Dylan's 10th Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DYLAN!!

Well today was Dylan's Birthday. He turned 10! wooo. The Big 1-0!

He got a bike for his present.  On Thursday evening, he got to go with Mom and Dad to the musical "Brigadoon".  3 hours of a musical that you dont understand is almost too much, but he is still singing the songs today.  We asked him after the play if he understood what "Brigadoon" was or was about, and he said "No, but it was good."  

Today, during the day we decided to go to the neighbors and do some zip lining!! Thanks to Kevans assortment of construction equipment, we can make a 150 ft zip line starting at 40 ft in the air.  It was a blast and everyone loved it!  We will post a video of Nathlie soon.  When they pushed her off, it was all over but the screaming..   Here is a video of Dylan on his big day.  

  

After an afternoon of zip lining, Dylans family and friends came over and we had dinner and an Ice Cream Cake.  It was a great day!!

Joce's Dance Festival at BSU

Well tonight we had the awesome opportunity to go an see Joce perform in the BSU Taco Bell Arena.  It was a combined stake youth dance festival.  It was called "Be thou an example of the believers" and "Dance to a Different Beat.   We had all the youth from 6 stakes in the Boise area performing different dance routines.  It was a free production for members and non-members in the area, (actually everyone in the whole world was invited, but mostly people from the area showed up)
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The youth from the Eagle Stake did the Tango. 

 

The combined stakes did a couple of numbers together, mainly to some of the songs off of the Musical, "Hairspray"  They really did a good job.  The arena was almost filled up to capacity.  We think it was a great opportunity for the youth and Joce said she had a great time.

Here she is after the dance.  Isn't she so cute?

Some things you see, and, some things you don't.

After a while there are just some things that people don't want to do.  And some things we have to do. Well for us kids we HAVE to, not want to or need to, we have to.  Dang it.  But for the parents they don't have to do anything, unless they are hinted to do it by their own parents. How about we see what some of these have to's and get to's are.

Then there is just some things that you can do, without anyone knowing. But you know, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Friday the 13th!

So here it is Friday the 13th and Hayden's 13th birthday!!  When he was born and we figured that he would turn 2 on Friday the 13th I wondered if that was an omen or something, well he has been the greatest kid so calm and sweet, but now he is 13 on Friday the 13th where does that put us?!?  He went and withdrew from Eagle middle school today and begining Monday will be going to Galileo Science and Math Magnet school. I am excited he is excited!!  He came home and took the rest of the day to spend with Shawn, they helped a family in our ward who is moving to Hawaii,move stuff into storage then packed up and went on a scout camp, he is loving life!!

We are so grateful to Hayden and the young man that he is.  We love you Happy Birthday!!

Nath's Follow up

Ok so I am not the best blogger as you can tell, but these days I can type faster than I can speak!! I went to the Dr yesturday to get the results of all the tests he had run and for my follow up. I am happy to report that I am healthy as can be (well except for this stroke thing!) I swear he tested me for everything under the sun and then some. The only restriction I have is not to lift anything to heavy ( more then 100lbs.) so I guess no more weight lifting, sorry Amy you are now on your own.  I take an aspirin a day and he says it will probably never happen again. However, if it does then that will raise some red flags (ya think) and they will look more into my PFO, which is the flap in my heart that is supposed to seal when you are born but in about 20% of us it does not. It was funny to hear a Dr say "I really just don't know why" but we take that and run, but not to fast!!!  I feel great I am not as tired and I improve everyday, we are so thankful for the prayers. And to know that we are a forever family.

Shawn went back to work this week, to Portland, he left on Tue and will be home tonight, now we know why we moved here 3 days instead of 5 is great!!  Chubba was a little anxious when he left because last time he was gone I couldn't talk. But he is adjusting as we all are.

This house is beginning to feel like home and we are settling in well, I love all the space! There is a field next door for the boys to play in and they have gotten air soft guns to shoot each other with, now I can't wait for spring, although it is 20 degrees warmer then Preston (eat your heart out:)

Nathlie's Stroke

Wow!!  What a couple of crazy days.  As you can see from the jogging pictures, Nathlie was ready to run a marathon a few days ago, well I had to leave town on Monday and flew to Austin TX.  I called her when I landed and she was perfectly fine.  She called me back 15 minutes later talking like she was handicapped or something.  I said (in my sweet voice) "What are you doing?!!"  She said " I can't talk"  I then said (in my sweeter voice) "Are you messin with me?!!!" and she said (or tried to say) "NO, I CANT  TALK".  So I called the neighbors and had them take her to the emergency room and I went and bought a ticket home.  It was like musical chairs.  I walked out of the terminal and picked up my luggage, and walked over and bought a ticket home and went back in the terminal and got on a plane for Boise.  To make a long story short, it turns out that she had a mild stroke which is affecting her speech.  The doctors don't know why or what caused it, but have run every test they can to rule out everything else.  It could be as simple as she has to take a baby aspirin every day for the rest of her life and hopefully it will never happen again.

It does make for some good material.  I at least get a word in every now and then.  It actually puts us on the same playing field.  Now I can keep up with the conversation.  

Really though, it was scary and I felt so helpless being 2,000 miles away and not being able to do anything.  I am so thankful for good neighbors and family around us that were able to help and keep everything going until I could get home.  

We thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and Nathlie should be back to normal within a week or two.  Here are a few pictures that I took in the hospital.  As you can see it took her a few frames to put her hand in front of her face so I couldn't take her picture, but she is coming right along and we look forward to her normal self soon.

Goodbyes and new times.

Well now that Syd is gone I guess I have to be the one to update this, yes me Joce, so hopefully I will do fine.  Here are some pictures of everyone at goodbye time for Syd.  She chose to go to BeniHanas in Salt Lake.  It was so cool!!!! we had our own chef and he cooked right in front of us! Everyone tried everyones and they were all super good.  Except I chose not to try Sydney's Sushi, it looked alive? but it was super good!

After we dropped syd off at the airport at 7:30 in the morning we went straight home and finished up everything, loaded the U-hauls - cleaned everything and got in the cars and

 left at 8:00 at night.  We made it to Boise at 1:20 in the morning on Saturday because we drove the whole time! But here are some funny things, my dad thought my mom wouldn't know that he put the snowmobile in the trailer but when it started shaking and stuff on the hi-way she found out pretty quick!  Then we had to take the cats with us or Chubba would have been pretty upset, so we put them in a box, but that didn't stop them from trying to get out, so we stopped and got some tape to put on the box and poked some holes in the sides, and when we got to the hotel the holes were huge! it was a crazy experience.  But here are some pictures of the night.

So now we have gone to school for almost 3 days and on Monday, my dad took Hayden to Sportsman Warehouse at 9:00 in the morning and you will never guess who they met.  Yup Jim Shockey off of the outdoor channel.  It was planned so its ok, my mom knew. Here are some more pictures, they are of Jim Shockey, Hayden and Dad.