Cam-
You woke me up this morning way earlier than i wanted to even think about. I knew I had a full day of work ahead of me, and i knew it was not time to give up my bed, but your cute little voice in the other room at 5:30 told me you were ready to get out of bed. When I came in your room, you instantly said, "Mom I waked up!!" You have the cutest way about you, that just makes me smile(even at 5:30 in the morning).I decided that I didn't want to start the day yet and carried you into my bed to see if maybe you would go back to sleep. As we layed there talking quietly so we didn't wake up dad, I realized there is nothing greater than those moments with you. We pretended our fingers were spiders and ran them all over each other just making each other laugh. Then we tried to see who could make the silliest noise with our mouths while the other bumped our adams apple. ( I am sure dad didn't love that we were in bed while he was sleeping, but we were having a great time.) But the moment that made being a mom and sacrificing sleep and all the many other things we sacrifice was when you stopped and got as close to me as you could so i could see you and you said," I love you so much mom!!" I kissed you and told you how much I loved you and then you said, "I miss you." I wanted to cry and just appreciate every second I get to have with you, even when it is at 5:30 in the morning, I am so lucky to get to be your mom, and working everyday has made me realize what a great blessing that is, and I am counting down the days till dad can go back to work too!! I love you Cam and thanks for waking me up to tell me those sweet things, I needed to hear.

The Adjustment

so for all the many people calling and wondering where I have gone to, and why i am no longer outside playing with my kids, it is simply because I have become the "sugar momma" (as i like to call myself)!! Two and a half weeks ago we found out that Fro wouldn't be able to work since he tore his ACL and MCL and that we didn't have short term disability at his work, only long term. That does us no good until mid january- so after "freaking out" about what we are going to do about this little predicament, I became completely grateful for having a job that so willingly let me come back on full time. I didn't know what an adjustment working full time would play on my family, but these last two weeks I have truly become so grateful for my time with my kids. Everyday waking up to my kids and thinking what should we do today is not the case anymore, but hurrying to get ali ready way before she has to leave and hearing her say how much she misses me everyday- it just about kills me. The best story so far is one day last week Cam was awake so Fro went in to help him out of bed and he said,
CAM- "I don't want you, I want MOM!!"
Fro- "Mom has to go to work , lets go say bye"
CaM-"No you go to work, not mom!!"
Fro-" I can't because of my knee"
CAM-" your knee is fine!!!"

It has been a little crazy and hard on everyone. Ali cried everyday the first week and Cam continues to plead for me to stay in the mornings. There is nothing worse than having your two year old say "just stay with me, please mom!!" It about kills me everyday. I just keep telling myself- thankfully it is only for a few months and not permanent.
Fro just had his surgery last wednesday and has been asleep pretty much the entire time since, i am pretty sure his meds make him very sleepy. It will be nice when he is a little more coherent and feeling better. They said it would be about 3 months until he would be okay to go back to work, so I am holding onto that idea!!

Halloween 2010

I am catching up!!!
I am only 2 weeks behind- No big deal! Fall usually kicks off with a discussion between Ali and I about what to be for Halloween. Ali loves thinking up the ideas for our family and she usually comes up with something good. This year a few of her ideas were Scooby Doo family (cam=scooby, she=daphne, me=velma, fro=shaggy). I thought it would be awesome, but them she changed her mind several times and came up with this.........


Ali is the QUEEN OF HEARTS, from the New Alice in Wonderland. SHe said that every year she is someone nice, and this year she wanted to be EVIL!! Should i be nervous or just glad it is only for Halloween!! I think she turned out AWESOME and she was happy about it also.


In the past we have somehow always had a theme-not always on purpose, but Cam broke that trend by wanting to be BUZZ LIghtyear really bad.



It was raining pretty good, but we didn't let it stop us, we still headed out with our Summer SHADE umbrella. It was huge, but it kept us pretty dry. I was the White Queen and Fro looked awesome as the Mad Hatter. It turned out pretty good. Fro was wearing all girl clothing and it was pretty funny.


We went to my sister Heathers for a party of yummy chili cookoff, and trick or treated with all the cousins. The kids got a load of candy, crayons, and other stuff. It was a lot of fun and is fun to see everyone dress up.

My brother in laws with Fro- Steve is my mexican brother in law that Ali named him that and Jon is just crazy

Bud and Camille were rockers with awesome sleves of tattoos


And of course my ready to have a baby girl any day sister Britto- who was so creative with her cute belly is a black widow- i loved the web on her eye- awesome!! It was a good Halloween and as always tons of fun cleaning off all the makeup!!

St. George 2010

 

When Fro and I decided it would be a great thing to plan a trip to St. George with his whole family, we had intended to have it be a fun, bonding experience. Well it ended up being fun, but you can only bond so much when Fro couldn't do ANYTHING!! It was the saddest thing to realize that Fro wouldn't get to ride at all in St. George. Since he tore his ACL and his MCL he was told he would need surgery within the month. We couldn't cancel the trip we had planned months ago, so we still went. He was such a trooper as we left to go biking, and swimming, and play tennis, and volleyball, and he just sat there. I felt saddest knowing how excited he was to have some time with his brothers, and then couldn't do a whole lot with them. I got to take them all biking and he was the one who wanted to be out there with all his brothers. It was pretty sad, but at least we still had a good time. It is always fun getting away and it was a good change to have the Derricks be in St. George with us. Ali and Cam were really excited to spend time with their cousins and especially all the uncles. I think Cam almost got all thier names straight!! We'll see how long that lasts!!

Skate Park

 

I am way behind putting these cute pictures on here. A couple weeks ago my neighbor Jill and I took Cam and my niece and her daughter Addison to the skate park. Cam had already gone once and loved it so we pretty much showed up with our three kids and took over the park. They loved it and cruised around forever and had so much fun. It was a little harder to keep them on their bikes once they realized you could slide down all the drop slides on their bums. It is super slick and they loved it. It was so much fun we didn't want to leave!! Of course we had to once we realized Jills little boy would be getting home to NO ONE!! So play time for us was over-- until another day!!

My tennis Partner!

I have to take a minute to put it into writing- One of my all time favorite things to do is play tennis with my dad. He has been the best tennis partner of all time. Although he never lets me win- even when i was having back problems- he is so much fun. We started trying to play every saturday and it has been the funnest thing.
When we went to bear lake we of course wanted to hit some courts so we could only find the KOA courts. I can't even tell you how much the word "courts" are stretching the term. They were more like concrete with something dividing the court in half, in the midst of a lOT of weeds. We were desperate to play so of course we decided to make it work. It was the slums of Wimbeldon as we called it!!
We laughed as the first warm up serve caused us to loose the ball somewhere on the court-- We had some great laughs. It was hard to be serious because as we would hit a slam ball, it would somehow hit a crack, and go flying in the opposite direction and we could never anticipate where it was really going to land. It was so hilarious and we got the best workout because we were laughing so hard.
I just wanted to write down how much i love it and so i would never forget I have a Dad who has always cheated (has the best cheep shots), always made time for me, and ALWAYS made our time together fun. Thanks dad your the best!!! Love ya