Jessica's Hair Disaster!

Those of you who have known our family for a while know that we have had our share of hair disasters. Bethany being the worst. We have now had (hopefully) our final one. I really had thought that Jessica was going to be the one that didn't do a masterful job cutting her hair. However, I guess she was feeling left out because Saturday she did a hatchet job on her own hair. I called David and told him what she had done and he asked if it was better than Nair I said Marginally of course I was being a little dramatic because it is waaay better but this is the little girl that almost cried when we got a trim. Weeellll let me show you what she did. Needless to say we had to make a quick trip to the Salon where the beautician did her best to salvage a little bit. Not much to work with.And here is the end results. It looks barely acceptable if she wears a head band, but alas what 5 year old is going to keep one of those on right. Sigh O well its times like these that ya just gotta laugh because if you don't you might want to cry.

Miracles and blessings!

Sometimes in every life there is a chance to look toward Heaven and thank our Father for the miracle of life, love and happiness. Yesterday was one of those days for me. My dear husband has a heart problem. One that can be taken care of with medications but we don't have insurance and he doesn't like the side effects so we haven't been buying it. He called me yesterday at 5pm. and asked me to come to the shop because he was having some heart problems. I drove over there immediately and then had to drop Katie off at the house before I could take him to the hospital. I drove through 5 o'clock traffic worried about him but not hysterical, this had happened before and he looked okay so in my mind I was telling myself he was just be hypochondriacal. I didn't want it to be anything major. I dropped him off and parked the car and then went in to see how things were going. The nurses had put him in a wheel chair and then they took him back. I still hadn't fully come to the understanding that this was serious. When I went back after getting the paperwork I found him in a room with about 6 doctors and nurses and they had him taped up to all sorts of machines. The scary one was the one that was monitoring his heart rate. It was up over 200!!!!!! They asked him to bare down like a bowl movement because this sometimes makes the heart rate go back to normal but it wasn't working it only made his heart rate go up I saw it at 250 and the nurse said that it had gone up to 270. I was panicking and not doing so great. What can I say I kept thinking he better not die in front of me I don't think I can handle that. I kept a small prayer of HELP!! running through my mind and the doctors gave him some kind of meds to bring his heart rate down, the first dose didn't help and then they gave him a second with two shot at the same time. Heavenly Father answered my prayers and finally David heart rate came back down and was normal. I don't think I have ever been so worried in my life. This is not the first time this has happened to him but it is the first time that I have seen it and been witness to just how scary this can get. He has super ventricular tacnacardia with a microvalve prolapse, lots of big words to mean that his heart has a short circuit and can start beating really fast and doesn't stop itself. I will have to make sure he goes to see a cardiologist which is hard since we do not have insurance but I am not willing to loose him to this when there is a pill that he can take daily to keep it from happening.

I soooo love my dear sweet husband and I am thankful that it was not his time to go. I don't even want to imagine life without his love and companionship with me everyday. So go home and kiss your sweetie and let them know that they are the world to you because you never know what can happen and say a prayer or two for them. May God bless you all as I have been blessed.

First real Band Concert!!

Brandon has been in band all year. He plays the clarinet. They had a concert at the zoo in December but you really couldn't hear it that much so this is kind of his first real concert. Here is Brandon with his clarinet before the concert began.

I recorded one of the songs that they played. The sound quality on my camera doesn't do them justice. They sounded wonderful. If you look between the 2nd and 3rd flute players to the boy in the white shirt you will find Brandon.

Stake Youth Luau, What Fun!!!

This past Saturday, Alecia and Brandon went to a church sponsored service project/dance. They started out with a service project. The 12 and 13 year old were asked to clean the boats. When the older kids were done with their project they came and helped. Here is a picture of Brandon and Riley working on a boat.Brandon working on the boats again (Yeah right, I had to remind him what we were there for several times but hey that's the fun of being around your kids LOL)Alecia had a slumber party the night before for her birthday. Here are some of the girls that spent the night. Tori stayed to but she hung out with another one of her friends so I didn't get a picture of her with Alecia.The 14 and 15 year olds were asked to pick up trash. Here is Alecia and her friend picking up trash. Yeah Alecia!!!!After they worked hard (Hehehe) they got to go swimming for most of the day. After swimming they got to eat Luau food. You know, lots of fruit, veggies, pig and Asian rice and pasta. I really like this picture of Alecia. Isn't she just beautimaful LOL!!!!!Russell was there to. He's such a cutie.After dinner there was some real Polynesian entertainment. There was a family from one of the wards that was Polynesian and new how to dance. What fun!! Here is there daughter, boy could she hula!!They taught the YW of their ward a little hula and they performed as a group.

The Young Men got into the action when they performed the Hakka(sp?)

The mom performed a beautiful dance.
After the performances were all over they had a dance for the youth. My camera batteries died so I did not get anymore pictures but it was fun and they had a great time.

Krystal's Fun Day

Friday, May 8th, I went as a chaperon to Krystal's fun day! She had a really good time! Here she is before she started playing. I had put her hair in a french braid in order to keep it off her neck and out of her face. Doesn't she look precious!She had fun playing on the slide,Hanging out with her friends,Drawing on the concrete, She made a box (she said it was 3-D what do you think :),

She also enjoyed jumping rope and lots of other things as well!

LIfe Is CRAZY!!!

I have a planner and I am using it so why in the world am I overbooking and double booking my activities. I somehow managed to sign up to both help with the field day activities and concession for two days in a row. Last Friday was Fun day for Krystal and Bethany and yep I managed to sign up for both of them. I really don't have a defense for this craziness that has entered my life. I am just not paying attention to what is going on. I have decided that it is going to take a lot more diligence in order to get some control over my schedule. I helped with field day concession today and will help again tomorrow. I have to go to Brandon's Band concert tomorrow night and then things may be getting back to my normal. (My normal being different from everyone else's because what in the heck in normal!!!!!! this is one of my pet debates and maybe a blog for later but I don't want to go there now)

Alecia's Solo.

Alecia had a solo at the end of the year choir concert tonight. She did a really good job. If you notice she forgot some of the words but she still did awesome. She didn't find out that she was doing the solo until yesterday and then the teacher switched the boys solo with the girls so they weren't even singing what they had been practicing. I'm not sure what her teacher was thinking but with all the changes I think she did wonderful:) Here is a video the boy sings first and then Alecia.