Just a Funny Feeling

So I have been walking every night ever since June after my work did a health assessment I was stunned at what the results were so I decided to do something about it! I changed a lot I am eating more healthy, and as you have already read....I am now exercising...along with my walking I am also hula hooping it only took me a couple of weeks to be able to keep the hoop up and before long I made it 50 mins straight, I have lost serveral inches and pounds. It is hard to keep eating good, it seems we are always have some goodie at work, then there is family events...I have been able to work around it but sometimes I allow a treat!

Well to where I was going with this post.......

Several weeks ago while we ( my neighbor Wendy) was on our walk we turned a corner to come upon two teenage boys that we was not familiar with, it was dark and we could not see them very well a strange feeling came over both of us but the boys said hi and asked us how are walk was we answered then as we kept walking up ahead on the other side of the street there was another boy who seemed to be trying to hide like he did not want us to see his face, we had stopped talking and was trying to take everything in.....what was they wearing? what color was their hair, anything that would him to identify them if need be. We even thought about stopping by the chief of police house to have him go talk to them but we felt silly thinking what would we tell him...."we have a strange feeling" so we didn't do it. I even made the comment I sure hope no car or home gets broken into tonight. We had not been home but about an hour or so, Bill and I had gone to bed it was almost 11 Tanner has stayed up late he didn't have school the next day, when I heard the doorbell ring, then I could hear Tanner talking for some time I decided to go see what was going on...it ended up being Tanner's friend who happen to live right where we seen the boys hanging out.....it just so happened that awhile after we walked past Tanners friend's doorbell rang it was a boy with a mask on telling the boy that a girl wanted to ask him to the halloween dance that he had to meet her at the elementary school by the slide. His dad went with him but waited in the car he had rolled down the window so he could somewhat hear what was going on when all of a sudden he thought he heard a  scuffle going on so he got out of the car and jumped the fence to see his son getting the crap beaten out of him by three boys when he yelled they ran.... his son had blood every where so it seemed, they called the police and they had an ambulance come to check him out. He had lots of bumps and bruises and a broken nose and was shaken up. They had stopped by our house to see if Tanner had heard any rumors at school? He hadn't as Tanner had been expelled the day before because he had gotten into a fight with a kid that had been bullying him for a month. The kid had come up to Tanner in the hall and pushing him saying That Tanner was a wuss and he was going to kick his A** this was the third time this same kid had pushed or punched him so Tanner just got back up and punched the kid in the face and was still hitting him when a teacher pulled Tanner off of him. When they got down to the office the kid told Tanner "I can't believe you hit me" Tanner said "I can't believe you rhought I would let you keep pushing me around and making threats to me" needless to say I got a call from the principal and then Bill went and signed him out of school. So far the kid has left him alone, Tanner said when they went back to school 7 days later the kid still had a fat lip.

The police have never found the boys that beat up Tanner's friend. and I really don't know if the boys we saw were involved or not, but I have decided that I am going with my gut feeling from here on out!

CRAZY

I have decided to start telling stories about crazy things people say and do that cross my path.

The lady on my street feels like the government is after her and the rest of us work for the CIA, my husband being the head CIA agent! She is convinced that people are after her. She also believes that someone is spreading herbicides in her yard, she waters constantly as to dilute the poison from effecting her yard (now keep in mind she has the most thick green lawn on the street, possibly in the entire neighborhood) and spreading to people, she believes that is the reason that there have been so many people in my neighborhood diagnosed with cancer. Just yesterday she informed the young kids on our street that she would give them $50.00 to any of them that could catch the person putting the poison on her yard, they were very excited and hunkered down behind the neighbors garbage can to be able to catch the "bad guys" and collect their reward... That lasted about 2 minutes before they came out of hiding and went on their way...back to playing swords!

stay tuned I am sure that something exciting will happen tomorrow!

A Great Girls Weekend

For the last few years my mom and I go down to Fairview to spend the night at my Aunt Nancy's. We make a birdhouse and eat and talk and LAUGH!!! This year was no exception. The ladies that come are so fun to visit with, the talent they have is amazing! This year they decided to paint Gourdes I had no idea how to do that, in fact the idea left me puzzled how in the heck would you paint a gourd? I decided not to do one but if they do it again next year I will! I have to see something first to get any ideas flowing! What they did was amazing! while they were working on the gourdes mom and I brought ceramic corn on the cob dishes and believe it or not we were the last ones finished. Karen brought us all some clam chowder, Sophie made the most Delicious rolls, there was salads and of course some yummy desserts! After we were done with our projects we all sat around and talked told many funny stories. We left around 11:00 to go back to Aunt Nancy's her grand daughter Emery had come down with a friend for the weekend they were just getting ready to watch the move "Rat Race" so I tried to stay awake made it almost all the way but feel asleep 10 mins. before it got over... Just my luck. The next morning we were to be back at Sophies for breakfast of biscuts and gravy and eggs. After breakfast we headed out to go for a ride in "Tinkerbell" then we headed back to Nancys to get our stuff all packed up and head for home....We stayed and talked more to Uncle Howard and Nancy and the girls for hours....Finally headed home at 2:00 made it home around 4 so I took Bill and Landon to Astro Buger and then to see the movie "Footloose" What a FUN FUN weekend!

CATCHING UP

I have been thinking for some time that I needed to blog again, It was easy when the kids were young there was always a story to be told! Now that they are older things seems to be calmer....Hahaha!!! or there could be many stories that just cannot be shared! There is some great news that happened a few months ago that I neglected to write about.

Landon has graduated from High School..............What a relief, Landon's high school life was a big challenge for the whole family and to be really honest I was not sure this day was ever going to happen. But it did and I was so happy for him! Valley High held their graduation at SLCC on June 1, 2011, all the speakers did a really good job and I was so glad that just the day before graduation Landon went into the office to see when he could pick up his diploma, he had not planned on walking, so in that case he had not purchased the cap and gown. They advised him that he could receive it at graduation and handed him a cap and gown and told him to be there by 2:00....Miracles happen in all walks of life! Landon called me from the school to let me know he was going to attend graduation!!!! I was ecstatic! and hurried off to talk to my manager about getting the next day off! I hurried and called Bill as well so he could do the same! Landon's cute girlfriend, and grandma Hatt was able to come as well. after graduation I took us all out to dinner to Asian Star. It ended up being a great day!!!! YEAH for Landon! I always knew you could do it! You could have lesson my fears along the way!

All summer long Landon has been searching for a job.....I guess you could say we have all been looking for a job for him, this day and age has proven very hard to land a job! I know he is not the only one having a hard time, but man he really needs a job it is hard to see him sitting home with nothing to do. Wish us luck something has got to come up soon.

Tanner is still a biking fool, he participated in many races this year and is really good he has taken 2nd or 3rd at most races. we all went to Telliride, Co. for a mini family vacation/bike race I absolutely loved it there. But the day before the race Tanner was taking a practice run we was all watching on his last ride we never seen him come down the mountain, the next thing we knew his friend Christian was coming up the mountain to find Bill to let him know that Tanner had crashed into a tree and was hurt....we was so far away from him and had to take two trams to get to him, it took us about 20 mins to get to where he was at. the patrol had gotten him off the mountain and had him bandaged up so that we could get him to the ER. Bill went ahead with Tanner while Landon and myself stayed back to fill out the paperwork with the patrol, we caught up with them as they was walking to the ER....This was the fastest ER visit I have ever been in. They took x-rays of his right shoulder and ankle had them read and Tanner in a sling within an hour! He had broken his the growth plate in the humrus bone in his upper arm and sprained him ankle. No race for Tanner this trip but so glad that Tanner will be ok and that he is a tough guy, this makes it two breaks in less than a year....All I know is Tanner will never give it up!

WOW THAT WAS SOME MONTH

As luck would have it November proved to be a not so great of month for Landon! Sometimes if there was no such thing as bad luck he would have no luck at all! On November 12th Landon was on Bangeter and as the light turned yellow he went thur it following a police car moments later he was being pulled over for running the red light, when Landon mention he didn't think it was red when he entered the intersection the policeman said I know it was cause it was red when I went thur it, Landon commented well then you are admitting you ran a red light too, he claimed that the policeman then backed out of that statement! next when the officer asked for his license Landon didn't have it....Ughhhh! so as the officer was watching landon removed his cell phone from his pocket saying I can call my mom and she can read my number to you, this is when the officer said oh you know that I can ticket you for texting while driving......Landon said to him how? you could not have seen me as you were in front of me and second you just watched me remove my phone from my pocket. He ended up with a ticket for running a red light.

On November 29 there was a big snowstorm during the middle of the night so when we woke up it was a big mess! the roads were very slippery, Landon had gotten a good start in heading to school he left in plenty of time he had made it to the school but as he was turning into the parking lot he slid and hit the curb.....now he "promises" that he was not going any faster than 10 MPH when he finally comes to a stop he is stuck you might say he was high centered on the curb and snow, he neglected to get out to see what damage was done when he automaticlly put the car in reverse and tried to get out, it has not been told how long he tried to get his car out by spinning the tires when the school officer came up and assest the damage advising him that he had bent the wheel and he thought the car was not driveable....he came a little late, as Landon was spinning the tires he had ran them for so long that he completly wore out the two front tires leaving them completely bald. He finally called me asking what he should do? why me when your dad is 5 minutes away? I called Bill to go and see what needed to be done. It came to be that the car had to be towed once it reached the repair shop they estimated that the damages was roughly 2500.00 dollars....the car is only worth 1400.00 I would say he has totalled out my old car. the damage to the car was a bent sub frame, bent wheel and tire rod......so really how FAST was you driving.....but let's remember 10MPH HA!

What can you say to a kid who knows everything! I know......Maybe you don't! oh to live and learn! Good thing I still love you Landon Karl Hart!

YEP IT'S BROKEN

It was a great Labor day weekend, things were going good. Tanner's friend Scott was staying with us for a week while his parents were in Powell. The day was actually labor day, Bill and Tanner we all hyped up it was a great day for a bike ride up at "The Canyons" They have a summer season pass for the lift they are way into mountain biking their favorite is to ride the lift up then go as fast as they can down some mountain trail. Tanner is getting really good, but he also like to jump and do tricks it was in the late afternoon and they had found a new jump it was called "Niagra Falls" he watched a few other kids jump it and felt good that he could do it too. Off he went peddling up so he could give it a try. He starts off good but misses the landing it was in a very rocky area he goes up and over the handle bars hitting the ground he is well protected he wears a helmet, neck brace, a spine brace and chest protector knee and elbow guards. When he hits the ground he land on his chest he felt nothing different than any of his other crashes he is just mad that he didn't make the landing, he jumps up to get his bike and that's when he notices that there is something wrong with his wrist, he yells to Bill that he thinks he broke his arm Bill comes over thinking he is over reacting as he had watched the crash and doesn't think that it looked all that bad.....He was wrong when he got to Tanner he could instantly tell it was broken it was distorted. Now how to get Tanner and his bike and Bill's bike off the mountain, they were a was away from the truck. Bill leaves Tanner to go for help, the patrol comes to help they put Tanner and his bike in the back of a 4 wheeler the kind that has a bed and hauls him off the mountain. I get a call telling me they were on the way to the Park City hospital Bill didn't think Tanner could handle the ride to the hospital in Murray he would call me when he knew something. While we wait for an update call, I take Scott around the neighborhood to pick up flags that the scouts had put out for the Holiday. Bill called about an hour later letting me know that it was a broken wrist he had broke the growth plate in half along with another bone, they were going to put tanner out and pull his wrist back into place. They would be home after all was done, Tanner reached the hospital around 5 in the afternoon and got home right around 11:30 that night. Tanner came home pretty out of it,but hungry! he had requested that I make him my 5 star chicken noodle soup. I had it waiting for him the poor kid could harding stay awake long enough to eat! I have the funnest video of him trying to eat and falling asleep! (I will have to down load it and post it some day!) I got him to bed he slept well that night. He stayed home from school the next two days. 1 week later he got his hard cast on it was bright green his favorite color. He got the cast off 7 weeks later. it is has been off 1 week now it is still sore and he has almost regained all motion back. And yep you got it.....He can hardly wait to go ride again!!! What a guy!

HAS IT REALLY BEEN THAT LONG?.........

I have had a lot on my mind this last month......This time of year always takes me back a few years....... back to a time that brings to the surface some sad times, but a time of growth both spirtually and physically. I remember September 4 1991 like it was yesterday. I can see my little baby Jailee rolling all over my bedroom floor while I was getting ready for work when I was ready to leave I went to pick her up and she was not there, I immedately called her name to only hear her tiny little giggle but I still could not see her, I called her name again to only hear the same giggle and then to see her cute little face pop out from under my bed she was really playing peek-a-boo! I said to her "hey you, you better stop teasing me" by this time she was in a full belly laugh.....I can still hear it! I still to this day remember hearing a voice tell me "take her picture" I grabbed my camera had it in my hand to only look at the time to realize by now that I was running late! I am sorry to say that that picture was never to be. How long would that have taken....really?



My first lesson: when told to do something follow through, slow down!



At work that day I kept having a little anxiety....just an anxious feeling, nothing big! On my way home I was having thoughts like "If something was to ever happen to Jailee what would I do" "I would be devastated" "how would I handle that?" As I pulled onto my sitters street I knew something was going on, kids everwhere, a police car in her neighbors drive way as I got out of the car the officer approached me asked me if I was heading in to pick up my kids, "yes I said" thats when he followed me up the drive way that's when my sitter ran out telling me what one never wants to hear.....She stopped breathing! the ambulance has taken her to the hospital, the officer asking so many question.......It will not sink in for some time that who they were talking about was directed at me, that it was my baby they were talking about...All I thought was I will go pick her up and all will be ok, the doctors will make sure she is ok!



second lesson: Be Strong, have faith



Long night ahead many doctors, x-rays and a special blessing told us that what we wanted most was not in our plans. Nothing would keep her here, no medicine, no surgeries, not even life support. The next day would be the day we would say "Good Bye" We gathered our families and friends and we said our goodbyes, she took one final breath and was gone no more suffering!



Third lessson: Prayers are not always answered the way we want them to.



It has now been 19 years and not one day goes by that a thought, a picture (if only in my head) crosses my mind and I pause for a moment and smile or remember a fond memory of a little girl that touched my life for a short stay but left a huge hug in my heart to last me a life time.



Forth Lesson: That a mothers love last forever!

Many will say.....this is a sad story and yes it is, there is never a good time to lose a child. It is something that one never thinks will happen to them... well I guess in this situation....I am "them" but through faith and the support of family and friends you can go on, be happy and grow! I chose to carry on. Bill and I stayed together, many cannot! I am so glad we were able to.

Fifth Lesson: Good things can still happen after bad things!

Our loved ones that have passed would never want us to sit and be idle, to do nothing but cry over them. It is our job to continue on with our lives....as hard as some days can be!

Sixth Lesson: Its not how many trails we are given.....It's how we handle them that matters!