sick sleepover

The boys and girl wanted to have a sleepover even though they were all sick with strep throat. There is a new Drake and Josh movie on (via Nickalodean) that is on tonight. The boys wanted to see it so we said do some cleaning and family sleepover is onHere is the infamous guppy tank that lost over half of it's guppies to overzealous feeding by the 3 year old. Today she she was allowed to help clean it and I must say it is sparkly and awesome!

Here us Colton wide awake and Darin and Camryn pretending to be asleep.

Surprise!! Camryn is really awake!! What a faker.

Dylan was excited to watch the movie and then the powers of the DS took over and he had to play a game. Of course now, at 930, he is sound asleep:)

I think I like this idea of family sleepovers. The kids have to help clean the house plus they get a reward out of it. Good thing I bought my chrismas present early-I can see stains on the carpet thaat need to get cleaned out before Santa comes to visit our humble abode:) Hope everyone has a happy holiday and stress free season!

Strep Throat Strikes again

Thought the red might match their fiery red throats! Yes, 3 or the 5 have strep throat and that does not include me (which I have it). I remember in the old days I could just take care of myself but now I have to drag my hiney up to get what the kids want. Of course I had to blog about it or else what fun is it:)

Dylan has strep and an infection in his big thumb. So I operated and removed lots of gunk and blood. The whole time he was screaming and telling that me if I was really a nurse that is should not hurt-hahaha!! Little does he know about my profession and the cursing at I get daily. I just let it roll off as these patients are sick and cannot help that just one more painful procedure is going to throw them over that proverbial edge.

I could not get Camryn to sit still and be serious. Oh well, such is the life of a three year old who is sick and when she fells the tiniest bit better she is ready to go. Heather Stone, I wish I could hide in your suitcase for the polar express. I would get a better break and sleep:) You have fun out there! And Michelle D., I f you still have Twilight necklaces or bracelets I am more than happy to pay for them:) I have to say that good friends far away and close by are what is keeping my sanity intact for now.

43 years young

Today is Rich's 43rd birthday. Happy birthday honey!! I am going to try Mary's idea of using 43 great things about the birthday boy:)

1. He is a great husband to 5 rambunctious kids.



2. He married me-that was taking a big chance!!



3. He loves to laugh.



4. He is truly the head of our home.



5. He honors his priesthood.



6. He attends the temple with me and is worthy to do so.



7. He attended all of the kids births and even cut all the cords even though he was quesy the first time.



8. He has coached the kids in any sport they have done.



9. His favorite is being the baseball coach.



10. He has spent countless hours volunteering to be the baseball coach.



11. He has pitching clinics for any of the kids who want to learn to pitch.



12. He is open to having any kid play any position-you don't find that with too many coaches!



13. He and the kids love to play football out in the front street of our house.



14. He will do any chore for his parents and will cut their lawn any time they need it.



15. He once painted the whole outside of his parent's house when I was pregnant with Darin.



16. He picks his parents citrus trees for them every year.



17. He hangs our christmas lights for us every year without complaint-and I am thankful he has not fallen off the roof yet;)



18. He mops the floor with the boys every weekend-I love this!!!



19. He and the boys do the dishes every night. I just have to cook.



20. He helps vacuum the floor.



21. He even helps put away the laundry-that is a huge chore around this house:)



22. He makes the outside of our house look great every weekend.



23. He can fall asleep in 5 seconds flat-how come I can't do that?



24. The boys love to play him in speed and Rich sometimes wins.



25. They also love to play him in MLB slugfest 2003-any guesses who wins this one?



26. We have gotten him to play guitar hero and I have beat him-haha!



27. He has the best smile.



28. He takes longer to dry his hair then I do and his hair is shorter-love ya honey!!



29. He is ticklish and I only know the right spot.



30. His favorite game to play with the younger 2 kids is "dad has the bees" and he tickles them.



31. He plays the best hide and seek and lets the kids find him by yelling out "bouka" so they can find him.



32. He gave in to his wife and 5 kids and let us get our precious underwear eating maltese, Snowball.



33. He likes to take multiple showers and baths a day. Cleanliness is next to godliness.



34. He will wrestle with the kids and let them win.



35. He likes to go to his best friends house, Todd Nussbaum, and they spend hours there just talking. Thank goodness he takes the kids with him.



36. The boys love the fact he lets them get "tons" of christmas presents.



37. He likes to play catch with the boys in the front street-no broken windows yet.



38. I can always count on him to keep the cars running and clean.



39. His favorite pasttime is to play golf.



40. His favorite thing to watch on TV is football.



41. He has his dream job of being the controller at the ASU Karsten Golf Course as the controller. He hits range balls on his lunch break.



42. He gets everyone together for scripture reading everynight.



43. I am still 3 years younger than you sweetie. We love you and our family would not be the same without you:)
    

"Comfort Me"

Found these beautiful lyrics written by James Gillice. I emailed him to found out where he has these albums at-was able to listen to pieces of it on the family blog. These lyrics really touched me and such great poetry also!

Comfort Me

And what have we become?

In a world of failing schemes and broken dreams

We make ourselves a home

Amd time keeps moving on

With so much left undone

We run to try and catch the sun

But we fall by the way

As our tired, useless legs betray

The masters that they once obeyed

And who could even say

If we're worthy of our days

And the untold prices we have paid

But this is who we are

And this is how we'll always be

I was alone

You came to comfort me...

Thanks for sharing these awesome words.