Where have I been?

in bed! so sick, couldn't move, so sick! and my little girl made me this to make me smile! :)

plans changed

last night at 3am I was awoken to my little boy throwing up...I got him cleaned up and then seconds later Sierra yells "mommy!" I run to her and she is in the hallway and said "I feel like I'm going to throw up!" I rushed her to the toilet and held her hair as she threw up in the toilet. She got all cleaned up, teeth brushed and back to bed. The rest of the night I was up twice an hour with Ashton cleaning him up because he can not make it to the toilet and he kept missing the bowl. I was up with Sierra just twice, she was not as bad as Ashton, she actually got a little bit of sleep.
This morning Jake and I had plans to attend the temple with his family. Plans changed. I stayed home and washed lots of blankets and jammies. Jake got to go with his family. It's okay, the kids and I just get to lay around and watch a lot of movies and take naps.
I feel like we did this last year after Christmas...

rain?

Today was a great day! After taking Ashton to the dr. yesterday because he still had a fever of 103 (poor guy)! She did lots of tests on him; Xray, urine, blood, she discovered that everything looked normal and he must have a virus and to give it another 24 hrs. Not easy for a mom and dad who have had a sick boy for a good 4 days. He was delirious last night, crying and crying! Oh how grateful I am that...Fever finally broke today and he is feeling better, YAY!
We checked on Herbie, Keil's dog, this morning and when we left to walk home it was RAINING, yes raining in July! A warm sticky rain, how fun!!!!
We finally got to get a couple of errands done, the post office and Smart and Final.
Sierra had a private lesson with Coach Patrick to get ready for Champs tomorrow.
Janelle took Sierra to the Library yesterday and got the kids signed up for the reading club and they are gun-ho, they did ALOT of reading today. I love it!
Sierra went to her last practice.
We ate a good hearty spaghetti dinner so Si has lots of energy tomorrow.
Took Herbie to the park and the kids enjoyed walking with him, we tired him out Heather! :) The kids LOVED taking care of him.
Jake and the kids had a squirt gun fight before and after dinner.
Now watching Ponyo, cute!

Cabin Fever

My boy has had the flu since Sunday night. Fever and throw up. We have been stuck at home for 3 days. It was nice at first because it forced us to slow down. Yesterday we got out just to drive Sierra to swim practice (usually we walk but Ashton couldn't walk that far). Great just to get out of the house for 5 minutes. Sierra loved being at swim practice. She didn't go Monday because she was complaining that her stomach hurt too. (Maybe in her head. :))So Monday and Tuesday consisted of laying around watching tv and reading books. Today I actually lassoed Sierra into helping me clean bathrooms so we actually accomplished something. I finished Work and the Glory #4. We listened to our daddy on the radio today. He was interviewed on 1220 am KHTS about Mortgages. Sierra read 8 chapters of the Book of Mormon. Ashton got to mark off some chapters too on his bookmark. Hope my boy gets to feeling better soon and here's to hoping no one else gets it!

BARF!

At 5 am, morning after Christmas, I woke up to Sierra throwing up in our bathroom. Then at about 7:30am Ashton came and woke me up and said his throw up in his bowl spilt on the couch. "What?" My children were sick and throwing up all day on Saturday. Saturday night they were feeling better but Jake and I were starting to feel not to good! I felt nauseous, light headed and a bad tummy ache Saturday night and all day Sunday. Jake threw up twice and had the runs. Who else got sick? Let me tell you...my mom, Shane, Nixon, Rossi, Briana, Brenna, Norris, Sophi, Rich, Brenna's mom and dad and brother, Jake's Aunt Leanne and Bro Travis and mom. I think that's everybody, pretty much every person that was at my mom's on Christmas Eve! Lucky for a couple of people the bug missed them. It didn't last long but it was nasty! Thank heavens we were healthy on Christmas Day!

Today...

Today Ashton continued his 3rd session of swim lessons, he's on his last week-almost done. Sierra played at Grandma's during Ashton's lesson and got to eat some Trix cereal, lucky girl! :) When his lesson was over we played at the park for about 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours. Saw Lara F. there with her kids and we really enjoyed our time visiting, swinging and Sierra and Sage helped Ashton build a sand castle. Then went to Smart and Final and stocked up on a few necessities(pinto beans, corn, Alta Dena milk :)). Ate leftover Sunday dinner at Mom's house for lunch. Took Melissa G. and kids down to our pool and played and Sierra got a nice battle wound when she fell on the diving board. Kids were squirting the diving board with big shooter guns and it made it slippery and Sierra was walking quickly and slipped and landed on the diving board right on her tummy. Red marks on her elbow and shoulder and scraped up her right leg. Poor baby! :( Came home, turned on Spongebob, fell asleep for a minute, made nachos for dinner. Jake came home from work and picked up Ashton, who was only wearing his underwear and said "oh my gosh he is burning up!" I went and felt him and truly he was... I grabbed the Motrin and got him medicated. About 45 mins. later Jake's mom and dad came over with Uncle Ray (Terry's Brother) and Aunt Jan and Ashton was feeling like a million bucks, thanks to the motrin. We enjoyed a nice evening with them and we used our fire pit once again. :) Kids went to bed, Jake and I watched repeats of the Office. Checked on Ashton before I went to bed and woke him up because he was burning up again, gave him some more Motrin and up it came...chinese food that Terry and Janelle had brought over as their leftovers was coming up and out of Ashton all over his bed. Gave him some new Motrin because the last had come all out and moved him to my room on the floor. Woke up once to him dry heaving in the middle of the night. Doing okay this morning but I think we will stay home and take it easy today.

Sierra took Chloe outside on the leash for the first time!

Jake had to go to the store to get some more firewood and grabbed a yummy treat for all of us, Drumsticks and Snicker Bar Ice cream Bars! MMMM...:)

Terry was telling all of us his Big Fish Story, he was a teenager growing up in San Diego. He was at the beach with a couple of friends and somehow he ended up by himself. He was floating out far in the ocean and was trying to get back to shore but felt like he wasn't getting to far like he was caught in a rip tide. A porpoise jumped right over him. He thought it was a shark it was so big. When he finally got back to shore the lifeguard said "are you alright? you know if you needed help I wasn't going to be able to save you you were out to far."