Championship Game

Dylan

Dallas

Today was Dylan & Dallas's Championship game. They were playing against the PG Vikings. They were so excited to play. We knew that it was going to be a good game. It started off pretty well and we scored first. 7 - 0

After the first half, they scored a touchdown, but missed their extra point. So the score was 7-6. This is exactly what had happened in the season game that we played against them. Well in the last quarter, the Vikings scored another touchdown, putting the score at 13-7. The Vikings won.


It was such a sad site to see all these 4th grade boys in tears. It brought tears to my eyes. They had worked so hard for the last 3 months having gone undefeated all season....having already beat this same team...to now lose the championship. I stood there watching the awards ceremony as all the boys went up to get their medal. Most all the boys were crying. Dylan & Dallas's coaches are pretty awesome. When they were giving the medals to PG, our coaches were telling the boys to clap and cheer for their team because they had done well and earned it. What great examples their coaches are to those boys.

Dylan getting his medal

Dallas getting his medal

After the game, the coaches told them how proud they were of them and they loved them. It was such a sad but sweet moment. It was hard for me not to start crying as I was hugging my crying boys telling them how great they had played. They learned so much. I am very proud of them with how hard they worked this year.

Lone Peak 4th Grade Team 2008

Halloween!!

Halloween was one hectic day this year. The boys were so excited. Tyler was awake when Shane was leaving for the gym around 6 am. He tried to get him to go back to bed, but was back up asking me what was for breakfast around 6:40.

I sent them off to school and followed a bit later for their costume parade.
It was a little tricky trying to get a good picture while they walked around this windy maze.


After the parade, I grabbed some lunch for Tyler and I from Subway and went back to eat lunch at school with Tyler. He was so excited and told me that he loved that I came to eat lunch with him. It wasn't 2 or 3 minutes later that he was looking for all his friends in the lunchroom and saying, "Mom, I'm full. I am going to go to recess now." He cracks me up. It worked out perfect, as I was supposed to be in to set up for Dallas's class Halloween party.

So for Dallas's party they had planned to do a Fear Factor party. They had to see how long they could hold icecubes in their mouthes, eat Monster Eyeballs (green olives), and put their hand in a jar to get coins out that had live crickets. Dallas wouldn't eat the olives, but was excited to pick out the coins with the crickets...cRaZy!!


They all had a blast trick-or-treating.

Dallas as "Bloody Bones"

Tyler as "Batman"

(I think this is his 4th year in a row as Batman)

Dylan as "Indiana Jones"

Fabulous Football!!

Dylan #43

Doesn't he look so old...can't believe he is only 9

Dallas #32

Look at that cute smile!!

I am going to have to watch out for the girls, as I am already hearing about all the ones that he likes.

So Dylan and Dallas's football team is undefeated. They won all 8 season games. They were ranked #1. So last Saturday, they had their first play-off game against another Lone Peak team (ranked #4) coached by Coach Freeman. Needless to say, they kicked butt and won. It was a good game!! Pleasant Gove (#2) played American Fork #3 and PG won. So they will be playing Pleasant Grove this Saturday in the championship game.

Both our team and PG were undefeated until we played them during the season and we ended up winning 7-6. So it will definitely be a good game!!

Jen's 30th Birthday

So I celebrated my 30th birthday WEEKEND - it was a 3 day event.

I showed up to work on Friday and my office was decorated with balloons, candy and all sorts of fun stuff.

Then we had our group gathering and I chose Raspberry Bread Pudding from Kneaders...yum yum. (I choose it every year).

Friday night, Shane and I went to dinner with some friends that live in our cul-de-sac -- Tara & Mike and Cara & Mark. Cara and I have the same birthday, so we went to dinner at Market Street/Oyster Bar. I ate way too much, but of course after we decided to leave, we all decided we needed dessert and headed to Goodwood to get Brownie Sundaes.

Then Saturday night, Shane made reservations for all 5 of us (Me, Shane, Dylan, Dallas, & Tyler) to go to the Chef's Table. I love that place!! The boys thought it was pretty cool since they have never been to a nice restaurant.

We got home and Shane told the boys to help him with something in the garage and told me to go inside. Well this is what I was met with when I opened the door.....

SURPRISE!!!!

Yes that is Wendy who is attacking me with the silly string

I thought I was safe...oh wait...NOPE!!

I am not sure how many cans of silly string got shot at me, but I was covered!!

Shane, with the help of Wendy and friends, had pulled off a surprise party for me. It was lots of fun!! I had asked for Chocolate cake from Magelbys....oh yum...There was a huge cake and I think it will last a year.

Hun, thanks for such a great birthday!!

Thanks Wendy for helping Shane!!

Ohh and I almost forgot all the great birthday presents from Shane....umm let's see...I got everything I asked for...Ugg boots, new clothes, Nautica quilt, dishes, rug....EVERYTHING!!

Tackle Football

So Dylan and Dallas decided that they wanted to play tackle football this year. I was a little concerned because I heard how time consuming practices are. They started at the beginning of August with having practice Monday through Friday for 1 1/2 or 2 hours per night. When school started, they cut it back to 3 nights per week for 1 1/2 hours each. Now this is for 4th graders.... Their coaches are pretty intense. All players are guaranteed at least 10 plays in each game if they have shown up to all the practices. If they miss, they don't have to play them at all.

Well Dylan and Dallas absolutely love it!! They come home from practice telling us about the different plays and tackles they did. Dylan is on the starting offense team and is the Tight End. He is a great blocker!! Dallas plays mostly middle linebacker and he loves it!! I tried to get some cool pictures at one of the games...but it's pretty hard to get the timing right so you can actually see one of them instead another player who steps in front.

Dylan is #43 going into block

Dallas is #32

Hiking

Shane has been taking the boys hiking quite a bit. They are all loving it!! He took a couple pics of Dylan & Dallas on one of their long, long hikes.

We went hiking as a family on Monday night and AF canyon looks beautiful with all the leaves changing colors.

Shane didn't want me to take his picture...can you tell my the look on his face?

Catching Up....Back-to-School

So I haven't been very good at updating the blog lately.... So I thought I would do a few posts to catch up to present day. So we are back in August for the First Day of School.

Tyler

Dylan

Dallas

I walked the boys to school and Dylan and Dallas saw friends just as we entered the school and took off. They are getting way too old. I did make them wait so I could take a quick pic in the hall before they left with their friends.

So it was only Tyler who I walked to his classroom and waited with. He was a little nervous because he didn't know anyone in his class. But he has made so many new friends now.

He was having a hard time looking at me with the sun in his eyes

Greatest Wife EVER!!!!

If you are a wife reading this please take note, Jen is the GREATEST WIFE EVER. The past 2 weeks my workout partner hasn’t been able to make it to the gym so instead of leaving for the gym at 5:45 I have been leaving around 7:30, this has allowed me to view Jens daily routine and I am amazed. Jen wakes up at 5:20, gets dressed, drinks a protein shake, lifts weights, gets on the treadmill for 45 minutes, makes the kids breakfast(usually pancakes, German pancakes, cinnamon roles, eggs, waffles, rarely cereal), she showers, gets dressed, helps the kids do their chores, helps them get ready for school, she eats breakfast, she cleans up breakfast, logs into the spa and checks reports and then still has time to do things like this:

This is only a few of the many notes I found when I got home from the gym today, and as you can see from the pic below, this isn't the first time she has done this.

Not only does this make Jen great, but she NEVER and I mean NEVER complains or whines, let me type that again for some of you, she NEVER and I mean NEVER complains or whines , and this is just what she does before she leaves for work. You're the best Hun and I love you tons.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!

One Hundred and Eight Thousand seconds ago I received both good and bad news. The good news being that it looks as though I am on the actual trial drug and not the Placebo, I have been getting sores in my mouth which is the most common side affect. The Bad is really bad though, it appears that I am responding quite well to the drug, so unfortunately for the rest of you I should live to see Christmas and I will be expecting a Christmas present, sorry guys. The Ugly is, well I think you already know.

Hun, I love you!!

So I guess I am a pretty horrible wife for not putting pictures of Shane on the Lake Powell post. But hun, there is a picture of you...if you look at the picture of Tyler jumping off the cliff (you know the one where it looks like he has a tail) you can see your cute bald head in the water. :)

There really was more than 1 picture of him...so sorry hun for not putting them on here. And the picture he posted below with Tyler, after calling his name 5 or 6 times and him ignoring me or not hearing me whichever he admits to, I just took the picture...kind of like this one too.

Here is another one of him.....

Doesn't this one count too...you can see part of him. :)

Sorry hun I will do better next time.

As I have read other’s blogs I have noticed that the “Blog Updaters” post pics of their families including their spouses. After reading Jen’s Lake Powell update I noticed that there are no pics of me, so I looked at the images on the camera and realized that out of 70 Lake Powell images there was only 1 of me ( The pic is actually of Tyler, but in order to keep me from hanging myself with a sock I pretend it is of me) Anyway, I pondered the question as to why Jen wouldn’t post or even take pics of me, and then it hit me, I am hideous, and what may you ask turned this extremely handsome prince into a disgraceful frog? CHEMO, and since I get a lot of questions concerning the side affects I thought I would post up some pics and explanations, so sit right back and you’ll hear a tale.

Warning: The pics are blurry.


Baldness – I miss my Goatee something fierce, but I don’t miss trimming my junk




Nails - Probably the most gruesome of the side affects, I actually get an abscess under the nail that stinks once it lifts the nail, so I dig in as far as I can and cut the nail off to dry it out.



Sensitivity to the sun – For someone who hasn’t worn sunscreen in I don’t know how long, this was a tough battle and as you can see by the pic I lost. I had a very minor burn on a Saturday and then had Chemo on Monday, my Wednesday I was almost purple. I ended up pealing 3 layers and it took about 3 weeks to somewhat recover. Also in the pic you can see my 3rd nipple\port, I am thinking about getting it pierced.





Water Retention – This is the most annoying side affect of them all, the pic doesn’t do it justice. I can gain 20 lbs. of water in about 5 – 7 days, it starts after my double dose and even though I haven’t had Chemo in over a month it still comes and goes. It may not seem that bad to most, but on one of my appointments my resting heart rate was 115 BPM, up from 67 the week before due to water retention.





Snot – This may be the weirdest of the sides, as you will notice in the pic, it is mostly blood, I was getting these 2-3 times a day, it gets bad enough that I start breathing through my mouth. I am sure you all want to know, and the answer is YES, they do taste as good as they look. MMMmmmmmm







Oh and here is the pic of Tyler, and yes below that is the pic of the sock I have chosen to use.

Update

So we received results to Shane’s scans last week. It showed a very slight increase in size in the one in his back, but they didn’t know if that was just the difference in how the radiologists measured it. But the ones in his lungs are either not there or were too small to measure. The ones in his lungs were very concerning, so that was definitely great news.
So Shane started the experimental treatment on Monday. It consists of taking 4 pills a day. No one is allowed to touch the pills except for Shane..kind crazy. The doctor told him that he should know within a few weeks if he got the real or placebo pill by how he feels or if he gets mouth sores. They will do another scan in 8 weeks.