Buist/ Worthen Reunion

In June, we had a reunion with Brent's side of the family. It was his Mom's side of the family. All her brothers and sisters, but one (6 total) were there and most of their kids and grandkids! We all camped around their house in Mendon. Some brought motor homes/ trailers and some slept in tents. We came each day and night but only camped over one night, since we live such a short distance away, we decided to head home the first night. My mother-in-law planned fun things for the kids and adults to do through out the reunion. Tonz of pics ahead!

My Mother in-law, Pam composed a song about her family growing up called, "Dancing on Daddy's Feet" Her Father has passed away and this reunion was based on the life he had with her Mom, and the memories they had growing up. Pam taught us the song and we sang it each night. So cute!The kids, waiting for their turn in the water gun duel!

Brayden and his cousin Dylan. When Grandpa starts counting, they walk away from each other and turn around on the count of 5 and shoot! Whoever gets wet first loses! It was so fun to watch.Tyson and his cousin Jaden.Tyson gets Grandpa good!

Grandma Wilma and Bruce (Pam's Mom and her husband)

Gathering around to watch the hunters.

Tyson, Brayden and Dylan watching the hunters.

This game was mainly for the adults, but the kids got to play too. One person would wear a shirt with a deer on it and would get a head start to run off. The other player had a water gun and would try and shoot the deer. If the shooter got them in the face, they had to go in the dog pen and get squirt by everyone. It was pretty funny!

All the cute kids watching the obstacle course game.

This game was for all the couples. My Mother-in-law and Father-in-law was first, to show us how it's done. The Woman had to be blind folded and the Man passanger had to tell her directions. This included, going and unlocking the gate and then finding your way back to the 4 wheeler, Going through a set of tires and around the field in between markers and back.

Brent and I taking a turn. It was alot harder than I thought it would be, but we did pretty good.

Tyson

The kids enjoyed taking turns hitting this huge pinyata!

Brayden taking a turn.

Brent helped make this rope swing, tied to a tree. The kids loved it!

Brent and his brother Adam playing horseshoes.

playing flies up!Our Family

The quilt, my sister -in-law Holly made. Brent's Grandpa was a true Cowboy! The quilt was raffled with our raffle tickets and Holly's name was picked. She gave it to Grandma :)

Make-shift boat rides, or like some people would call it, redneck style boat rides :)

Grandpa would pull the kids in the boat, tied to the 4-wheeler. It was halarious!

Gathering each night, for songs and stories.The boysGive me 5!

Brayden on this old Tricycle that still works. They put new wheels on it.

Cousin Braxon, pulling Tyson and Jake.

He was determined to do it himself, and he did!

Cute boys!

Tyson and his cousin Jake

Dylan and Brayden

We sure had lots of fun at this family reuinion and plan to reunite every 2 yrs.

Mommy's Having a Baby!

I'm 13 -14 weeks along, due Dec. 20! We tried to avoid a December baby, but with my past miscarraiges, we couldn't be too picky. We only tried for a couple weeks in March, then decided to wait until June to try again. We were already pregnant by then! We started preventing in April and I didn't find out I was pregnant until I started getting sick, at about 6-7 weeks. I've been pretty sick, nauseous all the time, and wanting to throw up. It's pretty annoying and nasty, but it's for a good reason! I wasn't sick with my miscarraiges and miscarried at 5, then 7 weeks. So we are good to go this time around! I've been taking B6 and Unisom to help with the nausea, but sometimes it doesn't work and most days it just takes the edge off, to where I'm only a little nauseous. I get sicker in the afternoons and evenings.... blah, but I'm just truckin along and trying to do my best. The doctor found a heart beat at 8 weeks and we just had another appt. last week and everything looks great. I've never had 2 ultrasounds so close together. It's amazing how fast they grow. In just 4 weeks the baby grew 3 times it's size! No wonder I'm so sick. It's taking everything out of me to make this little human inside me :) We are so excited to add a new little one to our family. I'm still running Ragnar this weekend and have still been running. It's been extra hard with the nausea, but I've just pushed through it, but I'm taking my time. It will be a little different this year with racing, because I'm not going to push myself. As long as I finish I'll be happy :)

ER visit and such

It has been a very eventful week for us! I was working in the Kids Klub at the Sports Academy, (like I do once a week for a family membership) and my 3 yr. old Tyson was playing upstairs with some other kids and workers. I was down stairs with the babies. I was very suprized when one of the workers brought Tyson down to me and blood was soaking his shirt, running down his head and neck! I rushed him to the bathroom and got paper towels. Blood was soaking through the paper towels onto my hands. Other workers got a towel for me, that towel was soaked in seconds! Then I was rushing to the ER. I couldn't see how bad the wound was because of all the blood. Tyson was so brave and had stopped crying by the time we got in the car. We got to the ER, by then, the bleeding had stopped, thank goodness! He needed 3 staples. I had to apply local anesthetic for about a 1/2 hr. to make sure the area was somewhat numb. Tyson only said "Ow" a few times, when I had to hold a cotton ball to his head with the meds, and of course, when he got the staples, but that was it.

About a year ago, Tyson was in The ER for stiches (you can see a slight indent on his left ear) and now this. I'm hoping this won't be a yearly thing!

The story on how it happened: The Sports Academy had their yearly, opening pool party the previous weekend and they had a bounce house for the kids. They had rolled that up and stored it upstairs, where the kids play. Heather, the boss of the Kids Klub, had told the manager to take care of it, cuz it wasn't safe for the kids. Of course the kids are going to play on it. I don't know what the workers were doing up there before it happened, but all I know is that Tyson was playing on that, fell and hit his head either on the edge of it or on a pole next to it. The ER visit was billed to my insurance, but then I talked to Heather, boss of Kids Klub, and asked if I could bill Sports Academy, so we didn't have to pay for it, because it was their fault for having that upstairs where the kids play! I talked to the manager and so did Heather, and they said they couldn't do anything about it, which I thought was really dumb. I would understand if he hit his head on a table that is always in the kids klub, but it was something they should have taken care of and was unsafe for the kids. An accident is an accident, so they wouldn't pay for it. Owell, atleast my kid is okay.

Sweet Tyson, only hrs. after the incident.

Brayden started summer school last Monday! He is in this free, Kindergarten readiness, summer program, where he will be attending Kindergarten. It is so nice and he loves it!

Thursay was my last day of work! (until summer school) it will be so nice to have that break, catch up on things and spend more time with my kids and hubby.

Here are some of the aides, teacher and nurses I work with. I would post pics of me and the kids, but I would get in trouble for confidentiality reasons. I just put them in my own photo book of memories :)

My boys also started T-ball Thursday, they will play for 5 weeks. They love it! Yes, my week has been full of lots of fun and crazy things!

Soccer

Brayden was in the Logan Rec. indoor Soccer league, this season, and Tyson got to play too! I didn't sign Tyson up, afraid he might be too young, but one of our friends was coaching his age group, so we brought him a couple times to play on their team.Cute little Tyson!

Brayden, Getting ready to play soccer (streching):

His Team, The Cosmos :)

Brayden and his friend Chloe:Nice face Brayden!

I tell him to smile, and this is what I get!

I really tried to get a good one, but it just wasn't working out. The more I laughed at his faces, the more he did them. Silly Brayden!

Easter

The true meaning of Easter: The Resurrection. How blessed we are to know that we can all be resurrected and live again after we die :)

The fun stuff:

Brayden and Tyson, getting ready for the Easter Egg Hunt, in Mendon, with their cousins, Dylan and JakeGo get 'em Brayden!

Too bright for Tyson :)

Look what I got!

Cool!

Tyson is 3 but he still loves the baby swing. :)

Easter egg hunt at our house

The boys loved it!The Easter Bunny came to our house Sunday morning.

Brayden says he wants to hug the Easter Bunny :) I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

Snow Days to Spring.......

I'm kinda glad these days are over, now we get to look forward to spring!

Boys and Worms!

yes, that's the same worm... gross!

And a couple pics of my cute little Niece:

My Sister, Trisha's 30th B-day!

Those of you who don't know my sister, she has Autism and she loves basketball! So I suprised her with the USU Aggie basketball team! All I did was ask on Facebook if anyone knew of a USU basketball player that could meet us somewhere to shoot hoops. I got lots of feed back and was able to get a hold of Tyler Newbold, who said he'd meet us at the Spectrum. He gave us a tour of their team room and locker room. It was so cool!

Trisha was so suprised and had no idea what we were doing until we met Tyler. I told her we needed to stop by the spectrum to see when the next gymnastics meet was. While we were walking up to the spectrum she asked where the Aggies were. I said I didn't know, probaby at home. :) She was so emotional and went from crying to laughing, to stunned and amazed that this was actually happening. Later, the whole basketball team showed up for practice! They sang her happy birthday and signed an Aggie t-shirt for her. Her with Tai Wesley. The star of the Aggies this year! Then we got to watch them practice. We felt pretty cool that we were the only ones watching them play. It was awesome! Take a look at my slide :)

Shamrock Shuffle 5k and video

I ran my fastest 5k over the weekend. 24 min. 53 sec. I was so excited!

I ran it with my sister and our friend Leslie
Leslie got 2nd with 20 ish min. I got 3rd and Alisha got 4th! My sisters' boyfriend made a video of us running, take a look: (scroll down and pause the music to my blog, on the right side, to get the full affect and turn up your sound)

Park City

I got to go to Park City Saturday to Sunday with my Sister-in-law Joann, and her friends. This was the first time I've been to the outlets there. I found some pretty good deals, just shopped mostly on the clearance racks and got lots of stuff for me and the kids. It was a girls get a way, so Brent stayed home with the boys. We stayed the night and had lots of fun talking and laughing. It was a much needed short trip with us girls :)

Breakfast, on the way home.
The trunk of Joann's car after our shopping trip. Our luggage is in the back, we took up about half the runk with clothes and such :) I don't really like shopping, but I love it when I find nice things for good prices! That's what makes me happy about shopping :)