The fun and the not so fun.

I'll start of with the fun part. 
My Grandparents came home from their 18 month mission, they served in the  Guayaquil, Ecuador mission. unfortunately I couldn't see them come home cause I was at Girls Camp. Their homecoming talk was on the 24th so Greg and I decided we'd go down to Monticello, where they live, 5 hours away from here, to visit with them and listen to their talks. Greg had to work Friday so we left here at 5am! We got there at about 10-10:30ish. Just in enough time for the 24th day parade that the small town was having. We got good seats and the girls LOVED running out in the road to grab the candy! After the parade we left to go to my Grandparents house so we could get all settled in. Everyone came over for a yummy dutch oven dinner. It was so great to catch up with family, especially those whom I haven't seen in a while. The girls did great the whole time down there. Which made it an enjoyable trip. After dinner we went back into town to watch some fireworks, which were pretty much awesome! Greg and I lost the family in some traffic, but in turn we found some pretty awesome seats that werer really close, so close that whenever a firework went off my pants would vibrate! Aliesha and McKenzie loved the fireworks. After that show we all went back to the house. The next morning was church we got all ready and left for church. That day Kenzie was so grumpy! I sat in the loby the whole time, and she was not happy with me. We went back to the house to eat lunch say our goodbyes and then left for the 5 hour trip back home. I am blessed to have very good girls, who love to travel, and who don't mind to sit in a carseat for 5 hours. They were as happy as can be!

And once again I forgot my camera! Grrr... I do that all the time!!!! These are a few from my phone...

 Two happy kids on the way up to Monticello. :)

 Old school tractor in the parade

 Kenzie sitting in Grandma's lap, in the shade.

 Aliesha's crazy face... Don't ask.

Erika and her son Elijah. And Shaylee

Now for the not so fun part.
On the trip back home both Kenz and Liesh were getting a slight cough, nothing serious, but I did notice it. On Monday Greg went back to work and the girls and I carried on in our routine. Everything was going good. Greg got home from work and I made dinner. While Aliesha was eating she was complaining that her ear was hurting her. I thought that maybe she was getting a sore throat and when she would swallow, since ears are connected to the throat, it was bothering her ear. She was also complaing that she was cold, so she wrapped herself up in her blanket and was fine. We went over to my parents house so Greg could help my dad work under the car, and while we were there I took the girls to the park that was down the street. Aliesha rode her bike there and Kenzie walked. They loved the park, but the clouds were getting a little dark so I decided it was time to get back to my Mom's house. When we got back I took the girls in, and started helping my Dad and Greg. Next thing I know my Mom is coming out and telling me that Aliesha feel's really hot and that she's crying. So we took her to the insta care and they checked both ears and said, "Yep she has an ear infection." So they gave us some Amoxicillin and ear drops and then we went home. We gave Leish her meds and went to bed. That next day she wasn't herself, she laid in my bed almost the whole day, watching movies. I kept up on the Motrin and the Tylenol, but her feaver was still 103-104. Greg came home and checked her temp and it was 104.8! So we called the on-call doctor. He said that she'd be fine, but that we do need to give her a cool bath and try to get her temp down. But everything we tried didn't work. We let her sleep in our bed that night, mostly so we could keep an eye on here just in case anything happened. The next day Greg got a call from her doctor saying he wants to see her. So I took both Girls in, he listened to Aliesha's lungs and heard a slight sound, and ordered her a chest xray. (Oh and she didn't even have an ear infection! The doctor at the insta care misdiagnosed her!) So down we went to the lab. One of the doctors said that she'd watch Kenzie while I was in the room with Liesha. So I handed Kenz over and took Leish into the room. Lets just say that Aliesha is one tough girl.... when she doesn't want to do something she will put up a fight! She punched the one lady in the face and then turned around and kicked her all because she didn't want an xray. We were in the stupid room for almost 40 min! I was trying to calm her down but nothing I was saying would help. I was getting frustrated and she was not happy. I finally said a little prayer asking for help. The doctor called up to Liesha's doctor and told him that she was putting up a pretty good fight. She came back and said that we have to do this xray and if she wont do it here they she'd send us up to Primary Childrens. And all of a sudden Aliesha finally went calm and said she'd be a big girl and get the xray. So once we got the xray's the doctor looked at them and said that he saw some streakage, but couldn't determine if it was pneumonia or not and that the only way he could tell was to stick a needle in her lung and extract some of the fluid. YEIKS! But he didn't want to do that to her. So he said to keep giving her the Amoxicillin and see how that works. Finally after 5 day's of a temp as high as 105.4 and never went down to only 103.7 she's finally at her normal 98.7 degrees! YEY! But bad news is she has a bad cough and a head cold, Kenzie has a Cough and a head cold, Greg has a cough and a head cold, and I have a cough and a head cold.... Crappy!!!!!!!!
 Anyways in this whole ordeal I found a blessing in it... Even though the doctor at the insta misdiagnosed her, the Amoxicillin that she prescribed her started beating off the pneumonia that was in her lungs. And since she had been taking the Amoxicillin for two days it was leaving her system when they gave her the xray. If we didn't have that Amoxicillin in her system it could have been much worse.

 Kenzie sleeps a lot when she's not feeling well

 Aliesha and Kenzie laying in my bed watching Princesses and the Frog.

 Cuddle time!

My poor baby, She look 100 times better in this pic than she did two day's ago.

Primary... The Mormon TMZ...

I saw this and since I'm in the primary presidency I thought it only appropriate to post.  And yes this is pretty much true... haha SO BE NICE!  

We have both had callings in Primary (LDS Children's Sunday school.) Every church calling allows you the opportunity to learn and grow. Here's a lesson we've learned through serving in Primary. If you are walking down the hall on a fine Sunday morning and somebody deliberately trips you causing you to fall on your face and break your nose. If you look up and the person that tripped you is your child's Primary teacher, just get up and keep walking. Don't even look em in the eye, you might even want to apologize to them.

Look, here's the thing...even if you are known in your ward as the Grinch who stole Sunday, have some sense and at least be nice to your ward's Primary leaders and teachers. You may think you know why we are offering this crucial piece of advice. It's not because they are the poor souls who take your kids off your hands for two hours on a Sunday. It's not because they are the ones entrusted with your most prized possessions each week. It's not even because Jesus said love everyone, treat them kindly too, when your heart is filled with love, others will love you.

The bottom line is this, be nice to the adults who serve in Primary because: THEY KNOW ALL YOUR BUSINESS! Yup, brothas and sistas, that's it. All of the information that you don't want to leave the house and all of the stuff that is supposed to stay in the family, forget about it, cause ya kids are spilling the beans in Primary. You may be thinking to yourself, not my children, my children are well trained, they know better than that. Nope, they don't.

You see it's not intentional, and it usually happens quite innocently. A poor unsuspecting Primary teacher could ask a question as simple as: Can anyone tell me of a time when you have prayed and received an answer to your prayer? The next thing you know your son raises his hand and says: Once my Dad forgot his and my Mom's anniversary and my Mom was really mad and was slamming all the doors in the house. The teacher at this point might try to keep the child on topic and say: So you prayed that your Mommy would feel better and she did. Then your son says: Nope. Then the teacher says: You prayed that your Dad wouldn't forget their anniversary next year. And your son says: No, I prayed that she wouldn't slam the doors anymore because it was making my ears hurt. And it worked because she went outside and ran over Dad's golf clubs instead, and that didn't hurt my ears.

 

A leader might ask, what did you do this past week? BAM! That's all the invitation your little bedlamite needs to explain how Daddy grounded her older brother for life because Mommy and Daddy had to go get him from the jail, and Mommy says he's irr-ray-possible and can't drive the car anymore.

TMZ, The National Enquirer, Google, they can all take a back seat, they can't get the scoop like these Primary reporters children can. Channel 8 news is probably lying when they say breaking news, we're bringing it to you first, cause chances are somebody in Primary told that headline weeks ago.

So now we are all on notice. The next time you see your ward's Primary presidency and teachers, smile, say hi, shake their hand, give em a peice of chocolate, some hush money, do something, cause brothas and sistas...THEY KNOW ALL YOUR BUSINESS!

For Ashley!!!!

When Aliesha first came into primary she was really shy and didn't really sing along to all the fun songs that were being taught.
Since then Ashley became the primary chorister. Now don't get me wrong the old chorister did a good job and we really liked her, but Aliesha LOVES Ashley! She always comes home and sings songs and says that her teacher, "Panna" taught her the songs. Thank you Ashley for your hard work and for teaching Aliesha to love these primary songs!

Even though she doesn't have every word right, they are the right words, just out of order. :)

Weekend fun

This weekend was fun. Greg had Friday-Monday off! Yey, we finally got to spend some time together, and the girls! They were so funny every morning they'd be so excited to see that Greg was home and not at work! Saturday we got together with my cousin, whom I haven't seen since I was like 3. We had a BBQ. The kids swam in the little pool and later in the night we did fireworks. Both McKenzie and Aliesha loved the fireworks.

Then on Sunday we slept in had a good breakfast, then headed up to Big Cottonwood Canyon. Of course I couldn't find my shoes so I just wore flip flops! We got to the resort got out and walked up a trail that was mostly all snow! and where there was paved road it was being taken over by ice cold water that we walked through. I think my toes were about to fall off! After that we headed down to doughnut falls and hiked that. I couldn't believe how much fun Aliesha and Kenz had hiking! Aliesha kept telling other hikers not to walk on the grass cause it will die... Glad she listened to my instructions :). At home we have rocks in our flower bed and the neighbor kids always throw them out on the lawn! GRRR! So whenever we go out Kenz loves to pick them up and put them back in the flower bed. So when we were hiking there was a ton of rocks and whenever we'd let kenz get down to walk she'd try to pick up as many rocks as possible and throw them off to the side. It was funny! It was like she was so worried about trying to get all the rocks. Aliesha kept saying how good her day was going until we were hiking back to the car then she would say, I'm having a bad day! I'd ask her why to which she'd reply... Because my legs hurt! I said your legs hurt cause you've been walking and using your muscles and that you're muscles are growing, making your legs super strong!!!! She didn't like the fact her legs were getting muscles! She said I only want muscles on my arms! Not my legs! She makes me laugh! We mad it to the car and drove home. That night both girls slept real good!

 The Glow sticks were a huge hit! They were havin tons of fun with them!!!

 I can't believe there is this much snow in July! Crazy weather!

 I LOVE this picture!!

 BURRR!!!!!! I suggest not doing this!

Monday came and all of us slept in till 10:00! WOW that felt great!!!!!! Monday was just a relaxing day. I cleaned the house and then we went shopping for some food for a BBQ we had that night. We stayed at Grandpa Sanders house and Did fireworks with some family. Once again the girls loved th fireworks... too bad Kenz skipped a nap that day cause she wasn't in a very good mood. She kept trying to run out into the road to try and grab a firework... and everytime I'd pick her up she would tense up and grunt. While I was trying to make it as fun as possible for Kenz, Greg was helping Aliesha light off some fireworks! She would go with daddy light the firework and take off running just in time to turn around and watch "HER" firework. After the fire works were done we cleaned up and went home.

It was so great to have this whole weekend to spend with Greg! The girls loved it! And they had SO much fun!!!

I wish I took more pictures, but we never remember out camera so these were takin with my phone.