Busy Busy

Holy Cow Life is toooooo busy. I have been working pretty much full time since Jessica had her baby and I am getting nothing done. We are living out of laundry baskets because I dont have time to fold laundry. Hopefully this weekend I can catch up but we do have Ciaran's 4th birthday party on saturday. We are having a Pirate Bowling party. He is sooooooo very excited that we get to go "real" bowling. They both love to bowling and it is quite funny and entertaining.
This week has been so busy. Just a recap. Tuesday night we took Ciaran and Cabhan shopping to Toys R Us to pick out Ciaran's Birthday Present. He has said all along that he wants a Guitar (he loves playing dads and is very careful with it) and a new bumble bee transformer and another optimus prime transformer. Well at the store he wanted what ever was in front of him at the moment. We ended up getting him a Pirate ship to have at his own house. He has one at Grandma Doloris's and Grandma who calls grandpa Mike's (grandma Gwen) houses now but not his own. Well we also wanted to him a scooter since it is starting to get warm and he loves being outside but decided to wait for Easter and then we could get both Ciaran and Cabhan one.
Wednesday night I had the opertunity to go to New Beginnings at our ward for the young women and meet all the new beehives that are coming in. It was a very fun night. They now have a nursery every wednesday night for the kids of all the leaders for mutual which made it very nice. I didn't have to find a babysitter or anything which made it very nice and stress free. To bad we didn't think of that when we were in young womens huh quinn. Duh I dont know why because they always have it for the RS activities.

TENDER MERCIES

As I am sure everyone knows my younger sister Jessica gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on February 20th, 2008. She weighed 7 lbs 2 oz and was 20 inches long. I have not done a post on her yet becuase I dont have a camera and so I didn't have any pictures of her but my mom emailed me some so now I can finally do it. It was a long day of waiting for all of us especially Jessica and Jay. They arrived at the hospital around five and the nurses almost sent Jess home around seven am because even though she was having major contractions she wasn't dialated at all and you have to dialate for them to consider you in labor I guess. Thank goodness her doctor was there and making the rounds around seven and came in and told her if he could break her water she could stay and have this baby today. So after a long day of just waiting and never dialating past a 2 the doctor gave her a choice of having a C-section and Jessica agreeed. She was tired and ready to be done with waiting.

Jessica was born with a cleft pallit cleft lip which always made her nervous to have kids not wanting to pass that "defect" on to them. I remember when Ciaran was born she would just stare at his lips and nose at how perfect they were and I just new she longed for that in her own kids oneday. Well she did deliver a perfect little baby girl with the most perfect mouth and nose that you could ask for. Infact in most of the pictures that I have at the office people ask if she has lip gloss on. Her little perfect lips just glitter and shine like saying look at me. This was such a tender mercy for all of us to see Jessica get this perfect gift from our Heavenly Father after all she has been through. She has had so many surgeries we have all lost count but this last surgery she had (C-section) she received the best gift ever and and I think it was Heavenly Fathers way of saying good job sticking through everything you have been through and here is my reward to you. Congradulations Jessica and Jay you have a beautiful perfect baby girl and she is certainly a gift from heaven.

FREE ZOO DAY

Today was free zoo day at our local Hogle Zoo. The zoo does this four times a year during the winter the last wednesday of every month from November to February. I try to take my kids at least one day every year to see if they like it enough to buy a season pass. Well in the past years they have been more interested in the sticks and garbage on the ground then the animals but this year it was great. They loved it so much. Every animal we came to Ciaran's first concern is if they bite. That is his latest thing on everything is if it bites. I dont know why he has never been bit by anything that I know of but it is obviously a concern of his. But we had a great day. We met Melissa, Becky, Cady, Conner and Alexa there so the it was fun to get the cousins together. I also met Charees and her boys Landon and Logan and Quinn and Tate and Clair. So between everyone there that we knew we had a great time. We got to see the White Aligator which was way cool. I thought that they moved the aligator to a different zoo in September so I was kindof bumbed that we never got to see it but it is still there. I would recommend everyone to go see it. So I think I will get a season pass this year for our kids so if anyone ever wants to go to the zoo let me know and we could tag along.

Young Womens Camp

Well the cannon fourth ward is going to entrust the young women in my hands again this year for girls camp. I am so flippen excited that it is finally time to start planning and get ready for girls camp. I know a lot of people think I am high on something that I would ever want to have this calling for the third year in a row but I completly love it. I would probably say to all you and your callings that I am so greatful for the calling I have becuase it is just up my alley. I am very excited for this experience again and I hope I can help the girls in what ever areas they need help in. As everyone knows though I am a very high stresser and I have to take medications for that but I have already had one round of shingles just stressing to much about calling my helpers. I have that task over so now we move on. Well I am open for any ideas that anyone would like to give. I have found some wonderful websites but the more help the better. The bishop bore his testimony very strongly to me about deligation so I will listen to that. The stake theme for camp is "LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE" so the theme that I am going to do for our ward to go along with the stake and also the world wide theme 2008 for the youth is "CONSTANT AS A NORTH STAR". This theme comes from the most beautiful song about President Hinkley laying out under the stars at night and noticing that all the stars moved but one the north star. Everyone needs to read the lyrics to this song it is so good. Well everyone wish me luck and I expect everyone to come out and support our young women at our yearly fund raiser to help earn the funds for camp which will be April 19th. We dont know what we are doing for sure yet but please keep posted.
1. When President Hinckley was a boy,he slept outside for fun.He noticed all the stars would move,except for one.
2. Discouraged while in the mission field,he read these words from home:“Forget yourself and go to work.”His heart was stirred to
3. So if you’re discouraged or confused,just think of that bright star.Remember what our prophet saidAnd who you are.
Chorus: Be constant as the North Star that shines for you and me,Anchored in the gospel with pure integrity,Steadfast in your service to God and fellowman.President Hinckley has shown us that we can.

LONG TIME NO SEE

Well I haven't written for so long that i have so much to say and dont know where to start. I was really wanting this blog to be more like a journal/life history and did really well at first but have slacked off.
One of my news years resolutions this year was to read my scriptures every night to keep up with the lessons in Sunday school. I have a very hard time understanding the scriptures therefore in my life I haven't been a very good reader. Well I found the most amazing book to help me. You hear those stories of people reading the book of morman in one day and not being able to put it down and I have never understood that because I have a hard time reading a chapter a night. Not that I dont like to read but like I said that I have a very hard time understanding them. So I got the book Book of Morman made easier and I love it. I totally understand not being able to put it down. I love it. I finally understand what is going on. Aaron would always try to explain things to me when we would read together but it just isn't the same. So to anyone out there with the same problem as me having a hard time understand the book of morman language I would recomend this book.
On Saturday, February 9th we had Jessica's last baby shower. It was held at the office and we had invited a bunch of the patients from the office. Jessica was convinced that no one would come but we had a great turn out and a great time. We see our patients at least monthly so we become very good friends with them. We had a lot come with their grandkids which are the same age of my kids. We always talk to eachother about our kids/grandkids so it was fun to finally see all of the kiddies. After the shower me and Jess went to Babies R Us on a fun shopping spree. This is so much fun for me and as jessica says she can really use the help becuase she doesn't know anything about having babies. She is very appreciative of all my help. She said she would still be in babies r us wondering around not knowing what to get and very overwhelmed. I love helping out with baby stuff it is so fun.

Life goes on

Well today was my day off as usual and it was a very busy but productive day. For the car to get fixed the insurance of the school bus required me to get to estimates for the work that needed done. So last night I took it to Larry H Miller at the auto mall and got it done. While we were waiting for them to do it Angie and I went to the mall with all five kids and picked out our easter outfits for the kids. My dad does this for us every year. He buys the kids and us all a new Easter outfit for easter sunday and then we usually get the kids pictures taken in them also. So today me, Ciaran, Cabhan, Dad, and Jessica all took my car down to provo to one of our patient's body shop and had him do the second estimate. Of course we did also stop at brick oven for lunch which made it worth the drive for sure. While eating lunch at Brick Oven Cabhan, for the first time, told me he had to go potty before going in his pullup. I was so excited and jumped up and probably scared everyone else in that part of the restraunt but thats okay.




After driving back from Provo me and jessica decided to go shopping to Walmart. Jessica stated she thought she could handle the shopping spree if she could get a wheel chair. She is having so much leg, hip and pubic bone pain that she cant walk. So she swallowed all of her pride and we got her a Motorized wheel chair. I couldn't believe that she actually did it so you have to know that she really must be hurting bad. Mom and Grandma Williams came down and met us at Walmart and we spent about two hours there I think but we all had a great time. After that Grandma needed to go to Costco to pick up her glasses so we all tagged along again and yes Jessica rode in a wheel chair around costco too.

Always look behind you

Well what an interesting morning it has been already and it is only noon. While on our way to Debbies house this morning I found myself behind a school bus in her neighborhood. "Look boys there is a school bus in front of us." and of course they both looked. The bus stopped infront of a house and so I stopped behind it to patiently wait while she picked up some school kids. Then all of a sudden the bus started backing up. I slammed on my horn and before I could put my car in reverse she slammed into the front of my car. The worst part is I had just pointed out to the boys that hurray look there is a school bus in front of us so they saw everything. Ciaran started screaming. None of us were hurt at all but a little shaken up. Still in the car tring to calm down Ciaran the bus driver came up to my window to make sure all was okay. Then she proceeded to say there isn't any damage so we can probaby just go. Me being the smart one said well let me get out and check it out because I couldn't see being hit by a bus and not having anything happen to my little santa fe. So I got and sure enough. It wasn't horrible but there was some damage done and I am so glad I didn't just say oh your fine just go ahead. Thanks to my dad always drilling us with never leaving the scene of an accident without calling the police. Thanks dad. So then we did the usual calling the police and filling out the reports. Ciaran started freaking out when he saw the police man. We are kindof bad because we tell him all the time that police man are bad and we hate them. Opps thats our fault. So Debbie came and picked up Ciaran so he would be happier. Thanks Debbie. Angie came also and brought her camera so I could take pictures. Thanks Angie. SO what an exciting morning we had and now we have to get our car fixed what a pain but at least no one was hurt.