Katie's surgery

I am feeling a little anxious and nervous as Katie is scheduled for surgery tomorrow. She has urinary reflux that is going to be repaired tomorrow. She is having surgery at Primary Children's and will be in surgery for 4.5 hours. It makes me nervous to think of her being cut open and I won't be there with her. The thought of leaving her with total strangers and trusting them to make her feel safe makes me sad. I'm sure we will get through all of this and she will be fine but I will feel so much better when it is all over and I will be able to hold her.

Kierra playing Volleyball

We have finally found something that Kierra loves. We have always felt bad that the boys are so involved in sports and haven't been able to find something that she has an interest in. Well, she loves volleyball. She signed up with Kamry, Kayla and 3 of her friends. They have had a great time together. They have an AWESOME coach and have really improved throughout the season. I just wish they could keep the same coach. The problem is that his son, who was on the team, is a year younger than them and next year they will move up to the next age division. I just hope they will continue to play together because they really have a great time together!

The 3 K's. Kayla, Kierra and Kamry. The coach had a horrible time dealing with their names. He wanted them to use their middle names but that didn't work either since 2 of them have the same middle name. He finally got use to their names and we have one game left.

Jake in Harmony

This was Jake's first year in Harmony and he was our only child who decided to do it this year. Sometimes it was a bit of a challenge getting him to school an hour early for practice but it was worth it! the theme this year was "Let's sing America". I love patriotic songs! Jake did a great job. He did especially well signing The Star Spangled Banner. They had a special performance on Veterans Day. It was touching to see the kids sing in honor or all of our veterans. I was happy to hear that he wants to keep doing Harmony because I love to watch my kids perform.

Yardwork at Grandma & Granddad's

Recently I decided that I was going to go to my mom's house once a week to help her with whatever she needed done around the house or yard. This week she needed her raspberry bushes trimmed down. Dale thought it might be a good service oppurtunity for our kids, so we took them along to help out. It only took 10 or 15 minutes to cut back the raspberry bushes so we decided to rake their leaves.

The kids needed a little bit of encouragement to get working. Just like when I was a kid, my mom tried to do what she could to make it fun for them. She kept bringing different yard gadgets out that the kids thought were cool so they were more excited about working.

Jake and Kyson loved picking up leaves with the big claw like grabbers and Jadon loved playing with the blower they have.

They ended up being pretty good about working and we filled up 7 big black garbage bags with leaves. The sad thing about it is that next week the grass will be covered with leaves again!

First Piano recital

Tonight was Jadon, Kierra and Jaxon's first piano recital. It was also their teacher's first recital. She has been teaching Jadon for 4 years and has never had a recital. This year I decided to ask her why she doesn't do recitals. She says she has several students who refust to play in front of people. I told her that's exactly why they need to do it. I guess I guilted her into because she decided to have a recital. Jadon, Kierra and Jaxon all did a great job and it was fun to watch them play on the beautiful grand piano. After it was over, I asked their teacher if she was glad she had the recital and she said she was. Maybe that means we'll get to do this again next year.

Happy Halloween

So another Halloween has come and gone. We got to do something this year that we have never done before. Go to the school Halloween parade. Since we changed tracks this year, the kids got to go to school for Halloween. It was fun to see all the kids dressed up and the parade was fun too. On Friday Dale and I went to our annual neighborhood Halloween party. If you can't tell by the picture above, we went as "The Wilsons". Dale came up with the idea. I thought it was pretty clever!

Katie as a little ladybug. She had a blast trick or treating. Too bad the weather was so bad. I made her go home when her hands were freezing. She was mad and didn't want to go home. She wanted to get more candy.

Kierra as a UTE cheerleader. Several houses gave her extra candy because of the Utah costume. What's funny about her costume is that she is actually a BYU fan.

Kyson as Batman

Jake as Captain America

There isn't a picture of Jaxon on this post because I blogged about him in the last post. Jadon was at his friends and then went to a haunted house so no picture of him either. So, after everyone was done trick or treating, they did the usual. Trading candy. They spent over an hour going over everything they got and then trading it. It was fun watching them because it brought back memories of doing that as a kid.

One of my favorite costumes!

Here is Jaxon yesterday, dressed like he always is, in a sports jersey. Doing what he loves to do, playing basketball (or any sport). The kid is 100% into sports and that's how we know Jaxon.

Here is Jaxon today. Once we couldn't find football pads for a Halloween costume, he decided he would be a nerd. What a great costume! All we had to buy was the glasses, bowtie and pocket protector. Dale helped him get ready for school today and when he came out of the bathroom, I busted up. I couldn't believe what a great nerd he made. When I went to help in his classroom for the Halloween party, I lauged every time I looked at him. One of my favorite costumes so far!