Pregnant!!!!???!!!

So Aunt Dietz asked when we announced that I'm pregnant. Well... about now.
Since I've had three miscarriages, we tend to keep this kind of news close to home. I deal well with my own disappointment, but others "well meaning" condolences just annoy me. So I don't like alot of attention if things go wrong. :) Fair warning to all. I've had my third Dr.'s visit and everything looks good... So I'm pregnant. Due July 28th.

Ash is excited... We're worried about Brenn. He doesn't like babies!!!
My Primary secretary just had a baby, and I wanted to get Brennen's reaction when he saw him. It took a little coxing, but he finally came over to look at him. All he said was "I don't like boy babies, I want gurrrllll baby." and stomped off. A few minutes later he brought back the rest of the kids to show them the baby.
We've been really trying to talk up the Big Brother responsibilities, and telling him that Heavenly Father will give our Family just the right girl baby or boy baby he thinks that Brennen needs to have.
So now his answer changes for each time somebody asks him what he wants. But he tells
me he needs two babies now... a boy baby and a gurrrrrrlllllll baby.

Ash has been busy this week making Valentine's for the Soldiers. She and Brennen made over 50. Her school is entering them in a contest for the local radio station to come visit their school. Ash says they have over 2000, so we'll see. That's pretty good for a school that has less then 100 kids K-6.
She has surgery on the 10th to remove the rod they placed in her arm to stabilize it. She has spent the last 9 months in a cast. We were over at the parents and she was playing with her friends. I reminded her not to jump. She thought that she was being sneaky and went next door to jump at the friends house. They do have a net, but it erked my that she disobeyed and let a friend talk her into something that they knew she's not allowed to do right now. The specialist said absolutely no wheeled toys and no trampolines for quit a while. She may have brittle bone disease, but we haven't decided whether or not to do the genetic testing for it. Paul's Aunt and cousins who have it, have a very mild form of it. As would Ash if she has it. I've talked extensively with Paul's uncle, and he said that the Bone density testing was much more beneficial then the genetics testing. And far less expensive. And all the experts would say would be to drastically change her playing habits. That's what they told Paul's cousins, and we're not willing to change Ash for something that may or may not happen. Kids get hurt everyday. Ash just tends to do hers with style.

Well that's our news for this week.
Love You All!!!!
Lara

"For Ev-er"

So, I know it's been about two months. Lots of stuff to do with the holidays, work, school, and primary...It just kept me hopping. And during my Christmas Break I did alot of nothing but play with the kids, read, and be sick.

Yes I know I'm really boring, but maybe I'll have something to say in the next few days. I not looking forward to going back to school, because I'm getting a new student that spontaneously vomits when he doesn't get his way! If he does it to me, he is going to learn that he might just get it back if he doesn't watch it (my short gag reflex and all).

The most exciting thing that has happened to us was Brennen cutting his head open at church the Sunday before Christmas. He was not being good during sharing time, so I had him in the hall with me. After visiting Nursery to give them the announcements, Brenn decided that he was ready to go back to sharing time, so he was walking ahead of me. The bell for Sunday School had just rung, and he was walking in front of one of the few doors that opens into the hallway. Needless to say,that he walked by at the precise moment that the teacher for that Sunday School class pushed it open. Direct contact. It knocked him clean to the floor. Even before I could make it down to him, blood was gushing out of a wound in his hair. Luckily the Teacher that opened the door, is a pediatrician. So he was applying pressure and carring him clear down the hall way to the bathroom... I was supposed to be in the Primary room doing something, and so I was frazzled because I needed to be with Brenn who was screaming his head off, and five different people were asking me what they needed to do to help. By the time I made it into the bathroom with Brennen, his white shirt was covered in blood (Which he was very upset about. He hates to have wet clothes, just like his mom -I have a few friends that make fun of me for this.) His hair was matted with blood and it was still gushing like head wounds do. I had a complete "Bella" moment. Blood doesn't usually do this to me, but the shear smell of it made me nearly pass out. I had to excuse myself so I wouldn't in the men's room. I guess I was as white as a ghost, because I had a trash can thrust ed at me.
They washed his hair, and he snuggled with my friend LeAnne and took a little nap while they still applied pressure. Brother "Dr." Freeman said it would only require one stitch if we wanted to try (because he didn't have any glue in his office), but said if it was his kid, he would just let it heal naturally. I decided with that route, because I knew if he gave him the shot to numb, that he would never be able to get the needle near Brenn to sew the wound. He'll probably have a scar, but it is so far in the hair line that it won't be noticeable.

Boring as Ever

In our life, it was a pretty boring week.
Ash got a new cast on...GREEN of course.
Election Day.:(
Our nephew broke his wrist (that makes two since Ash), he got a GREEN cast.
I "got to" attended a two day seminar on Biligual Education.:)
A Bronco Game on Saturday that was pretty stale!!!
Church, and Family Bowling night.

Everyone have a great week!

Lots of Lara

Tage is ONE

Mark and Tage came over to visit. Since Shandi lives in a small town about thirty miles from us, driving clear to Boise with what little time Mark has with Tage, would eat up an hour of the 2 1/2 hours that he has with him. So we will now get to see lots of Tage. Before now we only have seen him 3 times in his first year. Laura came over and so did mom and dad.

Halloween

I'm bummed that I didn't get better pictures of the kids Halloween pictures.
By the time Halloween had come around the kids had already worn them a bunch, I didn't even do their makeup like I was going to. Ash was a Vamp, and Brenn was a Ghosty so he could say BOOOOOOOO!!!!

We went to Ash's carnival, our ward party, a party at a friends, a party at Paul's work, Aimee's work (our city, does a big trick-or-treat around the down town businesses), The Parent's ward party, to the hospital (for our traditional reverse trick-or-treat, and to Paul's parents.

The kids started a savings account on Halloween also, with a $. Fun stuff!!

Frustrated Incorperated!!!

So who knows this line from a song? Anybody? One brownie point to who ever gets it.
It was the motto of my week when Paul was out of town.

The week Paul was gone to Florida was a little hectic for me...to say the least.
I had a rough draft due for a paper. Each week in the History class I'm taking, someone takes the lead on teaching the discus ion;it happened to be my week. Ashlynn-Marie was student of the week, along with getting special classroom privileges, she also had to do a state report (she drew South Dakota, not only is there not so many interesting things about S.Dakota, all the words associated with the highlights are really hard to say.), and a presentation on herself.
Wednesday, Brennen screamed off and on from 3pm to 1am. He ended up getting a funky toe infection in his right baby toe. I orig anally thought that it was an ingrown toenail, but it wasn't. They think that he damaged his toe some how, it tried to heal itself, but didn't couldn't or wouldn't with out antibiotics (which he is allergic to all of them). They put him on a special med to help fight the infection. The Dr. was really concerned and glad that I had taken him in, and glad that the infection hadn't started traveling through his blood stream. So we soaked it every few hours for several days.

I was origanally going to take a mental health day, but ended up having to take Brenn to the Dr. again for them to check on his toe. Also it was the day for Ash to give her report. With mom's help I finished the kids costumes, because there was a trunk-or-treat/carnival at Ash's school. I was in such a hurry that I locked my keys in the house. My neighbor climbed the roof to Ash's room to get me in the house. Meanwhile Ash was having a fit because we were missing the party. I also was put in charge of a carnival game (the sucker tree) for 1 1/2 hours, and didn't eat of get my kids any dinner, because I was virtually by myself.
Right when we walked in the door, when we got home, Brennen threw up (Sorry for the picture, but It was just such a great climax to my week, NOT!).

Also I had a primary program practice, ward trunk-or-treat, party at a friends, and the Primary Program last week.

To say the least I was glad for that week to be over.

I don't know how single parents do it!!! Gotta hand it to them.

Paul working REALY hard!!!

Darn, Paul just had to go to Disney World for work!!
He did have to walk about a billion miles through a bunch
of hotels!!! None of them we could ever afford to stay in,
even with his discounts.