Week of March 14-18, 2010

Sunday March 14- We didn't get to sleep in as much as would have like but oh well because I never did my lesson for church so I had to do that this morning. Church was good. My class was so loud and hyper today. Wow I had one kid that was driving me crazy. I like the Sundays that they all seemed drugged. In the evening we had amazing stakes for dinner. Once again Enoch out did himself. It was awesome. I finished my book running with Angels finally. It was a really good read. I suggest everybody read it. In the evening Enoch and I watched the newest Terminator. It was so fantastic. I loved it. I couldn't believe how good it was. I loved that it was PG-13 as well. Oh too bad on going to bed early. It was another late night for us.

Monday March 15- Today I polyurethaned my bathroom cupboards. Wow does that stuff ever stink. It is so toxic. It was really warm outside so I was able to open windows in the bathroom. I am so excited to get it all done. It has taken a lot longer than I have wanted it to. In the evening for family home evening we went and all delivered Scentsy invitations for my Scentsy open house on Saturday. After we went to Sub Zero for ice cream. Yum it was so good. The kids really enjoyed hanging out and eating ice cream together. After we put the kids to bed Enoch and I watched a free movie that we got from Redbox. We rented 2012. Wow that was by far the dumbest movie I have ever seen. It did nothing for me. Also it was supposed to take place December 21st. Well I have never seen Yellowstone with grass and campers round in December. Yellowstone is closed and open to only snowmobilers. Wow that to me made the movie so stupid. Who ever did the movie did not do their homework. Heck even the special effects were stupid.

Tuesday March 16-I worked on the supboards some more today. I did my second coat on most of them. In the evening Rachel and I went to the districts maturation video for girls. We then after went and talked about everything. She was a little freaked out and there was a lot for her take in at times. We didn't talk about everything but all that happens to girls as they get older. I enjoyed talking to her like that. I can't believe that we are already having talks like that. She is growing up too fast. I am not read to have a teenager in a couple of years. Wow.

Wednesday March17-We all wore green today so nobody got pinched by the leprechaun. I finished my last coat on my cupboards. I went and got some visiting teaching done today. I am excited to get it done this week. I was so tired all day today and so when all the kids got home from school I had them watch Kaelen so I could take a half hour nap. It turned out to be an hour and a half. Wow. It was much needed sleep. This evening was my RS dinner. It was really fun with lots of awesome food. I am amazed at how much I can eat at things like this. I guess food made by other people taste so much better than if I had made it myself. I then after ran to the store to buy milk. We go through so much milk in our house. Kaelen drinks at least a gallon himself a week. Wow. It was so awesome to come home to have the kids in bed and dinner dishes done. What a nice treat. I love coming home to a quiet house.

Thursday Match 18- First thing this morning I went visiting teaching again. When Kaelen took his nap today I was hoping on painting my bathroom. Man I was so sad when I realized that I had no paint rollers. Oh well I guess I have to wait till tomorrow to get paint. After I picked up Jacob I went and got paint rollers. I am tempted to start painting but I have to make dinner and I have bookclubv tonight so it looks like I will really have to wait for tomorrow. Enoch is home though so he can help me with Kaelen and I can get it painted and done. I want it all painted and clean tomorrow. I am tired of having my bathroom a total mess for a month now. I need the sanity again until next week when I repaint my hallway and baseboards. Kaelen colored all over my walls and it won't come off not even with a magic eraser. Oh well I have wanted to repaint it even if it was the same again for a while now. Now I really have to do it.

Week of March 7-13, 2010

Sunday March 7th- Church was good. I love teaching primary and I love the class I teach. I feel the spirit every week in sharing time. I love it. I have felt the spirit more since in Primary than I did last year in Relief Society. I just love primary. After church we all went over to Grandpa and Grandma Heileson's for the best stake dinner we have had in forever. So good. All of the kids eat a whole stake. I guess we are officially Idahoan's. We love our meat and potatoes. After dinner we played some games which is always fun. I lost, Enoch won, no surprise there. After we got home we watched the readers digest version of the Academy awards. I love tivo. Went to bed way too late. So bad for us.

Monday March 8th- What a day of appointments. Rachel had an orthodontist appointment that was supposed to be 20 minutes but was over an hour. They had to change some brackets since her teeth have moved so much. She also got colored elastics on the four front teeth. She did purple and pink. She was so excited. Jacob had an appointment for braces for his ankles. When we got there they said that he didn't have an appointment. They had accidentally booked it in February for the same day. Luckily they had an opening an hour later. After Rachel got back to school we went for Jacob's appointment again. His feet were too swollen to do anything so we have to go back at the end of the week. Nice. It was early release today and so I figured it wasn't worth it to take Jacob back to school for an hour and a half, especially when I spend 20 minutes or more driving. He stayed home. Early release days are hard because the kids come home early and it messes my day up. It was really messed up today but I did get bedding washed and 2 loads of clothes. I guess I did get some things done today.

Tuesday March 9th- Jacob stayed home this morning because the 1st grade classes were going swimming and he can't submerse his feet yet so he had to stay home. He actually wasn't sad. I was so impressed with how he handled it. He got to play the wii so he was happy. I spent the morning doing my new basket testers for Scentsy's new scents. That took a while and man was my house a mess. When you do other projects your house takes about 5 minutes for the tornado to go through it. I should have take a picture of it. Wow I was so glad nobody stopped by. I was glad when I was finished so I could clean up. I was able to vacuum and clean the kitchen. I got a bunch off of my list I needed to do. It's amazing how much you get done when you don't have a lot of time and you have to rush and go fast. Rachel today made cookies for the first time all by herself. She messed up the first time though. Instead of 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder she put in 1 1/2 T. She had no idea that there was a difference. After I explained it to her she then started over. She did everything including putting the cookie dough on the sheet. She did fantastic. I was so proud of her. The cookies were fantastic as well. Now I need to teach her to clean and do dishes after she cooks. I am excited for her to get to where she can cook for us. I love it.

Wednesday March 10-I finished putting the labels on all of my basket testers. I didn't like the labels so I made all new ones and had to replace all of the other ones. I am glad to be done with all that. Now if I could get people to take them. I spent a lot of the day cleaning and getting some things done around the house. I watched American Idol tonight. Wow what is wrong with me I am like all these people that diligently watch these shows and I make fun of them. I guess that I can't make fun of people anymore. At least I watch it with Enoch so that makes it good.

Thursday March 11- This morning I took Jacob into get fitted for braces for his ankles. He was still swollen but nothing like Monday. They said that if his foot changes in the next while they will make another one for that foot. Jacob enjoys getting fitted for braces because he gets to have casts on his feet, they cut them off before they get too hard they have to use the saw and then he gets a full size candy bar. Pretty fun. He also likes Bruce the guy that does them. We have been seeing him every few months for 4 years now. I spent the rest of the day doing Laundry and cleaning up around the house. Wendy and Ainsley came over tonight to spend the weekend with us. Wendy's niece is getting married and Wendy asked his she could spend a couple of nights at our house. You bet. I would never say no to that. The kids were so excited to see them. We haven't seen Ainsley since Thanksgiving and so it was nice to see how big she was. Wow she has changed. She actually shows different emotions now instead of staring at you like your an idiot. She also talks so well. She can say all of our names and I love it.

Friday March 12- I babysat my friends daughter while she went to the temple and I also babysat Ainsley while Wendy went to the sealing. That was pretty fun. For the most part the kids got along well. They really wanted to eat all the time. I think we spent most of the time eating. Ainsley eats so much. I can't believe she doesn't weigh more than she does. I cut Enoch's hair today. I really hate doing it but I hate it when he goes other places because they really butcher it. Blahh. I am glad I only have to do it once a month or so. At 1 PM I went to Austine Kade Academy to get my hair done. Lindsay teaches in the Aesthetic department and so we get a good deal at the school. Thank you Lindsay. I got my hair highlighted. I got a weave/slice. A slice is with bigger strips. They were so excited to be working on natural hair color. They kept saying how excited they were to do it. I got a caramel color and a dark auburn color done. Between those two and my natural hair color it looks awesome. I have never had my hair done like that before so I was so excited. I feel so much prettier now. i was there almost 3 hours so when I finally got home Enoch had to get ready to leave for his scout camp out. When Enoch left we all went to Craigo's for all you can eat pizza and pasta. It was really good. It was our first time eating there because Enoch can't eat anything there. We had fun until Kaelen and Ainsley decided they wanted to run around. We made it through most of the dinner though with out them going crazy. Today was a good day.

Saturday March 13- We got up this morning and had breakfast together. We then went to Melaluca and the cosmetology store. Thank goodness for DVD players because the kids were happy in the car while Wendy and I ran into places. we bought some new nail polish colors and I splurged on a nice curling iron. I am excited to have a nice one. We then said good bye to Wendy and Ainsley who were heading to Wendy's families for the day and night. I spent the afternoon shopping and getting things done around the house. It really rained during the day. We lost power for a few hours in the afternoon. It's amazing how little we can eat when we don't have a stove and microwave. I bought new rugs for outside the house and inside. It was so exciting to have rungs that hopefully will keep dirt outside more. People are not good about taking their shoes off in the house and I hate was is brought in so hopefully this will illiminate some of the dirt. In the evening we went to a suprise Birthday party for Mark, Jacob's therapist. That was so much fun. There was lots of food and tons of people that we knew. We got home late from it. When we got home there was snow all over the ground. So sad. Wendy stopped by in the evening and we talked with for a while. Because of the time change we stayed up way too late. We have got to stop staying up late. It was really fun to see Wendy though before she heads home tomorrow.

Casts Came Off

On Thursday February 25th we went to Salt Lake City to get Jacob's casts off. Yeah. They x-rayed his ankles and saw that they were healing great. In the x ray you could still see where the bone was cut but the edges of the bone were all fuzzy looking meaning that they were fusing back together and healing well. They have not fully healed internally so Jacob has to still take it easy. He can start walking on it and also bearing weight.

Getting the casts off were such a challenge. The poor medical assistant had to cut and cut through the casts and finally had to call Dr. Klatt in to help get his left leg cast (orange cast) off. Somehow when the doctor put the cast on he put a sock on over the padding and it was sticking to the fiberglass cast. They had to come in pull the cast apart and then cut the cost off in order to get the cast off.

So when the casts came off I was so shocked at what it all looked like. Not what I expected. Jacob's incision in the inside side of his ankle was a lot larger than I thought that it would be. It was over 2 inches and then he had his cut in his legs on the sides and then the pins in it. Wow not what I thought. Then they grabbed the pins and literally just pulled them out. They came out very smoothly. I could not believe how long they were. They were over 3 inches long. They were completely inside of his leg and bone. They were skinny with sharp ends like a nail. I asked how they got them in and the doctor said that they have this skinny drill that they just drill right up into the bone and drill the pins directly into the leg. The pins are about 10 inches long and once they have them as far as they want into the leg they cut the ends and bend them over. So crazy.

I still can't believe what his legs looked like. I was freaking out when the pins came out. I was so excited to take pictures of it and film it but my camera batteries died. From now on I will always have extra batteries in my camera. I just did not expect that Jacob's legs would look the way they did and that they would take the pins out the way they did. Jacob didn't feel anything either. He just laid there and had no idea what was going on. I think things looks worse too because his skin was just falling off everywhere from not being able to breath very much for a month and then there was blood on his bandages still and not all of his stitches had dissolved.

Jacob was given a removable boot to wear for the next while. Jacob can't start therapy for a few weeks and also he can shower but not take a bath. The doctor wanted the holes where the pins were to heal before he submerses himself into water and have his leg get infected. Jacob was so excited to get all of his casts off. It will be nice to see him walk and walk straighter.

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March 3rd. So Jacob walked on his leg this weekend quite a bit. He still walks with his legs out because of his hips. If we tell him to concentrate on walking he can walk straight . It will take a while for him to train himself to walk straight. Well because of the walking his right ankle has started to really swell up. It is so large. We called and emailed the doctor pictures of his ankles. We were worried that he broke it again. Because he really had no feeling in his ankles it is hard for him to feel pain and tell if something is wrong. Dr. Klatt's said that he probably just walked on it too much and needs to stay off of it for 2 more weeks. He needs to always wear his casts and to elevate his foot a lot and take Ibuprofen for the swelling. They said that in a week if it doesn't look better than we needed to call them again. We were worried too because when I took Jacob's casts off in the evening today his toe next to his big toe was sticking straight up. When we put his cast on in the morning we accidentally pushed his toe up and probably dislocated it. So all day it sat like that with his toe dislocated. He had no clue because he couldn't feel. I called for Enoch and then push the toe in place. I probably should have waited for Enoch to see it but I freaked out and put it back in right away. It is a little bruised but not swollen or anything. So scary. So yes we need to be really careful. I want Jacob to heal properly and with out problems. We are happy though with how he is handling it all. His skin is looking better. I think that he has lost 20 layers of skin in a week. It is crazy. Jacob still doesn't like looking at his foot because of the bandages and the scars and all the dead skin falling off. We are hoping that things will heal quickly.

You can see how swollen his ankles are in these pictures.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

To honor Dr. Seuss and his birthday Rachel (her whole school was supposed to do something to celebrate as well)made herself look like a Who from Whoville. She is Rachel Lou Who. It was pretty fun doing her hair. We put a cup on her head and pulled her hair over it. We then put colored circles on her head. They didn't stay on with the hairspray we used so when she got to school her friend helped glue them on to her hair. Thank goodness for non-toxic washable glue. She had fun with her hair today. Her principle took a picture of her as well for the year book. Pretty fun for her. Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss.