I'm terrible I know

Its been too long I know but I've been busy. First off as of January I had to have 26 papers finished for school in order to start student teaching ink August. The good news is I now have 5 more to go and I will have made that April 1st dead line. Also Leighton was in basketball and is now in baseball which takes up a lot of time. However he is doing wonderful in school we njust had his parent teacher conferences and found out he is reading on a 6th grade reading level and is more then excelling in math. He also found out that his specialty teachers gave him the only 3+ in band that she gave to his whole class. All his teachers love him and all his hard work. Xia is doing very well in Spanish she can already Read from Spanish to English pretty fluently and is loving every minute of it. Jake and I are celebrating our 12 year annaversary tomorrow and I got two new toys first a 27 inch iMac which I love pictures to follow, and also the new iPad 3 which I am also loving.

Long time no Blog

Wow its really been that long since my last blog. It has been a very busy time for me and my family. I am on the last real term before student teaching. I also was able to get 26 credit hours in last term and pass all the classes so I was asked to join Alph Kappa Phi which for those of you that don't know this is the honor society for the education department in the country and looks really good on my resume. Yeah me! I also continue to teach have been helping Jake with his English and Math because he has also gone back to school and continue to help both the kids with their school work. Xia is still loving her Spanish Emerson that she is doing in school and Leighton is doing very well in fact he was able to get a 4 on his reading comprehension for the state and also his math for those that don't know what a 4 is it is the equivalent to a +A then he got a 3 on his science. I also took my last Praxis test and was very nervous because everyone said it was so hard and didn't pass it the first time but guess what I did it. Again Yeah Me! My mom and I have been to two concerts thanks to Jake we got to see the Zac Brown Band and then the following weekend we saw Brad Paisley. Both were wonderful concerts however I woke up the Saturday after Brad Paisley with a stomach ache that just got worse and worse until it got to the point on Monday I finally got 30 minutes sleep but had to get up for work and started to throw up again and was doubled over so Jake took me to Ann Jeffered's who in turn sent us to St. Marks for and ultra sound and blood work and two hours later I found myself admitted to the hospital to have my gall bladder taken out. Sad thing is that not 7 months before I was at St. Marks for my hysterectomy. Now hopefully I'm done with my medical for the year.

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 :(