Topher has croup.

He coughed yesterday a little bit and throughout the night. This morning when I dropped him off to my neighbor I told her to call me and I'd come get him if he got bad. She never called, so I didn't worry. But when I picked him up at 4pm she said I should take him to the dr cuz he sounded really bad and had coughed all day. He still eats and plays and seems ok most of the time, but he really does hack pretty bad. So we went to instacare and the doctor checked him out. It's croup. We got a prescription and I'm staying home from school tomorrow and Friday to keep him home with me. Hopefully it'll pass quickly and he'll be back to his normal healthy funny self!

Why does this have to happen the week that Jay is in Florida and I'm all alone?!?! Argh! Come home, Jay! I need you!!

P.S. This picture was from a few weeks ago. He came home from the sitter with this little eye-bruise mark. I just wanted a pic of him looking sullen since this post is about him being sick. This picture seems to work.

Lonely.

Jay is flying out tomorrow morning. He's going to Orlando until Saturday night. I hate it when he's gone. It'll be a fun trip for him because between meetings they get to go to Disneyworld for a day. But still, I hate being without him.

Good thing I have Topher and Rusty to entertain me.

I *heart* the Jazz!

I love basketball season. We are sooo into the Jazz games, we usually watch them all on TV but we got to go to one in December. Jay's dad and grandpa came with us. We sat in Jay's work seats which are halfway up the lower bowl, really good seats! It was a really fun game; I think the people around us started to get sick of me being obnoxious and screaming so loud (especially when Kyle went in... it was his first game back after injury and I was EXTREMELY excited about it!) Unfortunately they lost by 2 points right at the buzzer, it was sort of depressing. I still don't understand how they can beat all the awesome teams and then lose to the crappy teams! Anyway, we love the Jazz and hope they do good the rest of the season... maybe even make the playoffs??? Let's hope!

New Pics from Christmas Break

randomly written recap

*6pm, Tuesday, Dec. 22: car wreck. my first. really bad. totaled my car. not my fault. 4 vehicles involved. lucky to be alive. still waiting on insurance.

*Thursday, Dec. 24: had Christmas in spanish fork with jay's family. Then drove down to cedar.

*Friday, Dec. 25: had Christmas in cedar with my family. Topher's 1st Christmas.

*Saturday, Dec. 26: played games with sandy, katie, jen, & ray. too much fun. it's funny how we don't see each other for years but when we get together it's right back to where we left off in high school.

*Sunday, Dec. 27: Jay's birthday. he's 31. wow. that's old. We drive home.

*Tuesday, Dec. 29: Jay's family come to our house to celebrate our birthdays.

*Thursday, Dec. 31: chris, sharise, dina, mike, christy, heath, ramona, potato, jeremy, and lexi come to our house. we eat tons of food and play games for new years eve.

*Friday, Jan. 1: we drive to spanish fork to play games at chris' house with chris, sharise, mike, & dina. then randomly we decide to go to the movies at 10:30. the boys see sherlock holmes. the girls see new moon. best way to start a new year if you ask me. i've seen that movie twice now and could easily see it several more times in the theater.

*Saturday, Jan. 2: we go to dinner at chilis with natalie & davy for my birthday. then play games at our house.

*Sunday, Jan. 3: my birthday. i'm 27. that also seems old. i got sung to in primary, it was awesome.

*Tomorrow, Jan. 4: i go back to school. sadly. i don't want to. i have loved having so much time off. i wish i were a stay at home mom. i'm sure once i get to school and see my kids and get back in routine, it'll be fine. but right now i'm dreading it.

A Wonderful Blessing

I have been teaching the sunbeams in our ward for the past 6 months. I had a partner teacher the first month or two so it was totally manageable, but then she moved and I've been on my own ever since. Some weeks weren't too bad, but others basically killed me. It's CRAZY trying to control 8 three-year-olds at church on my own. The presidency must have noticed how hard it's been on me, because I got great news today: I'm going to move up to be a CTR-5 teacher, which means I'll still have about half my same kids. I was super stressed about trying to start the year with newbies from the nursery. Also, I'm getting a partner. They'll sustain her next week. YAY!! I'm soooo happy! I've really grown to love these kids, and I'm glad I get to have some of them for another year. Plus, 4 turning 5 seems so much better than 3 turning 4. I'm really happy and I think this was a huge blessing for me.

Somewhat Random

When I was growing up, my big brother Scott was in a band called "Somewhat Random". Since then that has become one of my favorite phrases.

I decided I don't blog enough. Why? Because my life isn't that exciting. I keep waiting for some big important exciting event to blog about. But seriously, how long am I going to keep stalling in a blogless existence waiting for something massive and amazing to happen? I could be waiting for a long time!

So here's what I'm thinking: in an attempt to blog more often, I am going to start making my blogs short, sweet, and always "somewhat random".

You have been warned.