MY LITTLE BRO

Dillon and his companion


I wish this is what I woke up to everyday!


So Pretty


So if I saw this, coming home would have been first thing on my list


So my little brother Dillon has been on his mission in Reunion Madagascar 18 months and he loves it. Sadly we found out this morning that he will be coming home this Wednesday. He has Leukemia. So I am going to be in Tooele For the next little while, helping my mom. it is a bitter sweet for sure.

Ryder Spider

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FUN DAY!

Ryder's first time in the park swings

Parker just learning how to pump the swing

Ryder and Parker love to feed the horses that are in the field behind our backyard

Yup that would be Skylar asleep on the couch

Ready for swimming lessons

So after a lot of thought me and Skylar decided not to do a big vacation with the boys this year. We were planning on it, but we thought that we should just do the little things like camping, lagoon, and hiking. So we are putting the money that we would have spent on the vaca in the boys' college/mission fund yet again. This sounds like a good plan just to wait till the boys are a little older and to hopefully have Parker under control some. But I know that come time when everyone is going to Hawaii or Cali, I will be sad:(

So we have a big , meeting tomorrow with Pioneer elementary school so that they can get to know Parker a little. Then we have one more meeting in August to finalize everything.....and then he is off to school. The main reason that I am trying to put him in school so young is to get him a head start on what it will be like in kindergarten. If you know Parker I think that you would agree that just putting him into school like most people do with their kids would not be the best idea. So I hope that everything goes well and they take him this fall.

So it is official I am going back to school this fall. well if you can call it that. I will be doing my classes online. The hard part now is deciding to go full time or 3/4 time. I think that it would be a good idea to just go 3/4 time that way I can not be way overloaded. So I am retaking some classes that I got C's and D's in, like biology and stats. Right now I have 64 credits so they are pressuring me into applying for a program...What program is the question??? I want to do secondary education but I would have to spend about two semesters on the actual campus and with two kids and living so far I can't do that. they offer some programs fully online like psychology but I'm not just going to do something that I'm not way interested in just because it is convenient...well maybe I will. I don't want to get a degree to work outside of the home, I want it because I think that education is really important and I want my kids to know that. I think that if things were different with Parker I might take a part time job, but I would never be able to leave him with a babysitter(besides family). He is to impulsive and overly hyper to the point where it might push there buttons beyond the point of continuing to babysit or even get physical with him. I think that being Parker's mother was meant to be my job.

RYDER'S POOR LITTLE NOSE

Hard to tell with the pictures but his nose is actually blue on the left side all the way up to his eye :(

Ryder's nose got hurt yesterday and he had to go to the E.R.

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WHITE FLAG!

Ryder 7 months old

Parker flexing his muscles

Mom and Ryder on Mothers day

Okay I surrender, I have my arms up in the air and I'm holding the white flag. I can't do this anymore! I have tried everything that I can think of to help Parker without putting him on drugs, but I just can't do it anymore. The fact that he is so naughty and mischievous isn't even the half of it. I think that if that were all it is I could handle it. When he gets out of his car seat and opens the door on the freeway because someone turned off the child safety, I can handle it, when he tears off the child proof door locks and goes outside to play in the road, I can handle it. When he pours nail polish all over the floor for the third time because he can find it after we hide it...I can deal with it. When he bit Ryder's noise to the point where it swelled shut, I handled it. But I am done. Right now I am nursing a sick seven month old back to health because he was pushed out of a a grocery cart and landed on his head and nose....I CAN'T handle it anymore!! Ryder has broken cartilage in his nose and it is swollen all the way to his eyes. He can not have solids for two days. Not to mention he already had an ear infection. His first tooth is peeking through as well. The poor guy is in so much pain and Parker just laughed. When I took Ryder to the E.R. yesterday the Dr. came in and closed the door, well this up set Parker so he went over and starting hitting the Dr. as hard as he could. I put him in the corner on a chair and tried to explain as calm as I could his punishment for all of this. It was honestly a good thing that nurses and Dr. where coming in and out of the room. I would have beat him, and I don't feel bad for saying it. I really need help with this kid. Not so much for me but for him. I don't want him growing up like this and becoming a rude, mean adult, I mean who knows what he will turn out like. I have tried the special diet, spanking, ignoring, time out. I have read books galore, I am currently taking him to USU behavior management. All of these things have an effect on him for about two seconds and then he is back to The evil, mean, cruel, naughty little boy. I am not asking for permission to put him on drugs, that is something that a lot of thought, research, and prayer will have to be done by both me and Skylar. I am just saying that I am at the end and this is the only thing that I have not tried. I know what people think...that I need to just deal with my two year old. That people have two year olds and they handle them just fine. Well think of your child on their worst day where you just can't take another second. That worst day of yours is my best day!! Maybe it is me, maybe I am clueless!

Funny babies

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NEW FAVORITE STORE! AND MUCH MUCH MORE.

So I went to Hobby Lobby next to Best Buy in Logan today. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. The store was so big I was there for an hour and a half and did not make it all the way through. I stopped to look at everything. So their grand opening in on Monday and I am going back. I want to go without the boys but Skylar is coming with me so it will be a little easier. I love bistro' stuff for the kitchen and they had a ton of cool stuff like that. they had the cool cast iron stuff and tons of scrapbooking stuff. Most everything was 30-50% off but it is going to be better on Monday! So I am going to going on Monday at 6 they are open till 8. Then we are going to dinner some where like Chili's or whatever...if you are not busy lets make it a date.

Lisa has inspired me to try to take some awesome pictures of the boy myself. I am going to drive around town(Preston) on Saturday and look for cool places...this is farm land USA so I'm sure to find something. I am sure they won't be as good as here's but I am still going to try.

I am so excited for my new nephew. Autum gets induced tomorrow. Yahoo....!! Hopefully this will cure me from being baby hungry. Her boys seem to be tall like mine but not as fatttt(referring to Ryder) I poop out toddlers and I am really just wanting a little baby Kate(Mers baby girl) even if it is a boy. Just a little thing. I wish that I could be there but I don't want to interfere with those first few days of mommy and baby bonding time.

P.S. This last weekend in Park City really made me think that all of you that have breastfeed even for just a few weeks, I totally commend you. The girls that I went with are 4 and 6 months plus and are going strong. even pumping every three to four hours wherever we were. WOW props to them.