Update

Mom is having surgery tomorrow to repair the break.
Truck is looking like it's going to cost around $2100 to fix.
Last time I checked, I don't fart quarters or poop nickels..... so no hope in even pulling the money out of my @$$.
Hooray for me!

In case I thought it couldn't get worse.....

We had the privilege of going up to "The Property" this weekend with Darin's family. It was a whole lot of fun and everyone got along really well. Lots of good times until we went to leave and Darin's AMAZING truck decided that it will not go into drive.

I couldn't believe our luck and we were forced to leave it up at the property with plans to come back the next day with a trailer and truck to tow it. Sunday I asked my mom to take the two older boys and Darin, Matthew (D's Cousin) and I headed back to the property (2 hours away) with both babies and a trailer in tow. Getting the truck down the mountain is a story all in itself but in short it involves STRATEGICALLY getting the truck on the trailer (a 2 hour process) realizing that we couldn't possibly pull his truck out on the dirt road in the truck we had. Unloading the truck, the truck and the trailer and the truck that was pulling them rolling down the hill, Darin driving his truck out of the dirt road in REVERSE (about 5.3 miles) and finally abandoning the truck at a gas station to be retrieved on a day when we had the equipment to pull the truck on the trailer front-end first.

After an exhausting 10 hours we finally arrived home to find my mom at the bottom of the stairs with a BROKEN LEG!!! Yeah... she went down the stairs, in the dark, with no glasses AFTER taking all her night meds. I had called and asked her to open the garage for me and she missed a step or two on the way back down. We took her to the hospital where it was VERY OBVIOUS that she has spiral fractured the distal part of her fibula.... seriously... it's a bad break and she will find out tomorrow if she is going to need surgery. After looking at the x-ray... my diagnosis is DEFINITELY!! Seriously it's a horrible break and the bottom 2.5 inches of the bone is detached, jagged and displaced from the larger part of the bone. YAY!!! I SWEAR CAN WE BE FRICKIN' DONE WITH FRICKIN' HOSPITALS ALREADY?????

On a lighter note... today was Haley's first day of kindergarten and even though I'm not her mommy... I do babysit her and I am in charge of making sure her hair is adorable every day... so here's a couple of pics of HALEY SUE on her first day of kindergarten.

This is just a view from the top... I'm trying to be cute/creative but don't have everything I need to be exceptional!

And this is just a cute smile... she was very excited and said that school was lots of fun... but she doesn't remember her teachers name so don't ask... she gets annoyed with that question! ;o)

Slacker!

So I have become quite a slacker recently when it comes to blogging. I really don't have much of an excuse. No one has been sick... dad hasn't been in the hospital. Boys have been fairly reasonable. Shawn got married.... that was an exciting event. Colton is smiling and laughing tons! I suppose I could blog some pics. Darin is...... Darin.



Today is the first day of school! Damon's teacher is Ms. Dietz. I would guess she is around 5'9". She has a reputation for being.... NICE! No really, she is the most requested 3rd grade teacher in the school. I just hope that nice doesn't translate into pushover. On first impressions, I would assume that she is NO pushover! Hip hip hooray... this could be the start of a beautiful year.



Jaydin's teacher, Miss Sorensen, is like 4'8"! Seriously... that might even be giving her a few extra inches! I don't know much about her as she didn't teach 2nd grade last year. In fact, she was a kindergarten teacher. The only thing I've heard about her was from a family friend who did an internship type thing at their school last year... she's says... SHE'S PHENOMENAL!!!! WOOT WOOT!!



We started Harry Potter last night. I figure that if I'm going to be reading to them every night, we should start with some fun chapter books. The first chapter of Harry Potter is 17 pages long and Damon couldn't get enough. I'm excited to read it to them... we could have a goal to read the whole series before the end of the school year or something. Wouldn't that be a blast?



I started watching Vicki's girls today. Haley starts kindergarten this year but for whatever reason, our school district always starts the kindergarteners a week later than the rest of the grades. Once kindergarten starts, I will be driving Haley to school every day. Vicki is trying to find the nearest bus stop so I don't have to drive her all the way to school, but we shall see how that all plays out! I am excited to do her hair everyday for school. She sits still because she desperately wants her hair to be pretty. (Seriously she would let me do her hair when she was 2!) Maybe I'll try to post pics of her hair on exceptional hair days.

If your bored.. now you understand why I'm trying not to pull my hair out!
Hope everyone is well!

:o)

School days

So... although I was really thinking that I wanted to homeschool... I'm counting down the days till school starts. I'm praying that my boys get sensational teachers and that I can just supplement their learning. Damon and Jaydin just don't like being together all the time and the fighting is becoming unbearable!!! So school starts in 15 days and I'm SOOOO excited!!!

Yesterday I put up my new "Adams" wall. A couple of Darin's siblings have walls like this and I was excited to get SOMETHING on my walls. Here is a pic of how mine turned out... I think it's kinda cute! ;o)

Basically it's just pictures of all the families in the Adams side of our fam. I love how it turned out kind of heart shaped even though that was not my intention... it's just the way it turned out for symmetrical purposes.

Hmm... kids are freakin out.... hope everyone is having happy times!

Photo Session

So I was trying to take pictures to make some sort of card for a couple of nurses that I really appreciated and a couple of AMAZING Docs. Of course... If I'm taking pics of Colton, I've got to take pics of my Dom and his oh-so-cute smile!! Love my sweet little guys. Still thinking about killing the older ones! >:o[ I swear they are evil!

Aren't they a cute duo? Dom insisted on holding Colton. Love the two of them together. They are both so mild mannered! How did the older two get so Evil?!?!!?

Colton just chillin'! Unlike his evil brothers!

Little crooked smile! So cute... not EVIL like Damon and Jaydin!!

Ugh!! Can you tell I'm super fed up with the two older kids? I would love to give them away... any takers?

Finally a break?

So the stent placement seemed to be successful for my dad. For now... he is doing well. Colton has also made a complete recovery. Still don't know what started it all but I'm so grateful that for now... things are normal. I also found out officially that my boys have insurance... so Coltons hospital stay will be covered by CHIP. We will end up paying only a couple thousand which is amazing in comparison to how much it will all cost! (I'll def. keep you all updated on the grand total. For now I only have $10,000 in bills for LIFEFLIGHT and the American Fork Emergency Room, I've yet to see my Primary Children's Hospital bill!)

Lately I'm feeling slightly homicidal as Damon tries to push me over the edge. Not sure what to do with that kid but I need to figure it out before he becomes a teen ager! UGH!!

Life otherwise feels fairly normal.

Hope everyone is feeling normal as well!
LOVE ME!

Heart Attack

No.... Really...

My dad had a heart attack today. 3 of the 5 bypasses they did during his open heart surgery collapsed. They want to try and bypass the bypasses and put stents in the original arteries they chose to bypass. If that doesn't work.. they open him up AGAIN and bypass the bypassed bypass.

UGH!!! When it rains it pours.