Bug or Seizure?

Today Mckenzie, Madi and I were on the couch eating grapes.  All of a sudden Mckenzie screams from the top of her lungs BUG and jumps of the coach as she is brushing off every inch of her body, then she starts rolling on the floor shaking and screaming and crying and brushing her body off.  If she hadn't screamed bug at the beginning of this unnecessary scary bug episode I would have thought my daughter was having a seizure.  After she had rolled, shook, brushed and screamed enough to get the bug off her I grabbed her and started hugging her and asked her what was wrong.  I thought she had thought she saw what looked to be a bug, but maybe it was a shadow or a lint.  I tried to convince her it was not a bug.  She was insistent that it was crawling on her arm.  After she calmed down a little I saw Madi looking at this toy that was sitting in our living room. (this toy was an outside toy that MAdi brought in a few minutes before we sat down to eat grapes)  She said there was a bug and Kenzie started screaming KILL IT MOMMY.  I picked up the toy and and talked to the little bug and then let it go outside.  So, I guess there really was a bug from the toy.  I was just so shocked at how afraid Kenzie is of bugs and how she reacted.  What do I do to toughen her up.  She literally is a wimp when it comes to bugs.  A little later that evening Mckenzie told me that she didn't ever want to play outside because there are to many bug outside.  I tried to have a little pep talk with her about bugs being are friend and we should love bugs, but I don't know if it helped any.  Any advice to get her less afraid of bugs? Maybe we should go camping for a week?  I don't know.  I wish I had her on camera I think she would win on America's Funniest home videos.  Me explaining what she did gave no justice to what I actually witnessed.

Easter! in a nut shell

I have been working a lot so unfortunately we did not start coloring eggs till 10:30 the night before Easter.  Luckily grandma Jean colored eggs with the girl a while back so they still had the fun of that.  i know I'm a bad mom but at least they had colored eggs to look for on EASTER!!!

Big cheese!

Brian was so proud of this egg.  You cant see it very well but he used one of those white out crayons to make a smiley face.  He was hoping the kids would like that and they did!

The egg hunt at our house!

Cute Madi and Daddy going to grandmas house!

The girls new sun glasses from the Easter Bunny!

What a "stud"!  

All afternoon I was on call for work so I hung out in my scrubs.  Luckily I didn't get called into work till 7pm.  I had the whole day with the fam, and it was great!

Me and my cute sis Amy.  I was sad that Angela couldn't make it I wish she lived a little closer.

Egg Hunt at Grandma and Grandpa Millers

Yummy Eats

Easter Baskets prizes from Grandma and Gradpa Moffit!

It was funny the girls got 3 sets of swim suites.  One from me one from the Millers and one from the Moffits.  The catch was, the suites had to stay at the house they recieved them, so Grandma and Grandpa could take them swimming.  What fun!!  It was a great Easter celebration and I was so furtunate to spend it with my family instead of working.  

Easter Egg Hunt and Farm day at preschool

Okay I know this is a little late but it has been crazy and I havn't had much time to blog, so I have a lot of catching up to do.  Kenzie had a field trip to a farm with cows and chickens.  Madison was also aloud to come on the field trip.  They saw cows poo, moo and eat, and got to feed chickens.  After all the smell and fun they had a easter egg hunt.  they had a blast finding all the eggs.

Road Closure, Blizard and tornado oh my!!

On our trip to WI we drove there in 24 hours we had left at 6Pm and arrived the next day around 7PM WI time.  The kids were great they slept the whole night and watched movies during the day.  Well, I wish it had gone as smoothly on the way home.  It was one thing after another keeping us from getting home .  We left right after my grandpas funeral around 1pm.  We thought, this will be great we'll get home tomorrow around 12 and we will take a nap.  We didn't really listen to my Uncle when he said there is supposed to be a bad storm going across the plains.  I hope you don't run into it.  We figured we would take our chances I mean how bad could it be?  We don't even know if it would really affect us.   We started off going the wrong way and had to turn around and then we got lost again.  Then we were off ready for the long nights drive. It started getting really windy so we called my dad to see what the weather was looking like ahead of us.  He told us there was tornado warning in Omaha and a blizzard to follow.  We were praying not to run into any tornado's, but while I was sleeping around 9:30pm  Brian swears that when he was approaching Omaha he saw two funnel clouds forming ahead of him.  He was so freaked out that he gunned it at 95MPH on the highway.  I told him he should have woken me up.  After that, the blizzard came and the road closed.   We had to find a hotel for the night.  We stayed in a dumpy motel 8 for the night hoping the roads would open early morning.   That didn't exactly happen.  We woke up to really load winds blowing at the window and got up for our continental breakfast.  When we got there they had taken away the cereal (the main course) because they were out of milk).  So all they had left was toast and muffins.  When we got to the room after breakfast, Brian got on the Internet to watch for road openings, when all of  a sudden the window screen blew off!  It was so windy that the wind forced it off our window, CRAZY! We waited until 1pm before the roads opened back up.  We drove for about 6 hours and then got off for Dinner.  (all the way we were going 30-45MPH and sometimes at a complete stop, It wasn't snowing anymore but the old slow was blowing so fast, gust up to 40MPH I thought we where going to blow away.  And some cars did get blown off the road, hence the pic above.   The roads were so slick and it was really dangerous because if the snow blew on the road and you didn't slow down your were off the road stranded.  We saw many cars off the road even a tow truck!)  When we got back on the highway to drive the next exit had the road closure sign up.  It was only 7pm.  So we checked into another motel.  This time Best Western, which was way nicer than our last motel.   I went in search for a KMART to buy the girls a swimsuit so we could swim, because who knew how long we would be stuck in the middle of no where.  I had a map and headed to Kmart.  I was driving alone and I was driving away from the city, but I could have sworn I was going the right way.  The road I was on was not plowed so it was slick.  When I finally realized I was going the wrong way I decided to flip a U.  Well that didn't go so well.  I flipped a U right into a HUGE snow bank and got stuck!  I was about to cry.  I call Brian and he asked me what I was going to do.  I was expecting him to save me, but how was he going to save me with no car and 2 kids.  Luckily some guy with a HUGE truck stopped and had a toe rope.  So he tied me up and pulled me out.  I was so grateful for that guy.  I think his name was Jason.  I will always remember his kindness to save me.  I don't know what I would have done if he hadn't stopped who knows, I might have had to walk all the way back to my motel with no coat miles away.  I didn't end up getting to KMART because by the time I got saved it was to late and I was scared to go searching again.  

I just went back to the motel and we all got cleaned up.  I was board and wanted to be entertained so I decided to experiment with Mckenzies hair.  I straightened it.  How do you like it?  She loved it.  She is trying to grow it out so it is long and when it was straight is got way long.  Well, by morning after Kenzie sleeping on her hair, it was curly again.   We did end up making it home alive, but it was a rough trip home.  I think after that drive we could drive anywhere and it would seem easy!  I am just blessed that the lord was watching out for us and we always had a warm hotel to sleep in when the road closed.  the kids had a blast at the motels and we didn't loose to much sleep.  It actually let us recover from the trip a little.

Trip to Winsonsin! Grandpa's Funeral.

They had a little train ride in the mall, the girls enjoyed ringing the bell.

The fist day in WI we went to the South Ridge mall to kill some time while Brian was chatting with the Director of Admission at Marquette.  Marquette is one of the schools he will be apply for Dental School in June, so he wanted to check it out.  Brian tells me that the meeting went really well.  Maybe he made enough of an impression that the director will remember his name when it comes time to review applicants.

The second day we were there, we went to visit my cousin Julaine who lives an hour away from my Aunt (where we were staying)  She just had a baby 2 months ago.  Baby Addison.  She is so adorable and my girls addored her.  Kenzie kept saying "we need another baby sister like Addison"  I would love to have another baby but not another girl, Im ready for a boy.

This is my cousin Julaine and her husband Jason.  they are the cutest little family and I had to throw in the Pic with Julaine and me becuase of the cool background.

The Funeral was very different than the funerals I'm use to here in Utah.  My Grandpa was cremated so there was no viewing and we were in a Church, not sure what the religion was, but they had the sacrament during the Funeral .  We did a lot of sitting and standing with singing and sighting scripture and then we sang "Take me out to the ball gam"e (that was my grandpa's favorite song)  After the ceremony they had a display of pictures and memories of Grandpa.  I really liked it so I took a picture of one of the displays.  If you look really close you will find a pic of me and my fam when I was about 13 or so, with my Grandpa.

My Aunts and Uncles and Mom and Dad!

What a cute couple!

To the left is my Uncle charlie with the glassed and my Aunt Pam.  to the right is my Aunty Georia holding Addison and Uncle Don.  In the purple is my Grandma and then Julain, Jason and Johnny.

Madi made a huge mess pigging out on strawberrys.  She loves Strawberrys or any berry for that matter.  The bottom pic is cousin Noah on the left and cousin Gracie to the right  and of course my sweet Mckenzie.  Gracie and Mckenzie really got along really well.  Gracie especially loved it becuase Kenzie like to chase and Gracie loved that she would chase her, so that was the game they played all the time.  Is was funny!

We left  Tuesday around 6pm and arrived in Wisconsin at about 7Pm the next day (yes we drove all night long)  We were tired but the kids were angels!  (Luckily we had a DVD player so the kids watched movies the whole time!)  They were so excited to see their cousins for the first time ever!!  We stayed with my Aunty Pam and Uncle Charlie.  And let me just say, They have 5 children all adopted.  They are the best most well behaved children I have ever met.  The three youngest children share one room ( 5 year old Girl Gracie, 7 year old boy Sami and 8 year old Noah)  They are so good, Its almost unreal.  She adopted two older girls from Ethiopia.  The girls are 15 and 16 and I was so glad to meet them because I here all about them but I have not ever met them before.  I didn't see them much because of school and stuff, but what I did see was impressive they are very thoughtful girls who are helpful and kind.  I'm just so impressed with that family.  When I was married 6 year ago my Aunty Pam and Uncle Charlie came out to visit and they only had little Noah.  And in six years they went from 1 child to a mature Family of 5 children.  Only a super family could handle a challenge like that.  Over all it was a great visit.  We were only there from wednesday night till Saturday Afternoon, but it was worth seeing my family.  I think I can count on one hand how many times I have been back east to visit, so it was nice to see them again.