Doctor Appointments

Went to Brody’s 4-month well check appointment he is 18 lbs 26.5 long he is in the 95% for both. Doctor says he is proportionate for his height and weight. He is a healthy boy and can start taking rice whenever he wants to start. While we were there, they are having Pinal County kids over 1 get the second MMR shot that they usually don’t get until they are 4 because they had a case of the Measles in the south Pinal County. So Gavin got a shot and a check up also. Gavin still only weighs 27 lbs doctor thinks Brody will pass Gavin up. Gavin was complaining about his throat and stomach hurting today so it was nice to have it checked because I wasn’t going to get him checked not wanting to pay another co-pay but he had to have a shot with co-pay anyway so he doctor checked him out and he is healthy just a pain from being sick earlier. Doctor says he has really big tonsils may need to come out when he is older.

Stress from Last Week

It has been a little time from the last time I wrote. No excuse but this has been what my last week has looked like. Gavin got a bug and has been sick for around 4-5 days thrown up a couple times with a high fever. He is very nasty mean little boy when he is sick. Sent to his room many times I got tired of him wining all the time. For example, I want this to eat you give it to him then he wines because he does not want that he wants something else. Let’s just say I let him watch more movies than I would like when he is sick to keep my sanity. Then we had a group project these last couple of weeks in class. I really hate group projects, I believe that this is the worst group I can have in my next 3 years of school. I sure hope it can’t get worse. I tried very hard to stay professional and not call one girl a nasty name. After some mean conversations between two group members I found out I was the only group member born in the United States. I am sure that doesn’t help having different backgrounds. Today I had to edit our paper for the group very hard to do when they do not speak very good English and English is not my best subject. Today was the final day for the paper so as long as everyone is ok with all my changes and one particular person does not yell at me for changing her words we will get it turned in today. Then one last group project after next week and then I am done with this group. Let me just say I have wanted to quit school this week but have made it through my third week with lots of stress, a supportive husband and a cute Brody to make me remember why I am doing this. Gavin did not help the situation by being sick. Last night was not fun Gavin has been coming into our bed at night I put him back in bed one time and Chris sent him back to bed at least 5 times. He is going to get to sleep in bed with us while the Parkers are here and will probably have a bad habit to break after they leave. We are already having a hard time keeping him in his room. Especially because those child door locks do not keep Gavin out. I wouldn’t mind so much if he didn’t have to always be right next to you, he always has to touch you when he sleeps. I need my space that is why we got a king size bed.

We are having the joy of Don and Diana, Beverly, John & Carolyn, Becky, Matt & Colton staying the weekend with us to see Anika’s blessing. It will be a full house, at least the air conditioner works now. I have a feeling the ones from Utah will think it is hot in our house even with the air on. It is funny because we thought no one was coming for another week, Surprise! We figured it out yesterday that it was this weekend. We just have to arrange bedrooms so the air mattress fit I am a little worried about Brody’s room with the toy shelf. But if it doesn’t work they can sleep in the family room. Clean house and get some food. Brody has his well check appointment this week it has been nice having Chris home for Memorial Day I would have been really stressed getting the house cleaned without him.

Roll Brody

Brody finally rolled yesterday he tried so hard he was getting mad but finally got over his fat arm. Chris was sad he missed it and I only took pictures instead of video but I really didn't think he would make it over.

The Joy of Home Owning

Well today we got to experiance the joy of being a home owner. For a couple of days our AC has not been working very well at about 2 in the afternoon the air would come on and not turn off until 2 in the morning. So yesterday I called every place in the phone book to get prices. I picked the company that prices were the lowest. Half the companys said they would charge $100 just for the service call to come to Queen Creek. The company came at 7:00 and discovered we were extremely low on Freon and there was probably a leak some place which cost $300 to find a leak. Then after you find the leak it cost close to $400 to fix the leak, then it cost lots to replace the Freon. Well let us just say 2 hours of labor, 5 lbs of Freon, a small leak and $800 later our air conditioner now is working and I am not hot and in a better mood, besides having to pay for it of course. I think the AC company’s in AZ charge more than other states we can’t make it more than a day without it. Our AC only holds 5 lbs of Freon and in the attic about 2 just tells you how low we were. It is kind of madding that the leak was so little; they said it probably started leaking over a year ago. If it would have been bigger it would have been out of Freon sooner and under warranty still, but we are not so lucky. There are benefits to renting not having to deal with repairs.

Brody Sleeping

This is the picture of Brody sleeping that I was trying to explain. Isn't he is very cute?!

Gavin & the slide

I tried to put these videos on yesterday but after 3 hours of waiting I gave up.

This video is of Gavin, if you can't tell he has no fear. He is also very silly and loves attention.

Brody trying to roll

Brody is trying so hard to roll over he is getting close I keep thinking I will find him in his bed on his belly one day. He trys to roll both ways and usually sleeps half rolled on his side, I will have to take a picture. He is growing so fast!

Brody & Gavin

Playing with my photo edit wanted to see what people like and don't like.

Brody Fog Option

Metal Option #1 and Black/White



Gavin Black/White with soft edge

Fog option with soft edge and Metal option #2.


Need some advice on Gavin, I thought 6:00 was early to get up and now he is getting up at 5:00 that is way to early. What can I do to get him to sleep in later. I changed his curtins so the early sun wouldn't come in but that hasn't worked yet. I am not willing to change bed time later and nap time has to stay. So is there anything else that can be done or am I just going to have to get used to 5:00? This morning I just let him knock on the door until he finally got the door lock off and found me around 5:20.


Gavin has had a good imagination today. He had a castle that the dinosaur would come and try to eat him. The castle was destroyed many times and had to be put back together I got to play the dinosaur. He also went fishing a caught big fish that tried to get away the big fish was me and he wanted me to cry when he pulled the fishing pole hard enough I got away. Both of these different games went on for an hour each. Boring for me but he loved it! Does anyone have other idea of fun things to do with your kids?



Gavin's pet clay fish.

New Cousin Anika Holly Parker

Anika was born to Mike and Amy Parker on May 6, 2008 at 10:09 she weighed 6.15 lbs and 20" long.

Grandma and Brody

Mothers Day Weekend

Chris was the Top Performers for University of Phoenix in his division. Only 8% were invited to the Marriott Resort in Phoenix. Chris surprised me on Thursday night when his mom showed up at the house. I was in shock didn’t know what she was doing here. Thought she decided to see Anika. Then Chris told me that he invited her to watch the kids so we could have a mini vacation. What a wonderful surprise! We got at the resort at 6:30 in the morning to check in glad we did by 7:30 the line was huge and people were not able to get a room until after 12:00. Chris had meetings from 9-12 so I went to the pools to enjoy the sun. I was kind of sad because I didn’t think I would get a tan because it was so cloudy. Chris came to the pool later and we floated the lazy river did a little shopping. Well needless to stay I was burned badly on my chest, shoulders and thighs the places that never see the sun. Then Chris had a meeting at 6:00-6:30 after we meet up with Emily and Corey went to dinner to On The Boarder, after they had karaoke and DJ we stayed and talked to people for a little while then went swimming and to the hot tub after. The room was amazing and the bed was so nice. There was bunny’s everywhere and ducks. When we first got there, I was wishing the kids were there because there was so much for Gavin to do I thought he would have fun. Then when I was relaxing and didn’t have to chase Gavin to keep him from breaking everything I really started to enjoy not having kids for the day. Besides, he was probably having just as much fun or more with Grammy. From what Grammy told us the kids were great and she enjoyed spending time with Gavin and talking and laughing with Brody. Diana is going to stay until Monday then we will see her again June for Anika’s blessing. What a fun weekend I could really start enjoying that lifestyle.

New Cousin and Weekend Fun

Over the weekend, Emily invited us to her place to go swimming and the park for lunch. We had a lot of fun and Gavin makes everyone very tired. It was hot outside everyone got a little pink.

Brody looked so cute in his big boy clothes I just had to take a picture. I have handsome boys.

On Monday, Amy had an OB doctor appointment so I was lucky enough to get to enjoy her kids for the morning. Everything started out good the kids were playing with toys playing outside. They wanted to play with squirt guns so I filled the tinny pool to fill the water guns. Don’t know what I was thinking so then they got all wet so I told them they could swim in the big pool and didn’t have swimming suites for Keagan or Kyler so they decided to swim in there underwear. Everything was fine and the bottom of the pool had a bunch of holes so they couldn’t drown because the water wouldn’t stay in the pool. So I went inside to make lunch and Brody was getting up so I needed to feed him. Well those kids went crazy, they got naked, put tons of rocks in the grass, were making huge mud puddles in the grass, and put the big slide in the pool. I yelled at them a couple of times felt a little bad but they deserved it. Finally got lunch ready got kids hosed down from all the mud got them inside and sat down for lunch. Amy got there and about died because the kids were naked. I started chocking on a grape so funny. I told her days like this reaffirms to me that I do not want more than 3 kids. Granted Brody sleep most the time but those 4 kids go crazy when I have to take care of Brody. Amy found out at the doctor that they are going to start her on Tuesday at 4:30 and she said she would call when they decided what to do with the four kids. I told her I could take them all or watch them at her house. However, she decided to save my sanity and have her other friend watch the two boys so I had just Samantha and Cloie. We were a little worried that Cloie would have a hard time going to sleep and cry but she did really good once we took Sam out of the room. They just wanted to play so Sam read books on the couch until she feel asleep. It was Gavin’s first sleep over with his cousins. They had fun we had breakfast for dinner watch a movie with popcorn. At 5:00 in the morning Brody got up which woke Samantha and Gavin so we called it a morning Cloie was great and sleep until 6:30. Had breakfast played outside and Mike picked the kids up at 8:00. They had the beautiful baby girl that night and were going to see her. They called her Anika hope that is how you spell it could be wrong they spelled Keagan and Cloie name different than other people do. Or they spell it different than them however you want to put it.

Well did my second day of class today not that bad only took me 15 min to get the work for today done. This is only the first class, which is the easiest, and the first week even easier but so far, I feel confidant that I can do this. I really like the online setting of classes. Yesterday they did overwhelm me with a bunch of paper work I need to finish to do my student teaching to me it is forever away but they want everything done as soon as possible. So I have to do finger printing and fill out a bunch of paper work.

This was before they went crazy!