Call 1-800-DR. TYLER!

It's great to have an "almost" doctor around who can be "on-call" 24 hours a day.  I really needed a good back adjustment this morning before church (hence everyone being in church clothes.)  It's great that he can treat me right when I need it!  The kids had fun with the table, the face hole, and also being treated by "Daddy Doctor."  

Who am I?

These are the latest antics from my children:

* Jordan just learned the sounds of a lion and a dog.  Except his dog doesn't bark, it pants.  It's so funny seeing him stick his tongue out.  I tried to capture it on tape, but he won't do it because he is too interested in the camera.

*We often refer to Makenzie as a "big girl" with her actions but then she also knows that she is still a "little girl" physically.   One day I was thanking her for being such a BIG helper.  In which her reply was, "No mom, I'm a little helper!" (At least she is some sort of a helper!)

*One morning Makenzie was being extra cuddly in which I said, "You are such a cuddlebug!"  She then said, "I'm not a bug!"  She did the same thing to Tyler when he said, "Holycow Makenzie!"  She remarked, "I'm not a cow!"  (This is our daughter who really has quite the imagination and is always pretending to be some sort of animal.)

*We were walking into the grocery store and I told Makenzie that she needed to hold my hand while in the parking lot.  She told me "Mom, I will hold my own hand!"  She then proceeded by clasping both of her hands together in front of her.  (Like that would keep her safe!)

I love being a mommy!  I'm so glad that I can be apart of their lives and raise them.  They make us laugh everyday and also show so much love.

Our other little girl...

Could he pass? Maybe if he wore a hairbow? Makenzie wouldn't put her pajamas on one night, so Tyler put them on Jordan instead! Both of them weren't very happy about it.

Nap Time

I put Jordan down for an early nap today since we have church at one. He went down without a peep. It couldn't get any easier than that! A full 45 minutes later I decided to sneak in to grab the diaper bag. I found Jordan wide awake and very happy to show off his artwork. He had gotten into a bag of markers which were on his dresser and picked the lucky color of purple to draw on the wall, bed, and himself. Of course I just laughed... I'm the dumb one to leave the markers in his reach! He was a crab at church though with no nap.




A few weeks ago I was busy getting dinner ready, as the missionaries would be joining us that night. Just as they walked in, I spotted it, green marker ALL OVER our new recliner! AAHHH! Luckily with a little carpet cleaner, it came out without too much effort! Microfiber is amazing! We make a constant effort in keeping all writing utensils out of reach, but those kids are sneaky and find a way.

A Year's Worth of Medical School....

My glory days....

Most of you know I swam in high school. Swimming was a lot of my life during those 4 years of high school. With the Olympics going on, it's so easy for me to reminisce back to those days of competition and racing. Now I am no Michael Phelps or Dana Torres, but I had my own moments of glory.

I come from a small town where there was one high school; until my freshman year where I was apart of the new school North of town. We of course were the underdogs. I remember my sophomore year we were swimming the last relay of the meet, the 4X100 free. We weren't expected to win at all, especially with me, the little sophomore, swimming against some of the fastest girls I knew from Cedar High School. I was the last to swim in the relay and of course I gave it my all. Well, my all ended up out touching the other girl by .10 of a second. We won the Cedar High relay for the first time! I never knew I had it in me, but that started a good little rivalry with our competitors. (For those who remember, "BTB" was our lucky tradition!)

Cedar City also plays host to the Utah Summer Games, which is like a mini Summer Olympics. We loved it, being able to swim and play in the sun for 3 days straight. One year, somehow I ended up medaling in all my events. I think I may know how Michael Phelps feel, just a little. I really wasn't that good... my excuse is that not a lot of people were there! Summer 1999

I haven't been in the pool for several years. I guess I swam myself out. I opt to work out at the school gym instead. Well, wouldn't you know it that I got talked into doing the swim portion of the local triathlon that is coming up. (I really wanted to actually do the whole thing, but that isn't going to happen.) So I have 3 weeks to get back into swim shape to swim a .75 mile in the lake. I think it will be more of an adventure than anything! I went to the pool on Friday for my first time... It was very refreshing to be back although my arms have no muscle in them anymore.

Tyler's Officer Training

I gave Tyler a disposable camera to use while he was in Texas. I'm sure many of you would like to have seen what he did and what he looked like in all his gear. Plus, it would be nice for some visual memories of the experience to share with the kids in the future years. Well, he came home taking only 5 pictures! He told me everyone else was taking pictures and they would put them on facebook. (I heard the same story when he went down to Mexico and have not seen 1 picture!) So I was pretty skeptical, but luckily in the last few weeks a few pictures are coming back to us. Thank you... This is what we got....

Back to School...

Nothing exciting is going on now that Tyler is back in school.  I think the stress once again hit with his first test yesterday.  We are excited to meeting all the new first years moving in.  Besides Tyler we continue to play like it's summer.... we don't want to think about the dreaded winter months that are fast approaching.  A couple weeks ago, it rained and rained and rained, getting over 12" in 2 days! We had no problems but sadly many other people's homes were flooded, including some of Tyler's school.  They just posted a link of the security camera capturing it.  This was in the basement when the windows broke.

http://www.atsu.edu/library/flood.htm