US open

For those of you who don't know, Braxton loves balls, and any kind of sport that goes with them. He will sit and watch football, soccer, volleyball etc.

Well this last week the US open was on and we watched a couple of matches. He now takes my spatulas and whatever ball he can and uses the spatula to throw the ball. If we changed the channel before a commercial he would ask us to go back to the "nice hit" "nice throw". Maybe he will be a tennis player. He is so fun, and I wish i wold have caught in on camera!

We are good other wise.

An ode to the old 18th ward!

Elaine Larsen and I were talking last night about how great the old ward was and how much we just miss the friends and people we met there. To all you old 18Th warders you have to know what we are talking about. If any one knows what made that ward the way it was...please do share.

All of us have moved on, and we are all in very different parts of life now but i have no doubt that we will keep in touch with people from that ward for years to come. Elaine said last night that ten years down the road some one will call because they are in the neighborhood and it will spread until there are a lot of old friends just meeting for dinner.

I love that I had the opportunity to be in that ward, to meet those LIFETIME friends, to learn and grow with a ton of people that were in the EXACT boat I was in. Thank you to all of you for the parties at Littlefield's, the great RS activities, the fact there was always someone to hang out with and talk to, and thanks for all the times you invited me or someone else over for Sunday dinner. Great friends were met and I hope to keep them for LONG time.

Sorry I don't have pics of everyone...I put up what I had.

A down day!

I am having an off day. Trying hard to be positive and not eat everything I see...but not doing well. My poor boys (even though they are small) are walking on egg shells. That's all...

Sick boy!!

Braxton has been a very unhappy boy! Thursday night was hard! Braxton was up two or three times crying for mom and dad. So Friday morning I took him into the doctors, at about 5am that morning Chad I discussed going into the ER, but we had made it all night and only had 3 more hours till the doctors and that was a cheaper option so...

Well he has a flaming ear infection in the left ear. The doctor then informed me that he was going to prescribed some antibiotics but also some ear numbing stuff. My doc told me that they are finding that kids are building immunities to the antibiotics quicker then they use to, and that most of the time the ear infections will clear it's self up with thin the five days that they are taking the drug any way,without the drug, it is really just the pain that is causing the kids discomfort.

So we have just been doing the numbing stuff to see if the ear infection will heal it's self. If it is not noticeably better by tomorrow then we are starting the antibiotics. But any way Braxton has not been a happy camper.

Any one who knows my boy, knows he goes 100 miles per hour. He is my boy, two switches on or off. Well he has been off. Wants to be cuddled and held, wont eat, wont sleep, wont take any medicine! He cried for an hour straight this afternoon, with nothing Chad or I could do to make it better.

He wakes up in the morning appearing to be doing much better, but then by noon, he is curled up on his "couch" tugging at his ear, and it seems to just get worse as the day rolls on. Great Grandma Jane gave Braxton this little couch that converts into bed for Christmas, and Braxton has spent the last two days curled up with his bear and lovey covered in blankets on that couch. We keep watching the same movies but I am really just glad he is not crying those few hours we do.

He is sleeping now, but we will see how long that lasts!

Sorry for the no shirt in the pictures, he was burning up and would not take medicines so i strip him down.

Love you all KATY

On a happier Braxton note, he is saying prayers...Friday he was lying on the couch not feeling good and I hear this little voice "Heavenly Father"... inaudible... "Feel better"
...inaudible... "amen". I about died at how cute it was. I love to watch him do things that I have worked so hard to teach him. My friend Holly put it the best..

"There are times as a mom that you wonder if what you are doing is going to bare fruit soon. I keep thinking that I will see the fruits of my labors when my kids have grown and made right and good life choices......but I have been wrong. This experience was fruit to me,..."

Because I have been given much!

I was able to quit my job this last May and stay home with my boys. This decision was not made lightly and has been a trail all in its self. But with the continued counsel from the church, and our second boy, Chad and I decided it was the way our family needed to go.

The summer was so great, and being able to go up north when Chad was gone for long days was really great. Now school is in and our lives have again turned toward Chads continuing education.

Because I am home all day I have taken on some sweet x-tras. I was talking to Chad not to long ago about how grateful I am to have to option to stay home and how I could help those who were unable. SO... I am taking two x-tras on tuesdays, and one on thursday, and the occasional Kaylee here or there. This week has been so busy, Kaylee was here on Monday and Wednesday, and the others were here on their usal days. I keep telling gratefull mothers that I just hope that some one would do this for me if I still had to work. Leaving your kids is hard enough (I did it for a little over a year...and I even just left them with their dad, still really hard) But to have to leave your kids with those you don't know very well...

Any way on Tuesday I have these two cute boys, Easton is 3 and Nate is about 14 months. I really enjoyed it on Tuesday because it forces Braxton to share but he had some one to play with. On Thurdays I have Jagger, who is just barely older than Braxton, this was interesting and there is a lot of reffereeing that goes on between the two, but that is to axpected with two two year olds.

That is what i going on now. Love you all.

Picture over load!!!!

I have not blogged with pictures in a long time so... here it goes.

The first are when G-ma and G-pa Decker came to visit clear back in the beginning of June.

Then the trip Me and the boys took up North, it was so great to spend time with family. I miss them so much being so far. but it was nice to come home.

Then there are some of Braxton and Michael at the Zoo with Dad and G-ma Maxwell, that was a lot of fun to but i think Braxton is still a little young to really care. He would have had just as much fun on a play ground.

There are some of our HUGE garden. It is doing so well!! I will need to learn to can tomatoes if things continue.

And last but not least us at with the Lake with Larsen's on Friday! It was so fun, and a great way to finish the summer. The Larsen's are such great friends and live just down the street. They have a little girl who is three weeks older than Braxton, running around they looked like twins.

School starts tomorrow!!

That's us right now

No pictures...but it's an update

Thing are going we great for us. We mad it back home to Cedar City last night at about nine, and I honestly cried when I came into the house, I know that is kind of ridiculous but I have not been home for 3 straight weeks!

Chad is still working and getting ready for school, Braxton is counting to ten "one, two, three, four, five, six, six, eight, nine, six!!" OK well almost. He is talking up a storm and his two favorite words are "again" and "snack", if he had his way that would be his diet, chocolate milk and "snack", which really means anything he can take with him on his many adventures.

Michael is starting to really move. He is not full blown crawling yet but has his own ways of getting around. We had his MRI for his leg yesterday but have the apt with the doctor today so no big news there. He did so well with the MRI and came out of the drugs really well.

I am doing well buried in house work and laundry but so happy to be home. I had so much fun up north and I really miss the family when we are so far away but I really need a place I can run to when things get TO crazy. I want to visit more often but maybe not so long? Love you all KATY