It might be a while....

I know I haven't posted in a month. And we actually do have a few more things to post about. I might get time to post about Jordan's birthday, but I wouldn't count on it for another month. It might be a month before I post again period. Why you might ask? Well, if you have facebook, you already know. It's not a secret or anything. In two weeks from either today or tomorrow we are moving to Ely, Nevada. Well Ty is. The kids and I might be a week behind him depending on when the moving company packs us up. He will be working for the copper mine there. We really feel that this is the right decision for us right now. With Ty's work lately, he is working 12+ hours a day anywhere from 2-4 days a week. We both just feel like this job is stressing him out and aging him too much and he doesn't see the kids much. I mean, it was my neighbor and I who taught Jordan how to ride a bike because Ty wasn't home. Just little things like that are taking a toll on all of us. So we are leaving. Well it be hard to leave? Surpisingly yes. Which is funny because I definitely get on my "I hate Ridgecrest! Get me out of here!" kicks. But this has been my home for soooo long. I have family here. I have friends from all walks of life here. This is what my kids know. That being said, yes, I do know that we will make our home up there. We will get friends up there. My kids will learn to love it up there. I don't know. It will be a change. I think one of the hardest parts of leaving will be leaving my parents. If you didn't know, my dad had a fairly rare cancer 4 years ago. He will officially have been in remission 4 years around Christmas. However, he is not cured. In fact, within the next three years (though we are all thinking it will more likely be one year) his cancer will come back. I can hope my dad decides to fight it, but I am not sure. Even if he does, the cancer will come back again and again. I worry for my parents through that. I have promised to visit. Especially once my dad gets sick again. My mom pointed out that he may be too sick for us to stay with them, to which I pointed out that we do have friends that would let us use some floor space. My work offered the surgery gurneys. Ha.
I am just emotional with this move. Which is amazing because I am not usually an emotional person. I know it is right for us though. We are starting a new chapter in our lives......

4th of July, Utah, Nevada

Remember how I said we needed a break, well, Disneyland was fun, but we also had plans to head to Utah and visit family. Those plans were almost broken because a few days before we were to head there a massive fire started and evacuated my in-law's town. Thankfully no homes were destroyed, and they were let back into their homes. This fire however was the largest forest fire in Utah history. So sad. Anyway, we were going to head to Utah on a Friday, but we needed new brake pads and the ones we needed were a special order, so we didn't leave until Saturday night. We had a great time. Mostly we just relaxed while we were up there. We did some fun things like hang out with all the family that was able to make it (we missed you guys Riki and Dan!). We went and shot some fun guns. The best one we shot was probably the AK. Someday Ty wants to own one of those. Ty's little sister also brough her new compound bow down and we got to shoot that. I loved it! I had so much fun shooting that. And all things considered, I wasn't too bad. On the fourth, went to the parade and the Demolition Derby (I didn't get a lot of pictures at that because my phone camera was dying). Then we stayed for the fireworks. The fireworks show in Delta is probably 4 times longer than the one in Ridgecrest. It was amazing. Every time they would start shooting a bunch of fireworks off I expected that to be the end. But nope. It was cool. Thursday the girls all went shopping. So that was Roxanne, Annie, Jordan and I. I think the best part was having Jordan try outfits on forever. We went to Crazy 8 and she had a blast shopping. Saturday night Liam got stung by a wasp twice in the eyelid. Poor little kid. By Sunday morning, he was done with me taking pictures of him to document it. A little shop-a-holic in the making. Monday, we left Utah and went and stayed the night in Ely, Nevada. There while playing at the park, Jordan fell off some monkey bar thing and split her lip open. She still flips out when she does anything that makes her mouth bleed. She started screaming thinking she had lost her tooth again. Anyway, then we came home. We were gone that time about 10 days. Not bad. We are all refreshed now and shouldn't need to travel again for a while.
I love this picture of Father and Son's footprints!

Kid Quotes

My kids have been saying some funny things lately. I have added one to Jordan's list and started one for Liam's. Check them periodically because you never know what they will say. If you read Liam's quote, I want to explain it a little bit more. The family was in the car, driving, I don't remember where around town. Jordan was doing something to annoy Liam, and since they were both buckled, this was his response to her, "You're grounded. Go to your room. Is that fun? Huh?" (Or it was something similar... whatever is posted on the side there.) It was hilarious because he said it in his serious, disciplinarian voice. Funny kids...

Disneyland!!

So we have needed a vacation! Seriously. Well, we had some plans that got cancelled so I decided we would go to Disneyland instead. We were going to go down on a Tuesday, and come home Thursday night. We would get the three day passes and just have a ball. Well... things didn't go as planned. We ended up leaving about an hour after we wanted to. We still would have had enough time to play all afternoon though, so we weren't worried. We took the slightly longer route down so we would avoid Highway 395 which scares the beejeebers out of me. People constantly pass on double yellow lines because it is only a two lane major highway. I know for a long time it was one of the most deadly highways in America. Anyway, so we went the longer way (by like 10 minutes). Well, we were almost 2 hours into our drive when traffic halted. I mean, it took us 2 hours to go 5 miles. It was ridculous! I finally googled what was going on, and it turns out that a few miles in front of us was a 19 car accident involving all three lanes on our side of the freeway and 2 on the other side. It happened about an hour before we got to that point, so we were grateful that we didn't leave on time, as we may very well have been in that accident. So anyway, I took some pictures of some stuff on the freeway that made me laugh while we were stuck there. Here is one. I asked where exactly the yard sale was since I didn't see it anywhere. Remember though, that we had been sitting there forever with both kids getting cranky. I had to laugh at something.
A couple of different spots the barbed wire fence along the freeway was down so the cars would pull off and go through. Here is the last car going through this spot. Why might you ask? Because he got stuck in the sand. And then kept trying to get himself out and only made it worse. His wheels were half under sand before we inched out way past him.
We finally pulled off near a famous rock formation called Vasquez Rock. We stopped for lunch at a little diner. I remember it was a friendly place who brought fruit out to the kids right away (not that they ate it). They also had these lamps by each table that looked like a revolver and had a pull string to turn the lights on and off. Liam loved pulling that chain. Then we had to make him stop because the lady told us they break easily. Also, there was the coolest sign:
After lunch, since we were right there anyway and didn't know when we would actually stop to see it again, we stopped to get out at Vazquez Rock.



Please ignor my hair flying everywhere in the next two pictures. Liam and I were sitting on the edge of one of the rocks and it was pretty windy.


We finally made it to Disneyland. What was supposed to be around a three hour trip ended up being over 7 hours. That pretty much shot our first day there. The only way we figured we would go that first day was if we ended up getting annual passes again. We had them a few years ago. Well, we finally decided to get them. (So if anyone wants company at Disneyland, let us know.) We rode about two or three rides that day, the kids favorite being Pirates. We stayed in Disneyland that day. I don't even remember what else we did. Once we finally made it back to the hotel, the kids crashed. I just took the picture because the kids were sleeping in the exact same way. Their arms were laid out the same, they were each holding their lovie thing. I don't know, it just melted my heart, so I grabbed the picture.
I didn't get a whole lot of other pictures... Ty might have. I will have to see. Here are some though that I got. The kids trying to pull the sword from the stone. Liam was not happy that he couldn't get it. He had tried soooo hard.We got to watch these drummers perform. It was sort of like a drumline thing where they were dancing with it. Anyway, it brought back some fun memories from doing drumline as a kid. Then that made me miss being in music period and playing my French Horn. Maybe someday I will get it back out and play again....

So there you have it. Our fun trip to Disneyland in a nutshell. Next time we go I will try to be better about pictures.

Cute kids

Here are just some cute pictures of my kids.
He was so proud of himself for getting two pairs of glasses on!
The kids working together to build a tunnel for their balls outside to roll under.
Walking home from the church one day; they were airplanes trying not to crash into each other.
Sitting together eating ice cream cones.

House work

Over the past two months, our house has undergone a lot of changes. We have rearranged our house so we no longer have a living and a family room, but now just have a living room with the toys hidden. What was the family room is now a larger dining room so we don't feel cramped anymore. We had our table crammed into our kitchen area to make it an eat in kitchen, but it was feeling too cramped. All the nasty popcorn stuff is scraped off the ceiling in those rooms as well as down the hall. All the old seriously disgusting carpet and linoleum has been taken up and tiled. We had two doors replaced and we painted. I think that is about it. And it is a lot. We borrowed our friends truck to go to Lancaster (about 90 miles away) to pick up the tile from Lowe's. We got around 700 sq ft of tile. We had two guys from the store load it into the truck, again, since Ty was recovering from surgery, he couldn't unload the truck. So, it took me several hours, but I unloaded all 300+ boxes of tile.
Once that part was done, we finally ripped the carpet up. When we did that, we found out that the floor was cracked down the middle and severely not level. I mean, it was almost an inch and a half off level in one spot. So first, Rick (the guy who was doing all this work) broke up the cement around the large crack and recemented it so the crack isn't there anymore. Then we had to get several bags of Level Quik to level half of our living room. It took several more days than was planned, but it turned out nice. Here is a picture of the tile just after it was mostly laid, but not grouted.
AFter that we moved onto what is now the dining room and thankfully found no major cracks, and a few unlevel spots that could be leveled with the thin set. I don't have those pictures downloaded yet but will put them on when I have them.

Al in all, I love it. Our ceiling looks SSSSOOOOOOO much better! Our house is cooler. The nasty, stained, gross, germ infested carpet is gone. In it's place it nice tile that is easy to clean. We haven't yet had any major injuries from the tile to the kids, and hopefully we can get a nice area rug in the living room to prevent that. The funny thing is that I posted some pictures as we were going along on Facebook and the next Sunday at church, I had about 5 people come up to ask me if we were moving. Nope, we just want our house nicer. And it is.

Memorial Day

Since Ty was still recovering from surgery way back at Memorial Day, we just hung out most of the day. We really wished we had been in Utah that weekend, but just couldn't make it. We went to the pancake breakfast that our ward does every year, then went home to sleep a little before we headed to a friends house for swimming and a bbq. Here are the few pictures I took.
Jordan's first little sand castle she made:
Liam eating his pancake:
We thought we would get out without getting a kid burried in the sand, but a few minutes before we left, Liam really, really wanted Joey to bury him.

Quick funny thing

So I really do have stuff to blog about, but we will be heading on the road again here in a few minutes. I just want to put this down for you guys all to laugh at. I had another one of those "I never thought I would say this to my kids" moments. I don't know who started this fight, but my kids were fighting about who farted (as in they each were saying they did it). It went on for several minutes before I had to tell my kids "Quit fighting about who farted." Nope, not kidding, and nope, I honestly didn't think I'd have to ever say that to my kids again.

Question????

So I have a question for you guys. Do any of you actually read the blog to see what's going on? I am just curious, because if not, I will probably make this private and keep it more as a family journal. Let me know if you still want to know about us. We actually have had things going on lately......

Surgery

So Tyrell has been having problems with his right shoulder for a few years. It has been getting steadily worse as time goes on. Just before Christmas I finally talked him into going into the doctor to get it looked at. I got the recommendation of what local doctor from my work. So at the beginning of the year he went in. On the x-rays they had taken before we were able to see large calcium deposits. Dr. Taylor gave him a cortisone injection and ordered physical therapy for him. If that failed, then he was to get an MRI and go back in to decide what was next. Well, he did therapy for almost three straight months and ended worse than he began. So he went in for the MRI then back to see Taylor. Taylor decided the best thing for Tyrell would be to have the calcium deposits surgically removed, and then, if there was any tearing to the rotator cuff, to fix it. They couldn't really tell if there was tearing or not because of the size of the deposits, but they didn't think there was any tearing. So on May 24, Tyrell went in for surgery. His surgery was scheduled for 7 am, but he had to be there at 5:30 so they could do a nerve block for his shoulder. Thankfully my dad was willing to get up super early and take him in since I had to deal with the kids and getting Jordan ready for school. Then my sister took Liam that morning so that I could get some stuff done around the house and since I didn't know what time Tyrell would be ready. So around 9:00 or so, I get a call from the doctor. He said that everything went well. Thankfully there was no rotator cuff tear, but there was some Labrum tearing that he cleaned up. While the labrum is vital to your shoulder, the tear there wasn't nearly as bad as if he had torn the rotator cuff. About an hour and a half later I got a call from my mom (who was Tyrell's recovery nurse) that he would be getting up soon, so I get in the Mustang and head to work. When I get there, I am told Tyrell started going back downhill, so they would be keeping him longer. By going downhill I just mean that everytime they tried to sit him up he would get really dizzy and nauseous. No big deal, but while he was like that, there was no way they would release him. Also, while I was there, I hear about Tyrell coming out of anethesia. He learned he would likely be a violent drunk. Usually, most people do not have a problem when they just stop the anesthesia and switch a patient to oxygen, but occasionally you have people who feel claustrophobic or something and come up fighting. That was my Tyrell. It took 5 people to hold him down for about 15-20 minutes until they could get him to stop fighting. He kicked my boss in the face and punched a nurse in the face hard enough that it knocked her glasses and mask off. They had two people holding his good arm down (thanks to the nerve block, he couldn't move his right arm at all), and a person lying across each leg, with the anesthesiologist trying to hold his head still. Thankfully, everyone was a good sport about it (I think they would be no matter who the patient was) and just teased him about it. Needless to say, Tyrell is a little afraid of going back up there, especially since my boss threatened to get him back. Tyrell was so doped up that I decided not to get any pictures of him while he was still at the center, but I did capture this one a couple days later. Sorry it is blurry. Since there was no tear, he didn't have to wear a sling all the time, but he wore it out in public for several days so no one would smack his arm or shoulder.

And here he is a few days later at our wards annual Memorial Day Pancake Breakfast.

Just chillin

This is a cute picture of Liam just chillin watching tv. We are stuck in the house for a while as we have quite a bit of housework going on, so unfortunately we have watched a lot of tv.

Jordan's first...

I don't feel like I can say this much anymore, but Jordan had another first a few weeks ago. I mean, when you are almost 7, you've hit a lot of firsts. This one was rather unexpected. I picked Jordan up from school one day and she started crying in the car. It's not that unusual as she will cry whenever she has a bad day. So we get home to talk about her day, and I notice a large scratch all down her face. She had been playing on the monkey bars (which constantly gives her blisters on her hands) when she fell off and face-planted. On top of the large scratch, she got her first black eye. She had a nice bruise on her eyelid as well as it was going down on both sides of her nose. It didn't last long thankfully. Sorry the picture is bad, but I took it with my new phone.

Boxing

I have mentioned a few times that I am boxing. I have been doing it since January and LOVE it! It's the best stress relief and excercise I have had since running. Yes, I still run, and plan on running another half in a few months, but still. Anyway, while we were learning how to actually kick for kickboxing, I didn't exactly do it right. This is what happened to my foot. Bt the end of the week, I actually had a matching one on the other foot. It's just a broken blood vessel, not a break. Though, it did hurt really bad.

The kids love playing with my boxing gloves. They will each put them on, then hit the other one and just laugh and laugh. They even ask to be hit. They sure are some kooky kids.

Whirly Twirly

While Grandma and Grandpa Staheli were down here, they gave us these really cool whirly things. The kids love them. Ty and I still haven't mastered shooting them like Grandpa has, but still. Here are the few pictures I found of when they were here. And it's just pictures of the kids chasing the whirly things....

Back to the future....er... Easter

So, I just sat and uploaded pictures from my camera, and apparently they are all the way back from Easter. So, I will give you a little bit of info on our Easter...
The week before Easter, Ty's parents came down to hang out with us. We had a great time with them here. It was so good to see them. They brought Easter for us with them. I didn't get any pictures while they were here (boo). They gave the kids fun wooden whistles. Liam's is a train whistle, and Jordan's is a slide whistle. They have great fun with them. So anyway, we had to do Easter with our friends that we always do Easter with a little early this year. They weren't going to be in town and we really wanted to dye eggs and roll them down the hill. So we did that on Thursday. We tried dying the eggs with Kool-aid this year and I have to tell you that it was a fail. I won't do it again next year. But none-the-less, we all had fun. Liam thought it was grand to drop the eggs in the dye and spill it everywhere, and Jordan broke a few eggs and broke down. Thankfully we had eggs to replace them, so Jordan and Liam ended up with the same amount of eggs in the end. We then went to our regular park and rolled our eggs. It was windy and freezing that day, so don't look too close or you'll see our red noses. After we rolled eggs, we just let the kids play at the park for a bit. So here are some pictures.