CBYC

Life has been a little bit crazy. I am in the middle of the crop. The kids are doing well. Kimmie will be seeing a specialist in a couple weeks. So I will let everyone know. Here is the crop flyer. I hope to see you there.

7th Annual

Crop Because You Care

A Scrapbook Event for Charity

Crop the day away and enjoy food, games and prizes.There will be gift bags for the first 300 registrants. Enter the raffle for a chance to win a get-away-weekend, bid for custom projects in our silent auction, as well as lots of other fabulous prizes!

Cost is $29.00 pre-registered -or- $35.00 at the door

Saturday, February 2nd

10am to 10pm

South Towne Exposition Center9575 South State Street, Sandy

Special Guest: Stacy Julian,Founding Editor Simple Scrapbook Magazine™

You can register or print out forms on-line at www.epilepsyut.org.

Registration will close at 5:00pm on February 1st.

All proceeds benefit the Epilepsy Association of Utah

Hospital Trip

This post isn't as much fun as my last one. Sunday night we ended up having to take Kimmie back to the hospital. We stayed alomst 24 hours this time. This trip was a lot like our trip in October by the way of reasons we were there. Although we didn't give her the extra time to snap out of it this time. We just took her into the hospital. Her blood pressure was low again and her blood sugars were really low. She has now been officially diagnosed with hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Which is really weird with Erik being diagnosed with diabetes in September. Anyway, she is doing okay and is back at school today. I am still recovering from the sleepless night Sunday night. We are having to check her blood for the next little while to get a base line for her and then again when we think she is acting weird or getting sick or anything.

Thank you for the extra prayers on her behalf.

Idaho Trip

We went to Idaho this last weekend to visit the new Rexburg Temple. We had a wonderful time. The kids loved the temple! I loved to hear their responses as they went through the temple. Erik and I felt like it was one of the top experiences in our parenting. Kimmie started to sing "I love to see the Temple" as we started driving up the hill close to the temple. Johnny and Laura's kids joined in. I started to cry. Johnny liked the movie, the elevators, and the painting on the wall that Erik's old bishop did. The mural was
totally amazing. I hope that they have him do one at the Oquirrh Mountain temple. Kimmie loved the eternity mirrors and the baptismal font. She thought the whole thing was really cool.




Laura took some family photos of us while we were there. There are a couple of them that I absolutely love! I am posting the family 8x10 that she did and the B &W of the kids. I can't wait to have them all printed.

Happy New Year and Christmas posting

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Christmas was wonderful at our home. Thank you everyone for your love and kindness that you brought to our home this Christmas season.

The kids top picture is from the Palmer party at Grandma's on Christmas day. The second isn't a great picture but is from Christmas with the Hansen's I thought Johnny looked too priceless. I can't wait to get copies from Lara's camera.

Kimmie had a great Christmas and got everything, plus everything else that she wanted. Her excitement has been over her "little sweetie" she got a princess baby doll from Grandma and Grandpa that she has named Emily. She has been taking it everywhere with her. The doll wasn't even on her original shopping list so it is nice to see that she is loving other things than what wasn't in the Target toy ad.

Johnny had a wonderful Christmas. He is overjoyed about his Leappad learning system. He got four books and I saved a few more for a latter date and he has been playing with them so much I may give him the new books earlier than I expected. This wasn't on the toy ad shopping list either. He is loving every minute of playing with it. I am loving that he is watching less TV and playing something educational. He was really cute Christmas morning. He kept looking for things with his name on it. He even managed to open the gift from him to Kimmie. He just ripped through his gifts and was done with all of it in no time flat. Kimmie had to wake him up in the morning but it didn't take long for him to realize it was Christmas morning and get out of his usual morning funk.

Erik is still getting out of trouble for forgetting my Birthday and Christmas gifts. I am not real nice about him forgetting something like that. I am really good about him forgetting mother's day and our anniversary but not Christmas and my birthday. So he was feeling really bad to open gifts from me and the kids and have nothing to give me for Christmas.

New Years was rather uneventful. Usually we have had family over for the holiday and no one was able to come. So we went to bed early. I know that is showing our old age.

So back to the usual work and school days.

Crop is only one month away now and I am already far behind where I want to be on it. If you are interested in coming be sure and click the link to the right and register!