Monday, May 23, 2022

Chaos continues

I need therapy, but I'm gonna try blogging first!

I can't believe it has been years since my last post.  I have been so busy. My children are so amazing that I really need somewhere that I can brag about them, and I just am not a fan of the FB or Instagram bragging. 

Ty is now 20 and on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  He is serving in the Yakima Washington mission.  He comes home on July 12, 2022. He has enjoyed the people he has met, but hates the snow and cold. It has been amazing to watch him grow and learn. He played high school and competitive soccer, we called him RoJo on the field.  He lost his senior year to Covid like so many others.


Tate is also doing amazing. He graduates this week and begins his mission on June 13, 2022. He will spend two weeks learning online from the Missionary Training Center at home. After two weeks he gets to go to Mexico and learn Spanish for a couple of weeks. Then he flies back to the US to start his mission in the Detroit Michigan Mission, Spanish speaking. Tate did an amazing job of stepping in and being the big brother since Ty has left. I really am just a little sick that both my boys are gonna be gone. 

Tayla is 17 and amazing. She is currently busy mapping out her future. She's looking for something in the field of genetics. This is the last week of 11th grade for her.  She has been taking online classes and also concurrent enrollment courses, so when she graduates next year she will have some college already finished.  I was hesitant to enroll her in school in 10th grade. The school we attend has some pretty rough and tumble students that go there, and I was really worried about her. She is very tender hearted and such a worrier that I just wanted to protect her. She prayed about it and told me she wanted to go to school, and she did. She has done amazing. Last week she learned a valuable lesson about procrastination when she spent three days in front of the laptop finishing assignments she didn't want to do! Somehow she pulled it off and got A's.


Tori is a whole different kind of crazy! She is the one on the ground catching the ball. She is finishing 9th grade this week. She was the varsity goal keeper this year for her high school soccer team. She was amazing. She plays backup keeper on her competitive team, but not often, so it was a new level of intense for her. Learning to play the keeper and not being able to chase other people was really hard for her. She made the basketball team, and quit after the first week, she hated it. She decided to be on the track team. She took 2nd place in state for high jump and her 4x200 relay team took 3rd. She also runs the 300m hurdles, which is awesome to watch.



Last of all is our Tessa. This girl is a little spitfire.
She has everyone wrapped around her finger. Her and Ty share 'ginger power'. Even Ty's friends would come and hang out with Tessa. She has always acted way older then she is, been way more responsible then her siblings and remembers everything. When Ty left (and all her friends) Tate jumped in and became her bestie. Now that he is leaving, well, it's been tough for her. Tori and Tessa and best of friends and worst of enemies and Tayla is always a backup when Tessa needs a friend. Her imagination is her best friend. She wants to be a teacher when she grows up and spends most of her day teaching her imaginary students everything. She is finishing 3rd grade this year, and it has been tough, She is really smart, it's not the work that is tough, but she really struggles with anxiety. 
I think her anxiety started when strangers entered our house while the kids were asleep and Jade was out of town. It was about 2 AM and I had been up reading. I had turned off my light and snuggled down when I heard walking in the hall and bumping into walls. I yelled thinking it was a child searching for a midnight snack. I knew right away that something wasn't right. I grabbed my phone ran down the hallway checked the kids and called the police. The police arrived in under two minutes, but they were long gone. We now have cameras up everywhere. Tessa slept through it, I woke up the boys to make sure it wasn't their friends being stupid, Tori heard them talking in the hall and Tayla heard the commotion. 
Tessa found out the next morning when she saw that I had called the police, that was in 2019. Right after that she was jumping off her bunkbed one morning. I was working nights cleaning the St.George Temple and was so tired all the time. As she jumped down she kicked a thin metal butterfly off the wall and it landed just right so that it sliced her foot open across the middle of her foot. It took nearly 30 stitches, it was in a terrible spot. She was on crutches for weeks. Then Ty left on his mission, and that was when things got a little worse. 
With Tate leaving there has been many tears, lots of missed school days and the need to know what is going on and where everyone is all the time. She had a melt down on Saturday and asked her dad for a blessing to help her. It had us all crying. She is so amazing and it is sad to see her so anxious.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Ramblings of Randi

So, I took a couple years away from my blog... no big deal!
My last post was about Ty turning 8, well he is now 12. Ty is a soccer boy to the core! He plays competitively with Fire FC and he loves it!
Tate is going to be 11 next week! He is definitely a book lover, bike rider and basketball man.
Tayla is 9. She loves to run. Weird huh? She is very Valley girlish and she doesn't not like to get dirty, but she does great playing volleyball!
Tori is 7. She is super tall and very proud of it! She is very smart and sneaky, I have to keep my eye on her!
Tessa is the latest and last addition! She is two. She is the glue and the gob of laughter that keeps us all together! She is the best surprise ever and to top it all off, she even has red hair like Ty.
I am going to try and update my blog, but it will be a little more about my reality, then the fake stuff I want to post about! It will be about my journey through reality with my family, and honesty is one of my only virtues!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Ty is almost 8

We will baptize Ty on February 27, 2010 at our stake center. After we will have a party for his birthday. If the weather is good we will have the party at our house so the kids can play at the park. If the weather is bad, we reserved our ward house so we can play in the gym.
Now, consider this an invitation to his baptism. All I request is an RSVP so I know how much food to cook!!

Sorry



What an angel!! Yes that is my own personal stash of makeup! I came downstairs and the girls were sitting like that.


Getting rid of her crib was a big mistake!



Christmas morning!


The race was on! Tayla, Callie, Kenadee and Tori with the dolls my mom made them.



My little girls, my little boys, and us all!



Okay, if I have any followers left, thank you. If not, oh wells. My news years resolution had nothing to do with keeping up with my blog, sorry. I will do some quick facts and hopefully some pictures.


1. Christmas was fun! The kids had a great time. We drove to Salt Lake Christmas morning and spent time with Jade's family.

2. Jade started school last month. There has not been a lot of work so he has been doing odd jobs here and there, and so far we have survived!

3. Tate has lost his first two teeth. Ty has lost his front four!

4. Tate loves school and is doing great!

5. Ty despises school and keeps all things challenging for us!

6. Tayla could dance and sing all day and night. She has the gracefullness that I never had, but unfortunately here singing isn't much better than mine!

7. Tori continues to keep us all on our toes. She is the laugh of the house and always does something crazy.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Quick Update

My dad took my mom to the hospital Thursday night because she was really sick. Long story short: She has Ischemic Bowel and colitis maybe they are the same thing, I am not sure. A part of the inside of her bowel started to die and it started sluffing off. Not sluffing as in what my dad did in school, but sluffing as in shedding. She has to stay in the hospital until she can eat solid foods, get her red blood cell count back up and keep her temperature down. Monday is the expected release date but until her red blood cells show that there is no more bleeding she stays. It is extremely painful and she hasn't had fun, but it could've been a lot worse so we are grateful for the small miracles!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Disneyland

On November 4 my whole family went to Disneyland. It consisted of 2 parents, 2 brothers, 3 sisters, 1 aunt, my husband, my 4 kids, 5 nieces, 3 nephews, 2 cousins and me. It was a lot of fun! We went to the beach on Thursday, Disneyland and California Adventure on Friday and Saturday, Legoland on Sunday and home on Monday.

Things came together so quickly, it seemed like a last minute trip. Rhondelle decided to come like 2 days before we left and we had a great time. My boys rode all the rides. Tate was a daredevil and went on Tower of Terror and California Screamer twice. Tayla went to Splash Mountain and screamed the whole time. She was hysterical by the time it was over. After that her and I rode the girly rides over and over. Ty was just happy to be there and wanted to try everything once, Splash Mountain he rode again and again and again..... Tori just loved being with everybody and riding in the stroller.

The weather was beautiful, we hardly needed jackets during the day. When we left California we were all still nice to each other, so that was a definite success! Thanks Ron and Brit for coming up with the idea! I might post pictures and I might not! You will just have to wait and see!! If there are letters missing in my post, I am using an awesome computer that sometimes doesnt type right!!

Sunday, October 11, 2009

OH MY BLOG!!


We spent a lot of time in Salt Lake "helping" Jade. Tate wanted all his cousins to see him on the internet working. Ty loved being in the tractor. You can tell who rules, the one on the bed!


Ty, Tayla, Tate and Tori playing in the rain. Jade caught a snake for the kids.


Tayla thought it was gross. We went to the zoo with Nana Conrad.



We had lunch at Harmon's grocery store! It was fun until all 4 spilled something.


The boys played baseball, the girls watched. Ty is serious about sports but Tate was making friends with the opposing team, twirling around and practicing gymnastics.

The boys tried to teach Tayla about sports, she's not interested. Tori hates dresses. I took a picture because she ripped it off and now she starts yelling when she sees anything fluffy.
This was a random trip we took. We started in Kolob and ended spending the night in Kanab, Utah, yeehaw!! Obviously Tori loves chapstick!


We have been busy, things have been crazy, and it is time to get back to blogging!