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We have had a good week this week. It started off a little stressful but worked out good.
On Monday I got a call saying that our Foster License was taken from us because I forgot to send in a paper and prof of Divorce and Marriage. (like the state doesn't have access to all that stuff anyways). I hurried and got everything I needed and quickly turned them into the state. On Thursday, We went back to court to find out......I didn't need to do all that running around anyway. They were putting the boys back with Tim. YEA!!!!!! We are still under watch by the state but Tim is now with us and the boys. He has 90 days before we go back to court to find a job and prove that he can care for them. In the mean time: WOW, I have time again. Now maybe I can focus on 'girls camp' trek' relief society and my house....mmmmm

!st off I had to post this picture for Tae, Sav, Jessica and Matt. LOOK how big Tweeter is. Jed thinks he is a she though. That is ok. We have lots of people that like our duck eggs. They are so good for cooking.

Friday night the boys went with grandpa and dad's to the fathers and son's outing. I think the boys had a good time. Boy it sure was easy to put them to bed tonight. They were so tired. I took them to Home Depo with me and all Isaiha could say is "I want to go home". He was soooo tired. I will have to say I missed them. It's been a long while since I have been home with out little boys. I didn't quiet know what to do with my self.

I have got such a good husband that would take the time to go and make sure these boy's get to have those experiences. Now he is off to the temple. Thank you Jed for being such a good Husband!!! Father!!!! and Grandpa!!!!

Another Chapter of my life

Not a lot to update except.....I quit my job last week. It was something I have been thinking about doing for a long time. I have felt like I really needed to be home with the boys so when I was pulled into the office and they told me they were cutting my hours, that pretty much helped me along the way. Some day's I am sad cause I really liked the kids. I really wanted to feel like I could help them is some way but I guess it just wasn't meant to be so here we go again, another chapter in my life.

I am still staying busy with boys, Relief Society,(I am suppose to be studying for my lesson I give in the morning, and here I am blogging) Girls camp and Trek. I don't have a lot of time to slack. I finally finished my activity book for trek. I am way excited about it. If anyone is ever in need, I will get you a copy. A big THANKS to Jenny Phillips. That woman is amazing!

And of course the farm. 4 goats, 10 chickens and 3 Ducks. Tweet is getting bigger each day. The chickens have too but they aren't nice like this duck. Tweet still follows me all around and if I leave the room, he get's louder and louder. It is hilarious. Our ducks aren't very nice to him 'yet' but I keep telling them "you better be nice cause it will be you that will leave, not Tweet". Yea, Tweet is my duck. Oh, if ducks could only talk. One of our goats keeps jumping over the fence and hangs out with our neighbors goats and horses. He is so mischievous! It's a good thing that our neighbor is cool about it.

So as far as yard work ... MMmmm what can I say. I cleaned up a little area and planted some flowers. When I went to get the flowers, the yellow just stuck out so I went with yellow.

When I got home and got it all planted it looked so nice, and it even matches my front lawn. lol....

We still have so much work to do and we thought that it would only take 2 years to fix up. OMG...we are coming up on our 2 years. I can hardly believe it. I don't even dare predict how much longer it will take. With all the farm animal we are getting though, I think Jed is planning to stay for a while. He loves the farm life. I am kinda liking it too. I guess I would be happy anywhere as long as I was with Jed.

I can hardly believe that this little girl is 6.

She is so full of life.

And...such a girl!
We had fun at her party

Pinata was fun. Thank you for not putting a lot of candy in it. My boys don't need no sugar :)

We love you miss Evva! Happy Birthday.

I do have to just add one more thing. I had made Evva a barbie cake a few years ago for her birthday. I told Desi that I would make one too. (Desi's is the cute one by the way) Well, I went to get the pan that I had used to make her cake and realized that I had just cleaned out my closet and taken them to DI's a few weeks ago. Well....off to D I 's I went. I ended up buying back one of my pans for $ 2. ...Oh yea. lol, I know it was mine too, It had the same marks on it. I don't think I will be so quick to clean out my pans again.

Tweet... He is so stinkin cute! The boy's are loving him.

April is the month for Birthdays around her. Briggs, Timmy, Jeddy Jed & this week miss Evva.
It's nice be able to have the family together. I won't even tell you how old Timmy is now cause then you will know how old I am getting.

The kids came out for Jed's birthday and went to church with us. Tim J put the thought and the labor into his Jed's present this year.
And Desi put in the elbow grease and Dr. Pepper and treats :) Nice and clean on the inside....
Brand new grill on the out side. It looks like a brand new truck.
We all got together and colored Easter eggs. This year we had BIG duck eggs.
Oh and we got some more chickens...
Easter was fun. We went over to the Jones's for church to listen to Desi talk. She did such a nice job. It was fun to be back home again. What an amazing ward.
And of course, the Easter Bunny was very good to the boys. New bikes!
They got to see both Mom and Dad...
And spent some time with their Nana. She made them the cute little homemade baskets behind them.
My most favorite part about this month is that we get to spend a lot of time with family and I love my family. How blessed I am to have FAMILY.

Conference Weekend

Next to the 4th of July, conference weekend is my favorite. I love getting together and 'trying' to listen to General Conference. We usually go up to Mel's cabin but once again there was to much snow. My sweet husband took a CAT up to try and plow into the cabin. He worked for hours until we all finally decided MMmmm Best Western sound pretty good.

We got two rooms that joined. They gave us a really good deal!

It was fun relaxing.
We even went swimming.
and of course shopping - I just forgot to take pictures.
The funny thing is, when I went to down load the pictures I realized someone else was trying to take pictures for me. lol..... Nice Toilet paper!
I think the funniest part of the weekend was watching Justin and his little groupies. LOL... He has some pretty cute girls following him around. Funny how they ended up at the same hotel as us. We had a good laugh. Ohh, to be young again.

It is always hard to come home for a nice weekend.

Tonight we took Evva and Briggs with us to go get some Chicks.
They are so stinkin cute!! We got 6 for now.
They are so tiny. It was fun.

House up-date: I finally got another cupboard....One piece at a time.
Duck Trivia:
Where do the ducks carry their eggs?
So my ducks looked like they had 'excuse my words for just a moment'....but, Big boobs! It just wasn't right. One day they were big and then the next they were not which made me stop and think: Where do they carry their eggs? Yep, I was right. In their neck or boobs...which ever.

Now you have learned something I will move on to this past few weeks.
Tysen turned 4 years old. Crazy how fast they grow. We had the family over for cake and ice cream.

of course he got a Thomas the train cake. Not like that is his world - oh wait a minute....it is his world.
That weekend we had the girls come over and I let them make a train cake for Tysen. See our Peay boy's like to celebrate there birthday for at least one or two weeks. Ok, Derrik a month :)
This weekend we took the kids and went (or tried) to go up to the cabin. OMG there is so much snow up there. We didn't make it in to the cabin but we stopped long enough to go sledding.


When we got home and everything in the house.....The sun came out. Why am I not use to this kind of weather? I live in Utah!

Last but not least....Bon Jovi.
I have the best husband in the world!! He was so good to take me to see Bon Jovi last Tuesday. We had a blast. Are seats were clear up but it didn't matter. I have not had that much fun in a long time. Bon Jovi put's on an amazing show. I love his music and it doesn't hurt that he is still dang good lookin too. Okay, not as good lookin as my husband but nice eye candy indeed. He has been around for 27 years and I think I have enjoyed his music for 27 years too. Mmmm and I still like his music.

Mini Spinnies Mini Studs

These two ducks are pooped out!

LOL...This is why:

I went out side and looked under a piece of wood and found these. Seven (7) eggs in one night. The most we have seen is two. So we decided that if they are going to lay that many eggs, we had better start eating them. So for breakfast today we had scrambled duck eggs. Mmmm not bad:)

Saturdays have been very busy for us the past month and so it is nice that they have slowed back down. The boys had a visit with the "other" grandma today. For Timmy's visit today they all came over to the house and we took the kids sledding.
That is Timmy on the back of the sled with Isaiha.
It was so much fun.
I am glad that Timmy is okay with us all hanging with him while he plays with his boys.
It's also been nice not having to go to the mall and time the visits. We can now spend more time together as a family. Maybe soon life will settle back down and we can live a normal life again.

I have had such a nice weekend. I love having day's off. I know, I don't work very much but it is still nice. The best thing was that Desi and the kids came and spent the night while Tim went up camping with the scouts. It was fun just hanging out and letting the kid's run wild. (poor Jed)! I love just sitting and visiting with Desi...and the kids.

So our duck laid an egg.

I was pretty excited. Okay, so this is a first time for me. I know very little about farm life but Jed is slowly teaching me. Now Derrik on the other hand thought Meagan was pulling his leg when she told him....Derrik: Ducks don't lay eggs! LOL...I can't say much cause I didn't think they did either until I started to think about "how do we get more ducks". Okay so on the other side of that....I didn't know that a girl duck can just lay an egg and then the male sits on the egg to fertilize it. We don't have a male duck. No little Ducklings for us. We did get two more eggs this morning.

Before I forget I just have to write this down.

Me: boys will you come with me over to Ron's pre-school and help me clean?
Ron: Yes
Isaiha: No!
Ron: Please Isaiha? I really need you. My pre-school is a mess!

Phone call today-from Zoee's phone line.
Me: Hello
Briggs: Can I speak to Ron.
Me: um, yea...sure
Ron talks for a minute and then Isaiha talks. I finally get the phone back.
Me: So Briggs, where is Zoee?
Briggs: Upstairs watching TV.
Me: Where is Evva?
Briggs: Upstairs watching TV with Zoee.
Me: Where's mom?
Briggs: Down stairs working
Desi in the back ground....
Briggs, who are you talking to?

He is too cute. He called all by himself.
Yea lol-he is only 3

Quick up-date on Isaiha. Can you tell he is feeling much better. He helped me make cookies tonight and enjoyed cleaning up the beater.

We stayed home again today. He is ready to get out of the house. We will see how he's feels in the morning.
Anyone know how long you keep a kid in when they have pneumonia?

I did go to Young Woman's today to hear Meagan give her lesson. She did such a good job. I am very proud of her.

The Jone's came out and visited with us. It is so much fun when they come out. The house get's crazy with the kids running but oh how I love to have them all over.

Evva lost another tooth. She is so cute. Ron keeps telling me "Evva misses me". Cracks me up. It's more like um....Ron misses Evva. I just tell him. "oh yes, she misses you"

Zoee made Grandpa a cake while they were out. Grandpa has been sick too and she wanted to make something for him. She is such a sweetheart. She recited the 13th article of faith to me tonight. I am so impressed with her. She is so bright!
It's always hard to say good byes. You would think that we live hundreds of miles away from each other but we don't get to spend much time together now that we have the kids and they have Timmy. I keep telling the girls that this will soon pass and then we can be back together again.
Once again I wonder if the "State" realizes what they are doing to families. The say in the last day's that Satan will attack the family~Mmmmm Would that be the devil in disguise? LOL....just kidding (kind of). Okay, never mind.
I am so grateful for my family. Life wouldn't be worth living without my family. They make it all worth while.

DATE NIGHT

So I have to chuckle just a little to think that here we are (My baby in her 20's) and date night ends up being with Isaiha in the Doctors office. At least we were together, right!

Poor little guy. When I got home from work he kept telling me that he was tired. I took his temperature and it was 104. (Reminded me of the good old day's with Timmy). We went into a night time pediatrics out here in Tooele that will now be our pediatrician. VERY impressed! He sent us to the hospital for chest X-Rays and went back to find out that he has pneumonia. Isaiah kept saying...."NO FLU SHOT". I didn't lie to him about not getting a flu shot but he did get 2 big shots in his legs. They found that he also has Asama and sent us home with a nebulizer and a years worth of prescription for his breathing treatment. That was from 5 pm - 8

Then it was 8 pm at Wal Mart to fill perscriptions
2 am Wal Mart for tylenol-cause I forgot it the 1st time.
4 am fever finally broke and off to sleep we went.
Mmmmm anyone that knows me knows "I like my sleep". Oh well, he is worth it 10 X over again.

Today he is feeling so much better. He keep trying to convince me that he is all better and he can go out side. Hahahah...I don't think so but I am glad he is feeling better.

Jed went back to the Temple tonight. He has been off since we got the boys and has really struggled on if he should go back or not. He had decided that he would quit and stay home but he got too much flak from a few of us. We keep telling him that we need those blessings :)

Life keeps changing ~ who knows where we will be in a year from now. We will just keep our seat belts on.

President Thomas S. Monson - Prophet of the Lord.

" My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle."

I always need a good thought to keep me going. Thank goodness for small miracles like these cute kids.

Our time has been filled with visits for the kids, with DCFS, phone visits, kids, school, foster classes and work. As you can tell by my blogging or lack of....I haven't had much time for anything else. One nice thing is that Timmy get's longer visits so we have been able to have family night with the Jones family as well. I have really missed my grandma day with them.

I do have to tell you, I had asked Isaiha to get his socks on for church. Look how well he minded. Yes-we made him change his socks. I thought it was pretty cute.
These 3 have become very good friends. Ok so Isaiha may have a few battle wounds on his face from Tysen but they still love each other.
I have learned a lot this past month. I really enjoyed the foster classes but I am grateful to have those out of the way. I am hoping that February will bring back a little bit of normal around our home. Jed will be going back to the Temple this Saturday. He has missed that very much. Few more weeks before we return to court again. So I will keep praying and praying and praying. Soon I hope to have my family all back together again without the state in the middle.

This to will pass......