Blast from the Past

So when we were at Ryan and Amber's house in Lovell for Maddie's baptism, mom brought a huge thing of all these old pictuers. I took all these to scan and walla, here they are. Its a blast from the past for some of us! Makes me miss the old times with all my cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents....Miss being a kid again! Good times!

This first beautiful baby is ME! I am 6 weeks old. Then Betsy and Seth...and of course Nano and Papo.

Daylene, Erin and Natalie. We were at a Clawson family reunion. Momo and Papa. Natalie, Erin, Papa, Daye, Alan, Momo, Tyler, Julia, Bryce

Kileigh at a clogging competition, look at those LONG legs! Erin and Lexi and OT at the Manti temple.

Oh what a day!

Well what a day! And its only 9:37 AM! What the heck! So Savanna wakes up with a weird rash all over her body. She had it the other day and I took her to the doctor...Along with the rest of the kids. We have all been fighting a bad cold and cough. Well doc says its just a rash. It went away. But today was terrible. She ends up having fifths disease. No big deal. But Savanna is going through a few things right now. Everything is so DRAMATIC! SHE HAS A RASH..Which translates to Savanna, she is on her death bed! So anyways, she gets to celebrate her summer birthday with her class today. She she asked me to make pink cupcakes with pink frosting. Which I did. Last night after everyone went to bed. I was up until midnight because we live in such a great place and the stinking oven kept tripping off. Anyways, she was so excited. They turned out pretty darn cute. And Yummy! Because of course I had to sample one last night. It was midnight, I had the munchies. HAHA....Well we go to get in the car this morning to go to school and Savanna has both pans in her hands and TRIPS OVER THIN AIR~...It was in slow motion. The rubber made tote falls and splat. She looks at me and starts screaming NO NO NO! And throws the GLASS dish INTO THE AIR. Once she realizes that she did that she screams even louder and starts flailing her arms in the air. And my glass dish shatters to the ground. All cupcakes are ruined. Savanna's little heart is broken. But she feels worse for me cause she knows I stayed up late making them. So she falls to the ground crying how sorry she was. All I could do was hug her and tell her it was ok. (Because if anyone understands such grace...or the lack of grace...it is her momma!~) So the only store open in Big Piney at 800am is a gas station type store. Two boxes of cake mix and 2 tubs of frosting cost me $16.00! Sheesh! But I love my girl and so I am in the process of making MORE PINK CUPCAKES right now. So while I am making the cupcake mix up Memphis decides he can reach the table top. And he is standing up to it on his little tiny tippy toes and walking along it and grabs a pan of eggs from breakfast. He pulls it off the table. And sits in it. Eats a few bites, takes the bacon out of the pan and gives it all to Krypto (our superdog :). Pictures will follow because it was cute. So needless to say, I have a huge mess to clean up inside and still need to find a broom clean up the glass outside. But that will have to wait until Memphis is napping. We have been loving Big Piney. Savanna had a super hard time with the move. She has met with a counselor a few times and is doing WONDERFULLY now! Other than a few anxiety attacks here and there. She has been able to make it through a few weeks of school now with NO TEARS! YAY! I feel terrible as a mother that her pain is caused because we moved. But I know after prayers, Heavenly Father confirmed to us that this is were we need to be. It was a difficult move because we all had such great friends in Rozet/Moorcroft/Gillette areas. But when its right its right. And our house we live in now is a total mess. It has so many problems. The electrical is dangerous. The water machine actually got electrocuted. Thank goodness I could see the blue spark literally wrapping itself around the cord and jumped back. And thank heaven the kids were not by it. But it took the water bottle off the top! Brandon, MR. Fix it, is in the process of re-wiring ALL the electrical outlets. We found a home we can move into in August. We are praying that it works out. We went and looked at it last night. It is BEAUTIFUL!~ It is a 3000 sq ft home. There are 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, family room and a living room, and a sitting room as you first walk in the house. It sits on 2 acres. And its would be amazing to live in! So we are praying that it will work out. I can live in this 'great' house we are stuck in now until August if I know there is an end to it! :) And as Savanna tells me, 'mom you should be thankful you even have a house to live in right now. As bad as you hate it, you should be thankful you are not in the streets." She is a wise child. I am thankful we are together here. I couldn't be a single parent in Rozet while Brandon worked up here. It would have been so hard on me and the kids. Especially after his accident. So I am thankful for this house, even though I could complain about it all day and night! :)

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY MEMPHIS TREYNE!

One year ago today my sweet Memphis Treyne Mitchell was born!

I can't believe my baby is 1 year old today! He is growing way too fast! He doesn't feel too good tonight so he didn't want anything to do with his cake or ice cream. But happy birthday my sweet boy! I love you!!!

Easter in Big Piney Wyoming!

Well we have moved from Rozet to Big Piney. We LOVE the town. I love that it is a small town and if I need to run to a store I can run in less than 3 minutes....(even if its a VERY SMALL STORE WITH LIMITED ITEMS) I love it here. I can see our family staying here permanently. Weylon has Mr. Miller as his Kindergarten teacher. And he LOVES that he has a "MAN TEACHER". He has to have patience of no other to be able to have a kindergarten class. He has 7 boys and 3 girls in his class. He loves going and comes home happy. I loved Mrs. Gutsche in Rozet, but this has been a positive change for him. Savanna has Mrs. Wood. She seems to like it. She stresses more than others though. Get this one...ok on the last day of school in Rozet, around 2ish, I get a phone call from the school counselor that Savanna is in her office quite upset. I asked if she was upset because we were moving that day. NO NO that is not the reason she was bawling up a storm. Out on lunch recess some very wrongly informed child told Savanna about global warming and how the earth was going to melt and we were all going to die. Savanna took it to heart and thought we were all going to melt and die. And boy howdy I will tell you she was in an uproar. Brandon finally had to go to the school and calm her down. I busted a gut laughing before they gave her the phone and I was still laughing a little. Only MY CHILD would have a melt down about global warming. Dumb old Al Gore anyways. HAHA

We sure do miss all of our friends from Rozet and the Moorcroft branch. We made so many that will last forever and we were so blessed to know so many good people. We had several show up to load the u-haul and help clean the house good for the Andersons and when we got to Big Piney over 15 people showed up to help unload. It was wonderful! I just finished unpacking a few more boxes today, but am in a defiant state right now because this house we are in is so crappy and I dont want to unpack here. But apparently Brandon and I are pretty picky in the housing department because this rental we are in now is a gem compared to the crappy ones we have seen so far. And this one is A DUMP! It puts a whole new level to the word trailer trash! HAHA But as Savanna keeps telling me, "mom be glad you have a home and don't live in the streets." So I will keep this attitude and try to suck it up and unpack and make this as much of a home as I can while we search for something better. Please pray for us that we can find something better too! So I won't post pictures of the house but I do have a few from coloring Easter eggs. I will post those. I am terrible this year, I didn't even get a picture Sunday morning of the kids in the new Easter dresses and ties. Or of when the Easter Baskets were brought on saturday evening. So here are the eggs and enjoy!

Found some fun pictures!

Sweet little Memphis has had a run of ear infections, RSV, and more ear infections...And then he broke out in this nasty skin rash and after about a week it decided to spread from just his chin to his whole face, ears, arms and legs. So I took him to the doc a couple days ago and he has a bacterial skin infection...WHERE DO YOU EVEN GET THAT? So he is on a nasty skin cream for that and to top it off he is on #10 ear infection. Poor little bugger will only be 11 months old in a couple days. So I tried to get him in to get tubes put in before we move next week, but NO ONE has any openings. NOT EVEN IN SOUTH DAKOTA! DANG IT! So here are some cute pics of him, even through the skin and ear infection he still smiles!

SLUMBER PARTY!

Savanna had her moving away slumber party! She invited 9 girls from her 3rd grade class and 2 girls from our branch. ALL OF THEM CAME BUT 1 GIRL! And we had a blast! It as a beautiful day on friday so after they all did manicures and pedicures and makeovers, we drove to the Rozet elementary and they played at the playground for 2 hours. On the drive to the school (which is only about 2 miles) we put on the song by Taylor Swift "Mean". I was just a laughing at the singing that was going on. I think every single girl knew all the words. And of course OakLeigh was right in the middle of them all singing the loudest. It was really cute. Brandon and Weylon drove the truck. They didn't want to ride with so many girls. After that we had pizza and soda. Who would have thought that 11 girls could wolf down 4 large pizzas so quickly! I should have taken a picture of how much junk food they actually had through out the night. To name a few; runts, tootsie rolls, hot tamales, 4 bags of sour gummy worms, kitkats, peanut butter cups, candy corn, chocolate covered marshmallows, peeps...and then of course we had to have ice cream sundaes with all the works! I was praying no one was going to barf on my floors. Oh then we popped 8 bags of popcorn. And I finally got to go to bed around 1030. But I got up several times to change movies, ease a few crying eyes, and finally by 330 AM all was quiet. Until I had to get up at 600 and start on pancakes. After breakfast, the floor was so covered in food and junk that I couldn't even set Memphis down because he would have choked for sure on all the yummies. So after shaking out and folding about 50 blankets and sleeping bags, I swept up 4 DUSTPANS FULL OF crushed food. And the girls were off doing makeovers again. They were all gone by 1000am and I was exhausted and ready for a nap. But we had to go to home depot and get flooring to finish the floor in the master bathroom. I went to bed at 9 and slept really good. I was so tired I hurt to move. LOL I am so glad we got to do this for Savanna. She was on cloud nine. I hope it makes her know how loved she is. And of course OakLeigh was right in the middle of all the girls until I had to drag her to my bed kicking and screaming. Weylon would have loved to slept in the middle of the action too, but one of the girls, Sierra kept finding him and torchering him with her tickles. He slept by Brandon in our bed. HAH....Here are some pictures!







There were a few girls that hid and didn't want their picture taken. All in all it was a great party! I think in a year or two I will recover enough to do another one!

Well we have so much that has been going on! Brandon went back to work after having 2 months off from his accident. He went back the last day of February! But while he was home he went to Rock Springs to an MSHA class and job hunting. We have been praying a lot lately about where we should be and what the best place for our family is?! And we got our answer. It literally almost fell into our laps. He had someone call him while he was in Rock Springs and offer him a job in NORTH DAKOTA...So he called me on his break and said "you wanna move to ND?" I said, "HELL NO!" So that answered that question. haha Anyways, he was offered a job from the same company in Big Piney, Wyoming. MUCH BETTER! North Dakota isn't even a little bit appealing. Big Piney may be small and have no stores, but its in Wyoming. It has a good school system. If anything were to ever happen in either of our families, we would be close enough to go visit. Brandon leaves next week, so once again Brandon gets out of packing the house up. This is oh our 5th move since we got married 9 years ago, and I have had to pack up every time. But this time at least I am NOT pregnant. It makes a world of difference! However, he has a huge list of honey does to do in our rental in Big Piney before the kids and I move in. So it really does even out. We have the most wonderful branch here and we have made some life long friends. We will dearly miss you all so much! Kristin, Terra, Heather, Wendy I will miss our girls night out. You have NO IDEA how much it helps to get out and laugh and chat WITH ADULTS! And with such wonderful friends! I love you all and will be back for a lot of visits! We have been the recipients of a lot of love and service since living here. We lost our baby boy, while building our garage, and while I was in the hospital delivering him, the branch priesthood came and BUILT THE GARAGE FOR US! They finished it. How wonderful and thoughtful of them. When Brandon's brother, Trent, passed away, we had so many prayers, meals, calls, cards, etc...When Brandon was hurt a few months ago, we had meals brought for almost 3 weeks. We had visits. He had some buddies show up and take him out for a while. I will never be able to thank or re-pay all the love we have been given. I only hope that someday we can return it. Last night our branch threw our family a going away party. (I think they want to get rid of us...lol). Brandon and the kids went, I had to stay home with Memphis because we found out yesterday he has RSV. But they brought home a HUGE card the whole branch signed, a book, other cards, cake, etc. But once again, I have received many calls today to see if they could help me since Memphis is sick. I have so many coming to help pack boxes, clean, paint. I really don't know that I will ever meet such a great group of people.

In other news, Weylon has had 2 bottom teeth that have been lose for several months. I finally held him down the other day and pulled 1 tooth out. He was screaming. Brandon was yelling at me to let him go. But the tooth was just a dangling. So I yanked it. He went to scream again and realized I was holding up a tooth and he got the biggest grin on his little face. The tooth fairy brought him $1.25. He was so excited. A week later, he had another dangler. I held him down and pulled that one. Once again, he was screaming, Brandon was yelling at me to let him go. I was laughing. I held up that tooth, and he was laughing so hard he couldn't stop the tears. He got $1.50 for that one. He is growing up. I took a few pictures. He looks scared to death and stoned. HAHA Gotta love my boy.

Savanna is having a bit of a hard time with this upcoming move. She is in 3rd grade. She is 8 years old. She is our social butterfly. She has so many friends because she has a heart of gold. So she is having a farewell slumber party at our house this friday the 9th. We made invitations and she handed them out at school yesterday. We told the girls to ride her school bus home with her on friday and the party would begin. I got a text of warning from a mom last night, she says, "did you know that friday is only a half day of school?" No, NO, NO I did not know that. So it looks like 10 little girls will be here starting friday at 100 and for the night! WHAT WAS I THINKING? HAHA We are going to be doing make overs, manicures and pedicures, watching movies, eating popcorn, karaoke, making ice cream sundaes, and eating pizza. Hope no one barfs on my floor. It should be fun! I will post pictures soon! Weylon and his dad are going to go somewhere fun while the girls party. Then the next friday Weylon and OakLeigh get to have 2 friends each stay over. (It makes it easy because they both like the same people). Then I really have to get busy with my packing and cleaning!

So this first picture: I came home from urgent care with Memphis last night. I walk in and look on the kitchen floor and see chunks of hair. I think OH NO! I follow the trail of hair which led down the hall into Weylon and OakLeigh's room and right to the closet door. I open the closet door to find this picture. A pair of scissors thrown down, and all OakLeigh's horses and barbies almost hairless. Some of them were scalped completely.


Here is another picture of the damage. And of course daddy had no idea.



This was Savanna's picture day today. She looked cute! She is getting so big!



Here is Weylon with his first $1.25 from his tooth fairy.



This is Weylon after holding him down and pulling his tooth the 2nd time! Poor kid I think I traumatized him! LOL