Updated Insanity

Ok, so I have finally updated my blog, somewhat. There are now current pics of my family and almost current pics of me (prior to my beard being sacrificed to my calling). As far as updating everyone on my family, that's easy...

We're busy!

I am still hung over from last week and the three birthdays, four basketball games/practices, Halloween party, and unending dose of sugar in our house. November looks to be even crazier. This week, Hannah and her Jr. Jazz team beat the team that mauled us (literally) in our first game. She's finally getting a bit of a competitive edge and isn't backing away from putting people down when the occasion calls for it. She also went to Mutual for the first time as she turned 12 last week and is now a Beehive (crazy, I know). Last night Dayna and I went to her Parent Teacher Conference at the middle school and listened to all of her teachers rave about how much they love Hannah. She was awarded with being on the Gold Honor Roll which is the highest level I guess. She got a 4.0 GPA her first quarter of middle school so we're way proud of her. She also got an award as the highest student in all of the 6th grade in Spanish! This next Sunday she will receive her Faith In God award at church. (Bragging Parent, I know but I have to work my butt off to put myself in a position to brag so excuse me if I take my just rewards...)

After the Parent Teacher Conference Kayli had a Jr. Jazz game which we ended up winning 28-11. I felt kind of bad for the other team but I take full responsibility for the massacre. I made the mistake a couple weeks ago of betting Kayli and her best friend Korrin who is also on my team, that they both couldn't score the maximum allowed 12 points each in the same game and if they accomplished that then I would host a slumber party for the two of them. Well, last night they were determined and did it and you'd have thought that they won a world championship the way the two of them were carrying on when Kayli put her last bucket in. Kayli has become the Queen of random, and usually hilariously blunt, comments. Most of them are so random and unexpected that I can't even remember any of them right now.

Garet has had some down time lately since his Flag Football season ended and he doesn't start Jr. Jazz until December. He has spent his time reading, believe it or not. I was all impressed with the amount of reading that he has been doing until I found out that he gets "money" from his teacher for the minutes that he reads. He has been raking in the "dough" and almost buying out his teacher's store single-handed. I may have to shop at his class store because he bought Grandma Sharp a really nice stinky candle set. So between the payment that he receives at school for reading and the fact that I give him 1 video game minute for every 1 reading minute he gives me, it's no surprise that he made it through the first and is more than halfway through the second Harry Potter book just since school started.

Linzy is like our own little duck. She just does her thing and lets almost everything roll off her back. Her teacher loves her and is constantly amazed at how different she is from her older siblings (no kidding). She's silly and spacey most of the time which can be entertaining and maddening all at the same time.

Jaxon is involved in preschool and loves it. Right now he is not a happy camper as he had to go to the doctor to get his shots for Kindergarten next year and ended up having to get 6! Poor kid, the least we could have done was spread them out over a couple of months but I didn't know the extent of the damage that was required until after he was already stabbed. He's walking funny to say the least.

That brings me to Hurricane Sawyer. He who blows in without much warning and leaves a path of destruction behind him. Evacuation is the only option, there is no hiding from it without risking being buried alive. People talk about the terrible twos but I think that's misleading. He officially turned 2 last weekend but he has been terrible for a long, long time. We also call him Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde because one second he's a monster and the next he is the cutest thing you've ever seen; there is no happy medium with him. I've had to get after him lately for beating up Jaxon and for picking on Hannah! He is starting to try to talk and inside his own head, he makes perfect sense and carries on full-blown conversations. Everyone hearing him can make out a word or two but the rest is gibberish. He has learned that there's nothing that he can't reach if he moves the right furniture (and he's strong enough to move almost any furniture!). His birthday was a lot of fun as he was so excited for everything. One of my favorite moments was when he decided he was going to play catch with Jenny with his new ball, after Jenny had already decided that she was going to catch a quick nap on our couch. There's nothing funnier than someone coming out of a deep sleep with a ball to the face! My next favorite moment of his birthday was when, after already blowing out his candles, he put them back on his cake and made it clear to mom that he wanted them lit again and then proceeded to sing happy birthday to himself a second time so he could blow the candles out once more. Crazy kid.

Dayna and I are just running around trying to be in the right place at the right time and not run into anything...

That's my update on the insanity that is my life!