Quiet

The last few years my mom has taken the 3 older kids up to spend a week with her in Utah.This year she took 4 and also our dog. Mattea is left at home. We have so much QUIET!!! Mattea can be ..well, Mattea, but it has been very peaceful here. I don't think that we could handle this for very long...a few months maybe... Just kidding. I am glad that the kids can go and visit and we can have this time with Mattea. We sure love them all and now I have lots of time to ponder that love...ahh...

Happy Birthday Isabella!

Two a.m. on Monday July 28th 1997, water breaks and by 5 we are on the way to the hospital. We get a flat tire, the power at the hospital goes out and grandma shows up! At 5:12p. Isabella Arsenia comes into this world! She wasn't breathing and was very purple, but then she came around and boy has she made up for not crying right at birth. We love her so much and she makes us very proud. We are glad she chose our home to come to and are grateful for her . She is now 12 and will begin a new chapter of her life, but I still look at her and remember that sweet baby that was in my arms.

Sick

The last month Louie has been having what we thought was a sinus infection.Yesterday he went to work and became really dizzy ( he has been feeling dizziness on and off also for the last month)and so we went to the doctor and they gave him stronger antibiotics that hopefully are going to take care of the now ear infection. We are hoping that it will start working soon! Poor guy has been feeling bad for a month now and will feel somewhat good and then get dizzy and also have a semi-constant loud screaming sound in his left ear. There might be some other diagnosis if the antibiotics don't work but we are praying that they will and he can get over this soon. He is now officially old. After the doctor yesterday we went and got him a pill box. It has the 7 days of the week/ morning and night pills slots. He has his antibiotics, another pill for blood pressure and another pill to take. Then if he keeps getting dizzy, he can take a anti dizzy pill...but then it can make him sleepy. Oh the joys of life!

Harry Potter Movie

Great way to be a critic right here on a blog. We went and saw the movie today....and well...I guess it was good? It was great to see it, but for all those that are fans of the books...it was disappointing. They added things that were not ever in the books....some things are not explained. I feel bad. She writes these wonderful books. We read these wonderful books and are so excited when they are made into movies.We expect to see what we have read about over and over on the movie screen..just as we have read it EVERY part that we have read about. We want what we have read. That is the problem. We should just stay there in the book and use our imaginations. The best part of the day was the family time. Cecilia took her new wand and wore her robe. Tonight we got a cake from the bakery with a Harry Potter picture on it. So, if you are a fan of the books- be ready for some changes. I f you just watch the movies...enjoy-but, pick up the book!

Magic Time

Every year there is a summer reading program for the libraries in Clark County and this great magician named Tony Daniels comes and puts on a great magic show. This year 3 out 5 kids of our kids were chosen to help with the show. Frankie helped him perform the hanger linked together trick. Mattea was able to throw "candy" into the air and make real candy appear in a bag and Cecilia got to levitate. It was such a blast and the all the kids love going every year. He is really great and is so great with the many heckling kids that can"t just go along for the ride of magic. Check out his website
themagicoftonydaniels.com. We loved to see our kids up there and believe me they are not shy. All three of them got lots of laughs from the audience. We can't wait for next year.

Hoopla

(So yes I am going to blog about this.)I believe that my first cassette ever that was just mine was Thriller. I loved that tape and would listen to it over and over again. When my cousins' and I would play house, we always fought over who was married to Michael Jackson. Some one on the Today show said that we should remember the good things about him and how everyone just keeps bringing up his mistakes.Well, the one thing that I like to remember him for is his music.If nothing else he was definitely talented in that way.I always thought it was so great when my cousin David would do the Moonwalk and he and my other cousins would break dance. They are only 6 or 7 years older then me but it was so great for me to have that in common. We all loved Michael Jackson. So whatever else he did or did not do, that's the memory I have of him.