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I guess it starts the day before Christmas break during the Christmas program this boy in Novalee's class grabbed her from behind and choked her pulling her back. Jason ran down from where he was watching ( I was home with the other 2 who had been sick) and got her. He brought her home and was just so mad. She had red marks on her neck and was still coughing like 10 minutes later. We went back to school last week and this boy wasn't there. Tuesday he came back and I started to get nervous because he had hurt Novalee and there was a substitute and I wasn't sure she knew to watch him. I emailed the principle and asked him if he did anything about the situation and even knew about it. he emailed me back saying that he knew about it and had talked to the boy. He tried to talk to his parents but they had someone else pick him up that day. He also said that the boy was getting help for his anger problems and was talking to a behavior specialist. He also said he would talk to the mom and see that they knew about it and they would talk to him. So this mom comes up to me before school on Wednesday waits for me to come into the classroom and says "What are you doing to him?" I didn't know what she meant so I just sat there probably looking dumb she starts yelling at me saying that I just want her son to be in trouble and I had no right to talk to the principle instead of her. I just kept saying "well he choked my daughter. Thats pretty serious. " She was saying this while all the kindergarten class was watching. Then she started saying that Novalee was bothering him in the first place I knew that wasn't true because I have to whole thing on video since Jason was filming it. I told her that and I kept telling her I didn't want to argue in front of the kids and that we need to act like adults ( I meant her) She went on for like 5 minutes how I was making her son be in trouble for something and making it into a bigger deal. I just told her I didn't want to talk about it and I didn't want to cause a scene in the class. So she walks out saying "oh yeah real adult you don't want to talk about it" This afternoon when I go to get Novalee from school I was sitting in my car waiting and she comes up to the window and starts talking about how she didn't think that her son should be punished because it was 2 weeks later and that he didn't do it to be mean and that it didn't hurt Novalee that bad anyways. I was so mad by then I told her to stop talking because she was really irritating me and that it did hurt Novalee and that she had red marks awhile later. She was like well if she had red marks you as a parents should have brought her back and shown the principle. Trying to put the blame on me. I just told her I didn't want to talk about it anymore and the principle can deal with it. She then said well can my son give Novalee this and say sorry? I told her yeah so she made her son (who was crying since he did want to) give Novalee cupcakes. Then she kept trying to talk to me but I just walked off. I am not going to deal with her especially since she acts like its our fault her son is in trouble for choking Novalee. I did throw away the cupcakes by the way

Well my house has been so clean the last few days. I don't know what to do with myself. Jason actually took the kids for a few hours on Monday night so I could have me time. I ended up doing the deep cleaning. I got all the laundry done. I even got to eat a meal by myself! No one wanted my food even though its the same as theirs and no one dropped their silverware 20 times just so they could have more then one fork. I turned the tv on when I was done and I was going to watch "How the Grinch stole Christmas" but I felt guilty watching it without my kids so I turned it off and we later borrowed it from Jason's mom.
Everything has stayed really good with constant picking up but I had time to go to the library without being in a hurry to come home and clean. Harley got to color there and had so much fun. I even took a nap! Oh my goodness. Wow. The girls got to color Christmas pictures last night and are getting so excited for Christmas. Its so fun. We just need to work on a time that I can paint their nails without the baby getting to things. He doesn't like someone else being the center of my attention. I hope everyone is great!

Today I got so much done except for what I set out to do. I went to the library and just got stuck in the young adult section isn't that sad? I actually checked out some Nancy Drew books. I used to love those. I also recently read all of the Ramona books. I did not get Baby-sitters club books just for those people who know what I am talking about. I am too embarrassed. As soon as Novalee got home I decided that I wouldn't wait until next week to get Gunnar's immunizations done like I had planned. I took all 3 kids and got them all flu shots and got Gunnar's other shots done. I did get some of the housework done too. I didn't get the laundry folded. That is the thing I didn't do. I felt so bad but it is so nice to have that done with. Just a great day to get that done. Bonus news too. Jason is done for school this semester. YES! Then next semester he will only go part time since he is going to be working his junior jazz job. I hope everyone is great and reading this wonderful thing.

Guess which one is not my baby?

I had the best Thanksgiving. We just had our own little family by ourselves and it was so wonderful.. Stress-free and the kids had so much fun. We had so much food and it was just great. I am so doing that again next year. We did go shopping on Friday. We waited in line at Target and some people totally cut in front of us in line and pushed and everything. I saw an old lady even cut in front! When we actually got in the store someone stepped on Harley trying to get to something before Jason. Too bad he wasn't even trying to grab anything. He ended up yelling at her in the middle of the crowd. She stepped on his daughter what do you think. We only went to get a certain Barbie that was half off and apparently no one else was trying to get it. They were crazy. We grabbed our Barbies and then spent 5 minutes trying to get out of the toy department so we could go get diapers.

I feel so bad for my kids. Gunnar has has a stomach bug since Saturday night. We thought it was just because he ate popcorn on the floor but then it didn't go away yet. Its gotten better but still kinda has some tummy problems. Harley is sick now too. She was so excited since I let her go with Jason to work last night. She ended up getting sick at his work. I felt so bad for her. Then when she was laying in my room last night she got up went to the toilet and then came in and told me she threw up. Poor girl. Then while we are in the midst of cleaning up the "problem" Novalee wakes up in the middle of the night with a wet bed. I think it might have something to do with sneaking some of my Dr. Pepper that I had by my bed. I feel so guilty because Novalee didn't do her Friday homework and then last night only did part but I have so much going on making sure the kids that are sick are taken care of, washing the loads and loads of laundry this is causing. Plus all this sickness is making me feel kinda sick too. I don't want to be sick. This is going to be the first Thanksgiving that I make our own meal with just us. I am excited no fighting about whos house to go and where we are going to make it at our house. We are making it and I am so happy. If only I had someone to come do laundry and clean my house. Ok I am going to wiggle my nose and nod and its going to get done.................I guess not.

These last few days have been so busy. On Thursday the kids all had a dentist appointments. I was kind of nervous because we had a new dentist since our old one really wasn't the nicest guy. This office was so nice. They gave the kids all these things for their teeth. They did thorough cleaning on all of the kids even Gunnar who only has a few teeth. Our old one didn't want to do that. Novalee has one cavity that needs to be filled. She also needs to have a tooth pulled since her permanent tooth is already poking out of the gums but here baby tooth hasn't fallen out yet. Harley didn't have any cavities so they gave her some stuff that said she was cavity free and she was so happy. I would have thought she would have one since she doesn't like me to help her brush. We get home and I try to do what I can to clean the house. The girls decide to put the recliner up (which they have many times) to relax and watch a movie. Gunnar decides to crawl underneath it. He climbs around the metal bars and gets himself stuck. I try for like 5 minutes to get him out. He was screaming and I was starting to cry of course. I called 911 since I had no idea what to do. As they are sending the ambulance out he stops crying and crawls out himself! I felt so dumb. They told me they could still send someone out to check out his scratches but my house was so messy I knew they shouldn't come out just to check out scratches especially since Gunnar was playing with his dinosaur just fine. It reminded me of a time that Novalee started screaming for no reason saying she couldn't stand up. Jason rushes her into the ER and when we get there she makes a big show about sitting in a wheelchair. The doctor asks her to stand up, she does. She starts smiling. Jason was mad for like a second and then takes her to buy ice cream.
Back to Thursday night someone gave us tickets to go see Savior of the World in SLC. We quickly found a babysitter and we went. It was really good. It was interesting to see the life of Christ's parents and the struggles with her being pregnant before they were married. It really made me think about the struggles Mary must have had as a mother. I mean I feel enough stress worrying about how I am raising my kids but to be the mother to the Savior must have been hard but I know it was a great blessing too. It turns out that the girl we went with was in the cast last year so we had to go meet some of the people that were in it. She was telling everyone how Jason just got baptized so they were talking to us. The only thing was that the play took longer then I thought and so it didn't get over until almost 10 and then with meeting people it took another 20 or so minutes. We didn't get back to Provo until 11 . I was so worried I figured we would be back by like 9 I don't know why I thought that because it started at 7:30. I realized halfway through that Gunnar doesn't usually go to sleep unless I nurse him. I was stressing during the second half of the play because of that. We get back and they said that Gunnar went to sleep with a bottle and he was really good. I was so relieved. Until I saw how sad Harley was. She was crying because she didn't want to have a sleepover with her friends. I felt bad but it was ok. The people who watched the kids are incredibly nice and we totally trust them. In fact the husband was the one who confirmed Jason and he gave Jason the Aaronic Priesthood on Sunday. We also we saw a deer just down the road from our house on our way home which was really weird. I have seen some scary movies and so I thought it was a big monster wolf at first. I am a dork I know.
The next day we woke up totally drained. We had to do Novalee's homework since we didn't have time the day before. Her show and tell was the letter k or L. She wanted to bring her lunchbox from Disneyland. She wanted to bring a treat to stick in it. So we had to run to the gas station on our way to school try to find something k or l we just got smarty suckers and she was like 10 minutes late. I had to run home get Jason take him to work. Run to his moms work go to the library since they had something on hold for us. Go pick up Novalee. Then go visiting teacher. I had to do all of this by 12 and in clothes that I just threw on. Harley and Gunnar were in their pjs. After that I came home and got the house clean, children dressed, and myself dressed by like 6. Without Gunnar having a pm nap. Jason went to Wendover for the night with some people from work for like 15 dollars that paid for his food and ride out there. The kids and I had Chinese food. They never like it usually but they ate a whole combo meal by themselves. Novalee who didn't have a nap got mad at me and broke her new pink glasses. I was so mad. She stayed in her room for like 10 minutes and fell asleep. Jason didn't get home until like 5 this morning he can only sleep a little longer since we have to go to Payson to go pick up 2 free turkeys and go to Walmart to go get groceries and be up in Salt Lake by like 1:45. My dad is taking us to see Happy Feet. I hope its good. I wanted to go see Santa Clause 3 but since he's paying I don't get a choice. Sorry to bore all 2 of you with the details. Its just been crazy. Have a good weekend.

I wokeup today at 5 to get the house done before the kids woke up but now the baby is up so there goes my plan.

Well, today is going to be a great day. I am getting rid of a huge pile of baby clothes in my hallway. Since we are not going to have anymore kids for a while we are getting rid of our baby clothes. Also that means when I do get pregnant I get to shop. Something I totally love. Plus. My house is clean except for the girls room and my room but both of those are being cleaned by Jason and the kids since they messed them up. (More reorganizing for Jason) The most important though is that Jason is getting the priesthood today. I am way excited. THere is however family drama going on right now though. We will see how it goes.

I can't believe it. Right now my kids are watching Pee Wee's playhouse. Oh my goodness. So lame. I can just blame my darling husband. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Well today was so fun for my kids. They totally loved the movie. It was great. I hope everyone (the few) who read this check out Liken the Scripture movies. They are so good and the kids love them. They are making the Bible ones without an LDS theme so they can market them to other Christian groups but the movies are awesome. My kids were so excited that they met the girl who is in a few of them and she told them they were cute. It was awesome.

Last night Jason and I went and met the author of the Levan Thumps books. I don't know if you have ever heard of them but, we did start reading them last night and they seem pretty good. He came to Jason's work yesterday for an assembly and gave them some things for display case's and then told them to come to another signing last night for more so Jason bought both books had him sign those and then the author gave us other signed things for us to keep at home too. Pretty neat.
Tonight we are going to a screening of a Liken the Scripture movie. They filmed parts of the movie at the school where Jason works and so they are going to have a showing today there. Its good for us in more then one way. Jason was in charge of getting the rental deal with them at the school. He did have to miss most of the filming because we were in AZ and I felt bad because he worked hard to get them to use the school and then he had to miss 3 days of shooting. Luckily he was there to see some and meet some of the actors (I guess one is a basketball player) and so he was happy about that but he will be paid to help them tonight. The movie will be Samuel the Lamanite. I am looking forward to it because the girls love those movies. I only hope Gunnar will be interested enough to sit so I can watch it. I love the story and I am looking forward to seeing it. I loved the Christmas one they have. When they were shooting at the school they gave Jason all of the movies that were out at the time and so we got six then they have come out with one more I think Daniel in the Lions den and then this one. Its great. Plus I have a coupon that I need to go buy a Christmas Eve scent Salt City Candle at Deseret Book. So much fun things. I love the Christmas scents too bad they are not out all the time. Well sorry this is stupid but this weekend is going to be fun!

Don't get me wrong I love seeing my kids have fun but I am sooo sooo glad Halloween is over!

Yeah he's reading it............. He loves this book

Novalee dancing (we were having a fun day) Don't you like all the layers

This is Jason right before he was baptized.

Harley dancing

my boys playing pirates with the cake. the pictures worked!!