Tayson, Sweet Tayson!

Tayson is our compassionate thoughtful kid, here's a recent example.
Tayson and Brecken both take gymnastics, If they do good in their class sometimes I give them each a quarter for the candy machine. this is our conversation later that night.

Me: What kind of candy did you get with your quarter today?
Tayson: Hard candy (this means Runts)
(Pause)
Tayson: I only just took a couple, though
Me: Why did you only just take a couple?
Tayson: Cause I had to leave some for all the other kids that were there.

We love you Tayson!

Crazy, Crazy, Crazy

Okay, so we didnt drop off the face of the planet, but it felt like it for a while. the last couple of months have been so crazy. SO I'll just write quickly what we have been up to. Of course December was crazy for the same reason it has been every year since I was 8 years old. Nutcracker!!!! For those of you that were dancers with me, this needs no explanation. Those who were not, think 1 month old baby with colic. it's that stressfull. After our performance here in Idaho falls I made all new snow headpieces for Utah Regional Ballet in 3 days. Then we had Christmas!!! we had so much fun, it was an awesome year. This is the first christmas in a long time that I have been able to decorate the house and just enjoy because we were not in the middle of moving!

January hit us like a freight train, Brecken fell off our barstool (The second barstool catastrophe in 3 months, as I'm sure you will remember) and bit all 4 top teeth all the way through his tounge. The tounge was hanging on by two thin pieces on each side. what followed was a very long trip to the emergency room, where we found that he doesn't react to anisthetics the way most people do, and after 7 hours we finally had to have a plastic surgeon come in and sew his tounge back together, it was a scary day. Since we spent so much time in the hospital that day, we came home with all sorts of fun illnesses. Tyler got really sick, all the kids got pinkeye, Tayson got an ear infection, I got the flu and Giryan got RSV. Luckily G- didn't have to go to the hospital but we've been doing nebulizer treatments 4 times a day to help his lungs be able to breathe. Everybody is finally all better for the first time in a long time. (Knock on wood) So that is my very good excuse for not writing in our blog for over 2 months. We did manage to have some fun in January, Tyler and I left the kids with the parents and went snowmobiling in Yellowstone for 3 days, It was so much fun and as soon as we are rich and famous we are buying us some snowmobiles.

I put in some pictures of my happy, not sick, kids. (and since Mandy asked the reason I never appear in our blog is because I am always the one taking the pictures and never in the pictures, but I'll try to do better :) )