People at work and their "policies"

Since I can't go into any details in case some blog stalker checks my blog and it gets back to work all I am going to say is green booger policy's don't make sense if you are judging it on kids under two cause guess what they all have green booger, snotty noses, and this doesn't mean they are sick or contagious! After what happened at work this week I felt alot like Andy...here it comes from left field you have no time to react..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHfbmjTAJbo

I'm just saying

So for some reason I have this thing in my head that I have to have some awesome photo, video, or vacation (as shown in a few posts down) to talk about in order to post. It is more fun to look at pics than read a full paragraph of someones views on politics, sports, reality tv, (my fav) or what happened to them at the park the other day, I mean seriously is life really that AWESOME!! Not mine! Now don't get me wrong I am very happy with life and my husband and little Kai but does anyone else out there struggle too? It sure doesn't seem like it, so this is the thought I had. All of you know I am a member of the LDS church and this past weekend we listened to general conference, I found it very inspiring, President Monson's talk on finding "joy in the journey" was specially inspiring for me. I just recently read a post on a blog I stalk that brought up the story of that cute couple in AZ that got in a plane crash and have severe burns all over their bodies. She linked the blog to her post and I was able to read all the compassionate things people were doing for their family while they are fighting for there lifes in the burn unit at a hospital in AZ. Her purpose for the post was to say life is hard but there are always others in more need and then simply said something like this, "and to all my friends who know me well, no I am not depressed I am just trying to find joy in the journey." How profound that statement is to me and ironic that just a few months later our Prophet said that same thing in his closing talk Sunday session. I figure I must need to hear this. So now I will try to not care as much and really the biggest thing I think I learned is to just be happy with your life where it is and everything else will work out. So to all of you who are already there I am happy for you and to all of you who are in the same grind as me lets find joy together... I need help! Love you all and hope nobody thinks I am crazy now I think this is as personal as I have got on my blog and of course I had to end with a rockin awesome picture...aren't they "special"

Somebody turned 1!!

WARNING LONG POST: Wow my little man is 1 how exciting! We had such a busy weekend Thursday the 21 was Kai's birthday, the 22 was mine and that same day our daddy got baptized!! It was the best birthday present ever, JR was very happy to finally get baptized and confirmed the missionaries did a great job and the meeting was very special. Then Saturday the 23 we celebrated Kai's big 1, we had a slip n slide, food, and snow cones it was fun to have everyone come and was a good "relaxer" for the crazy weekend. Kai is still crawling around and the therapist is teaching us how to help him stand up on his own. He loves books, and music and bobs his head like Stevie Wonder when he hears a song he likes, it is way funny. He has four teeth now, two of them are his upper fangs.. I have got to get a picture for everyone to see cause soon the two in the middle are going to be poppin through, I wish it were Halloween and he could be "Edward":)... Enjoy the pics I do have and the videos are mostly for Auntie Brooke who has not seen Kai crawl yet and didn't get to slip n slide, it might bore everyone else though so don't feel bad skipping it, and thanks for still checking me out even though I suck at updating this.

More San Diego Pics...

Ok so I should have put these with the post below but forgot so here you go hope the swim suit doesn't offend anyone just ignore the "rolls", and I have to tell you, the picture where Kai is laughing at me in, well right before the laugh he was pulling at my face and then pushing me away, the little stink didn't want to be held to take his picture.. p.s. be sure to look at the post right before this it has more pictures ;)

It's never too late...

Ok so I realize I really need help keeping up on my blog, but it is better late than never to update so here you go... We went to San Diego for vacation and loved it I want to live there. We went to the Zoo, Seaworld, and the Wild Animal Park, oh and the BEACH (my favorite). I could bore you with all the details, but I won't... just take a look at some of the pictures, I wish we had more but Kai broke our camera while we were there so we got what we could. Kai is finally crawling and he will turn 1 this month. Brooke and Brady moved this weekend and it was very sad I guess I didn't really think it was going to come that fast. Today when I got home from work Kai was so excited to walk in the house he was just smiling as we were walking in and when the house was empty he looked confused, you see Brooke would always have a big hug and smile for him and he didn't have his loving audience today. I am really going to miss my Eli too he is the only one that will give me loves whenever I needed them and I love that about him. The only perk is we have an excuse to go to New York now. Alrighty then, I hope everyone is doing well and I will try and keep up on my posts!

What a week!

Kai kissing himself in the mirror soo cute!

Well I was debating on posting about this because I don't want to make anyone worry but I guess since this will probably be the best journal that I will keep for my family I will post it. Tuesday morning around 5am little Kai had a seizure caused by a fever, he woke up screaming and the way he sounded I knew instantly something was wrong, when I got to his room his body jerked in his crib and I thought I had startled him but then he kept jerking... I knew it was a seizure so I grabbed him and held him as he continued jerking (it was awful). We are so lucky we live with my mom who is a nurse, I was able to run to her room and ask her what to do. She told us to go to the ER, as we were driving there the seizure stopped, it had lasted almost 6 minutes. In the ER they took his vitals said everything looks good and told us to keep his fever as low as we could and to follow up with our pediatrician (apparently this kind of seizure is very common). At the pediatrician office he said about the same but because of JR's family history of seizure disorder, if Kai had another seizure he would order a full work up. Now for those of you who don't know JR's mom died from a seizure she had in her sleep, December 06. She had seizure disorder pretty bad her whole life, so we have always had the fear of seizure's in the back of our minds. Now even though Kai's seizure was caused by a fever you can imagine what we were both hoping wouldn't happen. All day Tuesday we could not get his fever to break and he was not feeling good at all. We kept giving him motrin and bathed him, hardly dressed him, and the air conditioning was on full. He had a blessing that night and we all were just hoping he would sleep good. Well Wednesday morning comes and this time we are waken by the same scream around 6am. JR ran and got him this one lasted only 2 minutes but afterward he was vomiting violently and that lasted another three minutes. I was a mess, we took him to the ER again but this time they did the full work up, blood tests, CT scan, urine samples and everything came back normal, what a relief. So this morning came and no seizure just a happy boy he still isn't 100% and got another fever this afternoon but nothing like the past few days. Like I said earlier it is very common the stats say 1 in every 7 children before the age 6 will have a febrial seizure ("fever seizure") and that unless he has one agian in say the next few months they won't treat him any different even with the family history. So thank you to my family, neighbors, and my great friends it is so comforting to know that so many people care. The prayers that were said in Kai's behalf were much appreciated. We love this kid!

CRAZY, BUSY...

Wow May hit for me and I have been so busy since.. I think I need to pay someone to keep my blog running haha. Since JR's birthday I have started teaching swimming lessons and I feel like I live at the pool even though I am usually home by 2:30. Kai is in daycare two of the hours and then my boss and the lifeguards play with him the rest of the time and it is all free for me so it's worth being there. I think Kai is going to have a long summer though it's rough without mom all morning. JR and I had our 2 year anniversary yesterday and we celebrated on Saturday at The Roof. It was delicious and we had a good time. Yesterday during the day I had my primary kids over to help weed this patch of dirt on the side of my mom's house there were so many weeds I kinda felt bad after we started working but they had a lot of fun and when we got done I fed them pizza so at least I made up for the hard labor. Well, I hope you enjoy the pictures from our date to the roof and the weeding "service project" I am such a slacker!