School started...woohoo!

Well we had our first day of school today and it went great! Brayden is starting fourth grade and Braxton second. I can't believe how time flies. We were up early and made them their favorite breakfast, swedish pancakes and bacon. YUM! This is about the only picture I could get of them because they were too excited/nervous to stand still. lol.

Of course Brayden is too cool to have us walk him to his class, I mean come on he is in 4th grade. Braxton needed us until we got to the 2nd grade hall and then he said okay you can go. They are really growing up!
They came home so happy and excited for the school year. They didn't stop chatting about their day for like 30 minutes. IT was great! We kept up with our tradition of going to Braum's for an ice cream cone too!!!!

Confessions of an Insomniac!!!

This post is brought to you by insomnia, anything written in this blog may or may not be true. I'm going on my 3rd night of sleeplessness and decided to post about who knows what.

Anyways...first I must confess I am addicted to the Olympics. I will be so sad when they are gone. It's funny I don't even think twice about them for 4 years and then for a few weeks they consume my life.
I get so nervous for the olympians too. I make myself crazy. Sometimes I will cheat and see who wins which medal, before they show it on t.v. so I can relax a little. Those live events about put me over the edge. Does this happen to anyone else?

2nd Confession...my favorite color is orange, it always has been and always will be. When I was younger and would tell people this, they would make fun of me or say ORANGE??? why???
Well, it's true, I love orange!
I went and got a pedicure this past week and chose orange for my toenails. I have gotten so many comments on them, I didn't realize so many different people had so many opinions about the colors people paint their toenails.
My two favorite comments were first by my gynecologist(ya you read that right), so you know how those visits go and where the Dr is and how he is all up in your business. Well my feet are right next to his face in freaking stirrups and he says, WOW!!! nice toenails, what do they call that color? lol. I remained quiet... I didn't know what to say. DID he really just try to make conversation about my toes? lol. AWKWARD!!!!!
The second comment I was at the grocery store and some random guy comes up to me and says WHOA!!!! No one will run over those toes!!! lol.

3rd and most likely last confession...I am NOT ready for school to start. I have really enjoyed having my kids at home this summer. They did great and we had a lot of fun although they are getting a little crazy this week.
The other day I was talking with Brayden about school and such. We got on the subject of football and him playing at some point in his life. I was explaining to him how some kids his age are A LOT bigger than he is, I said some fourth graders weigh like 85lbs, and he said "Ya, but do they have muscles like these????" and he lifted his sleeve and flexed his muscles. IT was really funny! So I'm going to miss them around the house all day.

9's and 10's

So 10 years ago today Jacob and I were married in the SLC Temple.


9 years ago yesterday Brayden joined our family and the next day we celebrated our first anniversary...well as much as you can celebrate in a hospital room.


And yesterday Brayden turned 9!!!


And on the 9th Jacob turned 32!


So Happy B-day Brayden and Jacob and Happy Anniversary Jacob!!!!

WHY?

I just don't understand, maybe I'm the not so smart one...not sure. Every single time I have to deal with our health insurance people I have to buy new phones from throwing mine against the wall. (c:
So, awhile back when we were dealing with son # 1's surgeries, I was on the phone day in and day out trying to figure out what the deal was with the benefits, that seemed to be non-exsistent. Every time I would call they would say "just give it 30 days it will show up" SO, anyways....almost a year later that has finally been resolved. Once during that period I even got 3 random people's claims addressed to me. When I called to tell them they said "oops can you just shred those". IDIOTS!!!!
So today, once again I'm on the phone with my favorite smart people. All I wanted to do was get an estimate on a certain medication I need. Simple right? NO! First they asked what pharmacy I went to and I told them, they say I'm sorry there is no walgreens in that zip code.
UM okay sure I made that up.
But why, do I ask, do you need my pharmacy? I don't need it filled I just need to know an estimate on how much it will be.
So, finally she gets it and tells me the price of the first med. I move onto the 2nd med and she is like okay that one is $23,000. YA FREAKING RIGHT! Does she smoke crack? How on earth would somebody think that's normal? So I say I'm not sure you did that right can you look again. She says "IM SORRY, but that is right!" I say "NO it's not are you kidding me, it regularly does cost a lot but not 23,000" , she just continues to apologize, for being an idiot I guess! So finally after her tenth I'm sorry and my 10th you're wrong. I tell her she doesn't know what she is talking about and hang up.
I dial the number again hoping to get a human this time. The next girl sounds a little more intelligent, but no such luck. She tells me it's $38,000. CLICK!!!!!
Finally, I decide to call the benefits people and see if they are a little more normal than the pharmacy side of the ins.
3rd times a charm I guess, the medicine I was trying to figure out cost $200 while still a chunk of change, was at least not anywhere near the range of $23-$38,000.
DUH!!!

Quick Trip

We decided to take a quick trip back to Sea World Monday and Tuesday...The water park was open so we thought we would head down and check it out since we had season passes.

We left our batteries plugged in at my sister's house so the batteries we had lasted for all of maybe 5 pics. At least we have some proof we were there. oh well!!! We had some good family bonding time anyway and a ton of fun and probably walked 20 miles while we were there. My calves are soooooooooooooooooooo sore. I should get out more!!!

Hawaiian Falls Fun!

Earlier this month we were checking out Hawaiian Falls online deciding if we wanted to adventure out and try it. While we were perusing the website, Brayden spotted the deal where if you brought 7 up cans you could get a discount on your tickets. So, Brayden has been asking to buy 7up for weeks so we could go to Hawaiian falls. lol.

Then on Sunday Rebecca invited us to go with her and a couple of other families, I knew I couldn't pass it up, but I also knew I couldn't tell my kids too soon or they would drive me crazy wanting to know every little detail over and over.

Also, on Monday they were being a little naughty and I told them if they didn't shape up, I wasn't giving them their surprise at the end of the week. hehehe

On Wednesday morning we woke up and I told my kids to get ready so we could go "swimming" early. We packed our lunch like usual and were getting ready to go "swimming". I had placed a sack full of empty 7 up cans in the car and Brayden spotted them. He came running in and said I know what the surprise is at the end of the week!!!!!! We are going to Hawaiian Falls on Friday. I turned to him and said NO!
WE are going TODAY!!!
Needless to say they were excited and we had a great day..here are a few pics.

Zach, Braxton and Brayden



Braxton(he's the only one I could ever find. lol.)


Brayden and Broderick
I have a better pic of them on this ride, but I can't get it off my camera. ugh!


I got the pic off my camera!!!!!
and i got the pic of casey...