On the Road Again

We are into full scale travel season already. Last Thursday we loaded up and drove to Cut Bank for Reid's(Jared's youngest brother) high school graduation. We enjoyed visiting with family, and are very glad that we didn't have norovirus like at Nellie's graduation. However, we could have gone without quite so much rain. I don't know if it stopped raining for more than 30 seconds all weekend. We are grateful for the much needed moisture, but does it all have to come at once?! Anyway we had fun playing rock band and the boys loved playing with Grandma, Grandpa, and cousins Gage and Levi. We wore them out. Sunday night at about 11 pm Carter tried several times to get his dad's attention before finally yelling "DADDY, I wanna go to SLEEP!" Anyway, Congratulations to Reid for graduating top of his class! We love you and will try to forgive you for choosing to go to the other Montana school! Meow! In about a half hour we will be on the road again. This time to Idaho for my brother Sean's wedding.

I Hope You Dance

For the last 3 years I have been able to fulfill my dream of being a dance teacher. Saturday was our recital, my last one. The studio owner, Caralee (a friend from our ward), is moving to Wyoming. Dress rehersal was terrible Saturday morning. I don't know what happened but it was bad. I left thinking "oh well, nothing I can do now!" Luckily the old saying about "bad dress rehersal, good performance" proved true. My little ballerinas did wonderful! I also had to dance in the finale. I was really nervous because I haven't been on stage for 9 years, but I think I did okay. In some ways I am sad that it is over. In some ways it is tempting to take things into my own hands and have my own studio. Most of all I am just happy that I had the experience to share my talent. The one part of teaching I didn't like was the job stress. If I was a studio owner that would be much higher and I prefer to just enjoy my dancing. So for now that chapter of life is over. Maybe now I'll have to work on getting Jared to that ballroom class he's promised to take with me!

Happy Mother's Day...or NOT!

So the day started out great. Jared didn't have his early church meetings so he was around to help get the boys ready for church which is very nice. That afternoon we relaxed, made some phone calls, and then Jared made me chicken cordon bleu for dinner. About 7 pm I started to feel a little off. Around 8:30 I started throwing up. By 11 I had thrown up about 7 times and had been to the bathroom almost as many times. My stomach hurt so bad and I was so weak Jared had to help me from the bed to the bathroom. We called the 24 hour nurse line, and she said I should probably come in. So we took the boys to a friends house at about 12:30 and got to the ER about 1 in the morning. They drew blood to check my level of dehydration and then gave me 2 units of fluid through an IV also 2 kinds of anti-nausea meds and morphine for the pain. We were there for about 3 1/2 hours. Yesterday, Jared stayed home from work to watch the boys and make sure I had enough fluids. I stayed in bed most the day. No more throwing up but my stomach still wasn't quite right. Today I feel much better, but still don't feel like eating much. So what was this mysterious sudden illness? Well Saturday I had a dance performance at a nursing home in Billings that always seems to be on the news for norovirus outbreaks, or it could have been a bad piece of asparagus tainted with ecoli. Who knows, I just wish I could have enjoyed the oreo pie that Pason was so excited to have helped make me!

Me after the morphine!

Preschool Graduation

Hooray! I finally got all my pictures off my camera. So here are some of Pason's graduation.


Class Picture

Pason's Talent

The happy graduate.

At the Ranch