This post is too too funny. A friend from high school wrote it, and I was rolling in the aisle.
Abu Halen: Cap'n Bucky
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Hair
"Do you know why girls hair is so long? Because God put super too much boy hair on them."- Noah age 4
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Just like Uncle Jake
We get a lot of these comments here. I just don't usually remember them. Uncle Jake is just about the biggest person they know and so my kids compare things to him. Today, we were looking at a picture of a rhinoceros Iguana and Noah said Wow! What big cheeks just like Uncle Jake. . . When he was a baby." I told them about this a long time ago and I guess it stuck.
Last night he said "Joseph used to be the size of an adult but then he grew bigger" After sitting for a while he then said, I guess that Joseph Ammon should be the papa
Last night he said "Joseph used to be the size of an adult but then he grew bigger" After sitting for a while he then said, I guess that Joseph Ammon should be the papa
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Vertigo
What would it be like if every time you moved your head the tiniest bit the world started spinning?
What if you couldn't balance in a standing position and had to crawl?
What if even crawling you had to stop every couple of feet to rest your head against something solid?
Whirling, spinning, confused, unbelievable. You probably wouldn't believe it was real and occasionally move your head trying to convince yourself you were imagining it. I did. It was real.
After heroically feeding the baby, or helping my husband feed her, I clung to Joseph (who blessedly had the day off) and shoved my head hard against his shoulder while slowly inching to the car. I tried desperately to convince my brain that everything was in the same spot I left it. It didn't believe me.
I wasn't very nice to Joseph in the car. I know he was trying not to make it worse but sometimes the car had to turn the corner. I picked an urgent care based on the least amount of corners I had to turn to get there.
The doctor came in took a quick look in my ears and at my throat, decided that my head cold had nothing to do with my condition and started testing for a stroke. He lightly scratched both sides of my face and asked if they both felt the same. They didn't. Probably because for the past 2 hours I had been laying on one side of my face. Then he tried holding down one of my legs and had me try to lift it up. I couldn't very well, when he tried the other leg it was easy. Was he pushing different amounts? He said no. He gave me a prescription to go to the emergency room.
I wasn't happy. I was fairly certain that I hadn't had a stroke and emergency room visits aren't cheap. My father-in-law was in the area and he and my husband were able to give me a blessing. My mother-in-law went to be with the kids and just to be sure, (after Joseph ordered me not to talk about the cost anymore) we went to the hospital. They took me right back. When the doctor came in she said it was unlikely that I had had a stroke and looked carefully in my ears. After looking for a while she said I have a tear in one of my eardrums. I was downgraded to less important and it took us two more hours!! to get out of there.
So I am taking an anti-biotic and getting better everyday. Valium and Dramamine are sitting in the cupboard, but they knock me out, so I would rather not take them.
On the good side they have made my stuffy nose go away. So I guess I had a sinus infection?
What if you couldn't balance in a standing position and had to crawl?
What if even crawling you had to stop every couple of feet to rest your head against something solid?
Whirling, spinning, confused, unbelievable. You probably wouldn't believe it was real and occasionally move your head trying to convince yourself you were imagining it. I did. It was real.
After heroically feeding the baby, or helping my husband feed her, I clung to Joseph (who blessedly had the day off) and shoved my head hard against his shoulder while slowly inching to the car. I tried desperately to convince my brain that everything was in the same spot I left it. It didn't believe me.
I wasn't very nice to Joseph in the car. I know he was trying not to make it worse but sometimes the car had to turn the corner. I picked an urgent care based on the least amount of corners I had to turn to get there.
The doctor came in took a quick look in my ears and at my throat, decided that my head cold had nothing to do with my condition and started testing for a stroke. He lightly scratched both sides of my face and asked if they both felt the same. They didn't. Probably because for the past 2 hours I had been laying on one side of my face. Then he tried holding down one of my legs and had me try to lift it up. I couldn't very well, when he tried the other leg it was easy. Was he pushing different amounts? He said no. He gave me a prescription to go to the emergency room.
I wasn't happy. I was fairly certain that I hadn't had a stroke and emergency room visits aren't cheap. My father-in-law was in the area and he and my husband were able to give me a blessing. My mother-in-law went to be with the kids and just to be sure, (after Joseph ordered me not to talk about the cost anymore) we went to the hospital. They took me right back. When the doctor came in she said it was unlikely that I had had a stroke and looked carefully in my ears. After looking for a while she said I have a tear in one of my eardrums. I was downgraded to less important and it took us two more hours!! to get out of there.
So I am taking an anti-biotic and getting better everyday. Valium and Dramamine are sitting in the cupboard, but they knock me out, so I would rather not take them.
On the good side they have made my stuffy nose go away. So I guess I had a sinus infection?
New Phones
Ok, so maybe it's not really blogworthy (is that a new word?), but Joseph and I finally got our new phones. We have been looking at them and thinking about them for 6 months now, but our contract didn't run out until two days ago.
The difference is amazing. We have internet, scriptures, radio, TV, GPS, and books. . .lots and lots of books all for free, or actually all included in the price, which is only about $10 more per month then we were paying. I am in gadget heaven. (:
The difference is amazing. We have internet, scriptures, radio, TV, GPS, and books. . .lots and lots of books all for free, or actually all included in the price, which is only about $10 more per month then we were paying. I am in gadget heaven. (:
Monday, October 11, 2010
Comedy in action
On Saturday we had my niece Rebekah over and the kids made a play up. They had a lot of fun, and i think it turned out cute. I've put it on you tube and embedded it here. For now it is unlisted but anyone who has the URL can see it. Next week I will be switching it to completely private, so if you would like to still be able to get to it, set me know and I will add you to the allowed users.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Not room enough
We have an apple tree in our backyard. It seems to be an every Other year apple tree. Last year we got two or so apples. We carefully cut them up and shared them. That was it. We had been blessed, by being able to pick and eat apples from our own tree.
This year we had a multitude of apples. We spent quite a bit of time picking, washing, cutting, cooking, canning, peeling, coring, juicing and even eating our apples. With the exception of a few apples too high up to pick and too stubborn to fall, and with the help of my sister-in-law Stephanie, we finished them. Now we have apple sauce, apple butter, apple syrup, and apple pie filling in jars.
Two years ago we had an amazingly HUGE bumper crop. A friend said it was because the year before it had froze and so the trees didn't make any. Regardless of the reason there were too many apples to pick, too many to can. They were a blessing, but I was nine months pregnant and there were too many. I would pick a bunch of apples only to look again and see that I had hardly made a dent.
It was then that I finally understood a phrase from the scriptures. He says and I will pour you out blessings that there will not be room enough to receive them. Blessings take work. Children, family, marriage, all of our greatest blessings take work to maintain to take care of to preserve. That work is a blessing in and of itself. It is the evidence of how blessed we are. The apples were a blessing. I had done nothing to make the tree grow apples. I hadn't planted it, hadn't fertilized it, hadn't sprayed it, nothing. I was reaping the reward of someone else's foresight and labor. The blessings were there for the taking. I just had to reach out my hand and take them. Then I had the choice of preserving that blessing and making it last- of expanding it. I can't help but feel that the Lord is often disappointed in me when He gives me a blessing and I take the free for the asking, but don't put in the hard work and effort necessary to preserve that blessing for myself and for others.
I am happy to have jars in my basement. Glad to have learned how. Blessed to have been protected from harm. I hope that I will always try to make room for the blessings that the Lord wants to give me.
This year we had a multitude of apples. We spent quite a bit of time picking, washing, cutting, cooking, canning, peeling, coring, juicing and even eating our apples. With the exception of a few apples too high up to pick and too stubborn to fall, and with the help of my sister-in-law Stephanie, we finished them. Now we have apple sauce, apple butter, apple syrup, and apple pie filling in jars.
Two years ago we had an amazingly HUGE bumper crop. A friend said it was because the year before it had froze and so the trees didn't make any. Regardless of the reason there were too many apples to pick, too many to can. They were a blessing, but I was nine months pregnant and there were too many. I would pick a bunch of apples only to look again and see that I had hardly made a dent.
It was then that I finally understood a phrase from the scriptures. He says and I will pour you out blessings that there will not be room enough to receive them. Blessings take work. Children, family, marriage, all of our greatest blessings take work to maintain to take care of to preserve. That work is a blessing in and of itself. It is the evidence of how blessed we are. The apples were a blessing. I had done nothing to make the tree grow apples. I hadn't planted it, hadn't fertilized it, hadn't sprayed it, nothing. I was reaping the reward of someone else's foresight and labor. The blessings were there for the taking. I just had to reach out my hand and take them. Then I had the choice of preserving that blessing and making it last- of expanding it. I can't help but feel that the Lord is often disappointed in me when He gives me a blessing and I take the free for the asking, but don't put in the hard work and effort necessary to preserve that blessing for myself and for others.
I am happy to have jars in my basement. Glad to have learned how. Blessed to have been protected from harm. I hope that I will always try to make room for the blessings that the Lord wants to give me.
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