I can't believe it happened to me!

So I know that I have not posted for awhile. I even have some pictures to post but I have picked up a few extra shifts lately and it is amazing how one more shift a week can really throw off our schedule. I again feel like I am just keeping my head above water some days and just living day to day. I am only working extra for about six weeks while another girl is out for surgery, so not too much longer. I had to work today and I am just about ready for bed. We are leaving for Coeur d'Alene tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving with Len's family. The kids are so excited. They love to go to CDA. They are pretty much packed and ready to go. Len is also packed - I haven't started yet - maybe later tonight. I have been doing laundry almost continuously when I am home though. Although I am not looking forward to the drive, I am looking forward to spending some time with my husband. It is the end of his six nights in a row and I have worked a few when he was off so I feel like I haven't really spent time with him for about two weeks. Last Saturday (November 15) we took the kids to Craters of the Moon. That was the last time we actually spent more than about two hours together in the same room. Seems like we have just been passing off kids to each other lately. I am looking forward to spending some time with him. One funny story before I check out for tonight:
Yesterday after church was over Kanyon was in the hall waiting for me and Len. When I got to him he said, "I can't believe that just happened to me!" I said, "What happened Kanyon?" He said, "A girl said, 'I love you' to me!" I started to laugh and then I said, "Did you like it?" He looked at me and said, "I don't know?!" That kid cracks me up! He is in a sunbeam class of five boys but for the next few weeks there is a little girl that is visiting her grandma that is in his class. She apparently has a little crush on my boy. I guess we will see what the next Sunday brings!

p.s. For the record, Kanyon does NOT like to be teased that he "has a girlfriend." He does not like that at all! :) He says that mom told him that he is not old enough to have a girlfriend. That's my little man!

Blog Worthy?

I haven't had much news that I thought blog worthy but a few things have happened that I want to remember so I thought I would write them down here. First of all, Miranda has been SO sick the past few days. I thought something was wrong on Wednesday when she woke up at 7:30 a.m. only to nurse and then go back to sleep. That's not too unusual but she slept until around 10:00 which is pretty long. I got her up and fed her some rice cereal, got her dressed and played a little bit and by 11:00 she was ready to go to sleep again. She slept until 12:30 when we took her and Kanyon to Courtney's house to play so that Len and I could go to lunch (Thanks Court!). While there, she fell asleep again! We got back home around 2:00pm after running some errands and she fell asleep in the car, stayed asleep while I laid her down and then woke up around 4:00 with a BURNING fever. I checked it and it was 104! I gave her some tylenol which brought it down to 101 and since then she has been getting tylenol around the clock every 5-6 hours. That first day I think she was only awake for about 4 hours all day! A couple other times she spiked back up to 104. I have to admit that I was quite worried about her and was set to take her in today but she seems to be getting better. Today her temp has been around 100 and then better when the tylenol kicks in. I hate it when my kids are sick! I am not even sure what is wrong with her. She has no other symptoms except some congestion when she tries to eat. No runny nose, vomitting, swollen gums. The worst part is that I had to work last night. Some of my coworkers said that they would have called in sick. It's kinda hard to play that card when my husband is a nurse too and I know that he will take just as good of care of her. He did get the bad end of the deal, however, because she ended up awake from 3-5:00 a.m. not wanting pacifier, bottle, held, swing, ect. He finally got her to sleep by turning on the television until she zoned out and crashed! I think she has turned the corner this evening however so hopefully she will be back to her normal self soon.

Another thing I wanted to remember is much more entertaining. Miranda woke up about a week ago in the middle of the night when Len was at work. I was nursing her when I heard Kanyon wake up crying. I couldn't get to him because I was in the middle of feeding the baby so I finished with her and then went to his room. By the time I got there he had stopped crying but was sitting up in his bed with his arms folded and a pout across his face. I said, "What's wrong, Kanyon?" He said, "I had a dream." I said, "What was the dream about?" He then turned and looked at me with all the anger he could muster and said, "YOU (with an accusing finger pointing my way) wouldn't let me plant the garden!" He was obviously still furious with me so I said, "That sounds like a silly dream, why don't you go back to sleep." He layed back down and went back to sleep. The next day he told me that he wanted to plant some fruit in the garden and I wouldn't let him so it made him really mad. To him the dream was quite real until I came to see him and he realized it was night time. Funny kids!
Hope you all have a good week. I am still in the Primary presidency in our ward and our primary program is this Sunday -- wish us luck! (I think we need it!)