Room Wars

One day my friend Annie and I were having a messy room war via text. I didn't have time to do any cleaning and apparantly noone at our house did either...big surprise I know. (I am the only one who cleans except the cleaning lady who comes twice a month and why does she come since everyone just thrashes on it the day after? Oh, wait, my sweet Drew is usually really good about helping. He wakes up most mornings and makes his bed and picks up his room. He now even makes Miles bed now that they are sharing a room. He is a good kid.) The girls room is always a disaster!!!!! These girls are pigs! They were constanly blaming each other for the mess. They now as of 2 weeks ago are in their own room. They are in heaven, but now the pressure is on to keep it clean and not blame anyone else. Every month or so I would have to go in their room and do damage control. This could only happen while they were at school, otherwise Audrey wouldn't let me throw away that piece of string that meant so much to her, or that pen that doesn't work anymore, but it's pink and we can't throw anything away that is pink! You know what I'm talking about. 1 view 2nd view my bad kitchen day

February in Vegas

Still catching up and will be for a while. Hoping to get completely caught up by the time i leave for Utah next week since I will be there for the whole month of July. Life in Vegas is hot! I have done my share of complaining about the weather here. But...from November 1st until about the beginning of May, it is awesome! The weather is very mild, and I still wear flip flops in the winter sometimes. It never snows, and seldom rains. It rarely is overcast and when it is, I find myself yawning and feeling like doing nothing. I love the fact that it is sunny 350 days a year. There is something about that energy that you get from natural sunlight. I am good to go, go, go all day with projects, errands, the gym, and all the junk my kids do, and I rarely take a nap. But...in October, I am soooo sick of the heat! I want fall. I want the smell of fall. I want leaves falling of the trees, and I want to start wearing sweaters. I want to bake something with apples in it. But, that doesn't happen here. It is still 90+ degrees in October. When November comes, it just cools off, but doesn't feel like fall. ANd when Christmas comes, I want snow, and cozy, and to drink me some hot cocoa on a cold winter day. Nope, we don't get that either. It looks the same, but just a tad cooler. Now it is summer, and we are in the low 100's each day. I think I am used to this heat. Owen and I call each other lizards cause we get cold when it's 60 degrees outside. The heat has not bothered me yet this summer. But, I think it has been mild. Now if we were to get to maybe 115, it may be a different story. Well, now that I've bored you with the weather report, I'll show you some pictures of life in Vegas in February. Miles on his motorcycle AUdrey on her scooter The kids at the park waiting for Maggie to get out of Blue Cat group. Drew and his wild friend Jacob at our house. Audrey loves our trampoline. TOo bad it's so hot now that it doesn't get jumped on. But in the winter/spring, she lived on it.

An attempt to catch up.

Now that school is out, and I don't have anymore major projects to help the kids with, I think I may attempt to update by blog. I went looking through my pictures and realized how behind I really was. Here we go.... Presidents Day! I know, this was only 4 months ago. We went to Utah for Presidents Day and had a great time. Right before we went, I had an unexpected ectopic pregnancy. It was pretty scary, and according to the Dr. it was really bad. It had burst into my abdomen and I was on the verge of bleeding to death. the strange thing is that I didn't even know that it was that bad until after my surgery--which by the way, they had to take one of my tubes for obvious reasons. I had been spotting for 2 weeks, but thought I was just having an irregular period. I never thought I could actually be pregnant. Then on Friday, I tried to get into my family Dr. Since I didn't have an OB, and He couldn't see me. I thought I'd wait it out over the weekend and go in on Monday. That night I decided to take a pregnancy test which was positive and so I just assumed I was having a miscarriage. The next day I was humped over the toliet in pain, chills and nauseous. I decided I better go to the ER with a little push from my friend Cherie who I really think was God sent. She had had an ectopic before, and I think she knew that's what was going on. I farmed the kids out and Owen took the rest of the day off and took me to the ER. Sure enough, that's what it was, and 8 hours later and $30,000 I went home. We were stressed becuase my insurance doesn't cover anything pregnancy related, but they were nice and payed $25,000 of it. So....the reason I post this is because exactly a week later, we were in Utah and my friend Maria and her family were going tubing at soldiers hollow. Owen was going to take the kids and I was feeling so left out. So I sucked it up and went. I felt fine, but some of those hills were a little bumpy! Afterwards we went to lunch and then to The Homestead to swim in the crater which I wasn't able to do. But I would hands down go tubing again. Having a tow rope take you back to the top with 6 different paths to go on makes it well worth it! Audrey on the Tow rope Drew on the tow rope Drew and Gavin Audrey and Kesley The Lovebirds The Fam! Drew being Drew funny shot of Drew running to the crater in his moon boots The crater Everyone except for me! You're welcome for taking your picture! It was Hot in there!