. It is still crazy around my house and probably won't get any better. I feel like I've joined the circus. Brett and I have started to say that we have 12 kids... well it's because we started counting them and somehow we ended up on the number 12. Haha Sometimes I feel like I am the laughing stalk of the town. Is it a good thing I live in a big town?

We had Tessa blessed on the 1st Sunday which happened to be July 4th. She looked so beautiful in her long blessing dress. My mom made it for her and she did an amazing job.

Kendrick went to Houston, TX with Great Aunt Beth. She takes all the great nieces and nephews to the destination of their choice after they have been baptized. Just so happens that Kendrick's cousin Jaxson will turn 8 this October and Kendrick is well over 8 now. So we decided they could go together. Late for Kendrick and early for Jaxson but nonetheless they had a great time together. They went to the biggest water park in the country, an Astro's game,the movies, and the Space Museum.
Now we are trying to cram the rest of the summer into 2 weeks. Kendrick will go back to Arizona on the 30th and we still need to do things. Brett and Kendrick are trying to get this old motorcycle to work. They took it apart today and I don't know what they have to do for it. I also need to get him to focus on his scouts or else he won't get his Bear before he leaves and we still have tons of things we want to do with family and friends. Reality is, there isn't enough time. So if I wasn't crazy before I will be for the next 2 weeks.

And then as soon as August is here we have a Lake Powell trip planned. WOW!!! is all I have to say about that.
That is this year in a Nutshell.
Hopefully I can keep more up to date from here on out.