Hooper Horror

Kaden got up from his nap and we decided to head to Tomato Days and look around to have something to do, we took our time getting ready and slowly headed out the door, we were about half way there and all of a sudden I pulled off to the side to let the ambulances and firetrucks, and all these cop cars flew by me... I am thinking there is a car accident or something so I keep going to the Hooper City Park, and low and behold here are all the emergency vehicles and we watched the 2 life flight helicopters land. I quickly found someone to tell me what happened and people were leaving a lot of people crying. What a horrible accident, if you didn't see what happened on the News I attached a link and you can read on:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=7834072

We hope that the little girl with a broken leg and the women with the head injury will be ok and all the others too. I just cant help but count our blessings and what a blessing nobody died!

BaCk To ScHoOl= COLLEGE STUDENTS

Back to school! This is Tom and I on our first day back to school. Tom has 3 classes left and he has a double bachelors and will move straight onto his master's and he is STILL a straight A student! You go Tom! And I am enjoying getting in the groove of things again! No worries working 2 jobs and going to school will soon be a thing in the past and I need to count my blessings to be living in this wonderful country that gives us so many opportunities and having our little boy bless us and we just love how he is learning too and he is so much fun. We are hanging in there! I am excited thinking of the eternal plan and trying to fulfill my potential to the fullest, and teaching my children to do the same... never putting limits on anyone! Thanks for all the support, I just know we can do it! Love you mom and dad.. miss you lots!

Mommy and Baby Boy..... loves to sit on my lap and take pictures!

Yes Tom might be crying... he was so sad to go back to school :)

Bee Stings OUCH

Oh dear now this is a good story to tell him when he gets older! :) Tom goes over to his best friends house to play volleyball once a week, and while the boys have a great time playing volleyball I have a great time letting the kids play together and hanging out with my best friend. Well, as we were sitting on the grass watching them play in the sand box Kaden picked up a toy car and was playing with it, all of a sudden I see about 3 or 4 bee's surround him very angry. Now I HATE BEE's so I was very scared myself because I had a previous terrifying experience. But I ran to him and picked him up and ran as fast as I could toward the house, while my friend saved her baby! From Kaden's screams I can tell he had gotten stung, and it was indeed painful. I found to my surprise he had been stung 3 times on his nose and once on the forehead and also on the palm of his hand. So we rush in the house trying anything we could think of... then we rushed to the store to get Benadryl and his face started to swell and I knew he was going to be sore for awhile. No respiratory problems thank goodness, and he quickly started smiling and having fun playing again shortly after he got stung, but his poor face and nose looked so painful for a few days! I didn't get any pictures of the worse day, so in these the swelling is down quite a bit but you get the idea! Poor Kaden!

Create

Very inspiring video! I love the message, and you will too... please watch!

Happy Birthday Tommy! BIG 27

Happy Birthday Thomas! I just cant believe your 27! I hope you are having a great birthday and know how much we love and appreciate you and all that you do for us! Your a great dad and still a straight "A" student! One more semester baby, and we off to bigger and better things! Lots of Love from you family! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Kaden is 21 months

Kaden is the cutest thing our world. We love him so much and we have so much fun everyday! We are very blessed to have such an easy going baby, he hardly ever cries and he never ever puts things in his mouth. I know right?? We are so lucky this kid is so independent and can play all by himself for hours and never whine or want to be held. I do miss him being cuddly but he is just in his own little world now, and such a happy kid, for that I am so grateful.. and wouldn't change a thing. Of course we still have good nights and bad nights but I absolutely love being a mommy and loving Kaden everyday!

The Trek was awesome. I was really glad we were asked to be a Pa and a Ma.. our kids were just awesome! We arrived to Wyoming got our handcarts and walked 6 miles to camp in about 90- 95 degrees! We arrived at camp then set up our tents, we ate dinner then had a fun time line dancing then we had a devotional with our family and went to bed. The mosquito's are so bad up there so our tent was infested with them and yes i have bug bites still all over! I fell asleep very fast and woke up to Tom yelling profanities, I woke up in a panic when he said something was in our tent. Some of the boys caught a jack rabbit and put it in our tent, Tom woke up with it on his leg he said "vibrating" and it jumped by my head and I shewed it out of the tent. This was about 4am and I couldn't go back to sleep. We got up in the morning to rabbit poop in our tent by Tom's leg, I figure the "vibrating" Tom felt on his leg was more like a rabbit pooping! Everyone had a big laugh about it, but Tom was investigating the names of who did it, and wanting a good ole fashion revenge, which he got when he roped one of the boys in the latrine and then he carried the young boys to the pole and duct taped them and had a friendly chat! Then we got up the next day and walked a total of 13 miles or so to Martin's Cove and then we did the river crossing and woman's pull and testimony meeting, went to bed safe and sound. Woke up packed everything up and walked our 6 or 7 miles back to the bus.. we did it.. we walked 26 miles! It was a great experience and a better understanding of the pioneers. Oh by the way, don't fall asleep on a bus when everyone has a camera, note to self!