SNOW DAY

So today my bother Brandon called me and asked me if he could take Derick to the snow. I said sure so he did and when he came back to bring Derick home he also brought home a truck full of SNOW. So Derick was freezing so he had a nice warm bath while Brandon and Kevin shoveled out the snow onto out grass, and the other kids had fun playing in it. Thanks Bobo and Kevin for the fun times. Here is a slide show of the kids playing.

My Poor Aiden

Aiden had tubes put into his ears about 1 1/2 ago, and we just recently found out hat one of his tubes had fallen out. Well that can be good or bad news, and in this case I am not really sure what to feel. Aiden has had this terrible cough for about 4 weeks now, so I decided to take him into the doctor to see if it was like bronchitis?? or something like that, I know better to rush them in for everything... most likely it will be viral and will pass. So off we went to the doctor today, 1 reason being for the cough, one reason being that yesterday we were trying to take family pictures for our Christmas cards, and I needed some extra light so I took the lamp shade off the lamp, and yep Aiden touched the light bulb and fried his hand, so that being the other reason. So we were at the doctor, and all is well, no fluid in the lungs, no rsv, no nothing they sound good, but how about them ears, what is the story with those. So he has always had major mochos and still to this day he does it is NASTY, so I asked the doctor, you know he has been tugging at his ears quite a bit, do you think his cough has something to do with the drainage of his nose, and possibly his ears. So my wonderful doctor checked his ears and sure enough, in BOTH EARS there is fluid, which could possibly cause the cough, and nasty nose. They are all connected. So I am so bumbed because I kinda had a feeling that our journey with Aiden and his ears was not over. So now we get to visit the ENT, and have all kinds of hearing tests done again on Aiden(which requires him to be sedated) which freaks me out. His story is quite long for just a 2 year old boy. Those familiar with the story knows how hard the journey has been for me, but we got through it and I know we will get through this one too. So PLEASE if you are reading this pray for both of us, we are going to need it. I think more so me then him, but poor guy has gone through so much as a mother I just hate having him have to go through more. In the end all will be well, but through these time and this news life kinda is not so much fun. Oh how much I love this little boy, he is so sweet. We will keep all updated on Aiden and his journey.

What is wrong with PEOPLE

So this will be my first post that will have no pictures, but right now I am really needing some words because I am really feeling down. So this morning I was getting Derick ready to take him to school, and I made his lunch today, but did not have a drink so we got in the car and I went to dig in my purse(that yes I had left in the car story to come) and it was not there... so I reached in my change thing grabbed him .30 and went off to school. Well I knew that something was not right when I went to my car and it was unlocked.. just could not pin point it at the time. Well when I reached for my purse and it was not there I just knew SOMEONE HAD STOLEN MY PURSE FROM MY CAR THAT WAS IN THE DRIVEWAY!!! well sure enough I get home check in the house, check in the car again, and then PANIC. So I go back in the house and logged on to my bank account and sure enough charges have been made, I am so ticked I start crying. $351.00 to Walmart $6.00 at chevron, $4.00 at some fast food place $ here $ there but I as most upset at walmart yeah not cool. So I call the bank cancel cards here cancel cads here at this time I can not even remember what was in my wallet, purse/diaper bag. I am so ticked and mad. Why you ask would I leave my purse in my car??? So lets backtrack to my day yesterday. I was out running some errands kids crying, yelling I am hungry, I am tired I want out, running around to try to be home by 2:45 because Aiden has therapy, so I get home at 2:40 something, Aiden had fallen asleep,so I had to wake him up. NOT GOOD TO DO THAT, Raegan had to pee, and was saying it over and over again, and Aiden therapist had just pulled up, I was in a rush had no extra hands and on top of it Aiden had leaked through his diaper so I needed to get situated and quick before more happened, oh yea Derick was still in the car. So he gets out shuts the van door and we carry on with the night. Well I had no extra hands to grab my purse or my cell phone, no biggie I will get them later. Well not so much, the day went on and my nephew came over to play, dinner rolled around bed time and so on, and well I just forgot. Shame on me, so this morning when I went out to the car windows were cracked and purse was gone. what to do what to do. So after starting my day off like this I am done and it was only 9:00am now it is like 1:00 and I just want the day to be over. The police came took all kinds of info down, but one good thing is that we were able to track these people/person by the places they swiped my card at and when. So when the police officer was here he said if you are not going to press charges I am not going to take it any farther then this. Well if they catch them I will press charges so off the officer went to help me. So about 1 hour later or so, KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. Do you recognize these people, they through surveillance cameras were able to know who they were. Police are the bomb.com they are on a mission to find them now. Stupid walmart the clerk even asked for id and the girl looked nothing like me at all. Well so now the police are on a mission to find these people. Seriously what is wrong with people to stoop that low and steal someones purse in there car in the driveway. I guess I am soon to find out. Well that outcome of this is yet unknown and we will all soon find out, but I still feel very violated.

Human Mr. Potato Head

So Aiden was playing in his room one night when we walked in to this, It was so funny, and very cute.

Where does this go??


Yay mom!!!


Almost


GOT IT!!

My little Girlscout

So Gary and I decided to put Raegan in girl scouts this year, she is really not old enough to be a Daisy yet so she is the mascot or the daisy troop. she loves it, she loves to do all the activities and participate in helping her troop earn money so they can do fun things. She is growing up way too fast. Here are some pictures of one of our activities.


Raegan in her vest


Mommy and Raegan making her mask


Raegan working hard

My New Niece Brookelynn

Introducing Brookelynn Ann

My sweet little Niece

My sister is a mom, WOW

her support Myrriah, Kelly, and me

Ash and I


Ashley's water broke at 5:00 on Friday morning and after a kinda long labor and delivery her sweet daughter Brookelynn Ann was born. She did very well and both mom and baby are now home and resting very comfortably. I am so happy to have such a sweet little baby in our family, and can not wait to see her grow up, and see my sister grow with her. Congrats Ashley, and we are so happy for you and are here for you always.
p.s. is she not so dang cute???

TAGGED

Tagged!

I have been putting off doing this. Don't ask me why. I was tagged by Cyndi. List 5 fears, 5 joys, 5 obsessions/collections, 5 surprising facts about you. Then tag 5 people. Easy and fun! Here we go:
5 FEARS: Being alone, my children getting kidnapped, heights, snakes, death.
5 JOYS: husband * My three kids *friendships * extended family * the gospel
5 OBSESSIONS/COLLECTIONS: cooking food, vinyl, card making, Reagan and her hair bows, my weight.

5 SURP RISING FACTS: i will have to have more time to think about this! unless someone anyone can think of something surprising about me. ANY TAKERS!!
I tag well just about everyone has done this, so I tag my family, Kelly, Megan, Ashley, mom

Family Night

So our FHE was quite interesting last night. Gary and I had took the kiddos to the Pumpkin Patch, but not just any Pumpkin Patch, the one at Cal Poly because you can pick your own pumpkin from the vine and it is just cool, but anyways so as we were driving there MOM forgot to get directions because she thought she knew where it was and little did she NOT know where it was. So after driving around um for about 35 min or so we finally found it, and of course by this time Aiden had just woken up, and Derick and Raegan were yep sleeping. So as we are driving up the road we find out that IT'S CLOSED. I am so bumbed and at this point just want to go home, I am mad and hungry and trying not to take it out on Gary and vise versa. So we decide to go get some food. So we did and then Derick woke up and was so bumbed that we are not going to the Pumpkin Patch, so Gary and I look at each other and decide to go to this other Pumpkin Path my sister had told me about. Heritage Farms we were off, so we get there and it is 6:50 and can you guess what time they close, yep 7pm, so we hurried and ran up there and at least got some pictures and let the kids pick out a pumpkin, looked at some animals and I was talking to the lady and they do a Hay ride and all kind of stuff so needless to say we are going back on wed, and early enough so the kids an do all the fun things. So here are some pictures of out journey that night.

Derick holding a baby chicken



Gary and I



The Three Little Pumpkins



So cute!!!



The Family

Gas= $56.00
Dinner=$31.00
Pumpkins=$8.00 so far
Getting lost=42 miles out of the way!!
Not fighting with your husband= ALMOST PRICELESS
Pumpkin Patch with the Family= PRICELESS

ANOTHER TWO

So it is TWO, My sister found out on Monday that she will be having twins. She is so excited and kinda scared to have two, but I know that she will do just fine, and that she out of everyone in our family is the most organized to have twins. We are just so thrilled for Ashton, and he is going to be such a great big brother and a big helper since mom is going to need it. CONGRATS MERRILL'S. What a great journey!!

Another One... or Two... Maybe Three...Possibly Four???

So today I got a phone call from my little nephew Ashton, and this is how the conversation went...
me: hello
ashton: hello is this lala
me: yes, hey ashton
ashton: hey lala it's ashton, hey lala guess what, my mom is going to have a baby
me: she is
ashton: yeah and i am going to be a big brother
me: oh ashton I am so excited for you, let me talk to your mom.
So after years of trying and not being able to conceive, my sister Kelly did the invrto, and after 2 long pain full weeks she found out today that she is going to have a baby, now how many..... well check back again in about a week or so and I will tell you. So CONGRATS TO kelly and her FAMILY. we are looking forward to your journey. we will always be here for you. we love you tons. CONGRATS AGAIN!!!

Comfort Kinda

So Gary got insurance through his work YEAH!! we are so excited, anyways so I made it a point to get all three of my kids in to the doctor just for a check up. All are doing well we found out that some kids still have some of the same problems that they have had for while, but it is very comforting to know that all is well. Last year our little Aiden had surgery, he had tubes put into his ears and to our suprise our amazing dotor had told us that that his tube in his left ear has fallen out. So now is going to be the big test on wiether Aiden's ear ill drain
like it is supposed to so it does not look like this ever again.(pictures are a tad gross, viewer disgession is advised)









So now is going to be the real challenge, will we have to deal with this for the next upcoming years of his life, or will all be fine? Who knows. We will just love him anyways.

Ashley's Baby Shower

So last weekend we threw a baby shower for my sister Ashley, we had a blast, we played some great games and had great food, and had so much fun. She is having a little girl so it is defiantly fun to shop and plan for girl since we all have boys. Out of 11 grandchildren this will be the third girl. We are all so excited and can not wait until little baby Brookelynn comes into our family.

Party

Hello to all my blog fans. I am going to be having a Party on Thursday, Oct.2 at 6:30 p.m This is going to be a great party because I will have all my product as well as all my vinyl and plotter there so you can custom order that night and receive it that night. How awesome is that!! As well as my vinyl, there will be Bows, all these bows are hand made and sell anywhere from $1.00-$5.00 how great is that, she also does headbands that are way too cute, but that is not all, there will be handmade cards that are made by a wonderful talented girl, and great fashionable jewelry!! It can not get any better then that, s stop on by and get all your Christmas shopping started. For more info on this Party email me at lindseyslettering@gmail.com. Hope to see you all there!!

Yard Work

Gary and all the kids pulling weeds. So cute!!

Gary and Aiden mowing the yard

Go Derick Go...

Raegan trying to get in there.

My Little Soccer Star

My little Scorpion :)
Derick with his team... GO SCORPIONS!!!

The coachs telling the kids where they are going to play

Derick had his very first game last week and he did great. His team won 10-0. They rock. He can't wait to play. He talks about it all the time. (I too am a bad mom kelly for posting 1 week later).

That One Last Run!!!

So last Saturday Gary ha work off so he and his friend Joel decided to go on a mountain bike ride, while i stayed at home with the kiddos... He called me around noon and said hey i am going to go down the hill one more time is that OK, and how are the kids doing. I was like go ahead they are fine i will See you soon. So yeah he comes home and he has this on his face and shoulder and he helmet was cracked. I said what happened hunny, are you OK, he said I ATE IT HARD, he was kinda out of it his helmet flew off and he landed face first going about 20 . Poor Gary he said later that he might have had a slight concussion, but i guess we will never find out cause he seems OK. I could not help but laugh, it is kinda funny :) Gary's battle wounds
The not so proctive Helmet!!

Derick's first Day of School!!

Derick in his new outfit!!! So handsome!!




All three kids!




Derick putting his backpack away!




Derick with his teacher Mrs. Beardsley!

Derick was so excited to go to school. He woke up at 6:45 this morning. HOLY COW! So freaking early. If you ask him if he is excited or had a good day at school or anything along these lines he will give you a short answer.. yes, fine, good. He is getting to big to want to talk or give hugs, he was like go mom!! I will miss him around he is a great kid, but defiantly glad that school has started!

An Anniversary Gift to My Parents

Before!!!

After we toe up old floor!!

The new Floor!!

So for my parents Anniversary all of us decided that it would be a great idea to gt my parents a new floor since some water damage had ruined it several years ago. So my mom picked out some flooring that she liked and we all chipped in and bought it for them. So last weekend Gary and Kevin installed it and they did such an amazing job. W decided that we should have a party so all who could come over came over and we watched them install it and just hung out and played while they worked there behinds off. Great work guys!! Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!! We love you.

Jenifer's B-day

So just a little later but who cares. My cute sister-in-law turned 17 last week and we threw a birthday party for her at our Aunt Sandie's house in Chino. We had a blast playing fun games and eating on the table. yes THE TABLE. So we all sat down at once and grabbed a fork and Sandie came and poured our food in the middle of the table and we all ate. It was so much fun. We missed Carly and Jon and there kiddos but thought of them and wished they were there. Sandi did such a good job we love all of her ideas. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENN WE LOVE YOU!!!

We love Grandma

Grandma and Raegan when she was blessed!




Grandma, Gary Jenny and the kids posing for a picture at the bowling alley!




Grandma, Jenny and Derick chucking corn :)


Grandma and Grandpa with Raegan Christmas 2005


So on Friday my sister Kelly called me and we were going to get together and go out to lunch with my kiddos, because her hubby and little boy are in Utah and so I told my kids about it and Derick was excited to see Ashton, which Raegan and Aiden fed off of him, Then I had to tell Derick that Ashton was in Utah visiting his grandma. Well to my surprise my sweet little Raegan said " no mom grandma is broken" So I said "no Hun Ashton is visiting HIS grandma" Well then she said"OH mom well OUR grandma is broken" So I said "she is" and Rae said "YEAH" so I said " well why do you think are grandma is broken" So Rae said " she went into the swimming pool and got broken and died" I said " grandma Watson did die you are right" So the Rae says " why did she die mom" I said she was sick and Heavenly Father wanted her to come home" Then Raegan said"ok I love her" I love the sweet innocence of children, they are so observant and have very selective hearing and a wonderful imagination. Here are some pictures over the years of grandma and Raegan. We love and miss out GRANDMA!!