Friday, June 26, 2009

Update

I am still in Idaho with my family. My boys came last Friday. It had been 10 days and I was in much need of having them here with me. I am truly grateful to my Mother-in-law for her love and support and all that she did for my little family. James and I were in the middle of packing when we received the call to come to Idaho and Becky (my mother-in-law) not only took excellent care of my boys but completely finished packing us AND cleaned the house! My family now calls her Super Becky! James had to leave last week and I am truly grateful for my family and friends who have done everything that I have needed in helping me here with my boys! Megan and Emily we LOVE you! I am truly blessed to have my Sister-in-law, Wendy here and my Cousin, Stacey that have offered so much help! THANK YOU! And as ALWAYS Carson and Lacey I can never thank you enough for your love, support, and friendship... You know that you are more than friends, you are our family. We LOVE you!


Emily is home at my parents and Travis remains in critical condition in the ICU. I really don't feel like it is my story to tell. But, my SWEET Sister-in-law Rebecca (Travis' wife) has started a blog to update family and friends of his condition. The blog address is http://www.walltravis.blogspot.com/ if you go to the first post it tells the amazing story of June 10, 2009 that has completely changed my families life forever.


So, I will remain here in Idaho to be with my family until the need to have me here is no longer. For this I am truly grateful for my husband, James - for doing everything so that I don't have to do anything but be here. Thank You! AND to my AMAZING Brother, Jason and Sister-in-law, Amy - I can't put into words how grateful I am for you and your amazing hospitality... You are truly who I need to be with at this time and I love you and appreciate our late night talks!


My family has truly been rocked to the core over the last two weeks. We are so grateful to still have Travis here with us and continue to pray harder then I ever knew possible for him each day. Thank you again for the emails, voice mails and texts - I truly appreciate everyone of them!

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Thank You

Thank you all for all of your thoughts and prayers for my family. My Brother Travis and his daughter Emily were in a terrible motorcycle accident last Wednesday. They had been on a date to Reeds Dairy to get ice cream and were on there way to the Army Surplus store when a truck turned right in front of them. They both were wearing helmets, but both sustained major injuries. Travis currently is still in critical condition and Emily has been moved from ICU up to pediatrics.


I have received all of the voicemails and emails on my phone and have been truly touched by the love and support. I am not able to return them at this time and this was the easiest and fastest way that I could tell you that I am receiving them and grateful. Thank You. I am here with my family in Idaho Falls and my SWEET mother-in-law has my boys in Utah. Thank You again for your thoughts.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009


So, Megan (my cousin) is at girls camp this week and we have had the pleasure of getting to have the girls here. Matayia made the mistake of telling Carter she would read to him... I finally had to distract him so that she could go and play!


Well, we have been pretty crazy the last couple weeks... James has taken a new job and we are moving to Saint George, Utah in three weeks!!! We have taken multiple trips there and back looking for homes and we finally found on that we LOVE! The home was built in 2001 but, the man who is selling it is a carpenter and he bought it in 2008 and did a total renovation on the whole house! So, everything is brand new and he did a beautiful job! The home is a little bit of a smaller home - But, I have to admit that after living in this big of a home I am actually really excited to down size! I really don't enjoy cleaning 4 full bathrooms every week! The house comes with more than an acre of property with three beautiful apricot trees, a cherry tree, and to top it all off a pomegranate bush! I LOVE pomegranates and the bush is already full of little berry size pomegranates... Now, I just have to protect it from the boys! So, life is a little crazy with getting packed, moving, and trying to enjoy our summer as much as possible in the process! This is something that we weren't expecting... But, the more we get used to the idea of it the adventure sounds a little fun!

Catching Up!

I LOVE this little man! He has truly stepped up and is such a little helper for what ever I need. Cannon eats every night at 5:00 p.m..... I am always in the middle of getting dinner ready and McKay has taken it upon himself to make it his job to feed Cannon this bottle. I love to watch him as he feeds him - he just sits and stares at Cannon and studies all of his little features and as you can see - Cannon just stares back with equal admiration!
We are lucky enough to have a fabulous relationship with James' Grandma Turley. My Boys truly cherish her and love every moment they get to spend with her. We went with her on Memorial Day to Grandpa Turleys grave and out to lunch.


I made carmel corn to take and give to the teachers at McKays school on the last day... I had it in bags on the bar and went downstairs to get my roll of cellophane to wrap them up... When I came upstairs one of the bags was missing and so was my middle child! The temptation proved to be more than he could handle and he was hiding under the table eating it as fast as he could! I was glad that I had made an extra bag and just left him alone!

Just Catching Up

First Haircut! His father had brainwashed him against a haircut... So, we had to wait one day until he left! Carter just kept telling me "just a yittle (little) bit Mom"!
Cannon at 4 months!



He keeps my life interesting!!!




Fun In The Sun


No, The Umbrella did not survive.... Boys... Water... Umbrella... It got mangled!