Funnies and not funnies

Two Haylee funnies:

One: She was sick REALLY sick over the weekend, like threw up 18 times (NO KIDDING) in six hours six. After the #whatever trip to the bathroom I hugged her and she said "Mom, I don't wanna hug you, you can't get sick" I told her not to worry that she could still hug me and we would wash our hands etc... she said "No, you can't get sick because you are the only one that cares about me." I laughed and reminded her that dad, D, and Sis, loved and cared about her too and she said "no they don't! Dad always just tells me that I will be fine and to suck it up" lol It was pretty funny. Definitely not as much sympathy from dad.

Two: Tonight we were standing on our covered porch watching some lightning that was far to the east of us but still very bright and Haylee told me she was getting nervous to be outside. I told her she could go in but I was going to stand and watch it for a few minutes longer. Her response was grabbing my arm and then saying "No mom, I am staying with you. If we die we die together!" LOL CRACKS. ME. UP.

The not funnies are the yucky stuff that has happened to us a couple of weeks ago. On Saturday March 6th Daisy, our sweetest best dog in the whole world, was chasing a squirrel and she got caught on a bolt sticking out of the fence and ripped her left side open. It was not good. We rushed her to the vet where she had emergency surgery to close the wound and ended up with 30 staples in her side and a drainage tube. It was awful. We were lucky that none of the kids saw her all opened up and that we ended up at the vet we did. I prayed the whole way there that they would be able to help her we knew it wasn't life threatening but that it would be bank account threatening and I was worried that we wouldn't be able to afford the vet bill. The vet we ended up at was just a regular clinic that was open on a Saturday not an emergency clinic. If we had ended up at an emergency clinic the bill would have been twice as much and we would not have been able to afford it. The good news is Daisy is healing great she got her staples out last Saturday and the vet said she is good to go. A huge blessing as there was a possibility of a second surgery but she doesn't need one. We are so grateful.

Joe left on Sunday for the week and on that Monday I was in a car accident and totaled our little Nissan Sentra that we had bought for the kids to drive. The accident was totally my fault and we only had liability insurance so the car was a total loss. I felt so awful for wrecking the car. However, even though it was awful to lose the car I was hit in the drivers side door which is not a good place to have another car hit you. I hit my head on the window and was bruised and sore the next week or so but sustained no other injuries. If I had been hit by any other type of vehicle or if the other driver had been speeding I could've easily ended up in the hospital or worse. The windows held in that little car or I would have had a face full of glass. I am so, so, so thankful that I was watched over and protected, none of the kids were in the car with me, and the other driver was fine as well. SO THANKFUL!

Anywho, just wanted to write about those things. I have been wanting to write for awhile but things have been crazier than usual obviously. :)

Happy Spring everyone.

FIRE!

There was a house fire just one street over from us last night. It was scary but the fire department responded very quickly and no one was harmed -HUGE bonus to living on base the fire department is less than 1 mile from every single house- anywho, so with the fire happening so close to our house it sparked a few conversations today about what to do during a fire, where to meet, when did we last change the batteries in our smoke detector....etc.. Haylee is not a level headed child she gets very scared very quickly when something is out of her control. She is SO SO SO type A just like her dad and her grandma Huhmann. She kind of freaked out last night when she saw the black smoke rising into the sky and the flames at the top of the house, before she even saw flames she ran over to my neighbors house burst in their door and said "THERE'S A HOUSE ON FIRE YOU HAVE TO COME OUT HERE!" my neighbors were pretty sure it wasn't our house that was on fire but their kids who are 6, 4, and 2 were scared to death. While we were standing outside every time we would see flames Haylee would say "OH MY GOSH!" in a way that would indicate we were going to die at any moment. lol to me very real to her. I had to keep reminding her to stay calm and that we weren't in any danger. Later on that night I talked to her about her freaking out and scaring the neighbor kids, she realized she overreacted and was fine. This morning we had this conversation:

Haylee: mom I am sorry I freaked out last night

Me: That's ok, but I want to talk to you about being level headed and thinking clearly when there is an emergency. The most important thing in any emergency is to STAY CALM. If you freak out you will not make the best decisions, stay calm and it will help you stay safe. That's why we practice what to do in an emergency.

Haylee: Yeah ok, like I know if I am in my room and there is a fire I feel the door before I go out and if it's hot I put a blanket at the bottom of the door so smoke can't get in my room then I go to the window and open it as wide as I can and yell for help.

Me: That's exactly right, good job.

Haylee: So I am going to yell for help two times then jump out the window!

LOL! So much for keeping a level head. We were cracking up and then had to talk to her about how it wouldn't make sense to injure yourself jumping out the window unless your room was so full of smoke you couldn't breathe or the fire was very close to you. It was too funny though. All that talk about how important it was to stay calm and she is jumping 5 seconds after she opens her window.

Gosh I love that girl!

*sigh*

*He is handsome.

*He is responsible.

*He love sports, soccer is his favorite, baseball a close second.

*He is a licensed driver.

*He gets good grades.

*He is FUNNY!

*He bore his testimony at church on Sunday and got choked up when he talked about me.

(melted my heart)

*He loves the gospel and seminary.

*He loves babies.

*He is a junior in high school.

*He is a Second Lt. in JROTC.

*As of yesterday HE IS SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUD! WE LOVE YOU!

Believing

Haylee has mostly decided that she doesn't believe in Santa this year. I am pretty sure she has felt that way for the last year or two but this is the first year she has been really vocal about it. She gets upset if I mention that Santa is coming and reminds me that she doesn't believe. She is only NINE. :( She is my super logical and analytical child though so I knew her believing wouldn't last long. --quick break in my post it is snowing outside and Haylee is getting her boots on to go play in in and she just said well squealed "this brings back so many memories!" ha ha ha I love that kid. ---anyway back to believing... So even though Haylee says she doesn't believe, a couple of weeks ago she asked me for a handwriting sample so that she could compare it to the tags on the gifts from Santa - see what I mean about analytical? Anyway, today before she went out in the snow she was telling me that she decided to keep believing in Santa because "its fun" :) I am happy that she has a some Christmas magic in her heart even if her head tells her differently.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Answered Prayers

There are a lot of times in my life that the answer to a prayer comes so clearly it almost scares me. I am so grateful to know that Heavenly Father loves me and will help when I ask. Well, Sierra is having a similar experience just today and again the gratitude I feel is immeasurable. Last night I took Sierra to a babysitting "interview" for a couple who found out about her through some people we go to church with. The meet and greet went well and they asked Sierra to babysit for them November 13th, they told us they had had a hard time finding someone for that night and were so grateful Sierra was available. Almost as soon as we left we both realized that night is our Stake Youth Activity at church. Sierra almost cried realizing she would have to choose wether to let down the couple who said that needed her or to go to the church activity. I told her we would figure it out and I would be happy to babysit the three year old if need be so Sierra could go to the church thing. Sierra was really worried about what to do, as much as she wanted to go to the church activity she was having a hard time breaking her commitment to the babysitting job. I almost had her call the couple last night and tell them she didn't realize she had a church activity that night but told her to pray about it and she would know what she should do and could call them tonight. Sierra must have said a good prayer because today we got an e-mail noting that the church activity had been MOVED TO THE WEEK PRIOR! CrAzY! She won't need to choose she can stick to her commitment AND go to the activity. My mouth seriously dropped when I read that. I still cannot believe it. Just goes to show ya, Heavenly Father is listening and He does care even about simple things like a babysitting job. :)

Happy October everyone!

Longest day EVER....

5:00 woke up, decided to skip seminary because I was up in the night in pain

6:30 woke up again got ready

7:30 took Sierra to the doc ended up in radiology and in the pharmacy, she is ok just some wrist pain they put her back in her brace for two weeks and we have to go to occupational therapy

9:30 went to Burger King so Sierra could eat and take her Ibuprofen

10:00 drove to school and dropped her off

10:45 Commissary trip to get a few things for dinner

11;30 dentist to see why my face/teeth hurt -had some work done last week pain was getting progressively worse

12:00 dentist wants me to call the doc

1:10 take Haylee to a friends house so I can go to the doc

1:30 doc appt. diagnosed with sinus infection, go to pharmacy only get one of two meds go back to doc to tell them I need the other one still, I ask them to put the meds in at a pharmacy where I need to stop anyway and pick up a refill I have waiting, get to the other pharmacy and there are 15 people in line! Decide I can wait until tomorrow to pick up other meds.

3:00 pick Haylee up and finally eat lunch

3:30 make dinner so my family won't starve

4:15 leave for HD's game -get stuck in traffic takes me almost an hour to go 15 miles, miss first 10 minutes of the game

5:10-sit down it starts to rain, rains entire 90 minutes they play

6:45 head back to the school get there at 7:10

7:45 the bus gets there, D asks if I can give another guy a ride home he lives by the church 10 minutes out of my way

8:10 drop kid off

8:30 pull up at my house

9:00 shower

10:00 try to remember when I last took Ibuprofen because I am in lots of pain

10:15 say forget it and take it praying I didn't take it an hour ago

11:00 blog my day and go to bed!!!!!

Oh and two quick Haylee funnies before I forget:

The first one she was writing in her "personal" journal for school one day and she asked me if I would like to say hi to the people in the future. I told her she should write how smart and beautiful I am. When she is finished she reads me part of her entry: I was just talking to my mom Tara. She told me to write how beautiful and smart she is. I would say on a scale of 1 to 10 she's a 5. ----then she laughed herself silly. lol

The second one she was snuggling with me on the couch before bed,because she was cold, and she asked me what boobs were made of. I told her they were mostly fat with a little muscle. She said "well, I am going to start working out so I don't get them" LOL! I advised her she would change her mind about that when she got a little older.

Tomorrow morning 5 am will come awful early! Night everyone and happy fall!

had to post while I was thinking about it...

I love my kids. I know I say that all the time but I have a couple of "funnies" rolling around in my head and I have to put them on the blog or I will never remember

Today, I ran into the Sister missionaries from our ward. That is the third time this week. I have ran into them at Target, the grocery store, and today at the Amish market. After school Sierra and I were chatting about our days and I told her I was pretty sure the Sister missionaries were following me -ha ha- joking around she said you should ask them "what do you want? Food? Money?.....Converts?" I almost fell on the floor laughing.

A couple of days ago Haylee was doing some dishes by hand and while she was drying them she said -as she had the towel inside the glass and outside of it at the same time- "hey Mom, check out my two part drying system" She is definitely her Daddy's girl. :)

I have a few more but the fam is watching a movie and I am annoying them with my typing. :)

I will blog again soon.....