It won't be long...

I have been a little more teary eyed as my second son starts his preparations to serve a LDS mission.  I think it is because I know what its like now.  (Ben, my first has been out for FIFTEEN months next week!)  I know how much we will miss him!  He was made an Elder a couple of weeks ago and he turned his papers in to our Bishop last night!   We should hear where he will be serving his two years in about 3 to 4 weeks!  I'm just not so sure that I am ready!   :)

Sweet Heart Dance!

This weekend was Meg's sweetheart dance.  She had a real hard time finding a double SO.... she got to double with her parents and T's parents!  We all had a fun time (we... his parents... have been friends for a long time).  Meg cannot wait till her 6 months are up so she can actually drive with a date somewhere and not have to have her parents drop them off!

Meanest Mom EVER!

One of my favorite blogs that I follow is The Meanest Mom.  I like her sarcasm & she has some hilarious stories and creative ways of thinking up consequences for her own children.  (Check out her story about the chicken Pox!)   I started reading her blog mostly because I have told my kids their whole lives that I'M the meanest mom.   With this in mind... I have been trying to get my children to keep their rooms clean, make their beds, do their jobs... sometimes we succeed sometime we don't.  

Earlier this week Zack ordered a codex for Brayden and they are eagerly awaiting its arrival!   I had a brilliant idea (if I do say so myself!) on Tuesday... I will receive the package... and HIDE it somewhere in their mess of a room!!!  They won't know whose room it is in... only that it has arrived!   Brayden decided that he would thwart my efforts by keeping his room clean all week!

IT GOT HERE TODAY!

Let the cleaning begin!!!!

Maybe I will be cruel and hide it in their sisters room!

Can you see the resemblance?

Yep, you guessed it our dogs name is PIPPIN after Pippin and Mary from Lord of the Rings!  They both are small, have huge eyes and brown fur (hair)... so why not?  I just can't stop calling him Scooby!  (our last dog!)

Gonna be Trouble!

You know there is gonna be trouble.... when your husband and children are secretly planning and whispering.... then suddenly there is an unexpected "errand".  THIS is what greeted me after crafts last night!  He is a Chorkie.  Now we just have to name him!   Any sugestions??? 

Here we go again!

 Tuesday started out pretty good... we just had to run to Bountiful to get Zack's stitches out... or so we thought!  The stitches started to come out ok... but as she got further up his arm two separate spots on his stitches started to open up.  Then it started to bleed...oooze...seep through many layers of gauze.  She was also concerned about the lump further up where the stitches didn't come apart!  The P.A. came in and looked at it and they called his Dr. and they said that most likely Zack would need to have surgery in the morning to clean everything out.  

We didn't get too far from the Dr's office and she called us and asked if we could come back to the hospital tonight at 6 for Dr. to look at it.  Then another call telling Zack not to eat or drink anything... just in case the Dr. wanted to work on it then.  Then we got home and got another call asking if we could be back there asap.  So we headed back to Bountiful and checked him in.  Don't you love his cute knees?  Dr. came in and said it was a hematoma and that it wouldn't take long.  It didn't!  Surgery was only 15 mins.  Dr. doesn't think that there is any infection... but put him on a antibiotic because of the 2 surgeries in 2 weeks!  He is doing well this morning!  Excited that he found a cheap drum set on KSL!  Now if I can keep him off of them long enough for his arm to heal... we will be set!

It looks good?!?

This morning we took the bandages off for the first time so he could shower before work.  It looks like one of Frankensteins scars... but I am told that chicks dig scars!  The bruising starts where the wrapping ended... thus the weird bruises!  We put cream on and rewrapped it so he could go to work.  Stitches come out on Tuesday!  He does have a weird lump now!  We will see if it goes away...