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School Started.....and what a week it was!!!!!

I didn't pick out the outfits today....the boys picked them out themselves. Yes I bought them similar clothes cause they like the same things but they are the ones that decide to wear them on the same day.












School started this week and oh my goodness it was a week that I don't want to relive. It all started out first thing Monday morning. First of all no bus came and picked up kids on our bus route. Next, I take Josh to school and find out that the class he should be in the teacher didn't have a clue and he wasn't on her class list so she didn't have a desk for him. See what happened was that he was put in a class but the school made a mistake and put him in a class with this other kid that I have requested that they not be in the same class ever (and the principle agrees that it would/could be bad if they were in the same class). I found out in the summer that they were in the same class so I emailed the principle and told him and requested that he be put in this other class with Josh's best friend and the principle agreed to it and said he made the change. So this teacher of where he should have been agreed to keep him that morning so I left.

Later I take Kaiden to Kindergarten orientation and when we finish up we go to lunch and was going to hang around up town and then pick Josh up from school. Well I get a message that the principle called and needed to talk to me as soon as possible(not something a mother likes hearing). Since I was uptown I decided to just go to the school and see what was going on. Well I get there and they tell me that Josh can't be in this class with his friend cause Josh's resource teacher thinks it is a BAD IDEA and that they will just goof off all the time. Josh's therapist thought it would be good for Josh to have a buddy in class that would help him out with stuff but apparently the resource teachers doesn't agree. Whatever....anyways they ended up moving him to another class. Josh wasn't happy about it but the next day he went he was ok with it and likes the new teacher....so we will see how the year goes.

So Tuesday comes and the bus comes but it is all messed up. And that afternoon coming home several kids missed the bus cause of all the confusion of what bus was going where.

Then Wednesday I had a dentist appointment and it turned out to be a HORRIBLE experience. The appointment was only suppose to take 1 hour and was getting a filling in one tooth that had a small cavity. Well the dentist couldn't get the tooth completely numb. He ended up giving me 5-6 shots(I lost count). My jaw and tongue was SO numb when he finished but the tooth wasn't. I couldn't talk, I couldn't swollow, I couldn't do anything cause it HURT SO BAD. And the next day I was still in major pain.

So Thursday, like I said I was still in misery from the visit to the dentist but still went to work cause our manager was gone. I went into work an hour early to help the other lady. Well when I got to work she should have got the gravy cooked but she didn't. So we got a late start on the cooking for the day. Then about an hour before the kids are to come in for lunch I realize that she didn't get the rolls out. They were in the freezer....so we quickly pull them out and get them in our hotboxes so they can hopefully get unthawed before we serve. Then in the middle of the serve I am in the back cooking and opened the oven and went to take a temp of the meat I as cooking and I didn't wait long enough before sticking my hand up there and ended up getting a nasty steam burn on my wrist.

And of course we couldn't have Friday be a day where nothing happened. I ended up smashing my pinkie and getting a little cut on it at work. Then Josh for some reason thought that I was picking him up from school so he didn't get on the bus. When I went to pick him up he had told grandpa that he would be out back of the school and he wasn't. I circled the school twice and then had to go in and look for him. Then Kylie decided to be a "turkey" and when I was trying to water my garden(if you want to call it that....its mostly weeds right now) she comes running out there and runs through the weeds and mud. Everytime Josh would get her he would try to dry her off a little with a towel and she would break free and come right back out to the garden. So I had to catch her and hose her down. She HATED that and let me know it by biting me repeatedly and flipping water all over me.

My question now.....is Saturday going to be better? And is it going to get better next week?

KYLIE MAE WARD

We got us a new puppy!!!!! We got a cute little girl. She is a Springer Spaniel. We got her when she was only six weeks old and she weight 5.5 pounds. We had her to the vet a couple of weeks ago and she is up to about 10 pounds...she gained almost 5 pounds in 4 weeks. She is now 12 weeks old. She is fun but she can also be a pain. She likes to chase the boys around the house....and they like her chasing them, that is until she catches them and bites them. She has the LOVELY puppy teeth and oh my are they super sharp. She is having a hard time adjusting right now cause school started so no one is home during the day and she gets locked up in a room while we are gone. This drives her crazy and if she doesn't get outside and get exercise then she gets quite "feisty" and just bites us like crazy. She is doing great with the potty training.....but as far as all the other training she is struggling with, so we will be looking into puppy classes very soon. The boys love having a new puppy and do pretty good at helping take of her. I like having her too. She helps fill the void left from my other dog. She is WAY different then our old dog and we love her very much even though she can get a little mean at times....hopefully she out grows that soon.

LOST:summer.....

I seem to have lost my summer. Has anyone seen it???? I know I haven't posted much lately but we have been really busy and things have been crazy most of the summer.

Summer has just flown by so fast for me. I can't believe that it is time for school to start. You would think that after being with two extremely wild and crazy boys for several months that I would be ready to send them off to school but it is actually the opposite. I am not ready for them to go back to school. I have enjoyed our time together and really wish that we had more time to do things. I guess we will now have to try and fit in fun things with school and homework.

We had a pretty busy summer with a couple of vacations, several doctors appointments, the caring for a sick dog and the lose of that dog, the addition to the family, and the just hanging out and having fun.

We only got to go to St. George once this summer because of things that happened and changes that took place this summer. We did get to go to Yellowstone the first week of July and that was so AWESOME. I meant to post about it and post pictures but never got around to it with everything that happened with my dog and everything since then.

We found out this summer that both my boys have allergies pretty bad. They are both allergic to alot but my youngest is worse. He is allergic to cats, dogs, horses, grasses, trees, weeds, molds, etc......oh and cashews. So now we have to pack an epi pin and keep him away from all tree nuts especially cashews. With him starting school we have had tons of paper work to fill out regarding his allergy and epi pin and regarding his asthma.

The rest of our summer flew by and we just hung out at home playing in the pool out back and going to lunch and the park a few times and taking care of things at home.


So......has anyone seen my summer? If so can you PLEASE RETURN IT TO ME NOW CAUSE I DESPERATELY NEED AND WANT IT BACK!!!!!!!!

One of the Worst Weeks ever!!!!!!!!

December 1995 - July 10, 2008


This has been the worst week ever. It all started Friday July 4th. We just got back home from a vacation and I see my "baby girl" (my dog). I have known for sometime that she was getting old and she has been sick for like the past year, the vet said last year that she had lupus and she has had problems with her back hips for several years but I get home and get told that she almost didn't make it before I got home and that my sister had her in to the vet the day before and they had to give her IV fluids and couple of shots just so that she would make it until we got home. So from Friday on I was having to hand feed her whatever she would eat, which was mostly eggs and popsicles and I was having to help her down the stairs to go outside and even ended up packing her several time outside to go potty. Then on Monday night she started having seizures....luckily she only had a few but things just kept getting worse. She quit drinking water and most of the time she just laid around close by me and slept. Then today she really started having problems. I knew she wasn't going to make it much longer but she sure was putting up a fight. I had hoped that she would go on her own but she wasn't so I had to make the difficult decision to put her down. So today my baby past on. I have had her for 12 1/2 great years and we are going to miss her more then anything.....well at least I will. I came home a little while ago from my mom's and it was so hard walking in the door knowing that she isn't here anymore to greet us when we come home....she isn't here anymore for me to love when I am feeling down. Some people may think I am weird for calling her my "baby girl" but I am a serious dog lover and she was just like one of my kids. So to my baby girl Caralina(Pooh Bear).....I love you so much and I miss you!!!!

WOW!!!!! 5 years!!!!!!!

While we were in Saint George last week we took a drive and went thru Snow Canyon. It is really beautiful there.