Catch-up

Jaden has been on Summer Break now for 2 weeks. What fun have we been up to-not much! My big Bro Josh graduated from Pharmacy School on June 6 at 9 in the morning- on the complete opposite side of town. All of us, but Owen had been sick with a cold all week and seemed by Thursday to finally be recoved. Of coarse Friday morning when I have to be out the door by 7:30- poor Owen wakes up with a really bad cough and a soar throat. Well, I get everyone ready and rush out the door. When we get to the graduation Owen has a fever and being the great mom that I am I have no Tyenol to give him relief. When we get back home I get him all taken care of and put him down for a nap. When he wakes up he seems to be doing much better. Saturday morning he gets up with a fever again, but besides that and his cough- he still seems to be okay. I put him down for his morning nap and when he woke- he was a bit lathargic and was having trouble breathing (his chest was sinking in about 2 inches-SCARY). I rush him to the urgent car and they take him back right away. They pull the Doctor out of a room, hook him up to monitors and give him a breathing treatment. The Doctor tells my that his oxygen is really low and he thinks that he should be taken by abulance to the hospital. Okay FREAK OUT moment. How did this cold turn into something so terrible so quickly?? Anyway, after an abulance ride, a chest x-ray and 3 breathing treatment later-- he is fine, it's just croup. The good Doc. perscribes a steriod for throat and chest and Anbuteral, he was back to normal in a few days. I knew that croup could get bad, but none of my kids ever had it before. I feel for all the parents with poor children that get croup alot!!
(Owen after his breathing treatments and a dose of steriods, he was so hyper jumping around the hospitals crib like he hadn't had any trouble breathing just 20 minutes earlier!)


With gas prices being as high as they are we havent done much of anything. I took the kids to the library, they have had friends over and spent the night at Grandmas. We are pretty boring!!!



I have a problem sometimes, remembering all of the blessing that I have in my life from time to time and I feel that all I do is complain and whine about it. As if no one else in the world is going through the same thing! Heaven Father always have a wonderful way of pulling me out of it. At church I have the oppotunity to teach the beehives. I love it!! Just being around them, talking to them and being able to help guild then is such a wonderful blessing in my life. I would be completely content serving them for the remander of my days!! It is often though the lessons I teach them that Heaven Father humbles me and I am truely greatful!! Well right now in YW everything is crazy busy. Camp is soon approaching and I able to go again! (Thank you to John's Mom my Mom and my lovely sister Jami for watching my kids!) I LOVE camp! What a great opportunity to get to know the girls, not just my Beehives, but all the girls on a more personal level and also for us leaders to continue to bond so that we can serve the girls better.



Hopefully our summer wont be completely lacking in the fun department and we will have some adventures!