Catch Up

It has been a long time. A lot has happened and I have been busy with the family, work, and school. Where to start, Jake got a new job that is wonderful not only is it a pay raise but insurance is cheaper and better, but he also has a set schedule which has been a huge help in every way. Leighton has kept me busy with fall ball which is baseball in the fall and so far his team is in first place. Xia is loving school. She is in the dual emerson spanish program and enjoying every minute of it. I took Xia for her first pedicure yesterday and she loved it. Leighton just started band in school and is learning the Alto Saxaphone. We had the cousins family reunion this summer. Jake was only able to go for a day lucky for us it was at bear lake so he was able to come up for that one day. It was a lot of fun seeing everyone. I am finally at the tail end of my schooling meaning that I am getting ready to sumit my PCE application to do my student teaching. Jake and I took the kids to the circus last night. I love going and so do the kids Jake goes just to humor me but it was a lot of fun. I think that catches us up to date so far. Here are some reunion pictures.

Newest update

Its been a long week this week. Its the last week before I go back to work next week. However I have been babysitting since Monday. I have had my nephew Tav since Monday and will have him until probably Thursday night. I also had my other nephew Wilson on Monday. He came over to play with Xia so his mom could have a break. Tav is here because Chloe my youngest niece is up at PCMC. She broke her elbow and got a bacterial infection in her joints so she had to have surgery on her elbow and knee. Daph has been up there with her and the other kids have been farmed out to other family members. I took the kids swimming with Mindi and Wilson at the Kearns swimming pool. That was a lot of fun. My energy is slowly coming back and I'm ready to go back to work for the four days before I get to go on vacation to Bear Lake for Jake's family reunion. I'm so excited to see everyone again. Three years is just too long to not see all of them. We all have such a good time when we get together.

It's been a while

It has been a while since my last post. A lot has been happening we have finally finished baseball season as well as soccer season. Hopefully I will be able to post pictures soon. Leighton got to spend a lot of time as a pitcher. His arm has gotten much stronger. Xia finished soccer and loved every minute of it. I think that she enjoyed the more social part of it not so much the skill of it. Xia got into the Sapnish emerson program at Mill Creek Elementry next year. This program will give her the oppertunity to learn Spanish and be fluent in it by the time she has finished 6th grade. I am almost finished with my semester of school. I have one more paper to finish and hope to have it posted by Sat. My sister and I are doing wedding pictures for a friend on Sat. Then I have one more week of work and then I will be off for any where from 3 to 6 weeks because I am going in for surgery. Can I tell you how much I wouldn't give to be normal and have a normal summer without any surgeries, but what can you do. I just keep thinking that when this is over my life will be a little bit more simple. I think that is all the information taht I have for now. Hopefully I can get pictures posted soon.

Baseball

So Leighton has been playing baseball this season and it hasa taken a lot of practice to get him so that he isn't afraid of the ball. Well needless to say we finally did it and he has been willing to hit and catch the ball that is until he got a pop ball in the mouth. When Jake said he had a fat lip I figured it wouldn't be the first and it won't be the last. That was until I saw his lip. Here are pictures that I took that night.





Needless to say he has gone back to being a little bit afraid of the ball again. It was a couple of rough games after that. Jake and I thought that his team the White Sox might make it the whole season without any wins. Then today that changed Leighton hit the ball and made two scores home and one of those he even slid into home and was safe. Yay it was a good day for him.

what's new

Its been a while. The only thing that is new on our schedule is that Leighton had to go see Dr. Larsen. For those of you who don't know who this is this is my moms, dads, uncle, grandma Searles and my foot doctor. We are on a first name bases with him seeing how we go so often. Well Leighton had been walking funny, and then her came up to me and said "mom there is something on my foot and it hurts" as I looked at his foot I was able to see a marble sized lump about 2 inches under his ankle. So I called Clark and he told me to bring him in. It took us about a week to get him in but for that week Leighton paniced he was afraid taht they would have to do surgery. I kept telling him that if that was something that needed to happen there was a lot of steps to get to that point it wasn't a first thing. Well we got there this morning and Clark said that it was from extra bones in the foot that about 30% of the population has and that it can be fixed with orthotics. It was irritated because of the cleets worn for baseball and him always favoring that foot. However Clark wanted to take x-rays just to be sure. Well he came in and said there is good news and bad. To this I asked what the good was and he said it was just like he thought just some extra bones that were inflamed. So I then asked what the bad was and Clark responded that he had feet like me and my mom. All and all he is going to be as difficult as I am when it comes down to medical stuff :(

Wow we're busy

Leighton had his opening ceremonies for baseball this week end. We got to meet all the teams and their coaches. We also got the oppertunity to meet a pro-baseball player that started out in the Kearns baseball. Turns out that there are 7 different pro-baseball players that have come from Utah and the Kearns area. Then yesterday Leighton had his first baseball game. They lost however they were winning until the last inning. Leighton was so much fun to watch he was worried about hitting the ball at the wrong time so he didn't swing at all. However the first time he was up to bat this came in handy because he got four balls so he got to walk to first base. The second time he wasn't so lucky. He got to play the position that he wanted. When the coach asked them what they wanted to play Leighton's response was out field. He didn't want to be pitcher or catcher he wanted to be in the out field.
Xia is doing soccer and has had her first game as well. In her league they don't keep score its more to learn the sport and have fun. She could careless about the ball when she was on the field all she wanted to do was to talk to the other players at least she ran with the ball so she could talk while she ran.
Saturdays are going to be busy here for the next little bit because Xia's games are always at 10:30 am and Leighton has games on Saturday either at 8 am, 9:30 am, 11:00 am, or 3 pm. the later ones aren't going to be so hard to get to its the early ones so Jake and I might be tag teaming it this time.
That's all that's been happening other then work and school for me oh and being the taxi driver to get Leighton to games Mon, Wed, Thurs, and Sat, Xia to soccer Tue, and Sat. That makes Mon, Tues, Wed,and Thrus I leave the house at 7 in the morning and get home at 7 at night. I still don't know how parents do this with more then two kids.

The Launch

It's been a long time since I've had time to blog. Between working full time, school full time, being a mom and now because apperentally I didn't think that was enough Leighton is now doing baseball which requires 3 days of practice plus games and Xia is doing soccer oh and I teach the 5 year olds in primary. However I am going to blog today instead of do homework becasue last night the kids and i got to go to a launch party for our favorite author. We have been lucky enough to go to the last 2 launch parties for Brandon Mulls Fablehaven series and loved both of those. The kids both got shirts and autographs from these parties so when I heard that there was going to be a launch party for his new series "The Beyonders" I was stocked. After I picked up Xia from school we set off. The kids both enjoyed it and got to see many of their favorite characters from the "Fablehaven" series. We also got some cute photos with the characters. Afterwards the kids got to have their shirts and book signed by Brandon Mull. When Xia got up to him she said to him "you write good! I like your books" to this Brandon Mull just smiled and said thanks. I hope that they can remember these launch parties and remember how much they enjoyed them as well as the books. If that is the case then it is well worth the time.



Waiting for the party to begin. Leighton already starting the book!


One of the "Knights of the Dawn"


The "Knights of the Dawn, Fairy Queen, and the "Wrath" from book 3


The "Fairy Queen"


"Merial" from FableHaven book 1


Meeting Brandon Mull again for signings