My gosh I just can't believe that it is already June!!! So many many things have been going on. Talk about running around like a chicken w/ it's head cut off! Lowell went to Kindergarten this year and at Christmas timeish (I really should write these things down huh?) his teacher, Mrs. Holt, was bragging on him saying that she had given him a reading test and he was at a 3rd grade reading level!!
I knew he was smart but he is starting to blow me away! I also was thinking that with what he has learned academically he should probably be in grade 1 or 2 but I didn't really want to mention it because I think that it is great for him to have friends and be able to make friends with kids that are his own age. We are however going to work this summer on a 1st grade workbook and there are some things in there that are just review (like most of school right?) and then there are actually some new things.
I was laughing really hard when Max came up to me and told me that Lowell said that he knew multiplication and then Max decided to try him on a bit of algebra and Lowell looked at the problem and said "oh the answer is..." and gave Max the correct answer.
We have Lowell reading this summer and we are going to see if he can get some of the prizes for reading the most books this summer because I think that he could do it and really enjoy it. He so far likes the read the "Jigsaw Jones" books and I have gotten him started on reading "Knights of Right" which is a series I found at Deseret Book and it looked like it wouldn't be too hard but still he might like it with more adventure and a bit of mystery. He seems to really like mystery and I have never been one for it so it is a bit of a challenge to find books for him and then I feel like I have to read the books as well so that I can ask him what the book was about and when he answers me I will know if he really did read the book or if he is just quoting from the back of the book. I do trust him or at least I want to trust him to know that he read the whole book but it is good to make sure plus the books that he is reading aren't that overly hard they take me maybe a couple of hours each to read so it isn't that overly taxing.
Next week I will be going back to Idaho Falls to see the doctor and to see if there is anything else we can do because last Sunday my eyes were bulging so bad I was halfway worried that my right eye might literally pop out of the socket because it really was that far out. Since my thyroid has been killed my eyes have always bulged a little but never quite that bad...but at least it would explain the headaches that I have been having and why I have to keep going back to the chiropractor to see if he can fix me up.
Max is not a sanitation worker at Heinz any more and we are so happy about that. It might sound crazy but we really are happy about it because Max was so stressed that he was starting to get really sick and quite often! Heinz just doesn't give their sanitation workers enough time to clean the machines and so of course you can't get them all the way clean like they really should be plus I am really sure that if something were to happen like someone were to have an allergic reaction to something in the meal that shouldn't have been there because the line wasn't clean and so it stayed there that Heinz would figure out a way to pin it on Max and that Max would have a serious fight on his hands not to mention all the legal stuff...
Max is going back to school now and he is going into the computer networking. He is going to school at Steven's Henegar and they said that the would only be taking 1 class at a time but so far they have him signed up for 2 which is NOT what they said but I guess it is better than going to ISU and trying to take like 3 or 4...but I am not liking what the "professors" do there where they know that you don't have that overly much time to work on the homework because you are probably working full time and everything and yet they don't even do the broadcasts until Wednesday and yet they want all the homework which is sometimes up to three papers that are up to 500 words long are due by midnight on Friday night and so that is putting a bit of a crunch on Max trying to get them done and turned in.
So now Lowell is all graduated from Kindergarten and Max is still working at Heinz but he is going to school again and I am just trying to get by with my stupid dead thyroid...yea I know whine whine whine...I am just hoping that I can have better news next time I post...and I really am going to make sure that I post to this more often because I hate having to write a novel every time I want to update my blog!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Monday, September 13, 2010
A few updates
Alot has been happening to us lately...yes I know it has been almost a year since I posted...I have been keeping most people updated on Facebook.
so in Jan we started the year off with some fun...and things were going fairly well...then came Feb with two birthdays :) and Mar with another birthday (even though Max wants to forget). Then in the summer Max changed from being a production person to being on sanitation (a sucky job but a bit better pay). We spent 4th of July in Challis w/ my parents of course :) it was fun. Then at the end of July we went to Freedom again and it was really nice and fun until it started raining every night...that was sucky!!! So we came home early from our vacation and then I got a call from Joel Benson and he asked me if I wanted to be the teacher of the Valant 9's and I said yes and so now I am a teacher.
My parents went to Windover for a late birthday present for my dad and when they got back to Pocatello my dad went to see his doctor and his doctor put him in the hospital to help him get some of the water weight that he had gained gone from him. The next morning the doctor went to check on my dad and his breathing was MUCH worse so he was moved to ICU and stabilized. The next morning the doctor checked on him and his breathing was once again worse and so he decided to intubate him and that stabilized him again but now he couldn't talk or anything and basically at that point the machines were keeping him alive. He wanted to see me and so I took off from class to go see him and yet when I got there he was alseep. The next day the doctor talked to us and told us that the outlook was pretty grim and so we had to decide what to do. We were given 3 options: 1) was to go full court and try to figure out what was wrong and see if we could fix it (not very hopeful but it was doing something) he would have probably ended up in a nursing home for probably the rest of his life because there just wasn't any way he would really get better. 2) we do nothing at all and hope that he improves on his own... 3) we turn off the machines and just let him go. We decided to go with option number 3 because we just couldn't see him wanting to live in a nursing home or wanting to stay on the stupid machines for quite a while. So on Aug 7 he passed on and I got the monumental task of planning 2 funerals.
Then after the funerals I went and kind of lived in Challis for a couple of weeks with coming home on the weekends because I was still the teacher of the Valant 9's and I wanted to make sure that I taught my class.
Now it's Sep and Max and I just celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary (yea I know 6 years!)
This year we didn't go to the fair (which we usually do) and it would have been fun to go but well it was ok. We went and watched Avatar: The Last Airbender. I was a little dissapointed in the movie but oh well we still have the cartoons which was like totally awesome :)
We also found out that Vanessa is having baby #2 on Oct 20 so he will be just a little bit younger than Kaitlyn.
so in Jan we started the year off with some fun...and things were going fairly well...then came Feb with two birthdays :) and Mar with another birthday (even though Max wants to forget). Then in the summer Max changed from being a production person to being on sanitation (a sucky job but a bit better pay). We spent 4th of July in Challis w/ my parents of course :) it was fun. Then at the end of July we went to Freedom again and it was really nice and fun until it started raining every night...that was sucky!!! So we came home early from our vacation and then I got a call from Joel Benson and he asked me if I wanted to be the teacher of the Valant 9's and I said yes and so now I am a teacher.
My parents went to Windover for a late birthday present for my dad and when they got back to Pocatello my dad went to see his doctor and his doctor put him in the hospital to help him get some of the water weight that he had gained gone from him. The next morning the doctor went to check on my dad and his breathing was MUCH worse so he was moved to ICU and stabilized. The next morning the doctor checked on him and his breathing was once again worse and so he decided to intubate him and that stabilized him again but now he couldn't talk or anything and basically at that point the machines were keeping him alive. He wanted to see me and so I took off from class to go see him and yet when I got there he was alseep. The next day the doctor talked to us and told us that the outlook was pretty grim and so we had to decide what to do. We were given 3 options: 1) was to go full court and try to figure out what was wrong and see if we could fix it (not very hopeful but it was doing something) he would have probably ended up in a nursing home for probably the rest of his life because there just wasn't any way he would really get better. 2) we do nothing at all and hope that he improves on his own... 3) we turn off the machines and just let him go. We decided to go with option number 3 because we just couldn't see him wanting to live in a nursing home or wanting to stay on the stupid machines for quite a while. So on Aug 7 he passed on and I got the monumental task of planning 2 funerals.
Then after the funerals I went and kind of lived in Challis for a couple of weeks with coming home on the weekends because I was still the teacher of the Valant 9's and I wanted to make sure that I taught my class.
Now it's Sep and Max and I just celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary (yea I know 6 years!)
This year we didn't go to the fair (which we usually do) and it would have been fun to go but well it was ok. We went and watched Avatar: The Last Airbender. I was a little dissapointed in the movie but oh well we still have the cartoons which was like totally awesome :)
We also found out that Vanessa is having baby #2 on Oct 20 so he will be just a little bit younger than Kaitlyn.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Christmas Around the Corner
I almost can't believe that the year is getting so much closer to the end. I have been going kind of crazy getting things ready! I finally counted and I have found out that I am making 9 things for the Christmas Eve party that is annually held up at my Grandma's house. I had to write it all down so I don't forget....ready?
Baked Beans
small Orange Jello Salad
BIG Sugar Cookies
Fruit Cakes
Blueberry Loaves (kind of like blueberry muffins only bigger)
Chex Mix
Banana Nut Bread
Holiday Cakes (not even close to fruit cakes)
small Sugar Cookies (these I give away as presents and they are done)
So far I only have done the Holiday Cakes, small Sugar Cookies, and the Banana Nut Bread (only cause I had some bananas about to bite the dust). All I can say is thank goodness the other stuff isn't really terribly hard to make up. Plus I just finished making Christmas Candy that I didn't count because it doesn't go up to my Grandma's house. Amazingly I really don't feel so overwhelmed cause 4 of the 6 things I still have to make to get ready to go up really aren't that hard to make up. You mix together and cook most of it like the baked beans, jello salad, blueberry loaves, and the Chex Mix. I haven't ever made fruit cakes before but I got the best recipe for them so they should turn out pretty good (at least I REALLY hope so!!!) The Sugar Cookies I am going to make them big so that I can frost them and Lowell is going to help me. I know that I will have to post pictures on here of some of them. I even got him a BIG container of sprinkles that he can put on the cookies when they are all frosted. I hope that everyone has a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a JOYOUS NEW YEAR!!!
Baked Beans
small Orange Jello Salad
BIG Sugar Cookies
Fruit Cakes
Blueberry Loaves (kind of like blueberry muffins only bigger)
Chex Mix
Banana Nut Bread
Holiday Cakes (not even close to fruit cakes)
small Sugar Cookies (these I give away as presents and they are done)
So far I only have done the Holiday Cakes, small Sugar Cookies, and the Banana Nut Bread (only cause I had some bananas about to bite the dust). All I can say is thank goodness the other stuff isn't really terribly hard to make up. Plus I just finished making Christmas Candy that I didn't count because it doesn't go up to my Grandma's house. Amazingly I really don't feel so overwhelmed cause 4 of the 6 things I still have to make to get ready to go up really aren't that hard to make up. You mix together and cook most of it like the baked beans, jello salad, blueberry loaves, and the Chex Mix. I haven't ever made fruit cakes before but I got the best recipe for them so they should turn out pretty good (at least I REALLY hope so!!!) The Sugar Cookies I am going to make them big so that I can frost them and Lowell is going to help me. I know that I will have to post pictures on here of some of them. I even got him a BIG container of sprinkles that he can put on the cookies when they are all frosted. I hope that everyone has a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a JOYOUS NEW YEAR!!!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Swivel Sweeper
ok so we got a swivel sweeper....and Lowell was suppose to clean his room in order to be allowed to use it...and well...he didn't clean his room at all and so he didn't get to use it...we put the battery in and Max and I used it for a while and then I was going to use it to go clean the front room and it stopped working...and now we can't get it to work...and so Lowell is beyond upset because he can't use it at all now...we are trying to figure out what is wrong w/ the battery without much luck....:(
Monday, November 9, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Strangeness and an update
Yea I know it's been a while since I last posted. Ok Ok a LONG while. Let's see...since I last posted Max has gotten kicked out of his maintenance job at Heinz, Daisy has passed away (she had a liver disease and she just didn't recover), Max has applied for a new maintenance job at the Simplot plant in Aberdeen where they make fries, and Lowell has grown!
I am not sure what to say other than that...I am on Facebook now and so is Max and we do try to keep updates going regularly. You can add me and keep updated if you wish...I will try to be better about keeping this page updated but I am not going to make any promises!
I am so glad that everything seems to be turning for a good way. The job interview (Max seems really excited about getting this job). The possibility of moving again...this place that we are at now really is just too small; that is about all I can really say about this place!
I made apple pie filling with my Grandma's red delicious apples that grow in her back yard!
Yes I know 'tis sad that Daisy passed away but she just wasn't a happy kitty at the end and I decided that it would be best if she didn't have to suffer any more...they asked me if I wanted her ashes and I told them no...I have enough pictures and videos of her...well enough for her 8 year long life with me.
Max and I are thinking seriously about the possibility of getting a Sheltie or a Shetland Sheepdog. We have been looking at information about them and I have called a breeder and asked her all about her dogs. They sound like they would be just right for our family in that they are small but not a mini. They love kids and get along well with other pets i.e. Jack. They also are very smart and therefore easy to train! = )
I guess I could do a little update about Jack...he is doing OK health wise but well he just has been a different cat since Daisy passed on. I am not sure why but for some reason he is a lot more playful now than he use to be. My mom claims that it is because he doesn't want to join Daisy and "go away" and I am thinking that it was because when Daisy was sick all she wanted to do was lay around and he was such a sweetheart about her that he would just lay around with her. He has sadly put on some weight and I am thinking that it is due a bit to stress but he isn't anywhere near as heavy as he once was so I am not going to complain too loudly about that!
I am thinking that I am done for now cause I just don't know what else to write.
I am not sure what to say other than that...I am on Facebook now and so is Max and we do try to keep updates going regularly. You can add me and keep updated if you wish...I will try to be better about keeping this page updated but I am not going to make any promises!
I am so glad that everything seems to be turning for a good way. The job interview (Max seems really excited about getting this job). The possibility of moving again...this place that we are at now really is just too small; that is about all I can really say about this place!
I made apple pie filling with my Grandma's red delicious apples that grow in her back yard!
Yes I know 'tis sad that Daisy passed away but she just wasn't a happy kitty at the end and I decided that it would be best if she didn't have to suffer any more...they asked me if I wanted her ashes and I told them no...I have enough pictures and videos of her...well enough for her 8 year long life with me.
Max and I are thinking seriously about the possibility of getting a Sheltie or a Shetland Sheepdog. We have been looking at information about them and I have called a breeder and asked her all about her dogs. They sound like they would be just right for our family in that they are small but not a mini. They love kids and get along well with other pets i.e. Jack. They also are very smart and therefore easy to train! = )
I guess I could do a little update about Jack...he is doing OK health wise but well he just has been a different cat since Daisy passed on. I am not sure why but for some reason he is a lot more playful now than he use to be. My mom claims that it is because he doesn't want to join Daisy and "go away" and I am thinking that it was because when Daisy was sick all she wanted to do was lay around and he was such a sweetheart about her that he would just lay around with her. He has sadly put on some weight and I am thinking that it is due a bit to stress but he isn't anywhere near as heavy as he once was so I am not going to complain too loudly about that!
I am thinking that I am done for now cause I just don't know what else to write.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Update?
Wow.....can't believe it was March 9 that I did my last post...sorry I don't keep this thing more updated! Last week was hubby's b-day and he had a lot of fun! I also took a short trip to Challis...and the trip back was totally scary cause of white out conditions!! Hopefully more later!!!
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