Sick of Sick

Okay this is ridiculous!! I have been sick, I mean really sick for a whole week! Is it just me or is all the crap that keeps going around getting harder and harder to get over. Maybe I'm just getting old. Ethan is now over his sick but still has a cough, which took him 2 weeks to get to. So I guess that means that I will feel better in 3 weeks. Which sucks because the weather is just getting good and all you want to do it be outside. Holly is going crazy being inside all the time while Ethan gets to go outside to play but I don't want to get all the neighborhood mom's mad at me by getting their kids sick.
It seems like we have been given a lot lately. We were and are so blessed to be in this new home but just as we were getting ready to move we all go sick with this same type of crap. Then we had to get Mason tested for seizures (which all came back normal, by the way), then I had to have my gallbladder out and now we get the sickies back.
I really would like to have some people over now that we are moved but we just haven't had the chance. I guess it is not all that bad now that I look at it. There are lots of other people in the world that have to go through much worse. I am grateful for all I have and for my kids. It's just hard to be sick with kids because "Moms can't take a sick day". Right!?
Anyway thanks for letting me vent....

Just Kill Me Now!!

OH MY Gosh!! I feel like someone hit me with a truck. Ethan came home from Preschool last week complaining that his "neck" hurt. He then has run a fever and had a runny nose since then. Ethan is now feeling much better! One thing you have to know about Ethan is that he has the BEST immune system. What would kill a normal kid barely phases him, but then he just bring the bug into the house and it kills the rest of us.
Holly started complaining a few days after Ethan and she has gotten the worst of it. She has not felt good at all and then both of their eyes started gooping. Ethan's wasn't too bad, he just looked like he had a cold in his eyes and it only lasted two days.
Holly on the other hand has had her eyes gooping really bad, with redness so of course I thought pink eye. I looked it up on web MD and sure enough pink eye. The poor little girl woke up this morning with her eyes crushed shut! It really freaked her out to not be able to open her eyes. I got some drops to help her through it because there is not much you can do about it other than that.
I feel like my throat is on fire and my head is going to exploded. Ryan thought I was making it worse than it was on Sunday when I didn't want to get up but now today he has it and is feeling pretty bad about doubting me. I guess that is one good thing. I think he will believe me next time.
Mason hasn't gotten it yet and I am praying that he doesn't. It is NOT something I want my 8 month old experiencing. But I guess we take what we are given and try our best to get through it.

No Sh_t?! Should have gone to Law School.

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convincing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

My Kind of Town.......

Frank sang it best. Chicago is definitely my kind of town. I was there last week for 'Business Meetings'-a term satisfactory to the IRS that describes retreats or offsites. The hotel we stayed at was the Hotel Allegro-right downtown in the theater district. On the first night we were told to take the 'L' train to Addison Street. Any baseball fan knows that Addison street in Chicago is the address of one of the more historic ballparks in America-Wrigley Field! I was giidy with excitement. However, rather than going directly to the game, we all convened at a building across the street on Sheffield Aveneue. Wrigley Field is one of the last ballparks built in a 'neighborhood' setting. There are literaly no parking lots around. Just houses, restaurants, and bars. Apparently, the owners of the buildings across the street have contracted with the Cubs to let fans in to sit on the rooftops to watch the games. Not only did we get to do this-but they also fed us. All of the drinks, hamburgers, hot dogs, bratwurst, and other sundries we could stuff into ourselves until the end of the 7th inning. It was a beautiful night, if not a little cold. Some of the ladies in my group stayed around and ate and then headed back to the hotel. After the second inning I wandered out and bought a $50 ticket from some guy for $20. The seat was on the first row of the upper deck, right behind home plate. Absolutely spectacular. I hung out there for a few innings and then wandered back to the rooftop so I could down some more brats. Ummmm.......good.
The next night we were on our own-I spent the evening wandering around Chicago. I settled for dinner at a little place called Gino's East. This joint has been featured on the Amazing Race and some Food Network shows. We ordered a couple of deep dish pizzas and I can clearly iterate that was the BEST pizza I have ever eaten. The crust was the best, the cheese was thick and stretched forever, and the sauce was fresh. Being in a city like this makes me wish that we had unique culinary delights like this. Unfortunately, anything in Utah that might be considered unique is drenched with Ranch Dressing or Fry Sauce. Grrrrr......
Here's to Chicago....my kind of town.

Graduation

We got Ethan's Preschool Graduation pictures today. Isn't it the best picture. I think he is just so dang cute, but I'm a little bias.

We also found out just when his graduation is. It will be at Clearfield High School Auditorium, on Thursday, May 15, 2008 from 11am till 12pm. Anyone who would like to come and support Ethan in this milestone is welcome to come. Please let me know via "comments" and if we have enough people come maybe we will have treats at our house afterward.

Yeah for Ethan!

Twilight

Okay I just finished the book "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer and LOVED it! I am not really into the science fiction/horror stuff but I read on my cousins blog about it and thought I would give it a try. Thanks Heather for turning me on to it.
It is a national published book but the author, Stephenie Meyer is LDS and graduated from BYU, which is a little strange seeing how it is a book about vampires. But it is more of a story about looking past peoples outer shell and finding love. It doesn't even follow the typical vampire lore.
This is the first in a 4 book saga, the last installment is due out latter this year. Ryan is leaving for Chicago tomorrow but I think I might have to go and see if I can find the next book in the series, "New Moon". It introduces werewolves. Oohh!
I see myself typing about these things and am thinking to my self "vampires", "werewolves" I am not into this stuff but I guess if you open your mind up to a new story anything is possible and you might find something worth reading. Pick it up you will love it!

Simple Things

I am finding that the simplest things get me excited these days. Maybe its because I don't have a life or maybe that my children are my life, anyway here are the things that get me excited lately:

Holly's hair is finally long enough to put in pigtails! The pigtails didn't last very long but it was fun to be able to do my daughters hair.















Mason has started to army crawl. He still rolls all over the place because it is just faster but once he gets close to something he wants he pushes himself with his feet and reaches with his little hands.
Mason has also almost gotten his 6th tooth, which makes an already cute smile all the more cute.


And finally the quite that comes from my kids finally going to sleep. I don't know what it is but my kids go to bed at 8PM and they are up every two minutes for something or the other. I can't stand and do not have the patience for stalling!! So when they are finally asleep that is always a joyful moment of the day.

I Drink Your Milkshake!

I love that line! Probably one of the most interesting lines ever uttered in 'moviedom'.
Yesterday Netflix sent the movie, "There Will Be Blood" starring Daniel Day Lewis (which he received an Oscar for). I had been wanting to watch this movie for some thime due the fact that it is loosely based on the Upton Sinclair book 'Oil'. I read that book a long time ago and was somewhat fasinated by it. I have also desired to read his book titled 'The Jungle' which details conditions in a Chicago slaughterhouse in the early 19th century. (I hesitate to read this due to the fact that many people claim that it will turn you against meat. And I like my food red, dead, and cornfed).
Anyway, I loved the movie. It was very engrossing as it details the life of a California oilman who ventures out with his young 'son' and tries to obtain oil leases and land from people living in the high California desert. He however runs into difficulties with a certain religious 'prophet' who makes life most interesting. Day-Lewis is awesome! Check it out! The 'milkshake' lines comes at the end of the movie.
By the way, if I create my own blog which details some of the more innate parts of my life, will anyone visit? I am thinking of letting my wife have this blog for her own.