It's May 31st!!!

For those of you who haven't become obsessed with the Twilight Series, you really won't care about this post...but for those of you who are...here is the cover for Breaking Dawn...book 4!!!

Now...for months I have promised myself that under NO circumstances was I going to read the first chapter from this book until the whole book comes out in August. Well...as most of you know...today was the day the first chapter was released in the special edition of Eclipse...book 3. I really wasn't going to read it...the torture of not having the rest of the book was really enough to convince myself of this...until this morning came. It was like the peanut M&M's I know that are in my house so I must eat them...the chapter was there...and it was all I could do not to rush out of bed and run over to the bookstore to read it!

We actually have a very busy day today...so I was safe, right...WRONG!!! I had a few hours between baseball games...so I DID IT!!! I rushed over to Barnes & Noble with my reading glasses (yes...I wear them...laugh at me...I don't care!), I grabbed a copy of the special edition Eclipse, I plopped myself down in the first chair I could find...AND I READ IT!!!

Let me just say...I'M SO GLAD I DID!!! Breaking Dawn starts off right where Eclipse left off...she didn't skip anything!!! I'm so excited! The best part about chapter 1 is that it doesn't end in a cliff hanger so I will be able to function over the next 2 months until the book comes out!

So...my advice to you is GO READ IT!!! Then...preorder your copy of Breaking Dawn and go stand in line at midnight on August 2nd with all of the other obsessed crazies like myself!!!

Oh...by the way...the Preface is AWESOME!!! I think "IT" is really going to happen in this book...finally!!! (Like how I'm trying to be all cryptic!)

Livin' the Vida Loca!!!

NO...I haven't forgotten that I have a blog...for the 3 people in the world who actually read it!!! As you can imagine from the title...things have been crazy around here! I finally downloaded pictures from my camera...and so over the next few days, I will finally get caught up!!! (At least I have lots to talk about!)

So, I'll start with the most recent happenings around here! Rylie is finally in a cast! Her arm is healing well and she will be in a cast for 4 weeks! I'm very relieved...seeing as while she had it in a splint, she still had to swing on the swings, ride horses, and wrestle with her brothers, just for starters!

She was pretty nervous when they took the splint off, and her arm looks a little crooked, but the x-rays showed that her bones are straight...so I won't worry for now! Boy did her arm stink though...YUCK! I can't imagine what it is going to smell like come the end of June!

She had fun getting her cast on. She was a little bummed that they didn't have pink ones, but she's glad that people can write on her white one! It was kind of funny. She was going around saying that people could sign it, and then she looked at me and said, "what is signing it, anyway?"!

Rylie was very excited that her dad wrote "girlfriend" in pink on her cast, since he is her boyfriend!

Today she was out showing it off in one of her new sundresses her grandma sent her...she not only loves sundresses, but they are really easy to get on over the cast - Yay!

We Still Love Archie!

Not a lot of time today...but had to put in my two cents...Archie totally should have won...but Cook was a good second choice in my opinion! This was one of my favorite performances by Archie...probably because I love the song so much! I also loved his performance with One Republic last night...if you missed it or want to see it again, check out Eliza's blog!

David Archuleta - Imagine (American Idol 7)
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Guess What We Did Today???

I'm referring to Wednesday the 14th in this post...I just realized that it posted at 12:00 a.m. making it Thursday!!!

So...it started out like any ordinary day...I got the kids off to school, took Rylie over to Lauren's to play, came home and had a morning all to myself to get ready for the weekend (Rachel is flying in tomorrow!!!) and then around 11:30, I got the phone call. Rylie had fallen off of the monkey bars and Julie thought her arm might be broken!!! Well, of course it's broken, I thought to myself...after the week it has been, it wouldn't just be bumped and bruised! (Now, let me just add here that Rylie is a VERY active little girl. It doesn't matter where she was or who she was with. If I had been there, the exact same thing would have happened because she is always on the monkey bars, and is always climbing to the very top, and I'm never standing right behind her...she's just too busy to be bothered with me hanging out right underneath her at every second...and she always makes sure that I know that!)

Julie got to the house and we decided that I better go get it x-rayed. Now OF COURSE the doctor's office won't do that...so I had to take her to the busiest ER EVER!

We got there at 12:30 and around 3:00 the first nurse finally called us back. He said that he was going to order an x-ray (gee...thanks!) and sent us back out to the NASTY waiting room! Quick question...why are there always such SCARY people hanging out in the waiting room of the ER? Where are all of the normal people? Don't they ever get hurt or sick? Or is it just my luck that I get to hang out with all of the crazies and scaries? AND...why do parents of the sick and always dirty and boogery children just let them run amuck all over the waiting room...touching everything and everybody? JUST WONDERING!!! (Can you tell that I spent WAY too much time there today?)

So, after about another half hour in the waiting room...Rylie and I were now waiting in the designated Law Enforcement area so that we didn't catch what ever all the sick people there today had...we finally got called back to x-ray. The guys back there were so cool! Rylie loved them!!! She told one of them that her hands were slippery when she was on the monkey bars because she was eating Cheetos! She is so funny! Anyway, they took a picture of her arm and in like a minute, the picture was up on this huge computer screen...and there it was...not one, but two breaks just above her wrist.

YES, I HAVE TWO BOYS, AND MY GIRL IS THE FIRST ONE TO BREAK HER ARM!!!

We had to wait in our little Law Enforcement area for another hour before we were finally called back to the pediatric emergency room...whoo hoo...finally a bed! It was in the corner...in a row of 3 beds, separated by the ever so private curtain! (Yes, the boy next to us had some type of contagious growth (only to the touch, that is) that was spreading all over his body...way more information than I ever wanted to not overhear!!!) The TV was in the center of the beds, so every time the docs came to check the boy next to us, they covered the TV...Rylie hated that! She'd throw up her good arm and say, "WHAT?"!!!

Finally, the docs decided that they were going to give Rylie an IV (that went well...the first time they tried, the vein wasn't any good and I almost passed out) you can imagine how much Rylie enjoyed that! Then they gave her some morphine (thank goodness...her arm was starting to really bother her by now) and then they were going to sedate her and set her arm. Aimee and Mackenzee showed up right before they sedated Rylie and kicked me out...great timing on their part! Aimee even showed up with dinner for me!

Rylie just coming out of the sedation...she was definitely flying high!!!

I think she was happy to have a friend to keep her company! Thanks Mackenzee! (And Aimee...I was glad to have a friend to keep me company too!!!)

Once Rylie's arm was set, and she woke up, we waited around to make sure that she could eat and drink and didn't get sick from the meds and we were finally out of there!

I was so proud of her! Julie said that she hardly cried when she hurt her arm...although at the hospital at one point, she leaned over to me and said, "you know mom, it really hurt when I landed on my arm!" Rylie was such a trooper! She never made a peep in the waiting room and she only really cried when she got the IV in (and one of the nurses was trying to hold her hand on her broken arm...HELLO!) mainly because that took a really long time and she hates needles! I must say however, that she cried the hardest when they took off the tape that held the IV stuff in place! That's my girl...dramatic over the little things!

It was a crazy day! 10 hours after we got to the ER, we were released! YES...I said 10 hours!!! (Which is the cause of this very sarchastic post!) Now Rylie will have her splint/wrap for the next week until we see the ortho doc and then it will either stay that way or he will cast her. She'll be one-armed for the next 6 weeks or so...and let me just say...that is going to be a LONG 6 weeks! She's already milking it for all it is worth! I guess that's ok though...she is after all, the baby...and she's one tough girl!!!

Playing it up for Daddy!!!

Thank you to Julie for taking care of my family tonight while I was stuck in the ER...she brought them dinner and had ice cream waiting for Rylie in the freezer...which she happily ate at 11:00 one armed and all!

I can't even begin to tell you how much she loved her dinosaur sling! She did ask for princess ones though...any idea where I can get some?

Mother's Day

Well...I should have done this huge post, actually on Mother's Day...telling my mom how much I love and appreciate her, quoting famous people talking about mothers, and all of that good, mushy stuff...but I didn't.

Usually, I spend Mother's Day doing what ever I want...which means letting Shane wait on me hand and foot and taking long wonderful naps...milking the day for all it is worth...because after all, I deserve it! But this year, I didn't.

I spent this Mother's Day, being a mom...and being reminded of how special a gift motherhood truly is...I loved every second of it!

You see...today, I was able to spend the day with my 3 wonderful children and with my dear friend Karolin's girls, who I love like my own. I was reminded every second of today what a gift motherhood is...in knowing the sacrifice and struggle my friend has faced over these past few days. I was reminded that being a mother means being willing to give your own life for the life of your child, as my dear friend almost did in bring her new son into this world. And I was reminded that anything you go through in bringing a new baby into this world is worth it, as I heard the news that my dear friend was able to see and hold her 3 day old son for the first time today...on Mother's Day. I was reminded what being a mother truly means, and of how much I truly love being a mother!

This year, it was great to get gifts...don't get me wrong...I LOVE PRESENTS and Shane and the kids were so thoughtful! (Parker picked me out a dress and a shirt and skirt, Rylie HAD to get me a new Wicked CD, because I lost mine, Mason had to get me a new seat for my bike so that I wouldn't have any more excuses not to go bike riding with the family, and Shane got me a chiminaria - no idea on the spelling of that one...just to name a few!) But the greatest gift I received were the 3 little hugs from my kids, the 3 "I love you, mom's" and the reminder that I would do anything for these little people...that's just how much I love them and how much I love being their mom!

So...thank you Mason, Parker, and Rylie for letting me be your mom and for all of the joy you bring into my life...and thank you Karolin, for reminding me what it truly means to be a mother!

The Trailer is Here!!!

Just so that I don't disappoint Aimee...and to follow in Mackenzie's footsteps...I must post this trailer...it is pretty AMAZING!!! (be sure to pause my music so that you can get the full effect!)

Twilight

TWILIGHT THE MOVIE!!! DECEMBER 12, 2008

(You still have time to read the books!!!)

THE GRIMMERIE!!!

So...if you have looked at Alli's Blog lately, you will see that YES, I WENT TO WICKED...AGAIN!!! (For those of you who are counting...that was time number FOUR!!!) Karolin says that I'm obsessed and need help...perhaps she is right...after all, she has only seen it THREE times. (After her third time, she said she went and got the help she needed and that she is now cured. I personally think it is the impending arrival of baby Jaden that has kept her away and that as soon as he is here, her addiction will begin again!) Any way...we had a great time. It was girls night out and I even got to see Alli's sister, Eliza...who by the way, I met 12 years ago! (Yes, it is a very small world!) I haven't seen her in almost that long, so it was really fun to hang out and catch up!

Well, a few days later, I came home to the most amazing surprise on my porch. MY VERY OWN COPY OF THE WICKED GRIMMERIE!!! Yes, I know that only someone as obsessed (yes, I used the word) with WICKED as I am would truly appreciate such a gift! It is AMAZING!!! This is what it looks like...and no, you can't touch it! (Inside joke from the show!) The Grimmerie shows how the musical came to be. It has the original Broadway cast and their thoughts on playing each character...just for starters. It even has an Ozian Glossararium (a glossary). My favorite word from the show being, "disgusticified...a state of being beyond grossed out, usually by green-skinned roommates."

Of course, it was a gift from Alli...she is so thoughtful and sweet...a girl after my own heart. (She's becoming obsessed with WICKED too...yes, I am taking full credit for that one!) I've only looked through it about 20 times in the last few days...there is so much to see! So...thank you Alli...you are the best!