Last Wednesday we were able to go up to Salt Lake and see Rose get her citizenship. What a blessing!! I am so proud of her. It took a lot of time, money, and patience but she finally did it! Its been something she has wanted for a long time.

And I HAD to share this note I received from Maibel. Why is she SO cute? (It says- I'm trying my best. P.S. I'm Having a good day. P.S. I love you with all my heart.)

WOW!! Its been a long week. It started with Brent not feeling well last Saturday, and than throwing up all day Sunday. Oh,  but on Saturday Brent bought me a nook! Needless to say, it is the perfect gift for me. I love it!! Of course Monday was Valentine's Day and I got woken up at 6:30 with a kiss and Mai saying "Happy Valentine's Day." Then she ran over to Brents side of the bed(he was already at work) and climbed up in bed with me. She also put a Valentine that she made all by her self on Brent's night stand. About an hour later she woke back up and told me to stay in bed. She came back in about 30 min later and told me I could come out now. She had decorated the house for Valentines Day!!!! It was SO SO SO SO cute!! I had a huge Santa picture I keep forgetting to take down and she even took that down. She is so adorable.
When Brent came home from work, he brought me a rose and Maibel got a HUGE singing balloon and a teddy bear. My mom came over and spent the night with us. We went walking in the morning and just kinda hung out. It was lots of fun. Maibel had gymnastics after school and Grandpa Wright came and watched her. Grandma Swain even stayed for a little bit of it so she had quite the adience this week. Than we went home and Steve played Sorry on the WII with us and we had tons of fun. He spent the night with us Tuesday night and when Mai got up in the morning and Grandpa was already at work, she cried and cried. It was really sad and she keep telling me all day that she just missed Grandpa. I started not feeling that great Wednesday evening and woke up in the middle of the night throwing up. Thursday I couldn't keep anything down and also started having some not normal girlie issues.  I called my doctors office about 4 and they told me to go to the ER. I called my sister Sarah (Brent doesn't handle hospitals very well. Of course  neither does Sarah, so I don't know what the heck i was thinking having her take me!?!?). Brent stayed with Mai and Sarah drove me up to Orem. They were really kinda stupid at the hospital and basically told me I was crazy.  I was NOT happy at this point. But at least the bleeding had stopped.  I was still throwing everything up and by Friday morning I was so sick I could barely walk. I somehow drove myself to my doctor and they started an IV. They wouldn't let me drive home, so I had to call my mom (I called Brent too but he was already at work so he couldn't make it down to Payson for at least an hour.) They gave me two bags of fluid, IV antibiotics, two shots of promethazine, and something for pain. I had the flu, strep, and the doctor said I had really low blood pressure from throwing up so much and losing so much blood the day before that it was making me throw up more. I know I looked awful because the doctor I see is a PA and he called the other doctor in on his day off to come check on me. Brent took care of my all day and my mom took Mai for us so I actually was able to sleep. It was a long weekend but this morning I woke up and FINALLY had my voice back and felt like I wasn't going to die. I hope I feel well enough to go to my coed soccer game tomorrow night. I know I won't play but I want to watch since it is our championship game and we might take a season off. I have to say thanks again to everyone who helped us survive this weekend!!

Where to start?!?! It feels like years since I last blogged! WOW!! We have been so crazy these last few months that I'm not even sure if I can catch you up. I will just post some pics and try to fill in our lives of the last few months.

Halloween 2010

Wow! We have a ton a Halloween parties this year for Mai. On Wednesday, Oct. 27 was her school parade and party. So that is the day we decided would be the most made-up day. She was a mermaid this year and was very cute. I made a wig for her from hair pieces I found at the dollar store. She had her school party Wed., a friends Halloween party on Fri. from 3-5, Rich and Kristin's Halloween party from 6-9, and then Clif and Rose's Halloween party from 8-11. It was a long night! Than Saturday was the actually trick or treating. Of course it POURED rain right when we were ready to go. And SO windy. My mom came with us and Brent had to pass out candy at the house. I drove her around, than Grandma and Maibel would get out of the car and run up to the houses. It was pretty funny. We did about 6-7 houses this way, and than, thankfully, the wind left and the rain died down. Grandma went home and Maibel and I walked with one of her little friends Kate. Oh, and Hermes too. It was really fun. Those girls just crack me up!! Hermes was not very impressed with any lawn decoration that moved. Scared the tar out of him!! It was so funny. One witch on someones front door step took the girls be surprise and they froze! They didn't know what to do. So Hermes, being the brave one he is, crawled on his belly past the girls, and over to the witch, (growling all the way) to check it all out. Than the witch spoke and started stirring her cauldron and he high tailed it out of there so fast, he KNEW she was gonna get him!! It was so funny. I was cracking up but so were the girls, so they forgot that they were scared of the witch and up they went to knock on the door. We were almost done with our little ward area when Kate started throwing up. Poor girl. It was really sad. :( We walked her home and only went to one more house and than called it a night. We had tons of fun.